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' ANNALS 
 
 CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
 
 Volume I. 
 1901-1902 
 
 ■7) 
 W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., Editor 
 
 J. B. HATCHER, Ph.B., Associate Editor 
 
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 Published by the Authority of the 
 Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 1 I, The Boundary Controversy Between Pennsyl- 
 ! vania and Virginia; 1748-1785. Bv'Boto. 
 j Crumrine : . .... . • 5 5-5 2 4 
 
 H. '; Minute Book of the Virginia Court Held at Fort 
 Dunmore (Pittsburgh) for the District of West 
 Augusta, 1775-1776 525-568 
 
 III. Minute Book of the Virginia Court held for Yohogania 
 County, first at Augusta Town (now Washington, 
 Pa.), and afterwards on the Andrew Heath Farm 
 near West Elizabeth ; 1776-1780. , By Boyd Crum- 
 rinf. 7I-I40 
 
 IV- Minute Book of Virginia Court held for Yohogania 
 County, first at Augusta Town (now Washington, 
 
 Pa.), and afterwards on the Andrew Heath Farm 
 
 near West Elizabeth ; 1776-1780. By Boyd CRUM- 
 RINE . rl . 205-42Q 
 
 V. I Minute or Order Book of the Virginia Court Held 
 — ""- for Ohio County, Virginia, at Black's Cabin 
 (Now West Liberty, W. Va.), From January 6, 
 1777, until September 4, 1780, when its Juris- 
 " diction over Any Part of Pennsylvania Had 
 Ceased, with Introduction and Notes. By Boyd 
 Crumrine, Esq. . ... • • 5 _ 7 8 
 
 VI- The Records of Deeds for the District of West 
 Augusta, Virginia, for the Court Held atFort 
 Dunmore ( Pittsburgh, Pa. ) , 1 775-1 776 ; Copied 
 Consecutively as Recorded. By Boyd Crumrine, 
 Esq - • ■ 237-327 
 
Publications of the Carnegie Museum Serial No. 16 
 
 ANNALS 
 
 CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
 
 Vol. I. No. 4 
 
 W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., 'Editor 
 J. B. HATCHER, Ph.B., Associate Editor 
 
 Published by the Authority of the 
 
 Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute 
 
 September, 1902 
 
PRESS OF 
 
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ANNALS OF CARNEGIE MUSEUM, Vol. I. 
 
 Plate XXV 
 
XX. THE BOUNDARY CONTROVERSY BETWEEN PENN- 
 SYLVANIA AND VIRGINIA; 1748-1785. 
 
 A Sketch, 1 by Boyd Crumrine, of Washington, Pa. 
 
 It is proposed to publish in the Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 
 the original minute books of the old Virginia Courts held within the 
 limits of southwestern Pennsylvania, during the period when Virginia 
 claimed and exercised jurisdiction over what is now Washington, 
 Greene, Fayette, Westmoreland, and Allegheny Counties, Pennsyl- 
 vania, and it is fit that these minutes should be preceded with a sketch 
 of the boundary controversy between the two states, beginning as early 
 as 1748, and terminating only by the final establishment of the west- 
 ern boundary line as it is to-day in 1785. 
 
 When this contest began our Western country was indeed a wilder- 
 ness. Thomas Hutchins, an engineer with Bouquet's expedition 
 in 1764, said of it in his "Topographical Description of Vir- 
 ginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland," published in London in 1778: 
 ' ' The whole country abounds in Bears, Elks, Buffaloes, Deer, Tur- 
 kies, etc. , an unquestionable proof of the goodness of its Soil. ' ' In 
 a foot-note, Hutchins quotes from Gordon, a still earlier explorer : 
 ' ' This country may, from a proper knowledge, be affirmed to be the 
 most healthy, the most pleasant, the most commodious, and the most 
 fertile spot of earth, known to European people. ' ' Francis Parkman, 
 writing of the country west of the Alleghanies in 1760, says : " One 
 vast and continuous forest shadowed the fertile soul, covering the 
 lands as the grass covers a garden lawn, sweeping over hill and hol- 
 low in endless undulation, burying mountains in verdure, and man- 
 tling brooks and rivers from the light of day : " 2 Thus, more than 
 a century ago, when our country was a wilderness, did it give promise 
 of its future greatness. 
 
 1 This sketch is founded upon an address delivered before the Western Penn- 
 sylvania Historical Society, in Allegheny City, in the spring of 1894. 
 - Conspiracy of Pontiac, 147. 
 
 50;") 
 
506 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 THE FRENCH OCCUPATION. 
 
 But, before proceeding to discuss the special subject of this sketch, 
 it should be noticed that, as the custom of nations with reference to 
 new discoveries by their peoples went, the country west of the Alle- 
 ghanies, prior to its actual occupation and settlement by Englishmen, 
 was in the occupation and jurisdiction more or less rightful of France, 
 known as the French Occupation ; so that, had there not been a 
 change of jurisdiction, we might have been a French people. 
 
 At one time in American history France claimed all the lands west 
 of the Alleghanies by right of prior discovery ; and the establishment 
 of her power on the coasts of North America was coeval with the first 
 colonies from England. 3 In 1682, the year in which William Penn 
 first came to his new colony on the Delaware, Robert Cavalier, Sieur 
 de la Salle, having passed with his expedition from the lakes into the 
 Mississippi, proceeded in April to the mouth of that river, and in the 
 name of Louis XIV. took possession of all the lands watered by the 
 Mississippi and its tributaries, and named the country Louisiana. * 
 In the library of Washington & Jefferson College is a very rare and 
 valuable atlas, entitled "Atlas Universel," etc., published at Paris 
 in 1755. The ninety-eighth map of the series shows a part of North 
 America, embracing the course of the Ohio River, New England, 
 New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Caro- 
 lina. It represents the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Lou- 
 isiana as being the most western ridge of the Alleghany mountains. 
 
 The map mentioned, purporting to have been based upon surveys 
 made by Christopher Gist in 17 51, is the oldest map of western 
 Pennsylvania the writer has seen. On it is indicated " F. du Quesne, ' ' 
 at the mouth of the " Monongahela ou Mohongalo." The river be- 
 low Fort Duquesne is called the ' ' Ohio 011 Splawacipika ' ' ; above the 
 fort it is called " Ohio ou Allegany." Several Indian villages are des- 
 ignated, and two English towns, or settlements, Kittanning and Ve- 
 nango. Lake Chatauquais indicated, but without a name. It was 
 called in early historical writings, " Jadague." 
 
 But there was an older map extant ; for, at a meeting of the Pro- 
 vincial Council on August 4, 1731, there was produced a " Map of 
 Louisiana, as inserted in a Book called a New General Atlas, published 
 at London in the year 1721," when it was first observed how " exor- 
 
 3 1. Bancroft, 17, 18. « II. Bancroft, 338. 
 
Crumrine : Pennsylvania Boundary Controversy. o<>7 
 
 bitant the French claims were on the Continent of America ; that by 
 the description in said Map they claimed a great part of Carolina and 
 Virginia, and laid down the Susquehanna as a Boundary of Pennsyl- 
 vania. ' ' It was also noted that, by the information of Indian traders 
 west of the Alleghanies, the French were endeavoring to ' ' gain over ' ' 
 the Indians to their interests. 
 
 Pennsylvania was thus warned as early as 1731 that a powerful con- 
 tinental nation, with which her parent kingdom was at peace, was 
 threatening a foothold upon fertile lands" within her own charter 
 limits, undefined however until a later date. Disturbed for many 
 years by a controversy with Lord Baltimore concerning her southern 
 boundary, and also by disagreements between the proprietary Gover- 
 nors and Provincial Assemblies, as well as by continuously embarrass- 
 ing relations as to her Indian affairs in her undoubted possessions and 
 settlements east of the mountains, for many years she made no effort 
 to repel the French intrusion. Not until Virginia, in 1748 and 
 1749, had taken the initiative in the establishment of the Ohio Com- 
 pany in the vicinity of the Pittsburgh of to-day, did Pennsylvania 
 manifest an interest in the subject. Where her western boundary 
 might lie she seemed to know little and care less. It was the Virginian 
 occupation in the years mentioned, resulting in the French and Indian 
 war, which brought to Pennsylvania a suggestion of watchfulness as to 
 her western boundary. 3 
 
 In 1748, Thomas Lee, of the King's Council in Virginia, formed 
 the design of effecting settlements on the wild lands west of the Alle- 
 ghanies, through the agency of a land corporation called the Ohio 
 Company. Lawrence Washington and Augustine Washington, elder 
 brothers of George Washington, were interested in the scheme. A 
 grant was obtained from the English king of five hundred thousand 
 acres of land, to be taken chiefly on the south side of the Ohio, between 
 the Monongahela and Kanawha rivers. Two hundred thousand acres 
 were to be selected immediately, and to be held for ten years free from 
 quit-rents and taxes, on condition that the company should seat one 
 hundred families on the lands within seven years, and build a fort and 
 maintain a .garrison sufficient to protect the settlements. 
 
 In 1 75 1, Christopher Gist was sent out from Virginia as the agent 
 of the Ohio company to explore the lands, and it was then doubtless 
 
 s Crumrine's History of Washington County, p. 140. 
 
508 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 that he made the surveys, which, being published, formed the basis of 
 the French map of 1757. In 1752, with Joshua Fry and two other 
 commissioners representing Virginia, Mr. Gist attended a treaty with 
 the Indians, with whom the French were tampering. This treaty was 
 held at Logstown, eighteen miles or so below Pittsburgh, on the Ohio. 
 Some years ago there was quite a discussion in the newspapers as to 
 the location of Logstown, whether it was on the north or on the south 
 side of the river. In fact there were two Logstowns, opposite each 
 other ; one on the north bank, occupied by white or half-breed traders, 
 and the other on the south bank occupied by the Shawanese Indians. 
 
 It is manifest that one of the principal objects of the Ohio Company 
 was to meet the French claim and occupation of lands upon the Ohio 
 and Alleghany by actual settlements to be made by English colonists 
 from Virginia. The headquarters of Leguardeur de St. Pierre, the 
 French commandant, were at Venango; and in 1753, Governor Din- 
 widdie, then also one of the proprietors of the Ohio Company, sent 
 George Washington, a youth of twenty-one years, to the French com- 
 mandant, to ascertain the purpose of the threatened encroachment. 
 It was on this journey that Washington stood on the " Point " at the 
 confluence of our two rivers, which he reported in his Journal, as an 
 eligible place for a fort. 6 In 1754, the erection of a fort at the place 
 indicated was begun by Capt. William Trent in command of a body 
 of Virginia militia. After its commencement, Captain Trent returned 
 to Will's Creek (now Cumberland) leaving the construction of the fort 
 to Ensign Edward Ward; but on April 17, 1754, a hostile force of 
 about seven hundred French and Indians came down the Alleghany 
 under the command of Capt. Contrecour, to whom Ensign Ward ' with 
 but thirty-three men, surrendered the unfinished fort. The fort was 
 then completed by the French and named Fort DuQuesne, in honor 
 of the Marquis DuQuesne, the French Governor General of Canada. 
 
 Thus were the French in the actual military occupation of the valley 
 of the Ohio. Then followed the events of the so-called French and 
 Indian war : the battle of Fort Necessity, at Great Meadows in 
 what is now Fayette county, Washington's maiden engagement; and 
 the surrender of the fort to the French on July 4, 1754; in the 
 next year the battle of Braddock's Defeat, on July 9, 1755, resulting 
 in the complete expulsion of the English from the waters of the Monon- 
 
 6 The Olden Time, Vol. I., p. 12. 
 
 7 Afterwards one of the Justices of the old Virginia Courts. 
 
Crumrine : Pennsylvania Boundary Controversy. 509 
 
 gahela and Ohio. All this contest between the French and Indians on 
 the one side, and the English on the other, was brought about without 
 the agency of Pennsylvania. 
 
 There followed a state of quiesence on the part of the French, them- 
 selves apparently satisfied with the fact of their possession ; but not so 
 was the state of the Indians. . Secretly incited by the French, doubt- 
 less, the Indians carried their bloody incursions into the valleys east of 
 the mountains, leaving desolation, death, and suffering on every side. 
 But, in 1756, occurred the expedition of Col. James Armstrong from 
 Fort Shirley, in what is now Huntingdon county, resulting in the de- 
 struction of the Indian towns at Kittanning ; in 1758, Forbes's expedi- 
 tion, with Grant's defeat on Grant's Hill, Pittsburgh, on September 14, 
 followed by the capture or rather the abandonment of Fort Duquesne 
 on November 25th, and the erection of Fort Pitt (though not in the 
 same location as Fort Duquesne), in 1759, by a force under the com- 
 mand of Gen. Stanwix. 
 
 It must be remembered that this expulsion of the French from the 
 Ohio valley was not by the militia alone of either Pennsylvania or 
 Virginia, but by royal forces sent over by the English government, 
 aided by the militia from both colonies. And so the French occupa- 
 tion was terminated by the definitive treaty of peace between Eng- 
 land and France, signed on February 10, 1763, and then passed from 
 France all her possessions in America east of the Mississippi, including 
 Canada. 
 
 THE VIRGINIA OCCUPATION. 
 
 The erection of the fort at the Point by Capt. Trent, in 1754, 
 a trespass by Virginia upon the lands in the valley of Ohio, brought 
 about the French and Indian war, resulting beneficially, however, in 
 the loss to France of most of her American possessions and their ac- 
 quisition by the English, and bringing directly to Pennsylvania a 
 sharpened sense of the necessity for looking after her political interests 
 west of the Alleghanies. 
 
 Now, what was the origin of this Virginia usurpation, for usurpation 
 it was ? How did it happen that Virginia claimed any of her territory 
 within our western border ? How did she come to claim jurisdiction 
 over the great Northwestern Territory, the mother of magnificent 
 states of the Union ? The answers to these queries arise out of the 
 following facts : 
 
510 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 The charter granted by Charles II. to William Penn, for the prov- 
 ince of Pennsylvania, was dated March 4, 1681. The grant was 
 bounded on the east by the Delaware River, "unto the three and 
 fortieth degree of Northern latitude, if the said river doth extend so 
 far northward ; . . . The said land to extend westward five degrees 
 in longitude to be computed from the said eastern bounds ; and the 
 said lands to be bounded on the north by the beginning of the three and 
 fortieth degree of northern latitude, and on the south by a circle drawn 
 at twelve miles distance from New Castle northward and westward, 
 unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then 
 by a staight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned." 
 
 It thus is made plain, that Pennsylvania was a province of three de- 
 grees of latitude and five degrees of longitude, extending from the 
 fortieth degree, i. e., line 39 , to the beginning of the forty-third de- 
 gree, 1. e. , line 42 ° ; and in the absence of an interference with any 
 prior grant, doubtless no other position would ever have been enter- 
 tained. But in 1632, forty-nine years before Penn's charter, Charles 
 I. had granted a province to Lord Baltimore, named Maryland, under 
 the terms of which charter a very interesting controversy arose between' 
 Penn and Lord Baltimore, whether Penn's charter carried him to the 
 parallel 39", as he claimed it did, or only to parallel 40", as claimed 
 by Lord Baltimore. But it was destined that our southern border 
 should be neither at parallel 39 °, nor at parallel 40 ° ; although many 
 were the contentions and strifes among settlers along the Maryland 
 line, arising before this controversy was determined by the running of 
 Mason and Dixon's line at 30 , 43', 26", in 1767, to a point two 
 hundred and forty-four miles from the river Delaware, and within 
 thirty -six miles of the whole distance to be run. This point was at the 
 second crossing of Dunkard Creek, near the southern boundary of 
 Greene county ; and by that point passed the Warrior Branch of the 
 old Catawba or Cherokee trail, along which traveled the war parties of 
 the northern and southern Indians. Across it the Indian escort of 
 the surveying party would not allow even an imaginary line to be 
 drawn. Thus, at the beginning of 1768 the southwest corner of Penn- 
 sylvania had not been found and marked, and the western boundary, 
 whether an irregular line or a meridian, was as yet unknown. 
 
 But how the controversy with Virginia came about has not yet ap- 
 peared. For this we must go back to the Virginia charter, which ante- 
 dated both that of Maryland and that of Pennsylvania. 
 
Crumrine : Pennsylvania Boundary Controversy. 511 
 
 The first charter or patent for the colony of Virginia was by Queen 
 Elizabeth in 1583, and it had neither name nor bounds. The settlers 
 under this patent, partly from misconduct and partly from the opposi- 
 tion of the Indians, and other calamities, abandoned their efforts and 
 the patent became extinct. But in 1602 James I. succeeded Elizabeth, 
 and in 1606 he issued a new patent incorporating two companies, 
 called the South Virginia Company, and the North Virginia Company, 
 afterwards called respectively the London Company and the Plymouth 
 Company. Each was to be limited to a square of one hundred miles 
 backward from the sea. The London Company, with which we are 
 concerned, settled at Cape Henry, and hence the square of one hun- 
 dred miles granted by that patent could not have extended to the 
 eastern base of the Blue Ridge. But in 1609, the London Company 
 received a new patent, with the boundaries of their grant enlarged by 
 the following terms : 
 
 "All those lands . . . lying and being in that part of America 
 called Virginia, from the point of land called Cape or Point Comfort, 
 all along the sea-coast to the northward two hundred miles ; and from 
 the said Point or Cape Comfort all along the sea-coast to the south- 
 ward two hundred miles ; and all that space and circuit of lands lying 
 from the sea-coast of the precinct aforesaid up into the land throughout, 
 from sea to sea, west and northwest. ' ' 
 
 Observe the ambiguities in the terms of this grant, the chief of 
 which is in the words "up into the land throughout, from sea to sea, 
 west and northwest," as containing directions for the northern and 
 southern boundaries. Shall the due west line be drawn from a point 
 on the sea-coast two hundred miles north of Point Comfort, and the 
 northwest line be drawn from a point on the sea-coast two hundred 
 miles south of Point Comfort ? If so, then the London Company was 
 limited to a triangle which extended to no territory in our western 
 border. Or, shall the west line be drawn from a point on the sea- 
 coast two hundred miles south of Point Comfort, and the northwest 
 line from a point on the sea-coast two hundred miles north of Point 
 Comfort ? This was the interpretation claimed by Virginia, and one 
 will see that if it were correct, the northwest line would run through 
 the heart of Pennsylvania, passing east out of Erie City ; while, the 
 southern boundary line, running due west, the two would never meet, 
 and Virginia would have owned the greater part of the entire continent. 
 But, without discussing further the propriety of either interpretation, 
 
512 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 let it be said that Virginia always, while yet a colony and after she be- 
 came a state, referred chiefly to this charter of 1 609 as authorizing her 
 jurisdiction, not only over the Monongahela and Ohio valleys, but also 
 as giving her an ownership over the entire Northwestern Territory. 
 
 This jurisdiction over the territory northwest of the Ohio River, 
 Virginia refused to cede to the Confederacy of the United States, 
 though her refusal endangered the confederation, until in 1781, when, 
 no longer able to resist the influence of the other states, especially that 
 of Maryland, she finally gave way so far as to abandon her claims over 
 lands north and west of the Ohio River, on condition, however, that 
 the United States would guarantee her rights to the south and east of 
 the Ohio. This guaranty the Congress of the United States refused, 
 and in 1784 the condition was withdrawn and the cession made abso- 
 lute. But it is interesting to note that no sister state or government, 
 nor the Congress of the Confederation, ever at any time recognized 
 the right of Mrginia to such jurisdiction. Only for the sake of per- 
 fecting the Union, such as it then was, was there any respect at all 
 paid to her pretensions. 
 
 But, assuming that Virginia's interpretation of her charter provisions 
 was the correct one, there was another fact which wholly ousted her 
 claim to any lands which might eventually be found to fall within the 
 boundaries of Penn's charter. In 1624, prior to the grant of Mary- 
 land to Lord Baltimore, as well as prior to the grant of Pennsylvania 
 to William Penn, the charter to the London Company was dissolved 
 in the English courts by a writ of quo warranto ; and from a proprie- 
 tary colony somewhat like that of Pennsylvania, Virginia from that 
 time on was a Crown colony. The distinction between a colony and 
 a province, such as was Pennsylvania, is well known. Whatever 
 rights are secured to the proprietor of a province cannot be infringed 
 or altered by the Crown, without the consent of the proprietor, nor 
 abrogated unless by judgment of law founded upon some act of com- 
 mission or omission working a forfeiture or dissolution. But a royal 
 or crown colony is a mere creature of the royal will ; its boundaries, 
 all its machinery of government, may be modified, altered, or annulled 
 at the royal pleasure and discretion. For this reason alone, therefore, 
 Virginia having become a crown colony prior to the passing of Penn's 
 charter, she could thereafter make no claim to any lands within the 
 limits of Penn's charter, whatever interpretation was to be put upon 
 the terms of her own charter provisions. 
 
Crumrine : Pennsylvania Boundary Controversy. 5 1 3 
 
 To explain the origin of Virginia's usurpation of territory upon the 
 Monongahela and Ohio, the writer digressed from the building of Fort 
 Pitt, near the mouth of the Monongahela, in 1759, followed by the ces- 
 sion of the French claims by the treaty of 1763. Soon after that treaty 
 occurred what is known as the Conspiracy of Pontiac, in the summer 
 of 1763. This was an effort set on foot in 1762, at Detroit, by that 
 great chieftain Pontiac, who organized all the Indian tribes under a 
 common purpose to drive the hated English entirely out of the country. 
 It is said that, to raise means to supply his forces in their incursions 
 eastward he issued promissory notes on birch bark, signed with the 
 figure of an otter, and that, moreover, they were all subsequently re- 
 deemed by him. In the spring of 1763 Pontiac appeared with his 
 savage forces in the neighborhood of Fort Pitt, moved across the 
 mountains, and almost desolated the settlements on the east, even 
 through the valley of the Susquehanna. During this Indian war, ter- 
 minated by Bouquet's expedition, and the desperate battle of Bushy 
 Run, on Turtle Creek, in Westmoreland county, on August 5, 1763, and 
 the relief of Fort Pitt thereby, there was no opportunity for an imme- 
 diate conflict of civil jurisdiction west of the Alleghanies. From 1764 
 to 1774, however, there was peace with the tribes, the pioneers being 
 disturbed only at times by the occasional depredations of savages intent 
 upon plunder rather than moved by the havoc of war. And George 
 Washington, then a colonel, turned his attention to the acquisition of 
 lands west of the mountains. In 1770, on October 17th, with Dr. 
 Craik, who had been his companion in arms at the battle of Great 
 Meadows and in Braddock's defeat, he arrived at Fort Pitt, and in his 
 journal 8 he mentions his meeting at Semple's tavern, where he stopped, 
 Dr. John Connolly, "nephew to Col. Croghan, a very sensible and 
 intelligent man, who had traveled over a good deal of this western 
 country, both by land and water. ' ' This Dr. John Connolly, thus 
 introduced to us by no less a personage than Col. George Wash- 
 ington, was soon to play an important part in the civil history of the 
 country west of the mountains; for he became the leader of the 
 Virginia adherents in the contest to establish the Virginia jurisdiction 
 along our rivers, and, as will be seen, a justice of one of her courts. 
 In 1772, John Murray, the fourth Earl of Dunmore, one of the 
 Peers of Scotland, became Governor of Virginia; and early in 1773 
 he made a visit to Fort Pitt, where he met Dr. John Connolly, hereto- 
 
 8 Olden Time, Vol. I., p. 416. 
 
514 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 fore introduced to us by Col. Washington, who had dined with him 
 at Semple's. Most probably Lord Dunmore, who was an intense loy- 
 alist, had early information of transactions presaging the rupture of the 
 colonies from the mother country, and in the controversy instituted 
 over the boundary question, as well as in his management of the Indian 
 war of 1774, known as Dunmore' s war, he was impelled in both to put 
 the two colonies of Pennsylvania and Virginia in antagonism to each 
 other. And it must be remembered that on February 26, 1773, West- 
 moreland county had been erected, covering all the territory of south- 
 western Pennsylvania, and the seat of justice was placed at Hanna's 
 Town, about four miles from the present Greensburg. The establish- 
 ment of government and courts of justice over this territory neces- 
 sitated increased taxation upon the lands of the pioneers ; and, 
 as the greater number of them had come over the mountains from 
 Maryland and Virginia, by way of Braddock's road, it was not a mat- 
 ter of very great difficulty to equal the number of patriotic Pennsylva- 
 nians t>y the number of Virginian partisans from our own settlers. It 
 may be noted that Capt. William Crawford, he who was burned at the 
 stake by the Indians at Sandusky in July, 1782, was a Pennsylvanian, 
 being one of the justices of the peace, and justices of the county of Bed- 
 ford, when first organized in 1771 ; but he afterwards espoused the 
 cause of Virginia in the boundary controversy, and in 1775, when pre- 
 siding judge of the Westmoreland county court, his judicial office was 
 taken from him, as he had then accepted the appointment of justice 
 under Lord Dunmore. 
 
 On January 1, 1774, Dr. John Connolly had posted a printed 
 advertisement at Pittsburgh, and throughout the vicinity, announcing 
 that Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, had been pleased to nomi- 
 nate and appoint him " Captain, Commandant of the Militia of Pitts- 
 burgh and its Dependencies," and proposed " moving to the House of 
 Burgesses the necessity of erecting a New County, to include Pitts- 
 burgh;" a Virginia county, of course. This official announcement 
 created some consternation among the .good people of the Pennsylvania 
 jurisdiction. Arthur St. Clair, prothonotary of Westmoreland county, 
 caused Dr. Connolly to be arrested, but the prisoner, after a few days 
 confinement in the county jail at Hanna's Town, prevailed upon the 
 sheriff to permit him to visit Pittsburgh, pledging his honor to return 
 before the next court in April. He did return, but in a manner en- 
 tirely unexpected. He returned with from one hundred and fifty to 
 
Ckumrine : Pennsylvania Boundary Controversy. 515 
 
 one hundred and eighty men, " with their colors flying, and Captains, 
 &c, had their swords drawn." "The first thing they did was to 
 place sentinels at the court-house door, and then Connolly sent a mes- 
 sage that he would wait on the magistrates and communicate the 
 reasons of his appearance:" so says the letter of Thomas Smith to 
 Governor Penn, dated April 7, 1774. Connolly explained his appear- 
 ance, saying among other things, " My orders from the Government of 
 Virginia not being explicit, I have raised the Militia to support the 
 Civil Authority of that Colony vested in me." The Pennsylvania 
 Court at Hanna's Town rose the next day, April 8th, and ^Eneas 
 Mackay, Devereux Smith, and Andrew McFarlane, three of the justices 
 residing at Pittsburgh, returned to their homes at that place ; and the 
 next day, April 9th, all three were arrested upon the order of Dr. 
 Connolly and sent under guard to Staunton jail, in the valley of old 
 Virginia. Arriving at Williamsburg the prisoners met Lord Dunmore, 
 who heard their story and told them ' ' that Connolly was authorized 
 by him as Governor of Virginia to prosecute the claim of that Colony 
 to Pittsburgh and its Dependencies ; and, as to taking of prisoners, he 
 Connolly, only imitated the Pennsylvania officers in Respect to Con- 
 nolly's imprisonment by them." Dunmore, moreover, released them, 
 and permitted them to return to their homes. 
 
 Then followed a series of arrests and counter-arrests, long continued, 
 resulting in riots and broils of intense passion. Every one who, under 
 color of an office held under the laws of Pennsylvania, attempted any 
 official act, was likely to be arrested and jailed by persons claiming to 
 hold office under the government of Virginia. Likewise were Virginia 
 officials liable to arrest and imprisonment by the Pennsylvania partisans. 
 
 It is impossible to go into any detail in narrating special instances 
 of these extraordinary commotions among the pioneers of a wilderness, 
 all of them occupying homes of rude construction, their roof-trees and 
 firesides all the time to be guarded from the incursions of their savage 
 Indian foes. This condition of things must be remembered in think- 
 ing of these scenes ; and an illustration of the state of the times among 
 our white fathers themselves may be found in extracts from a letter 
 dated August 4, 1771, a little prior to the assumptions of John Con- 
 nolly, written by George Wilson, residing on the Monongahela near 
 the mouth of George's Creek, in what is now Fayette County. George 
 Wilson was then one of the justices of the courts of Bedford county, 
 which had been organized early in 1 7 7 1 ; and was the great-grand- 
 
516 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 father of Hon. W. G. Hawkins, now one of the judges of the Orphans' 
 Court of Allegheny county. That letter is a "quaint and curious 
 volume of forgotten lore. " The writer, stating that he had just re- 
 turned home from court, relates that he found a paper being circulated 
 among his neighbors pledging the subscribers to oppose " Every of 
 Pen's Laws, as they called them, except felonious actions, at ye risk 
 of Life & under ye penalty of fiftey pounds, to be Received or Lev- 
 eyed By themselves off ye Estates of ye failure. The first of them I 
 found hardy anuff to offer it in publick, I emediately ordered into 
 Custody, on which a large number Ware assembled as Was supposed to 
 Resque the Prisonar. . . . When their Forman saw that the Arms of 
 his Contrie, that as he said He had thrown Himself into, would not 
 Resque him By force, hee catched up his Rifle, Which Was Well 
 loaded, jumped out of Dors & swore if any man Cam nigh him he 
 would put what Was in his throo them. The Person that Had him in 
 Custody Called for assistance in ye King's name, and in particular 
 Commanded myself. I told him I was a Subject, & was not fit to 
 Command if not willing to obey ; on which I watched his eye until I 
 saw a chance, Sprang in on him & Seized the Rifle by ye Muzzle, and 
 held him So as he Could not Shoot me, until more help Gott in to my 
 assistance, on which I Disarmed him & Broke his Rifle to peses. I 
 Res'd a Sore Bruse on one of my arms By a punch of ye Gun in ye 
 struggle ; Then put him under a Strong Guard, Told them the laws of 
 their Contrie was stronger than the Hardest Ruflin among them. I 
 found it necessary on their Complyance & altering their Resolves, and 
 his promising to Give himself no more trouble in the affair, as hee 
 found that the people Ware not as hardy as hee Expected them to be, 
 to Relece him on his promise of Good Be-haviour. ' ' 
 
 Correspondence between the Governor of Pennsylvania and Vir- 
 ginia occurring immediately after the arrest of Connolly and the Penn- 
 sylvania Justices, resulted in a meeting of Commissioners at William- 
 burg, Va., on May 19, 1774, to endeavor to establish the boundary 
 line. This meeting was fruitless ; but it is interesting' to note that 
 the Pennsylvania commissioners proposed as our western boundary a 
 line to be drawn from the western end of Mason and Dixon's line, to 
 be extended its proper distance of five degrees of longitude, thence 
 northward but parallel at all points with the meanderings of the Dela- 
 ware River. This line would have left almost all of the present county 
 
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 of Washington, and corresponding portions of the counties north and 
 south of it, in the "Pan-Handle" of Virginia. The' proposition was 
 rejected on the part of Virginia, her commissioners contending that 
 under a proper construction of Penn's charter, the boundary line should 
 run east of Pittsburgh. 
 
 Soon thereafter, in July, 1774, occurred what is called Dunmore's 
 war, at the close of which Logan, the celebrated Indian Chief, made 
 his supposed speech referring to the killing of his dusky family at the 
 mouth of Yellow Creek below the present Steubenville : ' ' Who is 
 there to mourn for Logan ? ' ' Although this war was not of great mag- 
 nitude, and was confined to what is now the state of Ohio, yet its ap- 
 proach so frightened the settlers of the Ohio and Monongahela valleys 
 that it is said in a letter written by Valentine Crawford to Col. Geo. 
 Washington, " There were more than one thousand people crossed the 
 Monongahela in one day at three ferries that are not one mile apart. 
 
 Dunmore himself was with the white forces, chiefly adherents of the 
 Virginia jurisdiction ; and it is clear, as before intimated, that in the 
 adjustment of the terms of peace, Dunmore, foreseeing the approach- 
 ing revolution from the mother country, arranged such terms with the 
 Indians as subsequently made them, or aided to make them, the allies 
 of the British armies against our American patriots. 
 
 On his way down the river to the scene of the conflict, Lord Dun- 
 more stopped at Fort Dunmore, as the fort at Pittsburgh had been 
 baptized by Dr. Connolly, whence he issued his proclamation, this 
 time personally and publicly asserting the claim of Virginia to all the 
 territory west of the Laurel Hill mountains, and alleging instructions 
 he had lately received from the English government to take it under 
 his immediate control. A counter proclamation by Governor Penn 
 followed on October 12, 1774, instructing the Pennsylvania magis- 
 trates to maintain the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, nothwithstanding 
 Dunmore's fulminations. Dunmore, on his return after the treaty of 
 peace, which was made in the same month of October, stopped again 
 at Pittsburgh, or at Fort Dunmore, as he called the place, when he 
 was once more brought into personal contact with his adherents. He 
 thence proceeded to Redstone, now Brownsville, where he had Thomas 
 Scott arrested and brought before him for the offence of exercising the 
 functions of a Pennsylvania magistrate. Thomas Scott was a distin- 
 guished man of that day and afterward. He became the first pro- 
 thonotary of Washington county when organized, held many other 
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 important public positions, and was a member of the first Congress of 
 the United States under the Constitution of 1787. On the hearing 
 before Lord Dunmore, he was bound over to appear for trial at a court 
 for Augusta county, Va., to be held at Fort Dunmore on December 20, 
 1774- 
 
 DISTRICT OF WEST AUGUSTA. 
 
 The Augusta county court was not opened, however, on December 
 20, 1774, but on December 12th. A writ had been issued by Dun- 
 more, in the name of his British Majesty, adjourning the county court 
 of Augusta county from Staunton, Va. , to Fort Dunmore, accompanied 
 with a new commission of the peace, embracing with the old justices 
 of the parent county the names of such of the adherents in the Mo- 
 nongahela valley as were regarded as proper persons for Virginia 
 magistrates. 
 
 The District was called the District of West Augusta, and in its ter- 
 ritory now in Pennsylvania it was bounded on the east by the Laurel 
 Hill mountains and extended along the east side of the Allegheny 
 Oliver some distance beyond the Kiskeminitas, embracing all of West- 
 moreland, Allegheny, Beaver, Washington, Greene, and Fayette 
 ■counties. 
 
 The first term of this Virginia court was held at Fort Dunmore on 
 February 21, 1775, when George Croghan, John Campbell, John 
 Connolly, Thomas Smallman, Dorsey Pentecost, John Gibson, George 
 Vallandigham and William Goe appeared, took the qualifying oaths, 
 and occupied their seats as justices. George Croghan, settled about 
 where Lawrenceville now is, at first a Virginia adherent, had become 
 quite a Pennsylvanian during Dunmore' s war, but he was now made 
 the presiding justice of Dunmore' s court, and this brought him back 
 once more among the Virginia partisans. From this date there were 
 not only two different sets of magistrates, with their subordinate offi- 
 cers, assessors, and commissioners, over the same people in the 
 Monongahela valley, but within a few miles of each other there were 
 established two different courts, one at Pittsburgh, the other at Hanna's 
 Town, regularly or irregularly administering justice under the laws of 
 two different governments. 
 
 On the next day after the first sitting of the court, to wit, on Feb- 
 ruary 22, 1775, Robert Hanna and James Caveat, two of the West- 
 moreland county justices, were arrested for the performance of their 
 duties as Pennsylvania magistrates, and confined at Pittsburgh for 
 
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 about three months, vainly endeavoring to obtain a release. The 
 Governor and Council of Pennsylvania were probably engaged in the 
 consideration of affairs of a most auspicious nature ; but, in the latter 
 part of June, 1775, the sheriff of Westmoreland county, aided by a 
 posse of effective strength, proceeded to Pittsburgh and set the two 
 justices at large, taking Dr. John Connolly with him to Hanna's town ; 
 and on the records of the Westmoreland county court, July Term, 
 1775, there is found an action of Capias in Case, indicating an arrest 
 for damages, brought by "Robert Hanna, Esq. v. John Connolly." 
 
 THE REVOLUTION. 
 
 This case, however, was never brought to trial ; for public affairs 
 had taken on a new aspect. Our settlers for a time ceased to fight 
 each other, but stood together expectant looking for a contest with the 
 trained forces of the mother country. On April 19, 1775, Lexington 
 and Concord became noted names of history. The astounding news 
 from those villages had scarcely reached the Monongahela valley, 
 when public meetings were held on the same day, to wit, May 16, 
 1775, both at Hanna's Town and Pittsburgh. At Hanna's Town 
 the Pennsylvania adherents assembled ; at Pittsburgh, the Virginia 
 partisans. Each meeting passed a set of resolutions with equally 
 forcible approval of the armed resistance to the invasion of Ameri- 
 can rights by the English government, and equally urging united 
 action by force of arms successfully to sustain that resistance. We may 
 call these sets of resolutions, adopted on the same day by the separate 
 adherents of two colonial jurisdictions, the Monongahela Declaration 
 of Independence. They antedate more than a year the Declaration 
 of Independence adopted and read to the people at Philadelphia on 
 July 4, 1776, and they antedate the celebrated Mecklenburg Reso- 
 lutions of North Carolina by four days. All honor to the Mononga- 
 hela valley ! 
 
 A portion of the resolutions of the Westmoreland county meeting is 
 worthy of being copied : 
 
 "Resolved, unanimously, That there is no reason to doubt but the 
 same system of tyranny and oppression [referring to the oppressive 
 measures of the British government] will (should it meet with success 
 in Massachusetts Bay) be extended to other parts of America ; it is 
 therefore the indispensable duty of every American, of every man who 
 has any public virtue or love for his country, or any bowells for pos- 
 
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 terity, by every means which God has put in his power, to resist and 
 oppose the execution of it ; that for us we will be ready to oppose it 
 with our lives and fortunes. ' ' 
 
 The spirit of the Revolution being abroad, the Monongahela and 
 Ohio are soon rid of both John Connolly and his illustrious chief, 
 Lord Dunmore. Dunmore became alarmed for his own safety and re- 
 moved his family aboard the "Fowey," a British man-of-war in the 
 Chesapeake. Connolly, soon after his release by the Westmoreland 
 authorities was sent to General Gage commanding the British forces 
 at Boston. General Gage returned him to Lord Dunmore, who 
 granted him a commission as lieutenant-colonel of a regiment to be 
 raised in the ' ' back parts ' ' and Canada, which meant, to be composed 
 of Indians. While on his way to Detroit with his commission and in- 
 structions, he was captured by the American forces at Hagerstown, 
 Md., when he was turned over to Congress and held a prisoner until 
 1780-81, and was then exchanged. After the Revolution he seems to 
 have settled in Canada ; subsequently he published in London his 
 ' ' Narrative ' ' of his life and public acts, a copy of which was pur- 
 chased of late years for a large sum of money and is now in the library 
 of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. It has been 
 reprinted in the pages of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History. But 
 the Virginians and Pennsylvanians on the Monongahela and Ohio 
 fought side by side under the Stars and Stripes ; for it will not do to 
 suppose that only the people of the east fought with the British lion. 
 At least two full Pennsylvania regiments were raised west of the moun- 
 tains and served in the battles of the east, a fact to be remembered by 
 the local historian. 
 
 DIVISION OF WEST AUGUSTA. 
 
 The Revolution after July 4, 1776, was a fact accomplished, though 
 its success was still in the dark future. Pennsylvania from a prov- 
 ince, and Virginia from a crown colony, had both become inde- 
 pendent states in the new American confederacy. And in October, 
 1776, the District of West Augusta, by an enactment of the General 
 Assembly of Virginia, was divided into three new counties, Ohio, 
 Yohogania, and Monongalia. For a short while before this division, 
 the courts of West Augusta were transferred to Augusta Town, a mile 
 west of Washington, Pa. At that place the courts were held Sep- 
 tember 17, 18, and November^, 20, 1776. The new division then 
 took effect. All three of the new counties came together at Catfish 
 
Crumrine : Pennsylvania Boundary Controversy. 521 
 
 Camp, now Washington, The courts of Ohio county were held at 
 Black's Cabin, on Short Creek, now West Liberty, West Virginia; 
 those for Monongalia county on the farm of Theophilus Phillips about 
 two miles above New Geneva, in what is now Fayette county ; while 
 the courts of Yohogania were held on the farm of Andrew Heath, a 
 mile or so above West Elizabeth in what is now Allegheny county. 
 The courts of this county continued to be held regularly for the dis- 
 patch, of business, civil and criminal and there was much of it, until 
 August 28, 1780, when it was " Ordered that Court adjourn till Court 
 in course." There was no court in course, for an agreement had been 
 entered into for the running of the boundary between the two states 
 on a line that would blot out Yohogania county forever. 
 
 ADJUSTMENT of the boundary line. 
 
 As has been stated, during the War of the Revolution the Pennsyl- 
 vania and Virginia adherents on the Monongahela and Ohio ceased to 
 fight each other, and not only sent more than two regiments of yeo- 
 menry to join witrwthe continentals in the battles in the east, but they 
 were obliged at the same time to provide for the protection of their 
 families from the hostile incursions of the savage allies of the British in 
 the west. Yet the boundary controversy was not yet determined. 
 
 On December 18, 1776, both houses of the General Assembly of Vir- 
 ginia passed a resolution that it was expedient and wise to remove as 
 much as possible all causes of future controversy ; and " to quiet the 
 minds of the people that may be affected thereby, and to take from 
 our common enemies an opportunity of fomenting mutual distrust and 
 jealousy, the commonwealth ought to offer such reasonable terms of 
 accommodation, (even if the loss of some territory is incurred thereby), 
 as may be cordially accepted by our sister State, and an end put to all 
 future dispute by a firm and permanent agreement and settlement. ' ' 
 The resolutions then proceeded to authorize the Virginia delegates in 
 Congress to propose to Pennsylvania that a line be drawn from the 
 Maryland corner on Mason and Dixon's line due north to parallel of 
 latitude 40°, and thence the southern boundary of Pennsylvania was to 
 be run full five degrees of longitude west from the Delaware River, and 
 from the end of that line the western boundary should be run corre- 
 sponding with the meanderings of the Delaware River on the eastern 
 boundary. This line would have given to Virginia a large part of 
 what is now Fayette county, all of Greene county, and quite a portion 
 
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 of Washington and of other counties to the north of it. Of course 
 Pennsylvania could not accept this offer, though during 1777 and 1778 
 negotiations were made through the Virginia delegates ; with such 
 little interest, however, that the papers became lost. 
 
 It appears that early in 1779, just when is not now known, both 
 States appointed commissioners to deal with the subject, and these 
 commissioners — George Bryan, John Ewing and David Rittenhouse 
 on the part of Pennsylvania, and Rev. James Madison, Rev. Robert 
 Andrews and Thomas Lewis on the part of Virginia — met at Balti- 
 more on August 27, 1779. The proceedings at this meeting were in 
 writing, were reported to the Assemblies of the respective States, and 
 may be found in Henning's Statutes of Virginia, Vol. X., p. 119. A 
 final agreement was reached and put in writing on August 31, 1779- 
 It was very simple in its terms, for a matter so long contested and of 
 such magnitude. It was as follows : 
 
 "To extend Mason and Dixon's line due west five degrees of longi- 
 tude, to be computed from the river Delaware, for the southern boun- 
 dary of Pennsylvania ; and that a meridian drawn from the western 
 extremity thereof to the northern line of said State be the western line 
 of said State forever. ' ' 
 
 This Baltimore agreement was ratified and finally confirmed by the 
 Pennsylvania General Assembly on November 19, 1779. Virginia, 
 however, held back, and whether from a dissatisfaction with the boun- 
 dary as recommended by the commissioners or with an intention of 
 benefiting her whilom adherents in the Monongahela valley, her 
 Assembly had no action on the subject until the following summer. 
 And what occurred in the meantime ? 
 
 The General Assembly of Virginia, in May, 1779, passed an act 
 "for the adjusting and settling titles of claimants to unpatented 
 lands ' ' upon the western waters, creating districts, with four commis- 
 sioners to each, to hear proofs of settlement rights and grant certificates 
 to claimants. The commissioners for Ohio, Monongalia and Yohoga- 
 nia counties were Francis Peyton, Philip Pendleton, Joseph Holmes and 
 George Merriweather. All this before the Baltimore conference. But 
 after the Baltimore agreement, and before its ratification by the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of Virginia, these commissioners met at Cox's Fort, in 
 Washington county, near the Monongahela River, above Elizabeth, and 
 at other points, and granted hundreds of certificates to claimants under 
 Virginia settlement rights. These " Virginia Certificates," so-called, 
 
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 afterwards formed the basis of a very large portion of the land titles of 
 Washington county. Gen. Washington's title to over a thousand 
 acres in Mount Pleasant township, Washington county, was based upon 
 Virginia certificates. This act of sovereignty, before Virginia's ratifi- 
 cation of the Baltimore agreement, raised a storm of indignation among 
 the Pennsylvania adherents, and again some forcible but polite cor- 
 respondence and negotiations resulted. The two States seemed about 
 to resort to arms again to bring about an adjustment. The end of the 
 contest, however, approached gradually, and on July i, 1780, the 
 Senate of Virginia passed an act of the Lower House which confirmed 
 the Baltimore agreement ' ' on condition that the private property and 
 rights of all persons acquired under, founded on, or recognized by the 
 laws of either country previous to the date hereof, h£ saved and con- 
 firmed to them, ' ' etc. ; and Pennsylvania was then prepared, for the 
 sake of an end to the controversy, to yield even to the humiliating 
 conditions proposed, and on September 23, 1780, her General Assem- 
 bly, protesting against the conditions, accepted and fully ratified ' ' the 
 said recited conditions, and the Boundary Line formed thereupon." 
 
 running of the boundary line. 
 
 It only remained to run and mark the line on the ground. Wash- 
 ington county was erected by an act of assembly passed on March 28, 
 1 78 1, embracing all the land lying south of the Monongahela, to the 
 southern boundary. But on June 3, 1781, only a temporary line was 
 run. Troubles had ensued resulting in "Obstructions" producing 
 "Anarchy and Confusion." Such terms as " Villanous Banditti" 
 were of frequent use on either side, and letters in the State Archives 
 are full of them. There was still much anxiety for the final establish- 
 ment of the two boundaries. 
 
 In the spring of 1782 occurred the Indian raids into Washington 
 county, followed by the slaughter of the peaceful Moravian Indians in 
 the Ohio towns by Col. David Williamson's command, and the Craw- 
 ford expedition against the Sandusky Indians, resulting in the burning 
 of Col. Wm. Crawford at the stake. The times were almost as cloudy 
 as ever. But in 1783, the authorities of each state appointed four 
 commissioners to run and mark the permanent boundary. Rev. John 
 Ewing, David Rittenhouse, John Lukens and Thomas Hutchins were 
 appointed by Pennsylvania. By Virginia, Rev. James Madison, Rev. 
 Robert Andrews, John Page and Thomas Lewis were appointed. June 
 1, 1784, was the time set for beginning the work. An interest- 
 
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 ing report of the running of Mason and Dixon's line to the western 
 extremity thereof, dated December 23, 1784, will be found in the Penn- 
 sylvania Archives, Vol. X., p. 375. The meridian line itself from the 
 southwest corner of the state, was finally run and marked, by David 
 Rittenhouse and Andrew Porter, on the part of Pennsylvania, and 
 Andrew Ellicott and Joseph Neville on the part of Virginia, on August 
 23, 1785. 9 For the Pennsylvania commissioners and their assistants, 
 in order to insure the prompt and effective performance of their work, 
 there was made the liberal provision of sixty gallons of spirits, twenty 
 gallons brandy, and forty gallons of Madeira wine. And thus was the 
 matter ended. 
 
 The original record or minute book of the old Virginia court, held 
 for the District of West Augusta, first at Fort Dunmore, at Pittsburgh, 
 afterwards on the late Gabby farm about a mile southwest of what is 
 now the Borough of Washington, will now be presented, to be followed 
 in a subsequent issue by the records of the court for Yohogania county 
 (after the division of the District of West Augusta into the three new 
 Virginia counties), held on the farm then owned by Andrew Heath 
 near what is now West Elizabeth, in Allegheny county. 
 
 These minute books belong to the Washington County Historical 
 Society at Washington, Pa. Those of the old court of Monongalia 
 county, held at the house of Theophilus Phillips on George's Creek, 
 Fayette county, were destroyed on the burning of the court-house at 
 Morgantown in 1796 ; while those of the old court of Ohio county 
 should be found at Wheeling, W. Va. 
 
 Copies of the records as printed in these Annals will go into the 
 hands of persons familiar with the local history of southwestern Penn- 
 sylvania, who are requested to aid in identifying and locating the indi- 
 viduals and places referred to in them, for future publication. 
 
 9 Colonial Records, Vol. XIV., p. 655 ; Vol. XV., p. 38. 
 
ANNALS OF CARNEGIE MUSEUM, Vol. I. 
 
 Plate XXVIII. 
 
 
XXI. MINUTE BOOK OF THE VIRGINIA COURT HELD 
 AT FORT DUNMORE (PITTSBURGH) FOR THE DIS- 
 TRICT OF WEST AUGUSTA, 1775-1776. 
 
 Edited by Boyd Crumrine, of Washington, Pa. 
 
 [Note : In copying these minutes no portions will be omitted, save 
 certain lists, here and there, containing the names of cases called 
 and unintelligible memoranda concerning them, with nothing to iden- 
 tify the parties, the causes of action, or the localities whence they came. J 
 
 [The formal organization of the court.] 
 
 (i) 10 His Majesties Writ for adjoming the County Court of Au- 
 gusta from the Town of Staunton to Fort Dunmore, and with a 
 new Commission of the Peace and Dedimus and a Commission 
 of Oyer and Terminer and Dedimus from under the hand of 
 John, Earl of Dunmore, his Majesties Lieutenant and Governor 
 in chief, bearing date the Sixth day of December One Thousand 
 Seven Hundred and Seventy four, directed to 
 
 Silas Hart, James Lockhart, John Dickinson, John Christian, 
 Daniel Smith, Archibald Alexander, John Poage, Felix Gilbert, 
 Abraham Smith, Samuel McDowell, George Mofifett, Sampson 
 Mathews, Alexander McClenachan, William Bowyer, Matthew 
 Harrison, George Mathews, Michael Bowyer, Alexander 
 Robertson, John Gratton, John Hays, Thos. Hugart, James 
 Craig, Elijah McClenachan, John Frogg, Jonah Davidson, 
 William Tees, John Skidmore, George Croghan, John Camp- 
 bell, John Connolly, Edward Ward, Thomas Smallman, Daw- 
 sey Penticost, John Gibson, William Crawford, John Steph- 
 enson, John McCullough, John Cannon, George Vallindigam, 
 Silas Hedge, David Shepherd, and William Goe, Gentlemen, 
 
 being read, & thereupon, pursuant to the said Dedimus, the 
 said George Croghan, John Campbell, John Connolly, John 
 Gibson, George Vallandegham, William Goe, Gentlemen, took 
 
 10 The figures to left of pages in brackets refer to the pages of the original MS. 
 Editor Annals Carnegie Museum. 
 
 525 
 
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 the Usual Oaths to his Majesties Person & Government, Sub- 
 scribed the Abjuration Oath and test, and also took the Oaths 
 of Justices of the Peace, and of Justices of the County Court in 
 Chancery, and of Justices of Oyer & Terminer, all which Oaths 
 were administered to them by Thomas Smallman and Dawsey 
 Penticost, and then John Campbell and John Connolly adminis- 
 tered all the aforesaid Oaths to the aforesaid Thomas Smallman 
 and Dawsey Penticost, who took the same and subscribed the 
 Abjuration Oath and Test, on which the Court being Consti- 
 tuted the following Members were Present, February 2 ist, 1775: 
 
 George Croghan, John Campbell, John Connolly, Thomas 
 Smallman, Dawsey Penticost, John Gibson, George Vallan- 
 degham and William Goe, Gentlemen Justices — 
 ( 2 ) George Brent and George Rootes took the Usual Oaths to his 
 
 Majesties Person and Government, Sub the Abjuration Oath 
 and Test, and then took the Oaths of Attorneys. 
 
 Ord that John Campbell, George Redman, Thomas Red- 
 man, and Benja. Renoe, or any 3 of them,being first sworn, 
 Veiw a Road from Fort Dunmore to Frederick Dunfields, and 
 make a report of the Conveniences and Inconveniences to the 
 next Court. 
 
 Joseph Hill is appointed a Constable in the room of Jacob 
 Vanmetere, and that he be summoned to be sworn in the office. 
 
 On the Petition of James Johnston and others, It is Ord 
 Edward Cook, Joseph Hill, Senr., Levy Stevens, Gilbert 
 Simpson, Rich'd McMahon, John Decker, Paul Froman, and 
 James Innes, they being first sworn, Veiw a Road from the 
 Road from Thomas Gists to Fort Dunmore to Paul Fromans on 
 Shirtees Creek, by James Devores Ferry, and make a report of 
 the Conveniences and Inconveniences to the next Court. 
 
 William Elliott, being bound over to this Court by Thomas 
 Smallman, Gent., for disturbing the minds of his Majesties 
 Good people of this County, by demanding in an arbitrary and 
 Illegal Manner of sundry Persons what Personal Estate they are 
 possessed of, that the same may be tax' d according to the Laws 
 of Pennsylvania, being called, appeared and on hearing the 
 argument of the attorneys the Court are of opinion that he be 
 Committed to the Goal of this County, and there remain until 
 he Enter into recog. in the sum of ^100, with 2 Srtys in the 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 527 
 
 Sum of 50 -Q Each, for his good Behavior for the space of One 
 Month ; and thereupon the sd Wm. Elliott, with John Har- 
 vie and Chas Irons, ack'd themselves Indebted to our Sover- 
 eign Lord the King, the sd Elliott in the Sum of ^100 and 
 the sd. Harvie and Irons in the Sum of ^50 Each, to be 
 levied on their respective Goods and Chattels, Lands and Tene- 
 ments, in Case the sd. Wm. Elliott is not of good Behaviour for 
 the Space of one month. 
 ( 3 ) Ordered that the Court be Adjourned until to Morrow Morning 
 
 10 o'clock. Geo: Croghan. 
 
 At a Court con'd and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore February 2 2d, 1775, 
 
 Prest John Connolly, Thomas Smallman, Dorsey Pentecost, 
 Wm Goe, Gentlemen, Justices. 
 
 John Canon, one of the Gent in the Commission of the peace, 
 took the Usual Oaths to his Majesties person and Governt, 
 Subscribed the Abjuration Oath and Test, and then took the 
 Oath of a Justice of the peace, and of Justice of the County 
 Court in Chancery, and of Justice of Oyer and Terminer 
 
 On the Complt of John McAnully ag'st his Master, Casper 
 Reel, for beating and abuseing him, It is ordered that he be 
 summoned to appear here the next Court, to answer the Complt, 
 and with the Servt. 
 
 Prest, John Canon. 
 
 On the petition of Alexr. Duglas and others, It is Ord that 
 Wm. Crawford, Providence Mounce, Ezekiel Hickman, Joseph 
 Beeler, John Vanmetere, Morgan Morgan, Vincen Colvin, 
 Henry Taylor, Van Swearengen, they being first sworn, Veiw 
 a road from Providence Mounce' s Mill, by Ausberger's Ferry, 
 and from thence to Catfish Camp, and make a report of the 
 Conveniences and Inconveniences to the next Court. 
 
 Ordered that Robert Henderson, Benja. Kuykendall, John 
 Robinson, and James Sulivan, they being first sworn, Veiw a 
 Road from Fort Dunmore to Beckets fort, and make a report of 
 the Conven and Inconveniences to the next Court. 
 
 Prest., John Gibson. 
 (4) David Semple, Gent, is recommended to the Gentn appointed 
 
 to exam Attos. , that he is a Person of Probaty, Honesty, and 
 Good Demeanor. 
 
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 On the Motion of Henry Heath, It is ordered that Silas Dex- 
 ter, Gabriel Cox, Rich'd McMahon, Benja. Sweet, Robt. Hen- 
 derson, Veiw the most Conven Way from fort Dunmore to Henry 
 Heaths, they being first sworn, and make a report of the In- 
 conv and Conven to the next Court. 
 
 Admon of the Estate of Wm. Craig, dec'd, granted to An- 
 drew Vaughan, a Creditor, he having comp'd with the Laws. 
 
 Ord. that Gabriel Cox, Rich'd McMahon, James Bruce, and 
 Henry Heath, or any 3, app the Est. 
 
 Patrick McElroy took the Usual Oaths to his Majesties Per- 
 son and Govern, Sub the Abjur Oath and Test, and then was 
 sworn a Deputy Sheriff. 
 
 William Christy took the Usual Oaths to his Majesties Person 
 and Govern, Sub the Abj Oaths and Test, which is Ordered to 
 be Certified on his Commission of a Lieutenant of Pittsburg and 
 its Dependencies of the Militia. 
 
 Simon Girty took the Usual Oaths to his Majesties Person 
 and Govern, Sub the Abjuration Oath and test, which is Ord 
 to be Certified on his Com of a Lieutent of the Militia of Pitts- 
 burg and its Dependencies. 
 
 Jacob Bousman took the Usual Oaths to his Majes Person 
 and Govern, Sub the Abjur Oath and test, which is Ord to be 
 Certified on his Comn of Ensign of the Militia of Pittsburg and 
 its Dependencies. 
 
 Ord that Paul Froman, Thomas Cook, Josiah Crawford, 
 
 Jacob Long, and Rich'd Crooks, they being first sworn, Veiw 
 
 (5) a road from Fort Dunmore to Paul Froman 's and make a report 
 
 of the Conveniences and Inconveniences thereof to the nextCeurt. 
 
 Prest., John Campbell. 
 
 William vs. Bresser ; deft moved for a ded. to take the deps. 
 of Jacob Dorenin, a Wits who is agoing down the Ohio river, 
 which was overuled. 
 
 Ab., John Connolly. 
 
 John Connolly took the Usual Oaths to his Majesties person 
 and Govern, Sub the Ab Oath and test, which is Ord to be 
 Certified on his commission of Major of the Millitia. 
 
 Prest., John Connolly. 
 
 Windle Ourey, being bound over to this Court for acting as 
 an assessor under the Laws of Pennsylvania, appeared, and hav- 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 529 
 
 ing made Confession to the Court, it is Ordered that he be dis- 
 charged from his recog. 
 
 James Cumerford being bound over to this Court on Complt 
 of John Gibson, Gent, being called and failing to appear the 
 Prosecution is withdrawn. 
 
 Ord. that the Sheriff make use of the Room in the Fort now 
 Used as a Guard Room as a Goal for this Part of the County, 
 and also that John Campbell and Dorsey Penticost, Gent, 
 with the Surv. lay of Prison Bounds for the same, Includ the 
 ally of the fort and two rods wide to the town 
 
 Robert Hannah, being bound over to this Court for openly 
 disturbed the peace by interrupting the execution of Legal 
 Process by the officers of this Government, and did actually 
 imprison a Certain Philip Baily in the discharge of his duty as 
 a Consta, ag'st the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, 
 being called, appeared and offered a Plea to the Jurisdiction of 
 the Court, which Plea was Overuled ; and It is ordered that he 
 be Committed to the Goal of this County, and there to remain 
 
 (6) until he Enter into recog in the Sum of ^iooo with 2 Secys. 
 in the sum of ;£5oo Each, to be levied of their respective 
 Goods and Chattels, Lands and Tenemets, in case Robt. 
 Hanah is not of Good Behaviour for a Year and a day, and 
 also desit from acting as a Majestrate within the Colony of Vir- 
 ginia by any authority from the Province of Pennsylvania, and 
 that he keep the peace to all his Majesties Leige Subjects in the 
 Mean time. 
 
 James Caveat, Gent, being bound over to this Court for 
 sundry times Malevolently opposed the authority of His Majes- 
 ties officers of the Government of Virginia, and has rioutsly 
 opposed the legal Establishment of his Majesties Laws in this 
 County, Contrary to the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, 
 being called, appeared and offered a plea to the Jurisdiction of 
 the Court, which was overuled ; and it is ordered that he be 
 Committed to the Goal of this County and thereto remain until 
 he Enter into recog in the Sum of ^1000 with two Secys in 
 the Sum of ^500 Each, to be levied of their respective Goods 
 
 (7) and Chattels, Lands and Tenements, in case James Caveat is 
 not of Good Behaviour for a Year and a day, and also desist 
 from acting as a Majestrate within the Colony of Virginia by 
 
530 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 any authority derived from the Province of Pennsylvania, and 
 that he keep the peace to all his Majesties Leige Subjects in the 
 mean time. 
 
 Francis Brown took the Usual Oaths to his Majesties Person 
 and Govern, Sub the Abjur Oath and test, and was Sworn as a 
 deputy Sheriff, with the Consent of John Christian by a note 
 from under his hand 
 
 James Smith being bound over to this Court for acting as a 
 Commissioner under an authority derived from under the Prov- 
 ince of Pennsylvania within the Colony of Virginia, being 
 called appeared, and on being heard It is Ord that he Com- 
 mitted to the Goal of this County, and there to remain until he 
 Enter into recog in the Sum of ^ioo with two Secys. in the 
 Sum of ^50 Each, to be levied of their respec Goods and 
 Chattels, Lands and Tenements, in case he is not of Good 
 Behaviour for a Year and a day, and also desist from acting as 
 a Commissioner from under any authority derived from under 
 the province of Pennsylvania within this Colony 
 
 Ord that Davd Steel, John Wals, Oliver Miller, and Nathan 
 Couch, they being first sworn, Veiw a Road from Devor's ferry 
 to the road that leads from fort Dunmore to Dunfeilds, to join 
 Dunfeild's road on Shirtee's Creek near Ben Renoes, and make 
 a report of the Conven and Inconven to the next Court 
 (8) Ord that the Sheriff Imploy a Workman to build a Ducking 
 
 Stool at the Confluence of the OHio with the Monongohale and 
 that the person Imployed bring in his Charge at the Laying of 
 the Levy. 
 
 Bousman vs. McGoldrick, Joseph Chriswell Spbd. 
 
 Edward Armstrong, being bound over to this Court on the 
 Complt of Frederick Ferrie, for Stealing a Hog the prop of the 
 sd. Ferrie, on hearing the Wits and the parties by their Attos, 
 and It is ordered that the Complt be dismised. 
 
 David Steel took the. Usual Oaths to his Majesties Person and 
 Govern, Sub the Ab Oath and test, which is Ord to be Cert on 
 his Commission of Ensign of Pittsburgh and its Dependances. 
 
 Ord that Thos. Brown, Bazil Brown, Wm. Colvin, Reuben 
 Camp, and Conrad Walter, they being first sworn, Yeiw a Road 
 from Old Redstone fort to Conrad Walkers, and make a report 
 of the Conven and Inconv to the next Court 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 531 
 
 Ord that the Court be adjourned until to Morrow Morning 
 10 o'Clock. Jno. Connolly. 
 
 At a Court Con'd and held for Augusta County February 23d, 
 1775 Prest, Jno. Campbell, Jno. Gibson, Thos Smallman 
 Wm. Goe, Jno. Cannon. 
 
 James Berwick, Gent, is recommed to the Gentlemen to 
 Examine Attos, as a person of Probaty, Honesty, and good 
 Demeanor. 
 
 Andrew Ross, Gent, is recommended to the Gentlemen to 
 Examine Attos, as a person of Probaty, Honesty, and Good 
 Demeanor. 
 (9) On the Motion of Henry Heath, leave is granted him to 
 
 keep a ferry on the Monongohala River at his own Plantation, 
 and he provide a Boat for the sd ferry 
 
 On the Motion of Wm Lynn, leave is granted him to keep a 
 ferry on Monongahale River, from his House over the River to 
 the Land of Fras* Holls (?), u and that he provide Boats. 
 
 On the Motion of Mich'l Cresap, leave is granted him to 
 keep a ferry on Monongohale River at Redstone fort to the 
 Land of Indian Peter, and that he provide a Boat. 
 
 On the Motion of James Devore, leave is granted him to keep 
 a ferry on Monongohale River, from his house over the river to 
 the Mouth of Pidgeon Creek, and that he provide Boats. 
 
 Luke Joliff, being committed and brought before the Court 
 for deserting from the Militia, and for takeing with a stand of 
 arms, and for preventing the Indians for not delivering up 
 Sund Prisoners, then in their custody ; On hearing Sund 
 Wits and the s'd Luke, the Court are of Opinion that he for 
 the s'd offence receive for the s'd offence of deserting 500 
 Lashes with a Cat-o'nine tails on his bare back, well laid on, 
 and it is said to the Sheriff that execution thereof be done at such 
 times and in such number as not to endanger life or member. 
 [Here follows a long list of cases, seventy-four in number, indicat- 
 ing that the cases had been called and some order made in them. 
 Only the surnames of the parties being given, with unintelligible 
 memoranda which do not indicate the nature of the action, nor identify 
 or localize the parties, this list is omitted.] 
 
 Ord that Edward Cook, Joseph Hill, Senr., Levy Stevens, 
 » Name illegible. — Editor. 
 
532 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Gilbert Simpson, Rich'd McMahon, John Decker, Paul Froo- 
 man, and James Innes, they being first swbrn, Veiw a Road 
 from Thos. Gists to Paul Froomans Mill on Shirtees Creek, and 
 make a report of the Conven and Inconvenc to the next Court. 
 
 (12) Ord that Thomas Crooks, Wm. Bashears, Robt. Thornton, 
 Thos. Egenton, and Philip Whittan, they being first sworn, 
 Veiw a road from Redstone old fort to Shirtees Creek to Paul 
 Froomans, and make a report of the Conv and Inconv to the 
 Next Court. 
 
 [On the motion of Jacob Bousman, leave is granted him to 
 keep a ferry across the Monongohale River, from his House to 
 the Town oposite thereto, & that he provide & keep a suff 
 numer of Boats for that Purpose. 12 ] 
 
 John Campbell, Gent, with his Servt Michl Haney, came into 
 Court, and the sd. John acknowledged that he had served the 
 time mentioned in his Ind, which is Ord to be Certified. 
 
 Ord that Dav'd Steel, Thos. Bond, John Mckee, and Silas 
 Dexter, they being first sworn, Veiw a road from the Mouth of 
 the Yough River, at Mckee's ferry, to the Road from Devore's 
 ferry to Renoe's near Sampson Beavers, and so On to Fromans 
 Mill, and make a report of the Conv and Inconvenien to the 
 next Court. 
 
 On the Motion of Dorsey Penticost, It is Ord that his Mark 
 be recorded a Cross in the left Ear and his Brand D P. 
 
 Christopher Turby, John Carpenter, Joshua Wright, Joseph 
 Hill, Snr, John Hawthorn, Emson Brumfield, Jno. Harden, 
 Junr., John Pettyjohn, John Warick, James Booth, Reeson Vir- 
 gin, Ezekial Rose, Wm. Hawkens, James Taylor, Nathl Black- 
 more, James Murdough, Jas. Young, Abraham Slover, Jno. 
 Bell, John Dousman, Andrew Robinson, Nicholas Higatthy, 
 Barney Wistner (?), 13 Jno. Castleman, Elias Myers, Wm. Tea- 
 gard, Junr., Joseph Erwin, Jno. Nicholas, James Baird, Sam'l 
 Hinly, Moses Smith, Terry Moore, Michl Martin, Rich'd 
 Wells, and Garshom Hull, are app'd Constables, and It is Ord 
 that they be summoned to be sworn before a Majestrate, or 
 Attend at the next Court to be Sworn. 
 
 (13) John Campbell and Dorsey Penticost, the persons appointed 
 
 "This entry, placed in ( ), is erased in the original record. 
 13 Name somewhat illegible. — Editor. 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 533 
 
 to lay off the Prison bounds, made a report, and Ord to be Re- 
 corded. 
 
 Ord that the Sheriff Summon a Grand jury for the Inquest of 
 the body of this County, to appear here in May next. 
 
 On the Motion of Sam'l Semple, It is Ord that his Mark be 
 recorded a Crop of the right Ear and a Nick in the Edge. 
 
 On the Motion of John Gibson, It is Ord that his Mark a 
 Slit in the right and a Crop in the left Ear and brand I G. 
 
 Ordered that Alexander Mckee, James Innis, Thomas Gal- 
 breath, Wm. Harrison, Thomas Gaddis, Jno. Swearingen, 
 Thomas Freeman, Benjamin Davis, Edward Cook, John Whit- 
 acre, Philip Ross, David Rogers, James Chew, David Scott, 
 Chas. Wheeler, Thos. Crooks, Jno. Robertson, John Nevill, 
 Michl Rough, Isaac Mason, Eli Coulter, Wm. Elliott, Henry 
 Vanmetre, Geo Rodgers Clark, Rich'd Yates, John Irwine, 
 Christopher House (?), and Joseph Beeler, are humbly recom- 
 mended to his Excellency, the Governor, as proper persons 
 sons to be added to the Commission of the Peace for this County. 
 
 Edward Armstrong and James Ryan was brought before the 
 Court for fighting in the Court Yard and disturbing the Court ; 
 It is Ord that they be committed to the Goal of this County, 
 and there to remain until they Each Enter into recog in the Sum 
 of ;£io with 2 Secys in the Sum of ^5 Each, to be levied, 
 and for their appearance at the Grandjury in May next, and that 
 his Majesties deputy Atto prosecute them for the same : Sum 
 Geo Ashton, John Collins, and Sam'l Mckinsie (?). 14 
 (14) On the Motion of John Canon, It is Ord that his Mark be re- 
 corded, a Crop in the right Ear and half Crop in the left. 
 
 A Bill of Sale from James Cumberford to Geo Aston was 
 prov'd by Valentine Thos. D' Alton, the Wit, and O R. 
 
 A Bill of Sale from Simon Butler to Geo Aston was prov'd 
 by Valentine Thos. D' Alton, one of the Wits, and O R. 
 
 An Agreement between Cornelius Dougherty and Geo Aston 
 was prov'd by Valentine Thos. D' Alton, one of the Wits, 
 and O R. 
 
 Geo Aston took the Usual Oaths to his Majesties person and 
 Government, Sub the Ab Oath and test, and Ord to be Cert'd 
 on his Commission of Captain of the Militia. 
 " Spelling doubtful ; word illegible. — Editor. 
 35 
 
534 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Licence to keep an ordinary is Granted to John Ormsby, he 
 hav'g compld with the Law. 
 
 Licence to keep an Ordinary is Granted to Sam'l Ewalt, he 
 hav'g Compld with the Law. 
 
 The Last Will and Test of Shedrich Muchmoor, dec'd, was 
 proved by Valentine Thos. D' Alton and Wm. Plumer, two of 
 the Wits, and O R, and On the Motion Mary Muchmoor the 
 Widow, Admon with the Will Annexed is granted her, she 
 hav'g Comp with the Law. 
 
 Ord that Benja Tomlinson, Joshua Baker, Jacob Cockran, 
 and Jos Cockran, and any 3, app the Est of Shedrich Much- 
 moor, dec'd, and return the App to the next Court. 
 
 Jonathan Muchmoor of the age of 19 years Orph of Shed- 
 rich Muchmoor, dec'd, chose Thos. Smallman his Gaurd, who 
 Compld with the Laws 
 (15) Ordered that the Court be adjorned until to Morrow Morning 
 
 10 o'Clock. Jno. Connolly. 
 
 At a Court Con'd and held for Augusta County at Fort Dun- 
 more Feby. 24th 1775, 
 
 Prest. John Campbell, Jno. Connolly, Thos. Smallman, John 
 Gibson, Dorsey Penticost. 
 
 Ord that Providence Mounce, Wm. Crawford, Paul Froman, 
 James Innis, or any three, being first sworn, Veiw the Most 
 Conv way for a road from Mounce' s Mill to Froomans Mill, 
 and make a report of the Conv and Inconv to the next Court. 
 
 P. Jno. Cannon. 
 
 Licence to keep an Ordinary is granted to Frederick Feree, 
 he hav'g Comp with the Law. 
 
 The same to Jacob Bousman, on the South side of the 
 Monongohale River oppisite the Town. 
 
 On the Motion of Samuel Sinclair, who lives on the forks of 
 the river Monongohale and Youghagano leave is granted him 
 to keep a ferry over Each of the Rivers, and that he keep boats. 
 
 Licence to keep an Ordinary is granted to Sam'l Sample, he 
 hav'g Comp with the Laws. 
 
 Wm Hawkins, Andrew Robertson, and Nicholas Hagerty, 
 took the Usual Oaths to his Majesty's Person and Governm, Sub 
 the Ab Oath and Test, and then took the Oaths of Constables. 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort» Dunmore. 535 
 
 Bertney Whitney took the Usual Oaths to his Majesties per- 
 son and Govern, Sub the Ab Oath and Test, and then took 
 the Oath of a Constable. 
 
 (16) Ord that Peter Elrod John Whitacer, Andrew McMeans, 
 and Benja Davis, or any 3, they being first sworn, Veiw a 
 Road from Fromans Road to Sam'l Sinclairs, the nearest and 
 best way, and make a report of the Conv and Incon to the 
 next Court. 
 
 Ord that Silas Dexter, Gabriel Cox, Rich'd McMahon, 
 Benja Sweet, and Robt Henderson, or any 3, they being first 
 sworn, veiw the nearest and best way from Sam'l Sinclairs to 
 Fort Dunmore, and make a report of the Conven and Inconv 
 to the next Court. 
 
 Ord that Chas Bruce, Geo Aston, Abraham Slover, and 
 Josiah Osburn, or any 3 of them, being first sworn, Veiw the 
 nearest and best way from Fort Dunmore to Chas. Bruces on 
 Racoon Creek, and make a report of the conv and Inconv to 
 the next Court. 
 
 His Majesties Writ for adjoining this Court from Fort Dun- 
 more to the Town of Staunton being read, It is Ordered that 
 the s'd Court be Adjorned Accordingly. Jno Connolly 
 
 His Majesties Writ for Adjorning the County Court of Augusta 
 from Staunton to Fort Dunmore being read, this 16th May 1775, 
 
 Present Geo Croghan, Jno. Campbell, John Connolly, Thos. 
 Smallman, John Gibson, John Cannon. 
 
 Edward Ward and John McColloch took the Usual Oaths 
 to his Majesties -Person and Govern, Sub the Ab Oath and 
 Test, and then took the Oath of Justice of the peace, and of 
 
 (17) Justice of the County Court in Chancery, and of a Justice of 
 Oyer and Terminer. 
 
 Henry Peyton took the Oath of an Atto and is admitted to 
 Practice as such in this Court. 
 
 Small vs Gray, Nordica Mordica Spbd. 
 
 Shilling vs Young, Geo Corn Spbd. 
 
 Cresap vs Swearingam, Michl Tygert Spbd. 
 
 At a Cald Court held for the Examination of Thos Glenn, 
 who stands Committed to the Goal of this County, charged 
 with the Murder of his Servt Man Peter Eglington, 
 
536 Annals «of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Prest. Geo Croghan, Jno Campbell, John Connolly, Edward 
 Ward, Thos. Smallman, Jno. Gibson, Geo Vallandigham. 
 
 The above named Thos. Glenn was brought to the barr and 
 upon Examination denied the fact wherewith he stands charged ; 
 whereupon several Witnesses were Sworn and Examined, and 
 upon Consider at which the Court are of opinion that he is 
 Guilty of the fact wherewith he stands Charged, and that he 
 ought to be tried for the s'd Supposed fact at the General 
 Court in October next, at the 6th day thereof, and in Order 
 thereto he is remanded to the Goal of this County and thence 
 to be removed to the Pub Goal in the City of Wmsburg. 
 
 Be it Remembered John McCollock, Moses Williamson, 
 James Johnson, James Nowland, of this County, ackn'd them- 
 selves Indebted to our Sovereign Lord the King in the Sum of 
 ^ioo Each, to be levied of their respective Goods and Chat- 
 (18) tels, Lands and Tenements, in Case they do not appear at the 
 Capitol, in the City of Wmsburg, on the 6th day of the next 
 General Court, and then and there give evidence ag'st Thos. 
 Glenn for the Murder of his Servt Peter Eglington, and not 
 depart without leave of the Court. 
 
 Then the Court did rise. 
 Spa. to Jos. Blackford, 
 
 for the Prisoner. Geo : Croghan, 
 
 Noble vs Chamberlain. Walter Briscoe Spbd. 
 
 Prest: Geo Croghan, John Connolly, Edward Ward, John 
 Cannon, John McCulloch, John Gibson ; 
 
 Michael Ginder and Geo Ginder Ack'd L & R to Nicholas 
 Mace and O R. 
 
 The same to Francis Mcbride and O R. 
 
 The Commission for the private Examin of Cath, the Wife 
 of Michl. Ginder, and Susanna, the wife of Geo Ginder, to a 
 tract of land sold by their Husbands to Nicholas Mace, being 
 ret. is OR. 
 
 The same to Fras. Mcbride and O R. 
 
 Susanna, the wife of Geo Ginder, came into Court, and relinq 
 her right of Dower to ioo acres on the branches of Brooks Creek, 
 formerly conveyed by her husband to Fra's Mcbride, and O Cd. 
 
 Benja Renoe, Geo Redman, and Thos. Redman, 3 of them, 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 537 
 
 persons appointed to Veiw a road from Fort Dunmore to 
 Frederick Dunfields and make a report, and made their report ; 
 It is Ord that the Road be Established, and that Geo Redman, 
 and Benja. Renoe be Surveyors thereof, and that the Tithables 
 within 3 Miles on Each side work thereon. 
 
 (19) Wm. Crawford, one of the Gent in the Com of the Peace, 
 took the Usual Oaths to his Majesties Person and Govern, Sub 
 tfte Ab Oath and test, and then took the Oath of a Justice of 
 the Peace, and of a Justice of the County Court in Chancery, 
 and of a justice of Oyer and Terminer. 
 
 Pres, Wm. Crawford. 
 
