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The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-05-14
Legal Notice.

Court of Common Pleas, Wood County, Ohio.
Civil action.
The Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company.
plaintiff, against Samuel Conch and Mrs I'll
pha Hall, defendants.
TNliE said defendant, Samuel Conch, will take
L notice that the 9th day of April, A. D.
1897, the SAID plaintiff filed in he office of the
Clerk of the Court Of Common Pleas of Wood
County, Ohio petition against him and the
said Mrs Zilpha Hall.
Said petition sets forth that Oh the 9th day of
May A. d. 1886 Horace Hall now deceased. then
husband of the said Zilpha Hall, executed and
delivered to the plaintiff his pTomissory note Of
that date for the of one Thousand dollars with
interest at seven per &C ntum per annum, PAYABLE
to the plaintiff in Cincinnati, and that to secure
the payment of said note, said Horace Hall and
Zilpha Hall, his wife, at that date executed and
delivered to the plaintiff mortgage conveying to
the plaintiff Lot Tract Number sixty three 1857
in the United S ates Reserve at the Rapids of the
Miami of Lake Erie in Wood county, Ohio, con
tanning two hundred and twelve (2l2) acres
7 hat the principal of said note and the interest
thereon aecrung since May 28h, 1854 are due
/ and unpaid said petition also sets forth that
said land has been conveyed to said Samuel
Conch subsequent to the date of said mortgage
and subject thereto.
The object and prayer of said petition are to
obtain judgement of fore closure upon said note
and mortgage for the amount due the plaintiff and
| for y c sale of said lands to pay said debt.
The said Samuel Conch is required to answer
said petition by the thirteenth day of June next;
or judgment will be taken against him by default
LATlMER Il SCHUYLER, Pl'H's Att'ys,
April llth, lS56-49w6S7 25.
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
sI,erjUSs SAFE,

John Shepler VS.. VIM. 2. Reznor.
Qf virtue of vendi writ of execution to direct
1Ied and delivered from the court of Common Pl. as
of Wood county, Ohio in the above cause will offer
FOR sale, at the door of the house. in Perrysburg
On saturday. the 23d day of May, 1857.
between the hours of 10 o'clock NJ and o'clock p.
N. Of said day, the following real estate, to wit =
all the interest of the said William p. Reznor in and
to certain tract of land known Perrysburg in
Wood county, Ohio. c. w. NORTON, Sheriff.
Murray DoDGE Attys for plff.
Apri 23, 1S57-50w5$3,30
NOTICE is hereby given that there VIII Ue pvtllIUn
IL presented to the Commissioners of Wood county,
at tn r next session, praying for view survey and
location of county road commencing on the Wau-
pakonnetta State Road, on the west line of j.. N E.
of See 81 T. 6, r. 10 east running south the south
line of said section: thence south the s. W. corner of
the N. +. n. E. of Sec g. T. s. Il. 10 east thence
east the line of said tract to the S. W. of the
n, n. W. of Sec 8. r. 5, r. 10 east thence east to
the Green Encampment road there to terminate
Also, petition praying for view, survey, and loca-
tion of county road, commencing AT N. W. of
n. +. N. L. of section G, T. 8, r. 10 east running
west the line of said section to the N. f. corner Of
See l, r. s, r. east thence west to the Otsego and
Blanchard Free Pike, there to terminate
A PETITIONER.
Aprl 30th, 1957.-51w4S1,25
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Sale of Real Estate by Order of Court.

nN tho Ilth day OF June, A. D. 1851 between the
" hours ofninc o'clock A. NJ, and four o'clock p,
NJ the premises will be sold to the highest bidder
the following real estate, the property Of John Cor
naly deceased to wit: The west quarter of the north
half of the northwest quarter of section number one
township four a.. United States Reserve. Also the
quarter of the south half ofth southwest quarter
Of section number thirtysiN 1867, township three t3
United States Reserve more properly described the
west half of the west half Of the north half ofthe north
west quarter of section one ~ ana the west ha
west half Of the south half of the southwest quarter Of
section thrtysiX 1851 situated in the county OF Wood
in the state of Ohio, containing forty acres of land
more or less free and unincumbered by dover.
Terms of salc-one third cash in hand, the balance
in and two years. with interest from the day of
sale. The deferred payments to be secured BY mort
gage on said premises. T. II. BAGBY,
Administrator of John Cornaly, dec d.
NAV I 1857 52w4S3 25
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LEGAL NOTICE,

