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Note: 1793 - Charles Moots, Jr. is born in PA. 1793 - Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin. 1793 - George Washington lays the cornerstone for the Capitol building in Washington D.C. 1793 - Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are executed; the Reign of Terror begins in France. 1793 - Thomas Paine publishes the Rights of Man and is outlawed for treason in England
War of 1812 Service Records about Charles Moots Name:Charles Moots COMPANY:1 REG'T (MCDONALD'S), OHIO MILITIA. Rank - Induction:PRIVATE Rank - Discharge:PRIVATE Roll Box:147 Roll Exct:602 "History of Champaign and Logan County from First Settlements" Joshua Antrim Page 289 Poll Book March 14, 1818, Charles Moots, Jr. and George Moots, Sr. each one of 162 electors of Jefferson Township of Logan County
1820 United States Federal Census about Charles Moots Junior Name: Charles Moots Junior Township: Jefferson County: Logan State: Ohio Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820 Free White Males - 26 thru 44: 1 Free White Females - Under 10: 2 Free White Females - 16 thru 25: 1 Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1 Free White Persons - Under 16: 2 Free White Persons - Over 25: 1 Total Free White Persons: 4 Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 4
U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 about Charles Moots Name: Charles Moots Issue Date: 10 Nov 1840 State of Record: Indiana Acres: 80 Accession Number: IN3620__.097 Metes and Bounds: No Land Office: Fort Wayne Canceled: No US Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) Document Number: 22679 Legal Land Description: Section Twp Range Meridian Counties 27 25-N 10-E 2nd PM Wells
Original Land Patents: Tippecanoe County, Indiana Township 24 N, - Range 3 W Crawfordsville Land Office Issue Date: 2 December 1830 Document # 11459 Serial # IN1100-.181 also: Issue Date: 3 January 1831 Document # 11747 Serial # IN 1100_.457 and: Issue Date: 3 January 1832 Document # 114322 Serial # IN1160_.026
Lafayette Daily Courier Thursday, November 10, 1859 South of the Tippecanoe River, on the borders of the Pretty Prairie, there was a settlement in early times, composed of the following families. viz: William Kendall, Moses Rush, Moots, Phillip Runnels, Beeker, Marquis, and Samuel Starret.
Prairie Township, IN Prairie Township and the land around it is ideal for agriculture. Once the prairie was swampy and covered with giant blue stem grass which, according to early travelers, grew as high as a person's shoulder. The eastern portion of the township was heavily forested with oak, hickory, black walnut, poplar, ash, red cedar, willow, black locust, soft maple and paw-paw. Early settlers declared that on a single acre one could see as many as one hundred oaks from eighty to a hundred feet high. Moots and Spring Creeks drained the wooded area, but the prairie had to wait to be ditched and drained.
Brookston....It is beautifully located near the center of Prairie Township, in the edge of the timber bordering on Grand Prairie, and Moots Creek, a pretty tributary of the Tippecanoe, flows along its southern and western borders, adding to the natural attractiveness of its position and affording ample facilities for drainage....
1850 Census for Indiana-Tippecanoe, Tippecanoe County shows the following: Charles Moots age 56 Male Farmer Born in PA John C. Smith age 26 Male OH Malinda Smith age 25 Female OH Newton Smith age 8 Male IN (Note: No relationships are listed in this Census for 1850) (see below)
1850 U.S. Census Home in 1850(City,County,State): Miami, Logan, Ohio Household Members: Name Age Charles Moots 56 Mary Moots 53 Samuel Moots 21 Elizabeth Moots 19 Philander Moots 17 Samuel Stewart 17 James Moots 19 (Both Charles Moots' are age 56 - 1 living in Indiana and 1 living in Ohio) (Are these two Charles Moots' the same person?)
1870 United States Federal Census about Charles Moots Name: Charles Moots Birth Year: abt 1793 Age in 1870: 77 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1870: Harrison, Logan, Ohio Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: View image Post Office: Bellefontaine Household Members: Name Age Charles Moots 77 Mary Moots 74 Martha E Allman 13 - Domestic Servant born in OH
John C. Smith married Malinda Kendall - March 9, 1848 in Tippecanoe County, IN - Unknown realationship of Moots' and Smith's at this time. This must be Charles Moots, Jr. who is staying with the Smith's. Or, another Charles Moots who is the same age.
�Will: 30 Dec 1878 , Harrison, Logan, OH �Note: Charles Moots, of Harrison Tp., Dec'd. Will probated 28 January 1879. To son, Conrad Moots, two notes on Thomas Spellman dated August 1, 1872. Also three notes on my son, Conrad Moots dated August 1, 1872. Names sons, Conrad, Samuel , C.M., Philander and James I. and daus., Martha A. Ellis , Mary J. Moore, and Elizabeth S. Nichols. Exr. Conrad Moots. Wit: Jonathan Parker /s/ Conrad Moots Thomas Turner 30 Dec 1878
Name: Charles Moots, Jr. (of Champaign Co., Ohio) Issue Date: 10 Nov 1840 State of Record: Indiana Acres: 80 Accession Number: IN3620__.099 Metes and Bounds: No Land Office: Fort Wayne Canceled: No US Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) Document Number: 22681 Legal Land Description: Section Twp Range Meridian Counties 27 25-N 10-E 2nd PM Wells
Feature Name: Moots Creek Category: Indiana physical, cultural and historic features Feature Type: Physical Class: Stream County: White County Latitude: 40.537814 Longitude: -86.7800086 Feature ID: 439416 Panoramio Photos of the local area
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Moots Creek: Moores Creek, Moore's Creek, Moot's Creek, Mootz Creek, Motes Creek.