 On the Petition of Maly Hayes, and others, It is Ord that 
 Peter Elrod, John Whitacre, Andrew McMeans, Benja Davis, 
 Silas Dexter, Gab'l Cox, Rich'd McMahon, Benja Sweet, and 
 Robt. Henderson, or any 6 of them, being first sworn, Veiw a 
 Road from Dorsey Penticost's, by Peter Barrackman's ferry, to 
 fort Dunmore, and make a report of the Conven and Inconven 
 to the next Court. 
 
 On the Motion Capt. Paul Froman, It is Ordered that John 
 Decker, John Muns, James Innes, and Thomas Edgington, or 
 any 3 of them, being first sworn, Veiw the most Conven Way 
 from Froman 's Mill on Shirtees Creek, to Fromans Mill on the 
 East side of the Monongohale, and make a report of the Con- 
 ven and Inconven to the next Court. 
 
 A Grandjury for the Inquest of the body of this County, to 
 wit : Geo McColloch, foreman, Oliver Miller, Abraham Tea- 
 garden, John Swann, Jesse Pigman, Bazil Brown, Rich'd Wal- 
 ler, Jacob Vanmetre, Wm. Colvin, Josiah Wallace, Moses Wil- 
 liamson, John Deckar, Rich'd McMahon, Rich'd McGlaughlin, 
 and Daniel Cannon, having received their charge retired. 
 
 (20) George Croghan Ackn'd a Barg and Sale and a receipt to 
 Benjamin Tate and O R. 
 
 The same to Jacob Bousman and O R. 
 Teagarden vs Hammon James Crawford Spbd. 
 Cresap vs Peterson Indian Erasimes Backys Spbd. 
 
 vs Cox John Wall Spbd. 
 Woods vs Gray Wm. Cuningham Spbd. 
 Samples vs Fernsley Walter Grymes Spbd. 
 Cresap vs Vaughan John Gab'l Jones Spbd 
 
538 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Elliott vs Martin- Jacob Bousman Spbd. 
 
 Boly vs Springer John Springer Spbd 
 
 Hawkins vs Wheat James McConnel Spbd. 
 
 Cook vs McConnel Conrad Wheat Spbd. 
 Ab Geo Croghan 
 
 Williamson vs Mills Wm. Hawkins Spbd 
 
 Swagler vs Mills Wm. Hawkins Spbd 
 
 Bell vs Finn. James Crawford Spbd. 
 
 Vallandigham vs Crinnell. 
 
 Colvin vs Frederick Geo Wilson Spbd. 
 
 Boly vs Ross. 
 
 Wilcox vs Craighead James Sulivan Spbd. 
 
 Cook vs Froman. ' James Chambers Spbd 
 
 Boley vs Springer in Debt Paul Froman Spbd. 
 
 Penticost vs Briscoe Pat McElroy Spbd 
 
 Kuykendal vs Allenthrop Paul Froman Spbd. 
 
 Bond vs Mordica 
 
 On the Complt of James O'Neel against his Master, Patrick 
 Fleming, for beating and abuseing him, It is Ord that his Mas- 
 ter be Sum'd to appear here the next Court, to Ans the Complt, 
 and that he in the mean time treat well and give Security for 
 (21) the same, himself in the sum of ^30, and 1 Secy in the Sum 
 of ,£15; and thereupon he with James Chambers his Secy 
 Ack'd himself Indeb to our Sovereign Lord the King in the 
 Sum of 30^, and Jas. Chambers, his Secy, also in the Sum of 
 ,£15, to be levied of their respective Goods and Chattels, 
 Lands and Tenements, in Case he doth not use his servt, James 
 O'Neel, well til the next Court 
 
 On the Complt of John Connolly, Gent, ag'st Geo Wilson, 
 Gent, as a disturber of the peace, on hearing the parties the 
 Court are of Opinion that the Complt be dismissed, 
 
 Ord that Rich'd Heth (?), 15 Dav'd Steel, Thos Cook, Rich'd 
 Crooks, and Paul Froman, or any 3 of them, being first 
 [Sworn] , Veiw a road from Fort Dunmore to Paul Fromans 
 Mill on Shirtees Creek, and make a report of the Conv and 
 Inconv to the next Court. 
 
 Ord that the Court be adjorned until to Morrow Morning 10 
 o'clock. John Campbell. 
 
 15 Spelling doubtful ; illegible. — Editor. 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 539 
 
 At a Court Com'd and held for Augusta County May 17th, 
 
 i775> 
 
 Prest. Geo Croghan, Edward Ward, Thos. S^nallman, John 
 Gibson, John McCullough, Wm. Crawford. 
 
 Ord that John Vance, Providence Mounce, Edward Dial, 
 and Wm. Mckee, or any 3 of them, being first sworn, Veiw the 
 most Conven Way from Maj Crawford's to near the forks of 
 Indian Creek, and make a report of the Conv and Inconv to 
 the next Court. 
 (22) On the petition of Rezin Virgin and others, it is Ord that 
 Philip Shute, Rich'd Waller, Abraham Teagarden, Wm. Tea- 
 garden, Geo Teabolt, and Rezin Virgin, or any 3 of them, 
 being first sworn, Veiw a road from the foot of Laurel Hill, by 
 Wm Teagarden' s ferry, to the Mouth of Wheeling, and make a 
 report of the Conven and Inconv to the next Court. 
 
 On the Motion of Dav'd Mckee, for leave to keep a ferry 
 over the Monongohale and Youghogana, which Motion being 
 opposed, on' hearing the parties It is Consid that the ferry is 
 Unnecessary; It is therefore Ord that the s'd Motion be 
 rejected. 
 
 The persons app'd to Veiw a road from old Redstone fort 
 to Conrad Walters, and made a report, It is Ord that the road 
 be Established, and that Jacob Beason be Overseer from Conrad 
 Walters to Jennings's run, and Robt. Jacman be Overseer from 
 the East side of Jennings run to James Chamberlains Run, on 
 the East side of the dividing Ridge, and that Philip Fouts be 
 Overs from Chamberlains run to the River at old Redstone 
 fort, and that the tithe's within 3 miles on Each side work 
 thereon 
 
 Prest. John Cannon 
 
 John White, being bound over to this Court on the Comp of 
 Thomas Christy, for stealing his swine, on hearing the witnesses 
 the Court are of Opinion that he is guilty of the fact where- 
 with he stands Charged, and that he be Committed to the Goal 
 of this County, there to remain until he Enter into recog in the 
 Sum of ;£ioo with two Securitys, in the Sum of ^50 Each, for 
 his good behavior, and for his personal appearance at the next 
 Grand jury Court to be held here, and that his Majestys deputy 
 Atto prefer a bill of Indict ag'st him. 
 
540 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Thomas Martin being bound over to this Court on the Complt 
 of Archibald Hamilton for Burning his House in the Neighbour- 
 hood of Sandy Creek, whereby he has lost some of his Effects, 
 being called, appeared, and on hearing the parties by their 
 Atto and Sund Wits the Court are of Opinion that he is guilty 
 of a High Misdemeanor ; It is Ord that he be Committed to 
 the Goal of this County for the s'd offence, and there to remain 
 until he Enter into recog in the Sum of £100 with 2 Secys in 
 the Sum of ^50 Each, for his good behaviour for a Year and 
 
 (23) a day; and thereupon he with Jacob Bousman and Hugh 
 O'Harro, his Secy, ack'd himself indeb to our Sovereign Lord 
 the King in the Sum of ^100, and the s'd Jacob Bousman and 
 Hugh O'Harro Ack'd themselves Each Indeb to our Sover- 
 eign Lord the King in the sum of ^50 Each, to be levied of 
 their respec Goods and Chattels, Lands and Tenements, in case 
 the s'd Thos. Martin is not of Good behaviour for a Year and 
 day. 
 
 Peter McCartney Ack'd a Claim to 50 Acres of Land to 
 John Campbell, Gent, and O R. 
 
 Cook vs Shilling, Peter Hillibrand Spbd. 
 
 On the Complt of Benjamin Kyser against Hugh Davidson 
 for a forceable Entry made, being called, appeared, and on 
 hearing the parties and the Wits the Court are of Opinion that 
 he is Guilty, and that he be Committed to the Goal of this 
 County, and there to remain until he Enter into recog in the 
 Sum of ;£ioo, with 2 Secys in the Sum of ^50 Each, and 
 thereupon he with John Caveat and John Sampson his Secys 
 Ack'd himself Indeb to our Sovereign Lord the King in the 
 Sum of ^100 and the s'd John Caveat and John Sampson 
 Ack'd themselves Each to owe to our Sovereign Lord the King 
 in the Sum of ^50 Each to be levied of their respective Goods 
 & Chattels, Lands & Tenements, in Case thes'd Hugh David- 
 son is not of Good Behaviour for a Year and a day. 
 
 Fred Ferree, being bound over to this Court on the Complt 
 of Geo Phelps, for beating him, being called, appeared, and 
 on hearing the parties & the Witnesses, the Court are of Opinion 
 that the Complt be dismised. 
 
 (24) Stevens vs Shilling Peter Hillibrand Spbd 
 Mitchell vs Scott Michl Tygert Spbd & Imp P 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 541 
 
 McMichal vs French David Scott Spbd & Imp P 
 
 Russell vs Sessney David Steele SB & Impl B. 
 
 The Granjury for the Inquest of the body of this County 
 returned, and haveing ret'd Several Indict true bills, It is Ord 
 that the Kings Atto do pros them and that the Clk do Issue 
 process on them Accord' gly; & also several bills of Indict 
 being preferd & found Ignoramus, It is Ord that the same be 
 dis'd. 
 
 Ord that the Court be Adjourned until to Morrow Morning 
 10 o'Clock 
 
 Geo : Croghan. 
 
 At a Court Con'd and held for Augusta County May 18th 
 
 1775- 
 
 Prest. Geo Croghan, John Campbell, John Gibson, Geo 
 Vallandigham. 
 
 On the Petition of Charles Harrison and others, It is Ordered 
 that Richard Walker, Charles Harrison, Daniel Cannon, and 
 Isaac Pearce or any 3 of them being first sworn Veiw a road 
 the nearest and best way to Veiw a Road from Thomas Gists 
 house to Cap'n Fromans mill and make a report of the Conv 
 and Inconv to the next Court. 
 
 Mitchell vs Val Crawford Wm. Crawford Spbd. 
 
 Nevell vs Gist. Wm. Crawford Spbd. 
 
 Speer vs Gist. Wm. Crawford Spbd. 
 
 P. Ed Ward, John Cannon, Wm Crawford, John Mc- 
 Colloch. 
 
 Thomas Scott being bound over to this Court for his acting 
 and doing Business as a Justice of the peace under Pennsyl- 
 vania, in Contempt of the Earl of Dunmore' s late Proclama- 
 tion, as also to such other Misdemeanors as shall be then and 
 (25) there objected ag'st him, appeared, and On hearing him and 
 the Wits the Court are of Opinion that he is Guilty, and it is 
 Ord that he be Committed to the Goal of this County, and 
 there to remain until he Enter into recog in the sum of ^500, 
 with 2 secys in the Sum of ^250 Each, to be levied of their 
 respective Goods and Chattels, Lands and Tenements, in Case 
 Thomas Scott is not of Good Behaviour for a year and a day 
 and, also desist from acting as a Majestrate within the Colony 
 
542 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 of Virginia by any authority derived from the Provence of 
 Pennsylvania, and that he keep the peace to all his Majesties 
 Leige Subjects in the mean time. 
 
 George Croghan, Esqr. Ack'd a Deed of Bargain and Sale 
 and a receipt thereon Endorsed to Bernad Gratz, and O R. 
 
 The same to Joseph Simon & O R. 
 
 The same to Bernard Gratz and O R. 
 
 The same to Bernard Gratz and O R 
 
 P. Thos. Smallman, Ab. Wm. Crawford. 
 
 Devorix Smith being bound over to this Court on the Complt 
 of Susanna Styger, for asaulting, Beating & Wounding her, ap- 
 peared, and on hearing the parties and the Witnesses the Court 
 are of Opinion that the Complt be dismised with Costs 
 
 Susanna Sturgus being bound over to this Court on the 
 Complt of Devereux Smith, for Insulting his wife and threaten- 
 ing her, on hearing the parties and Wits the Court are of 
 Opinion that the Complt be dismised. 
 
 Mills vs Williamson — Pat McElroy Spbd. 
 
 Hawkins vs Hillibrand — Moses Williamson Spbd. 
 
 Cresap vs Teagarden — - Wm & Geo Teagarden Spbd 
 vs French Moses Williamson Spbd 
 
 On the Complt of John McaNully ag'st his Master, Casper 
 Reel, for beating & abuseing him, being Sum'd, appeared, and 
 on hear'g the parties & the Wits the Court are of Opinion that 
 the Complt is Groundless & be dismised, and It is Ord that the 
 Sheriff take the Serv't and give him 25 Lashes well Laid on, 
 and it is said to the Sheriff that Execution be done Immediately. 
 
 Casper Reel prod and made Oath to his Account of £2. 16.0, 
 his Expences in takeing up his Serv't, John McaNully, when 
 run aw, and for 4 days absent time when run away ; It is ord 
 that he serve for the same accr to Law. 
 (26) Edward Armstrong being bound over to this Court on the 
 Complt of John Miller, Senr. , for takeing away a Plow & Irons 
 with several other Utensels of Husbandry and Household furni- 
 tur, the property of the s'd John and the s'd Edward, appeared, 
 and hearing the parties and the Wits the Court are of Opinion 
 that he is Guilty of the facts wherewith he stands Charged, and 
 that he be Committed to the Goal of this County, and there to 
 remain until he Enter into recog in the Sum of ^30, with 2 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 543 
 
 Secys in the Sum of ^15 Each, to be levied in case he is not 
 of Good behaviour for a Year and a day 
 
 The persons app'd to Veiw a Road from Shirtees Creek to 
 Devor' s ferry made their report ; It is Ord that the Road be 
 Established, and that David Steel and Jed Ashcraft be Overseers, 
 and that the tith's within 3 miles on Each side work thereon. 
 
 Joseph Cisnea and Wm. Donnellsan being bound over to this 
 Court, on the Complt of Thomas Russell for a forceable Entry 
 & detainer, and no persons appearing It is Ord to be dis'd. 
 
 The Complt of John Quay ag'st Dav'd McClure, no persons 
 appearing It is Ord to be dis'd. 
 
 The Complt of Adam Bell ag'st Stephen Bennett, no per- 
 sons appearing it is Qrd to be dis'd. 
 
 The Complt of John Boley ag'st John Springer, no persons 
 appearing It is Ord to be dis'd. 
 
 The Complt of Wm. Thomas ag'st Chas. Froman, & no per- 
 sons appearing It is Ord to be dis'd. 
 
 The Complt of Devereaux Smith ag'st Edward Thompson, 
 no persons appearing It is Ord to be dis'd. 
 
 The Complt of John Boley ag'st Joseph Ross, no persons 
 appearing, It is Ord to be dis'd. 
 
 Beeler vs Walls, John McNew Spbd. 
 (27) Edward Armstrong came into Court with Robt Strain and 
 
 Philip Reely, his Secy, Ack'd himself Indeb to our Sover Lord 
 the King in the Sum of _£io and the s'd Robt. Strain and Philip 
 Reily Ack'd themselves Indeb to our Sover Lord the King in 
 the Sum of ^5 Each, to be levied & in case the s'd Edward 
 Armstrong is not of good behaviour for a Year and day. 
 
 Clinton & Noble vs. Bearshers, Bazil Brown Spbd. 
 
 Walls vs Brown, Pat McElroy Spbd. 
 
 Ord that the Court be adjourned until to Morrow Morning 
 
 ■z o'clock in the afternoon. „ _, 
 
 ° Geo : Croghan. 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County May 
 19th, 1775, 
 
 Prest. John Gibson, Wm. Crawford, John McCullough, 
 Edward Ward, John Cannon. 
 
 On the Motion of Benja Wells It is Ord that his Mark, a 
 Crop and a Slit in the left Ear, be Recorded. 
 
544 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 On the Motion of Valentine Crawford, It is Ord that his 
 Mark, a Slit in the left Ear, a Crop and under keel in the 
 Right Ear & O Recorded 
 
 Abt. John Gibson. Gt. 
 
 Admon of the Estate of Jacob Linnd, dec, is Granted to 
 Thos. Smallman, Gent, and Jacob Bousman, they having with 
 Secy. Entered into & Ack'd Bond accr. to Law. 
 
 Ord that Wm Christy, Ignace Lebath Sam'l Semple, and 
 John Ormsby or any 3, app the Est. 
 
 Cresap vs Dowling, Josiah Wallace Spbd. 
 
 Grub vs Dowling, Josiah Wallace, Spbd. 
 
 Sinclair vs Usherwood, Jud accr, act & O Sale. 
 
 Ord that the Court be adjourned until to Morrow Morning 8 
 o'Clock Edwd. Ward 
 
 (28) At a Court Con'd and held for Augusta County, May 20th, 
 
 1775. 
 
 Prest. Geo. Croghan, Ed Ward, Thos. Smallman, John 
 Gibson. 
 [Here follows a list of over one hundred and sixty cases, with only 
 the surnames of the two parties and unintelligible memoranda.] 
 
 A Mortgage from Benjamin Taite to John Campbell, Gent, 
 was produced and O R. 
 
 On the Complt of John Ross against his Master, Moses Hol- 
 liday, for detaining him as a Servant Contrary to Law, it was 
 objected to by the Master by his Atto that the Matter should not 
 concern this Court, as the s' d Master had never been Summoned 
 and had not any previous Notice thereof til he came to court ; 
 but the Court Overuld the Objection, it appearing to the Court 
 that he was fully prepar'd, and on hear'g the Wits the Court 
 are of Opinion that the Servt. be set at Liberty. 
 
 Ord that Thomas Silk be by the Church wardens of Augusta 
 Parish bound to Jacob Bousman accr. to Law. 
 
 On the Motion of Thos. Glenn by his Atto, seting forth that 
 he had been Committed to the Goal of this County on Suspe- 
 tion of being Guilty of the Murder of his Servant, and that 
 the proceedings of the Cald Court were Irregular, & by which 
 he was Illegally Confined, and praying that the Court will take 
 the same into Consideration ; and the Court being of Opinion 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 545 
 
 that the Allegations are true, It is Ordered that he be dis'd 
 from his Imprisonment. 
 
 (33) P- John Campbell & Wm. Crawford. 
 
 Geo Croghan, Gent, Ack'd a Deed of Barg & Sale to Edward 
 Ward and O R. 
 
 The same to the same and O R. 
 
 On the Motion of Jacob Bousman, leave is granted him to 
 keep a ferry aCross the Monongohale River from his House to 
 the Town opposite thereto, and that he provide and keep a Suf- 
 ficient number of Boats for that purpose, in ferrying over the 
 Militia on Muster days. 
 
 On the Motion of John Ormsby, for leave to keep a ferry 
 aCross the Monongohale River from this Town to his Land op- 
 posite thereto, being opposed by Jacob Bousman, and Motion 
 Overuled. 
 
 Alexander Ross, Gent, Ack'd 4 deeds of Surrender and Barg 
 &. Sale to Edward Ward, Gent, and O R. 
 
 John Ormsby Ack'd a Deed of Barg and Sale to Benja John- 
 ston & O R. 
 
 The App of the Est of Shadrach Muchmore, dec'd, being 
 returned, is O R. 
 
 On the petition of James Erwin, It is Ord that Robt. Mckee, 
 John Hughes, John Cavet, & John Sampson, or any 3 of them, 
 being first sworn, Veiw a Road from the Pennsylvania Road to 
 the Mouth of Youghioghany at Mckee' s ferry, and here to meet 
 the road that comes from Fromans Mill, and make a report of 
 the Conven and Inconven to the next Court. 
 
 On the Motion of John Jones, on behalf Christinee Baker, 
 
 It is Ord that Jacob Knight be Summoned to appear here 
 the next Court, to shew Cause why he detains Michael Infant 
 her Son. 
 
 (34) R Dye vs Dye A C 
 
 R Beally vs Shawn A C 
 
 R Barrakman vs Shevely A C 
 
 B McElroy vs Templin Atta 
 
 Ha Perkins vs Calloway A C 
 
 B McElroy vs Templin Atta 
 
 B Downer vs Teagarden A C 
 
 B Thomas vs Lea A C 
 
546 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 B Swagler vs Mills Spbl. & Imp Ha 
 
 B Swigart vs Mills Aj'd 
 
 B Virgin vs Carr A C 
 
 Sims Wilson vs Cochrane A C 
 
 J G J Mills vs Hunter & A C — Hunter and Hawkins. 
 
 B Bromfeild vs Cox Atta 
 
 R Colvin vs Johnson A C 
 
 B Bond vs Long Atta 
 
 B , Tigard vs Dunnivan A C 
 
 B Cresap vs Sheerer AlSub 
 
 R Colwell vs Brewster A C 
 
 R Sommer vs Brewster A C 
 
 R Colvin vs Johnson A C 
 
 J G J Sheerer vs Miller A C 
 
 B Baker vs Hendricks A C 
 
 B Whitacre vs Dixon A C 
 
 Sims Wells vs Rearden & AlSub 
 
 R Ward vs Thorn Lease Entry and Ouster Conf N G 
 aj'dS 
 
 < Ha Rodgers vs Campbell dis'd Cds Roote 
 
 S Ormsby vs Bousman Lease Entry & ouster & Cohf & 
 
 N G J G J 
 
 Ha Jones vs Speers De. & N G aj'd R 
 
 B Hukman vs Brumfeild Do. & N G aj'd R 
 
 Ha Miller vs Humble. Do. & N. G J G J 
 
 R Ha Clark vs Teabolt Do&NG&JGJ 
 
 B Eyler vs Adams Do & N G and R 
 
 R Whitacre vs Dixon C O 
 
 R Penticost vs Linn Entry &: ouster & N G & j'd B 
 R vs Jones Do & N G ej'd Sims 
 
 R Coin vs Miller Do. & Do. Ha 
 
 Johnston vs Swearengen. Pat McElroy Secty Costs 
 and Lease Entry & Ouster Confered & N G ej'd Ha 
 
 (39) R Ha Girty vs Hanna Lease Entry & Ouster Confered & N G 
 Sims 
 
 B Geegheeghan and vs Smith Do Ha 
 
 B Enocks vs Teagarden Do Ha & R 
 
 B Clinton vs Mayo Do Sims 
 
 B Hawkins vs Humble Do R 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 547 
 
 B Nicholas vs Swarnck Do J G J 
 J G J Lapsley vs Reed Ind and Wt of Possession & Admon of 
 the Estate of Arthur Donerly, dec'd, is granted to 
 John Gibson, he hav'g Comp with the Law. Ord 
 that Chas Bruce, Ab Slower, Geo Gibson & Michl. 
 Thorn, or any 4 of them, App the Estate. 
 Robt Elliott, a Deed of Barg & Sale to Wm. Elliott, & O R. 
 Admon of the Estate of Wm Cockrine, dec'd, g'd to Benja 
 Elliott, he hav'g Comp'd with the Law. Ord that Benja Tom- 
 linson, Joseph Baker & John Hendrick & Jas. Mathews or any 
 3, App the Estate. 
 
 His Majesties Writ for Adjourning this Court to the Town of 
 Staunton on the 3d Tuesday in June next was produced and 
 read, and It is Ord that the Court be adjourned accordingly 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 (40) At a Cald Court held at Fort Dunmore, May the 27th, 1775, 
 
 for the Examination of Thomas Glenn, who stands committed 
 to the Goal of this County for the Murder of his Servant Man, 
 Peter Eglington, 
 
 Present, Geo Croghan, John Campbell, Edward Ward, 
 Thomas Smallman. 
 
 The above Named Thomas Glenn was led to the barr, and 
 upon examination denied the fact wherewith he stands charged ; 
 whereupon several Witnesses were sworn and Examined, upon 
 Consideration of which the Court are of Opinion that he is not 
 Guilty of the Murder wherewith he stands Charged, but that 
 he is Guilty of beating his Servant 111, and that he ought to be 
 tried for the same at the next Grandjury Court to be held at 
 this Place, and that he be Committed to the Goal of this 
 County, and there to remain until he Enter into recog in the 
 Sum of ;£iooo, with 2 Secys in the Sum of S°°£ Each, for 
 his appear at the Grandjury Court and for his good behaviour 
 in the mean time, and that his Majesties deputy atto prosecute 
 him for the same. 
 
 Then the Court did rise. Geo : Croghan. 
 
 At a Cald Court held for the Examination of James Clark, 
 who stands committed for the Murder of Silas Tucker, an Infant 
 son of Wm. Tucker, this 12th day of July, 1775 : 
 
548 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Prest, Jno Campbell, Thos. Smallman, Ed Ward, Jno. 
 Gibson. 
 
 The above named James Clark was led to the Barr, and upon 
 Examination denied the fact wherewith he stands Charged ; 
 whereupon several Witnesses were sworn and Examined, and 
 
 (41) on Consideration of which the Court are of Opinion that he is 
 not Guilty of the facts wherewith he stands Charged, and that 
 for the s'd offence he be acquitted. 
 
 Then the Court did rise 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 At a Cald Court held at Fort Dunmore for Augusta County, 
 September 12th, 1775, for the Examination of Wm. Evans for 
 the breaking open the Kitchen of James McCashlin. 
 
 Prest. John Campbell, Dorsey Penticost, Wm. Crawford, 
 John McColloch, Wm. Goe. 
 
 The above named Wm. Evans was led to the Barr, and upon 
 Examination denied the fact wherewith he stands Charged ; 
 whereupon several Witnesses were sworn and Exam'd, on Con- 
 sideration of which the Court are of Opinion that he is not Guilty 
 of the Burgaly, but that he is guilty of a Trespass ; It is Ord that 
 he be Committed to the Goal of this County, and there to remain 
 until he enter into recog in the sum of £50, with 2 Secys in 
 the Sum of 25 £ Each, for his App at the next Grandjury and 
 for his Good behaviour, and the s'd Wm. Evans, with Geo 
 Aston and Cornelius Conner, his Secys, Ack'd the s'd Evans 
 in the Sum of 50 £ and Aston & Conner in the Sum of jQ 25 
 Each, to be Levied, and in Case he do not Appear and for his 
 good behaviour in the mean time, and that his Majesties dep 
 Atto pros them for the same. 
 
 Then the Court did rise 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 (42) At a Cald Court for the Examination of James Nowland 
 this 12th Sepr. 1775, for the breaking open of James McCash- 
 len's Kitchen : 
 
 Prest, John Campbell, Dor,sey Penticost, Wm Geo, Wm. 
 Crawford, John McColloch, 
 
 The above named James Nowland was led to the barr, and 
 upon Examination denied the fact wherewith he stands charged ; 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 549 
 
 whereupon several Wits were sworn and Exam'd, and on Con- 
 sid of which the Court are of Opinion that he is not Guilty of 
 the Burgarly, but that he is guilty of a Trespass ; It is Ord that 
 he be committed to the Goal of this County, and there to 
 remain until he enter into recog in the Sum of £ 50, with 2 
 Secys in the Sum of 25 £ Each, and thereupon he with Geo 
 Aston and John Conner his Secys, the s'd Nowlan in the Sum 
 of j£ 50 and the s'd Aston and Conner in the Sum of 25 £ 
 Each, to be Levied, and in case they do not appear at the next 
 Grandjury Court to be held here, and for his good behaviour 
 in the mean time, and that his Majes. deputy Atto pros him for 
 the same. Then the Court did rise 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 His Majesties Writ for adjoming the Court from Staunton to 
 Fort Dunmore being read this 19th September, 1775 : 
 
 Pres't Geo. Croghan, Jno. Campbell, 
 
 Dorsey Penticost, Thos. Smallman. 
 
 David Shepperd took the Usual Oaths to his Majesties person 
 and Gov, Sub the Ab Oath and test, and then took the Oath 
 of a Justice of the Peace, and of a Justice of the County Court 
 in Chancery, and of a Justice of Oyer & Terminer. 
 (43) Pres't Dav'd Shepperd, and absent John Campbell. Ord 
 
 that the Sheriff contract with a Workman to repair this house 
 ag'st to morrow, with a barr & seat for the Clk and Justices, 
 P. Wm. Crawford. 
 
 On the motion of Sam'l Sample, It is Ordered that his Serv't 
 Woman, Betty McHolister, serve him 1 2 Mo ; it App by Wits 
 that she had a bastard, It is Ord that she Serve. 
 
 Ord that the Court be Adjorned until to Morrow Morning 
 10 o'Clock Geo: Croghan. 
 
 At a Court Con'd and held for Augusta County at Fort Dun- 
 more, Sepr. 20th, 1775 : 
 
 Present Geo Croghan, Thos. Smallman, Dorsey Penticost, 
 Dav'd Shepperd, Gentn, Justices. 
 
 Drenning vs Bay, James Gray Spbd. 
 
 David Steel took the Usual Oaths to his Majesties Person and 
 Government, Sub the Ab Oath and test, and then took the 
 Oath of a deputy Sheriff. 
 36 
 
550 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 A Deed from Mordicai M Mordicai to Joseph Simon was proved 
 
 byjno. Anderson, Robt. Campbell, 2 of the Wits, & O C'd. 
 
 McQuity vs Gray, Thos Bay, Spbd. 
 
 Caldwell vs Brouster ) _ _, _, , , 
 
 James Gray, Spbd. 
 
 Sommerall vs Brouster 
 
 An Indenturefrom John McMillen to Wm. Parkinson was provd 
 by Jno Gab'l Jones and Benja Davis, 2 of the Wits, and O R. 
 Cresap vs Taylor, James Brownlee Spbd. 
 Morrison vs Ross, Michl Tygert Spbd. 
 Gillfillan vs Tygert, Jos Ross Spbd. 
 
 (44) George Wilson, Gent, being bound over to this Court for 
 being confederate with aiding advising and abeting certain dis- 
 orderly persons, who, on the Morning of the 2 2d of June last, 
 Violently seized and Carried away Maj John Connolly from this 
 place, and also adviseing others not aid the Officers of Justice 
 When called upon to apprehend the afores'd disturbers of the 
 peace, being called and not appearing, It is Ord that he be 
 prosecuted on his Recog. 
 
 Richmond vs Scott, Jno. Boly, Spbd. 
 
 Christian Perkey, being bound over to this Court on the 
 Complt of Edward Rice for Break' g down his Saw Mill dam, 
 being call'd, app'd and Several Wits were Sworn and Exam'd; 
 on Consideration of which the Court are of Opin that he be 
 Committed to the Goal of this County and there to remain 
 until he enter into Secy in the Sum of ^50, with 2 Secy in the 
 Sum of ^25 Each ; and thereupon he with Wm. Crawford and 
 Haden Wells his Secys Ack'd themselves, the s'd Perkey in the 
 Sum of £$0, and the s'd Crawford and Wells in the Sum of 
 ^25 Each, to be levied, and in case the s'd Perkey is not of 
 Good behaviour and for a year and a day. 
 
 (45) Vallandigham vs Tygart Jos Ross Spbd. 
 Tidball vs Martin Abm. Vaughan Spbd. 
 
 Licence to keep an Ordinary is Granted to Mordicai Moses 
 Mordicai, he hav'g Comp'd with the Law. 
 
 Waford vs Cox Abm. Teagarden and Christopher Swigart 
 Spbd. 
 
 Brumfeild vs Cox Am. Teagarden and Christopher Swigart 
 Spbd. 
 
 Bond vs Mordicai. 2 Suits I^nace Labat Spbd. 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 551 
 
 The Persons app'd to Veiw a road from the Confluence of 
 Wheeling to the foot of Laurel Hill at Conrad Walters, made 
 a rept that they had Veiwed the same and find that there may 
 be had a good road from the Confluence of Wheeling to the 
 Confluence of Ten Mile on the Monongahala, and from thence 
 to the s'd Walters; It is Ord the s'd Road be Established, 
 and that James McCoy be over from the foot of the Laurel 
 Hill to Chas. Hickman ; and John Craig from Hickman to 
 Wm. Teagardens ferry on the Monongohala ; and Ezekiel Ross 
 from there to John Dickensons, Junr., Reason Virgin from 
 there to Alexr Douglas ; and John Mitchell from there to the 
 Mouth of Wheeling; and that the Tithe's in 5 Miles on each 
 side work thereon. 
 
 James Chambers, being bound over to this Court for Common 
 Barratry and other Misdemeanors by him committed ag'st the 
 Peace, on hear'g and Several Witnesses sworn the Court are 
 Opinion that the Complt be dis'd. 
 
 Val Crawford is App'd Over of the Road from Sewickley 
 Cr to Stewarts Crossing, and that the Tith's within 3 Miles on 
 Each side work thereon. 
 
 Lyons vs Duncan. Jas. Hamilton and Chas. Reed Spbd. 
 
 Persons App'd to Veiw a road from Fort Pitt to Becketts 
 fort, made a report ; It is Ord that the s'd Road be Established, 
 and Andrew Pearce be Over from Beckets fort to Jas. Wilsons ; 
 Cornelius Thompson from Wilsons to the River Monongohala ; 
 James Sullivan from there to the head of the Saw Mill run, and 
 Bashar Frederick from there to Fort Pitt ; and the Tith's within 
 5 Miles on Each side from Fort Pitt to the Monongahala, and 
 the Tiths, within 3 Miles on each side from the River to Becketts 
 fort, work thereon. 
 
 Dunlavy vs Russell. Dav'd Scott Spbd. 
 
 Cresap vs Elliott 
 
 Ord that the Court be Adj'd until to Morrow Morning 10 
 o'Clock. Geo: Croghan. 
 
 (46) At a Court Con'd and held for Augusta County, September 
 
 21st, 1775 : 
 
 Pres't Geo Croghan, Jno Gibson, John Cannon, John Mc- 
 
 Culloch. 
 
552 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Admon Of the Estate of John Campbell, dec'd, is granted 
 his father James Campbell, he hav'g Comp with the Law. 
 Ord that Matthew Ritchey, Rich'd Boyer, Nath'l Tomlinson, 
 and Sam'l Clem, or any 3, app the Est. 
 
 Admon of the Estate of Jonathan Johns, dec'd, is g'd to 
 Dav'd Johns, he hav'g Comp'd with the Law. Ord that Philip 
 Rodgers, Robt Ritchey, Jonathan Reese, and Zedeck Springer, 
 or any 3, app the Est. 
 
 A Deed of Barg & Sale from James Brenton to Michael 
 Cresap Senior was prov'd by John Jeremiah Jacobs one of the 
 Wits & O R. 
 
 A Deed of Barg & Sale from Robt Denbowto Mich'l Cresap 
 was prov'd by Geo. Brent one of the Wits & O R. 
 
 A Deed of Barg & Sale from John Corey to Mich'l Cresap, 
 
 Senr. , was prov'd by Jno. Jeremiah Jacob, the Wits, and O R. 
 
 Payton On the Complt of Wm. Freeman ag'st his Master, John 
 
 Rootes Collins, for beating and abuseing him, and on hearing Several 
 
 Sims & Wits & the Parties, the Court are of Opinion that he is Guilty 
 
 Jones of the above abuse, and that he be Committed to the Goal of 
 
 this County, and there to remain until he Enter into Recog in 
 
 (47) the Sum of jQzo, with 2 Secys in the Sum of _^io Each, for 
 
 his good behaviour towards his Servt for the Space of One 
 
 Year, and that he pay Costs. 
 
 John Collins prod an Acc't ag'st his Serv't, Wm. Freeman, 
 who run away for 86 days absent time ; It is Ord that he serve 
 him for the same Acer, to Law, and the Expence for takeing 
 him up is Continued til the next Court 
 
 Elliott vs Girty ) „. „. „ , , 
 
 Smith vsGirty j Slm ° nGlrt y S P bd - 
 
 John Collins prod an Acc't ag'st his Serv't, Moses Abraham, 
 when run away for 86 days absent time ; It is Ord that he 
 serve for the same Acer, to Law, and the Expence for takeing 
 him up is Continued til the next Court. 
 
 Ord that the Court be Adjorned until to Morrow Morning 
 10 o'Clock Geo : Croghan. 
 
 At a Court Con'd and held for Augusta County at Fort Dun- 
 more Sepr. 2 2d, 1775. 
 
 Pres't Geo Croghan, Jno. Cannon, Thos Smallman, John 
 McColloch. 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 553 
 
 Ord that the Court be adjorned until to Morrow Morning 9 
 o'clock Geo : Croghan. 
 
 {48) At a Court Con'd and held for Augusta County, September 
 
 22d, 1775, 
 
 Pres't. John Campbell, Wm. Crawford, John Cannon, John 
 
 McColloch, Dorsey Penticost, 
 [Here follows another list of cases, over five hundred in number, 
 wherein only the surnames of the parties, plaintiff and defendant, are 
 given, with occasionally some unimportant memoranda, thus : " Crog- 
 han v. Whittaker," or " Cresap vs Bowlin, Atta." If Christian 
 names had been given, or the nature of the action shown, this list of 
 cases would not have been omitted.] 
 
 (61) At a Court Con'd and held for Augusta County, Sepr 23d, 
 1775, P. Geo Croghan, Jno. Cannon, Jno. McColloch, Dorsey 
 Penticost, Dav'd Shepperd. 
 
 Lynch vs Jones, Jno. McCallister Spbd. 
 [It appearing to the Court that Geo Brent & John Gab'l 
 JonCs, practising Attos of this court, have this day insulted 
 this court in a very gross manner, by directing the under sheriff 
 not to appear & open the court when commanded by the Jus- 
 tices, met upon the adjournment of yesterday, from which direc- 
 tions the sheriff hesitated some time in doing his duty, & did 
 commit other Insults highly derogatory from the dignity & Au- 
 thority of this Court : It is the Opinion of this court that the. sd 
 George Brent & Jno. Gab'l Jones be suspended from practis- 
 ing as Attos in this Court untill the Pleasure of the General 
 Court is known in this behalf It is therefore Ordered that 
 the Clerk do Certify these proceedings to the honble the Gen- 
 eral Court & that the Atto Genl be sumd, John Walker, Gent, 
 of Albemarle, Edward Winston of Bedford, Geo. Rootes of 
 Frederick, & Chas. Sims of West Augusta, to attend there to 
 prove the facts alleged agst the sd Brent & Jones ; & It is Ord 
 that they be committed to the Goal of this County, and there 
 to remain until they Enter into recog in the sum of ^200 
 Each, with 2 Secys Each in the sum of ^100 Each.] 16 
 
 1 6 The entry thus embraced in [] was at first made in the minute as given, but was 
 afterwards erased by lines drawn over it. 
 
554 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 (62) Pres't, Jno. Campbell, Thos. SmaLlman ; Abs, Geo. Cro- 
 ghan, Pres't, Wm. Crawford. Ab. Jno. Gibson & D P. 
 
 A Deed from the Sacchems or Chiefs of the Six United 
 Nations of Indians to Geo Croghan Esqr was produced to be 
 proved, which was objected by Chas. Sims & H. Peyton on 
 behalf of Jno. Gibson, alledging that it is upwards of two years 
 since the Execution of the s'd deed, that there was not 3 Wits 
 present to prove the same ; which objection was 'overruled, and 
 the said Deed was proved by the Oaths of Tho. & John Walker 
 & Ord to lie for fur proof. 
 
 Geo. Croghan Esqr. Ack'd a Barg& Sale to Thos. Lawrence 
 & O R. 
 
 Ab. John Campbell, & pres't Geo. Croghan. 
 
 Edward Armstrong, having forfeited his recog by assaulting 
 Prudence Labat, It is Ord that a proces ag'st him, and his 
 Secys, on the same, and that the Sheriff take him into Custody, 
 and there to remain until he Enter into recog in the Sum of 
 ^50, with 2 Secys in the Sum of ^25 Each, for his good 
 behaviour. 
 
 P. Dorsey Penticost 
 
 The Persons App'd to Veiw a road from Providence Mounce's 
 Mill, by Asburger's ferry, and from thence to Catfish Camp, 
 made a report ; It is Ord that the Road be Established, and 
 that Ezekiel Hickman be Overseer from Mounces Mill to Chris- 
 tof Bealers ferry on Yougha ; & Morgan Morgan from there to 
 Asburger's ferry; & Benja. Fry from there to Pidgeon Cr ; and 
 Evan Williams from Pidgeon Cr. to the East fork of Churteers 
 Cr'; and Garret Vanemon from there to Catfish Camp, and the 
 Tith's within 3 miles on- Each side work thereon 
 
 (63) A Resolution of the Convention directing a Mode for the 
 
 Proceedings of the Court of West Augusta was prod and read, 
 
 and thesame being approved of, Ord that the Court for the 
 
 future be regulated thereby and that the same be Rec'd. 
 
 Penticost vs Jones 1 ,. 
 
 T . > A Dedimus to take the deps. of Barnet 
 vs Lmn ) r 
 
 Johnston a Witness in the Province of Maryland, to which Ob- 
 ject was made for want of affidavit of his being out of the 
 Colony or his being aged and Infirm, which was Overuled and 
 dedimus ag'd. 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 555 
 
 Kuykendal vs Smith Abel Westfall Spbd. 
 
 Brent vs Beeler Dorsey Penticost, Spbd. 
 
 Hamilton vs Goe Pat McElroy Spbd. 
 
 Morgan vs Beavers Dav'd Steel Spbd. 
 
 Wm Harden vs. Glenn Alex'r Douglas Spbd. 
 
 P. Jno. Campbell, Wm. Crawford, John Cannon, John Mc- 
 Colloch, Dorsey Penticost. 
 
 Ord Thos. Smallman, John Cannon, John Gibson, or any 2 
 of them, to provide a House at the Pub Expence for the Use 
 of Holding the Court, and that the Sheriff Contract with Work- 
 men to put the same in repair ag't the 3d Tuesday in Jan'y 
 next. 
 
 Ord that the Sheriff, with the Consent of Thos. Smallman, 
 John Cannon, and John Gibson, or any 3 of them, Contract 
 for a house for Save keeping of his Prisoners, and make a return 
 of the whole to the next Court, at the County Expence. 
 (64) Wm. Hawkins took the Usual Oaths to his Majesties Person 
 and Government, Sub the Ab Oath and test, and then took the 
 Oath of a deputy Sheriff. 
 
 His Majesties Writ for adjorning this Court to the Town of 
 Staunton, on the third Tuesday in Nov'r next, being read, the 
 Court was Accordingly adjorned. John Campbell. 
 
 At a Court held for Augusta County at Pittsburg, October 
 the 17th, 1775, According to an Ordinance of the Convent, 
 held at Richmond : 
 
 Present, Geo Croghan, Thos. Smallman, John Gibson, John 
 McColloeh. 
 
 On a Complt of Wm. Freeman ag'st his Master, John Col- 
 lins, for abuseing him and beating him, is Continued until the 
 next Court, and that the Sheriff take the Servant into his Cus- 
 tody and provide for him or hire him out until the next 
 Court. 
 
 It appearing to this Court by Witness that an Agreem't be- 
 tween John Campbell and his Serv't, James Martin, that he 
 had to serve from the 26th December 1774, One Year and 9 
 Months, It is Ord that he Serve the same Accordingly 
 
 Ab Jno. Gibson ; 
 
 Pres't John Campbell. 
 
556 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 John Hume being bound over to this Court, on the Complt 
 of Francis Wilson, for a riot and Assault Battery committed on 
 the s'd Wilson, being called and not appearing, It is Ord that 
 the recog be prosecuted. 
 
 James Royal being bound over to the Court on the Complt 
 of Fra's Wilson for Assault and Battery committed on the s'd 
 Wilson, being called and not appear' g, It is Ord that the s'd 
 recog be continued. 
 
 Ord that the Court be adjourned until the Court in Course 
 
 Geo : Croghan, 
 
 (65) Ata Court held for Augusta County at Pittsburg, Nov'r 21st, 
 
 1775, According to an Ordinance of the Convention held at 
 Richmond : 
 
 Pres't Geo Croghan, Edward Ward, Thos Smallman, John 
 Cannon, Geo Vallandigham. 
 
 Samuel Hinch is appointed Surveyor of the Highway in the 
 room of David Steel. 
 
 The persons App'd to Veiw a road from Capn Fromans to 
 the Mouth of Yough, made their report : It is Ord that the s'd 
 road be Established and that John Malony and Thos. Lapsley 
 and Edward Sharp be Survey and that Tithables with 3 miles on 
 Each side work thereon 
 
 John Bears is App'd a Consta, and It is Ord that he be 
 Sum'd to be Sworn. 
 
 It Appearing to this Court by Wm. Wilson that John Collins 
 had paid £7. 10s. for takeing up his Serv't Wm. Freeman, who 
 run away, It is Ord that he Serve Acc'd to Law for the same. 
 
 The Complt of Wm Freeman ag'st his Master, John Collins, 
 for abuseing and beating him and, It App'g to the Court to be 
 2d Complt, It is Ord the Sheriff sell him Acc'd to Law. 
 
 Ord that the Court be adjoined until the Court in Course 
 
 Geo : Croghan. 
 
 At a Court held for the Examination of Mr. Devereux Smith, 
 at His House, by His Petition to the Justices, this 21st No- 
 ember, 1775, for the Murder of Capn Geo Aston : 
 
 Pres't Geo Croghan, Thos. Smallman, John Cannon, Geo 
 Vallandigham, Edward Ward. 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 557 
 
 {66) The above Devereux Smith was Examined, denied the fact 
 wherewith he stands Charged, whereupon several Witnesses 
 were sworn and Examined ; on Consideration of which the 
 Court are of Opinion that after hearing Smith by his Atto, 
 that he is Guilty of the s'd fact wherewith he stands Charged, 
 that he ought to be tried for the said fact at the General Court 
 in April, on the 6th day thereof, and in Order thereto he is re- 
 manded to the Goal of this County and thence to be removed. 
 Be it Remembered that John Nevill, Thos. Herbert, James 
 Nowlan, Simon Morgan, all of this County, came before our 
 Justices and Acknowledged themselves Indebted to ours'd 
 Lord the King in the Sum of ioo Pounds Each, to be Levied 
 of Each of their respective Goods and Chattels, Lands and 
 Tenements, and to ours'd Lord the King rendered upon Con- 
 dition they do appear at the General Court in April next and 
 there testify and Evidence ag'st Devereux Smith for the Murder 
 of Geo Aston, and shall not depart with out leave of the s'd 
 General Court 
 
 The Prisoner moved the Court that he might be admitted to 
 Bail and It is Ordered that the Court be adjorned until to Mor- 
 row Morning at 7 o'clock, Geo : Croghan. 
 
 At a Cald Court Con'd and held for Augusta County for the 
 Examination of Devereux Smith for the Murder of Capt Geo. 
 Aston : 
 
 Pres't, Geo Croghan, Thos Smallman, John Cannon, Geo 
 Vallandigham. 
 
 Upon a motion made by Mr. Devereux Smith by his attorney to 
 be admitted to Bail for his appearance at the 6th day of the next 
 General Court, the Court are of opinion that from the situation 
 Mr. Smith is in & the circumstances attending the fact where- 
 (67) with he is charged, that he ought to be admitted to Bail, and 
 that he Enter into recog on the Sum of 3000^, with 3 Securi- 
 ties in the Sum of ^1500 Each, to be Levied, and thereupon 
 the s'd Devereux Smith Ack'd himself in the Sum of ^3000 
 and Robert Hanna, Aeneas McCay and Wm. Butler, his Secys, 
 in the Sum of 1500^ Each, to be Levied of their respective 
 goods and Chattels, Lands and Tenements, and to our s'd Lord 
 the King rendered, upon Condition that Devereux Smith doth 
 
558 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 personally appear on the 6th day of the next General Court, if 
 he be able at that time to attend the s'd General Court, from 
 the situation of his wound & state of health, if not at the suc- 
 ceeding Court for the Tryall of Criminals, and shall not depart 
 upon his appearance without leave of said Court. 
 Then the Court did rise 
 
 Geo : Croghan. 
 
 At a Court held for Augusta County at Pittsburg, Jan'y 16th, 
 1776, According to an Ordinance of Convention held at Rich- 
 mond : 
 
 Pres't, Edward Ward, Thos. Smallman, Geo Vallandigham, 
 John McColloch, Wm. Goe. 
 
 Admon of the Estate of Alexr. Miller, dec'd, is granted to 
 John Colhoon, Gent, he having Comp'd with the Law. 
 
 Ord that Geo Wilson, John Swearengen, John Harden, and 
 Jos Caldwell, or any 3, App the Est. 
 
 Licence to keep an Ordin is Granted to David Duncan, he 
 hav'g Comp with the Law. 
 
 The same to James McCashlon. 
 (68) Admon of the Est of Thos Elvey is Granted to Thomas New- 
 berry, he hav'g Comp with the Law. 
 
 Ord Silas Hedge, Edward Robertson, Thomas McGuire, and 
 John Carpenter, or any 3, App the Est. 
 
 Thomas Girty, being bound over to this Court on the Complt 
 of Samuel Sample for Threatening to beat his wife Sarah 
 Sample, and that he was afraid that the s'd Thos. Girty will 
 •beat or wound her, he being in fear of his Wife's Sarah's Life, 
 being Called, appeared, and on hearing and Examining Several 
 Witnesses the Court are of Opinion that on his makeing Con- 
 cessions for his good behaviour towards her for the future be ' 
 discharged. 
 
 A Mortgage from Andrew Robinson to Jacob Saylor was 
 proved by James Berwick and John McCallister, two of the 
 Wits, and Ordered to be Certified. 
 
 Joseph Hammet is App a Constab, and It is Ord that he be 
 Sum'd to be sworn in. 
 
 Hugh Scott is Appointed a Consta, and it is Ord that he be 
 Sum'd to be sworn in. 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 559 
 
 Ezekiel Dewitt is App'd a Consta, in the room of John Car- 
 penter. 
 
 Ord that the Court be adjorned until to Morrow Morning 8 
 o'Clock. 
 
 Edw'd Ward. 
 
 At a Court Con'd and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burgh, January 17th, 1775, According to an Ordinance of Con- 
 vention held at Richmond : 
 
 Pres't Edward Ward, Dorsey Penticost, John Cannon, John 
 McColloch, Geo Vallandigham, Wm Goe 
 (69) On the Motion of Rich Willis, it is Ord that his Mark be 
 recorded, a Crop in the near Ear and a Swallow fork in the 
 off Ear. 
 
 On the Motion of James Wright, Ord that his Mark be re- 
 corded, a Swallow fork in the Off Ear. 
 
 On the Motion of Daniel Harris, It is Ord that his Mark, a 
 Swallow fork in Each Ear. 
 
 On the Motion of Thos. Glenn, Ord that his Mark, a Crop 
 in Each Ear and under slit in Each. 
 
 On the Motion of Thomas Crooks, Ord that his Mark, a 
 Crop in the Near Ear. 
 
 On the Motion of Thos. ' Atkinson, Ord that his Mark, a 
 Crop and Slit in the Crop in the right Ear, and the left Ear 
 slit down and one half Cropt off. 
 
 P. Thos Smallman. 
 
 Thos. Atkinson, being bound over to this Court on the 
 Complt of Fras. Maines, Appeared ; no prosecutor appearing, 
 It is Ord that he be dis'd. 
 
 Samuel Mcbride is app a Constable in the room of Razon 
 Virgin, and It is Ord that he Summoned. 
 
 Francis Morrison Mark be record, a Crop in the near Ear 
 and a hole in the off. 
 
 Wm Hawkins Mark be record, a Crop off the left and a slit 
 in the right. 
 
 Pet Hillibrand Mark be record, a^Crop in the left Ear and a 
 Swallow fork and under slit in the right. 
 
 Or that the Court be adjorned until the Court in Course. 
 
 Edw'd Ward. 
 
560 Annals of the Carnegir Museum. 
 
 (70) At a Cald Court for West Augusta for the Examination of 
 Edward Armstrong for Horse Stealing, this 19th January, 
 1776, one the Prop of Geo Sly and the other of Jas Royal. 
 
 Pres't, Edward Ward, John Cannon, Geo Vallandigham, 
 Dorsey Penticost, Thos Smallman. 
 
 The above named Edward Armstrong was led to the barr, 
 and upon Examination denied the fact wherewith he stands 
 Charged ; whereupon Several Witnesses were sworn and Ex- 
 amined ; on Consideration of which the Court are of Opinion 
 that there is not at this time Surf Evidence to prove the fact ; 
 It is Ord that he be discharged. 
 
 Then the Court did rise 
 Edw'd Ward. 
 
 His Majesties Writ for Adjorning the County Court of Au- 
 gusta from Staunton to Fort Dunmore being read, this 1 6th 
 April, 1776 : 
 
 Pres't John Campbell, Dorsey Penticost, Thos Smallman, 
 Jno. Cannon, 
 
 Admon of the Est of Jeremiah Woods, dec'd, granted to 
 John Stevenson, who is married to the Widow, he hav'g Comp'd 
 with the Law. 
 
 Ord that Benj. Kuykendal, James Sullivan, Rich' d McMahon, 
 and Peter Barrakman, or any 3, app the Estate. 
 
 Ord that the Court be Adj'd until to Morrow Morning 9 
 o' Clock. 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 (71) At a Court Con'd and held for Augusta County, April 17th, 
 1776. 
 
 Pres't John Campbell, Edward Ward, Dorsey Penticost, John 
 McColloch, John Cannon. 
 
 The Last Will and Test of Larkin Pearpoint, dec'd, was 
 prov'd by Isaac Lamasterand Calder Haymond, two of the Wits, 
 and O R. 
 
 Daniel Leet prod a Commission from the Colledge of Wm. 
 and Mary to be deputy Surveyor of this County under Thos. 
 Lewis, Gent, he hav'g taken the Oath According to Law and 
 Ent'd in Bond with Geo Rice and Geo McCormick his Sec'y. 
 
 John Harry is App Surveyor in the room of Edward Sharp 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 561 
 
 Ab Dorsey Penticost. 
 
 A Deed of Barg & Sale from John Pearce Sen'r to John and 
 And'w Pearce was proved by Dorsey Penticost and Moses Coe, 
 2 of the Wits, and O C. 
 
 Pres D. P. 
 
 A Deed of Barg and Sale from Wm. Dunbar, by his Atto 
 Alex'r Ross, to Chas. Sims, was prov'd by Caleb Graydon and 
 Daniel Brown 2 of the Wits, and O C. 
 
 A Deed of Barg and Sale and rec't from Alex'r Ross to Chas. 
 Sims was prov'd by Caleb Graydon and Dan'l Brown, 2 of the 
 Wits, & O C. 
 
 A Deed of Barg and Sale from Alex' r Ross to Chas Sims was 
 prov'd by Caleb Graydon and Dan'l Brown, 2 of the Wits, 
 and O C'd. 
 
 A Power of Atto from Alex' r Ross, Atto for Wm, Dunbar, 
 to Chas. Sims prov'd by Caleb Graydon & Dan'l Brown, 2 of 
 the Wits, and O C'd 
 
 A Power of Atto from Alex'r Ross to Chas. Sims was prov'd 
 by Caleb Graydon and Dan'l Brown, 2 of the Wits, and O C'd. 
 
 On the Motion of Christopher Carpenter, leave is granted 
 him to keep a ferry near his house on the Monongahela for the 
 Purpose of Setting over the Militia on Muster days 
 (72) Solomon Froman is app a Consta in the room of Nath'l 
 
 Blackmore, and that he be Summoned before Mr. John Can- 
 non to be Sworn into the said Office. 
 
 Admon of the Estate of John Edwards, dec'd, is granted to 
 Benjamin Kuykendall (Jersey Ben), a C'r, he hav'g Comp'd 
 with the Law. 
 
 Ord that Zadock Wright, Gab'l Cox, Benja Sweet, and Isaac 
 Custard, or any 3, app the Est. 
 
 Robert Morely, Thos. Peake, & John Hatchway, being 
 bound over to this Court on the Complt of Peter McCawley, 
 and he being called and not appearing It is Ord that he be dis'd. 
 
 James Innis, John Munn, and Thos. Edginton, 3 of the per- 
 sons appointed to Veiw a road from Froman 's Mill on Shirte to 
 Fromans Mill on the East side of the Monongohela ; It is Ord 
 that the s'd Road be Est, and that John Munn be Surv from 
 Froman 's Mill on Shirtee to the fork of the road to that goes to 
 Henry Spears, and that Tobias Decker from thence to the Mill 
 
562 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 on the Monongohala, and that the tithe's within 3 Miles on Each 
 side work thereon. 
 
 Wm Andreas is App a Consta in the room of Joseph Hill, 
 Sen'r., and that he be Sum'd to be sworn before Dorsey Pen- 
 ticost. 
 
 Peter Hursh is App a Consta in the forks of Yough, and 
 that he be Sum'd to be Sworn before D. Penticost. 
 
 Jonathan Paddock is App a Consta in the room of Wm. Tea- 
 garden, and that he be Sum'd to be Sworn before Wm. Goe. 
 
 Deed of Lease and Release of Trust from Wm. Trent, Rob't 
 Callender, David Franks, Joseph Simon, Levy Andrew Levy, 
 the s'd Wm. Trent, Dav'd Franks, Joseph Simons, and Levy 
 And'w Levy in their own Right, and in Right of Philip Boyle, 
 (73) John Chevalier, Peter Chevalier, Jos Bollock, Peter Baynton, 
 devesees of John Baynton' Share ; Sam'l Wharton by his Attos 
 Thos Wharton and the s'd Wm. Trent, Geo Morgan, Thos 
 Smallman, and Geo Croghan, the afores'd Sam'l Wharton 
 Trustee for and of John Welch's Share in thes'd Premises, by 
 his Attos, Thos Wharton and Wm Trent, Edward Moran, Evan 
 Shelley, Sam'l Postlethwaite, Jno Gibson, Edward Cole, 
 Grantee or Ass'e of Rich'd Winstons Share, Dennis Crotan, 
 Wm. Thompson, Rich'd Neave Grantee or Ass'e of Ab'm 
 Mitchell's Share in the Premises, by Rich'd Neave, Junr, his 
 Atto, James Dundas, Jno Ormsby by his Atto Thos Bond, Jr. , 
 Wm. Edgar by his Atto, the s'd Rob't Callender, Wm Frank- 
 lin, Esqr., Jos Galloway, Esqr., and Thos Wharton, to Rich'd 
 Bache, Owen Jones, Jun'r, and Isaac Wharton, was prov'd as 
 to Wm. Trent, Rob't Callender, Dav'd Frank, Levy And'w 
 Levy, Joseph Bollock, Peter Baynton, Thos Wharton, and the 
 s'd Wm Trent, in two Places, for and on behalf of Sam'l 
 Wharton in his own right, as Trustee of John Welch by George 
 Morgan, Edwd Cole, Thos Bond, Jr., for and on behalf of 
 his Constituent, John Ormsby, by the s'd Rob't Callender, 
 for and in behalf of his Constituent Wm Edgar, by Dr. Benja. 
 Franklin for his Constituent Wm. Franklin, Esqr, and by the 
 s'd Thos Wharton by Jno Chevalier, Peter Chevalier, Rich' 
 Bache, Owen Jones, Jun'r., Isaac Wharton by Rich'd Butler, 
 Jos Westmore & Thos. Flinn, and prov'd as to Rich'd Neave 
 by his Atto Rich'd Neave, Jr, Joseph Galloway, Jos Simon, 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 563 
 
 James Dundas, Wm. Thompson, Sam'l Postlethwaite by Jos 
 Westmore, Chas. Matheson & Thomas Flinn, & as to John 
 
 (74) Gibson was prov'd by Joseph Westmore, Chas. Matheson, and 
 Rich'd Butler, and OR. A Deed of Partition from and be- 
 tween the same Persons was proved as before and O R. 
 
 A Mortgage from Abraham Mitchell and Sarah his Wife to 
 Rich'd Neave was prov'd by Jos Westmore, Chas. Matheson, 
 and Thos. Flin, 3 of the Wits, and O R. 
 
 Philip Whitezell is App a Consta in the room of Andrew 
 Robertson. 
 
 John Dousman is App a Consta in the Town of Pittsburg, 
 and It is Ord that he be Sum'd. 
 
 Philip Whitezel Ap'd and took the Oaths and the Oath of a 
 Constable. 
 
 Wm. Forsythe, being bound over on the Complt of Henry 
 Woods, and thes'd Henry being called and failing to appear It 
 is Ord to be dis' d 
 
 Licence to keep an Ord is Granted to Thos. Brown at his 
 House at Redstone Fort, Bazel Brown hav'g on his hehalf 
 Ent'd into Bond Acer, to Law. 
 
 Licence to keep an Ord is granted to John DeCamp, he 
 hav'g Comp with ihe Law. 
 
 Hawkins vs Greathouse, Gar ; Abraham Miller affirmed he 
 has 1 Watch, and that he is Indebted to him also £8 Pennsyl- 
 vania Money, for which he has Passed his Bond for, and that 
 he has had no notice of any assignment ; Acc't proved & Jud 
 and O Sale and Ord Condem'd. 
 
 (75) Sam'l Griffith is App'd a Consta; It is Ord that he be 
 Sum'd before Wm. Goe to be Sworn into the Office. 
 
 John Greathouse is App a Consta ; It is Ord that he be 
 Sum'd before Geo Vallandigham to be Sworn into the s'd 
 Office. 
 
 Ord that the Court be Adj'd until to Morrow Morning 10 
 o'Clock John Campbell. 
 
 At a Court Con'd and held for Augusta County, April 18th 
 1776, 
 
 Pres't, John Campbell, Edward Ward, Dorsey Penticost, 
 John Cannon. 
 
564 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 A Deed from Alex'r Ross, Atto to Wm. Dunbarr to Chas. 
 Simons, being form prov'd by Caleb Graydon and Chas. Sims, 
 was fur prov'd by Jas Mckee, the other Wit, & O R. 
 
 A Deed from Alex'r Ross to Chas. Sims prov'd as above and 
 OR. 
 
 A Deed from Alex'r Ross to Chas Sims prov'd as above & 
 
 OR. 
 
 A Power of Atto from Alex'r Ross, Atto for Wm. Dunbar, 
 to Chas Sims, prov'd as above, O R. 
 
 A Power of Atto, from Alex'r Ross to Chas Sims proved as 
 above, O R. 
 
 Licence to keep an Ord is Granted to Jacob Winemiller, he 
 hav'g Compl'd with the Law. 
 (76) On the Petition of James Mitchell & others seting forth that 
 
 a Road is Established from Conrad Walters, by Wm. Tea- 
 garden's ferry, to the Mouth of Wheeling, which is very Incon- 
 veniant to your Petrs, & praying that a Review of the s'd Road 
 be made, It is Ord that Ebenezer Zane, James McMahon, 
 David Owens, Henry Vanmatre, Dav'd Evans, Geo. Cox, 
 James McCoy, & John McClalan, or any 6 of them, being first 
 Sworn, Veiw if the old Road Estab is Conv, if not make a re- 
 port of the most Conv way, and the Inconv and Conv thereof, 
 to the next Court ; that the Surveyors desist from working on 
 the road until the report is returned 
 
 Ord that the Sheriff Summon 24 Persons to serve as a Grand 
 jury in May next 
 
 Ord that the Court be adjorned until the Court in Course 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 At a Court held at Pittsburgh, for the District of West 
 Augusta the Twentieth day of August, 1776 : 
 
 Present, Edward Ward, Dorsey Penticost, John Gibson, 
 David Sheperd, John Cannon, and William Goe, gent. 
 
 Dorsey Penticost and John Gibson, Gent, administered the 
 Oath prescribed by an ordinance entitled ' ' an ordinance to en- 
 able the present Magistrates & officers to continue the adminis- 
 tration of Justice & for setling the General mode of Proceeding 
 in criminal and other cases, till the same can be more amply 
 provided for," to Edward Ward, Gent, and then the said Ed- 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 565 
 
 ward Ward administered the aforesaid oath to John Gibson, 
 Dorsey Penticost, John Cannon, David Shepherd, and Wm. 
 Goe, Gentn. David Shepherd, and John Cannon, Gent, are 
 
 (77) appointed to Contract with some person or persons to build a 
 house 24 by 14 With a petition in the middle, to be Used for 
 a Goal at Augusta Town. 17 
 
 John Madison, Jun'r, Denuty Clerk, took the Oath appointed 
 by an Ordinance of Convention. 
 
 Patrick McElroy, Deputy Sheriff, took the Aforesaid Oath. 
 
 Court Proclaimed. 
 
 McKinley vs Beal, Agreed, pd. 
 
 Samuel Newell and Michael Thorn, being bound over on the 
 Complt of James Chambers, who being called and not appear- 
 ing to prosecute It is Ord that they be discharged. 
 
 Dav'd Steel, a Deputy Sheriff, took the Oath appointed by 
 an Ordinance of Convention. 
 
 Admon of the Estate of Joshua Hudson, dec'd, granted to 
 his brother Wm. Hudson, he hav'g Comp with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that Robert Jones, John Jarrett, Henry Hall, and 
 Aaron Jenkins, or any 3, App the Estate. 
 
 Ord that all the Constables be Summoned to be Sworn agre- 
 able to the Ordinance of Convention before the most Con- 
 venient Magistrate to them. 
 
 Edward Ward, Dorsey Penticost, and John Gibson, Gentn, 
 are recommended as proper persons for his Excellency to choose 
 one of them to Act as Sheriff for the Ensuing Year. 
 
 Alex'r McKee, Philip Ross, Benja Kuykendall, John Nevill, 
 David Rodgers, Isaac Cox, Geo McCormick, Matthew Ritchey, 
 Wm. Louther, John Evans, Jas. Chew, David Scott, John 
 
 (78) Harden, Sen'r, John Swearengen, Thomas Gaddis, James Mc- 
 Coy, Wm. Harrison, John DeCamp, Caleb Graydon, Henry 
 Heath, Sam'l Newell, Thos Brown, James Hammond, Thos 
 Freeman, Wm Moore, Joshua Wright, Rich'd Yeats, John Mc- 
 Dowell, Erasmus Bokias, David Enocks, James Hopkins, Henry 
 Enocks, Henry Vanmetree, Chas Dodd, Daniel Mcfarlane, 
 John Mitchell, James Caldwell, John Walker, John Williamson, 
 Sen'r, Wm. Scott, Thomas Polk, David Andrews, John Mc- 
 
 11 This Augusta Town, was at Catfish-camp, afterward Washington, Washington 
 Co., Pa. 
 
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566 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Donald, Oliver Miller, Zachariah Spriggs, And'w Swearengen, 
 BenjaFry, Jonathan Coburn,John Hamilton, and Jonas Freind, 
 are recommended as proper persons to be added to the Com- 
 mission of the Peace. 
 
 Moses Williamson, Jun'r, is App'd a Constable, and It is 
 Ord that he be Sum'd to be Sworn into the office before Mr. 
 David Shepherd. 
 
 Ord that the Court be adjorned until the third Tuesday in 
 September next to Catfish Camp 1S Augusta Town 
 
 Edw. Ward. 
 
 At a Court held at Augusta Town for the district of West 
 Augusta the [September] 17th 1776: 
 
 Pres't, Edward Ward, Dorsey Penticost, John Cannon, 
 David Shepherd. 
 
 Pat McElroy, deputy Sheriff, protested against the Insuff of 
 the Goal, & on his motion Ord to be Certified. 
 (79) Ord the Sheriff Summon 24 Freeholders to serve as a Grand- 
 
 jury at this Court in November next. 
 
 Ord that the Court be adjorned until to Morrow Morning 6 
 o'Clock. Edw'd Ward. 
 
 At a Court Continued and held at Augusta Town, for the 
 district of West Augusta, September the 18th, 1776 : 
 
 Present, Edward Ward, Dorsey Penticost, John Cannon, 
 David Shepherd, Gentlemen, Justices. 
 
 John McColloch, Gent, took the Oath appointed by Order 
 of Convention as a Justice. 
 
 Present, John McColloch. 
 
 Wm. Hawkins, a deputy Sheriff, took the Oath appointed 
 by Order of Convention as a deputy Sheriff. 
 
 David Rodgers, Isaac Cox, John McDowell, Richard Yeats, 
 Wm. Scott, Dan'l Mcfarlen, John McDaniel, George McCor- 
 mick, Philip Ross, James McMahon, Benja Kuykendall, Wm 
 Lowther, John Evans, David Scott, John Harden, Senr., John 
 Swearengen, Thos. Gaddis, Wm. Harrison, Sam'l Newell, Thos 
 Brown, Thos Freeman, Joshua Wright, Erasmias Bochias, 
 
 18 These words, "Catfish Camp," are erased in the original minutes, and Augusta 
 Town substituted. 
 
Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore. 567 
 
 Henry Enocks, Henry Vanmetre, James Caldwell, John Wil- 
 liamson, Senr., Thos. Polke, Oliver Miller, Zachariah Spriggs, 
 Benja Fry, Jonathan Coburn, John Hamilton, Zachariah 
 Morgan, Benja Wilson, Wm. Hamen, Moses Thompson, 
 Ephraim Ritchardson, James Walker, James Anderson, Alex'r 
 Maxwell, Amaziah Davidson, Jacob Cook, Matthew Ritchey, 
 Jacob Haymaker, Thomas Crooks, Thomas Waller, James 
 Wherry, Ab'm Inloe, -James Linley, And'w Swearengen, Wm. 
 Rankin are recommended as Proper persons to be added to the 
 Commission. 
 
 (80) Patrick McElroy is appointed to go Express from this Place 
 to Wmsburgh for the Commission of the Peace. The Sheriffs 
 Commission, and the Acts of Assembly and the Ordinances of 
 Convention for the district of West Augusta 
 
 And'w Nangle and Rob't McKinley are appointed Con- 
 stables in the Town of Pittsburgh, and that they be Summoned 
 before Edward Ward, Gent, to be Sworn into the s'd Offices. 
 
 John Dousman, who was appointed a Consta in the Town of 
 Pittsburgh and refusing to swear into the said Office, It is Ord 
 that for the s'd Contempt he be fined ^2. 
 
 Richard Yeats, John Campbell, & James McMahon are 
 recommended as proper persons for Coroners. 
 
 Andrew Vaughan, on behalf of Jos. Horton, Moved for a 
 Judg Ag'st John Christian, High Sheriff, for the Amount of an 
 Exn recovered by Francis Brown, a deputy of the s'd Joseph 
 Horton, against Adam Bell Pat McElroy, a deputy also, and 
 who farmed the same of the s'd Christian, appeared and con- 
 fessed a Judgment. Pat McElroy, a deputy Sheriff, on behalf 
 of John Christian, moved for a Judgment ag'st Francis Brown, 
 a deputy also, and Daniel Brown and Wm Christy his Sec'y, 
 for the Amount of the Judg, and Costs obtained ag'st him by 
 Jos. Horton, for the Amount of the Ex'n of the s'd Jos ag'st 
 Adam Bell, received by the s'd Francis, and Judgment is 
 granted 
 
 Ab Dorsey Penticost 
 
 (81) The Court on Considering the Ordinance of Convention for 
 holding a Court in the district of West Augusta without Writ of 
 adjournments from East Augusta, on the third Tuesday in every 
 Month, at such place as they shall appoint, are of Opinion that 
 
568 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 by such Ordinance they are a separate and distinct County and 
 Court from that of East Augusta, and they do appoint Dorsey 
 Penticost, Esqr., there Clerk for this Court, to which John 
 Madison, Jun'r deputy Clerk, on behalf of John Madison, Clerk 
 of the County, objected to the appointment, alledging that 
 they had no right so to do till the division of the County, look- 
 ing upon him as Clerk of East Augusta and the district of West 
 Augusta till a division is made by an Ordinance of Convention. 
 
 Ord that John Madison, Jun' r deputy Clerk, in whose Cus- 
 tody the records of the adjorned Court for this district are, is 
 ordered to deliver them to this Court on the 25th of October 
 next. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjorned until the Court in 
 Course. Edw'd Ward. 
 
 At a Court held for the district of West Augusta at Augusta 
 Town, November 19, 1776 : 
 
 Present, Edward Ward, John McColloch, John Cannon, 
 William Goe, David Shepherd. 
 
 Thomas Glenn, who was bound by recog to Appear at the 
 Grand jury Court, appeared, and was Ord to be prosecuted 
 for beating his Serv't. No prosecutor or Witnesses appearing, 
 it is ordered that he be discharged. 
 
 Ord that the Court be adjorned until to Morrow Morning 8 
 o'clock Edw'd Ward. 
 
 At a Court Cont'd and held for the district of West Augusta 
 County, November the 20th, 1776 : 
 
 Present, Edward Ward, John McColloch, John Cannon, 
 David Shepherd, 
 
 Capt'n Wm. Christy prod a Com of Capt'n of a Comp'y of 
 Militia, took the Oath required by Ordinance of Convention 
 O C'd. 
 
 Leiut Jacob Bousman, the same 
 
 Ensign Hugh Smith. 
 
 [Here the minutes of this court end.] 
 
Publications of the Carnegie Museum Serial No. 
 
 20 
 
 ANNALS 
 
 CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
 
 Vol. II. No. 1 
 
 W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., LL.D., Editor 
 J. B. HATCHER, Ph.B., Associate Editor 
 
 Published by the Authority of the 
 
 Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute 
 
 June, 1903 
 
press of 
 
 The New Eba Printing Compaky, 
 
 LANCASTER, Pa. 
 
IV. MINUTE BOOK OF THE VIRGINIA COURT HELD 
 FOR YOHOGANIA COUNTY, FIRST AT AUGUSTA 
 TOWN (NOW WASHINGTON, PA.), AND AFTER- 
 WARDS ON THE ANDREW HEATH FARM 
 NEAR WEST ELIZABETH ; 1776-1780. 
 
 Edited by Boyd Crumrine, of Washington, Pa. 
 
 Introductory. 
 
 The minutes of this court, as well as those of the old Fort Dunmore 
 court printed with an introductory sketch in Vol. L, pp. 505-568 of 
 these Annals, are preserved in several old manuscript volumes of 
 unruled paper, legal-cap size. The entries in these order books were 
 evidently written hastily by the official clerks during the sessions of the 
 court, accounting for the misspelling of many proper names and other 
 words, and for frequent illegibility. They may have been intended 
 to be copied out at length in the more formal records of the court 
 proceedings ; but it is possible that, as the courts themselves as well 
 as the Virginia territorial jurisdictions ceased to exist after the final 
 running of the southern and western boundary lines, no other and 
 more regular transcript of the orders was ever made, and that the 
 records now published are the only ones in existence containing the 
 judicial business of these ancient courts. 
 
 These records are accurately copied, when at all legible, as spelled 
 and capitalized in the original ; even the punctuation is unchanged 
 except now and then when thought to be absolutely necessary for in- 
 telligibility. For it is believed that when the details of local history 
 are given, for the subsequent use of the general historian, this literal- 
 ness of transcription gives color and strength to local incidents. So 
 when one meets in old records with the name James Swolevan, he is 
 interested in determining that the name must have been that of plain 
 James Sullivan. And shall we say that the name ' ' Worshington ' ' 
 was not ' ' Washington ' ' ? 
 
 71 
 
72 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Attention is called to the efforts made, as disclosed in the proceed- 
 ings of the Court of Yohogania County now published, to have the 
 oath of allegiance to the State of Virginia administered to all the in- 
 habitants of the Monongahela and Ohio valleys, within the limits of 
 the actually exercised jurisdiction of Westmoreland County, Pennsyl- 
 vania. 1 
 
 Why are the records of these old Virginia courts found in the vaults 
 of the court-house of Washington County, Pennsylvania ? A reply to 
 this question may be made as follows : 
 
 On March i, 1780, just before the final ratification by Pennsyl- 
 vania and Virginia of the agreement at the Baltimore Conference, on 
 the establishment of the boundary lines between the two states, and 
 whilst all the territory of Washington, Allegheny, Fayette and Greene 
 counties and of that part of Beaver county south of the Ohio River still 
 formed part of Westmoreland County, erected in 1773, the legislature 
 of Pennsylvania, "first of all the states," says III. Bryant's Hist, of 
 U. S., 177, passed an act for the gradual emancipation of all the 
 slaves within its jurisdiction. 2 And on March 21, 1781, Washington 
 County was erected, the first new County out of old Westmoreland. 
 Then on April 13, 1782, less than two years after the Virginia courts had 
 ceased to be held within the limits of Pennsylvania, and still before the 
 boundary lines had been actually run on the ground, an act was passed 
 by the general assembly of Pennsylvania, entitled " An Act to redress 
 certain grievances within the Counties of Westmoreland and Wash- 
 ington." 3 The preamble to this act recited : 
 
 " Whereas a number of the inhabitants of Westmoreland and Wash- 
 ington counties have represented to the General Assembly that they 
 labor under many inconveniences by reason that Before the Boundary 
 was agreed to between the States of Virginia and Pennsylvania, many 
 of the inhabitants aforesaid, conceiving themselves under the jurisdic- 
 tion of Virginia, which exercised judicial authority over them, had 
 taken and subscribed the oath of Allegiance and Fidelity as prescribed by 
 the laws and the usages of the said State, [and] are considered in many 
 respects as not entitled to all the rights of free citizens of this State ; 
 and but for the reason above mentioned they have had no opportunity 
 
 >S</e the ( )rder of Court on August 26, 1777, and 9 Henning's Statutes 281. 
 
 2 See Act of March 1, 1780, II. Carey & Bioren, 246; I. Dall. L., 838; I 
 Smith's L., 492. 
 
 3 This act is not found at length in any of the editions of our Pennsylvania laws, 
 but sec it noted as obsolete in I. Dall. L., p. 55. 
 