Petition for Partition, in Wood Common Pleas
Sarah A. Cregh and John 4. Creigh, her husband vs.
William VI. Reid and others
NlLLlAM NJ. REID George Reid Alex. Reid,
w Samuel Reed, johnson Reed Margaret Gowwi-
Ter and Christian Gowwler, her husband. Mary Shep-
hard and james Sheppard her husband, James Nc
Glare Mary Nc Clure, Jane Mcclure, Ann Mcclure,
John Adams, Samuel adams, Margaret Adams Geo..
Mckeehan, Samuel McKeehan,John McKeehan Ben
jamn Mckeehan, Nancy Dinwiddy and Alexander Din
WILDLY her husband Mary Blankenship. and John Blan
kenship her husband, Samuel McKeehan, Martha Nc
Keehan, James Owen Bare, David Alexander Bare and
Sarah Elizabeth Bare will take notice that petition
was filed against til hem on the 22d day of Apr 1857
in the court of common pleas within and for the county
Of Wood, and State Of Ohio by Sarah A. Creigh and
John II. Creigh, her husband, and is now pending
wherein said plaintiffs demand partition of the follow
ing real estate situate in the count, of Wood and state
of Ohio, to witt The north half of the southwest
quarter of section No. %, in township No in range
No east containing eighty more or less in the
township of Weston, county of Wood, and state of
Ohio; and that at the June term of said court or as
thereafter counsel be heard said plaintiffs
will apply for order that partition he made of said
premises. REID, CARrESTER & HARRIsoN
Plaintiffs Att'ys.
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DITCH NOTICE-

NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident owners
~ of section twentythree (23l, aud the south west
quarter dissection fourteen ~ range twelve Q2 town
ship five (5) Freedom township, Wood county, that
the trustees of said township will meet at the house of
Charles Eisenhour the 2jth day of june 1851 at
O'Clock A. NJ, for the purpose of locating drain
water course commencing at the section line road,
between 23 and q, thence west one mile, thence
north about sixty rods to the section line, thence
west thirty rods thence in northery direction through
the northwest quarter of section twentythree l23) to
the section line thence about forty rods through
tion fourteen 1G, to a ravine running to Portage
river. CHARLES EISENIIOUR, Petitioner,
Nav 5O,yG&
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and equally awarded in labor expense and damage by
said township trustees the said ditch waercoursc
shall be cut opened in said location aud II from the
report of said commissioners 1t shall appear that said
proposed ditch or watercourre improperly located
or awarded as to labor, expense damage, the same
shall be set aside or changed and located by said
bate court.
Sec. ?. Thatsectons on, nine and thirteen to which
this is an amendment be and the same are hereby re
pcaled.
NH. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS II. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April H. 1857.
AUrIToB' s CFFicE, Wood Co. OF
May 10, 1851.
hereby certify that the above laws arc accord
ing to the copies furnished by the Secretary of
State JAMES W. ROSS. Co. Auditor.
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SLLLING MAN At AUCTION IN ILLINOIS,
The Sheriff of St. Clair county adyertises ne
guilty of the "high misdemeanor' of having
come inIo the State of Illinois, and remaining
there foS ten days, for which offence he was
fined go. ssprovided by the Black Law of 1858.
and in default Of paying which fine, the Sheriff
of the county in which he was found is directed
TO sell him TO anybody who is willing to pay
$50.
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TNHERE will he petition presented to the commits
L sione"s of Wood county Ohio. at their regu-
lar session. asking them to establish the following road
TO witt commencing at the northeast of section
thirty three, township three north range eleven east
thence south along the line nf section thiryhree and
thrtyfour mile to the county line. and there ter
inmate. HARRISON LEATUERS
May !, lS57--59w4*
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Ennugh To KILL.

