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Washington County Wills &
Estates
| QUIMBY, Deborah |
Of Fearing Township. Will
made 3-5-1821, Probated June 1835. Heirs-
Underhill, Elizabeth and Polly Lynch and John Wesley
L. Brown. Witness: Sarah Craft, Elizabeth
Lynch.
Book 5, Page
218 |
| QUIMBY (or QUINBY), Pheobe |
Of Fearing Towns!p. Will
made 8-26-1830, Probated June 1835. Heirs-
Underhill and Elizabeth Lynch, and John Wesley.
L., son of James and Ziporah Brown. Witness:
Ephriam Quimby, Abrahal Daniels, William White.
Book
5, Page 219 |
| RACE, William |
Of Wesley Township. Will
made 8-9-1840, Probated 8-9-1841. Heirs- David
and Jane Amanda Hart (husband and wife) and
William R. Hart, their son; Charles
Bowman; John Duck; Wife, Letitia to
have land in Columbiana
County, Ohio.
Book 6, Page 250 |
| RAINEY, Elias W. |
Administration
Mar 13, 1855.
Heirs-Edward, Elias, William,
Winchester, Zacharia, Jacob, Elizabeth (wife of
James Mummey)and Mary (wife of Samuel
Brown, all of Noble County, Ohio.
Book 9, Page
616 |
| RAMBO, Jacob |
Of Waterford. Will
made 6-20-1803, Probated 9-7-1803. Wife
Catharine; son Jackson (other sons
mentioned, not named), grandson Jacob
Rambo, son of Rebecca Turley. Witness: Ezekiel
Denning, Wm. W. Williams, Jesse McFarlin.
Book 1, Page 57 |
| RATHBUN, Gideon |
Will made 6-21-1837, Probated
September 1838. Wife Anna; children- Edmund, Marcey Frances,
David, Daniel, Elzy (Cole), Hiram, William, Lavina (Lepy),
Elvira and John C. Rathbun.
Book 5, Page 510 |
| RAYNE, Gabriel |
Of Barlow Ohio. Will
made 7-7-1836, Probated April 1839. Children-
Abigail (Eliason), John, Samuel,
William, Joseph and Gabriel Payne,
Hannah (Pugh). Witness: Horatio
Ford, Isaac Castle, Wm. Woodward.
Book 5,
Page 535
Note: Query- Should
this name be Rayne or Payne. The name
heading the will was Rayne, but the names of the heirs
in the body of the will was Payne)
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| REYNOLDS, Thomas |
Will made
_________, Probated 2-16-1852. Wife, Sarah; Children- Daniel,
Abraham, John, Benedict,
Thomas, Emily (Larue), Elizabeth (Blackley), Phobe
(Knepper)
Minerva (Knepper), Catherine (Knepper), and
heirs of my deceased daughter Rebecca
Thompson. Witness: L.B. Smith,
L.E. Smith.
Book 9, Page 102 |
| RICE, Nathan |
Will made 4-6-1833, Probated April
1841. Wife, Jemima; children- Zelpha, Thomas, Subrina,
Lucy Witness: Joel Stacy, Sohpia
Wood.
Book 6, Page 150
Note: Nathan Rice
was a Revolutionary soldier in Capt.John
Nixon's Company of Minute Men, Col. John
Nixon's Reg't. Born in Vermont in 1763, married
Jemima NcClure-died in 1841. Ref: D.A.R.
Lineage Book 66-pg
224, Nat'l # 65663. |
| RICE, Oliver |
Of
Belpre, Ohio. Will made December 1836, Probated
10-29-1836.
Granddaughter, Abigail Rice Brown, daughter of Ann Brown;
nieces- Mary, wife of Cyrus Ames,
Esq., Betsy, wife of Wm. T.
Plowe, late of Belpre; nephew-Oliver
Rice, son of his late brother
Charles; friends-Andrew Ballard and his wife
Olive, Oliver Rice Loving, William Pitt
Putnam, Cyrus Ames, Mary, wife of Brooks
Blizzard. Exr's: Brooks Blizzard and William M.
Niles.