Minutes op Court of Yohogania County. 73 
 
 of entering or registering their slaves agreeable to the Act of Assembly 
 of this State for the gradual Abolition of slavery ; and that a number 
 of the records and papers containing the proceedings of the late 
 counties of Yohogania, Monongalia and Ohio are now in the' hands of 
 the late Clerks, who are not authorized to give exemplied copies 
 thereof: " 
 
 Then followed enacting sections providing that all the inhabitants 
 of Westmoreland and Washington counties, whose names should be 
 found in the records thereinafter mentioned, having and producing to 
 the clerks of the General Quarter Sessions of the said counties respec- 
 tively " certified copies or certificates of their having taken the Oath of 
 Allegiance and Fidelity to the State of Virginia before the said Bound- 
 ary was agreed to, shall be and they are hereby declared to be to all in- 
 tents and purposes free citizens of this state ; " and further providing 
 that all such inhabitants " who were on the 23rd day of Sept., 1780, 1 
 possessed of Negro or Mulatto slaves or servants until the age of thirty 
 one years, ' ' might register such slaves or servants under said act for 
 the gradual abolition of slavery, "on or before the 1st day of January 
 next ; and the said master or masters, owner or owners of such slaves 
 or servants shall be entitled to his or their services as by the said act 
 is directed, and the said slaves and servants shall be entitled to all 
 benefits and immunities in the said act contained and expressed." 
 Then followed the final section : 
 
 "And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the 
 Clerks of the Orphans' Courts, the Registers of the probates of Wills 
 and granting letters of administration, and the Recorders of Deeds, 
 for the respective counties of Westmoreland and Washington aforesaid, 
 shall be authorized and empowered to call on the late clerks of the 
 said counties of Yohogania, Monongalia and Ohio, for all such papers 
 and records in their custody or possession, which relate to or affect 
 the taking of the oath or affirmation of Allegiance, the probates of 
 wills, granting letters of administration, and the Recording of Deeds 
 or other indentures of Bargain and Sale, of any of the inhabitants of 
 the said counties of Westmoreland and Washington, and when they 
 shall receive all or any part of the said papers and records as aforesaid 
 they shall be lodged within their respective offices and become part of 
 the records of said counties ; and the said Clerks are hereby required 
 
 1 The day of the final ratification by Pennsylvania of the final agreement for the 
 boundary lines ; VIII. Penna. Archives, 570. 
 
74 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 and enjoined on demand as aforesaid to deliver up intire and indefaced 
 all such papers and records as aforesaid, and in case they or either of 
 them shall refuse or neglect to deliver up the papers and records in 
 manner and form aforesaid, they or either of them so neglecting or 
 refusing shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred pounds, to be 
 recovered by action of debt in any court of Common Pleas within this 
 Commonwealth, for the use of the same. 
 
 " Signed by order of the House, 
 
 " Fred' k A. Muhlenburg, Speaker." 
 
 Monongalia and Ohio counties, Virginia, did not become extinct, 
 but were pushed out of Pennsylvania by the boundary lines established, 
 and carried their records with them. The records of the courts at 
 Fort Dunmore and for Yohogania County, thus became a part of the 
 official records of Washington County, Pennsylvania. 
 
 By reference to the record of the formal organization of the old Fort 
 Dunmore court, Vol. I., p. 525 of these Annals, it is seen that that 
 court was constituted under "His Majesties Writ," issued by Lord 
 Dunmore, "for adjorning the County Court of Augusta from the Town 
 of Staunton to Fort Dunmore, and with a new Commission of the 
 Peace, ' ' which included George Croghan and fourteen others named 
 after him, all of whom resided in the Monongahela and Ohio valleys, 
 as "Gentlemen, Justices." The creation of that court was by the 
 will of King George as expressed by his colonial representative, Lord 
 Dunmore. But there came a time when His Majesty's writs by whom- 
 soever issued were inoperative west of the Alleghenies, as well as east 
 of them to the Atlantic; and, as noted briefly on p. 520, Vol. I. of 
 these Annals, the legislature of Virginia, now become an independent 
 commonwealth, in October, 1776, passed An Act for ascertaining the 
 boundary between the County of Augusta and the District of West 
 Augusta, and for dividing the said District into three district Counties. 
 
 This act, to be found at length by the reference in the note, 1 estab- 
 lished the southern boundaries of the District of West Augusta, and 
 proceeded : 
 
 ' 'And to render the benefits of government and administration of 
 justice more easy and convenient to the people of said District, Be it 
 enacted, &c. , That from and after the 8th day of November next en- 
 
 1 Chapter XLV., 9 Henning's Statutes, 262. See our map of the District of West 
 Augusta, facing p. 518, Vol. I. of these Annals. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 75 
 
 suing all that part of said District lying within the following lines, to 
 wit : Beginning at the mouth of Cross Creek, thence up the same 
 to the head thereof, thence southeastwardly to the nearest part of the 
 ridge which divides the waters of the Ohio from those of the Mononga- 
 hela, thence along the said ridge to the line which divides the county 
 of Augusta from the said District, thence with the said Boundary to 
 the Ohio, thence up the same to the beginning, shall be one distinct 
 county and be called and known by the name of Ohio County. 
 
 "And all that part of the said District lying to the northward of 
 the following lines, viz : Beginning at the mouth of Cross Creek, and 
 running up its several courses to the head thereof, thence southeast- 
 wardly to the nearest part of the aforesaid dividing ridge between the 
 waters of the Monongahela and Ohio, thence along the said ridge to 
 the head of Ten Mile Creek, thence east to the road leading from Cat- 
 fish-Camp to Redstone Old Fort, thence along the said road to the 
 Monongahela River to the said Fort, thence along Dunlap's old road to 
 Braddock's road and with the same to the meridian of the head foun- 
 tain of the Potowmack, shall be one other distinct county and shall be 
 called and known by the name of Yohogania County. 
 
 ' ' And all that part of the said District lying to the northward of the 
 county of Augusta, to the westward of the meridian of the head foun- 
 tain of the Potowmack, to the southward of the county of Yohogania, 
 and to the eastward of the county of Ohio shall be one other distinct 
 county, and shall be called and known by the name of the County of 
 Monongalia. 
 
 " And for the administration of justice in the said counties of Ohio, 
 Yohogania and Monongalia, after the same shall take place, Be it en- 
 acted, &c, That after the said 8th day of November, courts shall be 
 constantly held every month by the Justices of the respective Counties, 
 upon the days hereafter specified for each county respectively, that is 
 to say : For the County of Ohio, on the first Monday, for the County 
 of Monongalia on the second Monday, and for the County of Yoho- 
 gania on the fourth Monday in every month, and in such manner as 
 by the laws of this Commonwealth is provided for other Counties, and 
 as shall be by their Commission directed." ' 
 
 A subsequent .section of this Virginia statute provided that the court 
 of Yohogania County should have jurisdiction to hear and determine 
 all actions and suits, both at law and in equity, which should be 
 
 1 See Crumrine' s ' ' History of Washington County, " p. 183 and notes. 
 
76 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 ' ' depending ' ' before the Court of West Augusta at the time the said 
 jurisdiction should take place. And it was further enacted, 1 that the 
 landholders of the said counties, respectively, should meet on the 8th 
 day of December next, those of the County of Yohogania "at the house 
 of Andrew Heath, on the Monongahela ' ' ; those of the County of 
 Monongalia " at the house of Jonathan Corbin [Coburn] in the said 
 county" ; and those of the County of Ohio "at the house of Ezekiel 
 Dewit in the said County," then and there to choose the place of hold- 
 ing courts for their respective counties. 
 
 Jonathan Coburn lived about ten miles southeast of New Geneva, in 
 what is now Fayette County, and the place chosen for holding the 
 courts of Monongalia County was the plantation of Theophilus Philips, 
 ahout two miles above New Geneva, on the upper Monongahela, and 
 here the courts of that county were held until the establishment of the 
 boundary line, when, to get them out of Pennsylvania, they were 
 removed to the plantation of Zachwell Morgan, afterwards Morgan- 
 town ; but the early records of this court were lost in the burning of 
 the court-house at Morgantown in 1796. The place chosen by the 
 landholders of Ohio County for the holding of the court for that 
 county was Black's Cabin, on Short Creek, now West Liberty, West 
 Va. , and the first court held there was on January 6, 1777. There 
 these courts continued to be held until 1797, when they were removed 
 to Wheeling. 
 
 Whether the election required to be held on December 8, 1776, at 
 the house of Andrew Heath (near what is now West Elizabeth, Alle- 
 gheny County, Pa.), to choose a place for holding the court for Yoho- 
 gania County, was held at the time and place appointed is not known ; 
 but, whatever the fact, there is now room for the belief, from a more 
 careful study of the records of that court here produced, that, from 
 its first session on December 23, 1776, until on August 25, 1777, when 
 it was ordered ' ' That the court be adjourned to the house now occu- 
 pied by Andrew Heath," the court for Yohogania County continued 
 to be held at Augusta Town, now Washington, Pa., and that it was 
 then removed to its new and last place of holding on the Mononga- 
 hela. 
 
 We now submit to the student of western Pennsylvania history a 
 full verbatim transcript of the records of the long since extinct court 
 of Yohogania County, to be illustrated hereafter, it is hoped, by a col- 
 lection of explanatory notes, identifying persons and places mentioned. 
 
 1 2 Henning's Statutes, 264, 265. 
 
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 Signatures of the Virginia Judges. 
 
78 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Organization; First Day's Business. 
 (i) 1 Yohogania County, Dec. 23, 1776. 
 
 In consequence of an Act of the General Assembly of Vir- 
 ginia putting off all that part of the District of West Augusta 
 Northward of the following bounds or lines (viz : ) Beginning at 
 the mouth of Cross Creek, running up the several courses 
 thereof to the head ; Thence South-Easterly to the nearest 
 part of the dividing ridge Between the Ohio and the Monon- 
 gahela Rivers, Thence along the said Dividing Ridge to the 
 head of Ten Mile creek, Thence East to the road leading from 
 Catfish camp to Redstone Old Fort, Thence with the said road 
 to the Monongahela River, Thence across the said River to the 
 said Fort, Thence along Dunlap's old road to Braddock's 
 Road, and with said road to the meridian of Potowmac River, 
 — and a Commission of the Peace and a Commission of Oyer 
 and Terminer, Directed to John Campbell, Edward Ward, 
 Thomas Smallman, Dorsey Pentecost, John Gibson, William 
 Crawford, John Stephenson, John Cannon, George Vallanding- 
 ham, William Goe, John Neaville, Isaac Cox, John McDowell, 
 Richard Yeates, John McDaniel, George McCormick, Philip 
 Ross, Benjamin KirKindall, William Harrison, Samuel Newell, 
 Thomas Brown, Thomas Freeman, John De Compt, Joshua 
 Wright, Oliver Miller, Benjamin Frye, Matthew Richie, An- 
 drew Swearingen, Jacob Haymaker, Benjamin Harrison, and 
 Zachariah Connell ; Also a Dedimus Potestatum, directed to 
 William Goe, John Neaville and Isaac Cox, or any two of 
 them, to administer the oath prescribed by law to John Camp- 
 bell, Edward Ward, Thomas Smallman, Dorsey Pentecost, 
 John Gibson, John Cannon and George Vallandingham, or 
 any two of them, and they to administer the aforesaid oath to 
 the aforesaid Justices. 
 
 Whereupon the aforesaid William Goe and Isaac Cox ad- 
 ministered the aforesaid oath to the aforesaid Dorsey Pente- 
 cost, who thereupon did administer the aforesaid oath to the 
 aforesaid Richard Yeates, George McCormick, Benjamin Kir- 
 Kindall, Samuel Newell, William Goe, Isaac Cox, Thomas 
 Freeman, Joshua Wright, Oliver Miller, Benjamin Frye, Mat- 
 thew Richie, Andrew Swearingen and John Cannon, as Justices 
 of the Peace. 
 1 The marginal figures in ( ) represent the original paging of these records. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 79 
 
 The court then proceeded to the election of their clerk, 
 (2) whereupon the said Dorsey Pentecost Esquire was unanimously 
 chosen and appointed their Clerk, and ordered to take charge 
 of their rolls. 
 
 Dorsey Pentecost took the oath Prescribed by Law as Clerk 
 of this court. 
 
 The court demanded the Records and Papers from John 
 Madison, Junior, Deputy Clerk of East Augusta, in whose cus- 
 tody they are, Which he Peremptorily refused, Notwithstanding 
 he confessed he had seen an Act of assembly directing him so 
 to do. 
 
 Edward Ward, gentleman, came into court and prayed that 
 the court would receive his reasons for refusing to act as Sheriff 
 of this county, which was granted and were as follows : — That 
 he cannot think of acting as Sheriff, or appointing any under 
 Sheriffs, until the line Between the States of Virginia and 
 Pennsylvania are fixed or limited, for on the North Eastern 
 Bounds of this County There is still a Door open for dispute 
 and Contintion, which has been heretofore the cause of Dis- 
 turbing the Peace of the People Settled and claiming alter- 
 nately The Jurisdiction of each Government, and before he 
 can think of acting or any Person under him, he proposes pray- 
 ing the General Assembly to have a Temporary line fixed be- 
 tween them, or the limits of Pennsylvania run, or the Govern- 
 ment of Virginia Peremptorily running the same, until which 
 is done he cannot think of acting in any state or Government 
 to Infringe on the reserved rights of his fellow subjects ; he 
 further assures that when Government has this done, he is ready 
 to act with Cheerfulness, and if this Cannot be done he begs 
 that the Court will Recommend some other gentleman to his 
 Excellency to serve as sheriff, — and hopes the Court will 
 acquiesce in Promoting the having the above bounds ascer- 
 tained ; and further offers to qualify into the Commission of 
 the Peace. 
 
 The Court is of opinion that the said Edward Ward, gentle- 
 man, may be Permitted to Qualify into the Commission of the 
 Peace, they being of opinion that he is no sheriff untill he 
 (3) enters into Bond before this Court, and comply with the Tin- 
 ner of his Commission as Sheriff ; Whereupon the said Edward 
 
80 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ward came into Court and took the oath of a Justice of the 
 Peace. 
 
 The Court is of opinion that Joshua Wright Gentleman is a 
 proper person to be recommended to his Excellency the Gover- 
 nor to serve as Sheriff, the whole of the above gentlemen 
 named in the Commission of the Peace who are qualified refus- 
 ing to act in said office on account of the great difficulty they 
 apprehend will attend the execution of said office until such 
 time as a line is fixed Between this Commonwealth and the 
 state of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Brice Virgin is appointed Constable to serve the Insuing 
 year and that he be Summoned before Richard Yeates Gentle- 
 man to be qualified into said office. 
 
 Richard Elson is appointed constable to serve the Insuing 
 year, and that he be summoned before Isaac Cox, Gentleman, 
 to Qualify into said office. 
 
 William Lankford is appointed Constable to serve the Ensu- 
 ing year and that he be summoned before Matthew Richie 
 Gentleman to be Qualified into said office, as also 
 
 John Alexander is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing 
 year, and that he be summoned before Matthew Richie Gentle- 
 man to Qualify into said office. 
 
 Samuel Clerk is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing 
 year, and that he be summoned before William Goe, Gentle- 
 man to Qualify in said office. 
 
 Samuel Griffith is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing 
 year, and that he be summoned before William Goe Gentleman 
 to qualify into said office. 
 
 Isaac Sparks is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing 
 year, and that he be summoned before Thomas Freeman, 
 Gentleman to Qualify into said office. 
 
 Also John Brown, James Buorass, Matthew Hays, 
 
 Bradley is appointed Constables to serve the Ensuing year, and 
 that they be summoned before Edward Ward, Gentleman to 
 Qualify into said office. 
 
 William Gaston is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing 
 (4) year, and that he be summoned before Andrew Swearingen, 
 Gentleman to Qualify into said office. 
 
 Wm Hays is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing year 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 81 
 
 and that he be Summoned before John Cannon, Gentleman to 
 be Qualified into said office. 
 
 John Johnston is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing 
 year, and that he be summoned before Joshua Wright Gentle- 
 man to Qualify into said Office. 
 
 Josiah Orsborn and Philip Philips is appointed to Serve as 
 Constables the Ensuing year, and that they be summoned before 
 Samuel Newell Gentleman to Qualify into said office. 
 
 Andrew Dye & Peter Austurges is appointed Constables to 
 Serve the Ensuing year, and that they be summoned before 
 Benjamin Frye, Gentleman to Qualify into said Office. 
 
 John Beans is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing year, 
 and that he be summoned before Oliver Miller, Gentleman to 
 Qualify into said office. 
 
 Ordered that Dorsey Penticost Esquire be recommended to 
 his Excellency the Governor as a proper Person to have the 
 Command of the Melitia of this County ; and that John Cannon 
 be a proper Person to be recommended as Colonel of the said 
 Melitia ; Isaac Cox be recommended as Leutenant Colonel of 
 said Melitia, and Henry Taylor, Major of said Melitia. 
 
 Ordered that the Clerk forward a letter to his Excellency & 
 Council, notifying the general dissatisfaction of the people of 
 this County against the late Election 1 being held on the Sabath 
 day, the short notice of the said election, and of the Inconveni- 
 ency of the Bounds circumscribing the said County. 
 
 Whereas by an act of the General Assembly the Suits &c 
 brought and Instituted in the Court of the District of West 
 Augusta are directed to be determined in this Court, and the 
 Papers and Records relative thereto are now in the hands of 
 John Maddison, Junior, Deputy Clerk of East Augusta, who 
 hath this day been Called upon to deliver the said Papers and 
 records to this Court, which he, the said John Maddison, in 
 (5) contempt of the said Act and the demands of this Court refuses 
 to deliver, to the manifest Injury of Individuals and evident 
 hurt of the Publick : Ordered, therefore, that a Process be 
 Issued to apprehend the said John Maddison and forthwith 
 bring him before this Court to answer the above misdemeanor. 
 
 Court adjourned until Court in Course. Edw? Ward. 
 
 1 This was perhaps the election held on December 8, to choose a place for holding 
 the court. 
 
82 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Court met on Monday the 28th of April 1777, according to 
 adjournment to Court in Course. 
 
 Present : Edward Ward, John Cannon, John McDowell, 
 Richard Yeates, Benjamin Kirkindall, Joshua Wright, Oliver 
 Miller and Andrew Swearingen, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 On the Court's meeting and the Sheriff's Commission not 
 coming to Mr. Joshua Wright, agreable to recommendation of 
 the Court and notwithstanding Colonel Penticost's letter to 
 Colonel Cannon, Insuring him he had a Sheriffs Commission 
 for Mr. Wright, he refused to act Protempory. Therefore the 
 Court was reduced to the necessity of appointing another, as 
 there was an Election to be held for a Senitor and Delegates, 
 and a Criminal to be tried and other Breeches of the Peice. 
 
 The question being first put to Mr. Joshua Wright, to be ap- 
 pointed Protempory, and he refused, notwithstanding his hear- 
 ing of the Commission as aforesaid ; but said if his commission 
 had came to this Court he would have sworn into said Office. — 
 The Question then being put to the rest of the Court, who 
 would serve as Sheriff, and all refused to, Except Mr. William 
 Harrison, who agreed to be appointed, and the Court unani- 
 mously agreed that the said Mr. Harrison be recommended as 
 a proper Person for Sheriff and Mr. Joshua W right concurd 
 with the Court. 
 
 The Court is of the opinion that William Harrison, Samuel 
 Newell and Thomas Freeman are proper persons to be recom- 
 mended for Sheriffs the Insuing year. 
 
 William Harrison came into Court and took the oath as 
 Sheriff. 
 (6) Court adjourned Tuesday 7 O'Clock. 9 
 
 Court met according to adjournment. 
 
 Present : Edward Ward, John Cannon, John McDowell, 
 Richard Yeates, Benjaman Kirkindall, Joshua Wright, Oliver 
 Miller, Andrew Swearingen, Gentleman Justices. 
 
 Zacheriah Connell came into Court and took the oath of 
 Justice of the Piece. 
 
 The Court Still Labouring under great difficulty for the want 
 of a Clerk, as Colonel Dorsey Penticost our former Clerk lying 
 
 8 7 o'clock ! 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 83 
 
 in Baltimore in the Small Pox. The Court then applied to 
 Mr. James Innis, who the said Colonel Penticost had appointed 
 to serve as Clerk in his absence, and when application was made 
 to said Mr. Innis, he refused to attend the Court ; his answer 
 was that he only agread to 'attend the March Court — upon 
 which the Court Choose Mr. Isaac Cox for their Clerk who 
 Came into Court and swore into said Office. 
 
 Zachariah Connell, William Lee and Andrew Heth came 
 into Court and took the Oath of Captains of the Militia. 
 
 John Cannon Came into Court and took the Oath as Colonel 
 of the Melitia. 
 
 Henry Taylor came into Court and took the oath of Major of 
 the Melitia. 
 
 Joshua Wright was applied to by the Court to Swear into his 
 Captain's commission, but he refused as he was a Leiutenant of 
 a former Nominal Company. 
 
 John Meligan being charged with Felloniously Murdering 
 William Guttery and being Convicted for the same, was 
 brought into Court, and he acknowledged he was guilty of the 
 Crime he stod charged with, and the Court is of Opinion that 
 the said Crimminal for said fellony ought to be sent to the 
 general Court for farther Trial. 
 
 John Melony and Samson Beavers, Securities for Joseph 
 Ross, for his appearance at the Court, as by his recognizance 
 appears, came into the Court and delivered said Ross to the 
 Court, and after the Court had heared the Complaint, was fined 
 twenty five Shellings for swearing four Blasfemous Oaths before 
 John Cannon, one before John Johnston — and ordered that 
 ( 7 ) the said Ross give Security for his better Behavior For one 
 year and one day. 
 
 John Melony came into Court and agreed to be security for 
 Joseph Ross's keeping the Piece and better Behavior to the 
 Subjects of the Common Wealth, and esspecially to Colonel 
 John Cannon, whome he had threatened to abuse the first opper- 
 tunity. The said security bound in the sum of one Hundred 
 pounds. 
 
 Upon the Petition of Benjaman Jones ordered that John 
 Bennitt be summoned to Bring a Boy Claimed by the said 
 Jones to the Next Court. 
 
84 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Samson Beavers come into Court and entered Security for 
 the payment of twenty five Shellings at the laying of the Next 
 Parrish Levey, it being Joseph Ross's fine for swearing. 
 
 Court is adjourned untill Wednesday 8 Oclock. 
 
 Court met according to adjournment. 
 
 Present : Edward Ward, John Cannon, Oliver Miller and 
 Zacheriah Connell, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 The Sheriff came into Court and gave Bond and Security 
 for the true performance of the said office. 
 
 John Crow being charged with Breach of the piece, ordered 
 that the said Crow give Security for his Better behavior towards 
 all the Subjects of the Common Wealth, and Especially to Joseph 
 Ross for a year and one day. Henry Taylor and James 
 Austurges enter Security for the same, bound in the sum of one 
 Hundred pounds. 
 
 Ordered that the Clerk furnish the Sheriff with all papers 
 necessary for the Tryal of John Milligan at the General Court. 
 
 Ordered that the Clerk send down the recommendation for 
 William Harrison to be Sheriff. 
 
 Ordered that the Clerk send down by Mr. William Harrison 
 all proceedings of the Court relative to the appointment of the 
 Sheriff and Clerk. 
 
 Patrick McGey, Thomas Smyth and James Furgurson being 
 Convicted for Breaches of the piece — Ordered that the said 
 Patrick McGey, Thomas Smyth and James Furgurson give 
 Security to each other, for their better Behaviour for the Space 
 of one year and one day, and also to all the Subjects of the 
 Common Wealth. 
 
 Henry Taylor and John McGey enter Security for Patrick 
 McGey and Thomas Smyth. 
 
 John Crow and David Williams enter Security for James 
 Furgurson. 
 (8) Ordered that Patrick McGey and Thomas Smyth be fined 
 
 the Sum of two pounds each, and that the Sheriff secure the 
 same and pay it to James Furgurson. 
 
 Charles Harrison and William McKee is appointed Constables 
 for the Ensuing year, and that they be Summoned before 
 Zacheriah Connel Gentleman to swear into said office. 
 
 The Court adjourned to Court in Course. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 85 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County May 
 26th, 1777. 
 
 Present : William Crawford, Benjaman Kirkindall, John 
 McDaniel and Oliver Miller, Gentlemen Justices — The afore- 
 said William Crawford and John McDaniel being Previously 
 sworn by the aforesaid Benjaman Kirkindall and Oliver Miller, 
 Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Colo Dorsey Penticost came into Court and beged that the 
 Court would consider the Cause of his not attending their 
 Court at their last meeting — he the said Pentecost, Convinced 
 this Court that it was out of his power to attend, he being at 
 that Time confined in the Small Pox — and prayed the Court 
 to reestablish him in his Office as Clerk of their Court. 
 Colonel Isaac Cox who was appointed Clerk of this Court to 
 succeed him, acquiesing in Said Petition, on the Proviso that 
 his Bonds given the Court for the due performance of his Office 
 be given up or Confiscated ; the Court is therefore of opinion 
 that the Reasons Offered by the said Pentecost for his non- 
 attendance at Last Court is satisfactory and the Court acquiesce 
 with his and Colonel Cox's request. — And it is accordingly 
 ordered that Colonel Cox's Bond be delivered him and he is 
 hereby released therefrom and that the said Pentecost enter 
 into Bond with this Court for the due performance of his Office, 
 and to Take the Charge of the Rolls of this County as Clerk 
 to this Court. 
 
 Colonel Isaac Cox took his seat in Court. 
 (9) Colonel William Crawford absent. 
 
 Thomas Cook came into Court and took the Oath of Captain 
 of the Militia. 
 
 John Muchelhaney is appointed Constable to Serve the Ensu- 
 ing year and that he be Summoned before Benjamin Kirkin- 
 dall, Gentleman, to Qualify into said Office. 
 
 Benjamin Kirkindall (otherwise Called Jorsey Ben) 1 is ap- 
 pointed Constable to Serve the Ensuing year, and that he be 
 Summoned before Oliver Miller, Gentleman, to Qualify into 
 said Office. 
 
 Court adjourned untill Tomorrow 9 O' Clock. 
 
 Isaac Cox. . 
 
 1 Not the Gentleman Justice, but another Benjamin. 
 
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 May the 27th 1777, Court met according" to adjournment. 
 
 Present : Isaac Cox, William Crawford, Oliver Miller, John 
 McDaniel, Benjamin Kirkindall and Benjaman Frye, Gentle- 
 men Justices. 
 
 Upon the Petition of Benjaman Jones exhibited against a 
 certain John Bennitt for unlawfully detaining his son Enoch 
 Jones, an Infant. 
 
 Ordered that the Said John Bennitt deliver the said Boy 
 Enoch Jones unto the said Benjaman Jones, with Such House- 
 hold firniture as he may have, the property of the said Boy 
 Enoch Jones, and the said Benjaman Jones pay the said John 
 Bennitt the Sum of Six pounds on the delivery of the said Boy 
 Enoch Jones, and that the said John Bennitt deliver unto the 
 said Infant, Enoch Jones, when he arrives at the age of Twenty 
 one years, one good Cow and Calf. 
 
 Michael Thorn and Joshua Meeks both come into Court and 
 Took the oath of Captains of the Melitia. 
 
 Ordered — That Zacheriah Connell Gentleman, Take in the 
 List of Tithables in the following Bounds, Viz : — Beginning 
 at the head of Maryland and Extending along Bradock's Road 
 To Thomas Gist, Thence with Froman's Road to Byer's Run, 
 (10) thence down the said Run to Yough River, Thence down the 
 said River to the mouth of Swedley Creek, Thence with said 
 Creek and the Northern bounds of the County to the Begin- 
 ning. 1 
 
 Ordered — That Edward Ward, Gentleman be appointed to 
 Take in the List of Tithables within that part of the County 
 Lying West of Swedley Creek East of the Alleghany River & 
 North of the Monaungahela River. 
 
 Ordered — That William Goe Gentleman be appointed to 
 take in the List of Tithables within the following Bounds, 
 (Vizt) Beginning at William Castleman's on the head of Little 
 Redstone Creek, Thence on a Strait line to the mouth of 
 Worshington's Mill Run, 2 Thence down Yough River To its 
 Junction with Monaungahela River, thence up the said River 
 
 1 At this time there were no townships, in Yohogania County at least, created by 
 statutory authority, as in Pennsylvania. 
 
 2 Doubtless Washington's Mill Run. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania Countv. 87 
 
 Monaungahela to the mouth of Little Redstone Creek, Thence 
 up the said Creek to the aforesaid Willam Castleman's. 
 
 Ordered — Thomas Freeman Gentleman be appointed to Take 
 in the List of Tithables within the following bounds (Vizt) : 
 Within that part of the County Lying Between the Laurel Hill 
 and the Monaungahela River, and between the line of this 
 County and the Monaungahela County and the following Line. 
 Vizt — Beginning at the House of Thomas Gist Esquire and ex- 
 tending Along Froman's Road to Byer's Run, Thence down 
 said Run to Yough River, thence Down said River to the 
 mouth of Worshington's Mill Run. Thence on a Strait-line to 
 the House of William Castleman on the head of Little Redstone 
 Creek, Thence down said Creek to its junction. 
 
 Ordered — That Benjaman Frye Gentleman, be appointed to 
 Take in the List of Tythables, within the following Bounds, 
 Vizt. Beginning at the mouth of Pigion Creek and running 
 up the said Creek to its fountain, Thence a South Course to 
 the South Line of the County, Thence with said Bounds to 
 the Monaungahela River, Thence down the said River to the 
 Beginning. 
 
 Ordered — That Benjaman Kirkindall, Gentleman be ap- 
 ( 1 1 ) pointed to Take in the List of Tithables within the following 
 Bounds (Vizt) Beginning at the mouth of Pigeon Creek and 
 extending up the same to its fountain, Thence a South line to 
 the South bounds of the County, thence with said bounds to 
 the Top of the dividing Ridge Between the waters of the Mo- 
 naungahela River and Chirteers Creek, Thence along said 
 Ridge to the head of Peter's Creek, Thence down the said 
 Creek to the mouth, thence up the Monaungahela River to the 
 Beginning. 
 
 Ordered — That Oliver Miller Gentleman be appointed to 
 take in the List of Tithables within the following Bounds, Vizt. 
 Beginning at the mouth of Peter's Creek and extending up the 
 same to its fountain — thence on a Strait Line to Ezeel John- 
 ston's on Churteer's Creek, thence down the same to its Junc- 
 tion with the Ohio, Thence up the Rivers Ohio and Monaun- 
 gahela to the Beginning. 
 
 Ordered — That Richard Yeates Gentleman, be appointed to 
 take in the list of Tithables within the following Bounds Vizt. 
 
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 Beginning at the mouth of the East fork of Churteers Creek and 
 Extending up the same to Ezekiel Johnston's, Thence on a 
 Strait Line to the head of Peter's Creek, Thence along the 
 dividing ridge between Churteer's Creek and the Monaungahela 
 River to the South line of the County, Thence along said line 
 to the middle or main fork of Churteer's Creek, Thence down 
 said Creek to the place of Beginning. 
 
 Ordered — That Andrew Swearingen Gentleman be appointed 
 to Take in the List of Tithables within the following bounds, 
 (Vizt) Beginning at the mouth of the West fork of Churteer's 
 Creek and Extending up the same to the Top of the deviding 
 ridge Between Churteer's and Cross Creeks, Thence along said 
 Ridge to the South Line of the County, thence along said Line 
 to the Main fork of Churteer's Creek, Thence down the same 
 to the Beginning. 
 
 Ordered — That John McDaniel Gentleman be appointed to 
 take in the List of Tithables within the following Bounds, 
 (Vizt) Beginning at the mouth of the West fork of Churteer's 
 and extending up the Said Fork to the Top of the Dividing 
 Ridge Between Churteer's Creek and Cross and Raccoon 
 (12) Creeks, Thence down the Said ridge to the head of Robertson's 
 run, Thence down the said run to Churteer's Creek, thence up 
 the said Creek to the Beginning. 
 
 Ordered — That Samuel Newell Gentleman be appointed to 
 Take in the List of Tithables within the following Bounds, 
 Vizt — Beginning at the mouth of Churteer's Creek and extend- 
 ing up the same to the mouth of Robertson's run, Thence up 
 said run to Croghan's Line, Thence with said line to Raccon 
 Creek, Thence down said Creek to the Ohio, Thence up said 
 River to the Beginning. 
 
 Ordered — Matthew Richie Gentlemen be appointed to take 
 
 in the List of Tithables within the following Bounds, Vizt. 
 
 Beginning on the Ohio at the mouth of Raccoon Creek, Extend- 
 ing down said River to the mouth of Indian Creek, Thence up 
 the same to its fountain, Thence on a Strait Line to Thomas 
 Rogeres on Raccoon Creek, Thence down the same to the 
 Beginning. 
 
 Ordered — That Isaac Cox Gentleman be appointed to Take 
 in the List of Tithables within the following Bounds, (Vizt) 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 89 
 
 Beginning at the mouth of Cross Creek and extending up the 
 same to the head, thence along the dividing ridge between 
 Cross, Raccoon and Churteer's Creeks to Croghan's line, 
 Thence with said line to Raccoon Creek, Thence up the same 
 to Thomas Rogers's, Thence on a Strait line to the head of 
 Indian Creek, Thence down the Same to Ohio River, Thence 
 with the Said River to the Beginning. 
 
 An Execution Issued by Edward Ward Gentleman against 
 Samuel Ewalt, ordenary keeper, for keeping a disorderly House. 
 The Sheriff returns Executed and five pounds ready to render 
 — Ordered That the Sheriff retain said money in his hands 
 untill the Laying the next Levy. 
 
 Abraham Dale 
 
 vs Debt — Alias Capias. 
 
 Richard Elson 
 
 [2 folios, 4 pages missing] 
 (17) The last Will and Testament of Jacob Lamb deceased was 
 
 proved by the oaths of John Crow and John Wright to of the 
 subscribing Witnesses. George Kintner came into Court and 
 Took the oath of Executor of the Last Will and Testament of 
 Jacob Lamb deceased, and entered into Bond for his perform- 
 ance according to Law with John Crow and John Wright his 
 securities. 
 
 Upon the Representation of Alen Tharp and Wife, that a 
 Certain Michael Humble did forcibly and with a Strong hand 
 Carry away from them, the Complainants, five of their Chil- 
 dren. Ordered — That the said Michael Humble forthwith 
 deliver the said Children to the aforesaid Alen Tharp and Wife. 
 
 Ordered — That the Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow 7 
 Oclock in the forenoon. Isaac Cox. 
 
 June 25th 1777, Court met according to adjournment. 
 
 Present : John Campbell, Isaac Cox, Richard Yeates, Thomas 
 Freeman, Oliver Miller and Zacheriah Connell, Gentlemen, 
 Justices. 
 
 Ordered — That the Sheriff cause to be Erected a pair of 
 Stocks, and a Whiping post in the Court-House yard by next 
 Court. 
 
90 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Upon the information of Zacheriah Connell, Gentleman, 
 That James Johnston did this day swear two profane oaths and 
 two profane Cusses — Ordered, That the said James Johnston 
 be fined Twenty Shillings, Currant money for the same. 
 
 Upon the information of Isaac Gox Gentleman that James 
 Johnston did this day swear three profane Oaths and one pro- 
 fane Curse — ordered, That the said James Johnston be fined 
 Twenty Shillings Currant money for the same. 
 (18) Upon the information of John Campbell Gentleman That 
 
 James Johnston did this day swear four profane oaths, ordered 
 — That the said James Johnston be fined one pound Currant 
 money for the same. 
 
 Ordered — That Richard Yeates and Isaac Leet be appointed 
 to meet two Gentlemen to be appointed by the Court of Mo- 
 naungahela County, at the House of Captain Reason Ver- 
 gin's on the forth day of August Next, to run the line agre- 
 able to Act of Assembly between this County and the said 
 County of Monaungahela. 
 
 Ordered — That Richard Yeates and Isaac Leet be appointed 
 to meet two Gentlemen to be appointed by the Court of Ohio 
 County at the House of William Shearer's, on the head of Cross 
 Creek, on the first day of August next to run the line between 
 this County and the said County of Ohio agreeable to Act of 
 Assembly. 
 
 Ordered — That the Court of Monaungahela be requested 
 to appoint two gentlemen of their County to meet two Gentle- 
 men already appointed by this Court at the House of Captain 
 Reason Vergin's, on the forth day of August next, to run the 
 line Between this County and the said County of Monaunga- 
 hela, agreeable to act of assembly. 
 
 Ordered — That the Court of Ohio County be requested to 
 appoint two Gentlemen of their County to meet two Gentle- 
 men already appointed by this County at the House of William 
 Shearer's, on the head of Cross Creek, on the first day of 
 August next to run the Line between this County and the said 
 County of Ohio agreeable to act of assembly. 
 
 Ordered — That Court be adjourned untill Court in Course. 
 
 Isaac Cox. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 91 
 
 (19) At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County August 
 25th 1777. 
 
 Present : Isaac Cox, Richard Yeates, Thomas Freeman, John 
 McDowell and Zacheriah Connell Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Ordered : That for Conveniency of Seting and Expediting 
 Business, That the Court be adjourned to the House now occu- 
 pied by Andrew Heath. 1 Isaac Cox. 
 
 At the House of Andrew Heath, Court met according to 
 adjournment. 
 
 Present : John Campbell, Isaac Cox, Richard Yeates, 
 Thomas Freeman, John Cannon, John McDowell, John Mc- 
 Daniel and William Goe, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 The last Will and Testiment of Job Robins was proved by 
 the oaths of Joseph Brown and Joseph Sprouce, the two Sub- 
 scribing Witnesses and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Benjaman Custard and Rebekah Robins came into Court and 
 Took the oath of Executors of the Estate of Job Robins de- 
 ceased and entered into Bond with Gabriel Cox and Zadock 
 Wright their Securitys. — 
 
 Ordered — That David Cox, John Trumbo and Thomas 
 Spencer or any two of them being first sworn do appraise the 
 Estate of Job Robins deceased and Return the Inventory to 
 next Court. 
 
 Bargain and Sale, Jonathan Plummer to Henry Heath, was 
 acknowledged by the said Jonathan Plummer party thereto and 
 ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Zachariah Connell Gent, Plaintiff 
 
 vs In Case 
 
 Samuel Wells, Defendant 
 (20) This day the plaintiff by his attorney, and Edmond Lindsey 
 
 personally appeared in Court and undertook for the said De- 
 fendant, That in Case he shall be Cast in this Suit that he 
 shall pay and satisfie the condemnation of the Court or render 
 his Body to Prison in Execution for the same or that he the 
 said Edmond Lindsey will do it for him, whereupon the said 
 Defendant prays and hath leave to Imparle untill next Court 
 and then to plead. 
 1 Had the court theretofore been held at Augusta Town ? 
 
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 Jacob Bauseman produced a Commission as Captain of the 
 Melitia which being read, The said Jacob Bauseman Came into 
 Court and Took the Oath of Captain of the Melitia. 
 
 George Vallandingham, Gentleman named in the Commis- 
 sion of the piece Came into Court and took the Oath of Jus- 
 tice of the Piece. 
 
 Edward Ward, Gent., Plant 
 
 vs In Case 
 
 Joseph Wells, Defendant 
 
 This day came the plaintiff by his attorney, and Thomas 
 Freeman Gentleman, personally appeared in Court and under- 
 took for the Defendant that in Case shall be Cast in this Suit, 
 that he shall pay and Satisfie the Condemnation of the Court 
 or render his Body to Prison in Execution for the same, or 
 that he, the said Thomas Freeman will do it for him, where- 
 upon the said Defendant prays and hath leave to Imparl untill 
 next Court and then to plead 
 
 Walter Buscoe Plaintiff 
 
 vs. In Case 
 
 Edward Todd, Defendant 
 (21) This day came the plaintiff by his attorney, and Joseph 
 
 Wells Personally appeared in Court and undertook for the 
 said defendant that in Case he shall be Cast in this Suit that he 
 shall pay and Satisfie the Condemnation of the Court or render 
 his Body to Prison in Execution for the Same or that he the 
 said Joseph Wells do it for him. Whereupon the Defendant 
 prays and hath leave to Imparle untill next Court and then 
 to plead. 
 
 Isaac Leet Came into Court and Took the oath of Deputy 
 Sheriff. 
 
 Ordered that John James ^'ood be appointed Constable to 
 serve the Ensuing year and that he be sommened before Wil- 
 liam Goe, Gentleman, to Qualify into said Office. 
 
 Ordered — That Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow morn- 
 ing Six O'Clock. 1 John Campbell. 
 
 August 26th 1777. Court met according to adjournment. 
 Present : John Campbell, John McDowell, Isaac Cox, 
 1 6 o'clock ! 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 93 
 
 Richard Yeates, John McDaniel, William Goe, Zacheriah 
 Connell, George Vallandingham, Thomas Freeman and John 
 Cannon, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 David McClure by his attorney Complains that Sarah Bres- 
 ling an Indented Servant was delivered of a Bastard Child 
 within her said Time of Service and the said Sarah Bresling 
 being Called Came into Court and Confessed to the Charge. 
 It is thereupon Ordered by the Court that the said Sarah 
 Bresling doth serve her said Master the Term of one whole 
 Year from the tenth day of October Next (being the expiration 
 of her service by Indenture) to reemburs her said Master for 
 his Loss and Trouble for the same — or that she pay her Mas- 
 ter the sum of one Thousand Pounds of Tobacco in Leu of 
 said Service. 
 
 Bargain and Sale. Dorsey Pentecost to Samuel and Robert 
 (22) Purviance for Three Hundred and fifty two acres of Land 
 acknowledged by said Pentecost, party thereto and ordered to 
 be recorded. 
 
 Bargain and Sale from Dorsey Pentecost to Samuel and 
 Robert Purviance, acknowledged by said Pentecost party 
 thereto and ordered to be recorded for four hundred and Six 
 acres of Land. 
 
 Bargain and Sale from Dorsey Pentecost to Samuel and 
 Robert Purviance for three Hundred and Seven acres of Land. 
 Acknowledged by said Pentecost, party thereto, and ordered 
 to be recorded. 
 
 Bargain and Sale from Dorsey Pentecost to Samuel and 
 Robert Purviance for one Hundred & Sixty three acres of 
 Land. Acknowledged by said Pentecost, Party thereto and 
 ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Bargain and Sale. Dorsey Pentecost to Jesse Hollingsworth 
 for five Hundred and fifty one acres of Land, acknowledged 
 by Said Pentecost, party thereto and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Edward Ward, Gent, Plaintiff 
 
 against In Case 
 
 Richard Dunn, Defendant 
 
 This day came the Plaintiff by his attorney, and Patrick 
 MuckElroy Personally appeared in Court and undertook for the 
 
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 said Defendant, that in Case he should by Cast in this Suit 
 that he Shall pay and Satisfie the Condemnation of the Court 
 or render his Body to Prison in Execution for the same, or that 
 he, the said Patrick MuckElroy will do it for him, whereupon 
 the said Defendant prays and hath Leave to Imparl untill next 
 Court and then to plead. 
 
 Joseph Wells is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing 
 year. Whereupon the said Joseph Came into Court and Took 
 the Oath of a Constable. 
 
 Oliver Miller Gentleman, Justice Present. 
 (23) Upon the Petition of Paul Froman, Setting forth that he is 
 
 desirous of Building a Water Mill on Mingo Creek at the 
 mouth Thereof; and praying an order to view and Condimn 
 one Acre of Land on the opposite Side from said Froman' s 
 Land for that Purpose, 
 
 Ordered — That the Sheriff be Commanded to Sommon 
 twelve Freeholders of his Vissinage to meet on the aforesaid 
 land and they being first Sworn Shall diligintly View and Ex- 
 amine the said Land which shall be Effected or Laid under 
 Water by the Building Said Mill with the Timber and other 
 conveniences thereon, and that they report the same to Next 
 Court with the True Value of said acre of Land Petitioned for 
 and of the Damages done the Party holding the same. 
 
 William Brashers produced a Bond Payable from Thomas 
 Hamilton to Andrew Swearingen for five hundred pounds Cur- 
 rant Money with a Condition to deliver to this Court the Body 
 of a Certain Robert Hamilton, which he hath not fulfilled. 
 
 Ordered — That the said Bond be put in Suit against the 
 said Thomas Hamilton. 
 
 Ordered : That the following Gentlemen be Appointed to 
 make a Tour of the Different Districts hereafter mentioned, and 
 Tender the Oath of Allegience and Fidelity to this Common 
 Wealth to all free Male Inhabitants, agreable to an Act of 
 Assembly Intitled an act to oblige all the free Male Inhabitants 
 above a Certain age to give assurance of allegience to this 
 state and for other purposes, Therein Mentioned. 1 
 
 Ordered — That Matthew Richie, Gentleman, be appointed 
 
 1 For the act itself see 9 Hening 281. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 95 
 
 for the above purpose within the following Bounds, Vizt : — 
 Beginning at the mouth of Cross Creek and up the same to the 
 Dividing ridge Between said Creek, Raccoon and Churteer's 
 Creeks ; thence along said Ridge to Croghan's Line ; thence 
 with said Line to Raccoon Creek ; thence up the same to 
 Thomas Rogers's ; thence on Strait Line to the head of Indian 
 Creek ; thence down the same to the Ohio ; thence down the 
 said River Ohio to the Beginning. 
 24) Ordered: — That Samuel Newell, Gentleman, be appointed 
 
 for the above purpose within the following Bounds, Vizt : — 
 Beginning at the mouth of Churteer's Creek, extending up the 
 same to the mouth of Robertson's run ; thence up the said Run 
 to Croghan's Line ; thence with said Line to Raccoon Creek; 
 thence down Said Creek to the Ohio ; thence up the same to 
 the Beginning. 
 
 Ordered : — That John McDaniel, Gentleman, be appointed 
 for the above purpose within the following Bounds, Viz : 
 Beginning at the mouth of the West fork of Churteer's Creek, 
 Extending up the said fork to the top of the dividing ridge, 
 Between Churteer's Creek, Cross and Raccoon Creeks ; thence 
 along Said ridge to the head of Robertson's run ; thence down 
 said Run to the Churteer' s Creek ; thence up the said Creek to 
 the Beginning. 
 
 Ordered : — That Andrew Swearingen, Gentleman, be ap- 
 pointed for the above purpose within the following Bounds, 
 Vizt : Beginning at the mouth of the West fork of Churteer's 
 Creek and Extending up the same to the Top of the dividing 
 ridge Between Churteer's Creek and Cross Creek ; thence along 
 said Ridge to the South Bounds of the County ; thence with 
 said Bounds to the Main Fork of Churteer's Creek; thence 
 down the same to the Beginning. 
 
 Ordered : — That Isaac Cox, Gentleman, be appointed for 
 the above Purpose, within the following Bounds, Vizt : all that 
 part of the County Lying west of Sweedly Creek, East of the 
 Allegheny River, & North of the Monaungahela River. 1 
 
 Ordered — That Oliver Miller, Gentleman, be appointed for 
 The above purpose within the following Bounds, Vizt : Begin - 
 
 1 This indicates that the jurisdiction claimed extended well up northeast of Pitts- 
 bura 
 
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 ning at the mouth of Peters Creek and extending up the same 
 to the head, thence a Strait Line to Ezekeel Johnston's on 
 Churteer's Creek, thence down the same to the mouth ; Thence 
 up the Ohio and the Monaungahela River to the Beginning. 
 
 Ordered: — That Benjaman Kirkindall, Gentleman, be ap- 
 pointed for the above purpose within the following Bounds, 
 (25) Vizt: — Beginning at the mouth of Pigeon Creek, Extending 
 up the same to the head, Thence a South Line to the South 
 Bounds of the County, thence with said Bounds to the Top of 
 the dividing ridge between the waters of the Monaungahela 
 River and Churteer's Creek, Thence along said ridge to the 
 head of Peters Creek, thence down the same to the Monaun- 
 ghela River, thence up the same to the Beginning. 
 
 Ordered : — That William Goe and Thomas Freeman, Gen- 
 tlemen, be appointed for the above purpose within the follow- 
 ing Bounds, Vizt : — Beginning at the mouth of Little Red- 
 stone Creek and Extending up the same to the House of Wil- 
 liam Castlemans, Thence on a Strait line to the mouth of 
 Worshington's Mill run, thence up Yough River to the mouth 
 of Byer's run, Thence up said Run to Froman's Road ; Thence 
 along said road to Thomas Gist, Esquire, Thence along Laurel 
 Hill to Dunlap's old road, Thence with said road to the Mo- 
 naungahela River, Thence with said River to the Beginning. 
 
 Ordered: — That Zacheriah Connell, Gentleman, be ap- 
 pointed for the above purpose within the following Bounds, 
 Vizt : Beginning at the head of Maryland and extending along 
 Bradock's Road to Thomas Gists, Esquires ; Thence with Fro- 
 man's Road to head of Byer's Run ; Thence down said Run to 
 Yough River ; Thence down the same to mouth of Sweedley 
 Creek ; Thence with said Creek and North Bounds of the 
 County to the Beginning. 
 
 Ordered : — That Benjaman Frye, Gentleman, be appointed 
 for the above purpose within the following Bounds, Vizt : Be- 
 ginning at the Mouth of Little Redstone Creek extending up 
 the same to the House of William Castleman ; Thence on a 
 Strait Line to the mouth of Warshington's mill run; Thence 
 down the river Yough to the Monaungahela ; Thence up the 
 same to the Beginning. 
 
 Ordered : — That Richard Yeates, Gentleman, be appointed 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 97 
 
 for the above purpose within the following Bounds, Vizt : Be- 
 ginning at the mouth of Pigeon Creek and Extending up the 
 same to its fountain ; Thence South to the South Bounds of the 
 County ; thence with said bounds to the Monaungahela River ; 
 Thence down said River to the Beginning. 
 
 (26) Ordered: — That John Inks [illegible], Benjamin Wells, 
 
 John White, Jun, Henry Boyles, Samuel Clerk, Samuel Griffith, 
 William McKee, John Brown, Isaac Sparks, Peter Austerges, 
 John James Wood, and Brice Vergin, be appointed Constables 
 to serve the Ensueing year, and that they be Sommoned to 
 attend Next Court (or the Nearest Justice) to Qualify into said 
 Office. 
 
 Ordered : — That the Sheriff Call on Mr. John Anderson, of 
 Pittsburg, or any other person, for the papers and records be- 
 longing to the District of West Augusta, and that the said 
 Sheriff give the said Mr. John Anderson, or any other person 
 who may deliver the said Records, a Receipt for the same ; 
 and that he deliver the said Papers and Records to the Clerk of 
 this Court, who is also ordered to give the said Sheriff a Receipt 
 for said delivery. 
 
 Robert Hamilton, a prisoner in the Sheriffs Custody, came 
 into Court and in the grocest and most Impolite Manner In- 
 sulted the Court, and Richard Yeates, Gentleman, in par- 
 ticular : Ordered, That the Sheriff confine the feet of the said 
 Robert Hamilton in the lower rails of the fence for the space 
 of five minutes. 
 
 Ordered : — That any prisoner or prisoners the Sheriff have, 
 Shall be Confined in the guard or some other room in Fort pitt, 
 with the acquiesance of General Hand, untill such Time as a 
 proper goal can be provided for the County. 
 
 Ordered : — That Isaac Cox, Oliver Miller and Benjaman 
 Kirkindall, be appointed, or any two of them, to Contract 
 with a proper person or Persons, to Build a Goal and Court 
 house in the following manner, and at the following place, 
 Vizt : The Goal and Court House are to be Included in one 
 whole and Intire Building, of round sound Oak, to go Twenty 
 four feet Long and Sixteen feet wide ; two Story high ; The 
 lower Story to be eight feet high, Petitioned in the Middle ; 
 
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 with Squeared hewed Logs with Locks, and bears to the door 
 and Windows, according to law, which Shall be the Goal. 
 
 (27) The upper Story to be five feet high in the Sides, with a good 
 Cabbin Roof, with Convenient seats for the Court & Bar, and a 
 Clerk's Table, to remain in one room, with a pair of Stairs on 
 the outside to Assend up to said Room, which Shall be place 
 for holding Court ; with two floors to be laid with strong hewed 
 logs ; the whole to be Compleat and finished in one month 
 from the date hereof. The said Building to be Erected on the 
 plantation of Andrew Heath at Such Convenient place as the 
 said Isaac Cox, Oliver Miller & Benjaman Kirkindall, Gentle- 
 men, or any two of them shall think Proper. 
 
 Ordered — That John McDowell, Gentleman, be appointed 
 to Take a Tour within the following Bounds, and Tender the 
 oath of allegience and Fidelity to the State, to all free male 
 Inhabitants within the same, above sixteen years of age, agree- 
 able to act of Assembly : Beginning at the mouth of the East 
 fork of Churteer's Creek and Extending up the same to Ezekil 
 Johnston's; Thence on a Strait Line to the head of Peter's 
 Creek ; Thence on the Top of the Deviding Ridge Between 
 the Monaungahela River and Churteer's Creek to the South 
 Bounds of the County ; Thence with said Bounds to the Main 
 fork of Churteers Creek Thence with said Creek to the Be- 
 ginning. 
 
 Ordered — That the Court be adjourned to 6 Oclock 
 Tomorrow Morning. 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 August 27th Court met according to adjournment. 
 
 Present : John Campbell, Richard Yeates, William Goe, 
 George Vallandingham, John McDowell, Isaac Cox, Thomas 
 Freeman, Oliver Miller, Zacheriah Connel, John Cannon & 
 John McDaniel, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 (28) Alexander Bowling against William Poston. Pluries Capias. 
 Alexander Bowling against Francis Morrison. In Case. 
 
 Plur. Capias. 
 
 Christian Summitt against John Golliher and wife. In Slan- 
 der, Plurious Capias. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 99 
 
 Thomas Rankin against Jeremiah Standibarry. In Case, 
 Alias Capias. 
 
 David Day against Jacob Hedricks. In Case. Alias Capias. 
 
 John Lydea against Joseph Cox. In Case. Alias Capias. 
 
 Matthew Dale against Richard Elson. In Case, Alias 
 Capias. 
 
 Benjaman Jones against Patrick McDaniel. In Case. Plur- 
 ious Capias. 
 
 William McMahan against John Greathouse. In Case, Plu. 
 Cap. 
 
 Daniel Swigert against Benjaman Newgent. Atteachment, 
 Continued for want of Prosecution. 
 
 Peter Reasoner against Davis Ruth. In Case. Alias Capias. 
 
 Shillings against Spencer Collins. In Case. Alias 
 
 Cap. 
 
 Dorsey Pentecost against Christopher McDaniel. Debt. 
 Alias Cap. 
 
 Burr Harrison against William Williams. In Case. The 
 Sheriff Returning agreed, Ordered that the Suit be Demised. 
 
 Joseph Lindsey 
 
 vs. In case 
 
 George Long The Sheriff having Returned that the De- 
 fendant is not in his Bailliwick, Ordered That This Suit be dis- 
 missed. 
 
 Zacheriah Connell against Abraham Vaughan. In Case. 
 Ali. Cap. 
 
 Richard McMahan against John Trumbo. In Case. The 
 Sheriff returning Executed and agreed and the Plaintiff not 
 appearing, though Solemnly Called, Ordered to be dismissed 
 for Non Procedendo. 
 
 Zacheriah Connell against Providence Mounce. In Slander. 
 The Sheriff Returns Executed. Ordered that said Suit be 
 Continued. 
 
 Zacheriah Connell 
 
 against In Slander. 
 
 John Lindsey The Sheriff returns Executed, Ordered 
 
 that Said Suit be Continued. 
 
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 Ignaw Labat 
 
 against In Case. 
 
 John Bradley The Sheriff returns agieed, Ordered that this 
 Suit be dismissed. 
 
 (29) Hugh Sterling against Mordicai Richards. In Assault. 
 
 Alias Capias. 
 
 Ignaw Labat, Plaintiff 
 
 against In Debt. 
 
 Thomas Girty Defendant The Sheriff returns that the De- 
 fendant Is not with in his Bailliwick. Ordered that the Suit 
 be Dismissed. 
 
 David Wilson against Henry Bowling. In Case. Alias 
 Capias. 
 
 Alexander Sumrall Jun 
 and Thomas Jack Plaintiffs 
 
 against In Case 
 
 Walter Summerall, Defendant Alias Capias. 
 
 John Worshington against James Poor. Ejectment. Or- 
 dered to be Continued. 
 
 John Spivey against Samuel Beeler. In Case. Alias Capias. 
 
 Richard Yeates, Plaintiff 
 
 against In Case 
 
 Brice Virgin, Defendant ordered to be Dismissed at Plain- 
 tiff 's request. 
 
 Richard Waller Plaintiff 
 
 against In Debt 
 
 John Earskin, Defendant The Sheriff returns agreed Or- 
 dered that This Suit be Dismissed. 
 
 Dorsey Pentecost, Plaintiff 
 
 against In Debt 
 
 James Poor Defendant upon the Petition of the Plain- 
 
 tiff Seting forth that the Defendant Stands Justly Indebted to 
 him four pounds Ten Shillings Courant Money refuseth pay- 
 ment. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 101 
 
 The said James being Solemnly Called & failing to appear 
 the Plaintiff produced a Note of hand Bearing Interest from the 
 fifteenth day of • December 1774, four pounds Ten Shillings 
 with Credit on said Note for Two pounds Three Shillings and 
 six pence. It is Considered by the Court that Plaintiff recover 
 against the said James the Defendant for two pounds six Shill- 
 ings andsix pence with Interest from the said fifteenth day of 
 December untill paid, with his Costs about this Suit in that be- 
 half Expended. 
 
 Ordered — That Execution be Staid on this Judgment un- 
 till next October Court. 
 ( 30 ) Ordered — That the following Gentlemen be recommended to 
 
 his Excellency the Governor as proper persons to be added to 
 the Commission of the piece, Vizt, Isaac Leet, Senior, Joseph 
 Beeler, Sen. John Carmichael, James Rogers, Isaac Meason, 
 James McLane, James Blackstone, Joseph Becket and Joseph 
 Vance, Gentleman. 
 
 Ordered: — That the Majestrates appointed to make the 
 Tour of the County and Tender the oath of allegience and Fi- 
 delity, Shall also Take in the Numbers in Each Family within 
 their Respective districts, In order to enable the justices to 
 make an Equal distribution of the salt, and make return to 
 October Court. 
 
 Zacheriah Connell against Abraham Vaughan. In Case. 
 Ali. Cap. 
 
 Ordered — That Isaac Cox Gentleman be recommended to 
 his Excellincy the Governor as a proper person to Serve as 
 Leiutenant Colonel of the Militia of this County, In the Stead 
 of Thomas Brown Gentleman who hath refused to Serve. 
 
 Ordered — That Court be adjourned Till Court in Course &c. 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 At a Court continued and held by Adjornment September 
 22d 1777. 
 
 Present : Isaac Cox, William Goe, Oliver Miller, Joshua 
 Wright, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Ordered that Isabel Pegg be appointed Administratrix of all 
 the Goods, Chatties and Credits of the Estate of Garret New 
 Gill deceased. She complying with the Law. Whereupon 
 
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 the said Isabel Pegg with James Wright her Surety, Came into 
 Court and Entered into Bond for the Performance of the Said 
 Administration. Isabel Pegg came into Court and took the 
 Oath of Administratrix of the Estate of Garrett New Gill, de- 
 ceased. 
 
 (31) Ordered that John Wall, Benjaman Collends & John Cox or 
 any two of them being first Sworn do appraise, all the Estate 
 of Garret Newgil deed and make return to the Next Court. 
 
 A Bargain and Sale from Gabriel Cox to James Swolevan of 
 three hundred Acres of Land acknowledged by the said Gabriel 
 party thereto and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 William Taylor produced a Licence appointing him to preach 
 the Gospel after the Manner of his Sect ; which being read, 
 the said William Taylor came into Court and took the Oath of 
 fidelity and Allegience to this Commonwealth. 
 
 John Gibson 'came into Court and took the Oath of Ensign 
 of Militia. 
 
 John Campbell Gent took his seat in Court. 
 
 Alex Sumrall & Thos Jack 
 
 Walter Sumrall 
 
 This day came the Plff, and 
 William Anderson personally appeared in Court and undertook 
 for Said Deft that in Case he shall be cast in this Suit he shall 
 pay & Satisfy the Condemnation of the Court or render his 
 body to prison in Execution for the same or that he the said 
 William Anderson will do it for him. Whereupon the Deft 
 prays and hath leave to imparl untill the next Court and then 
 to plead. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to tomorrow at 7 
 oClock. 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 (32) September 23d 1777. The Court met pursuant to adjourn- 
 ment. 
 
 Present: John Campbell, Isaac Cox, William Goe, Oliver 
 Miller, Gentlemen, Justices. 
 
 The last will and Testament of Johathan Reed was proved 
 by the Oaths of Noah Fiehearty and Hugh McCreedy, two of 
 the subscribing witnesses and ordered to be recorded. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 103 
 
 John Cannon, Joshua Wright & Matthew Richey Gentlemen 
 Came into Court and took their Seats. 
 
 Robert Bowers being charged with a breach of an act of the 
 Common wealth intitled an Act for the punishment of certain 
 Offences being Called, pleads Not Guilty. Then came a Jury, 
 to wit. James Swolevan, James Wall, Charles Bruce, James 
 Campbell, William Marshall, Joseph Becket, John Crow, 
 Zadock Wright, Edward Cook, Gabriel Cox, Andrew Heath 
 and John Douglass, and being sworn say that the said Robert 
 Bowers shall suffer One year's Imprisonment. 
 
 David England, being charged with a breach of an act of 
 Assembly of this Commonwealth, intitled an Act for the punish- 
 ment of Certain Offences, Came into Court and Confessed the 
 Charge. Then came a Jury, to wit James Swolevan, James 
 Wall, Charles Bruce, James Campbell, William Marshall, 
 Joseph Becket, John Crow, Zadock Wright, Edward Cook, 
 Joseph Bealer, Andrew Heath & John Douglass, and being 
 sworn say that they find forty Shillings. 
 (33) John Teague and George Corn are allowed two days attend- 
 ance each as Witnesses in behalf of the Common Wealth 
 against David English. 
 
 Joseph Beeler Gent, is appointed Administrator of all the 
 Goods, Chatties and Credits of the Estate of John Hutcheson, 
 deceased, he complying with the Law. — Whereupon the Said 
 Joseph Beeler with Christopher Beeler Came into Court and 
 entered into Bond for the due performance of his said Ad- 
 ministration. 
 
 Joseph Beeler Came into Court and took the Oath of Ad- 
 ministrator of Joseph Hutcheson deceased. 
 
 Ordered — That Richard Antis, William Powell and James 
 Burns or any two of them they being first sword to apprais the 
 Estate of John Hutcheson deceased and Make Return to Next 
 Court. 
 
 Benjamin Kirkindall Gent Justice Took his Seat in Court. 
 
 Andrew Swearingen 
 
 Thomas Hambleton This day came the Plff, and Robert 
 Hamilton personally appeared in Court and undertook for the 
 Defendant that in Case he Shall be Cast in this Suit he Shall 
 
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 pay and Satisfy the Condemnation of the Court or render his 
 Body to Prison in execution for the same, or that he, the said 
 Robert Hamilton will do it for him. Whereupon the said 
 Deft prays and hath leave to imparl untill next Court and then 
 to plead. 
 
 William Brashiers 
 
 Robert Hambleton This day came the Plff, and Thomas 
 Hambleton personally appeared in Court and undertook for the 
 Defendant that in Case he shall be Cast in this Suit he Shall 
 pay and Satisfy the Condemnation of the Court or render his 
 Body to Prison in Execution for the Same or that the said 
 Thomas Hambleton will do it for him. Whereupon the Deft 
 prays and hath leave to imparl untill next Court and then to 
 plead. 
 (34) Moses Davison Stands charged with Hog stealing. Ordered 
 that the said Moses Davison be bound over to Next Grand Jury 
 Court with one Security in the Sum of ^25 each. 
 
 Whereupon the said Moses Davison and William Colvin his 
 Surety Came into Court and Entered Bail as aforesaid. 
 
 Sarah Reed, Joseph Becket and Edward Cook, Executors of 
 the last will and Testament of Jonathan Reed deceased with 
 Joseph Beeler Christopher Beeler and Paul Froman, their se- 
 curities came into Court and entered into Bond for the true per- 
 formance of the said Executorship. Whereupon the said Sarah 
 Reed Joseph Becket and Edward Cook took the Oath of Execu- 
 trix and Executors of the last .will and Testament of said Jona- 
 than Reed Deed. 
 
 Ordered that Benjaman Davis Samuel Burns John Wright 
 and Dorsey Pentecost or any two or more of them, being first 
 sworn to appraise the Estate of Jonathan Reed deceased and 
 make Return to Next Court. 
 
 Joseph Allen being Charged with a Breach of an act of As- 
 sembly of this Common Wealth intitled an act for the Punish- 
 ment of Certain Offences being Calld Came into Court and 
 pleads Not Guilty — Then came a Jury, to wit : James Swolevan, 
 James Wall, Charles Bruce, James Campbell, William Marshall, 
 Andrew Heth, John Crow, Joseph Becket, Zadock Wright, 
 Joseph Beeler, Edward Cook and John Douglass, and saith 
 that the said Joseph Allen is Not Guilty. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 105 
 
 (35) Eliezer Brown being Charged with a Breach of an Act of 
 Assembly of this Common Wealth intitled an act for the punish- 
 ment of certain Offences — being Called comes before the Court 
 and pleads, Not Guilty. Whereupon came a Jury, to wit : 
 James Swolevan, James Wall, Charles Bruce, James Campbell, 
 William Marshall, Andrew Heath, John Crow, Joseph Becket, 
 Zadock Wright, Joseph Beeler, Edward Cook and John Doug- 
 lass, who upon their Oaths say that the said Eliezer Brown is 
 Not Guilty. 
 
 Thomas Estill, being charged with a Breach of the Act of 
 Assembly of this Commonwealth, intitled an act for the punish- 
 ment of Certain Offences, who being Called upon Comes into 
 Court and pleads Not Guilty ; Whereupon, a Jury being Sworn, 
 to wit : James Swolevan, James Wall, Charles Bruce, James 
 Campbell, William Marshall, Andrew Heath, John Crow, 
 Joseph Becket, Zadock Wright, Joseph Beeler, Edward Cook, 
 and John Douglass, do say they find for the Commonwealth 
 Twenty Pounds Current Money. 
 
 Philip Tabor, Charged with being guilty of a Breach of an 
 Act of Assembly of this Common Wealth intitled an act for the 
 punishment of Certain Offences, being called comes into Court 
 and pleads Not Guilty. Whereupon Come a Jury to wit, James 
 Swolevan, James Wall, Charles Bruce, James Campbell, Wil- 
 liam Marshall, Andrew Heth, John Crow, Joseph Becket, 
 Zadock Wright, Joseph Beeler, Edward Cook & John Douglass, 
 who upon their Oaths do say the Said Philip Tabor is Not 
 Guilty. 
 
 (36) Upon the Petition of Adam Wickerham setting forth that he 
 is desirous of Building a Water Mill on Mingo Creek about 
 three quarters of a Mile from the mouth and that he owns all 
 the Lands that will be effected or overflowed by the building 
 of the said Mill. It is therefore Considered by the Court that 
 the Said Adam Wickerham have leave to build and compleat a 
 mill at the place aforesaid. 
 
 Upon the Petition of Paul Froman setting forth that he is 
 desirous of building a Water Mill on Mingo Creek at the mouth 
 thereof and praying an Order to view and Condemn one acre 
 of Land on the opposite side of the Creek to said Froman' s 
 Land for that purpose. 
 
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 Ordered that the Sheriff be Commanded to Summon twelve 
 good and lawful freeholders of the vicinage to meet on the 
 premises aforesaid and being first sworn shall diligently view 
 and examine the said Lands which may be affected or laid 
 under water by the Building Said Mill with the Timber and 
 other Conveniences thereof, and that they report the same to 
 next Court under their hands and Seals with the true value of 
 the one acre of Land Petitioned for and of the damage done to 
 the party holding the Same. 
 
 Ordered that John Campbell, Gent. , be requested to furnish 
 the wife of Lemuel Davis, a poor Soldier now in the Continental 
 service from this State, for the Support of herself and three 
 Children, the Sum of four pounds per Month, to Commence 
 from the said Lemuel Davis's March from this County. 
 
 Ordered that the provision made for the Children of Edward 
 McCawley, by a former Order of this Court, Shall commence 
 (37) from the time of his March from this Country, and that the 
 funeral Charges of one of the said Children since dead be paid 
 by the said Mr. Campbell, and that this Court do draw on the 
 Treasury of this Commonwealth for the payment of the Same. 
 
 A letter from General Hand addressed to Col. Campbell 
 questing that Capt. Alexander McKee's Parole given to the 
 Committee of West Augusta be given up to him, the said General 
 Hand, in order to enable him to put Capt. McKee on a New 
 Parole, as he finds it necessary to remove said Alexander 
 McKee. Ordered that the said Parole be given up to General 
 Hand and that he deposit a Copy of the New Parole to be taken 
 from the said Capt. McKee in Lieu thereof, Certified by the 
 said General Hand. 
 
 Ordered that a Dedimus be issued to take the Evidence in 
 behalf of the Common Wealth, against John Beall, as well on 
 behalf of said John Beall as on the Common Wealth. 
 
 Sarah Norris 
 
 Attachment 
 
 Charles Norris 
 
 These parties came into Court and request that this Action 
 may be referred to Michael Rawlins, Thomas Keith and Andrew 
 Swearingen Gent. It is therefore accordingly ordered by the 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. J 07 
 
 Court that the said Suit be referred to the said Michael Raw- 
 lins, Thos Keith and Andrew Swearingen or any two of them, 
 they being first sworn diligently examine the Case and make 
 return in writing to next Court, of their Judgment which Shall 
 be considered the Judgment of the Court. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to 7 oClock tomorrow 
 morning. 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 (38) The Court met according to Court in Course at the house of 
 Mr. Andrew Heath Octo 27th 1777. 
 
 Present : John Campbell, Isaac Cox, Joshua Wright, Richard 
 Yeates, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to the new Court 
 House. 1 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 The Court met at the Court House pursuant to adjournment. 
 
 Present : John Campbell, Isaac Cox, Richard Yeates, Joshua 
 Wright, Benj Kerkendal, Andrew Swearingen, Samuel Newell, 
 Gent. Justices. 
 
 A Bargain and Sale from Michael Kintner and Catherine his 
 wife to Daniel Dozier for 200 acres of Land, acknowledged by 
 said Michael Kintner and Catherine his wife and ordered to be 
 recorded. 
 
 Jacob Feagley 
 v 
 
 Hugh Brawdy This day came the Plaintif, and James 
 Wright personally appeared in Court and undertook for the 
 said Defendant that in Case he shall be Cast in this Suit, he 
 shall pay and Satisfy the Condemnation of the Court or render 
 his Body to Prison in execution for the same or that he the 
 said James Wright will do it for him, whereupon the said 
 Defendant prays and hath leave to imparl untill next Court and 
 then to plead. 
 
 (39) Peter Resner 
 
 v 
 Daviss Ruth This day came the Plaintiff, & David Leffergy 
 personally appeared in Court and under took for the said De- 
 
 1 Ordered on August 26th, to be built in one month. 
 
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 fendant that in Case he shall be Cast in this Suit he shall Sat- 
 isfy the condemnation of the Court or render his body to 
 prison in Execution for the same, or he the said David Leffurgy 
 will do it for him, whereupon the Said Defendant pleads and 
 hath leave to imparl untill next Court and then to plead. 
 
 Ordered, that Jno Campbell, Gent., be requested to furnish 
 the Wife of Richard Jaines, a poor Soldier in the Continental 
 Service from this State, with the sum of four pounds per month, 
 for the Support of herself and three Children, and this Court 
 do draw on the Treasurer of this Common Wealth for the pay- 
 ment of the Same. — The same to commence one month prior 
 to this date. 
 
 John Campbell, gent, absent. 
 
 Ordered that Mrs. Knox, the wife of Knox, a poor 
 
 Soldier in the Continental Service from this State, be allowed 
 the Sum of three pounds per month, for the Support of her- 
 self and three Children, to commence from the date hereof, 
 and that this Court do draw on the Treasurer of this Com- 
 mon Wealth for the payment of the Same. 
 
 Ordered that Mary Douthard, the wife of Thomas Douthard, 
 a poor Soldier from this State in the service of the United 
 States, be allowed four pounds per month, for the Support of 
 herself and Six Children, to commence one Month prior to 
 this date, and that this Court draw on the Treasurer of this 
 Commonwealth for the Same. 
 (40) Ordered, that the wife of Abram Ritchey, a poor Soldier in 
 
 the Continental Service from this State, be allowed three pounds 
 per month for her Support and three Children, and that the 
 Court do draw on the Treasurer of this Commonwealth for the 
 payment of the same 
 
 Ordered that the sum of Two pounds per month be allowed 
 the wife of William Ritchie, a poor Soldier now in the Conti- 
 nental Service from this State for the Support of herself and 
 two Children, and that this Court draw oh the Treasurer of 
 this Commonwealth for the payment thereof. 
 
 A Deed of Partition, John Connolly to John Campbell Gent 
 bearing date the Sixth day of February, one Thousand seven 
 hundred and seventy-six, proved by the Oath of Thomas Flinn 
 one of the Subscribing Witnesses and that he saw Joseph West- 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 109 
 
 more, Charles Matheson, and James Millegan Sign their names 
 thereto as Witnesses. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to tomorrow morning 
 at eight O'Clock. 
 
 Isaac Cox. 
 
 (41) The Court met according to adjournment. 
 
 President : John Campbell, Richard Yeates, Andrew Swer- 
 ingen, Samuel Newell, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Ordered, that the Inhabitants of this County have leave to 
 Inoculate for the Small Pox, at their own houses or such other 
 convenient Places as they may think proper. 
 
 Zelphia McClean 
 v 
 
 Thomas Palmer This day came the Plaintiff, and John 
 Palmer personally appeared in Court and undertook for the De- 
 fendant that in Case he shall be Cast in this Suit he shall Satisfy 
 the Condemnation of the Court or render his body to prison in 
 execution for the Same or that he the said John Palmer will do 
 it for him. Whereupon the said Deft prays and hath leave to 
 imparl untill next Court and then to plead. 
 
 On the Petition of Sarah Sample setting forth that Ann Mc- 
 Clean hath detained a Servant Girl, Ann Brook, to the great 
 Damage of the said Petitioner. Ordered that a Subpona do 
 issue to summon the said Ann to the next Court. 
 
 Alexander Bowlin 
 
 v In Case 
 
 William Poston Upon the testimony of Isaac Leet and the 
 Debt being under fifty dollars and the said Defendant being in 
 the Continental Service, Ordered that this Suit be dismissed 
 at Plff's Cost. 
 
 (42) Benjn Kerkendal and Isaac Cox Gent Present. John Camp- 
 bell, Gent, absent. 
 
 The Commonwealth Recognizance on Assault on Mary Mc _ 
 
 v Callister. 
 
 David Duncan 
 
 On hearing the Evidence, Ordered that the said David Dun- 
 can be bound over to answer the said Complaint of Elizabeth 
 
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 McCallister in behalf of the Commonwealth exhibited against 
 him, whereupon the said David with Zadock Wright his Se- 
 curity came into Court and acknowledged to be indebted to 
 Patrick Henry Esq Gov &c for the use of the State to be levied 
 &c the sum of ^25 each conditioned for the personal appear- 
 ance of the said David at the next Grand Jury Court to be 
 held for this County &c 
 
 Joshua Wright, John Campbell Gent. Present. 
 
 On the Recognizance of James Fleming and John Gibson 
 (packhorse man) the parties not appearing being Solemny 
 called Ordered the same to be put in Suit. 
 
 Isaac Leet, Deputy Sheriff, in behalf of the high Sheriff of 
 the County, entered his protest against the Goal of this County, 
 he conceiving the same not sufficient to confine Prisoners. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff pay Colo Isaac Cox the sum of 
 Thirty pounds to be applied towards the pay for building the 
 Court house and Goal, and Andrew Heth pay five pounds now 
 retained in his hands for Samuel Ewalts, fine for keeping a dis- 
 orderly house to the said Sheriff. 
 
 Ordered that Ann Brook a Servant to Sarah Sample be and 
 (43) remain with her mother Ann McClain untill next Court. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to tomorrow morning 
 at 8 O'Clock. 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
 The Court met in pursuant to adjournment Oct 29th 1777. 
 
 Present : John Campbell, Isaac Cox, Samuel Newell, Rich- 
 are Yeates, Andw Swearigen, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff do Summon a Grand Jury to attend 
 next Court. 
 
 Zacheriah Connell, Gent. Then came the Plff, and 
 Nathaniel Brown Richard Yeates Gent person- 
 
 ally appeared in Court and undertook for the said Defendant 
 that in Case he shall be Cast in this Suit He shall pay and 
 satisfy the Condemnation of the Court or render his Body to 
 Prison in Execution for the Same or the said Richard Yeates 
 will do it for him. Whereupon the said Defendant prays and 
 hath leave to imparl till next Court and then to plead &c 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. Ill 
 
 The Commonwealth 
 
 The Prosecution not appearing 
 
 Ja.cob Judy 0rdered t0 be dismissed - 
 
 Upon the Petition of David Day against Jacob Hendricks on 
 Request of the Parties Ordered that this Suit and all other Suits 
 now depending in this Court between the said Parties be referred 
 to John Smith, William Campbell and William Vance, they 
 being first sworn and make return to next Court. 
 
 (44) The Commonwealth In Breach of the peace. 
 
 v 
 David Stone & Jas Davis James Fleming Prosr 
 Then came the parties and upon hearing their Allegations, 
 Ordered to be dismissed at the Plff's Cost. 
 
 The Commonwealth In Assault & Battery 
 v 
 
 John Bradley David Irwin Pros. 
 