DRAINAGE THROUGH MOOTS AND SPRING CREEKS The eastern portion of Prairie Township is timbered chiefly with white oak, though there are other varieties of wood found near the borders of the Tippecanoe and along Moots and Spring Creeks, its tributaries which are the natural channels for the drainage of the township. Moots Creek has its source in the extreme northwestern sections, winding in a general southeasterly direction to the southern boundary of the township, about a mile from its eastern line, and thence passing into Tippecanoe County on its way to join the Tippecanoe. Spring Creek rises in the northern part of the township. It also flows southeast and empties into the Tippecanoe River at Springboro, the oldest town in the township, where the first postoffice was established on the stage line from Lafayette to Michigan City. It was five miles east of Brookston, one of those several "paper towns" in White County, crumpled up by the lack of a railroad. Its site, where the creek joins the river, with a series of bluffs rising from the smaller to the larger stream, was picturesque, and still is; but natural beauty could not make Springboro grow.
Spring Creek itself is not as long as Moots, but, by reason of the living springs which feed it so abundantly and unvaryingly along its entire course, its volume of water is probably much greater. Both streams have made the township ideal for stockmen, and in the early times many large tracts of land on their banks were fenced off for the pasturage and raising of cattle.
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FIRST SAWMILLS Moots Creek furnished water power for the two early sawmills which supplied the settlers in the eastern part of the township with lumber for their houses and farm buildings. The first industry in that line was established by Robert Barr in 1838. He dammed the creek about a quarter of a mile above where the mill was located, in section 31, and constructed a race which worked well when the water was high enough, usually in the spring months. The saw was one of those up-and-down arrangements and was kept quite busy when there was power for about a decade. For many years some of the old timbers remained to mark the spot where the first sawmill of the township was erected.
The second and last sawmill was erected in the Gay settlement, in the southeastern corner of the township, about 1862. It was built by P. M. Kent, who also attached machinery for grinding wheat and corn. The grist mill was discontinued after about a year of well-meant efforts, and the sawmill struggled along for five years, when the entire enterprise was abandoned.
Moot's Creek is the only major direct tributary to the Tippecanoe River located in the County.
1850 United States Federal Census about Charles Moots Name: Charles Moots Age: 56 Estimated birth year: abt 1794 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): Miami, Logan, Ohio Family Number: 24 Household Members: Name Age Charles Moots 56 Mary Moots 53 Samuel Moots 21 Elizabeth Moots 19 Philander Moots 17 Samuel Stewart 17 James Moots 19
1860 United States Federal Census about Charles Moots Name: Charles Moots Age in 1860: 67 Birth Year: abt 1793 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1860: Harrison, Logan, Ohio Gender: Male Post Office: Bellefontaine Household Members: Name Age Charles Moots 67 Mary Moots 63
1870 United States Federal Census about Charles Moots Name: Charles Moots Estimated birth year: abt 1793 Age in 1870: 77 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1870: Harrison, Logan, Ohio Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: View image Post Office: Bellefontaine Household Members: Name Age Charles Moots 77 Mary Moots 74 Martha E Allman 13
[Adapted from a chart in the book "History of Wells County, Indiana, 1776- 1976" by Dorothy Rose and Joyce Buckner, c1975]
**NOTE:** Date range indicates the earliest and latest dates of purchase within each section. First land claimants in Jackson Township 25 North, Range 10 East Section 27 1836-1838 Stewart, Joseph Hickman, Joshua Alexander, Robert Moots, Charles Jr. Woodruff, John
Deed Volume M, page 49 - 1836 Record of Deeds - Champaign County, Ohio - Copy 1994 Jan 1 1836 Deed for sale of approximately 79 Acres of Land to Jacob Garver in Champaign County, Ohio for the sum of $200. Signatures of both Charles Moots, Jr. and Mary Moots on deed.
1836 Record of Deeds - Champaign County, Ohio - Copy 1994 August 31, 1836 Deed for sale of approximately 50 Acres of land to John Wikle for the sum of $200.
Deed Volume M, Page 549 - 1837 Record of Deeds - Champaign County, Ohio - Copy 1994 Mar 13, 1837 Deed for the purchase of land from Sampson McMillin of approximately 10 Acres for the sum of $50. Charles Moots, Jr. signature only on deed.
Deed Volume S, page 130 - 1842 Record of Deeds - Champaign County, Ohio - Copy 1994 Deed for sale of land by Mary Moots, former widow of Charles Stewart, to Charles Moots for the sum of $300
Deed Volume R, page 554 - 1842 Record of Deeds - Champaign County, Ohio - Copy 1994 Deed for the purchase of Land and premises for the sum of $1,600 from Joseph & Mary Stewart and Benjamin H. and Eliza Piatt.
Deed Volume Q, page 315 - 1849 Record of Deeds - Champaign County, Ohio - Copy 1994 Deed for sale of 155 Acres of Land to Washington Hammer & William Hammer for the sum of $1,900 by Charles Moots, Jr. and Mary Moots.
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