1820 - Steele, James. Peirce, Joseph.

Authorization to erect Zeigler tombstones.
Document, double sheet, 13" x 8", 1820.
Bearing the names Joseph Peirce, Samuel Peirce, C. R. Greene.   Authorization to James Steele and Joseph Peirce, administrators of the estate of Luceanna [sic] Zeigler, deceased, to erect tombstones over her grave and her husband's grave, that being her express and particular request.   [The Zeiglers are buried in Woodland Cemetery, Dayton.]         (36)

Document, 6 small sheets, 3 3/4" x 6 1/4", sewed together.   Only one used.
A list of plate sent to the bank.   At bottom:   "Mrs. Zeigler's silver".       (37)

Quitclaim to James Steele and Joseph Peirce
Document, single sheet, 12 3/4" x 7 7/8".   Feb. 24, 1821.
Quitclaim signed by Samuel Peirce, in consideration of 2,500 dollars to be paid by James Steele and Joseph Peirce, to Samuel's share in the estate of Lucianna Zeigler.   Signed: Samuel Peirce. Witnesses:   John Folkerth and David Huston.   On reverse: Recorded by Griffin Yeatman, recorder for the County of Hamilton.               (38)

1821 - Peirce, Samuel

Quitclaim to James Steele and Joseph Peirce
Document, double sheet, 12 3/4" x 7 7/8".   Feb. 24, 1821.
Quitclaim signed by Samuel Peirce, in consideration of 2,000 dollars to be paid by James Steele and Joseph Peirce, to Samuel's share in the estate of Lucianna Zeigler: viz.,   2 shares in Ohio Company purchases no. 123, no. 38, no. 15, no. 5, no. 20, no. 1029, no. 110, no. 289, no. 319, no. 15, no. 31, no. 324, no. 994, nos. 25, etc.   Various Hamilton County tracts and Cincinnati tracts.   Signed:   Samuel Peirce. Witnesses:   John Folkerth, David Huston.   (done in Dayton.)   On reverse:   Recorder of Hamilton Co.   Statement of recording in Hamilton Co. books. (39)

1821 - Distribution among heirs of household goods

Document, 4 single sheets, various sizes 12 3/4" x 7 1/2".   [on reverse of letter to Joseph Peirce, dated Mar. 12, 1821, on subject of renting the house occupied by Mr. Este]; 12 5/8" x 8 1/16", written on both sides; 12 5/8" x 8 1/16", written on both sides; 12 5/8" x 8", written on 1 side; endorsed on reverse "List of furniture by S. Peirce & C. R. Greene"   n. d.
Contents:

1. Household furnishings, including books, to $291.72, + difference in glass, $5.00, + $13.33, 1/6th of wine, $310.06.   Signed Maria Greene.
2. On one side, household goods to amount $263.52 «, cont. on other side to amount $293.02,including books.   Signed Samuel Peirce
3. Household furnishings to amount $263 - [p. torn] on one side; on reverse, continue to amount $291.871/2, including books, Add to mantelpiece - $10.00 and 1/6 of wine. Signed Mrs. Cooper.
4. Household furnishings, including books.   Signed C. R. Greene.       (40)

Document, folded sheet, 12 3/4" x 8".   Written on one side.

Endorsed on reverse:   "List of debts paid by Administrators of L. Zeigler".   [No signature]

On page 1, debts listed to the amount of $2,805. 181/2 cents. n. d. [1821]             (44)

Quitclaim in favor of James Steele and Joseph Peirce.
Document, single sheet, 12 3/4" x 7 7/8".   April 7, 1821.

Quitclaim signed by C. R. Greene.   In consideration of 2,500 dollars to be paid by James Steele and Joseph Peirce, to C. R. Greene's share of the personal property of Luceanna [sic] Zeigler, expecting only his share of household furniture already distributed.   Signed by C. R. Greene.   Witnesses:   John Folkerth & Samuel Peirce (done in Dayton).   On reverse:   Folkerth's attestation and the Hamilton County Recorder's statement of Record in Hamilton County.   (45)

1821 - Note: Signed by Joseph Peirce

Document, 8" x 4 1/2".   Note, April 24, 1821.
Promise to pay Miami Exporting Company $2,000, 60 days after date.   Signed by Joseph Peirce for James Steele and Joseph Peirce, Adm'rs, Estate of Zeigler, deceased.   Bank stock $3,000.   On reverse:   endorsed by Luceanna [sic] Zeigler, deceased, $2,000.   June, 1821.   (46)