 Ordered that the Prosecutor David Irwin and the Deft John 
 Bradley give Security for their good behavior towards all the 
 good Subjects of this Commonwealth till the next Grand Jury 
 Court. Whereupon the said David Irwin with David Stone his 
 Security and John Bradley with James Scott his Security ac- 
 knowledged to owe to Patrick Henry Esq Gov & the sum of 
 ^20 each to be levied &c conditioned as per the order of the 
 Court and that they dot depart the Court without leave &c 
 
 Alexander Bowling 
 
 v Then came the Plff, and James Scott 
 
 Francis Morrison personally appeared in Court and un- 
 dertook for said Defendant that if he Shall be Cast in this Suit 
 he shall pay the Condemnation of the Court or render his body 
 to Prison in execution for the same, or he, the said James Scott 
 will do it for him, whereupon the said Deft, prays and has 
 leave to imparl untill next Court and then to plead, &c. 
 
 The Last will & Testament of Joseph Kirkwood deceased was 
 proved by the Oaths of Nicholas Little and Geo Gillespie two 
 of the Subscribing Witnesses and ordered to be recordered. 
 
 (45) James Allison and Margaret Kirkwood came into Court and 
 took the Oath of Executor and Executrix of the Estate of 
 
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 Joseph Kirkwood, deceased, whereupon the said James Allison 
 and Margaret Kirkwood with George Gillespie and John Mc- 
 Dowell, their Sureties come into Court and enter into Bond for 
 the due performance of their said trust. 
 
 Ordered that Nicholas Little, Patrick McCollock and Patrick 
 Scott or any two of them, being first sworn do apprais the Es- 
 tate of Joseph Kirkwood deceased, and make return to next 
 Court. 
 
 John Campbell, Gent. Absent. 
 
 John Ramage with William Ramage his Security come into 
 Court and acknowledged to be indebted ^500 conditioned for 
 the appearance of the said John Ramage at a Court to be held 
 the 5th day of November next for the Examination of the said 
 John Ramage. 
 
 Ordered that the Treasurer of this Commonwealth pay to 
 Colo John Campbell, the sum of ninety eight pounds current 
 money to reimburse him, the said Colo Campbell, for money 
 already furnished the wives and Children of poor Soldiers from 
 this County, now in the Continental Service & for the farther 
 Support for three months next ensuing, and that the Clerk 
 draw on the treasury in favor of said Campbell, for the afore- 
 said sum of j£gS o o Current money. 
 
 William McMachen 
 
 v In Case 
 
 John Greathouse Then came the parties and at the 
 
 request of the Plff Ordered that this Suit be dismissed. 
 John Campbell Gent. Prest. 
 
 (46) Bazil Brown 
 
 v 
 Robert Hamilton Then came the Plff, and Thomas Ham- 
 ilton personally appeared Court and undertook for Sd Deft, 
 that in Case he should be Cast in this Action, he Shod pay and 
 Satisfy the Condemnation of the Court or render his Body to 
 prison in Execution for the same or he the said Thomas Ham- 
 ilton will do it for him, Whereupon the said Defendant prays 
 and has leave to imparl untill next Court and then to plead. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned to tomorrow morning 
 at 8 oClock. John Campbell. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 113 
 
 October 30th 1777 The Court met Pursuant to Adjournment. 
 
 Present : John Campbell, Isaac Cox, Andw Sweringen, 
 Richd Yeates, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Ordered that the Clerk issue a Summons for Christian 
 Brooks, Daniel Rysher and Michael Rysher to appear before 
 the next Court to be held for this County to give Testimony 
 against Conrad Winmiller in behalf of the Common Wealth. 
 
 Joshah Wright Gent. Present. 
 
 Ordered, that Isaac Cox, Oliver Miller and Benjamin Key- 
 kendal, Gent, or any two of them, be appointed to contract 
 with a proper person or persons to build a sufficient Stone 
 (47) Chimney in the Court house and Goal, to be carried up in the 
 middle of the Building, with three fire places, one in each room 
 of the Goal, and one in the part where the Court is held ; and 
 to have the Court Rooms chunked and plastered ; also a good 
 loft of Clap boards, with a window in each Glebe, and four 
 pains of Glass of ten Inches by eight, and the Goal rooms to be 
 plastered. 
 
 Thomas Rankins v Jeremiah Stransbury, Case, Agreed. 
 
 David Day v. Jacob Hendricks. Ass & Bat. refer' d 
 
 John Lydia v Joseph Cox — Slander — Plu. Cap. 
 
 Abraham Dale v. Richard Elson — Trespass. — Agreed 
 
 Benj Jones v Patrick McDonald. — Ass & Bat. — Plu Cap 
 
 Balser Shilling v Spencer Collins — Trespass. Plu Cap. 
 
 Dorsey Pentecost v Chris McDonald — Case Plu Cap. 
 
 Zacheriah Connell. v Abraham Vaughan. Debt. Plu Cap. 
 
 Hugh Serling v Mordecai Richards — Ass & Bat Plu Cap 
 
 David Willson v Henry Boling — Debt — Plu. Cap. 
 
 John Spivy v Samuel Beeler. Trespass Plu. Cap. 
 
 John Gallahar & wife v Christian Summon. Slander. Al 
 Cap. 
 
 John Smith v Sarah Dye — Debt — Cont'd 
 
 Charles Reno v Lewis Clock — Case — Agreed. 
 
 Robert McKeey v Moses Davison Case Cont'd 
 
 View of the Jury upon the Petition of Paul Froman returned 
 by the Sheriff and ordered to be recorded 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to the Court in Course. 
 
 John Campbell. 
 
114 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 (48) At a Court continued and held for Yohdgania county — De- 
 cember 22 1777 
 
 Present : Isaac Cox, John McDowell, Richard Yeates, Olli- 
 ver Miller, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Inventory of Jonathan Reed deceased returned by the ap- 
 praisers and ordered to be recorded — 
 
 An Attachment, being obtained by Daniel Swigart against 
 Benjamin Newgent, the Constable (John Johnston) having re- 
 turned that he had executed the said attachment, on one 
 horse, nine head of hogs, and a quantity of Rie in the Sheaf, 
 and the said Benjn Newgent being Solemnly Called and not 
 appearing to replevy the said attached Effects.— The said Dan- 
 iel Swigart produced an account against the said Benjamin for 
 ^24 5 9 Pennsylvania Currency which he proved according to 
 law. It is ordered by the Court that the said Daniel Swigart 
 Plff. recover against the said Benjamin Defendant for Nineteen 
 pounds eight Shillings and Seven pence farthing Current 
 Money of the value of ^24 5 9 Pennsylvania Currency Ordered 
 that the Sheriff make sale of the aforesaid Attached Effects and 
 Satisfy the Said Daniel Plff the Judgment and make return 
 thereof. 
 
 John Crow took the Oath of Capt of Militia. 
 
 Maybury Evans produced a Commission from his Excy the 
 Governor appointing him Lieut of the Militia of this County 
 which being read the said Mayburry came into Court and took 
 the oath of Lieut of Militia. 
 
 Ben Keykendal, Gent, Absent. 
 
 (49) Patrick Lafferty came into Court and took the Oath of En- 
 sign of the Militia. 
 
 Daniel Williams came into Court and enters himself Defend- 
 ant in the stead of Casual Ejector in an Ejectment at the Suit 
 of Isaac Vance and Enters &c 
 
 Isaac Cox, Gent Absent. 
 
 Isaac Cox Gent, having obtained an attachment against the 
 Estate of Richard Richardson for two pounds two Shillings and 
 eight pence, and the Sheriff returns that he has levied the said 
 attachment on a trowel & hammer, and the said Richard Rich- 
 ardson being solemnly called and failing to appear and the 
 said Isaac Plaintiff proved the said account, it is considered by 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 115 
 
 the Court that the. said Isaac Plaintiff recover against the said 
 Richard Defendant the said sum of two pounds two Shillings 
 and eight pence. Ordered that the Sheriff make sale of the 
 aforesaid attached effects to Satisfy the said Judgment and make 
 return thereof. 
 
 Ordered on Motion of John Crow, his mark a Crop in the 
 Left Ear and a Swallow fork in the right, be recorded. 
 
 Ordered that the Ear mark of Jacob Shillings a half Crop in 
 the left Ear and a Crop and a half Crop in the right Ear be 
 recorded. 
 
 Ordered that the mark of Richard Yeates a Crop and under 
 keel in the left ear and two slits in the right year be re- 
 corded. 
 
 Ordered that the Ear mark of Olliver Miller, Gent a hole in 
 the left year and two Slits in the right ear be recorded. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to tomorrow morning 
 at 9 oClock. 
 
 Isaac Cox. 
 
 (50) Dec 23d 1777. The Court met according to adjournment. 
 Present : John McDowell, Isaac Cox, Richd Yeates, Oliver 
 Miller, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 The mark of Mayberry Evans a Swallow fork in the right 
 ear and a Slit in the left, on motion of said Mayberry Ordered 
 to be recorded. 
 
 The mark of Richard Evans, a Swallow fork in the right ear 
 and a Crop in the left ordered to be recorded. 
 
 The Ear Mark of William Anderson two under half Crops 
 on motion ordered to be recorded. 
 
 The Mark of Michael Teggert a crop and three Slitts in the 
 left Ear, on motion of said Michael ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Bill of Sale Alexander Young to Joseph Wherry for 300 
 Acres of Land acknowledged by said Young party thereto or- 
 dered to be recorded. 
 
 On the Complaint of James Murphy and wife that a certain 
 Jacob Jones hath for some time past forcibly detained George 
 Alervine, the son of the wife of the said James Murphy to the 
 great damage of the said James and Wife and against the peace 
 and dignity of the Common Wealth. Ordered that the Said 
 
116 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Jacob Jones forthwith deliver the said George Alervine to the 
 said James Murphy and wife. 
 
 Charles Morris 
 
 v In Debt 
 
 Thomas Rouse On Motion of Plff Ordered that this Suit be 
 dismissed. 
 
 (51) On the Petition of Andrew Heath &c, Ordered, that Robert 
 Henderson, Zadock Wright, John Robertson, John Crow, 
 Thomas Applegate and Andrew Dye, view a road, the nearest 
 and best way from Pittsburg to Andrew Heaths ferry on the 
 Monongahela River, and from thence to Becket's fort. 
 
 Upon the motion of Andrew Heath, ordered that he have 
 leave to keep a ferry at his house across the Mongahala River. 
 
 Benn Kekendal Wilm Goe, Gent present. 
 
 On the Information of Oliver Miller Gent, that William 
 Dunaghgan did on this day swear two prophane Oaths Ordered, 
 that the said William William Dunaghgan be fined 10s for the 
 same. 
 
 Oliver Miller Gentleman returns five Shillings received from 
 Martin Owens for Swearing. Ordered that the Sheriff receive 
 the same. 
 
 Isaac Leet returns that he hath received five Shillings from 
 James Johnston for prophane swearing. Ordered that the Said 
 Isaac Leet, Sheriff retain the same in his hands. 
 
 Thomas Dickenson came into Court and enters himself 
 Defendant in an Action of Ejectment at the Suit of James 
 Roberts. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of Garret Newgill deceased returned 
 by the appraisers & ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Bargain and Sale. Paul Froman to Dorsey Pentecost for 
 fourteen hundred acres of Land in this County was proved by 
 the Oaths of James Allison, Isaac Leet, John Crow & John 
 McDowell Gent, also the receipt thereunto annexed was proved 
 by the oaths of the said John McDowell and John Crow, the 
 Subscribing Witnesses to the Said Bargain & Sale & Receipt as 
 aforesaid & ordered to be recorded 
 
 (52) Bill of Sale. Isaac Cox to James Allison for one one thou- 
 sand acres of Land in the County of Kentucke, acknowledged 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 117 
 
 by the said Isaac Cox party thereto and ordered to be re- 
 corded. 
 
 David McClure Then came David McClure The Plain - 
 
 v tiff, and John Crow personally appeared 
 
 Patrick McElroy in Court and undertook for the said 
 Defendant that in Case he shall be Cast in this Action he shall 
 pay and Satisfy the Condemnation of the Court or render his 
 i Body to prison in execution for the same or he the said John 
 Crow will do it for him. Whereupon the Defendant prays and 
 has leave to imparl untill next Court and then to plead. 
 
 Upon the motion of Oliver Miller Gent on behalf of Cathe- 
 rine Dabler a servant to William Anderson that a certain Peter 
 Brandon of the town of Pittsburgh now unjustly detains an 
 Infant Girl born of the Body of the said Catherine. Ordered 
 that the said Peter Brandon deliver the said Infant to the said 
 William Anderson, it is also ordered to bring the said Infant 
 before the next Court and that a Summons do issue to Cause 
 the said Peter Brandon then to attend to Shew Cause wherefore 
 he detains said Infant. 
 
 Ordered, that the Sheriff collect from every Tythable person 
 within this County, the sum of three Shillings as County Levies, 
 and that he account with the Treasury of the Common Wealth 
 for the same. 
 (53) Ordered that the Sheriff pay John Campbell Gent out of the 
 County Collection, the sum of Eleven Shillings and one penny 
 for holding an Inquisition on the body of John Kelso. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff of this County pay John Bradley out 
 of the County Collection the sum of four Shillings and two 
 pence, for summoning an Inquisition on the body of John 
 Kelso. 
 
 Ordered, that the Sheriff pay out of the County Collection to 
 Richard Yeates, the sum of six pounds for laying two floors in 
 a Goal formerly built for this district. 1 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff pay out of the County Collection to 
 Dorsey Pentecost the sum of Sixty four Pounds ten Shillings 
 and Six pence for Record Books, County Seal, and other papers 
 for the Clerk's office of this County. 
 
 1 Doubtless this "Goal formerly built for this district, " was the jail on the late 
 Wm. Gabby farm, at Augusta Town, about half a mile west of Washington. 
 
118 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Zadock Wright produced a commission from his Excellency 
 appointing him Captain of the Militia which being read, the 
 said Zadock Wright came into Court and took the Oath of Capt 
 of the Militia. 
 
 The Ordinary Keepers within this County are allowed to sell 
 at the following rates 
 
 one half pint wiskey One Shilling 
 
 The same into Tody One Shilling Six pence 
 
 A larger or lesser Quantity in the same proportion. 
 
 Beer per Quart One Shilling 
 
 For a hot Breakfast One Shilling & Six pence 
 
 For a Cold Do One Shilling 
 
 For a Dinner Two Shillings 
 
 Lodging with Clean Sheets pr Night Six pence 
 
 Stablidge for one horse 24 hours 
 
 with good hay or fodder Two Shillings 
 
 Pasturage for Do do One Shilling 
 
 Oats or Corn per Quart Three pence 
 
 Supper One Shilling & Six pence 
 
 (54) Ordered that the above rates commence the fifteenth day of 
 
 January next and not before. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned to tomorrow morning 
 at 7 oClock William Goe 
 
 The Court met according to Adjournment December 24th 
 1777. 
 
 Present : Isaac Cox, John McDowell, Richard Yeates, Ben- 
 jamin Keykendal, Gent. Justices. 
 
 Ordered that the Clerk set up a Copy of the Rates of Sale 
 for ordinary Keepers within the County at different public 
 places so as to make it as public as possible. 
 
 William Goe and Oliver Miller Gent present 
 
 Attachment being obtained by John Campbell and Joseph 
 Simon against the Estate of George Croghan for eight hundred 
 and eighty eight pounds Pennsylvania Currency and the Sheriff 
 of this County having returned that he had levied the said 
 attachment in the hands of William Christy, Frederick Ferry, 
 Geo Litenberger, Colo Archibald Steel, & David Duncan, and 
 attached All the Effects in the hands of the said Garnishees, 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 119 
 
 and the said George Croghan being Solemnly Called and fail- 
 ing to appear to replevy what effects they have in their hands, 
 the said George Croghan and Robert Campbell factor for the 
 said John Campbell, and Joseph Simon Came into Court and 
 produced an account against the said George Croghan for 
 eight hundred and eighty-eight pounds, due upon Bonds for 
 the payment of four hundred and forty four Pounds Pennsyl- 
 
 (55) vania Currency which was proved by the said Robert Camp- 
 bell. It is considered by the Court that the said John Camp- 
 bell and Joseph Simon do recover Judgement against said 
 George Defendant for the sum of four hundred and forty four 
 Pounds Pennsylvania Currency of the Value of three hundred 
 and fifty five pounds and four Shillings Virginia Money, with 
 Interest from the 18th day of May 1775 untill paid and his 
 Cost about this Suit in that behalf expended. 
 
 Ordered that the said William Christy, Frederick Farrey, 
 George Littenberger, Archibald Steel and David Duncan be 
 summoned to attend the next Court, to shew what effects they 
 have in their hands the property of said George Croghan and 
 that the Sheriff make Sale for an towards Satisfaction of this 
 Judgement and make Return thereof. 
 
 Mortgage from John Bowley to John Campbell Esqr bearing 
 date the 1 4th day of November 1777 for a certain . Quantity of 
 Land &c on Shirteer's Creek was proved by the oath^of Rob- 
 ert Campbell and Andrew Heath, two of the Subscribing Wit- 
 nesses and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Ordered, that the recommendation for Militia Officers of the 
 5 th & 6th November last, by the Justices of this County, be 
 confirmed as the Opinion of this Court, and they do hereby 
 Confirm the proceedings of the said Justices respecting the 
 Same, as the distressed Situation of this County demanded the 
 particular attention of the said Justices at that time. 
 
 Ordered, that Gabriel Cox be recommended to his Excel- 
 lency the Governor as a proper person to serve as Major of 
 this County in the stead of Henry Taylor who has resigned his 
 Commission. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff William Harrison retain in his 
 
 (56) hands the sum of Seventeen pounds Seven Shillings part of the 
 County Collection for Conveying John Millegan a Criminal 
 to the Public Goal and other contingencies. 
 
120 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff Collect from Joseph Ross the sum 
 of Twenty Shillings which was adjudged his fine for swearing 
 last April term. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff deliver Colo Isaac Cox the sum of 
 Eighteen pounds to pay Paul Mathews due him as a Ballance 
 for building the Court house and Goal. 
 
 Upon the motion of William Harrison, Gent, ordered that 
 the Clerk issue a Summons to Call John Stephenson, Thomas 
 Gist, Joseph Beeler and Edmund Rice before the Court, to 
 testify and the truth say what they know respecting the mar- 
 riage of Catherine Harrison with Isaac Mason, on the part of 
 the said Catherine. 1 
 
 Masterson Clark obtained Judgment against Joshua Baker for 
 Thirty one pounds Pennsylvania Currency. John James Wood 
 Constable returns he has attached a Black horse and one Cow, 
 and the Sd Joshua failing to appear to replevy the said attached 
 Effects the Plff produced a Note of hand against the said Joshua 
 Defendant for Thirty one pounds Pennsa Currency with Credit 
 on the Back for three pounds two Shillings and six pence like 
 Currency. It is Considered by the Court that the said Master- 
 son Plff recover against the said Joshua Deft the sum of Twenty 
 two pounds Six Shillings Current Money and his Costs about 
 this Suit expended. Ordered that the Sheriff make Sale of the 
 Attached Effects or as much thereof as will be of value Suffi- 
 cient to Satisfy this Judgment and make return to next Court. 
 (57) John Campbell and Joseph Simon obtained an Attachment 
 against the Estate of Andrew Scott for four pounds Pennsyl- 
 vania Currency, who is said to be so absconded that the Ordi- 
 nary process of Law cannot be Served and the Sheriff having 
 returned that he had levied the said attachment in the hands 
 of Mathew Ritchey and the said Scott failing to appear and 
 replevy though solemnly called and the said Campbell and 
 Simon produced a proved account for the aforesaid four pounds 
 Pennsa Currency, Ordered that the Sheriff make Sale of so 
 much of the Estate of the said Andrew Scott, now in the hands 
 of the said Garnishee as will be sufficient to Satisfy the said 
 Plff for this Judgment of three pounds four Shillings and his 
 Cost in this behalf expended. 
 
 1 See the record of this matter made April 28, 1778, post. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 121 
 
 David Ritchey and James Wright produced Commissions 
 from his Excellency the Governor appointing them Captains 
 of the Militia which being read as usual, the said David Ritchie 
 and James Wright came into Court and took the Oaths of Cap- 
 tains of Militia. 
 
 John Lydea v Joseph Cox Case, PI C. 
 
 Benjamin Jones v Patrick McDaniel Assault, P. C. 
 
 Paulser Shillings v Spencer Collens Trespass, P. C. 
 
 Dorsey Pentecost v Christopher McDonald Case, P. C. 
 
 Zachariah Connell v Abraham Vaughan Debt, P. C. 
 
 David Wilson v Henry Bowling Case, P. C. 
 
 John Spivy v Samuel Beeler Case, P. C. 
 
 Jno Gallaher & uxr v Christian Summet Slander, P. C. 
 
 John Smith v Sarah Dye Debt, Cont'd 
 
 Wm Harrison Special Bail. 
 Joseph Lindsey v Geo Long Debt, Al Cap 
 Thomas Gist v Henry Boyles Case. A. C. 
 — Same — v Richard Waller. Case, A. C. 
 Same v John Hall, Slander, A. C. 
 (58) Hugh Brady v Jacob Feagley Case, Al Cap. 
 Richd Swipicks v Jacob Jones, Case, A. C. 
 Paul Froman v Robert McCrowry Debt, A: C: 
 Francis Morrison v Daniel Swigart, Debt A: C: 
 Henry Martin v Sam Patterson & D. Rennels, Debt, A: C: 
 John Lawrence v Thos Rogers Case, A: C: 
 Charles Norris v Thomas Rouse Case, dismissed 
 George Sekley v John Ramage, Case, A: C: 
 Susannah Sekley v Robert McKinley Case. A: C: 
 Eli Williams v Philip Taylor Case, A: C: 
 Thos Freeman, Gent, v Jno James & Saml Lynch, Case, 
 A: C: 
 
 Jacob Bausema v James Bradley Case, A: C 
 Elizabeth Burriss v Naomi Tampman Case, A: C: 
 Mary Burriss v Jno Johnson, M. Humble & Al, Case. 
 A: C: 
 
 James Johnston v Godfrey Waggoner — Case, A: C: 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff detain the Sum of six pounds out 
 of the County Collection for his Public Services as by Law 
 allowed. 
 
122 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff pay the Clerk of the Court the Sum 
 of Six pounds for his Public Service as by Law allowed. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned till the Court in Course. 
 
 Isaac Cox. 
 
 At a Court continued and held for Yohogania County March 
 23d 1778. 
 
 Present : Isaac Cox, Joshua Wright Thomas Freeman, 
 Benjamin Fry, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Ordered that Mary Mills be appointed Administratrix of 
 John Mills deceased, she complying with the Law. Where- 
 upon the said Mary Mills came into Court and took the Oath 
 of Administratrix of the Estate of John Mills deceased. 
 
 Mary Mills with Joshua Wright and James McMahon came 
 into Court and entered into Bond for her performance as Ad- 
 ministratrix of the Estate of John Mills deceased. 
 
 Zacheriah Connell and Joshua Wright Gent Present. 
 
 Ordered that James Wright, John Wall and John Cox or 
 any two of them being first sworn do appraise the estate of 
 John Mills deceased and make return to this Court. 
 
 Ordered that Joseph Tomlinson be appointed administrator 
 of the Estate of Saml Tomlinson deceased he complying with 
 the Law. Whereupon the said Joseph Tomlinson, came into 
 Court and took the Oath of Administrator of the Goods, Chat- 
 ties and Credits of the deceased and Entered into Bond with 
 John Wall and William Bruce his Securities. 
 
 Ordered that Isaac Williams, George Corn, and Robert Jack- 
 man or any two of them being first sworn do appraise such of 
 the Estate of Saml Tomlinson deceased as may be found in this 
 County, and that John Mitchell, David Shepeard, James Garri- 
 (60) son and Yeates Con well, or any three of them, they being first 
 sworn do appraise such of the said Estate as may be found in 
 Ohio County and make Return to next Court. 
 
 Joseph Wherry 
 
 v Then Came the Plaintiff and James Pat- 
 
 John White terson personally appeared in Court and 
 
 undertook for the Defendant that in Case he Shall be Cast in 
 this Suit he Shall pay and Satisfy the Condemnation of the 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 123 
 
 Court or render himself to prison in Execution for the same or 
 he the said James Patterson will do it for him. Whereupon 
 the said Defendant prays and has leave to imparl untill next 
 Court and then to plead, &c 
 
 The last Will and Testament of John Vance deceased was 
 proved by the Oaths of William Crawford and Samuel Hicks 
 two of the Subscribing Witnesses and ordered to be recorded. 
 Whereupon Margaret Vance and Edward Doyle came into 
 Court and took the oath of Executor and Executrix of the 
 Estate of the Said John deceased, and Entered into Bond 
 accordingly. 
 
 Ordered that Edward Rice William McKee, Edmund Lind- 
 sey and James Blackson or any three of them they being first 
 sworn do appraise the Estate of John Vance and make return 
 to next Court. 
 
 Oliver Miller and William Crawford Gent Present. 
 
 John Stephenson Gent, named in the Commission of the 
 peace came into Court and took the Oath of Justice of the 
 peace, aforesaid. 
 
 Archibald Hall 
 
 v Then came the Plaintiff, and Bazil 
 
 Thomas Bonfield Brown Personally appeared in Court and 
 
 (61) undertook for the Defendant that in Case he shall be cast in this 
 
 suit he Shall pay and Satisfy the Condemnation of the Court or 
 
 render his body to prison in Execution for the same, or he the 
 
 said Bazil Brown would do it for him. 
 
 Whereupon the said Defendant prays and has leave to imparl 
 untill nixt Court, when he is to plead, &c. 
 
 Joseph Cox 
 
 v Then came the Plaintiff, and Thos Bond- 
 
 John Williams field personally appeard in Court and un- 
 dertook for said Defendant that in Case he was cast in this 
 suit, he should pay and Satisfy the Condemnation of the Court 
 or render his Body to Prison in execution for the same, or the 
 said Thomas Bondfield would do it for him. Whereupon the 
 Defendant prays and has leave to imparl untill next Court when 
 he is to plead 
 
124 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Joseph Cox 
 
 v Then came the Plff, and Francis Hull 
 
 Theodore Davis personally appeard in Court and under- 
 took for said Defendant that in Case he was Cast in this Suit he 
 should pay and Satisfy the Condemnation of the Court or ren- 
 der his body to prison in execution for the same, or that he, 
 the said Francis Hull would do it for him. Whereupon the 
 said Defendant prays and has leave to imparl untill next Court 
 when he is to plead. 
 
 Sale of the Estate of Garret Newgel deceased returned by the 
 Administratrix and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Thomas Freeman, Gent, produced a Commission from his 
 Excellency the Governor, appointing him Captain of the Mi- 
 litia which being read, the said Thomas came into Court and 
 took the Oath of Captain of the Militia. 
 
 Thomas Prather, Levingston Thomas, & Nicholas Christ, 
 produced Commissions from his Excellency the Governor ap- 
 pointing them Lieutenants in the Militia of this County, which 
 being read, the said Thomas Prather, Levingston Thomas, and 
 Nicholas Christ came into Court and took the Oath of Lieuten- 
 ants of Militia. 
 
 Luke Decker and John Johnson produced Commissions from 
 his Excellency the Governor appointing them Ensigns in the 
 Militia, for this County, which being read the said Luke Decker 
 and John Johnson came into Court and took Oath of Ensigns 
 of the Militia. 
 
 Thomas Cook 
 
 v Then came the Plaintiff, and John 
 
 Levingston Thomas Wall personally appeared and under- 
 took that in Case the Defendant shall be Cast in this Suit, he 
 shall satisfy the Condemnation of the Court or render his Body 
 to the Prison of this County in Execution of the same, or he 
 the said John Wall will do it for him. Whereupon the said 
 Defendant prays and has liberty to imparl untill next Court 
 and then to plead. 
 
 John Decamp Gent named in the Commission of the 
 peace came into Court and took the Oath of Justice of the 
 peace. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 125 
 
 Bargain and Sale from Samuel Heth to Patrick McElroy for 
 300 acres of Land, acknowledged by said Heath and ordered to 
 be recorded. 
 
 Upon the Petition of John Rattan, Ordered that Peter Res- 
 ner, George Berkhimer, Nicholas Christ and David Ritchie, 
 (63) view a Road, the nearest and the best way from the house of 
 Edward Cook crossing the Monongahela river at the house of 
 John Rattan to Zebulon Collins on the Road leading from Per- 
 kersons to Thos Egertons, they being first sworn and make Re- 
 turn to next Court. 
 
 Richard Yeates and Benj Kirkendal Gent. Present. 
 
 Upon the information of Joseph Beeler Gent, that a certain 
 Samuel Wells and Johanna Farrow doth at this time and hath 
 for some time past beat wounded and evilly treated Ann the 
 wife of the aforesaid Samuel. Ordered that the Clerk issue a 
 Subpona to Call the said Samuel Wells and Johana Farrow 
 before the next Court to be held for this County to answer to 
 the above charge and that Joseph Davis and Hannah his wife/ 
 John Crawford arid Effee his wife, John Minter, Moses White, 
 and Edmond Lindsey be subponed as Witnesses. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to tomorrow morning 
 at 7 oClock. 
 
 W. Crawford. 
 
 March 24th 1778, the Court met pursuant to adjournment. 
 
 Present : John Campbell, Isaac Cox, Richard Yeates, Joshua 
 Wright, Wm Crawford, Oliver Miller, Zacheriah Connell, John 
 Decamp, Benjn Fry, Thos Freeman, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Lease Charles Norris to William Nation for two hundred 
 acres of Land acknowledged by said Norris party thereto and 
 ordered to be recorded. 
 
 The last Will and Testament of William Chaplin deceased 
 was proved by Charles Bilderback and William Nation two of 
 the subscribing Witnesses and Ordered to be recorded. 
 (64) Benj Kirkindal present. 
 
 Upon the motion of James Wherry in behalf of Joseph 
 Wherry Plff against John White Deft Ordered that a Dedimus 
 be issued to take the Examination of Thomas McDowell, 
 Mathew Wilson, and William Wilson, Inhabitants of Cumber- 
 
126 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 land County in the State of Pennsylvania without being directed 
 to any Particular Majistrates of the Said County. 
 
 John Campbell Gentlemen objects to the above Order. 
 
 John Stephenson Gent present. 
 
 Upon motion of John Jackson, Ordered that his mark, a 
 Crop and slit in the near Ear and under slit in the right Ear be 
 recorded. 
 
 Upon motion of George Rowler, Ordered that his Mark, two 
 Swallow forks in the left Ear and two half pennys in the Right 
 be recorded. 
 
 Ordered that Lettice Griffeth be appointed Administratrix of 
 the Estate of Edwd Griffeth deceased she complying with the 
 Law. Whereupon the said Letice came into Court with John 
 Wall and James Wright her Security and entered into bond and 
 took the Oath accordingly. 
 
 Ordered that William Rice John Smith Nathaniel Brown and 
 Henry Daniel do appraise all the Goods, Chatties and Credits 
 of Edward Griffeth and make return to next Court. 
 
 James McGoldreck, being charged with pulling down and 
 demolishing a Block house erected by Orders of General Hand 
 for the preservation of the Inhabitants at Pittsburg, and the 
 said James being brought into Court Confessed the Charge : 
 Ordered, that the said James be held in One hundred pounds, 
 with two Securities of fifty pounds each, for the appearance of 
 the said James before the next Grand Jury Court, otherwise to 
 remain in Custody by the Sheriff. 
 (65) John Campbell William Crawford John Decamp Jno Mc- 
 Dowell, Benjamin Fry and Benjn Kirkindal Gent, Absent 
 
 George Vallandingham Gent, Present. 
 
 Bill of Sale. Susannah Nugent to Mordecai Richards proved 
 by the Oaths of Michael Teggart, and Richard Richards, two 
 of the Subscribing Witnesses and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Richard Yeates Gent objects to this Order. 
 
 Bargain and Sale. Thomas Marshall to James Parker for a 
 certain tract of Land on the waters of Chirteers. Acknowl- 
 edged by said Marshall party thereto, and ordered to be 
 recorded . 
 
 Bargain and Sale. William Poston to James Ellis for a 
 Survey proved by the Oath of Benjamin Collins one of the 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 127 
 
 Subscribing witnesses. Ordered that a Dediraus do issue to 
 take the Examination of Catherine Collins a Subscribing Wit- 
 ness to the above Bill of Sale. 
 
 Daniel Jacobs came into Court and took the Oath of Lieu- 
 tenant of the Militia. 
 
 Michael Martain produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Lieutenant of Militia which being 
 read as usual the said Michael came into Court and took the 
 Oath of Lieut of the Militia. 
 
 Michael Martain enters himself Defendant in an Action of 
 Ejectment at the Suit of the Lesse of John Washington, in the 
 room of the Casual Ejector. 
 
 James McGoldreck with Michael Tygert and Robert Hender- 
 son his Surety s, the said James in the sum of _£ioo and the 
 said Sureties in ^50 each, for the appearance of the said James 
 before the next Grand Jury Court. 
 
 Bargain and Sale James Roberts to Thomas Dickerson ac- 
 knowledged by said Roberts and ordered to be recorded. 
 (66) Enoch Springer and Cornelius Manning being summoned as 
 
 Garnishees at the Suit of William Dunnaighan against Ben- 
 jamin Newgent came into Court and deposed that the said 
 Springer hath four pounds two shillings Pennsylvania Cur- 
 rency, and the said Manning five pounds five shillings and 
 nine Pence, like money and no more of the Estate of the said 
 Benjamin. 
 
 View of a road from the Court house to Pittsburg, returned 
 by Zadock Wright and Robert Henderson, viewers ; passing 
 by Zadock Wright's fields on Peters Creek, thence along the 
 dividing Ridge passing the Widow Lapsleys, thence along the 
 Old Road to Stewart's, thence along the old road to Jacob 
 Bousman's ; Ordered to be Confirmed. 
 
 Ordered that Zadock Wright be appointed Overseer of the 
 Road from the Court house to Martha Lapsley's; Robert 
 Henderson, Overseer of the Road from Martha Lapsley's to 
 Jacob Judy's; and Sebastian Frederick, Overseer of the Road 
 from Jacob Judy's to Jacob Bousman's ; and that the Tythable 
 Inhabitants within three miles on each side of said Road work 
 on and keep it in repair together with the Inhabitants of the 
 town of Pittsburg. 
 
128 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 William Brashiers 
 
 v In Case. Then came the Plff, Robert 
 
 Robert Hamilton Hamilton having been Called failed to ap- 
 pear. Then came a Jury to wit. Gabriel Cox John Hogland, 
 James Wright, Nicholas Christ, Banjamin Vannatre, Jacob Bause- 
 man, William Christy, Pearce Noland, Benjamin Collens, Patrick 
 McElroy, Zadock Wright and David Ritchie, who say they find 
 for Plff Two hundred pounds damages with Costs of Suit. 
 
 Bargain and Sale. Isaac Cox to John McDowell for one 
 (67) thousand Acres of Land in Kentucke County, acknowledged 
 by the said Cox and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 William Goe Gent. Present. 
 
 Bargain and Sale. Isaac Cox to Garrat Vineman for five 
 hundred acres of Land in Kentucke County, acknowledged by 
 said Cox and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Bill of Sale. John Campbell to Ignace Labat for a house 
 and Lot in the town of Pittsburg, acknowledged by said Camp- 
 bell and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Elizabeth Burris 
 
 v Then Came the Plaintiff, and John 
 
 Nahomy Tapman Lydia Personally appeared in Court and 
 undertook for the Defendant that in Case he shall be cast in' 
 this Suit she shall Satisfy and pay the Condemnation of the 
 Court or render her body to prison in Execution for the 
 same or he the said John Lydia would do it for her. Where- 
 upon the said Nahomy prays and has leave to imparl untill 
 next Court and then to plead. 
 
 Mary Ferry and Samuel Ewalt are appointed Administrator 
 and Administratrix of the Estate of Frederick Ferry deceased 
 they complying with the law. W hereupon the said Samuel 
 and Mary came into Court and took the Oath and Entered 
 into Bond accordingly. Ordered that David Duncan, John 
 Ormsby, and Willm Christy and John Anderson or any 
 three of them being first sworn appraise the Estate of Frederick 
 Ferry deceased and make Return to next Court. 
 
 John Lydia 
 
 v Then came the Plff, and and John Douglass 
 
 Joseph Cox personally appeared in Court and undertook for 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 129 
 
 the Defendant that in Case he should be Cast in this Suit he 
 should Satisfy & pay the Condemnation of the Court or sur- 
 render his body to the Prison in Execution for the same or that 
 he the said John Douglass would do it for him. Whereupon 
 
 (68) the said Deft prays and has leave to imparl untill Next Court 
 and then to plead. 
 
 James Murphy 
 
 v Then came the Plff, and John Wall per- 
 
 Jacob Jones sonally appeared in Court and undertook 
 for the Defendant that in Case he Shall be Cast in this Action 
 he shall Satisfy the Condemnation of the Court or render his 
 body to prison in Execution for the same or that he the said 
 John Wall will do it for him. Whereupon the said Defendant 
 prays and has leave to imparl untill next Court and then to 
 plead. 
 
 John Whitaker, a minister of the Gospel, came into Court 
 and took the Oath of Allegience & fidelity, as directed by an 
 act of General Assembly, intituled an Act to Oblige the free 
 male Inhabitants of this State, above a certain Age, to give 
 Assurance of Allegience to the same and for other purposes. 
 
 Bargain and Sale. Thomas Cook & Michael Thomas to 
 John McMullen for three hundred and thirteen Acres of Land 
 acknowledged by said Cook and Michael Thomas and ordered 
 to be recorded. 
 
 Bargain and Sale. Thomas Egerton to John McDowell, 
 proved by the Oath of Isaac Leet, James Bradford and James 
 Allison and Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 The last Will and Testament of James Pearce deed was 
 proved by the Oath of James Wall, Joseph Warner and Walter 
 Wall, Subscribing Witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded 
 
 Bazil Brown In Case 
 
 v 
 Robert Hamilton Then Came the Plaintiff and then came 
 also a Jury, to wit Gabriel Cox John Hogland, James Wright, 
 
 (69) Nicholas Christ, Benjamin Vannatre, Jacob Bousman, William 
 Christy, Pearce Nowland, Patrick McElroy, Zadock Wright, 
 David Ritchie and John Wall, who being sworn say they find 
 for the Plff thirty pounds damages with Costs of Suit. 
 
130 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 David Duncan a Garnishee in behalf of John Campbell 
 against George Croghan, came into Court and says on Oath 
 that he hath in his hands One hundred and Seventy nine Bush- 
 ells and three pecks of Corn for which he has agreed to pay 
 one Dollar per Bushell and no more of the Estate of the said 
 George in his hands. 
 
 William Dunaughagain having obtained an Attachment 
 against the Estate of Benjamin Nugent for three hundred and 
 forty seven Pounds ten shillings Pennsylvania Money and the 
 Sheriff having returned that he had levied the Said Attachment 
 in the hands of Enoch Springer and Cornelius Manning and 
 summoned them as Garnishees who this day came into Court 
 and say that they have Nine pounds, fifteen Shillings and nine 
 pence Pennsylvania Currency in their hands and no more of 
 the Estate of the said Benjamin in their hands and the said 
 Benjamin failing to appear and replevy the said Attached Ef- 
 fects tho Solemnly Called the said William produced a Bond 
 against the said Benjamin for the aforesaid Sum of three hun- 
 dred and forty seven pounds ten shillings Current Money of 
 Pennsylvania. It is considered by the Court that the sd 
 William recover against the said Benjamin the sum of two hun- 
 dred and seventy eight pounds Current Money with Interest 
 from the first day of October 1777 untill paid with Costs. 
 Ordered that the Sheriff Collect the said money from the said 
 Garnishees and pay it towards Satisfying this Judgment and 
 make return of his proceeding to this Court. 
 
 Ordered that a Dedimus issue for the Examination of Eleanor 
 Ackerson witness between John Lydia and Joseph Cox 
 (70) Ordered that Casper Sickler be allowed two days attendance 
 
 as a Witness attending Court in the suit of William Brasheers 
 v Robert Hamilton. 
 
 1 Ordered that Thomas Talbert be allowed twelve days as a 
 witness in said Suit. 
 
 Ordered that a Dedimus issue for the Examination of John 
 Crow a Witness in the Suit of Hugh Braudy against Jacob 
 Feagley 
 
 Upon the motion of Thomas Applegate on behalf of Cathe- 
 rine Dablin now a Servant to the said Thomas that a certain 
 Peter Brandon of the town of Pittsburg now unjustly detains an 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 131 
 
 Infant Girl born of the body of the said Catherine. Ordered 
 that the said Peter' Brandon deliver the said Infant Girl to the 
 said Thomas Appelgate who is ordered to bring the Said Infant 
 Girl here before the next Court to be held for this County. 
 
 Mathew Ritchey Gent Present. 
 
 Ordered that a Dedimus issue for the Examination of Casper 
 Sickley a Witness in Behalf of William Brashiers against Robert 
 Hamilton. 
 
 Upon Motion of Thomas Hamilton in behalf of Robert 
 Hamilton praying a New Tryal and farther Hearing in the 
 Suit of William Brashiers against Robert Hamilton. It is the 
 Opinion of the Court that the Said Suit be reheard 
 
 William Brashiers 
 
 v Then came the Plaintiff, and personally 
 
 Robert Hamilton appeared Thomas Hamilton and under 
 took for the Defendant that in Case he shall be cast in this Suit 
 he shall Sstisfy and pay the Condemnation of the Court or render 
 his body to prison in Execution for the same or he the. said 
 (71) Thomas would do it for him, Whereupon the Defendant prays 
 and has leave to imparl till next Court and then to plead. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to tomorrow morning 
 7 oClock. 
 
 John Canon. 
 
 March 25th 1778 — The Court met Pursuant to adjournment. 
 
 Present : John Campbell, William Crawford, Richard Yeates, 
 John Decamp, John Stephenson, Joshua Wright, John Mc- 
 Dowell, Zacheriah Connell, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Upon the motion of Thomas Hamilton in behalf of Robert 
 Hamilton praying a new Tryal and farther hearing of the suit 
 of Bazil Brown it is the Opinion of the Court that the Said Suit 
 be reheard. 
 
 Bazil Brown 
 
 v Then came the Plaintiff, and Thomas 
 
 Robert Hamilton Hamilton personally appeared in Court 
 and under took for the said Defendant that in Case he shall be 
 cast in this Suit he shall pay and satisfy the Condemnation of 
 the Court and Costs of Suit or render his body to prison in 
 
132 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Execution for the same or that he the said Thos Hamilton 
 would do it for him. Whereupon the said Defendant prays 
 and has leave to imparl untill next Court and then to plead. 
 
 Ordered that a Dedimus do issue to take the Examination of 
 Casper Sickler a witness in behalf of Bazil Brown against Robert 
 Hamilton. 
 
 Present : Isaac Cox, Wm Goe Oliver MOler Mathew Ritchey 
 Saml Newell Thos Freeman, Benjn Kerkendal, John Cannon, 
 & George Valandingham, Gent Justices. 
 
 (72) Ordered that John Stephenson and Isaac Cox be recom- 
 mended as proper persons to serve as Colonels of the Militia, 
 Joseph Beeler and George Valandingham as Lieutenant Colonels 
 and William Harrison and Gabriel Cox as Majors of Militia. 
 
 William Christy came into Court being summoned as Gar- 
 nishee in behalf of John Campbell and Joseph Simon against 
 George Croghan ; being sworn, saith that he hath two pair of 
 Geers, one old ax, one old Spade, one pitch Fork one small 
 box of Iron and an old Lanthorn, and no more of the Estate of 
 said George in his hands. 
 
 John Stephenson & Isaac Cox produced Commissions from 
 his Excellency the Governor appointing them Colonels of the 
 Militia which being read the said John and Isaac came into 
 Court and took the Oath of Colonels of Militia. 
 
 John Campbell, William Crawford Zachy Connell, John 
 Cannon, John Stephenson, John Decamp, Gent, absent. 
 
 Gabriel Cox produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor, for appointing him Major of Militia, which 
 being read the said Gabriel came into Court and swore into 
 said Commission 
 
 George Vallandingham produced a Commission from the 
 Governor appointing him Lieut. Colonel of the Militia, which 
 being read the said George Vallandingham came into Court 
 & Swore to his Commission 
 
 Charles Reed came into Court and produced a Commission 
 from his Excellency the Governor appointing him Lieutenant 
 of Militia, which being read the said Charles came into Court 
 and Swore to said Commission. 
 
 David Lefergee produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 
 (73) the Governor appointing him Ensign of the Militia Whereupon 
 the said David came into Court and Swore to his Commission. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 133 
 
 Edmund Baxter produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Captain of the Militia. Where- 
 upon the said Edmund came into Court and swore into his 
 Commission. 
 
 Samuel Smith produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor, which being read the said Samuel came into 
 Court and Swore into his Commission. 
 
 Upon the Petition of Samuel Cook, setting forth that he is 
 desirous of building a Water Mill on Brushy Run, a Branch of 
 Chirteers Creek l and praying for an Order for the Condemna- 
 tion of one acre of Land on the opposite side of said Run to 
 said Cooks Land : Ordered that the Sheriff summon a Jury of 
 Twelve Free holders of the Vicinage, to meet on the Said Land 
 petitioned for and they being first sworn shall diligently view 
 the said Lands and Lands adjacent thereto on both sides of the 
 Run together with the Timber and other conveniences thereon, 
 with the true value of the Acre, and of the damages done to 
 the party holding the same, and report the same to the next 
 Court under their hands and seals 
 
 Ordered that a Dedimus issue to take the Examination of 
 Hatton Wells in behalf of Zacheriah Connell against Samuel 
 Wells. 
 
 Oliver Miller Gent returned ten Shillings received from 
 Thomas "Pritchard & Philip Dougherty for swearing two pro- 
 fane Oaths Ordered that the Sheriff receive the said Money 
 and account with the Court at the laying of the levy. 
 
 Bargain and Sale, from John Harry to Robert Henderson for 
 a tract of Land acknowledged by the said Harry and ordered to 
 be recorded. 
 
 John Greathouse is appointed Administrator of Daniel Great - 
 (74) house deceased he complying with the Law, Whereupon the 
 said John Came into Court with Thos Cook and Samuel Smith 
 his Securities, entered into Bond and Oath accordingly. 
 
 Ordered that Nathaniel Tomblinson Benjamin Tomblinson, 
 John Baxter and Edmund Baxter or any three of them appraise 
 the Estate of Daniel Greathouse deceased and make report to 
 next Court. 
 
 1 Can this be the Brush Run emptying into Chartiers Creek within a mile 
 below Canonsburgh ? 
 
134 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Enoch Springer is appointed Administrator of the Estate of 
 Lemuel Davis, he complying with the Law. Whereupon the 
 said Enoch with John Springer his Security came into Court 
 and entered into Bond and Oath accordingly 
 
 Ordered that Benjamin Reno, Christopher Miller Thomas 
 Redman & Samuel Rice or any three of them, they being first 
 sworn to appraise the Estate of Lemuel Davis deceased, and 
 make report to next Court. 
 
 William Christy is appointed Administrator of the Estate of 
 Francis Brown deceased, he complying with the Law. Where- 
 upon the said Christy came into Court with Samuel Evalt his 
 Security and entered into bond and oath accordingly 
 
 Ordered that Jacob Bousman, Samuel Evalt, David Duncan 
 and John Ormsby or any three of them being first sworn to ap- 
 praise all the goods Chatties and Credits of Francis Brown de- 
 ceased and make Return to next Court. 
 
 On motion of Charles Reed, Ordered that his Mark a Crop in 
 the left Ear and a Crop and Slit in the right Ear be recorded. 
 
 On Motion of John Hall, Ordered that his Mark, a slit in 
 the left Ear and a Crop in the right Ear be recorded 
 (75) Upon Motion of Thomas Applegate, Ordered that his Mark 
 a Crop and hole in the near Ear be recorded. 
 
 Thomas Gist 
 
 v Then came the Plff, and Isaac Pearce 
 
 Richard Waller personally appeared in Court and under- 
 took for the defendant that in Case he shall be cast in this Suit 
 he shall pay and Satisfy the Condemnation of the Court or 
 render his body to prison in Execution for the Same, or that he 
 the said Isaac Pearce would do it for him. Whereupon the 
 Defendant prays and has leave to imparl untill next Court and 
 then to plead. 
 
 The Commonwealth 
 v 
 
 Jacob Shilling (a criminal) being charged with a dissafection 
 to the Common Wealth. 
 
 Then came the Defendant, who pleads, Not Guilty : Where- 
 upon Came a Jury, to wit : Patrick McElroy, Bazil Brown, 
 
Minutes of Court ov Yohogania County. 135 
 
 Benjamin Vanatre, John Custard, James Ellison, Pierce Noland, 
 William Marshall, Sen; William Marshall Jun, John Munn, 
 John Greathouse, Robert Henderson & John Morrison ; who 
 say that the Prisoner is Not Guilty. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of Jeremiah Wood, deceased, returned 
 by the appraisers & ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Thomas Gist 
 
 v Then came the Plaintiff, and Isaac Pearce 
 
 John Hall personally appeared in Court and undertook 
 
 for the Defendant, that in Case he shall be cast in this Suit he 
 shall satisfy and pay the Condemnation of the Court or render 
 his body to prison in Execution for the same or that he the said 
 Isaac Pearce would do it for him. Whereupon the Defendant 
 prays and has leave to imparl untill next Court and then to 
 plead. 
 
 Charles Bilderback produced a Commission from his Excel - 
 (76) lency the Governor, appointing him Ensign of the Militia. 
 Whereupon the said Charles came into Court and swore into 
 said Commission. 
 
 Isaac Pearce produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Captain of the Militia. Where- 
 upon the said Isaac Came into Court and Swore to said Com- 
 mission 
 
 Josiah Springer produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Captain of the Militia. Where- 
 upon the said Josiah came into Court and swore to said Com- 
 mission. 
 
 George Redman produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor, appointing him Lieutenant of Militia. Where- 
 upon the Sd George came into Court and swore to said Com- 
 mission. 
 
 Elijah Pearce produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor, appointing him Lieutenant of Militia. Where- 
 upon the said Elijah came into Court and Swore to said Com- 
 mission. 
 
 Richard Waller produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor, appointing him Lieutenant of Militia. Where- 
 upon the said Richard came into Court and Swore to said Com- 
 mission. 
 
136 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that a Bill of Indictment be preferred to the Grand 
 Jury against John Nelson, for assalting John Johnston Con- 
 stable in the Execution of his Office. 
 
 Ordered that a Bill of Indictment be preferred to the Grand 
 
 Jury against Henry Newkirk Isaac Newkirk Carter, John 
 
 Williams John Hull Thomas Reed and Henry Hull, for refusing 
 to assist the Constable in the Execution of his Office when 
 assaulted in the same. 
 
 Bill of Sale. James Vanatre to Henry Morrison, proved by 
 the Oaths of John Munn & John Morrison the two Subscribing 
 witnesses and Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 (77) 
 
 Robert McKey 
 v 
 
 Moses Davison Case Ordered to be dismissed at the 
 
 Plaintiffs Request. 
 
 Upon the motion of Thomas Cook, Ordered That he have 
 leave to keep a Ordinary at his dwelling House the ensuing 
 year, he complying with the Law. 
 
 On motion of Jacob Bousman Ordered that he have leave to 
 keep an Ordinary at his Dwelling house, opposite the town of 
 Pittsburgh, for the ensuing year, he complying with the Law. 
 
 Upon the motion of John Munn ordered that he have leave 
 to keep an Ordinary at his Dwelling house, the ensuing year, 
 he complying with the Law. 
 
 Jacob Shilling came into Court & Swore the peace against 
 John Nelson, who is ordered to give Security for his peaceable 
 deportment and good demeanor for one year, next ensuing, the 
 said John Nelson held in fifty pounds, and Chrisley Crawbill 
 his Security in fifty pounds. 
 
 Upon motion of William Christy Ordered that he have leave 
 to keep an Ordinary at his Dwelling house in the town of Pitts- 
 burgh, the ensuing year, he complying with the Law. 
 
 Upon the motion of Josiah Snowden, Ordered that his mark 
 a Crop and Slit in the left Ear and an Under an uper Slit in 
 the right ear be recorded. 
 
 Ordered that Jonathan Rogers, Thomas Wilson, David 
 Phillips William Nemons, George Gillespie John White Junr, 
 Benjamin Wells, Moses Bradley, Nicholas Harrison, Jonathan 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 137 
 
 Philips, Bazil Weeks, John Hull and Benjamin Vanatre be ap- 
 pointed Constables the ensuing year and that they be summoned 
 to next Court to qualify into said Office. 
 
 (78) William Bruce and Thomas Pollock produced Commissions 
 from his Excellency the Governor which being read the said 
 William and Thomas came into Court and swore to said Com- 
 missions. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to tomorrow at 7 
 oClock. 
 
 John Canon. 
 
 March 26th 1778, the Court met according to adjournment. 
 
 Present : John Cannon, Richard Yeates, Joshua Wright, 
 Samuel Newell, William Crawford, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Upon the Petition of John Johnston ; Ordered that Gabriel 
 Cox, James Wright, Nathaniel Blackmore, and Paul Froman, 
 or any three of them, they being first sworn view a road the 
 nearest and the best way from the Court house to Pentecost's 
 Mills ' on Chirteers Creek and make Return to Next Court. 
 
 Benjamin Jones v Patrick McDonald, Assault. P. C. 
 
 Paulser Shilling v Spencer Collins, Trespass P. C. 
 
 Dorsey Pentecost 
 v 
 
 Christopher McDonald The Defendant being arrested and 
 failing to appear, tho' Solemnly called, On motion of the 
 Plaintiff It is ordered that unless the Defendant shall appear at 
 the next Court and answer the plaintiffs Action that Judgment 
 shall be then given against the said Defendant and his Ap- 
 pearance Bail for the Damages in the Declaration mentioned 
 & Costs 
 
 (79) Zachariah Connell v Abraham Vaughan Debt P. C. 
 David Wilson v Henry Bowling Debt P. C. 
 
 John Spivy v Samuel Beeler. Trespass P. C. 
 
 John Gallaher & wife v Christian Sumitt Slander P. C. 
 
 Joseph Lindsey v George Lang Debt P. C. 
 
 Richard Swipicks v Jacob Jones. Case P. C. 
 
 Paul Froman v Robert McCrowdy Debt P. C. 
 
 Frances Morrison v Daniel Swigart Debt P. C. 
 
 Henry Martin v Samuel Patterson Debt — Agreed. 
 
 1 Now, or late Beck's Mills, or Linden, North Strabane tp. 
 
138 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 John Lawrence 
 v 
 
 Thomas Rogers The Defendant being arrested and failing 
 to appear tho Solemnly Called, On Motion of the Plaintff It 
 is Ordered that unless the Defendant shall appear at the next 
 Court and answer the Plaintiffs Action that Judgment shall 
 then be given against the said Defendant his appearance Bail 
 for the Damages in the Declaration mentioned and Costs. 
 
 George Sekley v John Ramage Case, P. C. 
 
 Susannah Sekley v Robert McKindley Case, P. C. 
 
 Eli Williams v Philip Tabor Debt Agreed 
 
 Thomas Freeman v Jno James & Saml Lynch Case, P. C. 
 
 Jacob Bousman v John Bradley Case. P. C. 
 John Johnston — \ 
 
 Mary Burris v Michael Humble — V Case P C 
 Abraham Jones — ) 
 
 James Johnston v Godfrey Wagoner Case P. C. 
 
 Jacob Shilling v Henry Newkirk Case A. C. 
 
 Same v Same Debt A: C: 
 
 James Dunaghagan v James Gray Case A: C: 
 
 Paul Froman v John Dean Case A: C 
 
 Thomas Cook v Richard Dickerson Case A: C 
 
 William Thompson v John Fife Senr Assault A: C 
 
 James Miller v Jacob Peatt Case Agreed. 
 
 Francis Reno produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Lieutenant of the Militia which 
 being read the said Francis Came into Court and swore into 
 said Commission 
 (80) Maybary Evans produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Captain of the Militia which 
 being read, the said Maybury came into Court and Swore to 
 his Commission 
 
 George Waddle produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor, appointing him Ensign of the Militia which 
 being read the said George came into Court and Swore to his 
 Commission. 
 
 Joseph Vance and David Cox produced Commissions from 
 his Excellency the Governor appointing them Lieutenants in 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 139 
 
 the Militia which being read the said Joseph and David came 
 into Court and Swore to said Commissions. 
 
 Ordered, that the Wife of Robert Crawford a poor Soldier 
 now in the Continental service, be allowed the sum of four 
 pounds per month for the support of herself and three Children ; 
 and that this Court do draw on the Treasurer of this Common 
 Wealth for the same. 
 
 Ordered, that Sarah Stewart, the wife of ■ Stewart, a 
 
 poor soldier in the Continental service, be allowed the sum of 
 three pounds per month, for the support of herself and two 
 Children, to commence the 25th day of January last, and that 
 this Court do draw on the Treasurer of this Common Wealth 
 for the same. 
 
 Ordered that Colo John Campbell pay unto Richard Yeates 
 Gent, the money now in his hands allowed to Mrs Nox for her 
 and Childrens Support by a former Order of this Court and this 
 Court and the said Mr. Yeates is requested to deliver the said 
 money to said Mrs Nox. 
 (81) Ordered that Colo John Campbell pay to Benjamin Fry 
 
 Gentleman the money now in his hand allowed the wives of 
 William and Abraham Ritchey for their and Children's Sup- 
 port by a former Order of this Court and the said Fry is 
 requested to pay said money to said women. 
 
 Joshua Wright, Gent, absent. 
 
 John Campbell produced an Indenture from John Milligan 
 ' and Martha Milligan, binding Wm Milligan to Robert Camp- 
 
 bell untill he arrives to the age of Twenty one years and prays 
 the Consent of the Court to said Indenture which is accordingly 
 consented to. 
 
 Ordered that John Minter, Maybery Evans, Nathan Ellis, 
 Edward Kemp, Josiah Record, and James Scott be recom- 
 mended to his Excellency as proper persons to serve as Captains 
 of Militia and John Mason, James Hopkins Samuel Newell, 
 John Chamberline Willm McCarmick Richard Crooks Nathl 
 Blackmore Francis Reno, Robert Henderson, Thomas Lapsley, 
 Willm Everard George Long Thomas Reed John White Junr 
 & James Wherry as Lieutenants of Militia and Robert Newell, 
 Michael Tygert Lewis Reno, George Wadale George Christ, 
 Isaac McMichael William Murley, Edmund Riggs Samuel 
 Johnston & Samuel Alexander as Ensigns- of Militia. 
 
140 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Josiah Records produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Captain of the Militia which was 
 read and sworn to accordingly. 
 (82) George Long produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Lieutenant of Militia which was 
 read and sworn to accordingly. 
 
 Samuel Newell produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Lieutenant of Militia which was 
 read and sworn to accordingly. 
 
 Upon the Motion of Zadock Wright Ordered that his Mark 
 an under bit in the right ear and crop and slit in the left ear be 
 recorded. 
 
 Ordered that the Effects of George Croghan in the hands of 
 David Duncan and William Christy by them returned as Gar- 
 nishees at the Suit of John Campbell and Joseph Simon against 
 said Croghan be secured by the Sheriff for further proceedings 
 thereof, and that an attachment issue against George Lighten- 
 berger who was summoned Garnishee in behalf of the Plaintiffs 
 in said Suit and failed to appear to declare how much and what 
 of the Estate of the said George was in his hands. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to the Court in Course. 
 
 W. Crawford. 
 
 ( To be continued. ) 
 
Publications of the Carnegie Museum Serial No. 23 
 
 ANNALS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
 
 Vol. II. No. 2 
 
 W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., Editor 
 J. B. HATCHER, Ph.B., Associate Editor 
 
 Published by the Authority of the 
 
 Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute 
 
 September, 1903 
 
Publications of the Carnegie Museum Serial No. 23 
 
 ANNALS 
 
 CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
 
 Vol. II. No. 2 
 
 W. J. HOLLAND, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., Editor 
 J. B. HATCHER, Ph.B., Associate Editor 
 
 Published by the Authority of the 
 
 Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute 
 
 September, 1903 
 
VII. MINUTE BOOK OF VIRGINIA COURT HELD 
 FOR YOHOGANIA COUNTY, FIRST AT AUGUSTA 
 TOWN (NOW WASHINGTON, PA.), AND AFTER- 
 WARDS ON THE ANDREW HEATH FARM 
 NEAR WEST ELIZABETH; 1 776-1 780. 1 
 
 Edited by Boyd Crumrine, of Washington, Pa. 
 
 Introductory. 
 
 It will have been observed that the organization of the Virginia 
 court at Fort Dunmore (now Pittsburgh) for the District of West 
 Augusta, was on February 21, 1775 : Vol. I., p. 525, of these Annals; 
 that the last sessions of that court were held at Augusta Town (or Cat- 
 fish Camp, now Washington), on November 20, 1776 : Idem, p. 568 ; 
 that in the meantime the Monongahela Declaration of Independence 
 had been promulgated at two points in the Monongahela Valley, on 
 the same day, to wit, May 16, 1775, more than one year antedating 
 the Declaration of Independence read to the assembled people from 
 the southern front of the State House at Philadelphia, on July 4, 1776 : 
 Idem, p. 519 ; and that in October, 1776, the legislature of Virginia, 
 now a sovereign state of the new American confederation, divided the 
 District of West Augusta into three new counties, Ohio, Yohogania 
 and Monongalia, all shown, with reasonable accuracy, as it is be- 
 lieved, on the map in Vol. I. of these Annals, facing p. 518. 
 
 The sessions of the court for Yohogania County were held first at 
 Augusta Town (Catfish Camp, now Washington) from December 23, 
 1776, until August 25, 1777 : these Annals, Vol. II., p. 91 : and 
 from the latter date until the Virginia jurisdiction was wholly ousted, 
 on the farm of Andrew Heath (then in old Washington County), West 
 of the Monongahela River, and near the present dividing line be- 
 tween Washington and Allegheny counties. A portion of the Order 
 Book (usually called the Minute Book in our courts) of the Yohogania 
 
 1 Continued from pp. 71-140, this volume. 
 
 205 
 
206 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 County court has already been given, and the following is a continua- 
 tion thereof. 
 
 What was Pennsylvania Doing ? 
 
 It has already been noted, perhaps, that a large amount of business 
 of almost every nature and kind was transacted in these Virginia 
 courts, and it would appear that a large majority of the inhabitants of 
 the Monongahela Valley submitted their persons and property to the 
 laws and courts of Virginia ; indeed, it is undoubted that many land- 
 holders under Pennsylvania titles, and perhaps Pennsylvania sympathy, 
 were suitors in these courts. Why was this ? Doubtless it was be- 
 cause, the Revolution being on, and other causes existing, the power 
 of the laws of Pennsylvania was not strongly felt west of the Alle- 
 gheny Mountains. 
 
 Note the following facts : 
 
 Bedford County, the seventh Pennsylvania county established, was 
 formed from Cumberland County, on March 9, 1771, and extended 
 ' ' Westward to the Western Boundaries of the Province, ' ' which boun- 
 daries, however, were not defined. The first term of court for that 
 county was held at Bedford, about a hundred miles east of Pittsburgh, 
 on April 16, 1771, and George Wilson, Esq., living near the mouth 
 of George's Creek in what is now southern Fayette County, was of 
 the justices, as were also Colonel (then Captain) William Crawford, 
 living on the Youghiogheny River nearly opposite what is now Con- 
 nellsville, Fayette County, Thomas Gist, son of Christopher Gist, 
 settled near Mount Braddock in the same county, and Dorsey Pente- 
 cost, then living on his "plantation" called " Greenaway " in the 
 " Forks of the Yough " settlement. 
 
 Now, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was formed on January 
 26, 1773, from Bedford County, and embraced all the lands west of 
 " the Laurel Hill," to " the limits of the Province." Old Westmore- 
 land was thus organized two years before the Virginia Court at Fort 
 Dunmore, and its first Court of Quarter Sessions, then the principal 
 court of every county, was held at Hanna's Town, about three miles 
 northeast of what is now Greensburg, on April 6, 1773. This Court 
 of Quarter Sessions was the first court of justice ever held by English- 
 speaking people west of the Allegheny Mountains, and it was held 
 " Before William Crawford, Esq., and his associate Justices." 
 
 On January 25, 1775, about one month before the organization of 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 207 
 
 the Virginia court at Fort Dunmore, the following entry was made 
 upon the minutes of the Supreme Executive Council : 
 
 "At a Council held at Philadelphia, 25th January, 1775, . . . 
 Captain St. Clair appearing at the Board and representing that William 
 Crawford, Esquire, President of the Court in Westmoreland County, 
 hath lately joined with the Government of Virginia in opposing the 
 jurisdiction of Pennsylvania in the County, the Board advised the 
 Governor to supersede him in his office as Justice of the Peace and 
 common Pleas. A Supersedeas was accordingly ordered to be issued : ' ' 
 X. Col. Records, 228. 
 
 Others of the Justices of the Westmoreland County court were Arthur 
 St. Clair, afterward a Major-general in the Revolution ; Thomas Gist, 
 above mentioned, Alexander McKee, afterwards with Simon Girty 
 and Matthew Elliot, a deserter to the British Indians ; Robert Hanna, 
 William Louchry, George Wilson, above mentioned, Eneas McKay, 
 Joseph Spear, Alexander McClean and James Caveat. 
 
 The early courts of Westmoreland County appear by their records 
 to have been regularly held from April 6, 1773, to the second Tuesday 
 of April, 1776. Observe that this last date was but a short time before 
 the meeting of the Provincial Conference at Carpenter's Hall, Phila- 
 delphia, resulting in the great Declaration of Independence by the 
 American colonies. At this session there were orders made relating 
 to township lines, roads, and recognizances in criminal cases ; and 
 then there was an interregnum, and there are no records of any court 
 held for Westmoreland County afterward until January 6, 1778. But 
 the court for Yohogania County continued right along in a varied and 
 extensive business, as will appear from the transcript of its records 
 now publishing. 
 
 The Nature of the Business Transacted. 
 It would seem that the transactions of these Virginia Courts were 
 not confined to merely business matters. Witness the fact that at the 
 session of the Yohogania County court held on September 22, 1777, 
 "William Taylor produced a Licence appointing him to preach the 
 Gospel after the Manner of his Sect ; which being read, the said 
 William Taylor came [ — into Court and took the Oath of fidelity and 
 Allegiance to this Commonwealth : " Annals, Vol. II., p. 102. Who 
 was this William Taylor, and what was his " Sect " ? And note that 
 at the session of the same Court held on March 24, 1778, "John 
 
208 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Whitaker, a minister of the Gospel, came into Court and took the 
 Oath of Allegiance and fidelty, as directed by an act of General 
 Assembly, intitled an Act to Oblige the free male inhabitants of this 
 State, above a certain Age, to give Assurance of Allegiance to the 
 same and for other purposes : " These Annals, Vol. II., p. 129. Was 
 this the eccentric Deacon Whiteakre who once prayed publicly to 
 God, before his Methodist congregation, that he might be supplied 
 with a new horse and soon received one ? 
 
 Attention is called also to the records made in relation to the care 
 of the families of soldiers from the Monongahela Valley in the War of 
 the Revolution. These records are frequent but exasperatingly brief. 
 
 Our Pennsylvania histories show that at least two Pennsylvania regi- 
 ments, fully organized, marched eastward to take part in the battles of 
 the Revolution, but the records now published disclose that at least 
 three regiments, organized as Virginia Voluntaries, the 5th, 12th and 
 13th Regiments, were composed more or less of men living in the 
 Valley of the Monongahela. Verily the Revolutionary history of that 
 valley is as yet unwritten. 
 
 The Early Currency. 
 
 We find in these records that the currency of the early days was in 
 Pounds, Shillings, and Pence. And it will be noted that in the early 
 causes in these courts, a recognizance of bail for an appearance at 
 court was required in say ^25, or in ^100 ; while in 1780, at the 
 end of the existence of this court in Pennsylvania, some such recog- 
 nizances were in ^5, 000 or more, amounting, as we would now trans- 
 late the English £, to about $25,000. Wherefore, an explanatory note 
 on this early currency and its depreciation may not be out of place. 
 
 Before and during the Articles of Confederation of 1776, and until 
 the adoption of the Constitution of the United States in 1787, there 
 was no supreme national authority, and therefore no national currency 
 based upon a recognized unit. In every State there were at least two 
 units of value, the State pound and the Spanish milled dollar. Our 
 people having been under the English government adopted the Eng- 
 lish pound, shilling, and penny, as the name of its currency or money 
 of account, yet the trade with the Spanish colonies in America 
 and the West Indies brought into the country as its only coined 
 money the Spanish dollar and its subdivisions. Thus the Dollar of 
 the early day was not the ' ' Dollar of our Daddies, ' ' but the ' ' Spanish 
 Milled Dollar." 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania" County. 209 
 
 But each state in the thirteen composing the confederacy had its 
 own pound. In Georgia, the pound in silver contained 1547 grains ; 
 in Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New 
 Hampshire, 1289 grains; in New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and 
 Maryland, 1031^ grains, while in New York and North Carolina it 
 reached the minimum of 996 grains. * These State pounds, and their 
 divisions into shillings and pence, had no actual existence ; they were 
 used only in keeping accounts, but when debts were to be paid and 
 received they were turned into dollars and their divisions, halves, 
 quarters, eighths, and sixteenths, each represented by a silver coin. 
 Thus it was that in New England and Virginia, six shillings, or 
 seventy-two pence, made a dollar ; in New York and North Carolina 
 eight shillings, or ninety-six pence ; in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
 Delaware and Maryland, seven shillings and six pence, or ninety 
 pence, and in South Carolina and Georgia four shillings and eight 
 pence, or fifty-six pence. And hence, though accounts were kept in 
 pounds, shillings, and pence in all the states, yet to pay or receive a 
 debt in the coin dollars in circulation, eight shillings were required in 
 New York, for instance, six shillings in Virginia and seven shillings 
 and six pence in Pennsylvania. See McMaster's "History of the 
 People of the U. S.," Vol. I., p. 23. 
 
 Observe : If 7s. 6d. in Pennsylvania currency made one dollar 
 (Spanish) then 20 shillings (or one pound) would be worth $2.66^3, 
 a little more than one half the English pound sterling. And if six 
 shillings in Virginia currency made a dollar, then the Virginia pound 
 was worth $3.33. 
 
 ' ' Fifty years ago the silver pieces which passed from hand to hand 
 under the name of small change was largely made up of foreign coins. 
 They had been in circulation long before the War for Independence, 
 had seen much service and were none the better for the wear and tear 
 they had sustained. The two commonest were the eighth and the six- 
 teenth of the Spanish milled dollar, and these, taking the country 
 through, passed under seven names. In New York and North Caro- 
 lina, where eight shillings made a dollar, the eighth was a shilling 
 (twelve pence), and went by that name. From New Jersey to Mary- 
 land (including Pennsylvania) the same coin was nearly equaled by 
 eleven pence, and was there called the eleven-penny bit, or the levy, 
 but became for a like reason nine pence in New England. In the 
 same way the sixteenth of a dollar was called six-pence in New York; 
 
210 Anna"ls of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 five-penny bit or the fip in Pennsylvania, and four-pence in New Eng- 
 land (and Virginia): McMaster's History, Vol. I., p. 189. 
 
 Now, as to the depreciation of this early currency : 
 
 It will be remembered, as already stated, that prior to the adoption 
 of the Constitution of the United States in 1787, no paper money or 
 currency was issued either by the United Colonies, or by any of the 
 colonies separately, payable in their own coin, for they had none. 
 True, the confederacy, and as well some of the colonies or separate 
 states, perhaps, sometimes issued notes or bills of credit payable in 
 " dollars " or parts thereof, but the coin meant was the Spanish coin. 
 Usually, however, notes and bonds were issued payable in pounds, 
 shillings, and pence, but, there being no pounds, shillings, and pence 
 existing in coin, when debts were to be paid in coin the pounds, etc., 
 were turned into dollars and their subdivisions, and all accounts were 
 kept in pounds, shillings, and pence. Hence, the constant issue by 
 the United Colonies during the War of the Revolution of paper money 
 irredeemable according to its terms, resulted in an immense deprecia- 
 tion, which was one of the greatest sources of evil to the young nation. 
 
 The extent and the causes of this depreciation of the currency dur- 
 ing the Revolution is best shown by the paper of Albert Gallatin on 
 "The Currency and Banking System of the United States," first pub- 
 lished in 1831, and contained in "The Writings of Albert Gallatin," 
 edited by Henry Adams, Vol. III., p. 260, as follows: 
 
 ' ' The paper money issued by Congress during the war of the Amer- 
 ican independence experienced no sensible depreciation before the 
 year 1776, and so long as the amount did not exceed nine millions of 
 dollars. A paper currency equal in value to that sum in gold or silver 
 could therefore be sustained so long as confidence was preserved. The 
 issues were gradually increased during the ensuing years, and in April, 
 1778, amounted to thirty millions. A depreciation was the natural 
 consequence ; but had the value of the paper depended solely on its 
 amount, the whole quantity in circulation would have still been equal 
 in value to nine millions, and the depreciation should not have been 
 more than 3^5 to 1 ; instead of which it was then at the rate of six 
 dollars in paper for one silver dollar, and the whole amount of the 
 paper in circulation was worth only five millions in silver. It is ob- 
 vious that the difference was due to lessened confidence. The capture 
 of Burgoyne's army was followed by the alliance with France, and her 
 becoming a party to the war against England. The result of the war 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 211 
 
 was no longer considered as doubtful, and sanguine expectations were 
 formed of its speedy termination. The paper accordingly rose in 
 value; and in June, 1778, although the issues had been increased to 
 more than forty-five millions, the depreciation was at the rate of only 
 four to one. From the end of April of that year to the month of Feb- 
 ruary, 1779, although the issues had been increased from thirty-five to 
 one hundred and fifteen millions, the average value in silver of the 
 whole amount of paper in circulation exceeded ten millions, and it 
 was at one time nearly thirteen millions, or considerably more than 
 that which could be sustained at the outset of the hostilities. But 
 when it was discovered that the war would be of longer continuance, 
 confidence in the redemption of a paper money, daily increasing in 
 amount, was again suddenly lessened. The depreciation increased 
 from the rate of 6 to that of 30 to 1 in nine months. The average 
 value in silver of the whole amount of paper in circulation from April 
 to September, 1779, was about six millions, and it sunk below five 
 during the end of the year. The total amount of the paper was at 
 that time two hundred millions ; and although no further issues took 
 place, and a portion was absorbed by the loan offices and by taxes, the 
 depreciation still increased, and was at the end of the year 1780 at the 
 rate of 80 dollars in paper to 1 in silver. The value in silver of the 
 paper currency was then less than two millions and a half of dollars ; 
 and when Congress, in March following, acknowledged the deprecia- 
 tion, and offered to exchange the old for new paper at the rate of 40 
 for 1, the old sunk in one day to nothing, and the new shared the 
 same fate." 
 
 These observations will explain many entries in the records now fol- 
 lowing that would otherwise be somewhat unintelligible : 
 
 Volume II. of the Records. 
 (1) At a, Court Continued and held for Yohogania County, April 
 
 27th, 1778. 
 
 Present : William Crawford, John Stephenson, Joshua Wright 
 & Isaac Cox, Gentlemen Justices present. 
 
 View of the road from the Court House to Pentecost's Mills 
 on Churteers Creek returned by the Viewers and Ordered to 
 be confirmed, Running from said Court House to Spencer's 
 point, Thence near Richardson's School House, Thence through 
 Gabriel Coxes Lane, Thence crossing Peters Creek near to 
 
212 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 John Coxe's — Benjaman Colling' s, Thence to Joshua Wright's, 
 Thence to William Stephenson's, Thence to Thomas Cooks, 
 Thence to said mills. Ordered that Gabriel Cox be appointed 
 Overseer of the Road from the Court House to Peters Creek near 
 John Coxe's, James Wright Overseer of the Road from Peters 
 Creek near John Coxes to opposite Henry Johnstons, and Na- 
 thaniel Blackmore Overseer of the road from Henry Johnstons 
 to Pentecosts Mills on Churteers Creek and that the Tithables 
 within three miles of said road (except on the East Side of 
 the Monaungohela River) work on Cut open and keep said 
 road in repair. 
 
 John McDowell and John Cannon Gentlemen Justices Present. 
 
 Upon the Complaint of Cornelias Crow an Indented Servant 
 that John Harry his Late Master lately told said Servant that 
 he had Sold him to a Certain Thomas Cuningham to be forced 
 into the Armies of the United States as a Soldier, and that he 
 has for some Time and doth at this Time suffer for Necessary 
 Cloathing, and uppon the view of the Court the Complaint re- 
 specting the Cloathing is justly founded. 
 
 Ordered that the sd Cornelias Crow be and remain a Ser- 
 vant, and that the said John Harry or Thomas Cunningham 
 that claims property in said Servant be and appear before the 
 next Court held for this County to Answer the Complaint 01 
 said Cornelias Crow. 
 (2) Robert McGlaughlin and James McLean produced commis- 
 
 sions from his Excellency the Governor appointing them Lieu- 
 tenants of the Militia which being read, the said Robert and 
 James came into Court and swore into said Office. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow 
 Morning 8 O Clock. W. Crawford. 
 
 April 28th Court met according to adjournment. 
 
 Present, Isaac Cox, John Cannon, William Goe, Andrew 
 Swearengen, John McDowell, and George McCarmick, Gentle- 
 men Justices, Present. 
 
 Andrew Swearengen and David Andrew produced Commis- 
 sions from his Excellency the Governor appointing Them 
 Captains of the Militia, which being read, the said David and 
 Andrew came into Coart and Swore into said Commissions. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 213 
 
 Nathaniel Blackmore came into Court produced a Commis- 
 sion appointing him a Lieutenant of the Militia, which was 
 read and Sworn to accordingly. 
 
