MEIGS CO., OH, LAND RECORDS, VOL. 4, 1832-1836
pg. 579-80.

George Birthesel  } To all people to whom these presents shall come greeting
      To          } know ye that I George Birthesel of Sutton Township, Meigs
Samuel W. Pomeroy } County, Ohio for and in consideration of the sum of eight
                    hundred dollars good and lawful money of the United States
of America to me in hand before the ensealing and delivery hereof well and
truly paid by Samuel W. Pomeroy the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge and
am therewith fully satisfied and contented and paid have granted, bargained,
sold, aliened, ______  conveyed and confirmed and by these presents do grant,
bargain, sell, alien, ____, convey and confirm unto him the said Samuel W.
Pomeroy, his heirs and assigns forever all that certain tract, piece or parcel
of land situated and described as follows viz being the Northern half of
Section ten Range Twelve Town two of the Ohio Company's purchase so known and
called containing three hundred and twenty acres be the same more or less being
the same tract conveyed by said Pomeroy to said Birthisell by deed dated the
twenty forth day of February 1832. To have and to hold the said granted,
bargained, and demised premises with all and singular the privileges
appurtenances and commodities to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining
unto him the said Samuel W. Pomeroy, his heirs and assigns to and for the only
proper use, benefit and behoof of him the said Samuel W. Pomeroy, his heirs and
assigns forever.  The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the
said George Birthisell hath this day executed to the said Samuel W. Pomeroy,
his note for eight hundred dollars bearing even date herewith payable as
follows viz one for two hundred dollars payable on the first day of December
1832, one for two hundred dollars payable on the first day of December 1833,
one for two hundred dollars payable on the first day of November 1834. Now if
the said George Birthisell shall well and truly pay said Notes as they become
due then this obligation and every part thereof to be null and void otherwise
to be and remain in full force and virtue in law in testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty fourth day of February in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two the signing, sealing, and
delivery acknowledged in presence of us

Mary H. Pomeroy }
T.B. Horton     }                  George Birthisell (seal)

The State of Ohio } This day personally appeared before me the subscriber one of
Gallia County     } the Justice of the Peace of the County of Gallia George
                    Birthisell the signer and sealer of the foregoing instrument
of conveyance and acknowledged the same to be his free and voluntary act and
deed for the purposes therein expressed and I do also further certify that the
above named grantor is to me known to be the person whom he represents to be
from the representation only of the said S.W. Pomeroy this grantor given under
my hand and seal at Gallipolis County of Gallia this twenty fourth day of
February AD 1836.                            

                                    J.P.B. Bincau JP (seal)

Know all men by these present that I Jane Birthisell wife of the within named
Mortgagor George Birthisell in consideration of the premises and one dollar
paid by Samuel W. Pomeroy the within named do hereby release all my right and
claim to dower to the within mortgaged premises that the said Samuel W. Pomeroy,
his heirs and assigns in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
in the Township of Fulton and State of Ohio the tenth April 1832.

Witness Chs. R. Pomeroy }          Jane Birthisell (seal)

State of Ohio } Chester recorder office 11th April 1832. I hereby certify the
Meigs County  } foregoing to be a true copy of the original deed.

                                   Attest N. Hamlin, recorder.

Notation on side of page: Recorded of George Birthisell within named eight
hundred dollars in full of the within mortgage and the Notes of which the same
is protected and the mortgage is hereby discharged and canceled, a true copy.                                        
                                   Attest N. Hamlin, recorder.