The Democratic party has taken into its en-
brace the cod fish aristocracy of the old whig
party and if that don't kill it, we are much mis-
taken. They were always just the men to hold Of
fcei and when in power treated the press, which
elevated them. with perfect contempt. They are
playing the same game with the democrats now,
and we know how to pity them
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NOIiCG

S hereby given that petition will be presented to the
commissioners of Wood county, at their regular
session. asking for the view, survey, and location of
county road commencing at the center of the McCuch
enyille road on the township line between the town
ships of Freedom and Montgomery thence west the
township line between said townships and also that of
Portage and Center townships, to the south
of section "a, in Center township, county road and
there terminate. MANY PETITIONERS.
May 7, l657--5ew4+
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Wood Common Pleas,

Mary Jane Brown VS.. Schuyler Brown.
THE defendant, Schuyler Brown. Will take notice
Il that Mary Jane Brown, on the 25th day of ipr
1851 filed her petition in the clerks Office of the court
of Common Pleas, of said county, asking for divorce
from him the grounds of willful absence for more
than three years. hahitual drunkenness for than
years; extreme cruelty and gross neglect Of duty
and unless the said defendant answers dcmurs to
said petition or before the first day of the next
term of the court of Common Pleas, in said county
said petition will be taken confessed and the court
asked to decree thereon accordingly.
ASHER COOK, Atty. for PlG.
AM II,veS
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SWAMP LAND NOTICE.

AUDITORS OFFICE, Wood Co, o.,
Perrysburg, April ., 1856.
- EALED PROPOSALS directed to the Com
y missioners of Wood county will be received at
this Office until the eleventh an day of May next, for
making and completing the bitches and drains des-
crbed below, for draining and reclaimng the swamp
and overowed lands in said county below described
be paid for in said lands at the appraised value
thereof, as specified BY law
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sherid's Sale.

Elizabeth Miller vs. Jacob Miller.
DY virtue of execution to me directed and deliy-
ID cred from the court of common pleas, of Wood
county, Ohio, in the abrye cause will offer for sale
at the door of the court house in Perrysburg
On Monday the sth day of June, 1857
between the hours of 10 o'clock A. NJ and O'Clock p
NJ of said day the following real estate being the west
of the southeas of section 22 town north range
east containing so acres Levied on as the property
of Jacob Mer satisfy the costs in the above case
@. W. NORTON, Sheriff.
PRIoE a. JEFFERSON, AHy's
May T. ls57-52w5Sl.Ss
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-. BY PMcE JErfEn90N, her ATTORNEYS.
April 18th lS57--4gw6
Sale of Real Estate by Order of Probate


Sale OF Real Estate by Order of Probate
Conrt.
nN the 23d day of May, A. ID. 1851, between the
ohours of one aud four o'clock p. H. at the promises
herein will be sold to the highest bidder,
the following property belonging to the estate of
Adam Phillips, deceased to wit: A good steam saw
mill, about one and threeeighth acres of land and
certain right of way; said land and right of way
more particularly described as follows, to wit -
Commencing at beach tree on the east bank of
the Portage river, the said beach standing on the.
north line OF the southwest quarter of section 81.
10 township D, north of range east, and running
thence sou along the bank of said Portage river
sixteen rods, thence easttwenty rods, thence north
sixteen rods, and thence west twenty rods to the
place of begi ming, together with right of way
forty feet in width, commencing at the south.w
corner of the land above described and running
up the bank of the said Portage river to- the Roi-
lersvIlle and Portage Free Turnpike road said
right of way to continue SO long as the said land
above described shall be used for mill purposes.-
To be sold subject to the dover of Catharine Phil
lips, widow of decedeht, which has been assigned
at twenty dollars annually. Appra sed subject to
said dover. at $1,000. Terms OF sale-onefourth
cash in hand. and the residue in three equal an
nual payments, with interest and good security.
JOSEPH SARGENT,
DAVID PHILLIPS,
j. ii REID Atty. Administrators
April 90 lS57-50wIS1 95
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Notice.

A petition will be presented to the commissioners
~ Of Wood county at their next regular session,
asking alteration in the Mount Pleasant ridge road
as follows: Commencing at or the place where
said road crosses the center line dissection 3D. in Plain
township. The petitioners will ask that instead of the
present angling through the south half of tine
south west quarter of said section, that the road
be altered to from the north east corner
of said quarter section to the line of said sec
and thence the best route intersect the present
road west of said section line.
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Sherin,s Gnie.