 [Bill of sale from John Stueart to Jacob Bouseman for Three 
 Hundred Acres.] 1 
 
 Power of Attorney John Stueart to Jacob Bouseman be as 
 proved by the Oath of John McCollister, one of the Subscrib- 
 ing Witnesses. 
 
 Mortgage John Stueart to Jacob Bouseman for Three Hun- 
 dred Acres of Land on Yohogania River was proved by the 
 Oath of Jacob Leoport, one of the Subscribing Witnesses. 
 (3) Upon the motion of Jacob Bouseman ordered that his Mark 
 Two Crops and Two Slits be recorded. 
 
 Thomas Gist came into Court and being Sworn on the Holy 
 evangelist of Almighty God, Sayeth that in the year of our 
 Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy two, in the 
 month of April to the best of his recollection, in the presence 
 of Joseph Beeler, John Stephenson and Edward Rice, he 
 Solemnized the wrights of Matromony between Isaac Meason 
 and Catherine Harrison, according to the rights and cere- 
 monies of the Church of England, he the s 1 ! Seponent then 
 being a Majistrate in the State of Pennsylvania, and that he 
 was under an Oath not to Devulge said marriage Except 
 Legally called for that purpose. 
 
 John Stephenson and Joseph Beeler came into Court and 
 being Sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God, 
 Sayeth that they ware present at the Marriage of Isaac Meason 
 with Catherine Harrison in the year one Thousand Seven 
 Hundred and Seventy two in the Month of April to the best 
 of their recollection, and was under a promise not to devulge 
 the said Marriage Unless Legally called, or Death of either of 
 the parties, and the said Joseph farther Sayeth that there was a 
 preengagement between the said Isaac and Catherine that upon 
 the devulging the said Marriage contrary to the will of the sd 
 Isaac then that said parties should be absolved from any obli- 
 gation to each other as man and wife. 
 
 Indenture from Martha Daviss to Isaac Cox acknowledged 
 by said Martha and ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 1 The part in brackets erased in the original. 
 
214 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Bargain and Sale Thomas Bay to James Marshall for four 
 Hundred Acres of Land acknowledged by said Bay and 
 Ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 Bargain and Sale Thomas Bay to George Marken [or 
 Marten, Editor] for Two Hundred Acres of Land acknowl- 
 edged by said Bay and Ordered to be recorded. 
 (4) Bargain and Sale Ezekiel Johnston to Joseph Beeler JunT 
 
 proved by the oath of Dorsey Pentecost and Joseph Beeler 
 Sen r two of the Subscribing Witnesses. 
 
 Joseph Beeler produced to this Court a Commission from his 
 Excellency the Governour appointing him Colonel of the 
 Militia was red & Sworn to in open Coart. 
 
 Nathan Ellis produced to this Coart a Commission from his 
 Excellency the Governour appointing him Captain of the 
 Militia which was red & Sworn to in open Coart. 
 
 W™ Harrison took the oath of Major of the Militia in open 
 Coart. 
 
 Richard Crooks took the oath of Lieutenant of the Militia 
 in open Coart. 
 
 Michael Tigert took the oath of Ensign of the Militia in open 
 Coart. 
 
 Ordered that Sarah Shirly be admitted to administer on the 
 estate of James Shirly Deceased, she Complying with the Law, 
 Whereupon the sd. Sarah came into Coart with her Securities & 
 entered into Bond accordingly. 
 
 Ordered that Ignatius Lebat Sam'l Sample Sam'l Evalt & 
 David Dunkin or any three of them Being first sworn do appraise 
 the s'* Estate & make Report to next Coart. 
 
 James Gray Enters himself special Bail in a suit wherein Jno. 
 Pearce is plaintiff & Jno. Raredon Defendant. 
 
 Jno. Raredon Enters himself special Bail in Case wherein 
 W™ Danningin is plaintiff & and James Gray Defendant. 
 
 Ordered that Mary Lindsey the wife of William Lindsey a 
 poor Soldier in the Continental service be allowed Six pounds 
 per month for the support of herself and Six children to com- 
 mence the first day of January Last. 
 
 Ordered that Eloner Lindsey the wife of Ezekial Lindsey be 
 allowed the sum of five pounds pr. month for the support of 
 herself and five children. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 215 
 
 (5) Ordered that Jane Dunn the wife of Thomas Dunn a poor 
 Soldier in the Continental Service be allowed the sum of 
 four pounds pr month for the support of herself and four 
 children. 
 
 Ordered that two children of Peter McCorkeys a soldier in 
 the Continental Service be allowed the sum of two pounds pr 
 month for their Subsistence. 
 
 Ordered that Elizabeth Depugh the wife of John Depugh be 
 allowed the sum of three pounds pr Month for the support of 
 herself and Three Children. 
 
 Ordered that the wife of Jeremiah McCarty be allowed the 
 sum of three pounds pr Month for the support of herself and 
 three children. 
 
 Ordered that the wife of William Nau a poor Soldier who 
 died in the Continental Service be allowed the sum of six 
 pounds pr month for herself and Six children to commence the 
 first day of January until his Death. 
 
 Ordered that the wife of James Behan be allowed the sum 
 of three pounds pr month for the support of herself and three 
 children. 
 
 Ordered that the sum of two pounds pr month be allowed 
 the wife of Richard Wade for the support of herself and two 
 children to Commence the first day of this month. 
 
 Ordered that the wife of David Smith be allowed the Sum 
 of three pounds for the support of herself and three children. 
 
 Ordered that Susannah Decompt and Christopher Hayes be 
 appointed Administrator and Administratrix of the Estate of 
 John Decomp Deceased they complying with the Law. Where- 
 upon the said Susannah and Christopher came into Court and 
 Entered into Bond oath accordingly. 
 
 Ordered that Joseph Beeler, James Blackstone, Edward 
 Cook, and Benjamin Davis or any three of them they being 
 first sworn do appraise the Estate of John Decomp Deceased 
 and make return to next Court. 
 
 (6) Daniel Brooks is appointed Administrator of the Estate of 
 Nathan Hammond Deceased he complying with the Law, 
 Whereupon the said Daniel came into court entered into Bond 
 and oath accordingly. Ordered that Joseph Parkerson, Thomas 
 Parkerson, James Innis & David Richie any three of them 
 
216 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 they being first sworn do appraise the Estate of Nathan Ham- 
 mon Deceased and make return to next Court. 
 
 Ordered that Isaac Cox be appointed Administrator of the 
 Estate of Samuel Richardson deceased he complying with the 
 Law, whereupon the said Isaac came into Court and intered 
 into Bond and oath- accordingly. Ordered that Abraham Van- 
 natree, Edmund Pollack, Richard Elson and Edward Wiggins 
 or any three of them they being first sworn do appraise the 
 Estate of Samuel Richardson, Deceased and make return to- 
 next Court. 
 
 Bargain and Sale John Pearce to James Patterson for three 
 Hundred and Eighteen Acres of Land Acknowledged by the 
 said Pearce and Ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 Ordered that George McCarmeck John Cannon & John. 
 Stephenson Gent, be recommended to his Excellency the Gov- 
 ernor as proper persons to serve as Sheriff for this County, the 
 Ensuing year. 
 
 Ordered that an Attachment Issue against Philip Whitsel and 
 the papers and records belonging to the District of West 
 Augusta, which by Act of Assembly are to be Inyrold amongst 
 the Records of this County, and the said records so attached 
 have before this Court for farther Proceedings. 
 
 Bargain and Sale Matthew Rogers to John White for an Im- 
 provement of Land on Churteers Creek Acknowledged by said. 
 Rogers and Ordered to be Recorded. 
 (8) 1 Ordered that Court be adjourned Until Tomorrow Morning 
 
 8 oClock. John Canon. 
 
 Court met according to adjournment April 29th, 1778. 
 
 Present William Goe, Isaac Cox, Andrew Swearengen & 
 Joshua Wright Gentlemen Present. 
 
 George McCarmick 2 is appointed Sheriff Protempore to serve 
 one month he complying with the Law. Whereupon the said 
 George with Samuel Beeler and Dorsey Pentecost his Securities 
 come into Court entered into Bond and oath accordingly. 
 
 Ordered that Benjaman Collins have Leave to keep a publick 
 Ordinary at his Dwiling House he complying with the Law. 
 
 1 Paging of original followed, though erroneous. 
 
 2 This name erased in the original. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 217 
 
 Whereupon the said Benjaman came into Court entered in Bond 
 accordingly. 
 
 Appraisement of the Estate of Job. Robins returned by the 
 Appraisers and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Benjamin Custard and John Wall Enter Special Bail for 
 Michael Humble and John Johnston at the suit of Mary Burriss. 
 
 Upon the motion of John Wall ordered that his Mark a Crop 
 in the right Ear and a hole in the Left be recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of George McCarmick his mark a Crop in 
 the right Ear and half Crop in the Left ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Upon the Motion of Benjaman Custard his mark a Cropt and 
 slit in the right Ear and a Slit in the Left Ordered to be re- 
 corded. 
 
 The Ear mark of Thomas Cherry a crop in the right Ear 
 ordered to be recorded. 
 (9) Samuel Newell, Gentleman Present. 
 
 Samuel Beeler being bound in recognizance and charged 
 with Hogstealing which being called personally appeared and 
 pleads not guilty. Ordered to be continued at Defendant's 
 Request. 
 
 Benjaman Jones vs. Patrick McDonald. Plu. Cap. 
 
 Paulser Shilling vs. Spencer Collins. Tresp. Plu. Cap. 
 
 Ordered that a Dedimus Issue to Take the Examination Anne 
 Taylor and Margaret Conner, a witness In behalf of Joseph 
 Cox against John Williams, Theodoras Davis, and Mary Hazle. 
 
 Dorsey Pentecost vs Christopher McDonald In. Cas. Contd. 
 
 Zachariah Connell vs Abraham Vaughan In Debt. Plu. Cap. 
 
 David Wilson vs Henry Bowling In Debt. Plu. Cap. 
 
 John Livy vs Samuel Beeler I. Tresp. P. Cap. 
 
 John Gallehar vs Christian Summet In Slan. P. Cap. 
 
 Hugh Sterling came into Court and Took the Oath of a 
 Deputy Sheriff. 
 
 Joseph Lindsey against George Long In Debt Plu Cap. 
 
 Richard Swissichs agt. Jacob Jones In Case. Plu. Cap. 
 
 Paul Froman against Robert McCrowry In Debt Plu Cap. 
 
 Francis Morrison agt. Daniel Swigert In Debt Plu. Cap. 
 
 George Schley against John Rammage In Case Plu. Cap. 
 
 Susannah Schley against Robert McKendley In Case Plu. 
 Cap. 
 
218 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Thomas Freeman agt. John Jones and Samuel Lyneet In 
 Case Plu Cap. 
 
 Jacob Bouseman agt. James Bradley In Case Plu. Cap. 
 
 Mary Burriss agt Michael Humble & John Johnston In Case 
 Sp. B. 
 
 Jacob Johnston against Godfrey Waggonier In Case Plu. Cap. 
 
 Jacob Shillings against Henry Newkirk In Case Plu. Cap. 
 
 The Same against the same In Debt. Plu Cap. 
 
 William Dunnanghgain against James Gray In Debt Sp. Bail. 
 
 Paul Froman against John Dean In Case Plu. Cap. 
 
 Thomas Cook against Richard Dickerson In Case. Plu Cap. 
 
 John Pearce Sen. against Aron Carter In Case Al. Cap. 
 
 Thomas Wells against Paulcer Shillings In Case A Cap. 
 (10) James Murphy 
 
 against In Case 
 
 Jacob Jones Then came the parties and then also came 
 
 a Jury To wit. James Wright, John Wall, Benjaman Custard, 
 Benjaman Collings, Robert Craighead, David McKee, Enoch 
 Springer, Michael Humble, Matthew Rogers, Joseph Cox, 
 Patrick Jourden & John Johnston, who find for the plaintiff L 
 16. 15 6. & Costs. 
 
 David McClure 
 
 against In Debt. 
 
 Patrick McElroy, Assine. Upon the motion of the Plain- 
 tiff Judgmt was Confesed by the Difind in a letter to the clerk. 
 It is Considered by the Court That the plantiff recover against 
 the Defendant upon Bond Eighty pounds with Interest from 
 the Sixth day of April 1777, untill paid and his Costs. 
 
 John Brown against John Crow. In Asst. Dismd. at Plan- 
 tiffs Request. 
 
 John Pearce Senr. against John Reredon. Slep. Bail. 
 
 Joseph Pearce against Arnold Evins Al Cap. 
 
 Andrew Swearingen 
 
 against In Case 
 
 Robert Hamelton Ordered to be Dismissed at Plantiff 's 
 request, Defendant paying Costs. 
 
 Andrew Steel against Joeseph Ralston. In Case Al Cap. 
 
 William Braden against James Vannatree In Case Al Cap. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 219 
 
 Obidiah Stout against Thomas Thompson and wife In Slan. 
 Al Cap. 
 
 Richard McMahan against James Bruce In Case Agreed. 
 
 William Thompson against John Fife Sen. In Asst. Plu Cap. 
 
 Cloe Riggs against Ebenezer Corn In Case Al Cap. 
 
 Moses Thompson agt William Carpenter In Debt. Al Cap. 
 
 Dorsey Pentecost against Jacob Long In Debt Al Cap. 
 
 William Brashers against Robert Hamelton In Case Al Cap. 
 (n) John Nelson against Jacob Shilling In Case C. O. 
 
 John White against Ezekil Johnston In Case Al Cap. 
 
 William Bruce against Archibald Frome In Case. C. O. 
 
 John Springer against Henry Kearsey In Asst. Al Cap. 
 
 Nicholas Dawson against Francis Kirkpatrick In SI. Al Cap. 
 
 William Thompson agt. John Fife Sen. In Tresp. Al Cap. 
 
 John Campbell agt William Patterson. In Trespass C. O. 
 
 Jacob Shillings vs John Wilson In Trespass C. O. 
 
 William How vs. William Genoway, Ebenezer Corn & 
 George Corn Jun. In Trespass Al Cap. 
 
 Paul Froman vs James Boyers In Tresp. Al. Cap. 
 
 Michael Myors vs Philip Hooper In Trespass. Al Cap. 
 
 John Mitchel vs. Philip Hooper. In Case. Al Cap. 
 
 Mordeca Richards vs Joseph Ross In Slan. Al Cap. 
 
 John Springer vs. James Dunnaughan In Trespass. Al Cap. 
 
 John Crow vs John Brown In Sir. agreed. 
 
 Joseph Baker vs John Springer In Debt Al Cap. 
 
 Daniel Byers vs James Patterson In Case C. O. 
 
 Benjaman Fullum vs William Johnston, John McCornish. 
 In Asst. Al Cap. 
 
 Benjaman Fullum vs William Johnston & John McCornish. 
 In Case. Al Cap. 
 
 David Andrew vs W™ Johnston In Tresp. Al Cap. 
 
 James Johnston agt. Godfrey Waggoner In Case Al Cap. 
 
 Jacob Shilling vs Samuel Fortner In Tresp. Al Cap. 
 
 Mary Burriss vs David Williams In Case. Al Cap. 
 
 Upon the Motion of Andrew Sweargen ordered that his Ear 
 Mar a Crop in the Left Ear and a hole in the Right be recorded. 
 
 Upon the Motion of Thomas Hamelton ordered that his Ear 
 mark a Crop slit and a bit in the right Ear be recorded. 
 
220 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Upon the motion of Joshua Wright ordered that his Mark a 
 Swolefork in the Left Ear be Recorded. 
 {12) Ordered that Isaac Cox Gentleman contract with some 
 Proper Person or Persons to build a pair of Stocks, whiping 
 Post and pillory, in the Court house yard, and also a compleat 
 Bar, and other work in the Inside of the Court House as he 
 may thing proper for the conveniency of the Court and Bar, 
 the whole to be compleat by next Court. 
 
 George McCarmick Gentleman high Sheriff Protest against 
 the Strength & sufficiency of the Goal. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff summon a Grand Jury to attend the 
 next Court. 
 
 Ordered that William Price, Thomas Rogers, and Isaac 
 Wells be appointed Constables to serve the ensuing year, and 
 that they be Summoned to attend the next Court to Qualify 
 into said Office. 
 
 Isaac Cox having obtained an Atteachment against the Estate 
 of Samuel McCored Thomas Apple garnishee being sworn sayeth 
 that he hath about five acres of winter grain and no more of 
 the Estate of the sd. Samuel in his hands, and the said Samuel 
 being called and failing to appear and replevy the said atteached 
 effects though Solemnly called, the Plantiff produced his acct. 
 of five pounds, Ten Shillings and four pence & swore to the 
 Justness thereof. Judgment for the afores d . sum of five pounds 
 Ten shillings, and four pence, with Costs Ordered that the 
 Sheriff make Sale of the Atteached Effects. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned to Court in Course. 
 
 William Goe. 
 
 (13) At a Court continued and held for Yohogania County May 
 the 25th. 1778. 
 
 Present George Vallandingham, John McDonald, Samuel 
 Newell, Benjamin Kirkendall, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Upon the Motion of William Brur Ordered that his Ear 
 mark a Crop in the near Ear, and under bit in the off Ear be 
 recorded. 
 
 Bargain and Sale Ezekil Johnston to Joseph Beeler Jun. was 
 proved by the oath of Joseph Beckett one of the subscribing 
 witnesses, and ordered to be recorded as Dorsey Pentecos 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 221 
 
 and Joseph Beeler Sen., at a former Court was Sworn to the 
 Execution of said Bargain and Sale and Subscribing Witnesses 
 Thereto. 
 
 Administration of the Estate of Conrad Swessicks deceased 
 is granted to Margaret Swessicks She having Complied with 
 the Law. 
 
 Andrew Pearce and Sarah Pearce took the oath of Executrix 
 & Ex" of the Estate of James Pearce Deceased, and complied 
 with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that Zadock Wright, W" Brice, Gabriel Cox and 
 William Frye or any three of them they being first Sworn do 
 appraise the goods chatties and credits and Slaves if any of the 
 Estate of Conrad Swessicks deceased and make return to next 
 Court. 
 
 Administration of the Estate of Benjaman Bruer deceased is 
 granted to Mary Bruer she having complied with the Law. 
 (14) Ordered that Joseph Beeler Sen, Christopher Hays John 
 Mellender & John Morecroft or any three of them they being 
 first sworn do appraise the goods chatties Credits and slaves if 
 any of the Estate of Benjaman Brewer deceased and make re- 
 turn to next Court. 
 
 Benjamin Frye Gentleman Present. 
 
 Administration of the Estate of Jonathan Higgs deceased is 
 granted to Catharine Higgs she having complied with the Law. 
 Ordered that Joseph Beeler Sen. Christopher Hays John Mil- 
 linger and John Morecroft or any three of them they being 
 first Sworn, do appraise the Estate of Jonathan Higgs deceased 
 and make return to next Court. 
 
 Mesheck Carter enters Special Bail for Daniel Williams at 
 the suit of Isaac Vance. 
 
 Bargain and Sale James Patterson to John Strauthers for 
 Six Hundred acres of Land acknowledged by the said Patter- 
 son and Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Hugh Brawday enters Special Bail for Jas. Boyer at the 
 Suit of Paul Froman. 
 
 Elijah Hart Took the oath of Lieutenant of the Militia for 
 this County in open Coart. 
 
 Elijah Hart and Walter Sparks came into Court and took the 
 oath of Allegience and Fidelity. 
 
222 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Administration of the Estate of Archibald McNeal deceased 
 is granted to William Filds, he having complied with the Law. 
 Ordered that Thos. Applegate William Crow, Andrew Pearce 
 and Walter Wall or any three of them they being first Sworn 
 do appraise the Estate of Archibald McNeal deceased and 
 make return to next Court. 
 
 (15) Benjamin Jones v Patrick McDonald. Plu Cap. 
 Zacheriah Connell v Samuel Wells. Contd. 
 
 v Providence Maunce. Contd 
 John Worshington v Michael Morton. Eject, Contd. 
 Edward Ward v Richard Dunn. Contd. 
 
 v Joseph Wells Contd 
 Walter Briscoe v Edward Todd Contd. 
 Zachariah Connell v John Lindsey Contd. 
 Peter Reasoner v Davis Ruth Contd. 
 
 John Springer Plantiff 
 
 v Upon motion of the parties 
 
 Henry Kearsey Defendt. ordered to be refered to John 
 Hull, Henry Taylor & George Vallandingham. 
 
 Valentine Shuster enters Special Bail for John Eliott at the 
 suit of Philip Hooper. 
 
 William Collings enters Special Bail for Michael Myers at 
 the suit of Philip Hooper. 
 
 William Collings enters Special Bail for George Myers at 
 the suit of Philip Hooppr. 
 
 William Collings enters Special Bail for Michael Thomas 
 and Zebuland Collings at the suit of Philip Hooper. 
 
 View of a Road from the House of Edward Cook Crossing 
 the Monaungohela River at the House of John Ratton's, Thence 
 to or Near the plantation of John Hop deceased, Thence to 
 Luther Colvin's on Pigeon Creek, Thence the nearest and best 
 way to the Road Leading from Parkersons to Zebuland Col- 
 lings. Ordered to be Confirmed, and that the Tithables within 
 three miles on each side work on and keep said Road in Repair. 
 
 John Decker, John Hull, Samuel Johnston, Jacob Johnston, 
 Samuel Frye and Henry Newkirk came into Court and Took 
 the oth of Feledity. 
 
 (16) Peter Reasoner is appointed Surveyor of the Road from 
 Edward Cook's to John Rattons ferry. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 223 
 
 Nicholas Christ is appointed Surveyor of the Road from 
 John Rattons ferry to Pigeon Creek, near the House of Luther 
 Colvins. 
 
 John Decker is appointed Surveyor of the road from Pigeon 
 Creek near the House of Luther Colvins to the road Leading to 
 Parkersons to Zebulon Collinings. 
 
 Then came a Grand Jury or Inquest of the Body of this 
 County, vizt. John Decker, John White, Gabriel Cox, Jacob 
 Bouseman, Henry Newkirk, Jacob Johnston, John Springer, 
 Nicholas Christ, James Wright, Samuel Johnston, John Hull, 
 Samuel Frye, David Andrew, Joseph Brown & James Patter- 
 son, who being Sworn received their Charge and Retired to 
 their chamber. 
 
 Bargain and Sale Jasper Cawther and Catherine his wife to 
 (17) David Andrew for a Tract of Land on the waters of Millers 
 Run proved by the oath of Samuel McBride and James Scott 
 the two Subscribing witnesses & Ordered to be Certified. 
 
 Edward Kemp enters Special Bail for Spencer Collings at 
 the suit of Paulcer Shilling. 
 
 Joseph Beeler Jun. came into Court and Took the oath of 
 Deputy Sheriff of this County. 
 
 Bargain and Sale William Wilson to Jeremiah Ellis for One 
 Hundred and five Acres of Land. Acknowledged by said 
 Willson and Ordered to be record. 
 
 John Riggs enters Special Bail for Nathan Ellis at the suit of 
 Tacitus Gillord. 
 
 Henry Kearsey and James Munn enters Special Bail for 
 William Johnston at the suits of Benjaman Fullum and David 
 Andrews. 
 
 Henry Kearsey and James Munn enters Special Bail for 
 Robert Johnston at the suit of Benjaman Fullum. 
 
 John Gutteridge produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Lieutenant of the Militia, which 
 was read, and Sworn to accordingly. 
 
 License is granted to Joseph Nicholas to keep an Ordinary 
 at his Dweling House in the Town of Pittsburgh the Ensuing 
 year he having Complied with the Law. 
 
 William Christie enters Special Bail for Robert McKindley 
 at the suit of Susannah Schley. 
 
224 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 (17) Upon the motion of Tobias Decker Ordered that his mark a 
 
 Crop in the Left ear, and Swolofork in the right be recorded. 
 
 License is granted Richard McMahan to keep an Ordinary 
 at his Dweling House in this County he having Complied with 
 the Law. 
 
 George Christ produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Ensign of the Militia which was 
 read as usual, & Sworn to, in Open Court. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of Francis Brown deceased returned 
 by the appraisers and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Benjamin Vannatree enters Special Bail for James Vannatree 
 at the Suit of William Braden. 
 
 Ordered that Isaac Cox and Benjamin Kirkendall, Gentle- 
 men Bind Andrew Brooks an Orphan to Friend Cox, accord- 
 ing to law. 
 
 Ordered that the Clerk draw on the Treasury of this Com- 
 mon Welth for the sum of Sixteen pounds for the support of 
 Anne Jones the wife of Richd. Jones a poor Soldier in the 
 Continental Service. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned Untill Tomorrow Morning 
 7 OClock. William Goe. 
 
 (20) Court met According to adjournment May 26, 1778. 
 
 A new Commission of the pice, and Commission of Oyor 
 and Terminer, directed to, John Campbell, Edward Ward, 
 Thomas Smallman, Dorsey Pentecost, John Gibson, William 
 Crawford, John Stephenson, John Cannon, George Valland- 
 ingham, William Goe, John Neavill, Isaac Cox, John Mc- 
 Dowell, Richard Yeates, John McDonald, George McCormick, 
 Philip Ross, Benjaman Kirkendall, William Harrison, Samuel 
 Newell, Thomas Brown, Thomas Freeman, John Decomp, 
 Joshua Wright, Oliver Miller, Benjaman Frye, Matthew Richie, 
 Jacob Haymaker, Andrew Swearingen, Benjaman Harrison, 
 Zachariah Connell, Isaac Leet Senr. Joseph Beeler Senr. John 
 Carmichael, James Rogers, Isaac Meason, James McLane, 
 James Blackstone, Joseph Beckett and Joseph Vance, Gentle- 
 men, which being read as usual, the said William Goe, Thomas 
 Freeman, Andrew Swearengen, John McDonald, Benjaman 
 Frye and George Vallandinghani, Took the usual oaths of Jus- 
 tices of the Peace and Justices of Oyer and Terminer. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 225 
 
 The Court being Constituted, Took their seats and pro- 
 ceeded to Business. 
 
 Anthony Dunleavery enters Special Bail for Joseph Ross at 
 the suits of Mordaca Richard and Margarett Brownfield. 
 
 Tacitus Gillord Esquire came into Court and Produced a 
 pasport from the Board of War and Disered that the same may 
 be Entered on the minutes of this Court as a Testimoneal of 
 his Allegience and Fidelity to the United States of America 
 whi is granted and is as follows. 
 
 War Office York Town 
 October 15* 1777. 
 (21) Tacitus Gillard Esq. Late an Inhabitant of the State of South 
 Carolinia being on his way to Florida or some of the Countries 
 or places on this side Thereof, or adjacent Thereto, where he 
 proposes to form a Settlement, and having applied for a pas- 
 port to enable him to go and Travel through the parts of the 
 Country, in allegience to and in Amity with the united States 
 of America, and having produced Testimonials of his having 
 Taken the Oaths of allegience and Fidelity, to the said States, 
 These are to permitt the said Tacitus Gillard, Esqr. freely to 
 pass with his famely, Servants, Attendance, and Effects Down 
 the River Ohio, and all persons, are Desired not to molest the 
 said Tacitus Gallord Esqr. his Family, servants and Effects on 
 any account or pretense whatsoever. 
 
 By order of the Board of War. 
 
 Richd. Peters Secy. 
 
 To all Continental Officers and others whom it may Concern. 
 
 Richard McMahon enters Special Bail for Jacob Long, Junr. 
 at the suit of Benjaman Caster. 
 
 License is granted Robert Henderson to keep an Ordinary at 
 his Dwiling House he having complied with the Law. 
 
 Andrew Swearenghen Gentleman Absent. 
 
 Administration of the Estate of Joseph Brashers deceased is 
 granted to William Brashers he having complied with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that Bazel Brown, Thomas Brow, Hugh Laughlin 
 and John Laughlin, do appraise the Goods, Chatties, and 
 Credits and Slaves if any of the Estate of Joseph Brashers De- 
 ceased. 
 
226 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Andrew Swearengen Gentleman Present. 
 
 (22) Administration of the Estate of James Louden deceased is 
 granted to Robert Louden he having complied with the Law. 
 Ordered that Ralph Cherry, Edward Doyale, Edmond Lindsey 
 and Isaac Meason or any Three of them they being first sworn 
 do appraise the goods, chatties, credits and Slaves if any of the 
 Estate of James Loudon deceased and make returns to next 
 Court. 
 
 Isaac Cox and Benjaman Kirkendal Gentleman named in the 
 Commission of the peace come into Court and Took the oaths 
 of Justices, and Justices of Oyer and Terminer. 
 
 Edward Kemp produced a Commission appointing him Cap- 
 tain of the Militia, which was read and sworn to accordingly. 
 
 Upon the petition of David Philips and Others Ordered that 
 John Jones, Robert Henderson, and John Wall they being first 
 sworn do view a road from McKees ferry on the Monaunga- 
 hela River to Pentecost's Mills on Churteers, and make report 
 of the Conveniency and Inconveniency thereof to the Next 
 Court. 
 
 Upon the Petition of David Philips Ordered that William 
 Frye, Jacob Barrachman, and Jacob Shilty make a review of 
 the road from Peters Creek to Robert Hendersons and make 
 report of the conveniences and Inconveniences of the nearest 
 and best way, to next Court. 
 
 Samuel Newell gentleman named in the Commission of the 
 piece come into Court and Took the Oaths of Justices of the 
 pece and Justices of Oyer and Terminer. 
 
 Resolved as a Rule that this Court will attend on the Busi- 
 ness of this County and proceed to give Judgmt and Deter- 
 mine Causes, in the months of March, May, August and No- 
 vember, and that In the Intermediate Courts the Justices will 
 hold Court for proving of Wills, deeds, &c. &c. &c. 
 
 (23) Upon the motion of George Schley ordered that his Mark a 
 Crop in the right Ear be recorded. 
 
 Naturalization of George Schley was read and on the motion 
 of the said George Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 James Kirkindall enters Special Bail for Samuel Dunn at the 
 suit of Samuel Holms. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff make sale of Cornelius Crow an In- 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 227 
 
 dented Servant belonging to John Harry, and pay the money 
 arising from such sale to the said Harry. 
 
 Upon the Petition of William Anderson Leave is granted 
 him to keep a ferry from his own Land on the South Easterly 
 side of the Monaungohela River to the Lands of Andrew 
 Heath on the Opposite. And, that the said Anderson shall re- 
 ceive Nine pence for Man and Horse, four pence half penny 
 for every Head of neat Cattle, and the same for a foot person, 
 furthermore to ferry over the Militia on publick Muster days 
 at the rate of four dollars pr day. 
 
 Upon the motion of Godfrey Waggoner ordered that his 
 ear mark a hole in the left ear & a slitt in the right be Re- 
 corded. 
 
 f 
 
 Jacob Feagly 
 
 v in Case 
 
 Hugh Brawdy Then came the defendt. & pleads the gene- 
 ral Issue. Then came a Jury viz. Joseph Skelton, William 
 Taylor, Ezekiel Johnston, Friend Cox, David Phillips, Alex- 
 ander Douglas, John Wall, George Long, Thos. Lapsy, 
 Michael Humble, Saml. Dunn & John Cox, who sayeth that 
 the Defendant hath not paid the Dett as in pleading he hath 
 allegd. Judgment for jQ. 7:8:9 Int 7 S. 6 and Costs. 
 {24) Upon the Petition of Elizabeth McMahon against Peter 
 Ebrod. It is considered by the Court that the Plaintiff recover 
 against the Defendant three pounds and three pence with In- 
 terest from the 13th day of May 1763 untill paid. 
 
 Leave is granted Samuel Ewalt to keep an Ordinary at his 
 Dweling House in the Town of Pittsburgh he having Com- 
 plied with the Law. 
 
 The Deppotion of James Elliott and John Barr Taken before 
 John Campbell Esq. upon the Motion of James Swolevan in 
 behalf of David Dunkin. Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Jacob Decker 
 
 v Petition. Ordered to be Dismissed at 
 
 Joseph Hill Sen Plaintiffs Costs. 
 
 Upon the petition of Hugh Sterling against Anthony Dun- 
 leavey. It is considered by the Court that the Plantiff Re- 
 cover against the Defendant the sum of three pounds four 
 shillings, and Costs. 
 
228 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Tacitus Gallard Plantiff 
 
 v In Trover 
 
 Nathan Ellis Defendt. Then come the parties and agreed 
 to Leave their Controversy to the Judgment of the Justices Sit- 
 ing, without the formality of a Jury. Whereupon Judgment 
 is given the Plantiff for One hundred and forty five Bushells 
 of Corn and Costs, upon Tacitus Gilliard's demand of the Corn 
 & Tender of a Coppy of this Judgment. 
 
 Bazil Brown 
 
 v In Case Contd. premtory order. Rule 
 
 Robert Hamilon of Trial next Court. 
 (25) Alexander Sumral & Thomas Jock v Walter Sumral, 
 
 Contd. 
 
 Upon the motion of Tacitus Gillard Ordered that the Sheriff 
 summon John McCullum be Sommoned to attend this Court 
 Tomorrow by two OClock after noon to prosecute his action 
 against said Gillord. 
 
 William Marley producd to this Court a Commission from his 
 Excellency the governour appointing him Ensign of the Militia 
 which was read & swore to accordingly. 
 
 James Fasithe was Brought into Court and Stands Charged 
 with Disaffection to the State, who pleads not Guilty, where- 
 opon come the same Jury as before, who say that the sd. James 
 Fasith shall pay a fine of Twenty dollars and Suffer forty Eight 
 hours Confinement in the Common Goal, and before he be 
 Discharged therefrom give such Security as the Court Shall 
 think fit. 
 
 Edward Kemp enters Special Bail for Samuel Fortner at the 
 suit of Jacob Shilling. 
 
 Jacob Johnston enters special Bail for Henry Newkirk at the 
 suit of Jacob Shilling. 
 
 Upon the motion of Abraham Fry by Benjamin his son or- 
 dered that Abrahams ear mark an under Bit out of the under 
 side of each ear be Recorded. 
 
 William Boshears produced to this Court a Commission from 
 his Excellency the Governour appointing him Lieutenant of 
 the Militia which was red and sworn to accordingly. 
 
 W m - Downs enters Special Bail for Philip Hooper at the 
 suit of Michael Myers. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 229 
 
 W m - Downs enters Special Bail for Philip Hooper at the suit 
 of John Mitchell. 
 
 (26) Benjamin Vinater enters Special Bail for Godfrey Waggoner 
 at the suit of James Johnston. 
 
 Upon the Complaint of John Campbell Gentleman that Sam- 
 uel St. Clair & Joseph Erwin have Intentionally raised Sedition 
 & mutinous Disturbances in the militia. Ordered that the 
 said Samuel and Joseph be held in five hundred pounds Bail 
 each, with two sureties for each in the sum of Two hundred & 
 fifty pounds each. Whereupon the said Samuel St. Clair Came 
 into Court with John Gorley and Michael Humble his securi- 
 ties and did Acknowledge to ow to Patrick Henry Esq. Gov- 
 ernor or Chief Majestrate of the Common Welth or his Suc- 
 cessor in Office the sd. Samuel in five Hundred pounds, and 
 the said Suretys in Two Hundred & Fifty pounds each, to 
 be levied on their respective goods and Chatties Lands & 
 Tenements, on the Condition that the said Samuel be of his 
 Good Demeaner Towards all within this Common Wealth, and 
 Towards all the Good Subjects of the same for one year and a 
 Day. Joseph Irwin, with Thomas Lapsley and John Gorley 
 his sureties enter into recognezonce as Aforesaid. 
 
 Thomas Lapsley and Robert Henderson produced Commis- 
 sions from the Governor appointing them Lut's of the Militia 
 which was read and Sworn to Accordingly. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow Morning 
 7 oClock. George Vallandigham. 
 
 (27) May the 27 th , 1778. Court met according to adjournm't. 
 President William Goe, George Vallandham Samuel Newell, 
 
 John McDonald, Gentlemen, Present. 
 
 On the motion of Henry Taylor Ordered that his mark a 
 Crop in the Left Ear and Two Slitts in the right ear be 
 recorded. 
 
 Thomas Freeman Gentleman Present. 
 
 James Ravenscroft P. 
 
 v Hog Stealing. 
 
 Samuel Beeler D. 
 
 Then came the parties and then came also a Jury, Towit : 
 Joseph Shelton, Edward Kemp, Uriah Johnston, Ezekiel 
 
230 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Johnston, Alexander Duglass, Thomas Lapsley, George Long, 
 William Marshall, Nathan Ellis, James Wright, Benjaman Col- 
 lings, Benjaman Cox, which being Elected and Sworn Sayeth 
 that the said Samuel is gelty. Ordered That the said Samuel 
 be fined Ten pounds Current money, and four Hundred 
 pounds of Tobacco. The Tob'o be paid to James Ravenscroft 
 being Owner and Informer. Ordered that Thomas Moore be 
 all'd five Days attendance as a witness in the above suit. John 
 Hull the same, Charles Philis the Same. 
 (28) Joshua Wright Gentleman named in the Commission of the 
 peace and Commission of Oyer and Terminer came into Court 
 and took the oaths of Justice of the piece, and Justices of 
 Oyer and Terminer. 
 
 David Philips v Joseph Killpatrick, Thomas Miller and 
 Allexander Miller. Ordered to be Dismissed at Plaintiffs 
 Request. 
 
 Joseph Killpatrick v David Philips ordered to be dismissed 
 at Plantiffs request and Costs. 
 
 The Grand Jury having found a Bill against James Mc- 
 Goldreck for puling down a Block House belonging to the 
 Town of Pittsburg, the said James being Called plead not 
 guilty, then come the said Jury as before, and being Elected & 
 Sworn sayeth that the said James is Gilty. Ordered, be fined 
 Ten pounds Curr't. money. 
 
 Zacheriah Connell v Nathaniel Brown Ag'd. 
 
 Alexander Bowling v Francis Morrison Cont'd. 
 
 Christian Summitt v John Gallehor & wife Cont'd 
 
 Hugh Sterling v Mordecai Richards Cont'd. 
 
 Benjamin Wells v Hugh Newell Cont'd. 
 
 Isaac Vance v Daniel Williams Ej. Cont'd. 
 
 Hugh Brawdy v Jacob Feagley Cont'd. 
 
 William Brasher v Robert Hamelton Cont'd. 
 
 John Smith v Sarah Dye Dismiss, p. Dead. 
 
 Thomas Cook v James Ferrell Ejmt. Cont'd. 
 
 Joseph Cox v John Williams, Theodorus Daviss & wife & 
 Mary Hazle Cont'd & P. R. 
 
 Joseph Cox v John Williams and Theodorus Daviss C. P. R. 
 
 John Lydea v Joseph Cox Cot'd. 
 
 Dorsey Pentecost v Christopher McDonald, Cont'd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 231 
 
 Oliver Miller Gentleman named in the Commission of the 
 piece, came into Court and Took the oath of Justices of the 
 pice, and Justice of Oyer & Terminer. 
 
 (29) William Christy & Joseph Nichols enter themselves as Sure- 
 ties for Jacob Bousman's punctually & faithfully keeping proper 
 & suitable Boats & hands for ferrying the Inhabitants across the 
 River at his ferry Backwards & forwards, in the penal sum 
 of five hundred pounds. 
 
 Rodrick Frazer and John Ferry appointed Constables to 
 Serve the Ensuing year, and that they be summoned before 
 some one Justice forthis County and Qualify into said Office. 
 
 Thomas Gist v Richard Waller Cont'd, 
 v John Hall Cont'd. 
 v Henry Boyles Cont'd. 
 
 John Lawrence v Thomas Rogers Cont'd 
 
 Thomas Cooke v Levington Thomas, Cont'd. 
 
 Elizabeth Burriss v Naomi Tropman Con. 
 
 Leave is granted William Anderson to keep an Ordinary at 
 his Duiling House in this County, he having Complied with 
 the Law. 
 
 Archibald Hull v Thomas Bondfield Cont'd. 
 
 Joseph Wherry v John White Contd. at plaintiffs Costs. 
 
 Ordered that a Dedimus Issue to take the Examination of 
 Matthew Rogers & Ezekil Johnston, Witness in behalf of John 
 White at the suit of Joseph Wherry. 
 
 Mary Burriss v John Johnston & Michael Humble. Cont'd 
 P. R. 
 
 William Dunnanghgain v James Gray. Cont'd. 
 
 John Peare Senr. v John Reredin. P. Dead. Dismiss'd. 
 
 John Nelson v Jacob Shilling Cont'd. 
 
 Jacob Shilling v John Nelson Contd. 
 
 Daniel Byers v James Patterson. Contd. 
 
 William Brue v Archibald Frome Dismissd at plantiffs re- 
 quest. 
 
 (30) John McDonald having obtained an Atteach. against Nathanie 
 Patten, and the Constable having returned that he had Leveyed 
 said Atteachment in the hands of Andrew Link and William 
 Willson, and Sommoned them as Garneshees. Ordered that 
 the sd. Link & Wilson be forced before the next Court to Shew 
 
232 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 how much & what they have in their hands of the Estate of sd. 
 Patten. 
 
 Upon the Motion of William Marshall Ordered that his 
 marke a Crop in the left ear and Crop and slit in the right ear 
 be recorded. 
 
 John McCullum v Isaac Gallard 
 
 v Tacitus Gallard In Case. 
 
 This day come the parties and agreed to submit their Con- 
 troversy to the Justices now sitting, and after hearing the Alle- 
 gations and Defence are of Opinion that the Defendants have 
 paid the Debt in the Declaration mentioned, and ordered to be 
 Dismissed. 
 
 Upon the motion of John Trumbo Ordered that his mark a 
 Crop and upper bill in the near Ear, and his Brand I°T be 
 recorded. 
 
 Benjaman Jones v Patrick McDonald. P. C. 
 
 Zacheriah Connell v. Abraham Vaughan. P. C. 
 
 David Willson v. Henry Bowling Agrd. 
 
 John Sperry v Samuel Beeler C. O. 
 
 John Gallehan & wife v. Christian Summitt P. C. 
 
 Joseph Lindsey v. George Long. C. O. 
 
 Richard Swessichs v Jacob Jones P. C. 
 
 Paul Froman v Robert McCrowry P. C. 
 
 Francis Morrison v David Swigert C. O. 
 
 George Schley v John Rammage agd. 
 
 Susannah Schley v Robert McKindley S. R. 
 
 Thomas Freeman v John Linch. f Dismissed 
 v Samuel Lynch. J at PlantifFs 
 v James Lynch. I Request. 
 (31) Jacob Bousman v Jos. Bradley. Agreed. 
 
 Froman v Dean Plu Cap. 
 
 Cook v Dickerson P. Cap. 
 
 John Pearce Senr. v Aron Carter In Case p. Dead. D. 
 v the same same Order. 
 
 Thomas Wells v Paulcer Shillings C. O. 
 
 Joseph Pearce v Arnold Evins P. Cap. 
 
 Andrew Steel v Joseph Rolstone P. C. 
 
 Stout v Thompson & wife agreed. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 233 
 
 W m Thompson v John Fife Sen. agrd. 
 
 Cloe Riggs v Ebenezer Corn P. C. 
 
 Moses Thompson v William Carpenter P. Cap. 
 
 Dorsey Pentecost v Jacob Long C. O. 
 
 William Brashers v Robert Hamelton. P. C. 
 
 John White v Ezekiel Johnston P. C. 
 
 Nicholas Dawson v Francis Kirkpatrick P. C. 
 
 William Thompson v John Fife Sen. agreed. 
 
 John Campbell v William Patterson P. C. 
 
 William How v William Geneway \ 
 
 v Ebenezer Corn VPC 
 v George Corn Ju. I 
 
 John Springer v James Dunnaughhow. agreed. 
 
 Joseph Barker v John Springer. The plantiff Living out of 
 the Country, the Defendt. dem'd. security for costs, which was 
 not Complied with and Ordered to be Dismissed. 
 
 Benjaman Fullum v John McCornish. P. Cap. 
 the same Plu 
 
 Mary Burriss v David Williams. P. C. 
 
 James Patterson v Aaron Carter agreed 
 
 James Murphy v Mordacai Richard P. C. 
 
 Paul Froman v William Stephens P C 
 
 Mary Burriss v Abraham Jones P. C. 
 
 (32) Sam Johnston & Isaac McMichel produc'd. Commissions 
 from his Excellency the Governour appointing them Ensigns 
 of the Militia which ware red & swore to accordingly. 
 
 John Chamberlain produced to this Court a Commission 
 from his Excellency the Governour appointing him Lieutenant 
 of Militia which was red & swore to accordingly. 
 
 James Faisaithe come into Court with Mabary Evins and 
 James Holliday, and did acknowledge to owe to Patrick Henry 
 Esq. Governor and Chief Majestrate of this Common Wealth 
 or his Successor in Office in the Sum of Twenty pounds, the 
 said Fasithe and his Sureties in the sum of Ten pounds each, 
 to be Levied on his goods and chatties Lands and Tenements 
 for the use of the said Patrick Henry or his Successor in Office 
 if default is made in this Condition, that the said James Fasithe 
 shall be of good Demeaner to this Common wealth, and all the 
 
234 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Leage People Thereof for the Term of one year and one Day 
 Ensuing the date hereof. 
 
 Ordered that John Wall, James Wright, Andrew Vaughan 
 and Benjaman Collings or any three of them being first Sworn 
 do appraise the goods Chatties and Credits and Slaves if any 
 of the Estate of Samuel Richardson deceased, and make return 
 to Next Court. 
 
 John G. Masterson is Recommended to his Excellency the 
 Governor as a proper person to serve as Lieutenant of the 
 Melitia. 
 
 John Daniel is recommended to his Excellency the gover- 
 nor as a proper person to Serve as Ensign of the Melitia. 
 (33) Upon the motion of Joseph Philis Ordered that his mark 
 
 a crop and slit in the right ear, and a Swollow fork and half 
 penny one left Ear be recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of Henry Hoglond ordered that his mark 
 a Crop and under slit in the Left ear, and an under bit in the 
 right ear, be recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of John McDonald Ordered that his mark 
 a Swallow fork in the Left ear and Swallow fork and under bit 
 in the right Ear be recorded. 
 
 Bazel Stotner is appointed Consta to serve the Ensuing and 
 that he be Sommoned before William Goe Gentleman to Qual- 
 ify into said Office. 
 
 Upon the Motion of Thomas Moore Ordered that his make 
 a Cropt and Slit in the right ear and two slits in the Left, be 
 recorded. 
 
 Henry Boyles, Thomas Philip & Jacob Knap, are appointed 
 Constables the Ensuing year, and that they be Sommoned to 
 appear before some one Justice of this County and Qualify into 
 said Commission. 
 
 Ordered that Isaac Cox, Thomas Freeman & Andrew Swear- 
 ingen Gentlemen distribute the Cards Consigned for this County 
 upon proper & suitable Sertoficates to them produced, and that 
 two thirds be delivered Isaac Cox and Andrew Swearengen, and 
 one third to Thos. Freeman Gentleman. 
 
 Ordered that the Gentlemen named in the Commission of 
 peace for this County yet Remaining unqualify' d be Summoned 
 to next Court to qualify accordingly. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 235 
 
 John Campbell Gentleman named in the Commission of the 
 peace & Commission of Oir & Terminer Came into Court & 
 took the oath of Justice of the peace & Justice of Oir & Ter- 
 miner accordingly. 
 
 (34) Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Court in Course. 
 
 George Vallandingham. 
 
 (35) At a Court continued and held for Yohogania County June 
 the 22 nd - 1778. 
 
 Present' Isaa. Cox, Benjaman Kirkindall, Benjamin Frye, 
 Samuel Newell, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of Conrod Swessicks deceased, re- 
 turned by the appraisers and Ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 Joseph Beeler and Joseph Beckett Gentlemen named in the 
 Commission of the Pice and Commission of Oyer and Terminer 
 came into Court and took the Oath of Justice of the piece and 
 Justice and Justices of Oyer and Terminer. 
 
 James Brue v. Benjaman Patton. Rich'd McMahon S P 
 
 Andrew Steel P. 
 
 v In Case 
 
 Joseph Rolston Jr. Then come the parties and agreed to 
 Submit their Controversy to the Justices now sitting. Jud'm't. 
 for 24 L. Cur. Money & Costs. 
 
 Bargain and Sale Gasper Carther to David Andrews, for 
 Tract of Land was proved by the oath of David Welch one of 
 the Subscribing Witnesses thereto and Ordered to be recorded. 
 Samuel McBride, & James Scott witness Thereto was attested at 
 a former Court, to the Execution of 1st Bargain and Sale. 
 
 Charles Misterson, John Daviss, Jonah Potter & Shadrach 
 Carter, William Masterson & Joseph Hart took the Oath of 
 Allegience and Fidelity. 
 
 Reuben Case and John Guttery being bound in recognizance, 
 and stands charged with Secreting abeting and . . . abeting 
 the Secreting Theophilus Case a Continental Soldier. Ordered 
 to be Dismissed. 
 
 James Richards v Mordeca Richards, John McCormick S. B. 
 
 Benjaman Fullum v John McCornish, Mordeca Richards 
 S. B. 
 
236 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Mary Burriss v David Williams, Saml. Devoir S. B. 
 David Williams took the oath of Allegiance and Fidelity to 
 the State. 
 
 Paul Froman, Plant. 
 
 v In Case. 
 
 William Stevens Defd. At Request of Parties Ordered to 
 be Refered to John McDowell, James Allison, Thomas Eger- 
 ton, Jacob Long, Leverton Thomas, John Cox and John Wall 
 and return this Judgment to next Court. 
 
 Bargain and Sale Paul Froman to Joseph Beckett for a Sur- 
 vey of Land on the Monaungahela River including Froman' s 
 old mill. Acknowledged by said Froman and Ordered to be 
 Recorded. 
 
 Edward Hughy produced a License from the Presbytry of 
 London Derry in the kingdom of Ireland to Preach the Gospel 
 of Jesus Christ, which was Read. Whereupon the said Edward 
 came into Court and Took the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity 
 to this Common Wealth. 
 
 William How v. George Corn Jur, William Jencons, George 
 Corn Sr. S. B. 
 
 Upon the Petition of Paul Froman Ordered that Nicholas 
 De Pugh, John Lovejoy, Robert McGee, and James Colvin or 
 any three of them View a Road the nearest and best way from 
 Devoir's Ferry to Pentecost's Mills on Charteers passing by 
 Fromans Mill on Mingo Creek and report the Conveniences 
 and Inconveniences to Next Court. 
 (37) Licese is Granted Jacob Judy to keep an Ordenary at his 
 
 Duiling House he having Complied with the Law. 
 
 B. Frye Abst. 
 
 James Boyer v Paul Froman, Benjaman Frye S. B. 
 
 B. Frye Gent. Prest. 
 
 Henry Newkirk v Jacob Shilling, John Williams S. B. 
 
 Paul From v Robert McCrowry, Michael Powers. S. B. 
 
 Assignment of a Bill of Sale. Andrew Devoir Frederick 
 Cooper. Acknowledged by Samuel Devoir one of the Assinees 
 on sd Bill of Sale. Ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 License is granted David Dunking to keep an Ordenary at 
 his House in the Town of Pitts Burgh he having Complied 
 uiih the Law. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 237 
 
 Writ of Adquidomcen x is granted Paul From to condemn an 
 Acre of Land to Build a Mill on a Branch of Mingo Creek. 
 
 William Johnston enters himself Defendant at the suit of 
 Timmothy Turnout Lessee of David Andrews against Sawney 
 Saphead. 
 
 License is granted Francis Kelder to keep an Ordinary at his 
 Dweling House He having Complied with the Law. 
 
 Richard Yeats Gentleman Named in the Commission of the 
 peace and Commission of Oyer and Terminer came into Court 
 and Took the Oth of Justice of the peace and Justice of Oyer 
 and Terminer. 
 
 James Hogland Produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Lieut, of the Militia, which was 
 read and sworn to Accordingly. 
 (38) John Hogland v Matthew Loghlin, Mastick Carter S. B. 
 v George Riggle, Shadreck Carter S. B. 
 
 Walter McFarlin v Samuel Beeler, Geo. McCarmick S. B. 
 
 Thomas Smallman Gentleman Named in the Commission of 
 the Peace and Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, came into 
 Court and took the Oath of a Justice of Peace and Justice of 
 Oyer and Terminer. 
 
 Daviss Ruth enters himself Defendant at the suit of Tim- 
 mothy Turnout Lessee of John Decker, against Sawney Saphead. 
 
 James Matthew v William Hibbitt, Anthony Corker S. B. 
 
 Administration of the Estate of Dennis Stephens dec'd. is 
 granted to Daviss Ruth he having complied with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that David Richie, Luther Colvin, Nicholas Depugh, 
 & John Miller or Any three of them being first Sworn do ap- 
 praise the goods, chatties, Credits and Slaves if any of the Es- 
 tate of Dennis Stephens deceased and make return to next 
 Court. 
 
 Leave is granted John Reredin to keep an Ordinary at his 
 dweling House in this County he having Complied with the 
 Law. 
 
 Upon the Petition of John Miller seting forth that William 
 Cills is aged and Infirm and Not able to maen himself, Ordered 
 that Thomas Smallman Gentleman , agree with some proper 
 person to support and maintain the said William Cills, and 
 
 1 So written, but possibly intended for " ad damnum inquirendum." 
 
238 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 that such person bring in his account at the Laying of the next 
 Levy. 
 
 William Deal is appointed Constable in place of Malechias 
 Hays. 
 
 Whereas George McCarmick Gentleman was at a former 
 Court appointed Sheriff for this County, for one month, and at 
 the same Time recommended the said George McCarmick to 
 his Excellency the Governor as a proper person to Serve as 
 Sheriff for this County by the Ensuing year, and no Commis- 
 
 (39) sion as yet arrived for the said Sheriff, and his pro Tempory 
 appointed being now Expired, the County is without a Sheriff. 
 Ordered that the said George McCarmick Gentleman be ap- 
 pointed Sheriff for this County for and During the Term of one 
 Month next Ensuing he complying with the Law. 
 
 John Gibson Gentleman named in the Commission of the 
 pice and Commission of Oyer and Terminer come into Court 
 and Took the Oath of Justice of the piece and Justice of Oyer 
 and Terminer. 
 
 ZacheriahConnelv Abraham Vaughan, Mordeca Richards S. B. 
 
 John Campbell Gentleman Present. 
 
 Ordered that William Deal be fined Ten Shillings for Refus- 
 ing to Serve as Constable. 
 
 Ordered William Evins be appointed Constable the Ensuing 
 Year, and that he be Sommoned before the nearest Justice to 
 Qualify into said Office. 
 
 A Request from the Court of Ohio [County] to call on the 
 Commissioners for adjusting, the Boundery Line between this 
 County and the sd. County of Ohio. This court are of Opin- 
 ion that the sd. Request is highly reasonable. It is Therefore 
 Ordered that the Commissioners on the part of this County 
 doth proceed to finish the Business to which they have been 
 appointed and make report to next Court. 
 
 Thomas Bay produced a Commission from the Governor 
 appointing him Lieut, of the Militia which was read and 
 Sworn to Accordingly. 
 
 John Campbell Abst. 
 
 (40) License is granted to James McClellen to keep an Ordinary 
 in the Town of Pittsburgh he having Complied with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that William Masterson, Charles Masterson, John 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 239 
 
 Guttery, Mesheck Caster and Richd. Hoopkins, who is 
 Guilty of a Briech of the peace in the presence of the Court, 
 be and remain in the Custody of the Sheriff and be brought 
 before the Court Tomorrey at seven oclock. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill tomorning 7 oclock. 
 
 Tho. Smallman. 
 
 June 23. 1778. Court met according to adjournment. 
 
 Isaac Cox, Thomas Smallman, Benjaman Frye, Joseph 
 Beckett, Samuel Newell, Joseph Beeler, Gentlemen Present. 
 
 Walter Grayham having obtained an Attach, against the 
 Estate of Robert Strain who is said to be so Absconded that 
 the Ordinary process of Law cannot be Served upon him for 
 Nine pounds & Six pence Pennsylvania Curr'y. and the Con- 
 stable having returned that by Virtue of sd. Att'mt. he has 
 atteach'd one Cow, and no more of the Estate of the sd. 
 Robert, and the sd. Robt. failing to app. r - and Repevy the 
 sd. Att'd. Effects, though Solemly called, the sd. Walter pro- 
 duced a Note against the sd. Robert for thirteen pounds P. V. 
 Currency. It is Therefore Considered that the Plaintiff Re- 
 covered against the Deft Seven pounds, Twelve shilling, & 
 five pence Cur. money of the Value of the afo'sd. nine 
 pounds and Six pence P V Currency. Ordered that the Sheriff 
 make Sale of the Att'd. Effects, and satisfy the plant, this 
 Judgmt with Costs, and make return to Court. 
 (41) Upon the Petition of Richard Yeates Ordered that Henry 
 
 Taylor, James Allison, James Patterson, William Brashers, or 
 any three of them being first Sworn View a Road from Cat- 
 fish camp to Pentecosts Mills and make report of the Con- 
 veniency an Inconveniency to next Court. 
 
 Samuel Newell Gent. Ab't. 
 
 Administration of the Estate of Thomis Lewis deceased is 
 granted Robert Newell he having complied with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that David Vance, David McCaw, James Tucker, 
 and George Vance or any three of them being first Sworn 
 appr. the Estate of Thomas Lewis deceased and make return 
 to next Court. 
 
 Upon the Petition of Anthony Dunleavey ordered that Robert 
 Henderson, Georg Redman, Richard Crooks and William 
 Anderson or any three of them being first Sworn View a Road 
 
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 from Pittsburgh to Pentecosts mills on Churtees and make 
 report of the Conveniency and Inconveniency to Next Court. 
 
 William Crawford, John Stephenson and William Harrison 
 Gentlemen Named in the Commission of the pece and Com- 
 mission of Oyer and Terminer come into Court and Took the 
 Oath of Justice of the pice and Justice of Oyer and Terminer. 
 
 John Campbell and John Gibson Gent. Pt. 
 
 George McCarmeck Gentlemen came into Court and Took 
 the Oath of his high Sheriff for this County for the Term of 
 one Month. 
 
 Hugh Sterling come into Court and Took the Oath of Deputy 
 Sheriff for this County for the Term of one month. 
 (42) Hugh Ohara with James McCleland & Walter Graham his 
 
 Securities came into Court and acknowledged themselves to be 
 indebted to Patrick Henry Esqr. Governor &c that is to say the 
 said Hugh Ohara in the sum of ^100 and the said James 
 McCleland and Walter Graham in £ 50 each to be levied upon 
 their respective Goods & Chattells lands and Tenements for 
 the use of this State upon condition that the said Hugh Ohara 
 shall personally appear before the Justices of this County at the 
 next August Court then and there to answer to such Matters 
 and things as shall be objected against him touching his being 
 Accissary to the desertion of two Soldiers and not to depart the 
 Court without leave, &c. 
 
 Margaret Brannon with Henry Heth Gent, her Security came 
 into Court and acknowledged to be indebted to Patrick Henry 
 Esq 1 . Governor &c. in the sum of ^30 conditioned for the per- 
 sonal appearance of Margaret Brannon at the next august Court 
 then and there to prosecute the above Hugh Ohara and not 
 depart the Court without leave &c. 
 
 Malachia Hays v William Deal, Hugh Ohara Sp. Bl. 
 
 John Minter Gent, took the Oath of Capt. of the Militia & 
 William McCormick Lieut. 
 
 Robert Newell is recommended a Lieut, of Militia and took 
 the oath accordingly. 
 
 Richard Swisicks v Jacob Jones 
 
 Jas. Keykendal S. B. 
 
 Benjamin Vanatre v Jas. Keykendal 
 
 Jacob Jones S. B. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 241 
 
 (43) John Ormsby obtained license to keep an Ordinary in the 
 Town of Pittsburgh he having complied with the Law &c. 
 
 Mary Irwin obtained License to keep an Ordinary at Pitts- 
 burgh she having complied with the Law. 
 
 Joseph Vance came into Court and took the Oath of Captain 
 of the Militia to which he is recommended. 
 
 Ignace Labat obtained License to keep an Ordinary at 
 Pittsburgh he having complied with the Law. 
 
 Joseph Glass is recommended as Lieut, of the Militia and 
 John Rankins Ensign. 
 
 William Masterson, Charles Masterson, Richd. Hopkins, 
 John Guthery & Meshech Carter who were yesterday commit- 
 ted to the Sheriffs Custody being brought before this Court, it is 
 the opinion of the Court they be fined viz. William Masterson 
 & Richard Hopkins 40 S. each and that Richd. Hopkins be 
 fined in the additional sum of 5 S. for drunkenness and that John 
 Guthery & Meshech Carter be discharged, the Court do further 
 adjudge that Charles Masterson be fined 20 S. for rioting and 
 the further sum of 10 S. for swearing two profane Oaths. 
 
 Absent Isaac Cox. 
 
 Saml. Wall v John McCallister, Richd. McMahon S. B. 
 
 Absent Majr. Smallman & John Gibson Gentlemen. 
 
 Ignace Labat and John Irwin appeared in Court charged 
 that they on the night of the 14th of April last did encourage 
 a number of prisoners then in Confinement for disobedience of 
 Orders, refusing their duty as Militia and Mutiny to break 
 their Arrest and for opposing the officer in the Apprehending 
 of them, it is the opinion of the Court that they be bound 
 (44) over to the next Grand Jury Court. Whereupon the said John 
 Irwin with John Gibson & Thos. Smallman his Sureties 
 acknowledged to be indebted to Patrick Henry Esqr. Govr. 
 &c. that is to say the said John Irwin in jQ 100 and the said 
 John Gibson and Thos. Smallman in £ 50 each conditioned 
 for the personal appearance of the said John Irwin at the next 
 Grand Tury Court, and in the meantime be of good behaviour 
 and not to depart the Court without leave &c. 
 
 Absent John Campbell, Gent. 
 
 It is also the Judgment of the Court that Ignace Labat be 
 likewise bound over to the next grand Jury Court, whereupon 
 
242 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 the said Ignace Labat with John Gibson & Thomas Small - 
 man Gent, his Securities acknowledged to owe to Patrick 
 Henry Esq. Governor &c. the following sums, viz. Ignace 
 Labat the sum of jQ ioo and the said John Gibson and Thos. 
 Smallman the sum of £ 50 each to be levied &c. upon condi- 
 tion that the said Ignace Labat shall personally appear at the 
 next Grand Jury Court to answer the above Complaint and 
 that in the meantime he be of good behaviour and not to depart 
 the Court without leave &c. 
 
 Present Isaac Cox Gent. & John Campbell Gent. 
 
 On motion of James McMichael Ordered that his Ear-mark 
 a Crop and a Slit in each Ear be recorded. 
 
 Joseph Beeler Jun. came into Court and Took the oath of 
 Deputy Sheriff. 
 
 Petition & Summons John Allen Thorp against Thomas 
 Applegate ; Ordered to be Dismissed afcPlantiffs Costs. 
 
 Andrew Dodge obtained License to keep an Ordinary at 
 his Dwelling house on the Road from Devoir ferry to Shirtee's 
 Creek, he having complied with the Law &c. 
 
 Ordered that William Crawford Gent, be appointed a Com- 
 missioner with Richard Yates & Isaac Leet for adjusting and 
 settling the Boundary Line between this County and the County 
 of Ohio. 
 (45) Thomas Lapsley a Lieut, in the Militia came into Court and 
 
 informs them he is in dayly fears on acco'nt of being appre- 
 hended by the Millitary Law and desires the protection of this 
 Court on a Matter which from the testimony of the Evidence 
 now aduced appears an Affair of Slander, the said Mr. Lapsley 
 now surrenders himself to this Court. Whereupon Proclamation 
 being made that if any person could ought say against the said 
 Thos. Lapsley they might then be heard, but none appearing 
 the Court are of Opinion the said Mr. Lapsley be and he is 
 hereby discharged. 
 
 Ordered that the wife of George Frederick Kiper a Soldier 
 in the Continental Service be allowed the sum of Four pounds 
 per month for the support of herself and three children. 
 
 Ordered that Three pounds per Month be Allowed to the 
 three Children of John Evans a soldier of Capt. Heths Com- 
 pany in the Contl. Service. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 243 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned until Tomorrow morning 
 6 oclock. Tho. Smallman. 
 
 June 24th, 1778. The Court met pursuant to their adjourn- 
 ment. 
 
 William Crawford, Thomas Smallman John Stephenson, 
 William Harrison, Joseph Bealer, Gentlemen Present. 
 
 (46) Ordered that Colo. John Stephenson and Colo. Isaac Cox do 
 call on Thomas Brown and receive from him the Cotton and 
 Wool Cards sent up to this County, one half of which are to be 
 distributed in the Battalion of Colo. Stephenson and the other 
 in that of Colo. Cox. These Gentlemen to whom this charge 
 is intrusted are to conduct themselves agreeable to the Gov- 
 ernors Letter to the Justices of this County on the 26th Novr. 
 last, provided that if there are more Women in either Battalion 
 Colo. Stephenson & Colo. Cox are to supply each other accord- 
 ing to the number of persons who may have a right to obtain 
 the same. 
 
 Ordered that the Sum of 40 S. per month be allowed to the 
 widow of James Shirley killed in the Service, then a Soldier 
 in the 13th "Virginia Regiment in the Service of the United 
 States, for the support and maintenance of herself and Child, 
 the same to commence from the 25th March last. 
 
 Ordered that Christiana Churchill the wife of Charles 
 Churchill, now in the 12th Virginia Regiment in the Conti- 
 nental Service be allowed Three pounds per month for the 
 Support of herself and two Children. 
 
 Ordered that Hannah Burns the wife of Matthew Burns late 
 of the nth Virginia Regt. deceased then in the Continental 
 Service be allowed the Sum of 40 S per month for the Support 
 and maintenance of herself and one Child. 
 
 Ordered that Mary the wife of John Overlin a Soldier in the 
 Service of the United States and now in the 13th Virg'a. Regi- 
 ment be allowed £ 5 per month for the support and Mainten- 
 ance of herself & four Children. 
 
 (47) Ordered that Bridgit Blackston the Widow of Prideaux 
 Blackston a Soldier in the 13th V. Regt. deceased then in the 
 Continental Service be allowed £ 3 per month for the Susten- 
 ance and support of herself and two Children. 
 
244 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that the Support of the Wives of Soldiers and 
 Widows of Soldiers deceased with their Children unless particu- 
 larly ascertained from some particular date, such Support shall 
 commence from the 25 March last. And that Colo. Campbell 
 be requested to supply such distressed families agreable to the 
 order of this Court, and the Clerk of this Court is to draw 
 upon the Tresurer of this Common Wealth in favor of the said 
 Colo. Campbell for the purposes aforesaid to the 25th Septem- 
 ber next, it is further the opinion of the Court that Colo. 
 Campbell advance to such distressed families the Allowance 
 granted by this Court to the 25th July and to retain the Bal- 
 lance in his hand subject to the farther Order of this Court. 
 
 On the Petition of Colo. John Campbell setting forth that 
 he is desirous of building a Mill on Charties Creek — that the 
 Land on both sides of the Creek where he intends to build his 
 dam in his own property, but he is apprehensive that some 
 lands the property of some persons to him unknown at the 
 mouth of Robinson's Run may be flooded by the Back Water 
 of his Dam. Ordered that the Sheriff summon 12 freeholders 
 of the vicinage to meet on the Land so said to be affected by 
 the back water from his said Dam, and such Jury are to value 
 (48) the Damages and report the same to next Court under their 
 hands and Seals. 
 
 Ordered that the following Gentlemen be appointed to re- 
 ceive the lists of Tythables within the following districts viz : 
 — John Campbell Gent for the district of Capt Lee & Capt 
 Bousman. Benjamin Keykendal Gent, for the districts of 
 Capt. Evans & Capt Z. Wright. Joshua Wright Gent, for the 
 districts of Capt. Jas. Wright &: Capt. Cook. Benjn. Fry Gent, 
 in the districts of Capt. David Ritchey, Capt. Ellis, & Capt. 
 Kemp. John McDaniel Gent, for the district of Capt. David 
 Andrews, Capt. Records & Capt. Nicholas Dawson. George 
 Valandingham Gent, for the districts of Lieut. Newill. An- 
 drew Swearingen Gent, for the districts of Capt. Vance, Lieut. 
 Bay and Capt. Matthew Ritchey. Richd. Yates Gent for the 
 Districts of Capt. A. Swearingens, and the district late Major 
 Taylors. Isaac Cox Gent for Capt. Baxters district. Thos. 
 Freman Gent for his own district & Capt. Ford's. William 
 Harrison Gent for the district of Capt. Pearce. William Goe 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 245 
 
 (49) Gent, for Capt. Springer's district. Joseph Becket Gent, for 
 Capt. Crows district and John Stephenson Gent, for the dis- 
 trict of Capt. Minter. 
 
 Samuel Devoir is appointed Constable the Ensuing year, 
 and that he be Sommoned before the nearest Justice and 
 Qualify. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of John Vance Deceased returned by 
 the Appraisers and Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Peter Stasey is appointed Constable for the Ensuing year 
 who is to be Sommoned before the nearest Majistrate to 
 Qualify in sd Office. 
 
 Ordered that William Crawford & David Shepeard Gent, 
 do lay out the Prison bounds for this County agreable to Law 
 and report to this Court. 
 
 The said William Crawford and David Shepherd Report as 
 follows. Beginning at a Large Black Oak Standing Easterly 
 from the Court House and Marked with Six Notches, and Ex- 
 tending Thence Southerly by a Line of Marked Trees to a 
 White Oak Marked with Six Notches, Thence Westerly by a 
 line of Marked Trees to White Oak Near and Including 
 a Spring, Thence Northerly by a Line of Marked Trees In- 
 cluding the House of Paul Matthews to a White Oak, Thence 
 by a Line of Marked Trees to the Beginning, which is ordered 
 to be recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of George McCarmeck Ordered that his 
 mark a Lower half Crop on the Left Ear and Crop on the 
 Right Ear be recorded. 
 (50) Upon the motion of George McCarmeck in behalf of Thomas 
 Cherry Ordered that his ear mark a Crop in the Right ear be re- 
 corded. 
 
 Ab't. John Stephenson Gent. 
 
 Upon the motion of John Stephenson Gent. Ordered that 
 his mark a Crop and hole in the Left ear a Slitt in the right 
 Ear be recorded, and his Brand a figure of 3 on the near 
 Shoulder and figure of 7 on the near Buttock be recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of Thomas Spencer Ordered that his mark 
 a Upper half Crop in the Left Ear and Under half Crop on 
 the right Ear be recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of John Campbell Gent. Ordered that his 
 
246 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ear mark an under half Squear in Each Ear be recorded, and 
 his Brand I C On the near shoulder be recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of Joseph Beeler Gent. Ordered that his 
 mark a Slit in the Left ear and a hole in the right Ear be re- 
 corded, and his Brand Thus J. B. on the near shoulder be also 
 recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of Henry Heath Gentleman Ordered that 
 his Mark a upper half penny in the Left Ear and upper half 
 penny in the Right Ear be recorded, and his Brand an H on 
 the Near Shoulder be recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of William Harrison Ordered that His 
 mark a Swollow fork in Each Ear be recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of Dorsey Pentecost Ordered that his 
 mark a Crop in the Left Ear and Crop and Slit in the right 
 Ear be recorded. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned to Court in Course. 
 
 Tho. Smallman. 
 
 (51) At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County July 
 
 27th, 1778. 
 
 Present Isaac Cox, Benjaman Kirkendall, Joseph Becket, 
 Joshua Wright, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 James Rogers Gent, named in the Commission of the peace 
 and Commission of Oyer & Terminer came into Court and 
 swore to the Same. 
 
 Joseph Cox v John Beetsman, John Williams S. B. 
 
 James Vanatre v William Braden, Thomas Bamfield S. B. 
 
 James Vanatre v Joseph Perkeson, William Fry S. B. 
 
 William Caldwell v William Fry, Thos. Lapsley S. B. 
 
 William Caldwell v Peter Reasner, Thomas Lapsley S. B. 
 
 Two deeds of Surrender William Fry to Adam Wickerham 
 acknowledged by said Fry party thereto and ordered to be 
 recorded, and two Assignments thereon from said Wickerham 
 to Nicholas Depugh was also acknowledged by said Wickerham 
 and likewise ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Thomas Lapsley who stands bound by Recognizance taken 
 before John Gibson, John Stephenson & Wm. Harrison Gent, 
 to this Court personally appeared and no evidences appearing 
 to prosecute Ordered the said Thos. Lapsley be discharged 
 from his Recognizance. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 247 
 
 (52) Recognizance of John Springer was produced in Court but 
 neither party appearing Ordered to be continued over to next 
 Court. 
 
 Robert Henderson v John Kinkead, Benjn. Kirkendal 
 Gent. S. B. 
 
 John McCullom v Isaac Galliard, Common Order against 
 Deft. & app. Bail. 
 
 Report of the Commissioners for settling and adjusting the 
 Line between this County and that of the Monongahela County 
 returned by the said Commissioners and Considid with by the 
 Commissioners on the part of the said County of Monaungala, 
 is Ordered to be confirmed, as the Bounds between this County 
 and the said County of Monaungahela and Ordered to be 
 recorded. 
 
 John McAnulty 
 
 v Petition. Ordered to be Dismissed at 
 
 John Armstrong Plantiff's Request. 
 
 Dorsey Pentecost clerk of this Court informed the Court 
 on Oath that at a Court held for this County April 28th 
 last Martha Davis acknowledged two Indentures to Isaac Cox 
 Gent but through the hurry of Business the Letter S. was left 
 out. It appears to the Court that the Indenture was executed 
 by said Martha and by her acknowledged and it is ordered to 
 be recorded. 
 
 Bill of Sale William Portor to James Ellis with the Return 
 of Isaac Cox and Joshua Wright Gent of the Examination of 
 Catherine Collins an absent witness Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 (53) Ordered that the Award of George Valandingham, Henry 
 Taylor and John Hull in the Action between John Springer 
 and Henry Kearsey be set aside the proceedings of the said 
 arbitrators appearing to be illegal. 
 
 Paul Froman 
 
 v In Case 
 
 William Stephens Award returned and confirmed by the 
 Court for the sum of four Hundred Eighty pounds Eight 
 Shillings and his Costs about this Suit in that behalf Expended. 
 
 Ordered that Francis Reno be recommended to his Excel- 
 lency the Governor as a Proper Person to serve as Captain in 
 
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 the Militia in the Room of William Lee now in the Continen- 
 tal Service. 
 
 Ordered that Jane the wife of Greenberry Stors a poor 
 Soldier in the Continental Service from this State be allowed 
 the sum of two pounds pr. month for the support of herself 
 and one child to Commence the first day of May last, and that 
 this Court draw on the Treasurer of this Common Wealth for 
 the Same up to the 25th day of Sept. next. 
 
 Recognizance of Christian Lestnett and wife, Christian 
 Lestnett Jun. Frederick Lestnett, Francis Lestnett and Stoffel 
 Lestnett was Return and no prosecutors appearing Order to be 
 Continued. 
 (54) View and Report of the road from Devoir's ferry to Pente- 
 costs mills on Churteers Creek returned by the Viewers, Or- 
 dered to be set aside. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Court in Course. 
 
 Isaac Cox. 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County Au- 
 gust 24th 1778. 
 
 Present Isaac Cox, Joshua Wright, Richard Yeates, James 
 Rogers, Gent. Justices. 
 
 Ordered that Letters of Administration be granted to Eliza- 
 beth Ketchum and William Ketchum the Widow and bro'r of 
 Samuel Ketchum deed, they having complied with the Law. 
 Whereupon the said Eliza, and William came into Court and 
 entered into Bond and Oath accordingly. 
 
 Oliver Miller & Andrew Swerengen Gent. Present. Joseph 
 Beeler Gent. Prest. Joseph Becket Gent. Prest. Saml. Newell, 
 Gent. Prest. 
 
 Joseph Beeler Gent 
 , v Isaac Pearce S. B. 
 
 Ebenezer Walker. 
 
 Benjn. Kekendal Gent. Prest. 
 
 John Daniel produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Govr. as Ens'n of Militia which being read the said John 
 Daniel swore to the same. 
 
 John Masterson came into Court and took the Oath of Lieut, 
 of the Militia he having produced his Excellency the Gov'rs. 
 Commission. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 249 
 
 (55) Richard Elson produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 
 the Governor appointing him Ensign of the Militia, which 
 being read the said Richd. swore to the same. 
 
 Saml. Newell Gent. Absent. 
 
 Administration of the Estate of- John McCoy deceased is 
 granted to Margaret McCoy his widow she having complied 
 with the law. Ordered that Philip Philips, Jonathan Philips, 
 John Nicholas & John Philips or any three of them being 
 first sworn do appraise the Estate of John McCoy deed, and 
 make return to next Court. 
 
 Ordered that Andrew Pearce, Richd. Johnston, James Wall 
 and Richd. Sparks or any three of them being first Sworn do 
 appraise the Estate of Samuel Ketchum deed, and make return 
 to next Court. 
 
 Administration on the Estate of Thomas Brasher deed, is 
 granted to Robert Brasher his Bro'r. he having complied with 
 the Law. Ordered that Robt. Jackman Basil Stoker, Jeremiah 
 Riggs & William Jackman or any three of them being first 
 Sworn appraise the Estate of Thos. Brasher deed, and make 
 return to next Court. 
 
 Patrick Jordan acknowledged two deeds of Bargain and Sale 
 to Charles Norris which are ordered to be recorded. 
 
 John Gibson Gent came into Court and acknowledged a 
 deed of Surrender to Matthias Slough Esq. 1000 Acres of Land 
 on the Ohio which is ordered to be recorded. 
 {56) Thos. Freeman Gent. Present. 
 
