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From: Hermon B Fagley <>
Subject: Re: [OhBrown] Baum info in the history of Lewis Twp is not verifiable
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 07:00:19 -0500


Permanent settlement started the 1795-96 winter,after the treaty
of Greenville. There were hunter's cabins,and a few squaters
earlier,including
one near Heiser's. Clermont Co started 1800-01 winter. 1795-1800 you
needed to
look in the Hamilton Co,NW Territory records,if any exsist. Ohio was
formed the 1802-03
winter.[After an 1802 census. [MAY] showed enough
population.Baum,1802,was within
Washington twnsp,Clermont Co,NW Territory. He had been in Anderson
township,
Hamilton Co,NW Territory.
eter Emry,and the miller on Bullskin,Joseph Clark,and the
squatter,Alexander Canada,,
Wm Corrothers, John Sells,Abraham Sells,Charles Baum,Rheuben Young,Adam
Simmons [mine]
Richard Fancher,Robert Crosswell.
I says,as of May,1802, Charles Baum is not yet on 1653,but 3-5 miles
east,near East Bullskin.

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:43:18 -0600 Mac Main <> writes:
> The Brown County rootsweb page for Lewis Twp says in part:
>
> >In 1798 came Peter Emery and Charles Baum, with their families,
> from
> >Pennsylvania, both settling on the farm now owned by John Heizer.
> They leased
> >the land and remained until 1804 when Emery settled below Batavia,
> Clermont
> >County, where he died. Baum, about the same time, purchased the
> farm now owned
> >by William Tolin, in the forks of the Bullskin Creek and there
> spent the
> >remainder of his life. Both were natives of Germany, and both
> Lutherans.
>
> As a way down the line descendant of this Charles Baum, I've heard
> the Bullskin area legend for years. In October 2003 I had my first
> chance to see the area first hand and to try my hand at "research."
>
> The Georgetown County Administrative Records center had no land
> records
> for Charles Baum, but that was not surprising since he died in 1817
> before
> the county was formed. In Batavia there were Clermont County records
> as follows:
>
> 1802 a purchase of 125 acres in Survey 1655 from Wm Radford.
>
> 1812 Charles split this tract (after the death of his wife in 1811)
> selling 75 acres to his son Charles Jr (really Chas Wm) and
> 50 acres to his son Michael
>
> 1815 son Michael sells to Charles Sr 30 1/2 acres in Survey 1656
> 1817 Chares Sr dies
> 1818 Charles Sr's heirs sell the 30 1/2 acres back to Michael Baum
>
> Survey areas 1655 & 1656 were in Clermont County before 1818 and
> after
> 1818. No record of a land holding by Charles Baum Sr exsts for land
> in survey area 1670 where Wm Tolin's land is between forks of the
> Bullskin.
>
> Have other folks had problems verifying "tales" in the History of
> Brown County?
>
>
>
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