George Colt VS.. A. p. Stone. et al.
DI virtue of an execution to me directed and deliv-
ID cred from the court Of common pleas of Wood
county, Ohio shall offer for sale Mt public auction,
On Saturday, May 30th, 1857.
between the hours of one aud two o'clock p. VI. of
said day the following described real estate wit -
The undivided half OF River Tract number ffty-s
go in the United States Reserve of twelve miles
square at the foot of the Rapids of Miami of Lake
Erie containing eighty and eighty hundredth
(S0.s3-l00j acres.
c. W. NORTON, Sheriff.
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Administrator's Sale.

nN the 10th day of May A. d. 1851 between the
" hours of 10 A, NJ. aud P NJ. of that day, at the
door Of the court house in the town of PerrysIurg,
Wood county, Ohio will be sold to the highest bidder
the fooring realty the property of Joseph Stewart
deceased to wit Land warrant number IL G0s calling
for leo acres ofand, apprised at SI6O.
WILLIAM r. BRYANT, admr.
Price & Jefferson, ,Atys ofJoseph Stewart, deed.
ADril o. lSJ7-5OW5Sl 72
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SheriRs Sale.

Wood Common Pleas.
James Taburn. Ann f.. Taburn, VS. Phoebe Harmon.
Daniel Newton, Admir-.
Rf virtue of nm order of sale to me directed and
ID delivered from the court of common pleas Of
Wood county, Ohio in the above case win offer for
sale at the door OF the court house, in Perrysburg
On Saturday. iay 30th, 1857
between the hours of 10 o'clock A. NJ. and o'clock p
NJ OF said day. the following real estate to wit The
west half of the southeast quart, of section 34 town
range lo IN Wood county containing so ncres to be
Terms cash
O. W. NORTON, Sheriff.
Price & JEFFERSON Auks.
April 30th. lS57-5lwbS2.gO.
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Ditch Nnfire.

NOTICE is hereby given to George Lamb non
resident of the township of Montgomery that the
trustees OF said township will meet at the house Of
Conrod Shelter in said township Saturday, May %,
1897 tor the purpose of surveying and locating ditch
OF water course commencing the east line Of section
(23 thence running westerly until II in
ters cts william Chapman's ditch.
April 1G, lS57-igwGsI CoSpon c,,,..
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NOTICE is hereby given the owners of sections
~ l, q 3, in Jackson township, and sections 81 35
3d, Is, in Milton township, that the of Jack
son Milton townships will meet the house of John
Dubbs in Jackson the 23d day of june Mt o'clock
for the purpose of locating ditch commencing at
tion seventeen in swamp land ditch No ~ thence
station and thence along the most feasible route
through sections 3j &c. & 49, in Milton the line
Of Milton township, and apporton the said digging and
expenses the several of the above described
lands benefited thereby all the above lands lying in
Wood county, Ohio. II. Il. JEROME.
1lS
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Petition for Divorce.


No""'N SouIl oI common Ileas.
Eunice LSnell VS.. Nelson SHELL
VIE said defendant is notified that Eunfee L. Smell
L did on the l1th day of April A. ID. 1857 file her
uon IN the office of the clerk Of the of COM
mon pleas within and for the county OF Wood ana
State Of Ohio, charging the said Nelson Smell with
gross neglect of duty and wfu absence for more than
three years last past and nskng thai she may be d-
vorced from the said Nelson Smell which petition win
stand for hearing at the next term Of said court
FUNICb l. SMELL,
BY PRlcE JErFERsoN, her Attorneys.
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GrNew towns are said to b. springing up in
Kansas with all the speed Of mushroom growth,
and yet exhibit an air Of permunsncy Land
speculation in the Territory has grown into
eyer
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Terms.--One. twelfth part of purchase money to be
paid at time of sale aud the balance in eleven equal
annual nsallments, with annual interest.
No bid taken for a less than the appraised whine
JAS, W. ROSS, County Auditor.
Auditors Office. Wood county, O.
Perrysburg, April 20, 1851. ( 5Ow6s5
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- One of the most prominent citizens of Mis-
sour-the owner of twenty-one grown up slaves,
besides, their progeny-has offered to emancipate
all, provided general emancipation could be Sc
cured He knows and says, that the rise IN real
estate consequent upon the abolition of slavery
in Missouri. would lour-foId pay for the slaves.
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April II, 1857.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.