 Ann Brook being bound over to answer the Stealing two 
 pounds of Coffee from Sarah Sample appeared before the Court 
 when no evidence appearing, Ordered that the same be dis- 
 missed. 
 
 John Logan enters himself Deft in an Action of Ejectment 
 at the Suit of Walter Graham. 
 
 William McMahon produced a Commission from his Ex'cy 
 the Governor appointing him Lieut, of Militia & took the Oath 
 to the Same. 
 
 John Hall 
 
 v John Williams S. B. 
 
 Joseph Wells 
 Report of the County Line returned by Richd. Yeates, Wm. 
 
250 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Scott, Jas. McMechen & Isaac Leet Junr. read in Court and 
 Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 License is granted to John Bradley to keep an Ordinary at 
 his Dwelling house at Pittsburg he having Complied with the 
 
 Law. 
 
 John Hall 
 
 v Nichs. Dawson S. B. 
 
 Joseph Waller 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to 7 o' Clock tomorrow 
 morning. Richard Yeates. 
 
 (57) Court met Pursuant to adjournment August 25th. 1778. 
 Present William Goe, Richard Yeates, Samuel Newell, Oliver 
 
 Miller, James Rogers, Joseph Beckett. 
 
 Deed of Surrender John Bull to Nicholas Peese acknowl- 
 edged by the said Bool and Ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 Deed of Surrender Paul Froman to Adam Wickerham ac- 
 knowledged by said Froman party thereto and Ordered to be 
 recorded. 
 
 Deed of Surrender. James Fergurson to Adam Wickerham 
 Acknowledged by said Furgerson party thereto and Ordered to 
 be Recorded. 
 
 Deed of Surrender John Bolley to Michael Teggart acknowl- 
 edged by said Bolley and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Administration on the Estate of John Walker is granted to- 
 Gabriel Walker he having complied with the law. Ordered 
 that James Ewen, John Bale, Alexr. McCandless and Thomas 
 Redman or any three of them being first sworn do appraise the 
 Goods Chatties and Effects and Slaves if any of the Estate of 
 John Walker deed, and make return to next Court. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of Edward Griffeth deed. retd. by 
 the appraisers and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Nicholas Dawson 
 
 v Saml. Holmes S. B. 
 
 Fra's. Kirkpatrick 
 
 (58) Present Andw. Swerengen and Benjn. Kekendal Gents. 
 Administration of the Estate of William McCoy deed, is- 
 
 granted to Philip Philips he having complied with the law. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 251 
 
 Ordered that Jediah Ashcraft, Wm. Hinch Isham Barnet and 
 Benjamin Sweet or any three of them being first sworn do ap- 
 praise the Estate of William McCoy deed, and make return to 
 next Court. 
 
 Administration of the Estate of William Lindsey deed, is 
 granted to Michael Teggart he having complied with the Law. 
 Ordered that Tobias Mattocks, Joseph Ross, Saml. Brice, & 
 Thos. Bond or any three of them being first Sworn do appraise 
 the Estate of Wm. Lindsey and make return to next Court. 
 
 Deed of Bargain & Sale and Receipt annexed from James 
 Patterson to David McCrowry acknowledged by said James 
 Party thereto and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Deed of Surrender William Stephens to Andrew Devoier 
 was proved by the Oath of Saml. Thompson and John Duke 
 and Ordered to be certified. 
 
 Tobias Woods. 
 
 v 
 John McKee Maybery Evans S. B. 
 
 Daniel Swigert 
 v 
 
 James Murphy Michael Teggert S. B. 
 
 Thos. Freeman Gent. Absent. 
 
 An Indenture Jane Armstrong to Valentine Thomas D' Alton 
 acknowledged by said Jane and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Ordered that Jane Armstrong the wife of Geo. Armstrong a 
 
 deceased Soldier then in the Service be allowed for the support 
 
 of herself and four Children five pounds per month to the 6th 
 
 (59) of July from 6th April and Three per month from said 6th July. 
 
 Ordered that the Clerk do draw on the Treasurer for the same. 
 
 Mortgage John Steward to Jacob Bousman was proved by 
 the oath of James Berwick the other evidences having hereto- 
 fore proved the same. Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 On the Petition of James Johnson & others Ordered that 
 Andrew Pearce son of James, James Wall, John Crow & Rich'd. 
 Johnson or any three of them they being first sworn view a 
 Road out of the Road leading from Gists to Devoirs ferry near 
 And'w. Dye's passing thro' the forks to the Monongahela oppo- 
 site the mouth of Mingo Creek thence Crossing the River the 
 
252 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 nearest and best way to the Mill Froman is now building near 
 the mouth of Mingo Creek. 
 
 Review of a Road from Peters Creek to the house of Robert 
 Henderson beginning at the lower end of Zadock Wrights field 
 from thence following the Ridge to Jacob Barrackmans land 
 leaving him on the right hand and from thence to Martha 
 Lapsleys Land leaving her to the right hand from thence to 
 Robert Hendersons, returned by the reviewers & ordered to 
 be confirmed. 
 
 Ordered that William Bruce be appointed Surveyor of the 
 Road leading from Raredon's ford passing by Kekendals Mill 
 to the house of Robert Henderson and that the Tythables 
 within three miles of each side said Road work on the Same. 
 
 (60) Ordered that Robert Craighead be appointed Surveyor of the 
 Road from the top of the Ridge near James Wilson deed, to 
 Raredons on the Monongahela and that the Tythables on both 
 sides said Road work on the same within three miles thereof. 
 
 Ordered that Andrew Dye be appointed Surveyor of the Road 
 from the House of Leonard Extine to the top of the Ridge near 
 the house of James Wilson and that the Tythables between the 
 two Rivers not exceeding three miles work on the Same. 
 
 Ordered that the Wife of William Shaw a poor Soldier be 
 allowed three pounds per month for the Subsistance of her 
 three Children from this date, and the Clerk to draw on the 
 Treasurer for the Same. 
 
 Deed of Surrender Henry Taylor Gent to David Ridle ac- 
 knowledged by said Taylor and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Administration of Estate of Samuel Duncan Deed, is granted 
 to David Duncan he having complied with the Law. Ordered 
 that John Ormsby, Samuel Sample, Samuel Evalt and William 
 Christy or any three of them being first sworn do appraise the 
 personal Estate and Slaves if any of Samuel Duncan deceased, 
 and make return to next Court. 
 
 Joseph Beeler Gent. Present. 
 
 Benjamin Vanatre Enters himself Defendt. in an Action of 
 Ejectment at the suit of Henry Morrison. 
 
 (61) John McDaniel Gent Present. 
 
 Bill of Sale Sarah Reed to Robert Blackley and John Reed 
 for a negro named Pompey Approved by the oath of Joseph 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 253 
 
 Becket one of the Subscribing Witnesses and ordered to be 
 certified. 
 
 George Lightenberger being summoned as a Garnishee in an 
 Atta'm't. against Geo. Croghan at the suit of Simon & Camp- 
 bell appeared before the Court and saith he hath one Wheat 
 Fan the property of the said George in his possession and no 
 more. 
 
 Henry Morrison. 
 
 v Benjn. Vanatre S. B. 
 
 James Vanatree 
 
 On the Petition of David Williams & others Ordered that 
 Abraham Miller, Henry Millier, Henry Newkirk and William 
 Murley or any three of them being first sworn Do view a Road 
 from Paul Fromans Mill on Mingo Creek to the Road leading 
 from Pentecosts Mills to the Court House 1 and make Return to 
 next Court of the Conveniences and Inconveniences thereof &c. 
 
 On motion of Paul Froman Ordered that his Mark a Crop in 
 the right ear be recorded. 
 
 , On motion of David Williams Ordered that his Mark a Crop 
 off each Ear and a half penny in the under side of the right ear 
 be recorded, and his Brand D W be also recorded. 
 
 On motion of Isaac Springer Ordered that his Mark a Crop 
 in the near Ear and a Nick and a Slit in the off Ear be re- 
 corded. 
 (62) On Motion of Robert Little Ordered that his Mark a half 
 
 Crop in the Left Ear and an under bit in the right Ear be re- 
 corded. 
 
 On Motion of William Downs Ordered that his Mark a Crop 
 off each Ear and a Slit in each Ear be recorded. 
 
 Benja. Jones 
 v 
 
 Patrick McDaniel William Deal S. B. 
 
 Deed of Surrender Henry Wood to Conrad Loutherback 
 acknowledged by said Henry Party thereto and ordered to be 
 recorded. 
 
 Two deeds of Surrender, Sampson Beaver to Thomas Cook 
 acknowledged by said Sampson Party thereto and ordered to 
 be recorded. 
 
254 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that Isaac Taylor be allowed the Sum of 94 Dollars 
 for the Carriage of the Cards allotted to this County from 
 Williamsburg and that Colo. Cox and Colo. Stephenson do 
 account with said Mr. Taylor for the Same as sold. 
 
 Ordered that the Subsistence granted to the Wife and Six 
 Children of William Shaw a poor Soldier who died in the Con- 
 tinental Service be extended to the 25th Sept. next. Vide, 
 April 28th, 1778. 
 
 James Scott produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Captain of Militia which was 
 read & sworn to accordingly. 
 
 James Wherry Produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor appointing him Lieut, of the Militia which was 
 read & sworn to Accordingly. 
 (63) George Vallandingham Gent. Present. 
 
 Ordered that the sum of Twenty Shillings p. month be al- 
 lowed the wife of Daniel M°Cay, a poor Soldier in the Con- 
 tinental Service for her support. 
 
 Deed of Surrender John Hodglond to James Rogers acknowl- 
 edged by said Hoglond party thereto and ordered to be 
 recorded. 
 
 Deed of Surrender Isaac Cox, to John Decker Acknowledged 
 by said Cox and Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Ordered that Thomas Bay be recommened to his Excellency 
 the Governor as a proper person to Serve as Captain in the 
 Melitia. 
 
 Thomas Bay produced a Commission from his Excellency 
 the Governor Appointing him Captain in the Melitia which 
 was read and Sworn to Accordingly. 
 
 Thomas Reed produced a Commission from the Governor 
 appointing him a Lieutenant in the Militia which was read & 
 Sworn to accordingly. 
 
 Richard Yeates, Absent. 
 
 Hugh McDonald produced a Duplicate of an Indenture 
 Binding him the sd. Hugh a Servant for the Term of three 
 and a half years, bearing Date the Twenty Ninth day of June 
 1775, whi ch is not yet expired yet the said Hugh claim freedom 
 from a Bargain between his late Master William Powel, & a 
 former Master who sold the sd. Hugh to the said Powel, and 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 255 
 
 from the Evidence aduced to this Court, it appears that the 
 sd. Hugh McDonald is a free Person. 
 
 (64) Hugh Brawdy 
 
 v In Trespass. 
 
 Jacob Feagley. Then came the parties and requested that 
 This Suit should be refered. Ordered that The said Suit be 
 refered to John Decker, William Taylor Morris Brady, John 
 Corn & Vinson Colvin, and that they do return their Opinion 
 to Next Court. 
 
 Ordered that Peter Rowleter be recommended to the Gov- 
 ernor as a proper person to Serve as Captain in the Melitia, 
 and James Miligan as Ensign. 
 
 Inventory of the estate of Samuel Richardson Returned by 
 the Appraisers and Ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 William Renno a Minister of the Gospel come into Couit 
 and Took the oath of Allegience and Fidelity to this State. 
 
 Inventory of the estate of Archibald McNeal returned by 
 the appraisers and Ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 Deed of Surrender John Hill to John Cannon acknowledged 
 by sd. Hill and Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Joseph Cox 
 
 v In Case. 
 
 John Williams At request of Parties Ordered That this 
 
 Bright Daviss & Suit be Refered to Henry Taylor, John 
 Mary Hoyle Duglass, Nicholass Little, John Ackerson, 
 
 William Colvin, & John Lydea, and that they Return their 
 
 Opinion to Next Court. 
 
 (65) Joseph Cox 
 
 v In Case 
 
 John Williams & At Request of parties Ordered That this 
 
 Theodorus Daviss suit be refered to Henry Taylor, John 
 Duglass, Nicholass Little, John Ackerson, William Colvin, and 
 John Lydea, and make report to Next Court. 
 
 Ordered that Philip Ross be recommended to the Governor 
 as a proper person to serve as Captain in the Melitia. 
 
 Philip Ross Produced a Commission from the Governor ap- 
 pointing him Captain in the Melitia which was read & sworn 
 to accordingly. 
 
256 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Lewis Renno produced a Commission from the Governor 
 appointing him Ensign of the Militia which was read & sworn 
 to accordingly. 
 
 Joseph Alexander came into Court and took the Oath of 
 Ensign of Militia agreably to his Commission read in Court. 
 
 Ordered that Saml. Newell Gent, do wait on Colo. Camp- 
 bell for the Acts of Assimbly. 
 
 (66) On Motion of Jonathan Martin Ordered that his Mark a Slit 
 in both ears be recorded. 
 
 On Motion of Samuel Dunn Ordered that his Mark two 
 under half Crops in both Ears be recorded. 
 
 Ordered that Theophelus Case be appointed Constable to 
 Serve the Ensuing year, and that he be Sommoned before James 
 Rogers to Qualify into said Commission. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned to Six Oclock tomorrow 
 morning. Benja. Kuykendal. 
 
 Court met Pursuant to adjournment, August 26th, 1778. 
 Present. Samuel Newell, James Rogers, John Mf.Donald, 
 Isaac Cox, William Goe, Oliver Miller, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Christian Summitt 
 
 v In case. 
 
 John Gollehair & wife. Ordered to be Dismissed at Plantiffs 
 Request. 
 
 Benjn. Kekendal, Present. 
 
 The Last will and Testament of James Freeman was proved 
 by the Oaths of John Thompson & Gilbert Cammeron the Two 
 Subscribing Witnesses and Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 (67) James Johnston 
 
 v In Case. 
 
 Godfrey Waggoneer At Request of Parties Ordered That 
 this suit be refered to John Crow, Henry Miller, Nicholas 
 Christ & John Decker, and that they report their Opinion to 
 Next Court. 
 
 John McDonald Took the Oath of Executor of the Last Will 
 and Testament of James Freeman Deceased. 
 
 John Cannon and Matthew Richie Gentlemen named in the 
 Commission of the Piece and Commission of Oyer and Ter- 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 257 
 
 miner, Came into Court and Took the Oath of Justice of the 
 Peece and Justices of Oyer and Terminer. 
 
 George McCarmick Gentleman produced a Commission from 
 the Governor appointing him Sheriff for this County which 
 was read, the Court demanded the sd. George McCarmick 
 Gent, to enter into Bond according to Law, and Qualify into 
 said Commission which he refused alleging that he was a Cap- 
 tain in the 13th Virginia Redgment in the Continental Ser- 
 vice, and Contrary to his Expectation the General refused to 
 permit him to resign his said Melitary Commission and that 
 his serving as Sheriff was Incompatible with his duty in the 
 Military department, it is the Opinion of the Court that the 
 reasons are satisfactory. 
 
 Ordered that Matthew Ritchie, Joseph Beckett & James 
 Rogers Gentl. be recommended to his Excellency the Governor 
 as proper persons for his Excellency to Commission one as 
 Sheriff to serve the Ensuing year. 
 (68) Matthew Ritchey Gent came into Court and took the Oath 
 of High Sheriff for the Term of one month. 
 
 Joseph Ford produced a Commission from his Excellency the 
 Governor appointing him Captain of the Melitia, which was 
 read and Sworn to According. 
 
 Ordered that the Clerk forwared the following Letter to his 
 Excellency the Governor. 
 
 Sir 
 
 Permit the Justices of the County Court of Yohogania to 
 address your Excellency, in Answer to Your Letter of the 2 nd 
 of May Last. We feal as we hope we ought for the Gover- 
 nours attention to the affairs of this County. The reasons of 
 the Courts passing over the Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, and 
 Major, (which your Excellency formerly Commissioned) in 
 their Late recommendation, was, that the Colonel and Major 
 Informed the Court, or some Members thereof, that they had 
 signified their resignation to your Excellency and their reasons 
 for so doing, and that the Causes was not removed and refused 
 to be recommended we have Only heard that your Excellency 
 Commissioned Mr. Thomas Brown as Lieutenant Colonel, and 
 that the said Mr. Brown refused Serving, as he was not recom- 
 
258 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 mended by the Court. This we believe to be the State respect- 
 ing the Lieutenant Colonel as a Commission did not Come up 
 to Isaac Cox who was recommended as Lieutenant Colonel at 
 the Time the Colonel was recommended. We also found the 
 County Lieutenant furnished with Blank Commissions which 
 he filled up to the field and others Officers on the spot. Our 
 Delegates not attending the last Cession, We have had no Con- 
 venient Conveyance to your Excellency, otherwise we should 
 
 (69) have answered your Letter Earlier, and which for the above 
 reason has had no bad effect, the officers all being Commis- 
 sioned by the County Lieutenant and Qualified before the 
 arrival of your Excellency's Letter. We are to acknowledge 
 the receipt of the Captains and Subaltrons Commissions which 
 we delivered to the County Lieutenant, who detained Captain 
 James Scott and Subaltrons Commissions untill yesterday, which 
 was then Delivered and Sworn to. 
 
 Matthew Ritchie Gentleman high Sheriff Protest against the 
 sufficiency of the Goal to retain Prisoners. 
 
 Ordered That John Cannon and Richard Yeates Gentlemen, 
 Inspect the Clerks Office of this County, and report to next 
 Court the Condition in which they find the Papers and Records. 
 
 Ordered that Mary the wife of Alexander McAdams a poor 
 Soldier in the Continental Service be allowed 20 S. p. month, 
 for her Support, to Commence the 25th of May last, and be 
 Continued^to the 25th of September next. 
 
 John Spivy, Plaintiff 
 
 v Case. 
 
 Samuel Beeler Def'd. At Request of Parties Ordered That 
 this Suit be refered to Samuel Johnston, James Scott, David 
 Andrey and George Long, and that they report their Opinion 
 to the Next Court. 
 
 (70) Ordered that Jedeah Ashcroft be appointed Constable the 
 Ensuing year and that he be Sommoned before Oliver Miller 
 Gentl. to Qualify into said Office. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Court in Course. 
 
 John Canon. 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County Sep- 
 tember the 28th, 1778. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 259 
 
 Present Isaac Cox, Benjaraan Frye, Joshua Wright, Joseph 
 Beckett, Gentleman Justices. 
 
 Administration of the Estate of Thomas Cook deceased is 
 granted to Anne Cook widow of sd. Deceased she having com- 
 plied with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that Nathaniel Blackmore, John Munn, John Mc- 
 Dowel and James Allison or any three of them being first 
 Sworn do appraise the personal Estate and Slaves if Any of 
 Thomas Cook deceased, and make return to Next Court. 
 
 Administration of the Estate of Archibald Wilson deceased 
 is granted to Elizabeth Wilson his widow she having Complied 
 with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that Thomas Jackson, Andrew Pow, 1 John Rogers 
 & Michael Dellow Sen. or any three of them being first Sworn 
 do Appraise the Personal Estate and Slaves if any of Archibald 
 Wilson deceased and make return to next Court. 
 
 Andrew Pow Produced a Commission from his Excellency the 
 Governor Appointing him Lieut, of the Melitia which was 
 read and Sworn to accordingly. 
 (71) George Brent & Phil Pendleton Sworn Atto. 
 
 John White Ju. Took the Oath of Lieut, of Melitia. 
 
 Deed Pool Andrew McMeans to Thomas Applegate was ac- 
 knowledged by sd. McMeans party thereto and Ordered to be 
 recorded. 
 
 Hugh Brawdy Plaintiff 
 v 
 
 Jacob Feagley Defendt. Award returned & Judgment. 
 
 James Johnston v Godfrey Wagoneer. Award returned & 
 Judmt. 
 
 On the motion of John Johnston, Ordered that his mark a 
 Swolefork in each ear be recorded. 
 
 Samuel Newel Gentlement Present. 
 
 View of a Road from the Road leading from Gist to Devoirs 
 Ferry Crossing the River opposite the mouth of Mingo Creek 
 from thence to Fromans Mill on a Branch of sd. Creek, Re- 
 turned by the Viewers, Ordered to be set aside. Ordered 
 that Michael Humble, Daniel Applegate, James Colven & Hugh 
 
 1 This was undoubtedly the celebrated Andrew Poe, Indian fighter. 
 
260 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Brawdy or any three of them being first Sworn review said 
 Road ; and make return to next Court, sd Road. 
 
 Ordered that an order for a View of a Road from Fromans 
 Mill to the road Leading from the Court House to Pentecosts 
 Mill be set aside. 
 
 Ordered that Henry Newkirk, John Lewis, John Morrison, 
 and Henry Morrison, or any three of them being first Sworn 
 view a road the Nearest and Best way from Fromans Mill on 
 Mingo Creek into the Road leading from the Court House to 
 Pentecosts Mills between the Plantations of Joshua Wright and 
 John Johnston and make report of the Conveniency and Incon- 
 veniency to Next Court. 
 (72) Isaac Cox Gentlemen. Absent. 
 
 Ordered that the administration of the Estate of Daniel 
 Greathouse deceased formerly granted to John Greathouse be 
 revoked and that the same be granted to Mary Greathouse the 
 widow of the said Deceased, she having complied with the 
 Law. Ordered that Edmond Polk, James Campbell Richard 
 Boyce, & Richard Elson or any three of them being first Sworn 
 do appraise the Personal Estate and Slaves if any of the Estate 
 of Daniel Greathouse deceased and make return to Next Court. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow morning 
 7 oclock. Samuel Newell. 
 
 At a Court Continued and B held for Yohogania County Sep- 
 tember 29th, 1778. 
 
 Present Isaac Cox Samuel Newell Benjaman Frye Oliver 
 Miller Joseph Becket Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Atteachments. 
 Clerk v Poston Contd. 
 O'hara v Brandon, Cont'd. 
 Cumings v Lindsey Cont'd. 
 Grayham v Strain Contd. 
 
 Issues. 
 Cox v Williams &c. Contd. 
 Lydea v Cox Contd. 
 
 References. 
 Connel v Vaughan Abates P. Dead, 
 v Wells Contd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohooania County. 261 
 
 Washington v Martin Contd. 
 Ward v Dunn Contd 
 <73) Ward v Wells Contd. 
 Priscoe v Todd Contd. 
 Connel v Lindsey Contd. 
 Reasoner v Ruth Contd. 
 Brown v Hamelton Contd. 
 Summervill v Summervill Contd. 
 Bowling v Morrison Contd. 
 Summitt v Gollihar and wife Dismd. & P. 
 Stirling v Richards. Contd. 
 Wells v Newell Contd. 
 Vance v Williams Contd. 
 Brashers v Hamelton Contd. 
 Cook v Ferrell Abates by Plantiffs Death. 
 Gist v Waller Contd. 
 
 v Hull Contd. 
 
 v Boyles Contd. 
 Cook v Thomas Abates by P. Death. 
 Burriss v Tropman Contd. 
 Hull v Bandfeeld. Contd 
 Wherry v White Sen. Contd. at Issue. 
 Burriss v Johnston &c. Contd. 
 Dunnaughagain v Gray. Contd. 
 Byers v Patterson. Agreed. 
 Pentecost v McDonald. Agreed. 
 Shilling v Collingo. Contd. 
 Schley v McKindley Contd. 
 Shilling v Newkirk Contd. 
 v the same Contd. 
 Wills v Shilling. Agreed 
 Braydon v Vannatree Contd. 
 Cox v Williams &c Contd 
 Pentecost v Long. Agreed. 
 Myers v Hooper Contd. 
 Mitchell v the same Contd. 
 Richards v Ross Contd. 
 Fullum v Johnston &c. Contd. 
 v the same Contd. 
 
262 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 v McCornish. Contd. 
 (74) Andrews v Johnston &c Contd. 
 Shilling v Fortner Contd 
 Hooper v Myers Contd 
 
 v George Miers Contd. 
 Brounfield v Ross. Contd 
 Holms v Dunn Contd. 
 Raster v Long Ju. Contd. 
 Fullum v Johnston. Contd. 
 Hooper v Thomas &c. Contd. 
 Vance v Williams. Contd. 
 Fullum v Johnston. Contd. 
 Springer v Kersey S. Imprl. 
 Swissecks v Jones Contd. 
 Froman v McCroury Contd. 
 Decker v Ruth Contd 
 Pearce v Evins. Contd. 
 Murphey v Richards Contd. 
 Hays v Deale Contd. 
 Bruce v Pelton Contd. 
 Ewalt v McCallister Contd. 
 Hoglaland v Riggle. Contd. 
 
 v Laughlin. Contd. 
 Swessicks v Swessicks. Contd 
 Newkirk v Shillings Contd. 
 McFarling v Beeler. Contd. 
 Andrews v Johnston Cont. 
 Matthews v Hibbitt Contd. 
 How v Geneway &c. Contd. 
 Cox v Britzman Contd. 
 Vannatree v Braydon Contd. 
 
 v Perkerson Contd. 
 Colwell v Frye &c Contd. 
 Henderson v Kincaid. Contd. 
 Vannatree v Kuykenkall Contd. 
 Burriss v Williams Contd. 
 Jones v McDonald Contd. 
 Dawson v Kirkpatrick Contd 
 Morrison v Vannatree Contd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 263 
 
 (75) Hall v Wells Contd. 
 Grayham v Logan Contd. 
 Beeler v Walker Contd. 
 Woods v McKee Contd. 
 Morrison v Surgest Contd. 
 Froman v Boyce Contd. 
 
 Common Orders. 
 Lindsey v Long Contd. 
 Spivy v Beeler Judgt. Wt. Enqy. 
 Nelson v Shilling Judgmt. Wt. Enqy. 
 Shilling v Nelson. Jugt. Wt. Enqy. 
 Lawrence v Rogers. Judgt. Wt. Enqy. 
 
 Appearances. 
 
 Colwell v Wray. A C 
 
 Mattocks v Brown. A C 
 
 Williams v Garby Agreed. 
 
 Deal v Hays Contd. 
 
 Crooks v Hogland Contd. 
 
 Patterson v McCornish Contd. 
 
 v Emberson Agreed. 
 
 McKay v Davidson ) _ . 
 y Contd. 
 v the same ) 
 
 Brown v Mattocks A C 
 
 Morrison v Vannatree Contd. 
 
 Bouseman v McGoldrick Contd. 
 
 Myers v Hooper Dismised P R. 
 
 Willson v Richards Contd. 
 
 Ralston v Lowry Contd. 
 
 Pearce v Evins. Contd. 
 
 Commingo v Boggs A. C. 
 
 Kinkaid v Henderson &c. Contd 
 
 v Henderson. Contd. 
 
 Martin v Shillings Discont. 
 
 McDonald v Slover A. C. 
 
 Hogland v McNew Alia. 
 
 (76) Springer vs. Listenet & ux. Agd. 
 Same vs. Same Agd. 
 
264 ANNALS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 
 
 Lochran vs. Brown Alias. 
 Lydia vs Collins Alias 
 Colwell vs Thorn Alias. 
 
 vs. Hoaghland. Alias. 
 Witzle vs Mcllwaine. Alias. 
 Winebiddle vs. Valentine. Alias. 
 Pearce vs Evans Alias 
 Lebat vs Smith & ux Alias 
 Allason vs Douglas Discontd. 
 Lintenberger vs Oldcraft. Alias 
 Lindsey vs Hamilton Alias. 
 
 vs Smith Alias. 
 Wells, Infant &c. vs. Blackstone. Alias. 
 Mcllwaine vs Witzle & ux Alias 
 Valaudingham vs Walker Alias 
 Wagoner vs Rape Alias. 
 Barrackman vs Woods Alias, 
 vs Harry Alias. 
 Miller vs Mitchell Alias 
 
 vs Same Alias 
 Harrison vs Hall Alias. 
 B eans vs Johnston Alias. 
 Witzle vs Crawford Alias 
 Brashers Admr. vs Colvin Alias. 
 
 vs Brasheirs Alias. 
 McCullum vs Brazier & Adm. Alias 
 Burns vs Loutherback Alias. 
 Sumrell &c vs Sumrell Alias. 
 Colwell vs Young & al Alias. 
 Listenet Inf. &c. vs Springer Alias. 
 Gallahier & ux vs Summitt Contd. 
 Froman vs Dean Contd. 
 Cook vs Dickenson, abates by Pltff's Death. 
 Riggs vs Corn Plurias 
 Thompson vs Carpenter Agd. 
 Brashairs vs. Hamilton Discontd. P. No Int. 
 White vs. Johnston Contd 
 Campble vs Patterson Plurias. 
 (77) Miller v McGowen. D. Contd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 265 
 
 Burris v Jones Discontd. 
 Colwell v Mills Plurias 
 Wallace v Dunkin Contd. 
 Schley v McKindley Alias. 
 Boyce v Froman &c. Contd. 
 Tygert v Bowley Contd. 
 
 v Chamberlain ) 
 
 v Davidson J 
 Swigert v Murphey Contd. 
 Davis v Pelton Contd. 
 McCullum v Gilyard Contd. 
 Lessee Clerk v Again Contd. 
 Springer v Lestnett. Contd. 
 How v Geneway Plurias. 
 
 Petitions 
 Todd v Shearer A. S. 
 Hufman v Williams A. S. 
 Timmons v Gaffney A. S. 
 Wright Asse. v Dunleavy Contd. 
 Morgan v Stalsman A. S. 
 Dunleavy v Frye Contd. 
 Swigert v Ross A. S. 
 Baggs v Commingo A. S. 
 Devoir v Anderson'. Contd. 
 Whitzle v Valentine A. S. 
 
 District Causes. 
 Miller v Humble Ejmt. Contd. 
 Pentecost v Jones &c. Contd. 
 
 v Linn. Contd. 
 Johnston v Swearengen. Contd. 
 Brbunlee v Dugloss Contd. 
 Brent v Scott ^ Dis. Contd. 
 v the same 
 v the same . 
 
 (78) Last Will and Testement of Abraham Vaughan deceased was 
 proved by the Oaths of Thomas Gist & Edward Hattfield Sub- 
 scribing Witnesses & O R. 
 
266 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Richard Vaughan, & Andrew Pow Sworn Executors of the 
 Last Will and Testement of Abraham Vaughan deceas'd. 
 Ordered that Stephen Ritchards, Adam Pow, Thomas Jackson 
 & Joseph Jackson, being first Sworn do appraise the Estate of 
 Abram Vaughan deceased and make return to next Court. 
 
 Ordered that the Tithables within five miles of the South side 
 of the road of which Nicholas Christ is Surveyor work on and 
 keep said Road in Repair. 
 
 License is granted James Johnston to Keep an Ordinary at 
 the Court House of this County, he having Complied. 
 
 Benjaman KerkindaU Present. 
 
 Robert Louden is appointed Guardian Elizabeth Loudoun, 
 Thomas Loudoun, Easther Loudoun, Catherine Loudown, 
 John Loudun, James Louden, Mary Loudown, Orphans to 
 James Lowden deceased, he having Complied with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that Matthew Ritchie Gentleman be appointed 
 Sheriff for the Ensuing Month and that he be sworn accord- 
 ingly. 
 
 Matthew Ritchie Gent. Sworn Sheriff for one month. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff Sommon a Grand Jury to attend 
 next November Court. 
 
 David Philips is appointed Constable the Ensuing year and 
 that he be sommoned before Oliver Miller Gentl. to Qualify 
 into said Office. 
 (78) Ordered that Nicholas Depugh, Benjaman Kaster be ap- 
 pointed Constables the Ensuing year, and that they be Som - 
 moned to Swear into Said Office. 
 
 Ordered that Atteachment Issue against Samuel Devoir for 
 not Taking on himself the Office of Constable. 
 
 Edward Ward Gent, named in the Commission of the piece 
 and Commission of Oyer and Terminer come into Court and 
 Took the Oath of Justices of Piece and Justice of Oyer and 
 Terminer. 
 
 Ordered that Anne McClain be sommoned to shew cause 
 why her Daughter Anne JefFeress, Should not be Bound to 
 Samuel Semple, agreable to the Tenner of a Contract Between 
 the said Ann and Sarah Semple wife of the said Samuel in the 
 year 1770. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 267 
 
 Simmon & Campbell 
 
 v Atteachment. 
 
 Croghan Ordered that Judgment be set aside 
 
 Garnishee and redocked. 
 
 David Dunking having formerly declared, that he had in his 
 hands one hundred Seventy Nine and three forth Dollars the 
 Property of the Defdt. William Christie, two pair of Geers, one 
 old Ax, one old Spade, a pitchfork, a Small Box of Iron & on 
 old Lanthern. George Lentinburgher That he had a Wheat 
 fan, the property of the Defdt. Money condemned in the hands 
 of Garneshee. Judjm't according to former Judgment, and 
 Order of Sale. 
 
 Bill of Sale Sarah Reed to Robert Blakely and John Reed 
 was proved by the oath of Edwd. Cook one of the Subscribing 
 Witnesses & O. R. 
 (79) Edward Ward Gentleman Present. 
 
 Joseph Brouster & Jacob Bouseman & Malechia Hays come 
 into Court and did acknowledge to Owe to Patrick Henry 
 Esq. Gov. or Chief Majestrate of this Commonwealth or his 
 Successor in Office Vizt. the said Joseph Brouster in the sum 
 of five hundred pounds, and the said Jacob Bouseman and 
 Malichi Hays in the Sum of two Hundred and fifty pounds 
 each, to be levied on their respective goods & Chatties Lands 
 and Tenements, Conditioned for the Personal Appearance of 
 the said Joseph Brouster at the Next Grand Jury Court to be 
 held for this County and then and there answer to Such Objec- 
 tions as shall be alledged against him Touching his being con- 
 cerned in the Late Conspiracy for Taking the Garrison of Pitt, 
 and not depart the Court without Leave otherwise to remain in 
 full force & Virtue. 
 
 Ordered that the allowance made to the wife of Daniel Mc- 
 Kay a poor Soldier Shall commence the 25th of May Last and 
 Continue to the 25th of the Present Month. 
 
 Ordered that Colo. John Campbell pay to the respective 
 Soldiers wives & widows the money remaining in his hands 
 due them up to the 25th of the Present Month. 
 
 Ordered that the Clerk perfer a Petition to the Assembly 
 seting forth, that the Court Conceives the Laying a County 
 Levy to defray the Necessary Expence of the County, in the 
 
268 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 administration of Justice, will from the Peticulear Situation of 
 the County be attended with difficulty, and praying that it 
 may be Enacted to enable the Court to receive and apply the 
 fines, accruing in the County towards Lessing the County Levy. 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Court in Course. 
 
 Benja. Kuykendall. 
 
 (81) At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County Oc- 
 tober the 26th, 1778. 
 
 Present. Edward Ward Benjaman Kuykendall, Oliver Miller 
 William Harrison, Samuel Newell. Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Archibald Hull v Thomas Bonfied. At Request of party 
 ordered to be refered to George Cox & John Jackson, Jas. 
 Innis & John Decker. 
 
 Richard Beall Sworn Lieut, of Melitia. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of Benjaman Bruer deceas'd. Re- 
 turned by the Appraisers and Ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of Jonathan Higgs deceased Re- 
 turned by the appraisers and Ordered to be Rec'd. 
 
 Matthew Ricthie is appointed Sheriff for one month who was 
 sworn accordingly. 
 
 John Southerlin Sworn Deputy Sheriff for one month. 
 
 The last will and Testament of John Pearce deceased was 
 proved by the Oath of Moses Cox and Dorsey Pentecost two of 
 the Subscribing Witnesses, and Ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of Samuel Ketcham deceased, re- 
 turned by the appraisers and Ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow Morning 
 7 Oclock Edwd. Ward. 
 
 (82) At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County 
 October 27th, 1778. 
 
 Present Edward Ward Benjaman Kuykendall, Oliver Miller, 
 Samuel Newell, William Harrison, James Rogers Gentlemen 
 Justices. 
 
 Ordered that the Ordinary Keepers within this County be 
 allowed to sell at the following rates — 
 
 Whiskieby the half pint 2S. 
 
 The same made into Toddy 2S.6. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 269 
 
 for a Greater or Lesser Quantity in the same pro- 
 portion 
 
 Beer p Quart 1S6 
 
 the same proportion for a Larger or Lesser 
 
 Quantity 
 
 for a hot Breakfast 3S 
 
 for a Cold ditto 2S6 
 
 for a Dinner 4S. 
 
 for a Supper 3S. 
 
 for Lodging with Clean Sheats 1S6 
 
 Stablage with good hay or fodder 5S. 
 
 Corn p. Quart 9d 
 
 Oats p. Quart 6d 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of Daniel Greathouse deceased 
 Returned by the administrator and Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Richard Crooks and Nathaniel Brackmore is Recommended 
 to the Governor as proper persons to Serve as Captains of the 
 Melitia. 
 (83) James Burriss & John Roadharmill be recommended to the 
 
 Governour as proper Persons to Serve as Lieutenants of the 
 Melitia. 
 
 James Guffee is recommended to the Governour as Proper 
 Person to Serve as Ensign of the Melitia. 
 
 Michael Tygert, Samuel McAdams, John Shannon, James 
 Morrison Ju. & Francis Morrison is recommended to the 
 Governour as proper persons to Serve as Lieutenants of Melitia. 
 
 Jacob Long Jun. & Moses Cooe are Recommended to the 
 Governour as proper Persons to Serve as Ensigns of the Melitia. 
 
 On the Motion of Colo. John Campbelle License is granted 
 him to Build and Compleat a Water Mill on Campbell's Run 
 emtying into Churtees Creek on- the West side, a short distance 
 below Robertson's Run. 1 It being made appear in this Court 
 that the Building Said Mill will effect the property of no Per- 
 son, the Lands on both sides being the Property of the said 
 Campbell. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned to Court in Course. 
 
 Edwd. Ward. 
 
 1 Now Known as Robinson's Run, emptying into the Chartiers at the Borough of 
 Carnegie. 
 
270 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 (84) At a Court held for Yohogania County November the 23rd. 
 1778. 
 
 Present Edward Ward, Isaac Cox, Joshua Wright, & James 
 Rogers, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Ordered that Colo. John Campbell have leave to Build a 
 Mill on Churteers Creek near the mouth of Robertson's Run. 
 It appearing by the Return of a Jury for that Purpose that It 
 will effect no Person, and that the said Report be recorded. 
 
 Nicholas Dawson Sworn Captain of the Militia. 
 
 Deed poll Wm. Price to William Harrison acknowledged by 
 the sd. Price party thereto and Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Deed poll Daniel Casity to Edward Griffith Proved by 
 William Price one of the Subscribing Witness. Ordered to 
 Lie for farther Proof. 
 
 Deed Poll William Shannon to James Miller acknowledged 
 by said Shannon and Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Ordered, that Samuel Johnston, Ritchard Boyce, James Camp- 
 bell, Alexander McKendless, Peter Rowleter, William Christie, 
 John Ormsby, Natheniel Tumbleson, Edmond Polke, Richard 
 Wells, Joseph Noble, James Allison, Laurence Crow, Nicholass 
 
 (85) Little & Susbalze Bently, be fined agreeable to Law for non 
 attendance as Grand-Jury Men. 
 
 John Lydea v W m - Collings & Zebulon Collins. Spl. Bail. 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow Morn- 
 ing 9 oclock. Edwd. Ward. 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County No- 
 vember 24th 1778. 
 
 Present : Edward Ward Isaac Cox, Samuel Newell, Oliver 
 Miller, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Administration of the Estate Geo. Rineheart is granted to 
 Mark Her he having Complied with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that Richard Waller, Joseph Waller, Edward Hat- 
 field & Augustus More or any three of them being Sworn do 
 appraise the Estate of Geo. Rineheart deceased and Make re- 
 port to Next Court. 
 
 Archibald Hull agt. Thomas Bondfield, Awd. Returned and 
 Judgment. 
 
 License is granted John Collings to keep a Ordinary at his 
 House he having Complied with the Law. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 271 
 
 Administration of the Estate of John Green deceased is 
 
 granted to William Colvin he having complied with the Law. 
 
 ■(86) Ordered that Thomas Brown, Bazel Brown, Benjamin Brash- 
 
 ers & Otho Brashers do appraise the above Estate and make 
 
 report to next Court. 
 
 Administrater of the Estate of John McClery is granted j:o 
 William McClery he having complied with the Law. Ordered 
 that John Reed, Robert Thompson, Joseph McGarman & 
 Mabary Evins or any three of them being first Sworn do ap- 
 praise the above Estate and make report to next Court. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of John Mills deceased returned by 
 the appraisers and Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Joseph Brown v Tobias Mallocks, Samuel Dunn. Sp. Bail. 
 
 Samuel Holcross v Samuel Dunn. Tobias Mallocks Spl. 
 Bail. 
 
 Com. Wealth 
 
 v for Disaffection to the State. 
 
 Joseph Brouster. The said Brouster being brought into 
 Court and nothing appearing against him Ordered to be Dis- 
 charged. 
 
 Deed Poll Walter Grayham to Thomas Christie was proved 
 by the Oath of Jacob Bouseman one of the Subscribing Wit- 
 nesses, and Ordered to Lie for farther proof. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of John McCay deceased returned 
 and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Joshua Wright Genl. Present. 
 
 John Hall being bound in recognizance who being called 
 failing to appear. Ordered that a Scerafacis Issue. 
 
 License is granted to John Roberts to keep an Ordinary at 
 his House he having Complied With the Law. 
 (87) Ordered that Edward Hatfield, Christopher Price, John 
 Beason and Henry Beason or any three of them being first 
 Sworn do appraise the Estate of Abraham Vaughan deceased, 
 and make return to next Court. 
 
 Lapsley vs Reed. Ordered that a Commission Issue to Take 
 Deppositions in said Suit. 
 
 Edwd. Ward. Genl. Absent. 
 
 Ward v Thorn. Ordered that a Commission Issue to Take 
 Deppositions in said Suit. 
 
272 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ruburn vs. Laferty. No Inhabitant. Dism'd. 
 
 Ordered that the Administraters of the Estate of Frederick 
 Farree be Sommoned to render acct. of said Estate to next 
 Court. 
 
 Attachments 
 
 Ohara vs Brannon. Contd. 
 
 Cummings vs Lindsey. Contd. 
 
 Gray ham vs Strain Abates. Def. Dead. 
 
 Issues. 
 Cox vs Williams Contd def. 
 Lydia vs Cox. Contd Ptf. 
 Wherry vs White. Contd PLf. 
 Miller vs Humble Contd PLf. 
 Pentecost vs Jones Contd Deft. 
 Johnston vs Swearengen Contd. 
 Brounlee vs. Douglas. Contd. 
 
 References. 
 Connell vs Wells Contd. 
 Washington vs Martin C. O. Eject. 
 Ward vs Dunn dism. by PLf. 
 
 vs Wells Contd. 
 Briscoe vs Todd Contd. 
 Connell vs Lindsey. Contd. 
 Reasner vs Ruth. Contd. 
 Broun vs Hambleton. Contd. 
 (88) Sumrell vs Sumrell, Contd 
 
 Bowling vs Morrison. Contd. 
 Sterling vs Richards Contd. 
 Wells vs Newell. Contd. 
 Vance vs Williams C. O. Eject. 
 Basheirs vs Hambleton Contd. 
 Guest vs Waller. Contd. 
 
 vs Hull Contd. 
 
 vs Boyles Do. 
 Burris vs Trapman. Contd. 
 
 vs Johnston Contd. 
 Donnagen vs Gray Contd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 273 
 
 Shilling vs Collins. Contd. 
 Sly vs McKinley. Contd. 
 Shilling vs Newkirk N. G. Agd. 
 
 vs Same Owe Nothing, Agd. 
 Braden vs Vanatre. Contd. 
 Cox vs Williams Contd Def. 
 Myers vs Hooper N. G. with Leave. Agd. 
 Mitchell vs Same N. G. do. 
 Richards vs Ross. Contd. 
 Fullum vs Johnston & at Contd. def. 
 
 vs Same Do. 
 
 vs Jno. McCornish Do. 
 Andrews vs Same Contd Def. 
 Shilling vs Faukner. N. G. with Leave Agd. 
 Hooper vs Myers N. G. with Leave. Agd. 
 
 vs G. Myers Do. 
 Brounfield vs Ross Contd 
 Custard vs Long Contd 
 Hooper vs Myers N. G. With Leave Agd. 
 Vance vs Williams. Contd Def. 
 Fullum vs Johnston N. G. w. Leave Agd. 
 Springer vs Kerny N. G. with Leave Agd. 
 Swassicks vs Jones Contd 
 Froman vs McCrory Judg. by Nihil dicet. 
 Decker vs Ruth Contd 
 Pearce vs Evans Contd. 
 
 (89) [Patrick Clerk having Obtained an Attachment against the 
 
 Estate of William Poston for ^4.18.4 Penn'a Currency who 
 is said to be so obsconded that the Ordenary Process of Law 
 cannot be served upon him, and the Sheriff returned that he 
 had levied the said Attachment in the hands of Anthony Cork- 
 hern, and that the said Anthony confes'd that he had ^16.10 
 Penn'a. Currency, Proprty of Plantiff, and the Plantiff pro- 
 duced a proved account agt. the sd Defendant for ^4.18.4 
 Pennsylvania Currency. It is considered by the Court that 
 the Plantiff reed. agt. the Defdt. ^.3.18.6. with costs. Or- 
 dered that the Money be Cond. in the hands of Garneshee.] 1 
 
 1 Erased in the original. 
 
274 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Murphy vs Richards. 
 
 Contd. 
 
 Hay vs Dean 
 
 do 
 
 Bruce vs Felton 
 
 do 
 
 Evalt vs M.°Callister 
 
 do 
 
 Hoagland vs Riggle 
 
 do 
 
 vs Lauglin 
 
 do 
 
 Swassick Adr. vs Swassicks. do Eject. 
 
 Newkirk vs Shilling. Conditions perfd. Contd. 
 
 Mcfarland vs Beelor. Contd. 
 
 Andrew vs Johnson. Contd. 
 
 Matthews vs Hibett. Contd. 
 
 Howe vs Jenniway. Contd. 
 
 Cox vs Bretsman. Contd. 
 
 Vanatre vs Braden. Contd. 
 
 vs Parkison. Contd. 
 Colwell vs Fry C. O. 
 Henderson vs Kinkade. C. O. 
 Vanatre vs Kuykendal. Contd. 
 Burriss vs Williams. Contd. 
 Jones vs McDonald. do 
 Dawson vs Kirkpatrick. Contd. 
 Morrison vs Vanatre. C. O. 
 Hall vs Wells &c. Contd. 
 (90) Grayham vs Logan Contd. 
 
 Beeler vs Walker. Contd. 
 Woods vs McKey. Con'd. 
 Morrison vs Swygart. Contd. 
 Froman vs Bo) er C. O. 
 Deal vs Hays. Contd Plf. 
 Crookes vs Hougland. Contd. 
 Patterson vs McCornish. Contd. 
 Morrison vs Vanatre. C. O. Eject. 
 Bousman vs McGoldrick C. O. 
 Myers vs Hooper. C. Rule. N. G. 
 Willson vs Richards N. G. 
 Rolstone vs Lowry. Contd. 
 Pearce vs Evans. Contd 
 Gallahar vs Summitt. discontd. 
 Froman vs Deane. C. 0. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 275 
 
 White, Sen. vs. Johnson. C. O. 
 
 Wallice vs Duncan. Contd. 
 
 Sly vs M?.Kenly. Contd. 
 
 Boyce v Froman &c. Contd. Ptff. 
 
 Tygart vs Boley. Contd. 
 
 vs Chamberlane. Contd. 
 
 vs Davis. Contd. 
 Swygart vs Murphy. C. O. 
 Devoir vs Pelton. Contd. 
 Mf.Cullum vs Galliard. Dism. with Costs. 
 Clark vs Again Contd. 
 Springer vs Listenett. Contd. 
 M°.Coy vs Davison. Contd. 
 
 vs Same do 
 
 C. Orders. 
 Lindsey vs Long 
 Spivy vs Beelor. Contd. 
 Nelson vs. Shilling. Contd 
 Shilling vs. Nelson do. 
 Lawrence vs Rogers do. 
 
 (91) Ordered that a request be made to the Court of Monaun- 
 gohela to appoint Two Gentlemen to meet Rich'd. Yeates and 
 Isaac Leet Jun. appointed by this Court as Commissioners 
 to ascertain Dunlaps old road from Redstone old Fort to 
 Bradocks road as the Boundry Line between this County and 
 the sd County of Monaungohela agreable to Act of Assembly. 
 
 Alias Capias. 
 Colwell v Wray. Plu. Cap. 
 Mallocks vs Brown Contd. 
 Brown vs Mallocks Contd. 
 Kinkaid vs Robert Henderson. Contd. 
 Cumings vs Baggs. Contd 
 Kinkaid v Henderson Contd. 
 McDonald v Slover Contd. 
 Hazle v McNew Contd. 
 Laughlin v Brown Contd. 
 Colwell v Thorn Plu Cap. 
 v Hogland Con. 
 
276 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Whitzle v Mcllwane Contd. 
 Winebiddle v Valentine Contd. 
 Pearce v Evins Contd. 
 Labatt v Smith Contd. 
 Lentenburger vs Oldcrof. Contd. 
 Lindsey v Hamilton Contd. 
 
 v Smith Contd. 
 Wells Inf. v Blackson Contd. 
 Mclnwane v Whitzle Contd. 
 Valaninghan v Walker Contd. 
 Wagoneer v Rape Contd. 
 Barrackman vs Woods Contd. 
 v Havig Contd. 
 Miller v Mitchell Contd. 
 v the same Contd. 
 (92) Harrison v Hall Contd. 
 Beans vs Johnston Contd. 
 Whitzle vs Crawford. Contd. 
 Brashers adm. vs Colvin C. O. 
 
 v Brashers C. O. 
 McCullum vs Brashers. Contd. 
 Burns &c v Loutherback Contd. 
 Sumrall &c v Sumrall Contd. 
 Colwell v Young N. G. 
 Lestnett Inf &c. v Springer Contd. 
 Riggs v Corn Contd. 
 Campbell v Patterson. Contd. 
 Schley v McKindley. Contd. 
 How v Geneway. Contd. 
 Colwell v Mills. Contd. 
 
 Appearances. 
 Henderson v Walson Dis. by Plantiff. 
 Collings vs Vannatree. Contd. 
 Williams, Ass. vs Anderson Contd. 
 Tharp v Gray Contd. 
 
 v Matthews Contd. 
 Frye v Richie. Contd. 
 Murphey v Jourden. Contd. 
 v the same Contd. 
 
Minutes of. Court of Yohogania County. 277 
 
 Heath v Bruce Impl. 
 Brooks Adm. v Roberts. Contd. 
 Smith v Gibson Alias Cap. 
 Henry v Slone C. O. 
 Miller v Humble Alias Cap. 
 Henderson v Johnston Send out another Ejmt. 
 Froman v Boyce. Ejmt. Send out a new Process. 
 Johnston v Stephens Contd. 
 v the same Contd. 
 Reed v the same Contd. 
 Wright v Heart. Contd. 
 Boothe v Shuster Dism. by Plff. 
 {93) Kearns vs Loggan. Alias Cap. 
 Springer vs Walker. Alias Cap. 
 Hamelton vs Norris \ 
 
 vs Brashers. V Ejm. Issue New Process, 
 
 vs Brashers Sen. ) 
 Gallihair vs Tracy. Disctd. 
 MUCarmeck vs Willson. Contd. 
 Munn vs Crawford. Contd. 
 M°Mahen vs Matthews. Alis Cap. 
 vs Honks Alias Cap. 
 
 Ordered that Colo. Isaac Cox be Impowered to acct with 
 all person that hath Negociated any Business relative to this 
 County's Salt, Lodged with Israel Thompson of Louden 
 County, and that he receive the remainder of said Salt, and 
 Transport it to this County, and Issue the same to the Inhabi- 
 tants to whome it is due, at Six pounds, Ten Shillings pr. 
 Bushell, and that the profits thereon shall be his full satisfac- 
 tion for his said Services and that the said Colo. Cox shall 
 also pay all demands on said salt Either for the original pur- 
 chase or otherwise. 
 
 Ordered that Philip Pendleton be allowed one Hundred 
 pounds pr annum for his Services as the State Attorney. 
 
 The Court then proceeded to lay the County Levy. 
 
 Dr. the County of Yohogania. 
 
 To Philip Pendleton as States Attorny £ IO °- 
 
 To Richard Yeates for Running County Line 31 
 
278 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 To Isaac Leet Jun. Do. 36 
 
 To Dorsey Pentecorst for Attending pr. Acct. 14.18 
 
 ^181.18 
 Levy Continued. 
 
 (94) Dr. Brought Over ,£181.18 
 
 Cr. By 910 Tithables @ 12 S. Each 546.— 
 
 364.2 
 Dr. to the Sheriff for collecting ^546 at 6 pr C. 32. 15.2 
 
 ^33*- 6.2 
 To the sheriff for Extra Services 1200 &Tob'o. 7.10 
 
 Depositum in Sheriffs hands ^333.16.10. 
 
 Ordered that the sheriff Collect from every Tithable person 
 within this County the sum of Twelve Shillings each as a 
 County Levy, and that he pay the above Charges to the differ- 
 ent persons to whome they are due, and that he account for 
 the above Collections. 
 
 Ordered that Benjaman Kuykindall, and Samuel Newell 
 Gentlemen, Contract with a proper person or persons To Junk 
 and Daub the Coort house, and provide Locks and Bars for 
 the Doors of the Goal, and to Build an addition to the Ednd 
 of the Court House and Goal Sixteen feet squear one Story 
 High with good Sufficient Logs and a good Cabbin Roof, with 
 a good outside wooden Chimney, with Convenient Seats for the 
 Court, and bar, with a Sheriffs Box &c. with a good Iron pipe 
 stove for the Goal Room, and that they have a pair of stocks, 
 whiping post and Pilliory Erected In the Court yard, and that 
 the whole be Compleated as soon as Possible. 
 
 Ordered that Henry Taylor, James Allison, James Patterson 
 and William Brashers be atteached for Contempt in Neglect- 
 ing to make report of the Conveniency and Inconveniency of 
 a Road from Catfish Campt to Pentecosts Mills, agreable to a 
 former Order of Court. 
 (95) Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow morning 
 9 oClock. Edw d Ward. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 279 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County 
 November 25th, 1778. 
 
 Present, Edward Ward. Isaac Cox, Joshua Wright Richard 
 Yeates and Samuel Newell Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Atteachments from the District Dockett. 
 Anderson vs McLean. Contd. 
 McMahon vs Myers. Contd. 
 Campbell vs Street. Contd. 
 Morgain vs Connolly Contd. 
 Dunking & Wilson vs Linn Contd. 
 Price vs Lima Contd. 
 
 Hawkins vs Greathouse Abates by Def. Death. 
 Hull vs Linn. Contd. 
 
 New Atteachments. 
 Pillon vs Smith Contd. 
 Hammill vs Hanks Contd. 
 Duglas vs Hill Discontd. 
 Vergin vs Carr Abates by Def. Death. 
 Perkerson vs Duglass Discontd. 
 Decker vs Hanks. Contd. 
 Bowling vs Rutter. Contd 
 {96) Conee vs Casteel Contd. 
 
 Robertson vs Frenuty Contd. 
 Smallman vs McConnell Contd. 
 Thomas vs Kilgore Discontd. 
 Perkerson vs Edwards Contd. 
 Ormsby vs Dunn Contd. 
 Harrison vs Wallace Discontd. 
 Ogle vs McSwan Contd. 
 
 Issues. 
 
 Spear vs Jones Contd. 
 
 Decamb vs Nicholas. Abates by Plant. Death. 
 
 vs the same Do. 
 McCawley vs Jones Contd. 
 Campbell vs McKay. Abates by Defd. Death. 
 Spears vs Winemiller Contd. 
 Semple vs Collings Contd. 
 
280 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Colings vs Sample Contd. 
 Bouseman vs McGoldrick Contd. 
 Hawkins vs Wheet Contd. 
 Rowly vs Springer Contd. 
 Ward vs Thorn Contd. 
 Jones vs Spear Contd. 
 Heckman vs Brounfeld Do. 
 Pentecost vs Linn. Contd. 
 Corn vs Miller Contd. 
 Pentecost vs Briscoe. Contd. 
 McGinnis vs Gibson Contd 
 Hite vs Core Abates by Plat. Death. 
 Parker vs Barrackman Contd. 
 Shilling vs Taylor Contd. 
 Hawkins Ass. vs Clark Contd. 
 Hawkins vs Kuykendall Contd. 
 McLouney Adm. vs Thomas Contd. 
 v Smith Contd. 
 97) Eaton vs Cannon Contd. 
 
 vs McClelland. Contd. 
 Bond vs Mordacai Contd. 
 v the same Contd. 
 McDonald v Scott -j 
 
 vs Caveatt (- Contd. 
 v Hannah ) 
 Brawdy Ass vs Trench Contd. 
 Grubb vs Dooling Contd 
 Vallandingham vs Teegarden Contd. 
 Thomas vs Hannah &c Contd. 
 
 v Hannah. Contd 
 
 v Caveatt Contd. 
 Haney vs McKay Contd. 
 Chambers vs Spear &c Contd. 
 
 vs Thorn Contd. 
 Ward vs Thorn Contd. 
 McLingt vs Knight Contd. 
 Wood vs Gray Contd. 
 Martin vs Duglass Contd. 
 Beeler vs Wells Discontd. 
 
Abates by Plant. Death. 
 
 Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 281 
 
 Cook vs Froman Contd. 
 v Shilling Contd. 
 vs McConnell Contd. 
 vs Robertson Contd. 
 Crow vs Williams Contd. 
 Same v the same Contd. 
 Same vs the same Contd. 
 Sample vs McKinzey Contd. 
 Heckman vs Dunkfield Contd. 
 Rogers vs McKay. Abates by Defds. Death. 
 Wilson vs Hannah Contd. 
 Colvin vs Frederick Contd. 
 (98) Holliday vs Hawkins Contd. 
 
 Bowley vs Springer Contd. 
 v Springer Contd. 
 Cresep v Dooling 
 v Peters 
 v Teegarden 
 v French 
 Bealle v Finn &c \ Contd. 
 v McMahon j Contd. 
 Barrackman vs Mutzs Contd. 
 Armstron vs Ownigs &c. Contd. 
 Hamelton vs Dunfield Contd. 
 Hand vs Whitaker Contd. 
 Harrison vs Paul. Abates by Defds. Death. 
 Neavill vs Gist Contd. 
 Riley vs Hanna Contd. 
 
 Cresip adm. vs Tegarden Abates by Plant. Death. 
 Teagarden vs Hammon Contd. 
 Cresip vs Swearengen Contd. 
 Phelps vs McKay. Abates by Defd. Death. 
 
 v Sample. Contd 
 Campbell vs Bealle Contd 
 Paul vs Smith Contd. 
 McElroy vs Templin. Contd. 
 
 v the same Contd. 
 Kuykendall vs Ross Contd. 
 
282 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Referances Not at Issue. 
 
 Frye vs Tilton Contd 
 
 v the same Contd. 
 Chamberlain vs Hanthorn Contd. 
 the same Heckman j Abates by 
 
 the same J Defds. Death. 
 
 Ward vs Owings Jun. Disctd. Defd. paying cost. 
 Spear vs Heckman. Abates by Defds. Death. 
 vs Proctor Contd 
 vs Humble. Abates by Defds Death. 
 (99) Spear vs Gist Contd. 
 
 Croghan vs Waugh Contd. 
 Steenburgan vs Warbill. Abates by Defd. Death. 
 Newell vs Robertson Contd. 
 Kuykendal vs Hawkings Contd. 
 Small vs Teagarden Abates by Def. Death. 
 Sample & ux vs McKay. Abates by Def. Death. 
 Shilling, v Young Contd. 
 v the same Contd 
 v Dement Contd. 
 vs Proctor Contd. 
 Newell vs Wiseman Contd. 
 Noble vs Chamberlain Contd 
 
 v Shay &c Contd. 
 Shilling vs. Martin Contd. 
 Hawkins Ass. vs Hilderbrand Contd. 
 Hawkins v the same Contd. 
 v Tonee Contd. 
 v Hanks Contd. 
 v White Contd. 
 Hardin vs Hawkins Contd. 
 Wm. Hardin vs Glen Abates Defd. Dead. 
 Spears vs Crawford Abates by Defd. Death. 
 
 v R. McMachen. Contd. 
 Wickweze, Ass. v Harrison Contd. 
 Prather vs Beaty Contd. 
 Wells vs Brown Contd. 
 Blackburn Ass. vs Peake Contd. 
 Brashers vs Swearengen Contd. 
 
Minutes of Count of Yohogania County. 283 
 
 Vallandingham vs Chiswell Contd. 
 Chambers vs Amberson Contd. 
 Conrod vs Carter Contd. 
 Vannatree vs Kinkaid Dis Contd. 
 Heair vs McConnell. Contd. 
 Pentecost vs Trader Discontd. 
 Wood vs Griffith Contd 
 (ioo) Miseley vs Housesenger Contd. 
 Mitchell vs Scott. Contd. 
 Rogers vs Proctor Contd. 
 Avery vs Brown Contd. 
 Clinton & Noble vs Brashers Contd. 
 Baker vs Harges. Contd. 
 Wagler vs Warner Contd. 
 McGrue vs MP.Connell Contd. 
 
 vs Phelps. Contd 
 Glenn vs Henton. Abated. Plantiff Dead. 
 Holliday vs Belleywiss. Con. 
 Boley vs Ross. Contd. 
 
 vs the same Contd. 
 vs the same Contd 
 Bouseman vs Douseman Contd. 
 v the same Contd. 
 v McLean Contd. 
 Kuykindall vs Dunn Contd. 
 
 vs Hawkins 
 
 v Roberts 
 
 v Smith 
 
 v Vannatree 
 McMahan v Irwin Contd 
 McKendless v McCornish. Contd 
 Taylor vs Irwin Contd. 
 Deining vs Lane Contd. 
 Moor vs Richman Contd. 
 Smallman vs Slover Contd 
 Deck vs Swearengen Continued. 
 Vergin v Moore Contd. 
 Barker vs Jourden Contd 
 Waller vs Meeks Contd 
 
 Contd. 
 
284 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Cresip vs Bowling 1 Abates by 
 
 vs Wright Plat. 
 
 vs Hedges 
 
 vs Hanks Death. 
 
 vs Reasoner . 
 Armstrong vs Rammage Contd. 
 Reasoner vs Heckman. Abates. Def. Dead. 
 Bedford Ass. vs Hill Contd. 
 Wilcox vs Creghead Contd 
 Barrackman vs Shousely. Contd. 
 Bealle vs Shawon Contd. 
 Keller vs Jones. Contd. 
 (101) Reasoner vs Shearer Contd. 
 Brent vs Beeler. Contd. 
 Ramsey vs Chambers Contd. 
 
 v the same Contd. 
 Stephens vs Berwick Contd. 
 Heath vs Farrer Contd. 
 Perkie vs Colloway Contd. 
 Cresip vs Shearer Contd 
 Hughes vs Thomas Contd. 
 Stephens vs Shilling Contd 
 Dye vs Dye Contd. 
 Downer vs Teegarden Contd. 
 Thomas vs Lee Contd. 
 Swagler vs Mills. Abates by Defd's. Death. 
 Virgin vs Carr. Abates by Defd's. Death. 
 Wilson vs Cockran. Contd. 
 Mills vs Hunter. Abates by Plant. Death. 
 Brounfield vs Cox. Contd. 
 Bond vs Long. Contd. 
 Tygert vs Dunnaughagain. Contd. 
 Colwell vs Brousier. Contd. 
 Sumrall vs. the same. Contd. 
 Shearer vs Miller Contd. 
 Baker vs Hendericks. Contd. 
 Whitaker vs Dickson Contd. 
 Wills vs Raredin Contd. 
 Whitzle vs Shearer Contd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 285 
 
 Stevens vs Stout. Contd. 
 Gallehan vs Dowling. Contd. 
 McMullen & ux vs Dixerson Contd. 
 Jas. McMullen vs the same Contd. 
 Moore vs Virgin Contd. 
 
 vs Jer. [?] Virgin Contd. 
 Podd vs Virgin Ctd. 
 
 vs Virgin. Contd. 
 Bayars vs Philips Contd. 
 Campbell vs Brounfield Contd. 
 (102) Harrison vs Corn Contd. 
 Warvill vs Parmour Contd. 
 Jones vs Clark Contd. 
 Phelps vs M c .Grue Contd. 
 Simmings vs Daughan Contd. 
 Small vs Gray Contd. 
 McMichael vs French Contd. 
 Pursell vs Gibson. Contd. 
 Railouson vs St Clair. Abates by Plantif Death. 
 Couswell vs Dunn. Contd. 
 Barr vs Clerk Contd. 
 Halfpenny vs Wetzel. Contd. 
 Hill vs Corn 
 
 vs The same 
 Thomas vs Merchant Contd. 
 Farree vs Kincaid. Abates by Plaintiff's Death. 
 Park vs Cockron Contd. 
 Ireland vs Wilson. Contd. 
 Collings vs Brody Contd. 
 Black vs Dunleavey Contd. 
 Vaughan vs McMahan Contd. 
 Stephenson vs Roads Contd 
 Tedball vs Stoner Contd. 
 Anderson vs Denney Contd. 
 Stephenson vs Barnett Contd. 
 M.'Clellan vs Gray Contd. 
 Schely vs Smith. Contd. 
 Young vs Jackman Contd. 
 Linn vs Tilton. Contd. 
 
 [ Abates by Defds. Death. 
 
286 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Martin vs Johnston Contd. 
 
 Chambers vs McLean Contd. 
 
 Jones vs St. Clair. Abates by PI. Death. 
 
 Reese vs Haymaker Contd. 
 
 Altman vs Hanna & Irwin Contd. 
 
 Cox vs Decker Contd. 
 
 Furgurson vs Carrol Contd. 
 
 Martin vs Glass Contd. 
 
 v Hamelton Contd. 
 
 Black vs Chamberlain Contd. 
 
 Mordecai vs Bond 1 _ 
 
 „ . , > Contd 
 v Knight J 
 
 (103). Black vs Jolley Contd 
 
 v Hanna. Contd. 
 
 Deed poll from Daniel Cassity to Lettis Griffith was proved 
 
 by the oaths of Rich'd. Yeates and Daniel Curry two of the 
 
 Subscribing witnesses and Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 George McCormick Gent, named in the Commission of the 
 
 Piece and Commission of Oyer and Terminer sworn to said 
 
 Commissions. 
 
 Tygert vs Burns wontd. 
 
 v Jefferess Contd. 
 
 Vaughan vs Elson Agreed. 
 
 Winebiddle vs French Contd. 
 
 Yough vs McCullough. Contd. 
 
 Grater vs Crawford. Abates by Defds. Death. 
 
 Swigert vs Clemens 1 Abates by 
 
 vs Robertson 
 
 vs Cox 
 
 vs Walker 
 
 vs Lucas 
 
 vs Scott 
 
 vs Cox 
 
 vs Fisher 
 
 Morrison vs Ross Contd. 
 
 Brounfield vs Smith Contd. 
 
 Hunter vs Jones. Contd. 
 
 Caswell vs Dunn Contd. 
 
 Wallace vs Moredock Contd 
 
 PI. Death. 
 
Minutes of Count of Yohogania County. 
 
 287 
 
 • Contd. 
 
 Faset vs Meeks Contd 
 Campbell, Ass. vs Dtlnn Contd. 
 Ridgley vs Linn. Contd. 
 Morecroft vs Doling Contd. 
 Fleman vs Gibson Contd. 
 Dunfield vs Hickman 
 
 vs Russell 
 v Ross 
 
 vs Lindsey 
 vs Fositt 
 
 vs Peershover 
 Steel vs Johnston Contd. 
 v the same Contd. 
 Downer vs Morrison Contd. 
 (104) Woods vs McGlaughlin Contd. 
 Styger vs^Smith Contd. 
 Elliott & ux. vs Martin. Contd. 
 vs Collings Contd. 
 Lynch, Infd. vs Laughlin Contd. 
 Semple vs Ferns, &c. Contd. 
 Williamson, Ass. v Mills. Abates by Pf. Death. 
 Gray vs Harrison Contd. 
 Croghan v Bowley 
 
 v McCollister 
 
 v Bouseman 
 
 v McKee 
 
 v Kuyendall. 
 
 v Ritchman 
 
 v Whitaker 
 
 v Whitaker 
 
 v Whitaker 
 
 v Kuyendall 
 
 v Frederick 
 
 v Rowleter 
 
 v M c .Clean 
 
 v Bouseman 
 
 v Grimes 
 
 v Mf.Grue 
 
 v Trupe 
 
288 
 
 Annals ok the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 v Switzwiks 
 
 v Meeks j. Contd. 
 
 vs M c .Manemy 
 v Druming 
 v Campbell 
 v Myers 
 v Gibson 
 v Weddle Sen. 
 v Beard, 
 v Mitchell 
 v Miller 
 v Ornsby 
 v Renno 
 v Elliott 
 v Price 
 v Lowden 
 v St. Clair 
 v R. Lowderi. j 
 (105) George Croghan v William Ramage. 1 Contd. 
 
 v Henry. Contd. 
 
 v McCartney 
 
 v Thompson. 
 
 v Ross. 
 
 v Ross. 
 
 v Whitzle. 
 
 v Hunter 
 
 v Gibson. |- Continued. 
 
 v Grant 
 
 v Springer 
 
 v Conner 
 
 v Keezer 
 
 v Royall 
 
 v Davidson 
 
 v Elrod 
 
 v M''.Connell 
 Sinkler vs Labatt. Contd 
 Ornsby v Bouseman. Contd. 
 Miller vs Humble Contd. 
 Clerk vs Tibott. Contd 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 
 
 289 
 
 Abates by Pit. Death. 
 
 Contd. 
 
 Eagle vs Adams Contd. 
 
 Whitaker vs Dickson Contd. 
 
 Gerty vs Hanna. Contd. 
 
 Gaughagain vs Smith Contd. 
 
 Enock vs Teegarden Contd. 
 
 Clinton vs Mays Contd. 
 
 Hawkins vs Humble Contd. 
 
 Nicholass vs Swissicks Contd. 
 
 Swigert vs Hatfield 
 
 vs Case 
 
 vs Erskins 
 
 v Smith 
 
 v the same 
 
 v Daviss 
 
 v Sills 
 
 vs Crosby 
 
 Fife vs Holliday \ 
 
 v Fife 
 
 v Churchell ) 
 
 (106) Fife v Fife Contd. 
 
 Hitev Morgan Contd 
 v White Contd. 
 v Evins. Contd. 
 v Mynett. Contd. 
 v Tearabaugh Contd. 
 v the same Contd. 
 Hitev McCabe &c. Abates by Plat. Death. 
 Bruin v Fife 
 
 v the s me 
 v W. Fife 
 v the same 
 Dealton v Gruver 
 
 v Matthias Stoner 
 Hales v Roach Contd. 
 Morgan v Nicholas 
 v Bond 
 vs Chamberlain 
 v Beavers 
 Morgan v Wyer 
 
 v the same 
 
 Contd. 
 
 Contd. 
 
 Contd. 
 
 Contd. 
 
290 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Kuykendall vs Pearceful \ 
 
 v Pancake y Contd. 
 v Douthard ) 
 
 Williams v Vannatree ) „ , 
 v Crow ) 
 
 Price v Linn 
 
 v Weddle Contd. 
 
 Contd. 
 
 I 
 v Hanks ) 
 Gray v Peters ) Contd 
 
 v Patten ) 
 Tygert vs Donna van 
 v Craven 
 v Vanatree 
 v Craven I 
 v Oglin J 
 
 St. Clair vs Sill Cont. 
 
 v Reuboarn. Abates by Def. Death. 
 (107) M°.Cullogh vs McCormick Continued, 
 v Douthard. Contd. 
 Elliott vs Gerty Contd. 
 
 vs Brown. Abates by Deft. Death. 
 Jones vs Wilson. Abates by Parties Death. 
 Hawkins v Bell ) 
 
 v the same 
 
 v the same }■ Contd. 
 v Gray 1 
 
 v Perkerson J 
 Semple v E. Thompson Contd. 
 Crisep, Ass. v Dunfield. Ab. by Pi's. Death. 
 
 Mic'I. Crisepvs Elliott ) . 
 
 „, , > Abs. by PI. Death, 
 v 1 aylor ) 
 
 Robertson vs Crow Contd. 
 
 Shilling vs Newkirk Contd. 
 
 Rogers vs Williams \ 
 
 vs Parr V Contd. 
 
 v Tumbleson ) 
 
 Zane v Hawkins 
 
 v Drenning 
 
 Zane, Ass. v. Holdman Contd. 
 
 hlS } Contd. 
 ung ) 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 291 
 
 Castleman vs Taboe Contd. 
 Elliott Adm. vs Harges Contd. 
 McMullin vs Dickerson Contd. 
 Ross, Ass. v Cleman Contd. 
 Atkenson v Mairs Discontd. 
 Daviss v Dunn. Contd. 
 Lyon v Dunkan Contd. 
 Heizer vs Bruce Contd. 
 Glaswell vs Kizeer Contd. 
 McGlaughlin vs Young Contd. 
 Anderson vs Reese Contd. 
 Dunleavy, Ass. vs Frerell Contd. 
 Haramon v Teegarden Contd. 
 Armstrong vs Oharra Contd. 
 Thomas, Ass. vs Stark Contd. 
 (108) Ward vs Springsteen Contd. 
 
 vs the same. Contd. 
 
 v Labatt. Dismiss, by Plantiff. 
 Jones vs Evins. Contd. 
 
 v the same I 
 
 v M?.Goldricklcontd. 
 
 v the same | 
 Ogle v Wilson. Contd. 
 
 v the same. Contd. 
 Labatt v Rammage Contd. 
 
 v Aston. Abates by Plfs. Death. 
 Hamelton v Aston Abs. Plfs. Death. 
 Hamelton v Goe Contd. 
 Cleldenery vs Logan Contd. 
 Nevill, Ass. vs Holliday. Contd. 
 N. Nezer vs Davidson Contd. 
 Kelso vs Pigget Contd. 
 Allison v Lyon j Contd 
 
 v Duglass J 
 Hilderbrand vs Hawkins 
 
 Ass. v Hanks Contd. 
 the same 
 Wallace vs Briscoe Contd. 
 v the same Contd. 
 
292 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Swearengen vs Spencer Contd. 
 v the same Contd. 
 Smith vs Smallman Contd. 
 
 v Sly, & u. Contd 
 Martin v Elliott Contd 
 Brasher vs Cossick Contd 
 Jones vs Ormsback. Contd. 
 Waferds Exr. vs Cox &c. Contd. 
 Heath vs Parks. Contd. 
 Hawkins vs McCarty Contd. 
 Rootes vs Coock. Contd. 
 Spencer vs Swearingen Contd 
 Brent vs Jones 
 
 Colwell, Ass. vs Linn Contd. 
 (109) Kid - — - v McConnel. Contd 
 
 Theobald v Martin. Abs. by P. Death. 
 Lynch vs Jones Contd. 
 
 v Berwick Contd. 
 Mitchell v Zane, Contd. 
 Drening vs Boys Contd. 
 Braden v Elliott Contd 
 Johnston v Stell Contd. 
 Crooks vs Hilderbrand Contd. 
 Holliday, Ass. vs Wortherington Contd. 
 Hamelton vs Martin. Con. 
 Berwick v Atkinson Contd 
 Gilfillin, Ass. v Tygert Contd 
 McQuitly vs Gray. Contd 
 M c .Collister vs Scott. Contd 
 Bowler vs Tygert Contd 
 Robertson vs McGoldrick Contd. 
 M?.Elroy vs McMachen Contd 
 Atkinson vs White Contd. 
 Dunleavy vs Russell. Dismsd. by Plantiff. 
 Schley vs Smith. Contd. 
 Ferrell, Ass. vs Carr &c. Abs. by D. Death. 
 Price vs Crawford. Contd. 
 Wheat vs Kermicheall Contd. 
 Scott vs Vallandingham Contd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 293 
 
 Campbell ys Hanks. Contd. 
 Holliday vs Scott & ux Contd. 
 M°Carty vs Craighead Contd. 
 Lyons vs Hamblebeerer Contd. 
 Frazier vs Chambers Contd. 
 Miller vs Hill Contd. 
 Kearns vs McQuing Contd. 
 Boyce v Thomas Contd. 
 Wright vs Springston Contd. 
 Davidson vs Hanks Contd. 
 WothwallV Dristnell Contd. 
 (no) Clark vs Hawkins Contd. 
 
 Smith & Duglass vs Girty. Contd. 
 
 Dillo vs Perky* Contd. 
 
 McManamy v Oharra Contd. 
 
 Beckman v Scott. Contd. 
 
 Ferrell v Daugherty. Contd. 
 
 Tharp v Collings. Contd. 
 
 Armstrong vs Oharra Contd. 
 
 Bouseman v Ornsby. Contd. 
 
 Thomas vs Elliott Adm. Contd. 
 
 Christie v White. Contd. 
 
 Richards v Aston. Abates by D. Death. 
 
 Brinkers Exr. vs Hardin Adm. Contd. 
 
 Daviss & Co. 'y. vs. Young. Contd. 
 
 Elevy vs Dunn Contd. 
 
 Lyons vs Downes. Contd 
 
 Mitchell vs. Wade Contd. 
 
 Willson vs McGinniss Contd 
 
 Downard vs Vaughan. Abates Defend. Dead. 
 
 Coleman vs Gauze. Contd. 
 
 Wallias v. Meek. Discontd. 
 
 Johnston v Stephens Contd. 
 
 Wilson vs Hannon Contd 
 
 Mitchell vs Zane Contd 
 
 Williams vs Presser Contd 
 
 Kurtz v Jones Contd. 
 
294 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Croghan vs Henry ) 
 
 v Springer ! Contd 
 
 v Ross I 
 
 v Powell J 
 Hite vs Dodson Contd 
 Thompson vs Williams Contd. 
 