Quitclaim to James Steele and Joseph Peirce.
Document, 12 3/4" x 8".   April 6, 1821.
For 100 dollars, grants to James Steele and Joseph Peirce all his undivided interest in land which as one of heirs at law of Hannah Sheffield he is entitled: part of a share in Ohio Company's purchase #419 - 160 acres, #388 - 3 acres, #504 - 6 acres, 1 house lot in Gallia County, #1149 and Sec #4, Range #15, town five in Gallia Co., etc.   Signed by Samuel Peirce. Witnessed by Thomas Morrison and John Folkerth.   Sworn to by John Folkerth.       (47)

n. d. [1821?] - Statement of settlement of estate of Luceanna [sic] Zeigler.

Document, double sheet. 12" x 7 3/4".   Folded.   Written on inside pages, endorsed on reverse.
Statement of the settlement of Mrs. Zeigler's estate (Endorsement, no signatures).   Sum of $13, 940 and 33 1/2 cents to be divided among 6 heirs [not named] - $2,323.39 to each.   (48)

n. d. [after Sept. 1821] - Disposition of Zeigler lands.

Document, 12 1/2" x 8 1/4", edges worn.   Unsigned, untitled.
Statement that lands belonging to David Zeigler were by him devised to his widow Luceanna [sic] Zeigler, who died intestate, Mrs. Sophia Loury, Mrs. Maria Grimes, Mrs. Phebe Steele, Charles R. Greene, Joseph Peirce and Samuel Peirce being heirs-in-law.   S. Peirce and C. R. Greene sold or conveyed their shares to Joseph Peirce and James Steele, so Peirce and Steele are entitled to 2/3 of the land   Joseph Peirce died in Sept., 1821, intestate; his heirs are his widow and 4 children: Mary, David Zeigler, Jeremiah and Joseph.         (49)

n. d. [after 1821] - Steele, James, and Peirce, Henrietta

Petition to the General Assembly of the State of Ohio.
Document, double sheet, written on 3 pages 9 7/8" x 8".
Petitioners James Steele and Henrietta E. Peirce, widow of Joseph Peirce, deceased, and guardian of Mary Peirce, Jeremiah and Joseph Peirce, minor heirs, etc., represent that Lucianna Zeigler was possessed of a tract of land in Hamilton County, in Fractional Sections 25 & 31 in Township No. 4 of Fractional Range No. 2 in the Miami Purchase... that by order of the Supreme Court made on the petition of Alexander Grimes and wife for the partition of the real estate of L. Zeigler, deceased, the tract was divided:   54 acres and 94/100 to Phebe Steele, wife of petitioner James Steele and one of the heirs of L. Zeigler; 40 acres and 9/100 to James Steele (purchased from Charles Greene and Samuel Peirce, also heirs-in-law of L. Z.; 60 acres and 22/100 to minor heirs of Joseph Peirce, subject to dower).   Petitioners have heard of petition praying alteration of part of road from Columbia to Cincinnati running on the bank of the Ohio River - petitioners remonstrate against such alteration. [Reasons given in detail.]       (50)

1822 - Authorization by heirs of James Steele.   April 20, 1822, to collect money due the estate.

Document, single sheet, 11" x 7 7/8".
Authorization by heirs of Lucianna Zeigler, April 20, 1822, to James Steele, Surviving Administrator of L. Z.'s estate, to collect money owed the estate from the heirs of John H. Piatt, deceased, who sold by agreement with L. Zeigler, the tract of land near Columbia purchased by David Zeigler of Jonathan [sic] Smith, or to receive back the land.   Signed on reverse:   Maria Greene, Fielding Loury, Sophia C. Loury, Henrietta Peirce. [General Fielding Loury, who was John Smith's son-in law by his first wife Ann, married in 1822 (Edgar says 1823 - an error), Sophia Greene Burnet Cooper, widow of Daniel C. Cooper.   They had one son, Fielding Loury Jr.   Edgar says Alexander Grimes married Maria Greene in 1820, an obvious error, since she is Maria Greene on this document, written after L. Zeigler's death in 1821.]     (51)