Book 5, Page 331
Note: Major Oliver Rice
in Col. John Nixon's-Regiment, born 1752 in
Massachusetts, died
1836, Beihpre, Ohio. |
| RICE, Thomas |
Of Providence
Rhode Island, (now) formerly of Warwick, County
Kent, Rhode Island. Will probated (or
made?) 1-12-1798, authenticated copy to
Marietta September I845. Late
wife, Anne; sister-Barbara, wife of Benjamin
Arnold; brother-Henry Rice and his grandson Thomas
Rice Stafford; nieces- Elizabeth, wife of
Michael Mellone (Malone) and daughter of my brother
Henry; Martha wife of John Stafford, and daughter of my
brother Henry; Nephew-Thomas, son of my
deceased sister (name not
mentioned); Caleb, son of my brother Henry
Rice; John Rice Arnold, son of my sister
Barbara and her husband Benjamin Arnold; To
Elizabeth, wife of Job Carpetner and to
Rebecca daughter of Caleb Hill, Esq. of North Kingston,
R.I. (relation-ship not mentioned.) Witness David
Wightman, Peleg Wilburn, John Rice.
Book 7, Page 242 |
| RIGGS, James |
Will
made 5-9-1813, Probated June 1815.
Wife, Mary; children-Basil,
John, Edmund, Samuel, Maye (Sheetz),
Mary (Ridgeway), Jane
(Williamson.); granddaughter of Martin and Maye
Sheetz. Exr: Edmund Piggs. Witness: Richard
Talbot, Henry Jolly, Martin Sheetz, John
Collins.
Book 1, Page 281
Note: James Riggs was
a Revolutionary soldier in the Pennsylvania
Regulars. Born 1742 at Rock Creek, Montgomery County,
Maryland, later lived in Bedford County,
Pa. |
| RILEY, Betsey |
Will
made 9-9-1845, Probated Mar 1846. Children-John,
William, Elizabeth, wife of Abner McGee, Mary,
wife of George Posey, Susan, wife of
Ezekiel Hoskinson.
Book 7, Page 303 |
| RILEY, James |
Will-made 5-3-1841, Probated
October 1841. Wife, Betsey. Witness: Oliver
Woodward, Jr, William Riley, Julian Riley.
Book 6, Page 251 |
| ROACH, John |
Will
made 5-5-1841, Probated October
1841.Wife, Pamela and her son Adolphus.
Witness: James L. Baldwin, Elijah Mason.
Book 6, Page
248 |
| ROBBINS, Mary |
Will
made 4-12-1838, Probated September
1839. Heirs-daughter Malinda, wife of John
Hutson; Her late father Ebenezer Sweet of
Deerfield, Massachusetts.Witness: John Crawford, Walter
Ward.
Book 6, Page 24 |
| ROBBINS, Reuben |
Administration 1830. Heirs-
Emeline, Reuben, Elizabeth and Leon W.
Robbins; wife Charity C.
Book 4,
Page 464 |
| ROBBINS, Samuel Price |
Will made
9-2-1823, Probated November
1823. Wife, Patty; six children mentioned but
not named-all minors. Witness: Robert
Crawford, Asa Beach.
Note: Cemetery records- Rev.Samuel
Robbins, son of Rev. Samuel Robbins born at Marietta
August 25, 1811, was a missionary to Siam
for four years. Died July 6, 1846. Martha
Read, daughter of Deacon Luthur Pierce of
Connecticut, wife of Rev. Samuel P.
Robbins, died 8-18-1841, aged 28 years
and.three months. Infant son of S. and M.
Robbins, named Joseph .Emerson. Rev. Samuel P.
Robbins; Pastor of the Congregational Church at
Marietta, Ohio died
9-2-1823 aged 47.years. Martha
(Burlingame) Robbins, second wife of
Rev. Samuel P. Robbins, born at Campus
Martius, Marietta, Ohio 8-19-1792 married Rev.
Robbins September 1810-died 12-19-1872, aged 80 years.
(Correction- This name should be Samuel Prince Robbins) |
| ROGER, Bathsheba |
Of Belpre,
Ohio. Will
made 6-23-1807 date of probation
not given. Children-Daniel Dunham and Bathsheba
(Tilton). Grandchildren- William and Sarah Wright.
Witness: Edward Halsey., Zadoc Foster,
William Withington.
Book 1, Page 129 |
| ROOD, Wine |
Of Fearing
Township. Will made 8-27-1818, Probated November
1823. Children-
Wine, Jr., Carolina and
Matilda. Witness: Edward Postlewaite, Elijah
Pose and Samuel Cook.