 New Petitions 
 
 Sells vs Irwin. Contd. 
 
 Campbell vs McKay. Abs. by Defds. Death. 
 
 Shilling v Blackman. Contd. 
 
 v Delaney Do. 
 Roach v Shaner Do 
 Christie, Ass. v Irwin. Do. 
 
 v Jackman Do. 
 Hite v Cox. Abates by Plant. Death. 
 Bell vs Huston. Discontd. 
 Parker, Ass. vs Daviss Contd. 
 Whitzle, Ass. vs Ryebolt. Contd. 
 Stone vs Crawford Extr. Do. 
 Wood vs Griffith Con. 
 Hamilton v Hawkins. Do. 
 Seman v Miller &c. Do. 
 
 v the same Do. 
 Cook v Berwick 
 
 v Heartt 
 
 v Johnston J- Contd. 
 
 v Dobbins 
 
 v Barker 
 Vannatree vs Pelton &c Contd. 
 M°Kenzey vs Semple Cont. 
 Ryan v Clerk Do. 
 McDonald v Grimes Do. 
 Deale vs Grove Do. 
 Tennell, Ass. vs Marshell — 
 Colvin vs Ryley Contd. 
 Wells vs Johnston. Contd 
 Redford, Ass. vs. Hill Do. 
 Ryan vs Caswell Do. 
 
>Contd. 
 
 Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 295 
 
 v Shaner Do. 
 Brent v Teegarden Do. 
 Owry vs Fisher Do. 
 v Miller Do. 
 v Maurer Do. 
 (112) Farree v Duck Contd. 
 
 v Sinnett. Contd. 
 Pigman v Seaton Contd 
 Stebbs v Templeton Do. 
 v Daviss Do. 
 v Accord Do. 
 v Carter Do. 
 v Edwd. Doolin Do. 
 Caswell, Ass. v Girty. 
 
 v the same 
 
 v the same 
 
 v the same 
 
 Caswell v Scott. Contd 
 
 Clinton vs Cuningham Contd 
 
 v Donne Do. 
 Weckwire v Downer Do. 
 Holliday v Jones Do. 
 
 v the same Do. 
 v the same Do 
 Wells v Zane Do. 
 Hawkins v Bodkin Do. 
 Watson v Kuyendall Do. 
 Hawkins v Coffee Do. 
 Little vs Brounfield Do 
 Virgin vs Colvin Do. 
 Paul vs West Do. 
 Day vs Christie. Do. 
 Taylor vs Byerly. Do. 
 Humble vs Clerk Do. 
 v Burns Do. 
 Devoir vs Scott Do. 
 Jones v McDowell Do. 
 Fowler v Brown Do. 
 Wall vs Doolin Do 
 
■ Abates by Plan. Death. 
 
 296 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Waddle, Ass. v Arle Do. 
 Farree vs McCatney Do. 
 v Carrell Do. 
 v Macken Do. 
 (113) Frederick Farree, Ass. v Kinkaid Contd. 
 Brent vs Simpson Contd. 
 Cresip v Colwell Abs. by Plaf. Death. 
 
 v Philips Do. 
 Swigert v Sinkman [?] 
 
 v Corree 
 
 v Beeler 
 
 v Myers 
 
 v Myers J 
 
 M°.Clelan vs Small Contd. 
 v the same Do. 
 Daviss, Ass. vs. Downer Do. 
 Devoir v Warner Do. 
 
 v Hanks Do. 
 Decks v Groggs Do. 
 Harden Ju. v Kinkaid Do. 
 Miller, Ass. v Custard Do! 
 Ryan vs Ross Do. 
 Tennal, Ass. v. Marshall Do. 
 Maxwell vs Ashcroft Do. 
 Killay v Cox Do. 
 Walls v Zane Do. 
 Kuykendall v Dunn Do. 
 Cuningham v Bruce Do. 
 Jollery v Barker Contd. 
 Moore v Churchell Do. 
 Schane, Ass. v Stephens Do. 
 Jackson v Clerk Do. 
 Bowley v Swigert Do. 
 
 v Russell Do. 
 McGrue v Ward. Do. 
 Morrison v Armstrong Do. 
 Gather v Swearingen Do. 
 Ross v Dunfield. Do. 
 Jacobs v Brasheers Do 
 
Minutes of Court ok Yohogania County. 297 
 
 Lennett v Aston. Abates by D. Death. 
 Dean v M?.Namay Do. 
 Loughlin v the same Do. 
 (114) Rowleter v Labatt Contd. 
 Steel v Moncck Do. 
 Jackson v Clerk Do. 
 Hall v Redman Do. 
 Mordecai v Kuykendall Do. 
 Decmp v Freshwater. Abates by PI. Death. 
 Thomas v Lambert. Contd. 
 M?.Collister v Black Do. 
 Savage v Teegarden Do. 
 Finn v Williams Do. 
 Adams v Horn Do. 
 Lain v Peyton Do. 
 Walliace v Meek. Disctd. 
 House v Mayhon Contd. 
 Virgin v Moore Do. 
 Collihgs v Dolton Do. 
 Ass. v Clerk Do. 
 
 Adams vs Huston Do. 
 
 Cleldening vs Caarmichell Do. 
 
 Hanthorn, Ass. v Martin Do. 
 
 Semple v Owery Do. 
 
 Hamelton v Hawkins Do. 
 
 Rouse vs [?] Do. 
 
 Crawford v Aston. Abates by D. Death. 
 
 Johnston v Watson Contd. 
 
 Morgan v Wheeler Do. 
 
 Steel v Thomas Do. 
 
 Ewalt v Ross Do. 
 
 Daugherty v Aston. Abates by Def. Death. 
 
 McGloughen vs Irwin Contd. 
 
 Pearce vs Cherry Do. 
 
 Semple v Carrell Do. 
 
 Moore v Ritchnin Do. 
 
 Daugherty v Blacke Do. 
 
 Devoir v Tygert. Do. 
 (115) Tygert v Lindsey Contd. 
 
298 
 
 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 v the same Contd. 
 v the same Do. 
 Stewart v Scott. Do. 
 
 Theobald v McCoy. Abates by Partys Death 
 Holliday v Zane. Contd. 
 
 v Wortherington Contd. 
 Simmon & Campbell v Gaughagain Contd. 
 Kuykendall v Kuykendall Do. 
 v Holliday Do. 
 v Heath Do. 
 v McGuire Do. 
 v Hogland Do. 
 Vallandingham v Springer 
 v Clemans 
 v Meeks 
 v Hartley 
 v Lindsey 
 v D. Lindsey 
 Farree v Linn, Sen. Do. 
 Downard v Parr. Abates by Defds. Death. 
 Maxwell v Thompson Contd. 
 Reed v Clerk Do. 
 Dealton v Shannon Do. 
 Clinton & Noble v Dooland Do. 
 
 Contd. 
 
 (1,6) 
 
 New Petitions. 
 Smallman v McDorend 1 
 v Gaunseley j- 
 v Scott 
 Swigert v Higinbottom ) 
 v Newland 
 v Scott 
 v Pelegon 
 v Cox 
 v Castle 
 Daugherthey v White 
 v Philip 
 v Brownfield 
 v Bailey 
 Ass'ee. v McGinn . 
 
 I 
 
 Contd. 
 
 Abates by 
 PI. Death. 
 
 Contd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 299 
 
 Ross vs Swift Do. 
 
 v Black Contd. 
 McClure v Lynch 1 
 
 v White }- Contd. 
 
 v McCarty J 
 Hawkins v Labatt Cont. 
 Bruce v Aston. Abates by D. Death. 
 Clerk, Ass. v Downer. Contd. 
 Irelawin v Ferree Do. 
 Holms v Huston Do. 
 Lynch, Ass. v Ornsbey. Do. 
 Anderson v Girty. Do. 
 Finn v Williams Do. 
 Kendall v Brounfield Do. 
 Parr v Korn Do. 
 Garrey v McCollogh Do. 
 McCullum v Edwards Do. 
 Christie v Alexander. Do. 
 Spear v McDoran Do. 
 Fitzgerreled v Ryley Do. 
 
 (117) A Commission from his Ex. the Gov. appointing Matthew 
 Ritchie Sheriff of this County was read, Whereupon the said 
 Matthew Ritchie Informed the Court that he had Taken every 
 Method in his Power to Procure deputys to assist him in the 
 Exn. of his Office, but from the present State of the fees, To- 
 gether with the Contested Boundry of the County, and the 
 small Emoluments Arising to the Sheriff of this County, al- 
 though he has offered the whole to any Person who would act 
 as Deputy, he has not been able to procure one, and Therefore 
 refused to Act or Qualify into his Comm. Whereupon Geo. 
 McCormick Gent, is recommend to his Excellency as a 
 proper Person to Serve as Sheriff of this County. Ordered 
 that the Clerk Transmit a Copy of this Recommendation to his 
 Exc. as soon as Posible, with an Apolighy for the frequent 
 application the Court are under the Disagreable Necessity of 
 Making for Sheriffs Commissions, and also inform his Exc. that 
 a Commission appointing the said Geo. M?.Corm. Sheriff, was 
 issued some Time ago, but the said M?.Cormick was then an 
 
300 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Officer in the Continental Service, and Contrary to his Expec- 
 tation the Genl. would not at that Time Suffer him to resign, 
 and consequently could not Serve, but Since has been permitted 
 to resign and is now clear of the Army, and now assures the Court 
 that he will Except of the Office and have the Duty Done. 
 
 Geo. McCormick Gent, is appointed Sheriff for one Month. 
 Entered into Bond, Sworn accordingly. 
 ^118) Ordered that the Sheriff pay out of the Depositum in his 
 hands in the State of the County Levy, the following sums. 
 
 To W" ,: Nemmons as pr. Genl. [?] ^6.12 
 
 To. for Express 6. o 
 
 To the Sheriff for three Called Courts. 600 lbs. Tob'o. 3.15 
 
 To Executing a Negro man belong' g. to J. DeComp 1. 7.6. 
 
 Ordered that the Clerk send the recommendation of the 
 Sheriff to the Governour by Express for the said Sheriffs Com- 
 mission for which he shall be allowed Eighteen pounds. 
 
 Deed poll William Price to Andrew Robetson was acknowl- 
 edged by the said Price party thereto, and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Two Deed polls Christopher McDonald to Robert M°Gee 
 was acknowledged by the said Christopher party thereto and 
 Ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 George McCormick Gent, high Sheriff come into Court and 
 protested against the Insufficiency of the Goal to Secure 
 Prisoners. 
 
 Thomas Applegate is Appointed Surveyor of the Road from 
 his House to William Andersons on the Monaungohela, and 
 that the Inhabitents within three miles on Each side of said 
 Road, work on, Cut open and keep said road in repair. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjoorned to Court in Course. 
 
 Edwd. Ward. 
 
 (119) .At a Court continued and held for Yohogania County, the 
 25 Jany. 1779. 
 
 Present Benja. Kuykendall, Saml. Newell, Joshua Wright, 
 Oliver Miller, Gent. Justices. 
 
 Ralph Bowker took the Oath of a Deputy Clerk for the 
 County of Yohogania. 
 
 George McCormick Gent, took the Oath of High Shff. for 
 the space of one month. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 301 
 
 Hugh Sterling a Deputy Stiff, for the space of one month for 
 the County of Yohogania came into Court and made Affirma- 
 tion according to Law. 
 
 Paul Mathews came into Court & took the Oath of a Goaler 
 according to Law for one month. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned till Court in Course. 
 
 Benja. Kuykendall. 
 
 (120) At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County, 
 March 22nd. 1779. 
 
 Present, Joshua Wright, Benjaman Kuykindall, Oliver Miller, 
 Joseph Beckett, & Joseph Beeler, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Deed Poll George McCormick to Henry Renkin & Alex. 
 McBride, also the Rec't. thereunto annexed was acknowledged 
 by the said McCormick a party thereto, and O. R. 
 
 Saml. Irwin Swore in Attorney. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of John McClery deceased returned. 
 Ordered to be Recorded. 
 
 The last Will & Testament of James Devoir deed, was proved 
 by Nicholas Depugh Tobias Decker & Daniel Depugh Jun. 
 Witnesses thereto, & O. R. 
 
 John Devoir Sworn Ex. of the last Will & Testament of 
 James Devoir, deed. 
 
 Ordered that Nicholas Depugh, Daniel Depugh, Jonh Decker 
 & John Crow or any three of them being first Sworn do ap- 
 praise the Est. of Jas. Devoir, & make return to next Court. 
 
 Deed Poll. Danl. Deshay to John Miller proved by Nichs. 
 Depugh Danl. Depugh & Tobias Decker Witnesses & O. R. 
 
 Deed Poll, Peter Swath to Danl. Depugh acknowledged and 
 O. R. 
 
 The last Will & Testament of Cathr- Lamb proved by Peter 
 Swath & Henry Devoir two of the Witnesses thereto & O. R. 
 Peter Black, John Devoir, John Lyda & Michael Myers ap- 
 pointed to appraise sd. Est. and make a return thereof to next 
 Court. 
 
 (121) Samuel Frye is appointed Constable in the room of Nichs. 
 Depugh. 
 
 Isaac Vance v Danl. Williams. Eject. 
 Order for Survey & Jury of View. 
 
302 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 John Morrison is appointed Constable in the room of Benja. 
 Vannater. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned till 7 O'clock Tomor- 
 row morning. Benja. Kuykendall. 
 
 Court met according to adjournmet March 23rd. 1779. 
 
 Present, Edward Ward, John Cannon, Richard Yeates, 
 Joshua Wright, Oliver Miller, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Deed Edward Ward to George Ross the Elder, and George 
 Ross the younger with the recept anaxed was acknowledged by 
 the sd. Ward. O. R. 
 
 Deed Edward Ward to John Campbell was acknowled & O. R. 
 
 Deed John Campbell Gent, to Joseph Simon acknowleded. 
 O. R. 
 
 Deed Joseph Simon & wife to John Campbell Gent, proved 
 as Directed by Act of Assembly & O. R. 
 (122) Deed Christopher Miller to Joseph Simon & John Camp- 
 bell, proved according to Act of Assembly & O. R. 
 
 John Corbley Jacob Vanater Abraham Vanmater Isaac Dye, 
 John Eastwood, Abraham Holt, John Holt, Robert Tyler, 
 having produced recommendations from the County Court of 
 Monongehala to pass unmolested to the Falls of Ohio which 
 was read and approved of. 
 
 Present Thomas Smallman & Thomas Freeman & William 
 Harrison Gent. Justices. 
 
 Richd. Yeates Gent. Absent. 
 
 Administration of the Est. of John Murphy is granted to 
 Van Swearengen he having comply' d with the Law. 
 
 Admn. of the Est. of Henry Brindley is granted to Van 
 Swearengen he having complied with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that Nathl. Brown Isaac Israels Thomas Edgin- 
 ton Nicholas Vinamon any three of them do appraise the 
 Estates of John Murphy & Henry Brindley, deed. 
 
 John Springer v Henry Kearsy. 
 
 Left to the award of John Cannon, Joshua Wright Geo. 
 Valandingham, Gabl. Cox & Jno. McDonald Gent. 
 
 Benja. Kuykendall Gent present. 
 (123; Deed Poll Valentine Thomas Dolton to Edwd. Ward was 
 proved by the oath of Thomas Smallman, William Christie, & 
 Jacob Bouseman Witness thereto and O. R. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 303 
 
 Deed poll Wm. Brashers to Van Swearingen was acknowl- 
 eded and O. R. 
 
 Samuel Newel Gent. Present. 
 
 The administration of the Estate of Thomas Cook formaly 
 granted to Anne Cook ordered to be set aside, and that the 
 said Administration be granted to the said Anne Cook and 
 Gabriel Cox they having Complied with the Law. 
 
 Charles Records with Henry Kearsey his Securt. came into 
 Court and enter' d. into Recog. for the Personal appearance of 
 sd. Records at the Next Grand Jur. Cour. held in £, 100 Each. 
 
 William Goe. Gent. Pt. 
 
 George Valandingham Pt. 
 
 Inventory of the Est. of Jas. Loudon deed. retd. & O. R. 
 
 Deed Poll Wm. Coventry to Jno. Miller Ackd. & O. R. 
 
 Adam Patterson v Wm. Tidball Benja. Swat Spl. Bl. 
 
 Sale of the Est. of Fredk. Farree deed. retd. and O. R. 
 
 Sheshbazzer Bentley v Camp. Agreed, 
 v Vititoe \ 
 v Eglin y 
 
 v Warren ) Ordered that a Didimus 
 Issue to examine Wit. 
 (124) Spears v McMahan. Ordered that a didimus Issue to take 
 deposition in sd. Cause. 
 
 Ordered that the Recommendation of George McCormick as 
 Shff. be sent to the Gov. and the Com'n. brought up at the 
 expence of the Co'ty. 
 
 George McCormick Sworn Shff for one Month. 
 
 Benja. Vanater and Jno. Lamon sworn Deputy Shffs for one 
 month. 
 
 Wm. Bennett appointed Constable in the room of David 
 Philips. 
 
 Tobias Matlocks appointed Consta. in the Room of Jno. 
 Hull. 
 
 John Dean & John Hoglin his Securt'y held in ^100 each 
 for the sd. Deans appr. at next May Co't. 
 
 Ordered that Thos. Ashbrook Joseph Snowden James Brad- 
 ford & Thos. Edginton or any three of them do view a Road 
 the nearest and best way from Catfishes Camp to Pentecost's 
 Mills and make a return to the next Court. 
 
304 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Isaac Walker and Gabl. Walker his Secut'y heldin^ioo 
 each for the appr. of the sd Isaac the next G. J. Ct. and that 
 Thomas Townsly be committed to the care of Gabl. Walker 
 till May Court. 
 
 Ordered that Moses Bradley be summ'd to appear at the 
 next Ct. to answer the complt. of Jno. Golahar for not doing 
 his duty as a Constable. 
 
 Pentecost v Lynn. Ordered that a Didimus Issue to 
 Examine Parties Wit's, and that the same be tried at Sept. Court. 
 
 George Mf.Cormick Gent. Protests against the Sufficiency of 
 the Goal. 
 
 Deed Poll Jno. Dunn to Geo. Wallace proved by the Oaths 
 .of Joseph Skelton & Hugh Oharra. Ord'd. to by for further 
 proof. 
 (125) Ordered that Court be adjourned till tomorrow morning 8 
 O'Clock. Edwd. Ward. 
 
 Court met according to adjournment March 24th. 1779. 
 
 Present Edwd. Ward Wm. Gowe, George Valandigham, 
 Richd. Yeates, Thomas Freeman & Wm. Harrson. Gent. 
 Justices. 
 
 Hugh Ohara 
 
 vs 
 
 ) Atta. 
 
 „ , „ , i Contd. at Def. Costs. 
 Peter Brandon ; 
 
 Thomas Smallman & Benja Kuykendall Gent. Joshua 
 Wright, Present. 
 
 Brashears v Hamelton. Then came a Jury, Towit. Jos. 
 Skelton, Jacob Bousman Saml. Ewalt David Day Jno. Houg- 
 land Jas. Munn Sheshbazzer Bentley, John Campbell John 
 Farree James Burris William Colvin Thomas Gist, Verd't. for 
 Pit. & Judgt. £ 500. 
 
 The fine imposed upon Jos. Noble for not appear' g. as a 
 Grand Jury Man is omitted. 
 Shuster v Lyda Agreed. 
 
 Deed Poll Peter Brandon to Hugh Oharra was proved by 
 the Oath of William Christie a Wit. Ordered to ly for fur- 
 ther proof. 
 
 Ordered that the Allowance Allo'd Jane Armstrong the wife 
 
 of Armstrong a Soldier in the Contin. Service be 
 
 contd. to the Date Hereof. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 305 
 
 (126) Admn. of the Est. of the late Colo. White Eyes is granted 
 to Thos. Smallman he having complied with the Law. 
 
 Jos. Skelton David Duncan Wm. Christie & Saml. Ewalt 
 appointed appraisers to said Est. 
 
 Appraismt. & Sale of John Green's Est. retd. & O. R. 
 
 Administration of the Est. of Benja. Tate deed, is granted 
 to Jacob Bousman he having complied with the Law. Wm. 
 Christie, Jos. Skelton David Duncan & John Ornsby appoint' d 
 apprais'rs of sd. Est. 
 
 Deed Poll Jas. Burris to Hugh Ohara acknd, also the Asst 
 from Ohara to James McLeland & Wm. Redick acknowledged 
 & O. R. 
 
 Pentecost v. Jones & Mayes [?]. Ordered that a Jury be 
 Summ'd of view attend upon the Land and that the Survr. and 
 Shff attend likewise. 
 
 Oliver Miller returns the following fines : 
 
 Robt. McGee for Drunkenness 5 S. 
 
 Jno. Hall 5 S. Wm. Brashers 15 S. George Sickman 20 S. 
 & James Bruce 20 S. for prophane Swearing. Clerk Rec'd. 
 the Money. 
 
 Ordered that the Ferries on the Monongehala River be al- 
 lowed 2 s - 6 for a man & the same for a Horse. 
 
 Ordered that Paul Mathews be allowed 75. 5. 10 for fur- 
 nishing Prisoners & find'g Irons for Criminals. 
 
 Ord'd that Jno: Ornsby Esq. be appointed to keep a ferry 
 Over the River Monongehala from the Toun of Pittsburgh to 
 the opposite Shore and that he be allowed 2 s - 6 for a man & 
 the same for a horse and that he keep one good Boat and Suf- 
 
 (127) ficient hands to work her and that he give Bond agreable to 
 Law, at the next Court. 
 
 Brashers v Colvin. Thos. Freeman S. B. 
 
 John Hogland v Geo. Riggle & Matthew Loghlin. Or- 
 dered that Didamus Issue for Examine of Witness. 
 
 Ordered that Court adjourn untill Tomorrow Morning 8 
 oClock. Edwd. Ward. 
 
 Court met according to adjournment 25 March 1779. 
 Present Richd. Yeates, Thos. Smallman Joshua Wright, 
 Benja. Kuykendall, Thos. Freeman Gent. Justices. 
 
306 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that Wm. Spurgen Thos. Cushman Thos. Moore 
 Zebulun Hog be appointed to appraise the Est. of Danl. 
 Greathouse's deed. & make retn. to next Court. 
 
 Assingmt. of two Deeds Poll Jas. Ellis to Saml. Irwin 
 Ackd. & O. R. 
 
 (128) Attachments. 
 
 Patrick Clerk v William Paxton. D. N. ap. 
 
 Oharra v Brandon Contd. PI. Costs. 
 
 Cumings v Lindsey D. N. ap. 
 
 Cox v Nelson. Contd. 
 
 Graybill v Hall D. N. apl. 
 
 Ritchie v Hall Contd. 
 
 Depugh v Hardin Contd. 
 
 Issues. 
 Cox v Williams Contd. 
 Lydea v Cox Contd 
 Wherry v White Contd 
 Miller v Humble Contd. 
 Pentecost v Jones C. O. 
 Johnston v Swearengen Contd. 
 Brownlee v Duglass Contd 
 Shilling v Newkirk Contd. 
 Same v the same Contd. 
 Myers v Hooper. Contd. 
 Mitchell v same Contd. 
 Shilling v Fortner Contd. 
 Hooper v G. Myers Contd. 
 
 v same Contd. v Thos. & ux Contd. 
 Fullum v Johnston Contd. 
 Springer v Kearsey Contd. 
 Spear v Jones Contd 
 McCauley v Jones Discon'd. N. P. 
 Campbell v McCoy Ab. Dt. Dead. 
 Spear v Winemiller Contd. 
 Semple v Collings Disd. N. Apr. 
 Collings v Semple D'd. N. Apr. 
 Bouseman v McGoldrick Contd 
 Ward v Thorn &c. Contd 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 307 
 
 Jones v Speers Dis'd. N. Ap. 
 
 Hickman v Brownfield Disc'd. 
 
 Pentecost v Linn Contd. 
 
 Corn v Miller dism'd. 
 
 (129^1 Pentecost v Briscoe Contd. 
 
 McGinnis v Gibson discont'd. 
 
 Shilling v Taylor Contd. 
 
 Hawkins, Ass. v Clerk Contd. 
 
 same v Kuykindall, Contd. 
 
 Malone v Thomas, discontd. 
 
 same, Admr. v Smith, discontd. 
 
 Eaton v Kennon Contd. 
 
 Same v McClellen Contd. 
 
 Bonce v Mordacai Contd. 
 
 Same v the same Contd. 
 
 McDonald v Scott discontd. 
 
 Same v Cavitt Do. 
 
 Same v Hanna Do. 
 
 Brawdy, Ass. v French Contd. 
 
 Grubb v Dawling Contd. 
 
 Vallandingham v Tygert Contd. 
 
 Thomas v Hanna &c. discontd. 
 
 Same v Same Do. 
 
 Same v Caveat Do. 
 
 Haney v McCay. Abates by Defds. Death. 
 
 Chambers v McFarlane & ux. discontd. 
 
 v Michael Thorn Do. 
 
 Ward v Thorn &c. Contd. 
 
 Woods v Gray disctd. 
 
 Beeler v Wells. Contd. 
 
 Cook v Paul Froman Contd. 
 
 Same v Shilling Contd. 
 
 Same, Ass. v McClellen Do. 
 
 McManamy v Robertson Contd. 
 
 Crow v Williams discontd. 
 
 Crow & ux v Same ) ,. 
 
 ^ _ y discontd. 
 
 Do v Do j 
 
 Semple, McKinzie Contd. 
 
 Hickman v Dunfield discontd. 
 
308 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Wilson v Hanna Do. 
 Colvin v Frederick Do. 
 Holliday, Ass. v Hawkins Contd. 
 Cressip v Dooling A.P.D. 
 Same v Peters Do. 
 Same v French Do. 
 (130) Beall v Finn &c. -> 
 
 Beall, 3 d Assinee. v McMachen L Contd. 
 
 Hamelton, Ass. v Dun field J 
 
 Harrison v Paul A.D.D. 
 
 Neavill v Gist Contd. 
 
 Ryley v Hanna discontd. 
 
 Cressip, Adm. v Teagarden A.P.D. 
 
 Teagarden v Hammond discontd. 
 
 Cresip v Swearengen Contd. 
 
 Felps v Semple Discontd. 
 
 Campbell v Beall Contd. 
 
 Paul v Smith discontd. 
 
 Common Orders. 
 Warshington v Pearceall Contd. 
 Vance v McNew Contd 
 Colwell v Frye &c. Impl. 
 Henderson v Kinkaid Contd. 
 Morrison v Vannatree Contd. 
 Same v Benjaman Vannatree. Contd. 
 Bouseman v McGoldrick Contd. 
 Froman v Dean Impl. 
 White, Sen. v Johnstown Judgt W. E. 
 Swigert v Murphey Judgt. W. E. 
 Brashers, Adm. v Colvin Plea No dem'd. Contd. 
 Same same v Brashers. Judgt. W. E. 
 McCullum v Brashers, Adm. discontd. 
 Whitacker v Dixon discontd. 
 Croghan v McConnell 
 
 v Elrod. 
 
 v Davidson 
 
 v Royall 
 
 v Kysor 
 
 v Connor \. Contd. Pit. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 309 
 
 v Grant 
 v Gibson 
 v Hunter 
 v Witzel 
 v Ross 
 
 (131) George Croghan v Wm. Thompson. \ 
 
 v McCartney v Contd. PH. 
 
 v Ramage ) 
 
 Elliott v Collins Contd. 
 Ferguson v Carroll discontd. 
 Cox v Dicker discontd. 
 Duncan & Barr v Clarke &c. discontd. 
 Liming v Douging Do. 
 Carswell v Dunn Do. 
 Croghan v Ross \ 
 
 v Springer y contd. 
 
 v Henry ) 
 Wickwire, Assee. v Harrison discontd. 
 Hawkins, Asse. v Hanks contd. 
 
 v Zane contd. 
 Deeck, Assee. v Swearengen discontd. 
 Kuykendall v Roberts A. P. D. 
 Holladay v Bell & ux. discontd. 
 Chambers v Emberson discontd. 
 Vallandigham v Chriswell Do. 
 
 Writs of Enquiry. 
 Hawkins v Wheat contd. 
 Nelson v Shilling contd. 
 Shilling v Nelson contd. 
 Spivy v Beeler contd. 
 Laurence v Rogers discontd. 
 Lindsay v Long discontd. 
 Kuykendall v Ross A. P. D. 
 McElroy v Templin j 
 
 v the same i 
 Hand v Whitaker contd. 
 Armstrong v Owens & ux. discontd. 
 
 (132) Barrackman v Mutz discontd. 
 Boley v Springer contd 
 
310 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 v John Springer contd. 
 Martin v Douglas discontd. 
 McClingh v Knight Do. 
 Parker v Barrackman Do. 
 Boley v Springer contd. 
 
 Reference. 
 Ward v Wells Judgt. W. E. 
 Briscoe v Todd contd. 
 Connell v Mounce & ux. contd. 
 Reasner v Ruth contd. 
 Brown v Hamilton Judgt. contd. 
 Sumrall & ux v Sumrall agreed. 
 Boling v Morrison contd. 
 Sterling v Richards contd. 
 Wells v Newell contd. 
 Gist v Waller contd. 
 v Hall contd. 
 v Boyles Do. 
 Burris v Trapman Do. 
 Burriss v. Johnston & ux. Do. 
 Dunaughagan v Gray Judgt. Exn. Issued. 
 Shilling v Collins agreed. 
 Schley v McKindley contd. 
 Braden v Vannater contd. 
 Cox v Davis & ux Judgt. W. E. 
 Richards v Ross contd. 
 Fullum v Johnston N. G. \v. leave & I'd. 
 (133) Benjamin Fullum v Johnston & ux 
 
 v McComish 
 Andrew v Johnston & x. 
 
 v the same 
 Brownfield v Ross contd. 
 Holmes v Dunn agreed. 
 Custard v Long contd. 
 Vance v Williams Judgt. & \V. E. 
 Swassicks v Jones contd. 
 Decker v Ruth N. G. & I'd. 
 Pearse v Evans contd. 
 Murphy v Richards contd. 
 
 N. G.w. Leave & I'd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 311 
 
 Hayes v Deale contd. 
 
 Bruc'e v Pelton discontd. Pit. 
 
 Ewalt v McCollister contd. 
 
 Hougland v Riggle agreed. 
 
 v Loughlin contd. 
 
 Swissicks v Swissicks contd. 
 
 Newkirk v Shilling contd. 
 
 McFarlane v Beeler contd. 
 
 Andrew v Johnston contd. 
 
 Mathews v Marshall & ux. contd. 
 
 Howe v Genoway & ux. discontd. 
 
 Cox v Britsman contd. 
 
 Vannater v Bradon contd. 
 
 v Parkerson Do. 
 
 Vanater v Kuykendall Dis Contd. 
 
 Burris v Williams Contd. 
 
 Jones v McDonald Do. 
 
 Dawson v Kirkpatrick Do. 
 
 Hall v Wells & x. Do. 
 
 (134) Grimes v Logan contd. 
 
 Beeler v Walker Do. 
 
 Woods v McKee Do. 
 
 Morrison v Surgart Do. 
 
 Froman v Boyce Condition perfd. & Contd. 
 
 Deale v Hayes Contd. 
 
 Crookes v Hougland Contd. 
 
 Patterson v McCornish Discontd. 
 
 Ralston v Lowry Judgt. W. E. 
 
 Pearse v Evans contd. 
 
 Wallace v Duncan Do. 
 
 Tigart v Boley Do. 
 
 v Chamberlain Do 
 
 Tigart v Davis Do. 
 
 Devoir v Pelton A P. D. 
 
 Clarke v Again Issue I'd. 
 
 Springer v Listnett. Agreed. 
 
 McKy v Davidson ) _, 
 
 \ Contd. 
 v The same j 
 
 Mattocks v Brown Do. 
 
contd. 
 
 312 Annals of the Carnegie Museum 
 
 Brown v Mattocks Do. 
 
 Lyda v Collins Do. 
 
 Caldwell v Houglin Do. 
 
 Witzle v McElwaine Do. 
 
 Caldwell v Corn Do. 
 
 Henry v Sloane Judgt. & W. E. 
 
 Heath v Bruce N. G. w. Leave. 
 
 Fry v Tilton ) T , . ... _ 
 y „, \ Judgt. & W. E. 
 
 v The same ) 
 
 Chamberlain v Henthorn. contd. 
 
 v Hickman A. D. D. 
 
 ('35) Spear v Proctor contd 
 
 v Gist contd. 
 
 Croghan v Waugh Do. 
 
 Newell v Robertson Do. 
 
 Kuykendall v Hawkins Do. 
 
 Shilling v Young 
 
 v The same 
 
 v Demink 
 
 v Proctor 
 Nevill v Wisemen Do. 
 Noble v Chamberlaine. Judgt. for Want Plea. 
 
 v Key & x. Jt. W. E. 
 Shilling v Martin contd. 
 
 Hawkins, Ass'ee. v Hillibrand Judgt. for want of Plea. 
 Ass'ee. v The same Do. 
 v White Do. 
 Hardin v Hawkins discontd. 
 Spears v McMahan contd. 
 
 Prather v Beaty. Judgt. Ex. if Bd. found. Iss'd. 
 Wells v Brown agreed. 
 Blackburn, Ass'ee. v Peak, contd. 
 Brashers v. Swearengen discontd. 
 Schley v Smith contd. 
 Conrod v Carter Do. 
 Hiser v McConnel Discontd. 
 Wood v Griffith contd. 
 Misely v Housinger discontd. 
 Mitchell v Scott Do. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 313 
 
 Rogers v. Proctor contd. 
 Oury v Brown Discontd. 
 Clinton & Noble v Brashers contd. 
 
 Baker, Ass'ee. v Hargis. Discontd. PL out of Country. 
 (136) Waggoner v Warner contd. 
 McGrew v McConnel Do. 
 The same v Philips Do. 
 Glenn v Hinton. Abates by P. death. 
 Bowley v Ross \ 
 
 The same v the same V Agreed. 
 The same v the same ) 
 Bouseman v Douseman Judgt. 
 Same v the same Do. 
 Same v John McClean Do. 
 Kuykendall v Dunn. Abates by P. Death. 
 
 v William Hawkins. Abs. by P. D. 
 
 v Benjaman Vannatree. Abates by P. Death. 
 McMahen v Irwin contd. 
 McCandish, Ass. v McComish. Do. 
 Taylor v Irwin discontd. 
 Drinning v Zane discontd. 
 Moore v Ritchman contd. 
 Smallman v Slover contd. 
 Virgin v Moore Do. 
 Barker v Jourden Do. 
 Wallace v Meek Dis'd. 
 Armstrong v Rammage contd. 
 Redford, Assine v Hill Do. 
 Wilcox v Craighead Do. 
 Barrackman v Shivily Do. 
 Beall Jun. v Shawn Judgt. 
 Keller v Jones A. D. D. 
 Reasoner v Shearer contd. 
 Brent v Beeler Judgt. 
 Ramsey v Chambers ) contc j 
 The same v the Same J 
 Stephens v Berwick discontd. 
 Heath v Farree contd. 
 Parkin v Colloway Do. 
 
314 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 T. Cresip v Shearer Do. 
 (137) Hughs v Thomas contd. 
 Stephens v Shilling Do. 
 Dye v Dye discontd. 
 Downer v Teagarden contd. 
 Thomas v Lee contd. 
 Wilson v Cockburn. Do. 
 Brownfield v Cox Do. 
 Bonce v Long Do. 
 Tygert v Dunnovan Do. 
 Colwell v Brouster Do. 
 Summerall v Brouster Do. 
 Shearer V Miller Do. 
 Baker v Hendricks. Do. 
 Whittaker v Dixson Do. 
 Wells v Reredon & ux. Do. 
 Whitzel v Shearer Do. 
 Gollehar v Docking Do. 
 Stephens v Stout Do. 
 McMullin & ux v Dickerson Do. 
 The same v the Same Do. 
 Moore v Virgin & ux Do. 
 Same v R. Virgin Do. 
 Moore v Virgin Do. 
 Boyce v Philips Do. 
 Campbell v Brownfield. Do. 
 Harrison v Sheerr Do. 
 Vowill v Pennum contd. 
 Jones v Clerk & x contd. 
 Phelps v McGrew Do. 
 McMichiel v French Do. 
 Purcel v Gibson Do. 
 Half Penny v Whitzel Do. 
 Thomas v Morght & x contd. 
 Park v Cockron A. P. D. 
 Ireland v Wilson. Do. 
 (138) Collings v Brady contd. 
 
 Black, Ass'ee. v Dunleavy Do. 
 Vaughan v McMahen Do. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 315 
 
 Stephenson v Read & x Do. 
 Small v Gray. Do. 
 Tedball, Ass'e. v Shaner. Do. 
 Anderson, Ass v. Hughy Do. 
 Stephenson v Barnitt Do. 
 McClellan v Guy Do. 
 Shley v Smith Do. 
 Young v Jackman Do. 
 Lynn v Tilton Do. 
 Martin v Johnston Do. 
 Chamberlain v McLean Do. 
 Ruse v Haymaker Do. 
 Altman v Hanna & x. Contd. 
 Martin v Glass & x contd. 
 
 v Hamilton Do. 
 Black v Chamberlain Do. 
 Mordacai v Bond Discontd. 
 
 v Nigh Do. 
 Black v Jolly ) 
 Black v Hannah J 
 Tygert v Barns contd. 
 The Same vs Jeffery Do. 
 Winebiddle v French Do. 
 Young v McCullogh Do. 
 Morrison v Ross Do. 
 Brownfield v Smith Do. 
 Hunter, Ass. v Jones Do. 
 Caswell v Dunn Do. 
 Wallace v Murdock Do. 
 Fosset v Meeks Do. 
 Campbell, Ass. v Dunn Do. 
 Ridgley & Cop'y. v Lynn Do. 
 Morecroft v Cooling Do. 
 Fleming v Gibson Do. 
 (139) Dunfield v Hickman 
 
 v Ross 
 
 v John Rossell 
 
 v Lindsey 
 
 v Fossit 
 
 v Pearcifull 
 
 contd. 
 
316 
 
 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 1 
 
 Stelt v Johnston ] 
 
 v Richd. Johnston /'Do. 
 Downer v Morrison Do. 
 Woods v McGlashen Do. 
 Stiger v Smith Do. 
 Eliott & Cop'y. v Martin 
 Lynch, Infd. v Loughlin 
 Semple v Ferns &c. Do. 
 Gray v Harrison Do. 
 Croghan v Bowly 
 
 v McCallister 
 v Bouseman &c. 
 v McKee. 
 
 v Kuykindall A. D. D. 
 v Ritchman 
 v Whittaker 
 v Abr. Whittaker 
 v Jas. Whittaker 
 v Benj. Kuykindall 
 v Frederick 
 v Rowleter 
 v McLean 
 v Bouseman 
 v Grimes 
 v McGrew. 
 v Troop 
 v Swissicks 
 v Meekes 
 v McManamy 
 v Drummond. 
 v Campbell. 
 (140) Geo. Croghan v Eleazer & James Myers, 
 v Gibson 
 v Weddle, Senr. 
 v James Beard 
 v Abr. Mitchell 
 v Miller 
 v Armstrong 
 v Renno 
 
 1- Contd. 
 
 J 
 
 contd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 
 
 317 
 
 (140 
 
 v Elliott 
 v Price 
 v Louden 
 v St. Clair 
 v Robt. Louden 
 St. Clair v Labatt contd. 
 Clerk v Teebolt Do. 
 Her v Adams Do. < 
 Girty v Hannah Discontd. 
 Gaughagain v Smith Contd. 
 Enoch v Teegarden Do. 
 Clinton v Mayes Do. 
 Hawkins v Humble Do. 
 Fife v Holliday Discontd. 
 Fife v Fife ") 
 
 Fife v Churchwell V Contd. 
 
 v Fife j 
 
 Hite v Morgan 
 v White 
 v Evins 
 v Myrnett 
 v Deavebaugh 
 v the same 
 Bryan Bruin v Wm. Fife 
 v the same 
 v the same 
 v the same 
 Dolton v Gruver discontd. 
 Same, Ass'ee. v Shaner Do. 
 Hales v Roach contd. 
 Morgan v Nicholas 
 v Bond 
 
 v Chamberlain 
 v Beavers 
 M. Morgan v Wyer 1 
 Same v the same J 
 
 Kuykendall v Pearcifull. 
 
 v Pancate same, 
 v Douthwait same. 
 
 contd. 
 
 Do. 
 
 contd. 
 
 discontd. 
 
 Abates by P. Death. 
 
318 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Williams v Vannatree agd. 
 v Crow discotitd. 
 Price v Lynn contd. 
 v Weddle Do. 
 v Hanks Do. 
 Gray v Poston Do. 
 
 v same Do. 
 Tygert v Dunnavan 
 v Craven 
 
 v Vannatree 1^ Do. 
 v Elisha Craven 
 v Hogland 
 St. Clair v Sills Do. 
 McCullogh v McCormick & ca. "1 
 v Douthwait J 
 
 Eliott v Girty Contd. 
 Hawkins v Beall 1 
 Same v the same L discontd. 
 v Same J 
 
 v Patrick Gary. Abates. .D. Dead. 
 v Perkerson. contd. 
 Semple v Thompson discontd. 
 Robertson v Crow contd. 
 Shilling v Newkirk Do. 
 Rogers v Williams &c ~> 
 
 v Parr V Do. 
 
 v Tumbleston j 
 Zane v Hawkins Discontd. 
 Zane v Drening Do. 
 Zane, Ass'e v Holdman contd. 
 (142) Castleman v Tabor contd. 
 Elliott, Adm. v Hargis ^ 
 McMullin v Dickerson y D. contd. 
 Ross, Assinee v Clemons ) 
 Devoir v Dunn A. P. D. 
 Lyon v Dunking contd. 
 Hozier v Bruce Do 
 Glassell v Kizer Do. 
 Glassell v Young Do. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 319 
 
 Anderson v Rees Do. 
 Dunleavy, Ass'e. v Ferrell Do. 
 Hammond v Teegarden Discontd. 
 Armstrong v Oharra contd. 
 Thomas, Ass. v Stack Do. 
 Ward v String Steel \ 
 v Same J 
 
 Tones v Evins ) 
 
 >u y Do. 
 
 v the same J 
 
 v McGoldrick 1 
 
 ♦i, t Do - 
 
 v the same j 
 
 Ogle v Wilson Do. 
 
 v the same Do. 
 
 Labatt v Rammage Do. 
 
 Hamelton &ca. v Goe Do. 
 
 Cleldening v Logan Do. 
 
 Nevill v Holliday Do. 
 
 Kizer v Davidson Do. 
 
 Kelso &c. v Pigiott Do. 
 
 ' Allen v Logan &c Do. 
 
 v Duglass Do. 
 
 Hilderbrand v Hawkins Do. 
 
 Same, Assin'e v Hanks ^ 
 
 v Do. 
 
 Wallias v Briscoe Do. 
 
 v Same Do. 
 
 Swearengenv Spencer 1 
 
 v the same J 
 
 (143) Smith v Smallman contd. 
 
 v George Schley & ca. discontd. 
 
 Martin v Elliott contd. 
 
 Brachen v Casat Do. 
 
 Jones v Ormsback Do. 
 
 Crawford, Exr. v Cox Do 
 
 Heath v Parker Discontd by Pit. 
 
 Heuthorn v McCarty Do. 
 
 Roots v Cook contd. 
 
 Spencer v Swearengen Discontd. 
 
 Brent v Jones contd. 
 
 y discontd. 
 
320 Annals of the Carnegie- Museum. 
 
 Colwell, Assinee v Lynn Do. 
 Kidd v McConnell Do. 
 Lynch v Jones Do. 
 
 v Berwick Do. 
 Mitchel v Zane Discontd. 
 Drenning v Bay contd. 
 Braden v Elliott &c. Do. 
 Cook v Hilderbrand Do. 
 Johnston v Steel Do. 
 
 Holliday, Ass. v Wortherington. Discontd. Pit. & Judgt. 
 for costs. 
 
 Hamelton v Martin contd. 
 Berwick v Atkinson Do. 
 Gilfillen, Ass. v Tygart Do. 
 McQuitty v Gray Do 
 McCollister v Scott Do. 
 Bowley v Tygert Do. 
 Robertson v McGoldrick Do. 
 Mcllroy v McMahen Do. 
 Atkinson v. White Do. 
 Price v Crawford Do. 
 Wheat v Kermichael Do. 
 Scott v Vallandingham Do. 
 Campbell v Hanks Do. 
 (144) Holliday & Co' p. v Stout contd. 
 McCarty v Craighead Do. 
 Lyons v Humble Do. 
 Frazier v Chambers Do. 
 Miller v Hill Do. 
 Coins v McQuin & ca. Do. 
 Boyd v Thomas Do. 
 Wright v Springstone Do. 
 Davidson v Hanks Do. 
 Walker v Dresnett Do. 
 Clerk v Hawkins Do. 
 Smith &c v Girty Do. 
 Dillo v Perkie Do. 
 McManamy v Oharro Do. 
 Richman v Scott Do. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 
 
 321 
 
 (M5) 
 
 Ferrell v Daugherty Do. 
 Alen Tharp v Collings Do. 
 Ormsbrey v Oharra Do. 
 Bouseman v Ornsby Do. 
 Thomas v Elliott Adr. Do. 
 Christie v White Do. 
 Brinkers, Ex. v Hardin Adr. Do. 
 Daviss Jun. & Co'p v Young Do. 
 Elvy v Dunn Do. 
 Lyon v Downer Do 
 Mitchell v Wade Do. 
 Wilson v McGinnis Do. 
 Coleman v Gause Discontd. 
 Johnston v Stephens contd. 
 Wilson v Cannon Do. 
 Mitchel v Zane Discontd. 
 Williams v Pressor Contd. 
 Croghan v Powell Do. 
 Hite v Dodson Do. 
 Thornton, Ass v Williams Do. 
 Ornsby v Bouseman Do. 
 Dunlavy v Roberts Do. 
 Petitions. 
 
 1 
 
 Sills 
 
 v Irwin 
 
 Shilling 
 
 v Blackman 
 
 
 v Delaney 
 
 Roatch 
 
 v Shaner 
 
 Christie, Ass' 
 
 e. v Irwin 
 
 
 v Jackman 
 
 Parker, Assn 
 
 e v Davis 
 
 Witzel 
 
 v Rybolt 
 
 Sloane 
 
 v Mitchell 
 
 Wood 
 
 v Griffith 
 
 Hamilton 
 
 v Hawkins 
 
 Seaman 
 
 v Miller &c 
 
 
 v the same. 
 
 Cook 
 
 v Berwick 
 
 
 v Hart 
 
 
 v Johnston 
 
322 
 
 Annals of the Carne;ie Museum. 
 
 
 v Dobbins 
 
 
 v Barker 
 
 Vannater 
 
 v Pelton &c 
 
 McKinzie 
 
 v Semple 
 
 Ryan 
 
 v Parke 
 
 McDonald 
 
 v Grimes 
 
 Deale 
 
 V Grove 
 
 Fennel, Ass'e. 
 
 v Marshall 
 
 Collins 
 
 v Reiley 
 
 Wills 
 
 v Johnston 
 
 Redford 
 
 v Hill 
 
 Ryan 
 
 v Carswell 
 
 
 v Shaner 
 
 Brent 
 
 v Teagarden 
 
 Owens 
 
 v Fisher 
 
 
 v Miller 
 
 
 v Maurer 
 
 Todd 
 
 v Sheaner 
 
 contd. 
 
 J 
 
 Huffman v Williams agreed 
 146) Timmons v Gafney 
 
 Wright, Assne. v Dunlavy 
 
 Morgan 
 
 v Saltsman 
 
 Dunlavy 
 
 v Frye 
 
 Swigart 
 
 v Ross 
 
 Bags 
 
 v Cummins 
 
 Devoir 
 
 v Anderson 
 
 Witzle 
 
 v Valentine 
 
 Marshall 
 
 v Brookes 
 
 Spurgen 
 
 v Patrick 
 
 Farree v Duck 
 
 A. P. D. 
 
 discontd A. P. D. 
 
 v Sinnett Do. 
 Pigman, Ass'e. v Laton contd. 
 Cresap & Stibs v Templin Judgt. 
 v Davis Do. 
 v Acord Do. 
 v Carter Do. 
 Chriswell, Ass'e. v Girty Contd. 
 Ass'e. v The same Do. 
 Ass'e. v the same Do. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 
 
 323 
 
 Contd. 
 
 Ass'e. v the same Do. 
 v Scott Do. 
 Clinton v Cuningham Do. 
 
 v Donne Do. 
 Wickwire v Downer Do. 
 Holladay v Jones ■> 
 
 v the same \- A. D. D. 
 v the same J 
 Wills v Zane contd. 
 Hawkins v Bodkin Do. 
 Walter v Kuykendall A. D. D. 
 Hawkins v Coffee contd. 
 Tittle v Brownfield Judgt. 
 Virgin v Colvin Contd. 
 Paul v West Do. 
 Day v Christy Do. 
 Taylor v Byerly Do. 
 (147) Humble v Clarke \ 
 v Burns J 
 Devoir v Scott P. D. 
 Jones v McDowell contd. 
 Fowler v Brown Do. 
 Wall v Dowlin Do. Judgt. 
 Weddel v Arle contd. 
 Farree v McCartney 
 
 v Carroll 
 v McMahan 
 Ass'ee. v Kincaid 
 Brent v Simpson Judgt. 
 McLeland v Small contd. 
 v the same Do. 
 Davis Ass'ee. v Downer Do. 
 
 v Warren Do. 
 Devoir v Hanks A. P. D. 
 Dix v Grogs contd. 
 Hardin, Jun. v Kincaid Do. 
 Miller, Assee. v Custard Do. 
 Ryan v Pross. Do. 
 Fennel Ass'e. v Mitchall Do. 
 
 A. P. D. 
 
3'2-t Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Maxwell v Ashcroft Do. 
 Kelly v Cox Discontd. 
 Wells v Zane Do. 
 Kuykendall v Dunn A. P. D. 
 Cunningham v Bruce Contd. 
 Jolly v Barker Do. 
 Moor v Churchill Do. 
 Shaner Ass'e v Stephens Do. 
 Jackson v Clark Do. 
 Boley v Swigart 1 
 v Russell J 
 McGrew v Ward Do. 
 Morrison v Armstrong Do. 
 Mitchell & Grather v Swearengen Do. 
 Ross v Dunfield Do. 
 (148) Jacobs v Brashears Judgt. 
 Dean v McManamy contd. 
 Listnett v Same Do. 
 Ralston v Labatt Do. 
 Steel v Merrick Do. 
 Jackman v Clark Do. 
 Hall v Redman Do. 
 Mordecai v Kuykendall A. D. D. 
 McCallister v Black contd. 
 Savage v Teagarden Do. 
 Finn v Williams Do. 
 Adams v Hall Do. 
 Lain v Peaton Do 
 Wallace v Meek Do. 
 House v Mahon Do 
 Virgin v Moore Do. 
 Adams v Huston Do. 
 Clendenin v Carmichael &c. Do. 
 Henthorn, Ass'e. v Martin Do 
 Semple v Owens Do. 
 Hamilton v Hawkins Do. 
 Ross v Fransway Do. 
 Johnston v Watson Do. 
 Morgan v Weeler Do. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 
 
 325 
 
 Steel v Thomas Do. 
 Ewalt v Ross Discontd. 
 McGlashen v Irwin contd. 
 Pearse v Chery Do. 
 Semple v Carrol Do. 
 Moor v Richmond Do 
 Dougherty v Black Do. 
 Devoir v Tigart A. P. D. 
 Tigart v Lindsey Contd. 
 v Same Do. 
 v Same Do. 
 Stewart v Scott Do 
 Holladay v Zane Judgt. 
 (149) Holladay v Worshington Discontd. 
 Simon & Campbell v Gahagan contd 
 Kuykendall v Kuykendall 
 v Holladay 
 
 v Heath A \' I» 
 
 v McGuire 
 v Hougland j 
 Valandigham v Springer contd. 
 v.Clements Do. 
 v Meeks Do. 
 v Harley Do. 
 v Lindsay Do. 
 v David Lindsay Do. 
 Farree v Linn, Sen. Do. 
 Maxwell v Thompson Do. 
 Reed v Clarke. Do. 
 Dalton v Shaner Do. 
 Clinton & Noble v Douland Judgt 
 Smallman v McDoran 1 
 
 v Gonsley I Judgt 
 v Scott j 
 Dougherty v White 
 v Philips 
 
 v Brownfield i. discontd. 
 v Beaty 
 Assn'e v McKean 
 
326 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ross v Swift Contd. 
 
 v Black Do. 
 McLure v Lynch "J 
 
 v White V discontd. 
 v McCarty i 
 Hawkins v Labatt Contd. 
 Clark, Assn'e. v Downer Do. 
 Eilewine v Farree A. D. D. 
 Lynch, Assn'e v Ormsby Judgt. 
 Anderson v Girty Judgt. 
 Finn v Williams A. P. D. 
 Kendall v Brownfield contd. 
 Karr v Karr Judgt. 
 (150) Gary v McCullock contd. 
 McCullum v Edwards Do. 
 Christy v Alexander Do. 
 Spear v McDoran Do. 
 Fitzgerrald v Reily Do. 
 Cox v Boling Do. 
 Halfpenny v Dennis Do. 
 Waddell, Assne. v Brown Do. 
 Ass'e. v Arnold Do. 
 Shaner v Ross Do. 
 
 v Plummer Do. 
 Flinder v Morshow Do. 
 Elliott v Small Do. 
 v Same Do. 
 v Sinnett Do. 
 Wm. Elliott v Winemiller Do. 
 Elliott &c. v D'Alton Do. 
 v Rogers Do. 
 v Frederick Do. 
 v Armstrong Do. 
 v Same Do. 
 Swearengen v Taylor Jugt. 
 Wells v. Gaughagan contd. 
 Ewalt, Ass'e. v Armstrong Do. 
 Brounfield v Hustage Do. 
 McMichael v French Do. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 327 
 
 Barker v Knight Do. 
 Tilton ass'e. v Bell Do 
 Brinkers Exrs. v Elvy 
 
 v Bruce 
 
 v Beeler 
 
 v Davis [ Do. 
 
 v Spineer 
 
 v Moyer 
 
 v Vantrees 
 Hite v Postlewait ^ 
 
 v Wilson I Do. 
 v Carter j 
 
 (151) Harden, the younger v Myers contd. 
 Cook v Dobins Do. 
 Parkerson v Byrns Do. 
 Russel v Groghagan Do 
 Collins v Dobson 1 
 Ass'e. v Clark J 
 Lyons v Buther &c Do. 
 Maddison, Jun. v Stirling Do. 
 McMahan v Prickett Do. 
 Taylor v Hanks Do. 
 Cox v McMahan Do. 
 Polke v Inks Do. 
 Miller v Armstrong Do. 
 Thomas v Lambert Do. 
 Knight v Plummer Do. 
 King v Hansell Do. 
 McCashlin v Evans Do. 
 Holms v Huston Do. 
 McCallister v Corn Do. 
 Decker v Wilson Do. 
 
 New Petitions. 
 Springer v Listnett dismd. 
 Isaac Springer v the same Do. 
 Stevenson v Nicholas contd. 
 Beeler v Burns Do. 
 Springer v Patrick Do. 
 McGaughan v White Do. 
 
328 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Alias Capias. 
 Kincaid v Henderson 
 
 v Same. 
 McDonald v Slover 
 Hazle v McNew & ux 
 Laughlin v Brown 
 Caldwell v Thorn 
 Winebidle v Valentine 
 Pearse v Evans. 
 Labatt v Smith & ux. 
 (152) Lintenburgher v Oldcraft 
 Lindsay v Hamilton 
 
 v Smith 
 Wills, minor v Blackstone. 
 McElwane v Witzle & ux 
 Valandigham v Walker. 
 Wagoner v Rape. 
 Barrackman v Woods, 
 v Harry. 
 Miller v Mitchel 
 
 v same 
 Harrison v Hall 
 Beans v Johnston. 
 Witzle v Crawford 
 Burns & Al. v Loutherback 
 Sumrull & al v Sumrall 
 Listnett, Minor v Springer. Agreed. 
 Schley v McKindley 
 Howe v Genoway 
 Smith v Gibson 
 Miller v Humble 
 Kearns v Logan 
 Springer v Waller 
 McMahan v Mathews 
 v Hanks 
 
 Pluries Caps. 
 Rigs v Corn 
 
 Caldwell v Mills 
 
 Campbell v Patterson 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 329 
 
 Cummins v Baggs 
 Caldwell v VVray 
 v Thorn 
 
 Appearances. 
 
 Richards v Boley C. O. 
 
 Black v McCullum discontd. 
 
 Minor v Blazier A. C. 
 
 (153) Beaver v May hall A. C. 
 
 McCormick v Hollis A. C. 
 
 Riggle v Dodd CO. 
 
 Christie v Heath N. G. & I'd. 
 
 Admn. v Same Do. 
 
 Patterson v Tidball Spl. Bl. Impl. 
 
 Beaver, Ass'e. v Cook, Ex. Impl. 
 
 Norris v Vineyard & ux A. C. 
 
 Beeler, Sen. v Inks Impl. 
 
 Crawford v Hamilton Do. 
 
 B. I. Day v Dean Spl. Bl. 
 
 Bruce v Hougland agreed. 
 
 Lyda v Richards A. C. 
 
 Elliott v Mcintosh , 
 
 C. O. Dept. 
 
 v same 
 Bradley v Boley C. O. 
 McGlaughhn v Woods A. C. 
 Winebiddle v Valentine P. Cap. 
 Curry v Wells C. O. 
 Ellis v Marshall & ux. A. C. 
 Boling v Dowlin A. by Retn. 
 
 v Norris A. C. 
 Fife v Tigart & A. C. A. C. 
 
 v Same A. C. 
 Evans v Judy A. C. 
 
 v Same. A. C. 
 Brewer v Stacy. Discontd. 
 Bentley v Camp A. C. 
 v Vitito A. C. 
 v EgHn A. C. 
 v Warren A. C. 
 
330 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Brashears v Hamilton Dismd. p. Order, 
 McDowell v McComish Defendt. G. B. Issue. 
 Workman, Asse. v Salesman A. C. 
 Springer v Rogers Agd. 
 McComish v Springer A. C. 
 Brice v same Do. 
 Henderson v Evans C. O. 
 Johnston v Springer A. C. 
 (154) Johnston v Mills A. C. 
 
 Ritchie v Thornbery A. C. 
 Reno v Walker Do. 
 
 v Isaac Walker Do. 
 Clark v Parkerson Do. 
 
 v Boley Do. 
 Shuster v Lyda Agd. 
 Hufman v Leatherman A. C. 
 Innis v Sawins A. C. 
 
 v same A. C. 
 Rogers v Murphy A. C. 
 v Maning A. C. 
 Swearingen v Dougherty A. C. 
 Kearsy v Springer Refered. 
 Collins v Vanater Agreed. 
 Williams, Ass'e, v Anderson A. C. 
 Tharp v Gray A. C. 
 Frye v Ritchie A. C. 
 Murphy v Jourdan A. C. 
 
 v same A. C. 
 Brooks, Admr. v Roberts A. C. 
 Johnston v Stephens ^ 
 
 v same V discontd. 
 Read v same j 
 Wright v Hart A. C. 
 McCormick v Wilson A. C. 
 Munn v Crawford Do. 
 Cox v Anderson Contd. 
 Forester v Murphy C. O. 
 McLeland v Beeler A. C. 
 Froman v Boyce Boyce. Deft. G. R. Issues. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohooania County. 
 
 331 
 
 McAdams v Devoir A. Eject. 
 Henderson v Johnston Discontd. 
 Steel v Hamilton Al Eject. 
 
 Hamilton v Brashear. Swearengen Deft. G. R. Issues. 
 Bond v Evins Al. 
 Valandigham v Walker A. C. 
 Norris v Embly &c. Do. 
 Whitesides v Girty C. O. 
 Singers v McCullock C. O. 
 (155) Henderson v Johnston Discontd. 
 Shirley v Thompson C. O. 
 McLeland v Irwin. Irwin Deft. G. R. & Issue. 
 Madison v Barr. Deft. G. R. & Issue. 
 Hamilton v Norris. Jno. Norris Deft. G. R. & Issue. 
 Bruce v McMichael. Henry Heath Deft. G. R. & Issue. 
 Campbell v Thompson. Wm. Vance. Deft, contd. 
 Atkinson v Mathews C. O. 
 Smallman v Such C. O. 
 Brown & Brashers v Hamilton A. C. 
 
 Grand Jury Presentmts 
 Commonwealth v Persons. 
 
 v Davis 
 
 v Flenvng 
 
 v Campbell 
 
 v Lynn 
 
 v McDonald. 
 
 v McMahan 
 
 v Christie 
 
 v Boling 
 
 v McKindley 
 
 v Roberts negro 
 
 v McAdams 
 
 v Ohara ; contd. 
 
 v the Court discontd. 
 
 v Hinch 
 
 v Caston 
 
 v Lindsay 
 
 v Mary Lindsay 
 
 v Pearcifull 
 
332 
 
 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 v Newkirk 
 
 v Carter. 
 
 v Hoagland 
 
 v Hull 
 
 v Williams 
 
 v Henry Hull j 
 
 (156) Recdgnizances. 
 Common Wealth v Smith ) 
 
 v Springer & u. 
 
 v Steel 
 
 v Black 
 
 v Listnett 
 
 v Beall 
 
 v Bradley 
 
 v Winemiller 
 
 v Chambers 
 
 v Duncan 
 
 v Davidson 
 
 v Listnett &c. \ contd. 
 
 v McLean 
 
 v Ormsby 
 
 v Irwin 
 
 v Schley 
 
 v Hall &c 
 
 v Day 
 
 v Brawdy 
 
 v Dean 
 
 v Carr &c. 
 
 v Ross &c. 
 
 v Little &c 
 
 Ordered that Benja. Vanater be allowed L 200 for his Ex- 
 pence & Services in going to Wms.burg for Shfs. Commission 
 and other necessaries for the use of the Co't, to be pai'd out of 
 depositum in the Shfs. hands if so much remain and if not the 
 bal. to be Levied at the laying of the next Co'ty Levy. 
 
 (157) Isaac Taylor is allowed twenty two Dollars for bringing up 
 the Acts of Assembly. Ordered that the Shff be directed to 
 pay it. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned till Court in Course. 
 
 Richard Yeates. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 333 
 
 At a Court continued and held for Yohogania County April 
 26'- 1779. 
 
 Present John Cannon, Joshua Wright Isaac Cox Benjaman 
 Kuykendall Gent. Justices. 
 
 Two Deed Poll John Miller to Peter Casnor. Ackd. & 0. R. 
 
 Deed Poll Nevill to Pentecost. Ackd. & O. R. 
 
 l.uther Colvin is appointed Surveyor of the Road from 
 Pigeon Creek into the Road Leading from Perkerson to Zebu- 
 land Colvinings. 
 
 Joseph Beckett Gent. Present. 
 
 Ordered that Isaac Cox Gent pay to the Clerk his propor- 
 tion of the money arising from the Sale of the Cards Sent to 
 this Co'ty. for the use of the Soldiers wives and that he trans- 
 mit it by the first opportunity to the Treasury. 
 (158) Administration of the Estate of Jacob Shadaker. deed, is 
 granted Ezekiel Painther he having comply' d with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that Bazil Brown Otho Brashears Andrew Lynn & 
 Thos. Brown be appointed to appraise the above Est. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned till Tomorrow 9 OClock. 
 
 John Canon. 
 
 Court met according to adjournment April 27th, 1779. 
 
 Present Edward Ward William Gowe Oliver Miller Joshua 
 Wright John Canon Gent. Justices. 
 
 Deed Poll Froman to Pentecost. Ackd & O. R. 
 
 On Motion of Wm. Vance Ordered that his mark crop & 
 slit in the left Ear and Slit in the Right with his Brand W. V 
 be Recorded. 
 
 Assignt. of a Warrant for 50 acres of Land Peter McCartney 
 to John Campbell Esq. prov'd by Edwd. Ward and Andrew 
 Heath two of the subscribing Witnesses thereto. Ord'd to lye 
 for further proof. 
 
 George McCormick Sworn Shff for one month. 
 
 Deed G. Crohan to Edwd. Milne with the probat thereto 
 annexed admitted to Record. 
 
 John Dousman Sworn D. Shff. for one month. 
 
 View of a Road from Fromans Mill into the Road leading 
 from Pentecost's Mills to the Court House retd. and O. R. 
 
334 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that Hugh Brodie be appointed Surveyor of the 
 said Road and that the Tithables within three miles do cut 
 open & keep sd. Road in repair. 
 
 (159) Ordered that William Dawlin an Infant be Bound to Danl. 
 Thompson untill he arrives at the age of twenty one years and 
 that the sd. Danl. teach the said Orphan or cause him to be 
 taught to read the Engl, language and teach him the Art and 
 mystery of Farming, and also teach him or cause him to be 
 taught Arithmetic as far as the Rule of 3. 
 
 Richd. Swartick v Jacob Jones, discontd. 
 
 On the Petn. of Andrew Heath and others Ordered that 
 Thos. Applegate Richd. Sparkes Jas. & Walker Wall or any 
 three of them do view a Road from Wm. Andersons to Thos. 
 Applegates and make retn. to next Court. 
 
 Ordered that Richd. Sparks Jas Wall & Walter Wall & An- 
 drew Pearse Jun. do view a Road from the new store on Mo- 
 nongehala to the dividing Ridge Road near Jas. Wilsons & 
 leading to Colo. Cooks. 
 
 Benjaman Kuykendal & Joseph Becket. G. P. 
 
 Patrick Clark v Thos. Perkerson. John Simon. S. Bl. 
 
 Zadock Wright v Elzat Hart. John Johnston S. Bl. 
 
 Inventory of Abraham Vaughan returned & Ordered to be 
 Recorded. 
 
 John Lyda v Mordecai Richards. Enoch Springer S. Bl. 
 
 Jacob Bousman being appointed by an Act of Assembly to 
 keep a Ferry from his Lands over the River Monongehala to 
 the opposite Shore, and whereas the sd Jacob at the last May 
 Court entered into a recog'ze. instead of bond, Ordered that 
 sd Recog.ce. be set aside and that the said Jacob continue 
 to keep the said Ferry agreable to said act, and enter into 
 Bond accord' g. to Law at the Next Court. 
 
 John James Wood sworn D. Shff. for one month. 
 
 Ordered that Hannah Frazier Orphan of John Frazer be 
 bound to Wm. Anderson according to Law, and that she be 
 taught to read the English language and also the Art & mys- 
 tery of a Mantua Maker. 
 
 (160) Jacob Shilling v Henry Newkirk. 
 
 Then came a Jury towit : Andrew Heath John Johnston 
 Wm. Anderson Mordecai Richards Thos Hamilton John Guth- 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 
 
 335 
 
 ridge, Henry Hougland Andrew Vaughan Jas. Bruce John 
 White James Patterson Andrew Powe. 
 
 Articles between Elijah Hart and Elenor Frazier Ackd. 
 O. R. 
 
 Elizabeth Devior widow of Jas. Devoir came into Court and 
 refused the provision made for her by her said husbands Will. 
 
 Articles between Elenor Frather Dinah Anderson Ackd. 
 O. R. 
 
 Deed pool James Bruce to Wm. Marshall A'd. O. R. 
 
 Inventory and Sale of Lemin Davis's Est. retnd. & O. R. 
 
 Jas. Innis, Henry Taylor, James Scott on Millers Run, John 
 Reed, of Millers Run, Wm. Campbell, Jas. Eager, Wm. Mc- 
 Comes, John Duglass, William Bruce, James Marshall, Wm. 
 Parker, & Hezekiah Magruder are recommended to his Ex- 
 cellency the Governor as proper persons to be added to the 
 Commission of the Piece. 
 
 James Boyace v Paul Froman. Id. & Ord. Survey. 
 
 Laughlin v Hogland Order Suivey. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow Morning 
 9 OClock. 
 
 John Canon. 
 
 Court met according to adjournment 
 
 Pres't. Benja. Kuykendall, Oliver Miller, Benja. Fry, Jo-eph 
 Beckett, Gent Justices. Joshua Wright, Gent. Pres't. 
 (161) Issues to April Court 1779. 
 
 Joseph Cox v John Williams &c. 
 
 John Lyd v Joseph Cox 
 
 Joseph Wherry v John White Sen. 
 Abraham Miller v Mich'l. Humble. 
 
 Pentecost 
 
 Johnston 
 
 Brownlee 
 
 Shilling 
 
 Same 
 
 Myers 
 
 Mitchel 
 
 Shilling 
 
 Hooper 
 
 v Jones &c. Judgt. 
 
 v Swearengen 
 
 v Douglas 
 
 v Newkirk 
 
 v Same 
 
 v Hooper 
 
 v same 
 
 v Fortner 
 
 v Myers 
 
336 
 
 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 
 
 v G. Myers 
 
 
 Hoper 
 
 v Thomas &c. 
 
 
 Fullum 
 
 v Johnston. 
 
 
 Springer 
 
 v Kearsy. 
 
 
 Spear 
 
 v Jones. 
 
 
 Spear 
 
 v Winemiller. 
 
 
 Bousman 
 
 v McGoldrick 
 
 
 Ward 
 
 v Thorn 
 
 
 Ward 
 
 v Thorn 
 
 
 Pentecost 
 
 v Lynn 
 
 
 Same 
 
 v Briscoe 
 
 
 Shilling 
 
 v Taylor. 
 
 
 Hawkins, Ass'e. 
 
 v Clarke j 
 
 
 Same 
 
 v Kuykendall | 
 
 
 Eaton 
 
 v Kennon 
 
 
 Same 
 
 v McCleland. 
 
 
 Bond 
 
 v Mordicai 
 
 
 Same 
 
 v Same 
 
 
 Brodie, Ass'e. 
 
 v French. 
 
 
 Grub 
 
 v Dowlin 
 
 (i6a) 
 
 Vallaudigham 
 
 v Tyart 
 
 
 Ward 
 
 v Thorn &c 
 
 
 Beeler 
 
 v Wells 
 
 
 Cook 
 
 v Froman 
 
 
 Same 
 
 v Shilling 
 
 
 Same, Ass'e. 
 
 v McConnell 
 
 
 McManomy 
 
 v Robertson 
 
 
 Semple 
 
 v McKinzie 
 
 
 Holladay Ass'e 
 
 v Hawkins 
 
 
 Beall &c 
 
 v Finn 
 
 
 Same 
 
 v McMahan 
 
 
 Hamilton, Asse 
 
 . v Dunfield 
 
 
 Nevill 
 
 v Gist 
 
 
 Cresop 
 
 v Swearengen. 
 
 
 Campbell 
 
 vBell 
 
 
 Fullum 
 
 v Johnston &c. 
 
 
 Same 
 
 v Same 
 
 
 Same 
 
 v McComish 
 
 
 Andrew 
 
 v Johnston, &c. 
 
 contd. 
 
 contd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 
 
 537 
 
 
 v the same 
 
 Decker 
 
 v Ruth 
 
 Clarke 
 
 v Again 
 
 Heath 
 
 v Bruce 
 
 Burris 
 
 v Trapman 
 
 
 Common Orders 
 
 ,„ ,. . „ .. f John Pearsall, Deft. 
 
 Washington v Martin J J ' 
 
 6 \ G. R. Issue. I.'d. 
 
 Vance v McNew Judgt. W E. 
 Caldwell v Fry &c. N. G. w. leave. Issue. 
 Henderson v Kincaid discontd. 
 
 v Johnston Ord'd. Redocketed. 
 Morrison v Vannater contd. 
 
 v Benja Vannater. contd. 
 Bouseman v McGoldrick contd. 
 Hollady v Jones O. to be recdock'd. 
 (163) Froman v Dean Judgt. VV. E. 
 Croghan v McConnel 1 
 
 v Elrod 
 
 v Davidson 
 
 v Royall 
 
 v Keizer 
 
 v Conner 
 
 v Grant 
 
 v Gibson 
 
 v Hunter 
 
 v Whitsel 
 
 v Ross 
 
 v Thompson 
 
 v McCartney 
 
 v Ram age 
 Win. & Benja Elliotts v Collins discontd. 
 Crogan v Ross 1 
 v Springer J 
 v Henry Do. 
 Hawkins, Ass'e. v Hanks Judgt. W. E. 
 
 v Zane Judgt. W. E. 
 Richards v Bowley Do. 
 Richards v Dodds Do. 
 
 discontd. 
 
 J 
 
 discontd. 
 
338 
 
 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Elliott v Mcintosh } . 
 
 )■ contd. 
 v same J 
 
 Bradley v Boleye contd. 
 
 Curry v Wells Impl. 
 
 Henderson v Evans 1 ,. ^ , 
 V discontd. 
 v same J 
 
 Forrester v Murphy Judgt. Ex. 
 
 Singers v McCullock Judgt. Issue. Ex. 
 
 Shirley v Thompson Contd. 
 
 Atkerson v Mathews Do. 
 
 (164) Smallman v Such contd. 
 
 Whitesides v. Girty Judgt. W. E. 
 
 Writs of Enquiry. 
 
 v Wheat 
 
 v Shilling 
 
 v Nelson 
 
 v Beeler Judgt. L. 135, 
 
 v Tempi in 
 
 v same 
 
 v Whitaker 
 
 v Springer 
 
 v Jno. Springer 
 
 v same 
 
 v Wells 
 
 v Williams 
 
 v Williams 
 
 v Lowry 
 
 v Sloan 
 
 v Felton 
 
 v same 
 
 v Johston 
 
 v Murphy 
 
 v Brashears 
 
 v Key 
 Alias Cap. 
 McCormick v Hollis P. C. 
 Norris v Vineyard & ux P. C. 
 Lyda v Richards Spl. Bl. Dist'd by Agmt. 
 McGlaughlin v Woods P. C. 
 
 Hawkins 
 
 Nelson 
 
 Shilling 
 
 Spivy 
 
 McElroy 
 
 Hand 
 Boley 
 
 Ward 
 
 Cox 
 
 Vance 
 
 Ralston 
 
 Henry 
 
 Fry 
 
 [ S 
 
 J- contd. 
 
 White 
 Swigart 
 Brashears, Admr. 
 Noble 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 339 
 
 Fife, Sen. v Tigart P. 
 
 v same &c P. 
 (165) Evans v Judy 1 p c 
 v same 
 
 P. C. 
 
 P. C. 
 
 Bentley v Camp 
 
 v Vititoe 
 
 v Englin 
 
 v Warren 
 Workman, Ass'e. v Warren CO. 
 Johnston v Springer P. C. 
 Johnston v Mills 
 Ritchie v Thornburg 
 Reno v Walker 
 
 v Isaac Walker 
 Clarke v Parkerson. Spl. Bl. Ind. N. D. Judgt. W. E. 
 
 vBoley ( p 
 
 Hufman v Leatherman J 
 Williams Ass'e. v Anderson Impl. 
 Tharp v Gray discontd. 
 Fry v Ritchie Agreed. 
 Murphy v Jourdan ) 
 
 v same 
 Brooks, Admr. v Roberts ) 
 Wright v Hart Spl. Bl. Implr. 
 McCormick v Wilson 
 
 P. C. 
 
 P. C. 
 Munn v Crawford 
 
 McCleland v Beeler Implr. P. B. 
 
 Norris v Embly P. C. 
 
 Ross v Manning 1 
 
 Boling v Norris f 
 
 Beavers v Mayhall discontd. N. Ap. 
 
 Minor, Ass'e. v Bl 
 
 Brien v Springer 
 
 McComish v same 
 
 Henderson v Evans 
 
 Molton v Seaburn C. O. 
 
 McAdams v Devoir. Andrew Devoir, Deft. C. R. & 
 
 Issue. 
 
 Steel v Hamilton P. C. 
 
 P. C. 
 
340 
 
 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 066) 
 
 (167) 
 
 
 Pleuries Cap's. 
 
 McMahan v 
 
 Hanks 
 
 
 v Mathews 
 
 
 Kearns v Logan 
 
 P. C. 
 
 Miller v 
 
 Humble 
 
 
 Springer \ 
 
 ' Walker 
 
 
 Smith 
 
 v Gibson, Colo. 
 
 Howe 
 
 v Genoway 
 
 Schley 
 
 v McKindley 
 
 Sumral 
 
 v Sumral 
 
 Burns 
 
 v Loutherback 
 
 Whitsel 
 
 v Crawford 
 
 Beans 
 
 v Johnston 
 
 Harrison 
 
 v Hall 
 
 Miller 
 
 v Mitchel 
 
 
 v same 
 
 Barrackman 
 
 v Harry 
 
 
 v Woods 
 
 Wagoner 
 
 v Rape, agreed. 
 
 Vallandigham v Walker 
 
 McElwain 
 
 v Whitsel & ux. 
 
 Wells, a minor v Blackstone 
 
 Lindsay 
 
 v Smith 
 
 
 v Hamilton 
 
 Lentenburgher v Holdcroft 
 
 Labat 
 
 v Smith 
 
 Pearce 
 
 v Evans 
 
 Winebiddle 
 
 v Valentine 
 
 Laughlin 
 
 v Brown 
 
 Hazle 
 
 v McNew 
 
 McDonald 
 
 v Slover 
 
 Caldwell 
 
 v Thorn 
 
 Kincaid v 
 
 Henderson 
 
 
 V 
 
 the same 
 
 
 Riggs v 
 
 Corn 
 
 
 Caldwell v 
 
 Mills 
 
 ■ P. C. 
 
 Campbell v 
 
 Patterson 
 
 
 Cummins v 
 
 Baggs 
 
 
 Caldwell v 
 
 Wray 
 
 
 P. c. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 341 
 
 Appearances. 
 Innis v Sawins C. O. 
 
 not to be sent, 
 v same C. O. 
 
