Guernsey County, Ohio Real Estate List for 1840

From: "STORIES OF GUERNSEY COUNTY OHIO History of an Average Ohio County"

By William G. Wolfe

published by the Author

Cambridge, Ohio 1943 pages 789-791

Complete list of the real estate owners in Adams Township in 1840, along with the number of acres owned and the section in which the farm was located.

ADAMS TOWNSHIP

-A-

ATCHISON, John ??163 acres??sec 3

-B-

BLAIR, William (Heirs)?? 40 acres ??sec 12

BOALES, John ??? 96 acres??sec 2

BELL, George???271 acres??sec 12, 18, and 20

BIGHAM, Alex and John ??163 acres??sec 3

BROWN, John (Heirs)??203 acres??sec 1?

BRADFORD, John ?? 50 acres??sec 12

BURKE, Robert???100 acres??sec 9

BROWN, Robert??? 82 acres??sec 5

BENNETT, James Jr. (Heirs) ? 62 acres??sec 17

BENNETT, James, SR??160 acres??sec 16

BURROWS, John ??160 acres??sec 24

BOYD, William???160 acres??sec 24

BOYD, Robert???180 acres??sec 23

BUCHANAN, John ??164 acres??sec 5

BARCUS, Jesse???160 acres??sec 20

BROWN, Robert (Heirs)?? 82 acres??sec 5

BELL, Robert (Heirs)??160 acres??sec 13

BOYD, James???160 acres??sec 14

BIGHAM, James??? 40 acres??sec 11

BEATTY, Cyrus P. (Heirs)?160 acres??sec 10

-C-

CROOKS, Henry???160 acres??sec 7

CROOKS, John ???160 acres??sec 7

COCHRAN, Alexander?? 82 acres??sec 7

CULBERTSON, William ??160 acres ??sec 7

-D-

DANLEY, Arthur??160 acres??sec 6

DUFF, George???155 acres ??sec 5

-F-

FORSYTHE, Elijah??161 acres??sec 25

FRAZIER, Alexander?? 80 acres??sec 13

FRAZIER, David???160 acres??sec 12 and 12

FORD, Robert??? 80 acres??sec 11

-G-

GIST, Thomas???161 acres??sec 2 and 3

GUTHRIE, Joseph??107 acres??sec 15

GUTHRIE, Thomas??120 acres??sec 15

GEORGE, Alexander?? 69 acres??sec 15

-G-

GALLIENNE, John ?? 80 acres??sec 12

-H-

HAMMOND, John ?? 40 acres??sec 12

HUTCHISON, Nathan??160 acres??sec 19

HUTCHISON, James C. (Heirs)? 60 acres??sec 9

HARPER, Samuel??161 acres??sec 16

-J-

JOHNSON, James ??160 acres ??sec 8

JOHNSON, Abraham?? 80 acres??sec 12

-K-

KILGORE, Daniel??159 acres??sec 6

KNOX, Thomas???114 acres??sec 4

KNOX, James ???158 acres??sec 7

KEERAN, John (Heirs)??159 acres??sec 21

KENNEDY, John ??100 acres ??sec 17

-L-

LEEPER, Samuel ?? 7 acres??sec 23

LEEPER, Alexander??152 acres??sec 23

LONG, Frederick (Heirs)?? 50 acres??sec 4

LAW, William ???164 acres??sec 4

LITTLE, James???160 acres??sec 25

LEECH, Matthew??160 acres??sec 17

LATIMORE, William??160 acres??sec 17

LAIRD, David ??? 20 acres??sec 22

LEECH, John ???175 acres??sec 12 and 13

LEEPER, William??140 acres??sec 19 and 23

-M-

MACKEY, Robert ??160 acres??sec 8 and 9

MACKEY, Richard??320 acres??sec 8

MITCHELL, Alexander??240 acres??sec 11 and 19

MEHAFFEY, Samuel, JR??200 acres??sec 10 and 11

McKNIGHT, Samuel?? 80 acres??sec 11

MEHAFEY, Samuel, SR??160 acres??sec 9

MEHAFFEY, Robert??120 acres??sec 9

MEHAFFEY, John ??185 acres??sec 18

MANCUP, John ???139 acres??sec 22

McKNIGHT, Jacob A.??160 acres??sec 18

McCLUSKY, Henry?? 83 acres??sec 15

MILLER, James ???155 acres??sec 5

McILYAR, Thomas ??100 acres??sec 11 and 20

MEHAFFEY, James, SR??120 acres??sec 8 and 9

McGONAGLE, James??106 acres??sec 2

MARSHALL, William??119 acres??sec 18

McMICHAEL, Eleanor?? 40 acres??sec 12

-P-

POWELL, William S. ?? 75 acres???sec 1

PORTER, James ???123 acres??sec 3

PRIAULX, Nicholas?? 80 acres??sec 11

PRIAULX, John ???120 acres??sec 11 and 20

PARKS, Hugh???160 acres??sec 14

PATTON, William ??160 acres??sec 17

PARKHILL, James (Heirs)?160 acres??sec 25

PATTERSON, Joseph??163 acres??sec 1

PAXTON, William ?? 20 acres??sec 23

PAXTON, John (Heirs)??160 acres ??sec 15

-R-

ROGERS, Michael??160 acres ??sec 10

RUSSELL, Thomas??159 acres??sec 6

ROSS, Robert A. ???164 acres??sec 4

REASONER, Benjamin??161 acres??sec 25

RANKIN, John ???160 acres??sec 21

ROSE, John ??? 80 acres???sec 9

-S-

SMITH, Alexander??160 acres??sec 6

SMITH, Owen???161 acres??sec 16

SCOTT, Francis??? 40 acres???sec 12

SIMPSON, Joseph?? 80 acres???sec 11

SUITT, Phillip???220 acres??sec 20

STEVENSON, George ??120 acres??sec 15

STONE, Frazier???160 acres??sec 24

STEELE, John???164 acres??sec 4

SHERRARD, James??120 aces ??sec 2

SHERRARD, William ??160 acres ??sec 10

SNODGRASS, Jesse??160 acres??sec 23

SLEETH, David ??? 80 acres??sec 12

STEVENSON, Moses (Heirs)? 80 acres??sec 24

SUNAFRANK, John, JR ?? 85 acres??sec 21

SUNAFRANK, John, SR??160 acres??sec 21

SUNAFRANK, Jacob??160 acres??sec 20

SPEAR, Alexander ??160 acres??sec 18

SPEAR, Abraham??160 acres??sec 22

SPEAR, Stewart???396 acres??sec 21, 22 and 23

-T-

THOMPSON, Mary F. ?? 41 acres???sec 5

THOMPSON, David??160 acres??sec 16

TONER, Charles???160 acres ??sec 14

-V-

VORHIES, John ??? 20 acres???sec 2

VORHIES, Robert?? 20 acres???sec 2

VINCENT, John ???160 acres??sec 7

-W-

WAGSTAFF, William ?? 80 acres ??sec 3

WELLS, Samuel ???200 acres ??sec 2

WILSON, Robert???140 acres ??sec 19

WOODBURN, Alexander??113 acres??sec 1

WOODBURN, Hugh?? 50 acres???sec 1

Submitted by

Mary McKain

Tucson, Arizona

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