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Note: FORTY YEARS OF ADVERTISEMENTS (1801-1839) From Washington County, Ohio Newspapers 1801 - 1839
Extracted from
HISTORY OF MARIETTA AND WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO
AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS
Edited and Compiled by Martin R. Andrew, M. A.
Published by Biographical Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1902
1815.-- Anthony Sheets, J. P., Grandview.
1824.-- Anthony Sheets, Adm'r. on estate of John Sheets, of Grandview.
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[Arterburn family.GED]
From " William's History of Washington County, Ohio--1788-1881"
"Anthony Sheets and his wife emigrated from Maryland to Ohio and settled in Grand View township sometime during the latter part of the eighteenth century. He died in 1834, aged seventy-five, and his wife died in 1840, aged eighty years. Their son, Henry Sheets, who was born in Grand View township in 1807, married Rebecca Parr, who was born in 1811."
They moved from Rock Creek, Montgomery Co.(now Washington DC), Maryland to Bedford Co., PA, to Grandview Twp, New Matamoras, Washington Co., Ohio and built a sturdy Log Cabin on Cemetery Road. We have no information on his parents.
His will was made 3/30/1829. Probated 3/1835, Grandview Twp, Washington Co., Ohio. He may be buried in the Sheets/Cline Cemetery in New Matamoras, Oh.
I have copies of a bound loan of Anthony Sheets and James Riggs to Isaac Craig from 1799. Also have a newspaper article from 1961 regarding the early settlers of New Matamoras, Oh.
Sheets, Anthony OH WASHINGTON CO. GRANDVIEW TWP 1803
STATE CENSUS
Sheets, Anthony OH WASHINGTON CO. 047 1810 TAX LIST
Sheets, Anthony OH WASHINGTON CO. GRANDVIEW TWP 224 1820
From Jimmy Lamb (Henry Sheets)
"I do have some copies of old documents re Anthony Sheets and James Riggs. I think oldest may be a note dated 1799. All I know or have came to me via the Alice Millicent Sheets (d.1986) of Copan, OK. I have not done any searching of the old records myself. Alice said, in 1976, that a Helen Squire of Elyria Ohio and Dianna Hott McMahan of New Matamoras, O. were also researching the Sheets line. Alice had the suspicion that the Sheets brothers or at least Martin may have been on the British side in the Revolution. She had an old powder horn with initials M.S. that had an etching that suggested that."
http://genforum.genealogy.com/sheets/messages/477.html
Jimmy Lamb also sent the following to Nancy Graves, (me).
"There is also an old newspaper article or two that said the Sheets brothers, Anthony(1759-1834) and Martin (1779 - 1845) each married a daughter of James Riggs (1742-1815) and Mary Ann Johnson (1748-1818). As to whether that line of Riggs goes all the way back to Thomas Riggs (1525-1555) and Jane Richardson or not is in question according to some Riggs researchers. I currently carry the Riggs line like that in my FTM file but the Riggs people are not sure of the connection between Edward Riggs and Mary Munn(1640-1682) and James Riggs (1664-1744) and him to possible son Edmund Riggs, b. 1704?, who married Mary Brooke (or Brooks?) These last two are shown as parents of the James Riggs (1742-1815) who went to the Ohio River valley with the two Sheets brothers (his sons-in-law). "
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