Elizabeth Miller VS.. Jacob Miller.
ID virtue of an execution me directed and deliver
ID cred from the court of common pleas of Wood coun-
ty Ohio, in the above case will offer for sale at the
door of the court house in perrysburg
On Monday the sth day ofJune. 1857.
between the hours of 10 o'clock 4, and o'clock r.
NJ. of said day, the following real estate, beii the
west of the south east /, section 80, town north
range ii east containing 80 acres taken the proper
ty of Jacob Miller satisfy Judgment for amony in
the alb owe &. W. NORTON Sheriff.
Pace JEFFERSON, Attys
May l. lSj7--52wl$3
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Petitinn for Divorcr.

Wood County Court of Common Pleas.
Mary Allen vs.. Philander B. Illen.
TINE said Phandcr b. Allen, whose place of resi-
l. dcnce is unknown, is hereby notified that the
plaintiff will take depositOns to he read in evidence
on the trial of this cause at the office Of james II.
Magrnder in the of Port Clinton county of OF
tOwa, state of Ohio the first day June, n 1851
at o'clock p. NJ. MARY ALLEN.
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
sneTIti IS SaIe.

James Pillars vs., jacob Miller.
DY virtue of an order of sale to me directed from
- the court of common pleas of Wood county Ohio.
in the above causel will offer for sale at the door of the
ccourt hous. in Perrysburg
On Saturday, May 30th 1857
between the hours of 10 O'clock A. NJ and o'clock
p NJ of that day the south quarter of the south
east quarter of section thiry-one (3l of town four )
north Orange eleven Q east containing forty acres
moe or ltss
c. W. NORTON, Sheriff.
Price & JEFFERSON Att'ys
1pril Both 1887 T-5lwbS9
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FIyT DOLLAR!l REW AND.

I OS1, Wednes sday, the 22d inst. gold locket,
l. and chain, n Locket Bible, and Gold Pencil The
locket has three daguereotypes in it. If any person
give information that will lead to the recovery
the above articles will give them the above reward.
Information may be left the of Blinn & Bar
stow, at my residence the Maumee and Western
Reserve road. Miss p, II. HOWARD.
Perrysburg April 23 1857.
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NOTICE is hereby given that petition will be
presented to the commissioners of Wood county,
at their next regular session. praying for the location
aud establishment of county road, commencing at
quarter section line the north side of section SIX
in Perry township, Wood county, Ohio, thence south
on said quarter section line till it ntersects the road
running west from .Mllgrove by the farms of Josiah
Riger and John II. Buchcr, there to terminate.
MANY PETITIONERS.
An 1S5I--S1,rIh
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NOTICE

Is hereby given that petition will be presented to
4 the commissioners of Wood county, at their next
regular session. praying for the location and establish
ment of county road commencing at the quarter
post between sections IL and ~, town o. range o.
ing due through the center of section IL until it
terminate. April 30, lS5I--5lW4%
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school Lands for Sale,

NHE undersigned will offer for sale at the door Of
l. tho court house, in Wood county, Ohio. on Fri
day. the 9th of june next, at IL o'clock NJ all Of
sec 10, township No. g. range H. Perry divided and
appraised as follows;
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April 3Oth, 1s57.-51w4s1.25.


The State of Ohio, Wood county, Peton for Partition
Jacob Myers petr. vs. Mary Ann Koose, John NJ Koose
Rachekoose, Meichael KOose, Sarah Summers, Sam
uel Summers, John Myers. and Sarah Myers Defts
THE said defender will take notice that Jacob
Il Myers has filed petition against them in said
court demanding partition of the following real estate
situate in county of Wood and state of Ohio and being
the west half Of the north east quarter of section No.
H. township No 5, north of range No IL, containing
so ofand Said petition will be for hearing at
the Juue term of said court, 1857.
Per JAS. MURRAY, his Atty. By +. G. SERvIS.
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NOTICE is hereby given that petition will be
~ presented to the commissioners of Wood county,
at their next regular session praying for the location
and establishment of a county road, commencing at
the north east of the south quarter of
tion II in Bloom township and running west through
the center of section and IL until it ntersects the
road running south of Eageyille
JACOB LANDS.
April 2s l857-51w4+