Book 2, Page 428 |
| ROWLAND, John |
Will
made 6-26-1848, Probated October 1850. Children-
Robert, William, Sarah
(Mullen), Betsey (Bunt),
Margaret (Rowland), Jane (Leonard), Isabella
(Rowland.) grandson, Augustus Leonard to have
land in Wood County, Virginia (now W.
V.). Witness: Caleb Emerson, John D.
Tiley, Abram Winal.
Book 8, Page 514 |
| RUSSELL, John |
Administration
1832 (1833?). Children-Caroline,
Wiilliam, Charles, Jonathan, Jane, Lucy,
wife of Robert Crawford, Polly, wife of Pardon
Cook, Betsey wife of Tillinghast
A. Cook.
Book 5, Page 31 |
| RUTTER, John B. |
Administration 6-19-1852. V/idow
Eliza; children Sarah D., Emeline, John
Rutter, and John McCane of
Keokuck, Iowa (relationship not mentioned.
Book
9, Page 467 |
| SALTONSTALL, Nathaniel |
Will made 8-1-1807, Probated
4-12-1808. Children, Polly and John Latimer Saltonstall.
Witness: Hallom Hempstead, Gates Hempstead.
Book 1, Page
120
Note: Natnaniol Saltonstall was a Captain in
Artillery Company from New London, Connecticut. Born in New
London, 1727-married Rebecca Young- died in Marietta, Ohio in
1807. Ref: D.A.R. Lineage Book Vol 62, pg
4. |
| SALTONSTALL, John Latimer |
Will made 2-6-1821, Probated July
1821. Sisters- Lucretia, wife of Giles Hempstead, and Nancy,
wife of Rev. L. Lindsley. Witness; Dr. S.P. Hildreth, Lucretia
Saltonstall and Lucretia S. Hempstead.
Book 2, Page
212 |
| SALTONSTALL, Lucretia |
Will made May 1823, no date for
probation given. Children- Lucretia Hempstead and
Lucretia Lindsley; grandchildren. Lucretia and Harriett
Hempstead, William and Lucretia Hannah Lindsley (Lindley).
Witness: Samuel Nixon, Samuel \Whipple.
Book 5, Page
129
Note: Cemetery record- Nancy Saltonstall Lindsley,
daughter of Rev. Stephen Lindsley, died August 5, 1813, aged 5 years. |
| SAMPSON, Cracker |
Of Kingston County, Plymouth, Mass.
Will made 1-8-1806, Probated 7-21-1823. Wife, Rebecca;
children Benjamin (a minor), Harriett, Rebecca, Luciy.
Witness: John Gray, Samuel Stetson, Seth
Perkins.
Book 5, Page
129 |
| SANDFORD (or
SANFORD), Thomas James Harris |
Late of
Rotherham, County of York, England. Will made
9-12-1820, Probated
1825. Wife, Mary; son- Thomas
Harris Sanford, land in Buerton, Chester
County, England; brother- Charles Samuel,
Roberts Sanford of Masborough, York
County, England; brother-in-law-Phiiip William
Mackwcrth Yonge of Winson Green near
Bingham, Warwick County, England, and Harriett
Anne Maria his wife. Witness: Frederick
Kean 38 Upper Temple Street, Bingham,
England, Frederick Mills, John Mason Guest
Underhill.
Book 3, Page 485
Note: Thomas
Sanford born Essex, England. Mary, his wife born in Yorkshire, England, September 17, 1790, died
Marietta, September, 1876. |
| SARGENT, Winthrop |
Of
Glouster, near Natchez, Mississippi Territory. Will
made 10-11-1816, Probated December 1823.
Wife, Mary; children- William Fitz Winthrop
Sargent, and George W. Sargent to be educated
at his own Alma Mater Cambridge; sister- Mrs-
McMurray; Grandchildren of his deceased sister
Esther Ellery; friend- Lucuis Manlius Sargent and
Jonathan Temple to have land in Ohio under the
supervision of Benjamin Ives Gilman. Witness: Martha
Provon, A. Brewer Thompson, Chauncey Pettibone.
Will probated in Adams Co. Mississippi 1823.
Book
5, Page 493
Note: Codicil- Sargent Harding and Sargent Gilman, sons of Gilman A. Harding and (nephew) Winthrop
Sargent, Jr of Boston, respectively. Cemetery record-Rowena, daughter of General Benjamin
Tupper, and wife of Winthrop Sargent (secretary of the Northwest Territory), born 1766-died
1799. |
| SCHIEFFELIN, Jacob |
Of
the City of New
York. Will made. 6-20-1829, Probated 1835.
Wife, Hannah; children- Richard
L., Henry, Effingham, Jacob, Edward
L., John L., Anna Maria S.
(Ferris).
Book 5, Page 246
Note: He was born in Philadelphia 8-24-1747, Registered
in the Lutheran Church of that City- married Hannah
Effingham. |
| SCHOONVER (or
SCHNOOVER), Nicholas |
Administration (or will?) April 28,
1846. Wife, Sarah; children-Elizabeth, John, Lenoard,
Charlotte, wife of John Rathbone, now living in Illinois,
Emeline wife of John Finch, Rosetta Schoonover of Peoria,
Illinois, children of his son Henry deceased, Adolphus, Alvin,
Carolina and Asa Schnoover (last four named children
minors.)
Book 9, Page 292 |
| SCOTT, Eliphalet |
Of Aurelius Tonwship. Will made
7-6-1850, Probated October 1850. Children-Mark E., James B.,
Charlotte Jane Scott. Witness: John Smithson, and John
Smithson Jr.
Book 8, Page 532 |
| SCOTT, John McM. |
Of Franklin County, Kentucky. Will
made 8-26-1812, Probated 9-3-1814. Wife, Kitty; children-
William Henry Harrison Scott to be educated under the
direction of Governor Harrison, and the Honorable Harry Imes,
Administrator: Matthew Scott.
Book 1, Page
27
Note: john Scott died in Athens County,
Ohio. |
| SCOTT, Obediah |
Administration 1832. Wife,
Thankful; children-Celestine, wife of Nathaniel Fuller of
Licking County, Ohio, Almira, wife of John Beach of Morgan
County, Ohio, Tracey Scott a resident of Licking County, Ohio,
Obediah, Jr., Hannah, James, Hiram, Rothens, Adline,
Winchester, George Scott all residents of Washington County,
Ohio.
Book 4, Page 595
Note: Almira (Scott)
Beach, was married first to Samuel Cushing, Jr. |
| SEAMON, Benjamin |
Will made 4-13-1812, Probated
5-23-1812. Sisters- Mary (Atcheson), Susannah (Olney), Sarah
(Craig), brothers-Samuel, Gilbert, Preserved; friends-
Benjamin and Martha Nowell, Samuel Postlewaite and John Bowman
of Adams County, in the Territory of Mississippi. Witness:
Nathaniel Oliver, Gilbert Oliver and Jonathan Sprague.
Book
1, Page 201
Cemetery record- Louisana Seaman, daughter
of Preserved, died September 15, 1812, aged
7 years. |
| SEAMON, Gilbert |
Of Adams, Washington County, Ohio.
Copy of this will states Probated at Marietta, Ohio 1-13-1800)
He was probably a resident of Adams County, Territory of
Mississippi at the time of his death. Wife, Martha; children-
Gilbert, Preserved, Susanna, Sabra, Martha, Polly, Samuel,
Benjamin, Benijah; grandson William, son of his daurhter
Sabra. Withess: Enoch Ewing, William Davis, Stephen
Frost.
Book
1, Page 36 |
| SEARS, Sarah |
Late of New York City. Will made
10-14-1805, Probated in New York 1806- authenticated copy to
Marietta in 1806. Sister Rebecca, wife of John Blogges, Esq;
daughters-Hester (Smith) and Rebecca (Sterrett);
grandchildren- Peregrine, James and William Bordieu, sons of
my late daughter Mary; Harriett Artemissa, daurhter of my late
daughter Sarah Fandall. Witness: W.H.Smith, Julia Bloggs,
Elizabeth Smith.
Book 7, Page 297
Note: Sarah Sears was the widow of
Isaac Sears of New York City. |
| SEELY, Thomas |
Of Waterford, Ohio- Will made
9-28-1827, Probated July 1829. Wife, Margaret; children- John
H., Sarah A. (Dearborn) a minor, Abijah Thomas, Simeon F.,
Lucretia A.M., wife of E.S. McIntosh. Witness: David and
Lavena Baldwin, Solomon F. Cogswell.
Book 4, Page 258 |
| SHAFFER, John |
Administration 1832. Wife, Polly;
children- Peggy, Noble, Wealthy, Philip Cooper, and John
Cooper Shaffer.
Book 4, Page 628 |
| SHARP, James |
Will made 7-29-1818, date of
probation not given. Wife, Kezie; children William Thompson,
Esther, James Madison, John, Samuel, Louisa, George and
Esther, James Madison, John, Samuel, Louisa, George and
Joseph. Witness: Wm. Slocum, John Sharp, George
Duilery.
Book 2, Page 84 |
| SHAPP, Peter |
Will made 10-16-1824, Probated
March 1825. Wife, Mary; only child Eliza. Witness: Isaac L.
Palmer, Benjamin M. Brown.
Book 3,
Page 190 |
| SHEETS, Martin |
Of Grandview Township. Will made
6-14-1844, Probated September 1845. Wife, Sally; children John
E., Henry J., Mary (Kiger), William, Nancy (Dye), Matthew,
Priscilla (Dye), Anthony, Elizabeth J. (Dye). Witness: Elliott
H. Collins, R.K. Ewart.
Book 7, Page 257
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| SHELDON, Jeremiah |
Administration 1828. Wife, Olive;
children- Jeremiah Fayette, William Washington
Sheldon.
Book
4, Page 388 |
| SHEPHERD, Enoch |
Will made 8-22-1821, Probated Nov.
1821. States that his daughter Anna is to divide his property
among the children of his first marriage, i.e. Esther, Enoch,
Anna, Rhoda, Daniel, Larena, Luther, Huldah, Calvin. The
children of his second marriage by his wife Margaret were
Silas M., and Elizabeth G. Witness: Caleb Emerson, Emory
Keyes, William Morris.
Book 2, Page
220 |
| SHERER, Jacob |
Administration July 1, 1853.
Children- Elizabeth and Catherine of Marietta, Ohio, John C.
and Rebecca A., of Madison Indiana.
Book 9, Page 579 |
| SHERMAN, Timothy |
Administration 1831.
Heirs-relationship not stated, but presumably his children.
Herman Sherman, residence unknown, Lyman Sherman of Sandusky,
Ohio, Electa, wife of Daniel Loomis of Rochester, N.Y., Olive
(Ward) formerly Sherman of Dresden, Ohio, Curtis Herman
Sherman of Tupper's Plains, Meigs County, Ohio, Abel Sherman
of Waterford, Washington County, Ohio, Wakeman Sherman of
Morgan County, Ohio Uriah Sherman of Waterford, Washington,
County, Ohio.
Book 5, Page 36
Note: Timothy
Sherman was a Revolutionary soldier and was aged 58 years in
1818- his wife Polly was aged 64 in 1825. Wakeman, Uriah and
Able and six other children all married. Soldier died in 1820. |
| SHIPMAN, Joshua |
Late of Wheeling Virginia (now West
Virginia)- Administration 1831. Wife, Eunice and minor
children, not named.
Book 4, Page 517 |
| SHIPMAN, Joshua, Jr. |
Administration 1832.
Heirs- his father Joshua Sr, and heirs of his father; Charles,
Frederick, Julia, wife of Nathaniel Holden, Maria, Samuel,
heirs of Eliza and Joseph C. Shipman.
Book 5, Page 43 |
| SHIPMAN, William H. |
Late of Wheeling,
Virginia (now West Virginia)- Administration 1831. Wife, Mary
Anne; children-Susan, George, Anne, William.
Book 4, Page
521 |
| SINCLAIR, Martin |
Administration
9-21-1854. Heirs- Mary M., Sarah J., William M., Jesse P., and
Charles A. Sinclair.
Book 9, Page 573 |
| SKINNER, William |
Will made 4-25-1825, Probated April
1841. Wife, Mary; children- Charles S., David C., Sarah C.
(Ward), William P. Witness: John P. Mayberry, Timothy Cone, A.
Warner.
Book 6, Page 169
Note: William Skinner was
born in Carlisle, Penna. February 1763, died at Harmer,
Washington County, Ohio
1840. |
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