 I 
 
 Rogers v Murphy A. C. 
 v Manning A. C. 
 Swearingen v Dougherty A. C. 
 Boyer v Froman Impl. 
 Mooney v Records Impl. 
 Gibson v Meek A. C. 
 Bromfield v Astergus No. Int. discontd. 
 Gist, Asse. v Alexander A. C. 
 McGlaughlin v Piggot A. C. 
 McCoy v Rearden agreed. 
 Caldwell v Tigart ' A. C. 
 Ward v Phelps A. C. 
 Allen v Boner A. C. 
 Hall v Lynch A. C. 
 
 v Fossett A. C 
 (168) Hall v Shearrer A. C. 
 
 v Hatfield A. C. 
 Protsman v Hill C. O. 
 Heath v Stokes A. C. 
 Chambers v Wallace A. C. 
 
 Campbell v McKee. Ordered Sp. be published & G'd. 
 McCrory v McCrory discontd. 
 Innis v Scott. Hugh Scott, deft. O. R. & Issue. 
 Hughes v McElry A. C. 
 Waller v Hatfield Agd. 
 Williams v Carter 
 
 contd. 
 
 v Brotsman 
 
 v Stocker 
 
 v Stone 
 
 Brady v Williams. Jno. Wms. Deft. O. R. Issue. 
 Hamilton v Swearengen A. C. 
 McMahan v Tumbleston A. C. 
 Campbell &c v Ward &c A. C. 
 Boyer v Froman 
 v Froman 
 v Graham & ux j 
 
342 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 v same 1. i rap i r , 
 
 v same ] 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v Atkins J 
 
 Gist v Cornwall A. C. 
 Boyce v Froman Implr. 
 Saml. Brewer v Peter Macy A. C. 
 Prottsman v Hill Implr. 
 
 (169) Power of Atto. Jacob Shilling to Geo. McCormick ackd. 
 and O. R. 
 
 Ordered that James Gray be sum'd. to answer the informa 
 tion of the States Atto. for ferrying over the River Mononge- 
 hala & rec'd. 3 S. for the same cont'y to Law the following per- 
 son at the following times. 
 
 Joseph Skelton & one horse March 27th, 1779. 
 
 James Bevard at the same time. 
 
 Danl. McClintock & one horse. 29th March 1779. 29 
 Pack Horses 27th March and took Rec't. for the same of David 
 Kennedy. H. M. 
 
 Richd. Sparks & one horse 27th March. 
 
 Kuykendall v Hawkins N. G. & I'd. 
 
 Ordered that the Shff. Summon a Grand Jury. 
 
 John Gowe is appointed Const, in the room of John James 
 Wood. 
 
 Andrew Pearce Jun. appointed Constl. Ord'd. that he take 
 the Oath according to Law. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adj'd. till Court in course. 
 
 Benja. Kuykendall. 
 
 (170) At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County May 
 24th, 1779. 
 
 Present Isaac Cox, William Gow, Joseph Beeler, Joseph 
 Beckett. 
 
 George McCormick Sworn Shff. 
 
 Benjamin Vannater & John James Wood Sworn Deputy 
 Sheriffs. 
 
 Andrew Scott Sworn Atto. at Law. 
 
 Deed Poll Dorsey Pentecost to Benjamin Mills two lots of 
 Ground in the Town Louisburg, Ackd. O. R. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 343 
 
 Deed Dorsey Pentecost to Jno. Canon Saml. McCullough 
 Andrew Robinson & Ebenezer Zane Ackd. & O. R. 
 
 Deed James Astergus to Morgan Deshay proved by Nicholas 
 Depue one of the subscribing Wit's. Ordered to ly for fur- 
 ther proof. 
 
 Ordered that Danl. Applegate James Colvin, Hugh Braady 
 & Joseph Lemin do view the most convenient way for a Road 
 from Andrew Dye's to the Monongehala opposite the mouth 
 of Mingo Creek, from thence to Fromans Mill, and make 
 repi. &c. 
 
 Joseph Kilpatrick is recommended as a proper person to 
 act as Ensign of the Militia. 
 
 Edwd. Ward and Benjamin Kuykendall Gent, present. 
 
 Power of Atto. Paul Froman to John McGee prov'd. by 
 Isaac Cox and Benjamin Vannater & O. R. 
 
 Robert Johnston took the oath of allegiance & fidelity as 
 prescribed by Law. 
 
 Two deeds Patrick Jourdan to John Fife proved by Dorsey 
 
 Pentecost and Ralph Bowker two of the Wit's. Ordered to 
 
 ly for further proof. 
 
 (171) Isaac Cox Gent, is allowed ten P. c't. as Adm. of the Est 
 
 of Saml. Richardson deed, on the amt. of the value of sd. Est. 
 
 Saml. Newel Gent. Prest. 
 
 Ordered that George Depue orphan of John Depue be bound 
 to John Kincaid until he arrives to the age of twenty one years 
 and that the said John Kincaid do teach or cause him to be 
 taught to read the Bible, write and Cyphert he five Common 
 Rules of Arithmetic. 
 
 Ordered that William Depue Orphan of John Depue be 
 bound to John Read according to Law and that the sd. Jno. 
 Read do teach or cause him to be taught to read & write and 
 to cypher the five Common rules of Arithmetic. 
 
 Ordered that John Depue orphan of Jno. Depue be bound 
 to Wm. Read according to Law and that the sd. Wm. do teach 
 him or cause to be taught to read the Bible write and to cypher 
 the five common Rules of Arithmetick. 
 
 Vincent Colvin took the Oath of Allegiance and fidelity as 
 prescribed by Law. 
 
 William Rankin took the oath of allegiance and fidelity ac- 
 cording to Law. 
 
344 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Then came a Grand Jury (towit) Charles Morgan Joseph 
 Brown Jno. White Nicholas Dawson Richd. Boyce James Pat- 
 terson David Ritchie Sampson Beavers Isaac "Vance Nathl. 
 Brown John Embly Wm. Renkins Vincent Colvin Sheshbazzer 
 Bentley Michael Tigart Samuel Dunn Josiah Crawford Andrew 
 Vaughan & Robt. Ramsay. 
 C 1 7 2 ) Two Indentures Conrod Wrightner to John & Margt. Read 
 prov'd & O. R. 
 
 Licence is granted to Francis Morrison to keep an Ordinary 
 at his house he having complied with the Law. 
 
 Present Richd. Yeates Gent. 
 
 Licence is granted to James McGaldrick he to keep an Or- 
 dinary at his house he having complied with the Law. 
 
 On the motion of Nicholas Pease setting forth that he is 
 desirous of erecting a Gristmill On Shirtees Creek on which 
 he has lands on both sides but that he cannot do it without 
 condemning an Acre the property of Joseph Edginton & Isaac 
 Kenny, Ordered that the Sheriff do summon a Jury to attend 
 on the premises to lay of and value the sd. Acre of Land and 
 make their report to next Court. 
 
 Francis Morrison Sworn Lt. of the Militia. Com". Read. 
 
 Ordered that the Road from Thomas Applegates to Will'm. 
 Andersons as returned by the viewers keeping along as the road 
 is already opened, be confirmed. Thomas Applegate is ap- 
 pointed overseer of sd. Road and that the Tithables within 
 three miles do cut open and keep sd. Road in repair. 
 
 Nichs. Depue v Duncan Hardin, Atta. prov'd. Judgt. & 
 O. Sale. 
 
 Ordered that the wives of Greenbury Shous, Lem'l. Davis 
 and John Depue poor soldiers in the Continental Service be 
 allowed twelve pounds each. 
 (173) Ordered that Matthew Hindman's two children a soldier in 
 the Continental Service be allowed twenty Shill's p. month 
 each to commence from the first day of March last past and to 
 be cont'd until March next. 
 
 Ordered that Eliza. Davis wife of Jonathan Davis a soldier 
 in the Cont. Service be allowed eighteen pounds. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned till tomorrow 8 OClock. 
 
 Edwd : Ward 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 345 
 
 Court met according to adjournment May 25th, 1779. 
 
 Present Edward Ward Richard Yeates Benjaman Frye 
 Benjaman Kuykendall, Isaac Cox Thomas Smallman Oliver 
 Miller Gentlemen Justices 
 
 Licence is granted to Willis Persons to keep an Ordinary at 
 his house he having complied with the Law. 
 
 Licence is granted to James Fleming to keep an Ordinary at 
 his house he having complied with the Law. 
 
 Present Sam'l. Newell & Joseph Beckett, Gent. 
 
 Abst. Thos Smallman. Prest. Joseph Beeler Gent. 
 
 Elizabeth Henry ] 
 1 
 
 Sloan j Wm. Long undertook for the Defend- 
 
 ant that the Pit. should not be removed out of the County or 
 sold untill the trial of this Cause. 
 ( 1 74) Ordered that a ferry be kept on the opposite side of the 
 River from Fort Pitt to Jacob Bousmans and that Jacob Bous- 
 man is appointed to keep the same he giving Bond with 
 Security according to Act of Assembly, and that he keep one 
 hand and Boat at his own House and a Boat and one hand on 
 the Pittsburgh Side constantly to attend and that in four 
 months from this Date he has a third Boat built and ready to 
 attend on either Side of the River. 
 
 Deed Ignace Labat to Jas. Chambers proved by Henry 
 Heth & Jacob Bousman two of the Subscribing Wit's. Or- 
 dered to lie for further proof. 
 
 Ordered that Samuel Newell be appointed to keep a ferry 
 over the River Monongehala from the new store to the opposite 
 Shore and that he keep one good Boat with Sufficient hands to 
 work her and that he give Bond with Security according to 
 Law at the next Court. 
 
 Present Thos. Smallman Gent. 
 
 Wm. Henry Spears v Joseph Jones. Then came a Jury 
 towit. Gabl. Cox John Decker Wm. Long Benja. Collins 
 John Crow Henry Hougland Uriah Johnston Andrew Devoir 
 James Wright John Springer Joseph Wherry Jno. Wall. Judgt. 
 for Plaintiff nine hundred pounds damages. 
 
 And'w. Pearce Thomas Applegate and Andrew Dye his 
 Security entered into Recog'ze. sd. Pearce in one thous'd. 
 
• 346 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 pounds and his Securities in five hundred pounds each for his 
 appearance at the next Court. 
 
 Thomas Crooks Sworn Capt. of the Militia. Com. read. 
 Michael Tegart sworn Lt. of Militia. Comn. Read. 
 Deed Saml. McAdams to Dorsey Pentecost Ackd. & O. R. 
 Deed Danl. Byers & David Miller to Dorsey Pentecost. 
 Ackd. & O. R. 
 
 Deed Jas. Miller to Dorsey Pentecost Ackd. & O. R. 
 (175) Deed Thomas Miller to Dorsey Pentecost Ackd. & O. R. 
 Saml. McAdams Sworn Lieutenant of the Militia. Com. 
 Read. 
 
 Ordered that Andrew Devoir be appointed Surveyor of the 
 Road lead'g from the Ct. House to Pentecosts Mill from the 
 top of the Ridge between the waters of Peters Creek and 
 Shirtee opposite to the house of Henry Johnston. 
 Inventory of the Est. of Jas. Louden ret'd. & O. R. 
 Ordered that Jno. Decker Vincent Colvin Joseph Perkinson 
 and Joseph Beckett or any three of them being first Sworn do 
 lay of and assign unto Eliz a . Devoir widow & Relict of James 
 Devoir deed, her dower in the Lands Slaves & Personal Est. 
 whereof James Devoir deed, died seized and make report to 
 next Court. 
 
 Deed Moses Holladay to Saml. Irwin Ackd. & O. R. 
 Elizabeth Burris v Naomi Trapman. Then came a Jury 
 towit. William Price David Andrews Mordecai Richards 
 Hugh Sterling Abraham Miller Richard Crooks Henry Miller 
 William Crow Richard Vaughan Bazil Brown Thomas Lapsley 
 & Robert Lowdon. Verd't. &: Judgt for Plaintiff. 
 
 Mich'l. Tygert & Christopher McDonald being bound in 
 Recog. appeared. Ord. to be Discharged. 
 
 Jacob Long sworn Ensign of the Militia. Com. Read. 
 Joseph Beeler v Benja. Wills. Then came a Jury (towit) 
 Thomas Bond Samuel M.°Adams Samuel Devoir Nicholas 
 Christ John Johnston And'w. Dye Henry Spears John Bradley 
 Nathl. Blackmore Wm. Fry John Hougland & Jacob Long. 
 Ve't. for Pit. L 33. 16 Debt one penny. 
 (176) John Spivy v Samuel Beeler. Then~came a Jury (towit) 
 Gabl. Cox John Decker William Long Benjamin Collins John 
 Crowe Henry Hougland Uriah Johnston Andrew Devoir 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 347 
 
 James Wright Jno. Springer Joseph Wherry & John Wall. 
 Verdt. & Judgt. for Pit. L. 135.15. Issue Ex". 
 
 John Springer v Thos. Waller, referred to Geo. Vallandig- 
 ham John McDonald Joshua Wright Jno. Canon Henry Taylor. 
 
 Ordered that Lemuel Davis and John Davis orphans of Lem- 
 uel Davis be bound to Isaac Cox according to law, the sd. 
 Isaac Cox to teach or cause them to be taught to read write 
 Cypher the five Com. Rules of Arithmetic. 
 
 Deed Patrick McCarmick to Moses Andrews proved Joseph 
 Brown & Thos. Bond. Ord. to ly for further proof. 
 
 The Grand Jury having found several Bills of Indt. ordered 
 that the Persons be summoned. 
 
 Charles Richards v Jno. Boley. Michl Tigert Spl. Bl. 
 
 Assigm't. Bill of Sale Sampson Beavers to Antho. Dun- 
 lavy. Ackd. & O. R. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned till tomorrow 8 OClock. 
 
 Edwd. Ward. 
 
 Court met according to adjournment May 26th, 1779. 
 
 Present Edward Ward Isaac Cox Jno. Stevenson William 
 
 Harrison Joseph Beeler William Crawford Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 (177) Edward Ward Isaac Cox John Stevenson Willian Harrison, 
 
 William Crawford & Joseph Beeler Gent, took the Oath of 
 
 Justices in Chancery. 
 
 Richie v Hall. Atta. Judgt. & P. S. 
 
 On the motion of Bazil Brown setting forth that he is de- 
 sirous of erecting a Gristmill on Big Redstone Creek, Ordered 
 that the Shff. do Summon twelve men of his vicinage to at- 
 tend on the premises to lay of and value one Acre of Land on 
 the opposite side of his Land, and value the damage done to 
 the party holding the same, and make return to the next Court. 
 
 Joseph Kirkpatrick Sworn Ensign. Com. Read. 
 
 Joseph Beeler Jun. is recommended to his ExcelFy the Gov- 
 ernor as a proper person to serve as Ensign of the Militia. 
 
 Hooper v Thomas. Then came a Jury (towit) David 
 Ritchie Henry Miller David Day Gab'l. Walker Isaac Walker 
 John Crow David Andrew Abraham Miller Peter Rittenhouse 
 Paul Humble Tobias Decker & Hugh Brodie, Verd'ct for 
 plaintiff. Judgmt. for L 80. John Berry Mary Perry & Su- 
 sanna Perry. 4 days attendance in above suit. 
 
348 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Tobias Decker took the Oath of Allegiance and fidelity ac- 
 cording to Law. 
 
 Prest. Saml. Newell & Benja. Fry Gent. 
 
 Absent Edwd. Ward Gent. 
 
 Jane Perry being bound in Recognizance appeared agreeable 
 thereto and under protestation of Innocence Submits herself to 
 the Court. On hear'g the Testimony ordered that the Deft, 
 be fined five pounds. 
 
 Uriah Johnston Took Oath of Allegience and Fidelity. 
 
 (178) Deed Saml. Stockwell to Ezekiel Hopkins Ack'd. & O. R. 
 Benjaman Frye Gentleman Took the oath of Justice in 
 
 Chancery. 
 
 Com. Wealth v Hugh Brodie. N. G & I. Join. & a Jury 
 (towit) Gabl. Cox David Ritchie Henry Miller Gabriel Walker 
 Isaac Walker John Crow David Andrew Abraham Miller 
 Peter Rittenhouse Paul Humble Tobias Decker John Deane. 
 Verdi't. Def'd. not Guilty. 
 
 Jane Ferrel held in L 50 and Joseph Skelton & Saml Irwin 
 in L 25 each conditioned for her keeping the Peace towards 
 the good People of the C. W. & peticular to Eli Collins till 
 next Court. 
 
 Paul Matthews sworn Goaylor. 
 
 George McCormick Gent, protests agt. the Sufficiency of the 
 Goal. 
 
 On the motion of Mary Lypolt the wife of George Lypolt, 
 by her attorney, Seting forth that she cannot live with her 
 Husband an acct. of 111 Treatment, Ordered that the said 
 George Lypolt be summoned to appear at the next Court to 
 
 (179) show cause if any why part of his Estate should not be applied 
 for her seperate maintainence. 
 
 Campbell v Ward, Bousman & McGoldrick, Injun. Ordered 
 that the Common Wealth Writ of Injunct. do Issue ag. the 
 Defendants comm'g to stay Waste. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned till tomorrow 8 O' Clock. 
 
 Isaac Cox. 
 
 (180) At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County, May 
 27th, 1779. 
 
 Present Edward Ward William Crawford Benjaman Frye 
 William Harrison John Stephenson John Cannon Gent Present. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 349 
 
 Pluries Caps. 
 McCormick v Hollis P. C. 
 Norris v Vineyard & Ux Impl. 
 McGlaughlin v Woods P. C. 
 Fife Sen : v Tigart Sp. Bl. 
 
 v the same Spl. Bl. Jno. Boley. 
 Evans v Judy agreed. 
 
 v the same agreed 
 Bentley v Camp agreed. 
 
 v Vititor P. C. 
 
 v Englin Impl. 
 Workman, Asse v Saltsman P. C. 
 Johnston v Springer C. O. 
 Johnston v Mills C. O. 
 Ritchie v Thornbury P. C. 
 Reno v Walker P. C. 
 v Walker P. C. 
 Clark v Bowley Impl. 
 Hufman v Leatherman Impl. 
 Fry v Ritchie agreed. 
 Murphy v Jourdan Abates by retn 
 Brooks, Adm. v Roberts Impl. 
 McCormick v Wilson agreed. 
 Munn v Crawford Impl. 
 Norris v Embly P. C. 
 (181) Ross v Manning P. C. 
 Boling v Norris Impl. 
 Minor, Asse. v Blazier P. C. 
 Brier v Springer Agreed & Settled. 
 McComish v Springer P. C. 
 Henderson v Evans P. C. 
 Steel v Hamilton P. C. 
 McMahan v Hanks P. C. 
 Kearns v Logan. P. C. 
 Miller v Humble Impl. 
 Springer v Waller referred. 
 Smith v Gibson P. C. 
 New v Genoway P. C. 
 Schley v McKindley discd. 
 
350 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Sumral v Sumral &c agreed. 
 Burns v Loutherback P. C. 
 Whitzel v Crawford P. C. 
 Beans v Johnston P. C. 
 Harrison v Hall P. C. 
 Miller v Mitchel P. C. 
 
 v The same P. C. 
 Barrackman v Harry P. C. 
 
 v Ross P. C. 
 Vallandigham v Walker P. C. 
 McElwaine v Whitzel & ux. dis'd. n. ap. 
 Wills v Blackstone P. C. 
 Lindsay v Smith P. C. 
 
 v Hamilton P. C. 
 Lintenberger v Holdcroft P. C. 
 Labat v Smith P. C. 
 Pearce v Evans P. C. , 
 
 Winebiddle v Valentine agreed. 
 Laughlin v Brown P. C. 
 Hazle v McNew Abates by Pt. Marriage. 
 McDonald v Slover P. C. 
 (182) Caldwell v Thorn P. C. 
 
 Kincaid v Henderson &c. P. C. 
 
 v The same &c P. C. 
 Riggs v Corn discontd. 
 Caldwell v Mills P. C. 
 Campbell v Patterson P. C. 
 Cummins v Baggs P. C. 
 Caldwell v Wray P. C. 
 v Thorn P. C. 
 Wagoner v Rape agreed. 
 
 Alias Caps. 
 Gibson v Meek P. C. 
 Gist, Asse. v Alexander P. C. 
 McGlaughlin v Piggot P. C. 
 Caldwell v Walgomot &rc C. O. 
 Curry v Wills C. O. 
 Ward v Phelps Impl. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 351 
 
 U. States v Matthew Boner discontd. 
 Hall v Lynch P. C. 
 
 v Fossett P. C. 
 
 v Shearer P. C. 
 
 v Hatfield P. C. 
 Heath v Stokes P. C. 
 Chambers v Wallace P. C. 
 Gist v Cornwall Jr. P. C. 
 Forrester v Murphy P. C. 
 Mitchel v Pelton P. C. 
 Spears v Johnston Settled. Shff. 
 Waller v Springer C. O. 
 Miller v Pelton P. C. 
 
 (183) Appearances . 
 
 Nevill v Black C. O. 
 
 v Thompson C. O. 
 v Tharp C. O. 
 Stitt & ux v Williams A. C. 
 Crowe v Pearse A. C. 
 Henderson v Douglas A. C. 
 Wilson v Lynch &c A. C. 
 Evans v Russell A C. 
 Stewart v Crawford G. R. Issue. 
 
 v Harrison Do. 
 Shilling v Hinch A C. 
 Casner v Mclntire A C 
 Innis v Spencer A C 
 
 Asse. v Hougland C. O. 
 Gilliland v Lynn Impl. 
 Shilling v Newkirk Impl. 
 Pentecost v Jones C. O. 
 Boley v Jourdan Abates by retn. 
 Stocker v Acklin A. C. 
 Day v Stanbury C. O. 
 Cook v Mayes A. C. 
 Bay v Jackson A. C. 
 Alexander v Steen A C. 
 Dunagan v Boyce Impl. 
 
352 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Riddeck v Ross A C. 
 
 Wright v Beavers A C. 
 
 Mitchel v Boley A C. 
 
 McCollister v Corn Impl. 
 
 McGruders v Lynn. A. C. discontd. Pit. Cost. 
 
 Hamilton v Swearengen C. O. 
 
 Campbel v Ward &c. G. R. Issue. 
 
 Bond v Ervin A C 
 
 Waller v Hatfield A C 
 
 (184) McDowell v McComish A C 
 Boley v Or. disd. 
 
 Hughes v McElry A C 
 McMahan v Tumbleston A C 
 Henderson v Johnston C O 
 Ellis v Marshall A C 
 Brown & Brashears v Hamilton A C 
 Holladay v Matthews C. O. 
 
 Riggle v Dye. Andrew Pearce Spl. Bl. Judgt. by N. Dicit 
 & W. E. 
 
 Embly v Crowe Impl. 
 Reed v Springer C. O. 
 Hougland v Lock discontd. no appear. 
 Boley v Manning A. C. 
 v The same A C 
 Penticost v Stephens discontd. 
 Brewer & ux v Stacey A C 
 Craven v Pearce Sen. A C 
 Cook v Beckett A C 
 Smallman v Guffee agreed. 
 Spears v Beckett Ex. &c. A C 
 Dye v Allen Tharp A C 
 Nicholas v Conn A C 
 Johnston v Alentharp A. 
 Matthews v Ellis A. 
 Nicholas v Day. Moses Holladay Sp. Bl. Impl. 
 
 (185) Chancery. 
 Crisop v Shearer B & Time 
 
 Simon v McKee &c. contd till publication. 
 Wills v Rearden contd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 353 
 
 Sci. Fac. 
 
 Lapsley v.Read Oyer. 
 
 Brashears v Hamilton. Surrender of the Principal & I'd. 
 
 Baz'l. Brown v The same Do. 
 
 Ordered that Thomas Gist Thomas Warren Jno. Irwin of 
 Pittsburg Matthew Richie & Dorsey Pentecost be appointed 
 Comrs. agreeable to Act of Assembly as Judges of Counterfeit 
 Money. 
 
 Ordered that John Allen Tharp & wife be sum'd. to appear 
 at next Court to show cause if any why Elinor Humble orphan 
 of Martin Humble should not be bound to Susanna Johnston, 
 and the meantime the sd. Orphan remain with the sd. Johnston. 
 
 Henry Morrison v Benjamin Vannater. G. R. Issue. 
 
 George McCormick took the Oath of Allegience and fidelity 
 as prescribed by Law. 
 
 Ralph Bowker took the Oath of Allegience and Fidelity. 
 
 Dorsey Pentecost Sworn Judge of Counterfeit money agree- 
 able to Act of Assembly. 
 
 Day v Wilson Petn. C. O. 
 
 (186) Present Joseph Beeler & Joseph Beckett Gent. 
 
 Ordered that Thos. Tounsley an Orphan be contd. with 
 Gabl. Walker agreeable to a former Order. 
 
 Ordered that Eve Sheek wife of a poor Soldier be allow L 
 18 for support of her self & two Children. 
 
 Order that the wife Abraham Ritchie be allowed be allowed 
 the same that she was the last year to commence from the end 
 of the last years allowance. 
 
 Wm. Downs being Sworn a Juryman on the Issue Join'd 
 between John Decker Plaintiff and Davis Ruth Deft, absconded 
 the Jury without bringing a Verdict. Ordered that he be fined 
 twenty pounds. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned till Court in Course. 
 
 Edwd. Ward. 
 
 (187) At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County June 
 the 28th, 1779. 
 
 Present William Goe Olliver Miller Joshua Wright Benjamin 
 Kuykendall, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 William Murley being recommended to his Excellency the 
 
354 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Governor as a proper person Ordered that he be appointed to 
 serve as Lt. of the Militia in this Cot'y. 
 
 John Vannater appointed to serve as Ensign in the Militia 
 for this County. 
 
 Present Samuel Newell Gentleman. Appraisement of the 
 Estate Devoir deed retnd. by the Exr. and O. R. 
 
 Holladay v Brodie lef to the award of Wm. Marshall Jere- 
 miah Johnston John Lemen & Wm. Anderson and their deter- 
 mination to be the award of this Court. Verd't. and Judgt. 
 for pit. L 45. 15 s. 
 
 James Campbell sum'd. as a Grand Juryman and failing to 
 appear on hearing his objections Ordered that the Sum's, be 
 set aside. 
 
 Present Edward Ward Gent. 
 
 Charles Records appointed Surveyor of the Road whereof 
 Andrew Devoir was formerly appointed. 
 
 Kinkead v Henderson. Saml. Spl. Bl. 
 
 Ordered that Thomas Tounsley Orphan lately an apprentice 
 to Isaac Walker be bound to Wm. Wm. Lee who is to teach 
 him the Art and mystery of a blacksmith and also to teach or 
 cause him to be taught to Read Write and Cypher the five 
 common rules of Arithmetic. 
 (188) Day v Wilson. In Petn. dism'd. 
 
 John Reed being served with a Scire fac's. at the suit of Mar- 
 tha Lapsley, for a Judgment obtained against him by the said 
 Martha on a declaration of Ejectment In May 1775, came into 
 Court produced Mr. Benja. Kuykendall as Evidence that he had 
 fee'd an Atto. and that he neglecting his duty the first Court 
 Judgt. was obtained against him, unpresidented the Court are 
 of oppinion that the matter in dispute be deferred till the 
 next September Court and that the parties attend With their 
 Wit's, at that time to have a decisive hearing. 
 
 Inquisition held on the Body of a Negro the property 
 
 of James Hopkins from under the Hand & Seal of Wm. Goe 
 Esqr. and the Jurors thereunto annexed was returned and O. R. 
 
 Ordered that Exn. agt. Wm. Downs for not appearing as a 
 Juryman be deferred till next Court. 
 
 Ordered that the Common allowance be made for the chil- 
 dren of Robert Crawford and Nich's. Hagarty poor Soldiers in 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 355 
 
 the Continental Service to commence from the 25th of Sep- 
 tember last. 
 
 Ordered that the Common allowance be given the Wife and 
 Children of Thomas Southwait a poor soldier in the Conti- 
 nental Service to commence from the 25 of Sept. last. 
 
 Ordered that Jacob Bousman be appointed Surveyor of the 
 Road from his house to the Widow Stewarts, Robert Henderson 
 from thence to where the Road from the Widow Lapsleys & 
 Jno Read's forks, Jno. Read from thence to Benja. Kuyken- 
 dall's Mill, Thomas Lapsley from the forks of the Road to the 
 Court House, and that the Inhabitants within three miles do 
 keep sd. Road in repair. 
 (189) Berry v Crawford, C. O. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned till Court in Course. 
 
 William Goe. 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County July 
 26th, 1779. 
 
 Present Isaac Cox Joseph Beckett Joshua Wright Benjamin 
 Fry Gent. Justices. 
 
 John Cox appointed Surveyor of the Road in the room of 
 James Wright. 
 
 Henderson v Douglass. Hugh Sterling Spl. Bl. 
 
 Wright v Beavers. D. Steel Spl. Bl. 
 
 Brodie v Same Do. Do. 
 
 Heth v Stokes _ Do. Do. 
 
 Boley v Orr. Sampson Beavers. Do. 
 
 Dye v Tharp David Williams Spl. Bl. 
 
 George Lypolt Ad. v Mary Lypolt Att. Jno. Prothman 
 Spl. Bl. 
 
 Stocker v Acklin Hugh Brodie Spl. Bl. 
 
 Zadock Wright appointed Surveyor of the-4Road from 
 opposite Elijah Harts to the Ct. House. 
 
 Ordered that the fine imposed on Wm. Downs for not 
 
 appearing as a Jury man, Jno. Decker v David Ruth, be 
 
 remitted, he having given the Court satisfactory reasons for his 
 
 non attendance. 
 
 {190; Berry vAndw. Crawford & Asse. — Bl. Judgt. L. 30. & costs. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned till Court in Course. 
 
 Isaac Cox. 
 
356 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County- 
 August 23d, 1779. 
 
 Edward Ward Isaac Cox Saml. Newell Joseph Beckett John 
 McDonald Benja. Kuykendall Gent. Justices. 
 
 Wm. Murly Sworn Lt. Comn. Read. 
 
 Jno. Vannater Sworn Ensign. Comn. Read. 
 
 Deed Jediah Johnson to John Douglass Ackd & O. R. 
 
 Deed Jediah Johnson to Andrew Devoir Ackd. & O. R. 
 
 Springer v Waller. Henry Kersy Spl. Bl. 
 
 Deed Thos. Spencer to Saml. Heth Ackd. & O. R. 
 
 Deed Benjamin Vannater to Robt. Bowers Ackd. & O. R. 
 
 James McCullough v Jno. Taylor. Thos. Pritchard, 
 Spl. Bl. 
 
 Release Saml. McAdams to Andrew Devore ackd. & O. R. 
 
 Andw. Devoir v Jediah Johnson. Agreed. 
 
 Thomas Parkeson v John Megee Non Suit. 
 Do. Do. Do. 
 
 (191) Andrew Heth Sworn Goaler for one month. 
 
 Geo. Vallandigham v Gabl. Walker. Ordered that Didi- 
 mus Issue for the Exn. of John and Francis Reno. 
 
 Absent Isaac Cox. 
 
 David Steel v James Hamilton, John Mf.Comish Spl. Bl. 
 
 Lindsay v the same. Benja. Vannater Spl. Bl. 
 
 Acct. preferred by Saml. Newell & Benjn. Kuykendall 
 L 472 for building the Ct. House and repairing the old Gl. 
 approved of by the Court, Ordered that the Sheriff pay the 
 same. 
 
 Deed Isaac Cox to Andrew Nigh Ackd. & O. R. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned till Court in Course. 
 
 Ed wd. Ward. 
 
 At a Court held for the Examination of John Bryan who 
 stands charged with felloniously stealing a horse the property 
 of George Shannon. 
 
 Present Isaac Cox Benja. Kuykendall Oliver Miller Joseph 
 Beckett Joshua Wright Samuel Newell. 
 
 The prisoner being set to the barr and it being demanded of 
 him whether he was Guilty or not Guilty, answered Not Guilty. 
 Whereupon Sundry Witnesses were examined, on consideration 
 whereof and the circumstances it is the opinion of the Court 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 357 
 
 that he is not guilty but that he is a person of bad character, 
 and therefore that he give Security for his good behaviour for 
 three years himself L iooo and his two Securities L 500 
 each. 
 
 (192) At a Court held for Yohogania County September 27th, 
 1779. 
 
 Present Isaac Cox John Canon Joseph Beckett John Free- 
 man Joshua Wright Oliver Miller Richard Yeates Gentlemen 
 Justices. 
 
 Power of Atto. David Cox to Friend Cox. ackd. & O. R. 
 
 David Levinston acknowledge themselves in- 
 debted &c the said David in the sum of L 400 and the said 
 in the sum of L 200 each, Cond'd. for the per- 
 sonal appearance of the sd. David at the next G. Jury Ct. to 
 answer a charge exhibited agt. him for stealing a saddle the 
 property of Robt. Henderson &c. 
 
 Administration of the Est. of Saml. Griffith deed, is granted 
 to Elizabeth Griffith she having complied with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that Thomas Prather, John Purdie Robert McKie & 
 Rich. Noble or any three of them are appointed to praise the 
 sd. Est. 
 
 Ordered that Alexander Ewing an Infant and Orphan of 
 Willm. Ewing deed, aged nine years old be bound to Thomas 
 McMullin according to law, and that the said Thos. do give 
 the said Alexander a new Bible and L 10 at the Exp'n. of his 
 time. 
 
 Robt. McGlaughlin &c. v Tobias Woods, Mabara Evans 
 Spl. Bl. 
 
 (193) Ordered that William Hammond an Infant and Orphan of 
 John Hammond deed be bound to Joseph Scott according to 
 Law, and to find him one Ax one Grubbing Hoe and one 
 Bible at the expiration of his time. 
 
 Ordered that Sarah Hammond aged seven years be bound 
 Infant and Orphan of John Hommond deed be bound to 
 Joseph Scott according to Law and the said John to give her 
 one Cow and Calf one Spining Wheel and Bible at the expi- 
 ration of her time. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned till tomorrow 8 o'clock. 
 
 Isaac Cox. 
 
358 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Court met according to adjournment Sept. 28th, 1779. 
 
 Present Wm. Harrison Thomas Freeman Oliver Miller 
 Richard Yeates Gent. Justices. 
 
 Administration of the Estate Timothy Hays is granted to 
 Augustine Moore he having complied with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that Philip Shute Thomas Rodgers Richd. Waller 
 & Saml. McLain do appraise the sd. Est. 
 
 Administration of the Est. of Wm. Noland is granted to 
 Augustin Moore he having complyed with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that Philip Shute Thomas Rodgers Richd. Waller 
 & Saml. McLain do appraise the said Est. 
 (194) An Order of Monongehala Court for appointing a Com- 
 mittee of three to draw up a remonstr. to the Genl. Assembly 
 of Virg'a. praying a repeal of the Law for opening a Land 
 Office & appointing Commrs. to take in entries of Land on 
 the West of the Laurell Hill, was laid before the Court at the 
 request of the Court of Monongehala ; upon seriously con- 
 sider' g the same & the consequences of repealing those Laws, 
 Ord'd. that the sd. Ct. of Monongalia be informed that this 
 Court cannot by any means concur with the sd. Ct. in wishing 
 those Laws to be repealed as they cannot but consider them as 
 exceeding well adapted to the Local circumstances & Situation 
 of the People of this County : so far from wishing a repeal of 
 those Laws this Court are determined to take every Method in 
 their power to prevent it. 
 
 Present Isaac Cox, Gent. & John Canon, Gt. 
 
 Absent Thomas Freeman. 
 
 Ordered that Thomas Ashbrook be apointed Surveyor of 
 the Road from Cat Fishes Camp half way to Pentecosts Mills 
 and John McDowall the other half, and that the Tithables 
 within three miles do work on and keep the sd. Road in repair. 
 
 Absent Wm. Harrison. 
 
 Ordered that Jno. Crawford be sum'd. to appear at the next 
 Court to shew by what authority he detains James Crago as 
 his Servant. 
 
 Colo. Wm. Crawford came before the Ct. and made Oath 
 that Hugh Stephenson now deed, obtained a Warrant from 
 Lord Dunmore while Governor of Virga. for three thousand 
 Acres of Land & that the sd. Hugh Stephenson was an Inh't. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 359 
 
 of Virginia & that he was a Captain of a Company actually- 
 raised in Virg'a. & and in the Service of Virg'a. in the year 
 of Boquet's Campaign 1764, & the said Crawford further made 
 
 (195) oath that he was a witness to the sd. Hugh Stephenson's assign- 
 ing to a certain Richd. Yeates one thousand Acres of the said 
 Warrant. 
 
 William Crawford came before the Court & made Oath that 
 Burton Lucas was a Subaltern Officer in the Service of Virg'a. 
 in Colo. Wm. Byrds Regt. in the year 1758 or 59 in conse- 
 quence of which he obtained a Warrant from Lord Dunmore 
 while Gov. of Virg'a. for two thous'd. Acres of Land which 
 was assigned by the sd. Lucas to Matthew Ritchie & Wm. 
 Bruce. 
 
 Prest. Benja. Kuykendall & Joseph Beckett Gent. 
 
 Deed Labat to Chambers prov'd. by the Oath of Wm. 
 Christy O. R. being formerly proved by the other subsc. Wit- 
 nesses. 
 
 Andrew Swearengen gentleman Present. 
 
 Deed Edwd. Ward to Jacob Haymaker ackd. by sd. Ward. 
 O. for R. 
 
 Two Deeds James McGoldrick to Edwd. Ward ack'd. O. R. 
 
 Deed Edwd. Ward to McGoldrick ackd. O. R. 
 
 William Crawford Gent. Sworn Surveyor. 
 
 Appraisement of the Goods Chatties and Credits of the 
 Estate of Archibald Wilson deceased return' d order for Rec'd. 
 
 Deed Ed. Ward to James Freeman. Ackd. O. R. 
 
 (196) Manuel Gollehar being bound in Recognizance Ordered to 
 be Discharged. 
 
 Administration of the Estate of Solomon Froman granted 
 to Mary Froman, she having complied with the Law. 
 
 Ezekiel Hopkins, John Hopkins, Nicholas Devoir and 
 Levengton Thomas, are appointed appraisers to sd. Estate. 
 
 Deed, John Johnston to John Hopkings prov'd. Or. for 
 Record. 
 
 Ordered that James Chambers be bound in Recog'ze. L 500 
 and Samuel Irwin his Sec'ty. in L 25 for his appearance of 
 the said James Chambers at the next G. Jury Court. 
 
 Aaron Williams took the Oath of Allegiance & fidelity, paid. 
 
 Samuel Beeler v Josiah Scott. Jno. Allen Spl. Bl. 
 
360 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Acquilla Whitaker took the oath of Allegiance and fidelity, 
 paid. 
 
 Present Thomas Freeman Gent. 
 
 John Boley v Corn v Maning. Jno. Fife Sen. Spl. Bl. 
 
 Deed Ezekiah Applegate to Thomas Spencer acknowledged 
 & O. R. 
 
 David Levesterton bound to the next Grand Jury Ct. held 
 in L. 600, Benja. Collings & Saml. Irwin Secy's, held in L 
 300 Each. 
 
 (197) Ordered that Mary Guen the wife of Thos. Guen a poor 
 Soldier in the Continental Service be Allowed 40 S. p. month 
 for the support of herself and one child, to comm'ce the 28th 
 of March Last, and to End the 28th of March Next. 
 
 Ordered that Joseph Pearce son of Elisha, be app'd. con- 
 stable to serve the Ensuing year in the place of Benjaman 
 Philips. 
 
 Decker v Jacobs, refered to James Wright, Joseph Perkerson 
 & Saml. Devoir. 
 
 Ordered that Ct. be adjourned untill Tomorrow morning 9 
 oclock. 
 
 Benja. Kuykendall. 
 
 Court met according to adjournment September 29th. 1779. 
 
 Present Edwd. Ward, William Crawford, Thomas Smallman 
 William Harrison, and Thomas Freeman, Gent. Jus. 
 
 Licence is Granted to Robert McKindley to keep an Ordi- 
 nary at his house for one year, he having complied with the 
 Law. 
 
 Ordered that Josias Crawford Thomas Lapsley Jediah Ash- 
 craft & Richd Crooks, to view a Road forom Pentecosts Mills 
 to McKees Ferry near the mouth of Yough and make a return 
 of the Convenience & Inconvenience to next Ct. 
 
 Licence is granted to John Farree to keep an Ordinary the 
 Insuing Year he having Complied with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff Summon a Jury of twelve Men to 
 condemn an Acre of Land the property of Wm. Black in fav'r. 
 John Armstrong where he is now Building a Mill. 
 
 (198) Ordered that 40 S. pr. month be allowed the Wife of Francis 
 Holland a poor Soldier in the Cont'l. Service for the support of 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 361 
 
 herself and one child to commence the 28th day of last March 
 and to end the 28th day of March next. 
 
 Ward to Heth. Deed ackd. & O. R. 
 
 Present Benjamin Kuykendall, Gent. 
 
 Robert McKindley & James Fleming appointed Constables 
 for the ensuing year. 
 
 Robt. McKindley sworn Const' 1. 
 
 Ordered that John Goe be attached for not Swearing in as 
 Constable. 
 
 Absent Wm. Harrison, Gent. 
 
 Geo. Berry v Andw. Crawford. Ord'd. that the Judgt. be 
 set aside and Judgt. opened & Redocketed. 
 
 Ordered that Philip Whitsel be summoned to appear at the 
 next Court to shew cause why he detains Patience York as 
 a Servant and that she be committed to the care of Thomas 
 Smallman till the next Court. 
 
 Inventory of Val. Crawfords Est. Retd. & O. R. 
 
 Wills v Quick Moses Holladay Spl. Bl. 
 
 Joshua Wright & Joseph Beckett, Gent. Prest. 
 
 (199) Henry v Slone, T. A. B. Then came a Jury Towit : Gabriel 
 Cox, John Brown, Joseph Perkerson, David Andrews, Samuel 
 Devoir, Moses Holliday, Uriah Johnston, Thomas Applegate 
 James Wright Robt. McKey John Dean James McGee. Judgmt. 
 for plaintiff L 15 & Costs. 
 
 Prest. Samuel Newell Gent. 
 
 Ordered that Susannah Harmon be bound to Samuel Newell 
 Gent, according to Law. 
 
 Hugh Orra v Peter Branden. In Attachm't. Judgmt. for 
 L 84.9.5 & Costs, & order of Sale. 
 
 Cox v Williams & Irwin. % Then came a Jury towit. John 
 Robertson, John Hopkins, Zekiel Hopkins, Michl. Humble, 
 Jno. Quick Ezekl. Bernard, Adam Alex r . James Vannater 
 Hezekiah Applegate Charles Records Jno. Collins Abraham 
 Miller. Verd't. & Judgmt. for plaintiff L. 50. Costs. 
 
 Crow v Dye. Saml. Devoir Spl. Bail. 
 
 Marshall v Huff ag'd. * 
 
 Deed Pentecost to Records, ackd. O. R. 
 
 Absent Thos. Freeman, Gent. 
 
 (200) Ordered that Colo. John Cannon have the publick salt 
 
362 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 which now lies at Alexandria brought up to this County 
 and Distribute it to the Persons Intitled to receive it, and that 
 he be authorised to Contract for the Carriage on such Terms as 
 he can, Taking care in the Distribution to Fix the price so as 
 to raise the money due on sd. Salt for the Original Cost, Car- 
 riage, & other Contingencies. 
 
 Ordered that Benj. Kuykendal Esq. be authorised to have 
 the Publick Salt now Lying at Israel Thompsons in Lowden 
 County brought up on the same principals. 
 
 Ordered that Zacheriah Connell be Sommoned to appear at 
 the next Court and render an acct. of the publick salt he has 
 recv'd. 
 
 Thorn's. Freeman Gent. Prest. 
 
 Samuel Thompson v John Hopkins. Ezekiel Hopkins Spl. 
 Bail. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow Morning 
 9 oClock. Benja. Kuvkendall. 
 
 (201) Present Isaac Cox, Joshua Wright, Samuel Newell, Joseph 
 Beckett. 
 
 Attachments. 
 James Anderson v John McLean dis'd. 
 McMahan v Myers Discontd. 
 Campbell v Street Do. 
 Morgan &c v Connell Do. 
 Duncan & Wilson v Lyon Do. 
 
 Price v the same Do. 
 Hull v Do Do. 
 Pelton v Smith Do. 
 Hammit v Hanks Do. 
 Douglas v Hill Do. 
 Virgin v Karr Do. 
 Parkeson v Douglas Do. 
 Decker v Hanks Do. 
 Boling v Rootes Do. 
 Oury v Castle Do. 
 Robertson v French Do. 
 Smallman v McConnel Do. 
 Thomas v Kilgore Do.' 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 363 
 
 Parkison v Edwards Do. 
 
 Ormsby v Dunn Do. 
 
 Harrison v Wallace Do. 
 
 Ogle v Mclwain Do. 
 
 Ohara v Brandon. Trial for 44L. 10s. 8d. 
 
 "Cox, Admr. v Nelson discontd. 
 
 Ritchie v Hall Do. 
 
 Depue v Hardin. Judgt. 
 
 Lypolt v Lypolt agreed. 
 
 (202) Issues. 
 
 Cox, Trial, v Williams &c. 
 Lyda. Do. v Cox Judgt. 
 Wherry v White Contd 
 Miller v Humble Do 
 Johnson v Swearengen 
 Brownlee v Douglas Contd. 
 Shilling v Newkirk Do. 
 v the same Do. 
 Myers v Hooper Do. 
 Mitchel v same Do. 
 Shilling v Fortner Do. 
 
 v Myers Do. 
 Hooper v Geo. Myers Do. 
 Fullum v Johnson Do. 
 Springer v Kearsey referred. 
 Spears v Winemiller Contd. 
 Bousman v McGoldrick. Contd 
 Ward v Thorn &x 
 
 v Same contd. 
 Pentecost v Lynn 
 
 v Briscoe contd 
 Shilling v Taylor Do. 
 Hawkins, Asse. v Clarke Contd. 
 
 v Kuykendall Do. 
 Eaton v Kenon Discontd 
 
 v McLeland Do. 
 Bond v Mordecai. Judgt by default L 11.2 152 lbs. Tob'o. 
 & 40s 
 
 v same Do. L 22.10. 152 Tob'o. 40 S. 
 
364 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Brodie, Asse. v French Discontd 
 
 Grubb v Douling Judgt. by default. 
 
 Vallandigham v Tigart Discontd 
 
 Cook, Asse. v McConnel Do. 
 
 McManamy v Robertson Do. 
 
 Semple v McKinzie contd. 
 
 Holladay, Asse. v Hawkins. Plea waved & Judgt. 
 
 Beal v Finn &x contd. 
 
 v McMahan Do. 
 John Nevill v Gist. Plea waved & Judgt. Inqu grant. 
 Hamilton, Asse. v Dunfield Discontd. 
 Cresop v Swearengen contd. 
 (203) Campbell v Bell contd 
 Fullum v Johnson &x) 
 
 v same I contd. 
 
 v McComish J 
 Andrew v Johnson &x Do. 
 
 v same Do. 
 Decker v Ruth 
 Clark v Again 
 Heth v Bruce contd. 
 Christy v Heth Do. 
 v same Do. 
 Froman v Boyce 
 Campbell v Thompson 
 Bruce v McMichael 
 Madison, Jun. v. Dunbarr 
 McLeland &x v Irwin 
 Hamilton v Norris 
 Mc Adams v Devore agd. 
 Innis v Scott 
 Brady v Williams &x 
 Washington v Pearsall. 
 Caldwell v Fry contd 
 Jones v Spears 
 Williams v Shane 
 
 v Protsman 
 
 v Carter 
 
 v Stocker 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 365 
 
 Stuart v Crawford 
 v Harrison 
 
 (204) Common Orders. 
 
 Innes v Sawins 
 
 v same 
 Morrison v Vannater N. G. & I'd. 
 Bousman v McGoldrick 
 Elliott v Mcintosh W. E. Judgt. 
 
 v same Judgt & W. E. 
 Bradley v Boley N. G. with leave. 
 Curry v Wells Do. 
 Shirley v Thompson Non. Assr. 
 Atkinson v Matthews Judgt. 
 Smallman v Such W. E. 
 Bentley v Warren Agd. 
 Morton v Seaburn Agreed. 
 Innis, Ass'ee v Hougland 
 Day v Stansbury Judgt. W. E. 
 Johnson v Lindsey contd. 
 Do v Mills Do. 
 Waller v Springer N. G. 
 Nevill v Thompson 
 
 v Sharp 
 
 v Blackburn 
 Caldwell v Tygart &x Judgt. 
 Holladay v Matthews Judgt. 
 Henderson v Johnson 
 
 Reed v Springer Judgt L. 37.10 S. 170 L & 40 S. 
 Embly v Crowe N. G. w. Leave and Issued. 
 Hamilton v Swearengen 
 
 Writs of Enquiry. 
 
 Hawkins v Wheat contd 
 Nelson v Shilling discontd. 
 Shilling v Nelson Do. 
 Mcllry v Templin ) 
 v The same J 
 Hand v Whitaker Discontd. 
 
366 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Boley v Springer N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 v Jno. Springer Do. 
 v same Do. 
 Ward v Wills N. G. w. Leave & I'd. 
 Cox v Williams 
 (205) Vance v Williams N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 Ralston v Lowry contd. 
 Henry v Sloan Trial. 
 Fry v Filton contd 
 
 v Same Do. 
 White v Johnson Do. 
 Swigart v Murphy Do. 
 Brashears Admor. v Brashears Do. 
 Noble v Kuyd'l. discontd. 
 Whiteside v Girty Contd. 
 Riggle v Dye N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 Richards v Boley contd. 
 Hawkins v Zane discontd. 
 
 v Hanks Do. 
 Froman v Dean contd. 
 Vance v McNew 
 
 Lyda v Richards Settled & discontd. 
 Clark v Parkeson contd. 
 
 References. 
 Briscoe v Todd Discontd. 
 Connel v Mounce Do. 
 
 Reasoner v Ruth. Judgt. 375 Tob'o & 40 S. paid. 
 Boling v Morrison discontd. 
 Wills v Newell Do. 
 Gist v Waller Judgt. W. E. 
 
 v Hall Judgt W. E. 
 
 v Boyles Do. 
 Burrows v Johnson Abates. 
 Sly v McKindley discontd. 
 Bradon v Vannator Do. 
 Richards v Ross Do. 
 Brownfield v Same Do. 
 Custard v Long Do. 
 Swassicks v Jones Do. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 367 
 
 Pearse v Evans N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 Murphy v Richards Discontd. 
 Hayes v Deal Do. 
 Ewalt v McCollister Do. 
 (206) Hougland v Laughlin N. G. w. Leave & I'd. 
 Swassicks v Swassicks discontd. 
 Newkirk v Shilling Do. 
 
 McFarlane v Beeler. Judgt. £ 22. S 11. 287 Tobo. & 40 S. 
 Andrew v Johnson 
 Matthews v Marshall &x. Judgt. 
 Cox v Breetsman. N. G. w. leave & I'd.' 
 Vannator v Bradon Discontd. 
 
 v Parkeson N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 Burrows v Williams Abates. 
 Jones v McDonald discontd. 
 Dawson v Kirkpatrick N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 Hall v Wells &x discontd. 
 Grimes v Logan Do. 
 Beeler v Walker Judgt. W. E. 
 Woods v McKee discontd. 
 Morrison v Swigart Do. 
 Froman v Boyce. N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 Deal v Hays Discontd. 
 Crooks v Hougland. N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 Pearse v Evans Do. 
 Wallace v Duncan discontd. 
 Tygart v Boley. N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 Boyce v Froman &x Do. 
 Tigart v Chamberlain Judgt W. E. 
 McKy v Davison Do. 
 
 v Same Do. 
 
 v Same Do. 
 Mallocks v Brown discontd. 
 Brown v Mallocks Do. 
 Lyda v Collins Do. 
 
 Caldwell v Hougland N. G. W. leave & Issued. 
 Whitsel v McElwane Do. 
 Caldwell v Corn Do. 
 Chamberlain v Henthorn discontd. 
 
368 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Spears v Proctor Do. 
 v Gist I. W. C. 
 (207) Croghan v Waugh contd. 
 Newell v Robeson contd. 
 Shilling v Young discontd. 
 
 v Same Do. 
 
 v Demink Do 
 
 v Procter Do. 
 Nevill v Wiseman contd. 
 Shilling v Martin Discontd. 
 Sly v Smith Do. 
 
 Spear v McMahan N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 Blackburn, Asse. v Peak Discontd. 
 Conrod v Carter Do. 
 Wood v Griffith Do. 
 Rogers v Proctor Do. 
 
 Clinton & Noble v Brashears. Judgt. by Default. L 4 19. 
 & 34 & 40 S. 
 
 Wagoner v Warner Discontd. 
 McGrew v McConnel Do. 
 
 v Phelps Do. 
 McMahan v Irwin Do. 
 McChandlis, Asse. v McComish Do. 
 Moor v Richmond Do. 
 Smallman v Slover Do. 
 Virgin v Moore Do 
 Barker v Jourdan Do. 
 Redford, Asse. v Hill Do. 
 Armstrong v Ramage Do. 
 Wilcox v Craighead Do 
 Barrackman v Shively Do 
 Reasoner v Shearer Do. 
 Ramsay v Chambers & Co. Do. 
 
 v The same Do. 
 Heth v Farree Do. 
 Perkin v Colloway Do. 
 Hughy v Thomas Do. 
 Stephens v Shilling Do. 
 Downer v Teagarden Do. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 369 
 
 (208) Thomas v Lee Discontd. 
 Wilson v Croghan &x Do. 
 Brownfield v Cox Do 
 
 Bond v Long. Judgt. by default L 20 Costs 117 lb Tobo. 
 & 40 S. 
 
 Tigart v Dunnavan Discontd. 
 Caldwell v Browster Do. 
 Sumral v Same Do 
 Shearer v Miller Do 
 Baker v Hendricks Do 
 Whi taker v Dixon Do 
 Witsel v Shearer Do 
 Gollihar v Dowlin Do 
 Stephens v Stout Do 
 McMullen & ux v Parkeson &x Do 
 v Same Do. 
 
 Moore v Virgin Do 
 
 Dodd v Virgin Do 
 v same Do 
 
 Moore v Virgin Do 
 
 Boyce v Philips Do 
 
 Campbell v Brownfield Do 
 
 Harrison v Karr Do 
 
 Jones v Clarke &x Do. 
 
 Phelps v McGrew Do. 
 
 McMichael v Frinch Do. 
 
 Purcel v Gibson Do 
 
 Halfpinny v Whitsel Do 
 
 Thomas v Merchant &x Do 
 
 Ireland v Wilson Do 
 
 Collins v Brady Do. 
 
 Black, Asse. v Dunlavy Do 
 
 Vaughan v McMahan Do 
 
 Stephenson v Reed &x Do. 
 
 Small v Gray Do 
 
 Holladay v Jones. Judgt. by default. 
 
 Tidball, Asse. v Shaner discontd. 
 
 Anderson, Asse. v Huey Do 
 (209) Stephenson v Barnett discontd. 
 
370 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 McLeland v Grey Do 
 Sly v Smith Do 
 Young v Jacktnan Do 
 Lynn v Tilton Do 
 Martin v Johnson Do 
 Chambers v McLain Do 
 Ruse v Haymaker Do. 
 Martin v Glass &x Do 
 v Hamilton Do 
 Black v Chamberlain Do 
 Tigart v Burns Judgt. by default. 
 
 v Jeffery Discontd. 
 Winebiddel v Finch Do 
 Young v McCulloch &x Do 
 Morrison, Asse. v Ross Do 
 
 Brownfield v Smith. Judgt. by default. L 5. 10. 1 170 lb. 
 Tob'o. 
 
 Hunter, Asse. v Jones discontd. 
 Carswell v Dunn Do. 
 Wallace v Murdoch Do 
 Fossett v Meek Judgt & W. E. 
 Campbell, Asse. v Dunn discontd. 
 Ridgly & Co. v Lynn. Judgt by default. 
 Morecroft v Douling Do 
 Fleming v Gibson discontd 
 Dunfield v Hickman Do 
 
 v Ross Do 
 
 v Lindsay 'Do 
 
 v Russell Do 
 
 v Fossett Do 
 
 v Pearcifull Do 
 Steel v Johnson Do 
 v Johnson Do 
 Downer v Morrison Do 
 Woods v McGachen Do 
 Steger v Smith Abates 
 Elliott & Co. v Martin discontd. 
 (210) Linch v McGlaughlin discontd 
 Semple v Kerns Do 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 
 
 371 
 
 Gray v Harrison Do 
 
 Croghan v Boley 
 
 v McCallister 
 v Bousman 
 v McKee 
 v Richmond 
 v Whitaker 
 v Abraham Whitaker 
 v Jas. Whitaker 
 v Kuykendall 
 v Frederick 
 v Roliter 
 v McLean 
 v Bousman 
 v Grimes 
 v McGrew 
 v Troop 
 v Swasicks 
 v Meek 
 v McManamy 
 v Drummond 
 v Campbell 
 v Myers &x. 
 v Gibson 
 v Weddell, Sen. 
 v Beard 
 v Mitchel 
 v Miller 
 v Ormsby 
 v Reno 
 v Elliott 
 v Price 
 v Loudon 
 v St. Clair 
 v Lowdon 
 (211) St. Clair v Labatt Discontd. 
 
 Clark v Teabolt Do 
 
 Eyler v Adams Do. 
 
 Gahagan v Smith Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
372 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Enoch v Teagarden &x. Do. 
 Clinton v Mays Do 
 Hawkins v Humble Do 
 Fife v Churchill Do 
 Hite v Morgan Judgt. by default, 
 v White Do 
 v Evans Do 
 v Mynett Do 
 v Defebaugh Do 
 v Same Do Exn. 
 Bruin v Fife Do 
 v Same Do 
 v Same Do 
 v Same Do 
 Hales v Roatch Judgt. W. E. 
 Morgan v Nichols discontd. 
 v Bond Do 
 v Chamberlain Do 
 v Bever Do 
 Price v Lynn Judgt. by default, 
 v Weddel discontd. 
 v Hanks Judgt by default. 
 Gray v Peton discontd.- 
 
 v Same Do. 
 Tigart v Dunavan Do 
 v Craven. Do 
 v Vannator Do 
 v Craven Do 
 v Oglin Do. 
 St. Clair v Sills Do. 
 Elliott v Girty Do. 
 Hawkins v Parkeson Do. 
 Robison v Crow Do. 
 (212) Shilling v Newkirk Discontd. 
 Rodgers v Williams &x Do. 
 v Parr Do. 
 v Tumbleson Do. 
 Zane, Asse. v Holman Do. 
 Castleman v Tabor Do 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 373 
 
 Lyon v Duncan Do 
 Hosier v Bruce Do 
 Glassell v Kizer Do 
 McGlassen v Young Do 
 Anderson v Rees Do 
 Dunlavy, Asse. v Ferrel Do 
 Armstrong v Ohara Do 
 Thomas v Stark Judgt. by default. 
 Ward v Springsteel discontd. 
 
 v Same Do. 
 Jones v Evans Do. 
 
 v Same Do. 
 
 v McGoldrick Do. 
 
 v same Do 
 Ogle v Wilson Do 
 
 v same Do. 
 Labat v Ramage Do. 
 Hamilton &x v Goe Do. 
 Clendening v Logan Do. 
 
 Nevill, Asse. v Holladay. Conditions perf'd. & contd. 
 Keiser v Jamison discontd 
 Kelso &x v Piggott Do. 
 Allison v Lyon Do. 
 Smith v Douglas Do 
 Martin v Elliott Do 
 Brecken v Cassat Do 
 Jones v Ormsback Do. 
 Wafords, Exrs. v Cox Do 
 Roots v Cook Do. 
 (213) Caldwell, Asse. v Lynn Agreed. 
 Kidd v McConnel Judgt & W. E. 
 Linch v Jones Do 
 
 v Bosnick Do. 
 Dunning v Bay Do. 
 Bradon v Elliott Do. 
 Crooks v Hilderbrand. Judgt. by default. L 4.5 160 lb. 
 
 Tobo. 40 S. 
 
 Johnson v Steal discontd. 
 Hamilton v Martin Do 
 
374 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Berwick v Atkison Do. 
 Gilfillian Asse. v Tigart Do. 
 Mclnty v Gray Do 
 McCollister v Scott Do 
 Boley v Tigart Do 
 Robeson v McGoldrick Do 
 McEIroy v McMahan Judgt. W. E. 
 Atkison v White discontd. 
 Price v Crawford Do 
 Wheat v Carmichael Do 
 Scott v Vallandigham Do 
 Campbell v Hanks Do 
 Holaday & Co. v Stout &x. Abates, D. D. 
 McCarty v Craighead discontd. 
 
 Lyon v Humblebearer. Judgt. by deft. L 37 10 160 lb. 
 Tobo. & 140 S. 
 
 Frazier v Chambers discontd. 
 Miller v Hill Do. 
 Karnes v McQuin &x Do. 
 Boyd v Thomas Do 
 Wright v Springstone Do. 
 Davidson v Hanks Do 
 Walker v Dristnell Do. 
 Clark v Hawkins Do 
 Smith v Girty Do 
 Dillon v Perky Do. 
 McManamy v Ohara Do. 
 Richmond v Scott Do. 
 Ferrel v Dougherty Do. 
 Tharp v Collins Do 
 (214) Armstrong v Ohara Discontd. 
 Bousman v Ormsby Do. 
 Thomas v Elliott, Admr. Do. 
 Christy v White Do. 
 
 Brinkers, Exr's. v Hardin's Adm'ors. Judgt. by deft. 
 Davis & Co. v Young. Judgt. by deft. 
 Elvy v Dunn discontd. 
 Lyon v Downer Do. 
 Mitchel v Wade. Judgt. by deft. Process not served. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 375 
 
 Wilson v McGinnis discontd. 
 
 Johnson v Stephens Do. 
 
 Wilson v Canon Do 
 
 Williams v Presser do 
 
 Croghan v Powel do 
 
 Hite v Dodson. Judgt. by deft. Process not served. 
 
 Ormsby v Bousman discontd. 
 
 Dunlavy v Robertson Do 
 
 Brashears, Admor. v Colvin Judgt. by deft. 
 
 Patterson v Tidball Judgt W. E. 
 
 Day v Dean N. G. w. leave & Joind. 
 
 Bever, Asse. v Cook &c. Admors. discontd. 
 
 Beeler v Ink N. G. w. leave & I. 
 
 Kersy v Springer ref'd. 
 
 Cox v Anderson agreed. 
 
 Crawford v Hamilton discontd. 
 
 Williams, Asse. v Anderson Do. 
 
 Wright v Hart. N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 
 McCleland v Beeler discontd. 
 
 McMahan v Matthews Judgt. W. E. 
 
 Boyce v Froman N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 
 Mooney v Records N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 
 Boyce v Froman Non. Asst. & I'd. 
 
 v same Do 
 & ux v Graham 
 
 v same 
 
 v same \- Discontd. 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v Atkeson Judgt. W. E. 
 
 v Froman N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 Protsman v Hill Judgt. W. E. 
 (215) Norris v Vineyard & Ux Judgt W E. 
 Fife v Tigart. &x Judgt. W E. 
 
 v same Do. 
 Bentley v Eaglen Do. 
 Clark v Boley Do 
 Hufman v Leatherman Do. 
 Munn v Crawford Do. 
 Boling v Norris N. G. w. leave & I'd. 
 
376 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Miller v Humble Cond's perform'd. & I'd. 
 Gilliland v Linn N. G. leave & I'd. 
 Shilling v Newkirk Do. 
 Dunagan v Boyce Agd. 
 McCollister v Corn Judgt. W. E. 
 Ward v Philps. Discontd. 
 
 Petitions 
 Sills v Irwin discontd. 
 Shilling v Blackman Do. 
 
 v Delany Do. 
 Roatch v Shaner Do. 
 Christy, Asse. v Irwin Do. 
 
 v Jackson Do. 
 Parker, Asse. v Davis Do. 
 Whitsel v Rybolt Do. 
 Sloan v Mitchel, Adm. Do 
 Hamilton v Hawkins Do. 
 Seaman v Miller &x Do. 
 
 v same Do. 
 Cook v Berwick Do 
 
 v Hart Do 
 
 v Johnson Do 
 
 v Dobbins Do 
 
 v Parkerson Do 
 Vannater v Pelton Do. 
 McKenzie v Semple Do 
 Ryan v Park Do 
 McDonald v Grimes Do 
 Deal v Grove Do 
 Fennel, Asse. v Marshall Do 
 Colvin v Baily Do 
 (216) Wells v Johnson Discontd 
 Redford v Hill Do 
 
 v Criswell Do. 
 Ryan v Shaner Do 
 Brent v Teagarden. Judgt. for L 2 
 Oury v Fisher t 
 
 v Maurer 1 Judgt. 
 
 v Miller J 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 377 
 
 Todd v Shearer discontd 
 
 Timmons v Gafney Do 
 
 Wright v Dunlavy Do. 
 
 Morgan v Saltsman Do. 
 
 Dunlavy v Fry Do 
 
 Swigart v Ross. Judgt. L 3. 15. 150 lb. Tobo & 20 S. 
 
 Baggs v Cumings Discontd. 
 
 Whitsel v Valentine Do. 
 
 Marshal v Brooks Do. 
 
 Spurgin v Patrick Do. 
 
 Pigrnan No. 2 v Layton Do. 
 
 Chriswell v Girty Do. 
 
 v same-v _ 
 
 > Do. 
 v same > 
 
 Asse. v same -1 _ 
 
 Asse. v Scott I 
 
 Clinton v Cuningham. Process not retnd. 
 
 v Donne Jud. L 2. 1. 2. Tobo. 150. & 20 S. 
 
 Wickwire v Douner Discontd. 
 
 Wills v Zane Discontd. 
 
 Hawkins v Bodkin Judgt. 
 
 v Coffee Judgt. 
 
 Virgin v Colvin discontd. 
 
 Paul v West Do. 
 
 Day v Christy Do 
 
 Taylor v Byerly Do 
 
 Humble v Clark Do 
 
 v Burns Do 
 
 Jones v McDowall Do 
 
 Fowler v Brown Do 
 
 Weddall, Asse. v Arle Do 
 
 McCleland v Small ■» _ 
 r Do. 
 v Same > 
 
 (217) Davis, Asse. v Downer Judgt. 
 
 v Warner Do. Process not served. 
 
 Dix v Groggs discontd. 
 
 Hardin, Jun. v Kincaid Do. 
 
 Miller v Custard Do 
 
 Ryan v Press Do 
 
378 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Fennel, Asse. v Mitchel Do 
 Maxwell v Ashcraft Do. 
 Cuningham v Bruce Do 
 Jolly v Barker Do 
 Moor No. 3 v Churchil Do. 
 Shaner, Asse. v Stephens Do 
 Jackson v Clark Do 
 Boley v Swigart Do. 
 
 v Russal Do 
 Green v Ward Do 
 Harrison v Armstrong Do. 
 Ross v Dunfield Do. 
 Dean v MlMacmanomy Do. 
 Lestnett v Same Do 
 Roliter v Labatt Do 
 Steel v Merrick Do 
 Jackman v Clark Do 
 Hall v Redman Do 
 McCollister v Black Do 
 Savage v Teagarden Do 
 Fin v Williams Do 
 Adams v Horn Do 
 Lain v Peyton Do 
 Wallace v Meek Do 
 House v Mahon Do 
 Virgin v Moore Do 
 Adams v Shuster Do 
 Clendenin v Carmichael Do 
 Henthorn, Asse. v Martin Do 
 Semple v Owens Do 
 Hamilton v Hawkins Do 
 Ross v Fransway Do 
 Johnson v Wilson Do 
 (218) Morgan v Wooler Do 
 Steel v Thomas Do 
 McGlassen v Irwin Do 
 Pearse v Chery Do 
 Semple v Carol Do 
 Moore v Richmond Do 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 
 
 379 
 
 (219) 
 
 Do 
 
 Dougherty v Black Do. 
 
 Tygart v Lindsay A. D. D 
 
 v same-i „ „ „ 
 } Do. D. D. 
 v same J 
 
 Stewart v Scott discontd. 
 
 Campbell v Gahagan Do. 
 
 Vallandigham v Springer 
 
 v Clements 
 
 v Meeks 
 
 v Hartley 
 
 v Lindsay 
 
 v same 
 
 Farree v Lynn Do 
 
 Maxwell v Thompson 
 
 Reed v Clarke Do 
 
 Dalton v Shaner Do. 
 
 Ross v Swift Do 
 
 v Black Do 
 
 Hawkins v Labat Do 
 
 Clarke, Asse. v Downer 
 
 Fin v Williams Do. 
 
 Kendal v Brownfield Do 
 
 Gary v McCulloch Do 
 
 McCullum v Edwards Do 
 
 Christy v Alexander Do 
 
 Spears v McDoran Do 
 
 Fitzgerald v Reiley Do 
 
 Cox v Boling Do 
 
 Halfpenny v Dennis Do 
 
 Wadel, Asse. v Brown Do 
 
 Asse. v Arnold Do 
 
 Shaner v Ross ) 
 
 v Plumber J 
 
 Flander v Marshall 
 
 Elliott v Small 
 
 v Same 
 
 v Sinnett 
 
 v Winemiller 
 
 Do 
 
 Do 
 
 Do 
 Do 
 
 discontd. 
 
380 
 
 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Elliott v Dalton 
 
 v Frederick 
 v Armstrong 
 v Rodgers 
 v Same 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do 
 
 (220) 
 
 Wills v Gohagan Do 
 
 Ewalt, Asse. v Armstrong &x Do 
 
 Brownfield v Hustage Do 
 
 McMichael v French Do 
 
 Baker v Knight Do 
 
 Tilton. Asse v Bell Do 
 
 Brintson, Exors. v Elvy 
 
 v Bruce 
 
 v Beeler 
 
 v Sayers 
 
 v Spencer 
 
 v Moyer 
 Isaac Hite v Vantrees Judgt. 
 
 v Rich'd Postlethwait Do 
 v Wilson Do 
 v Carter Do 
 Hardin the Younger v Myers discontd. 
 Cook v Dobbins Do 
 Parkeson v Burns Do. 
 Russel v Gahagan Do 
 Collins v Dobson Do 
 
 Asse. v Clark Do. 
 Lyons v Butler Do. 
 Madison, Jun. v Sterling Do. 
 McMahan v Pritchett Do 
 Taylor v Hanks Do. 
 Isaac Cox v McMahan Do 
 Miller v Armstrong Do 
 Thomas v Lambert Do 
 Knight v Plumber Do 
 King v Hansel Do 
 McCashlin v Evans Do 
 Holmes v Huston Do 
 McCollister v Corn Judgt. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 381 
 
 Decker v Wilson discontd. 
 Stephenson v Nicholas Do 
 Beeler v Burns Do 
 Spears v same Do 
 
 New Pet'o. 
 Baggs v Cumins Judgt. 
 Day v Wilson agd. 
 Lewis v Byers Judgt. 
 Lypolt v Masterson agreed 
 Vinamon v Davis agreed 
 Johnson v Sly abates 
 
 Devores, Exors. v Scott discontd 
 v Tigart Judgt. 
 
 Crawford v Hanks discontd. 
 
 v Miller Judgt. L. 3. 
 
 Marshall v Brooks Exor. Judgt. 
 Alias's 
 
 Still & Ux v Williams P. C. 
 
 Crow v Pearse N. G. leave & I'd. 
 
 Henderson v Douglas Impl. 
 
 Wilson &x Exors. v Lynch &x C. O. 
 
 Evans v Russell P C 
 
 Stocker v Acklin Impl. 
 
 Bay v Jackson agd. 
 
 Riddick v Ross C. O. 
 
 Boley v Maning. Spl. Bl. Jno. Fife, 
 v same Do 
 
 Brewer & Ux v Stacy C. O. 
 
 Cook v Beckett agd. 
 
 Spears v Beckett &x Exors. Impl. 
 
 Dye v Allen Tharp C. O. 
 
 Nichold v Corn Dismd N. Apl. 
 
 Johnson v Allen Tharp Agd. 
 
 Matthews v Ellis Agd. 
 
 Say v Dean Spl. Bl. Imparl. 
 (221) Ward v Clark , CO 
 v Mcllwane i PC 
 
 Crow v Glin agreed 
 
 McCullloch v Taylor Spl. Bl. Impl. 
 
382 Annals ov the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Whitsel v Wise Dis'd. N. Apl. 
 
 Pluries Cap. 
 McCormick v Holies Judgt. for Pit. & Ex. 
 McGlaughlin v Woods Judgt. W. E. L 8. i. 4 
 Bentley v Vittitoe agd. 
 Workman v Saltsman P C 
 Ritchie v Thornbury dismd 
 Reno v Walker agd. 
 
 v same agd. 
 Norris v Embly P C 
 Ross v Maning P C 
 Minor, Asse v Blazier P C 
 McComish v Springer P C 
 Anderson v Evans C. O. 
 Steel v Hamilton C. O 
 McMahan v Hauck No Impt. discontd. 
 Kearns v Logan P C 
 Springer v Waller agd. 
 Smith v Gibson Discontd. 
 How v Genoway ux. P. C 
 Burns v Loutherback C. O. 
 Whitsel v Crawford agreed 
 Beans v Johnson Judgt. for Pit Exn L 21. 10. 
 Harrison v Hall discontd. 
 Miller v Mitchel P C 
 
 v same Do 
 Barrackmafi v Harry C. O. 
 v Woods C. O. 
 Vallandigham v Walker P C 
 
 v Same CO 
 Wills v Blackstone. dism'd. N. appl. 
 Lindsay v Smith 
 
 CO 
 v Hamilton 
 
 } 
 
 Lintenbergher v Oldcraft. discontd. 
 (222) Labat v Smith discontd. N. Impl. 
 Pearse v Evans CO 
 Laughlin v. Brown P C 
 McDonald v Slover agreed. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 383 
 
 Colwell v Thorn N. Imp. discontd. 
 
 Kincaid v Henderson ) _ , T 
 
 Spl. Impl. 
 
 dismd N. apce. 
 
 v Same 
 
 Caldwell v Mills disd N. Apr. 
 Cumins v Patterson N. In dismd. 
 
 v Baggs disd. N. Apr. 
 Caldwell v Wray "I 
 v Thorn J 
 Gibson v Meek P C 
 Gist v Alexander agd. 
 McGlaughlin v Piggot N. In discontd. 
 Hall v Lynch ^ 
 v Fossett 
 v Shearer 
 v Hatfield 
 Heth v Stokes C. O 
 Chambers v Wallace Agreed 
 Gist v Cornwall CO 
 Forrester v Murphy CO. 
 Mitchel v Pelton Agd 
 Miller v Same l 
 
 v same >■ Discontd 
 v Humble J P. C 
 
 Appearances 
 Ferguson v Heth dismt. 
 Spears v Jones Richard Pauver Spl. Bl. 
 Ward v Clark C O. 
 Postle v Greathouse. Als. Caps. 
 Boley v Folke A'gd. 
 
 v Orr S. B. & Impl. 
 v Fossitt 
 Stuart v Purdie Als Caps 
 Miller v Parkeson Als Caps, 
 v Gutridge Agd. 
 v Same agd. 
 Hugh Brodie v Samson Bever S. Impl. 
 (223) Crow v Watson agd. 
 
 Dunn v Stuart Als. Caps. 
 Johnson v McAdams Agd. 
 
384 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Sills v Burns discontd. 
 Loutherback v Same dismt. 
 Crow v Dye Spl. Bl. Impl. 
 Russel v Jackson agd. 
 Lypolt v Hall agd. 
 Maning v Slover Als. Caps. 
 Johnson v Evans Als. Caps. 
 Steel v Sellars agd 
 Decker v Jacobs retd. 
 Parkison v Megee i 
 v same > 
 Morrison, Sen. v Humble agd. 
 
 McGee v Parkeson ■, 
 
 r a £ d - 
 v same I 
 
 Parkeson v Megee -, 
 
 [ a gd. 
 v same J 
 
 Douglas v James agd. 
 
 Moor v Richmond, discontd. 
 
 Dye v Brent als. Caps. 
 
 McMahan v Linsin agd. 
 
 Parkison v McGee ■> 
 
 t agd. 
 v same > 
 
 Campbell v Blackman agd. 
 
 Steel v Stephens als. 
 
 Bever v Mayhal Co. Or. 
 
 v Miller, Sen. &x. agd. 
 
 Hopkins v Johnson dismd. no Inhabt. 
 
 Blackman vPearse agd. 
 
 v Campbell agd. 
 Wilson v Blackman agd. 
 Blackman v Campbell agd. 
 (224) Bonum v Sappinton Als. C. 
 Boling v Wells A C 
 Johnson v Lindsay C O 
 Campbell v Tilton agd. 
 
 v Scott agd. 
 
 v Blackman N. I. discontd. 
 Ross v Blank Discontd. 
 Pearse v Hougland &x. agd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 
 
 385 
 
 Magee v Gambill als. 
 Bousman v Ormsby A. C. 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same j- Als's. Caps. 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same . 
 (225) Bousman v Ormsby 
 v same 
 v same 
 v same 
 
A C 
 
 386 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 
 v same 
 Chambers v Ewalt A C 
 Chambers (Inft) v Same A C 
 Kuykendall v Colvin Imparl. 
 
 v Decker A C 
 Clark v Clark A C 
 v Clark A C 
 v Quin A C 
 Wright v Bever Impl 
 Cook v John McCashlin C. O. 
 Bousman v Ormsby Spl. Impl. 
 Conner v Slover agd. 
 Boley v Mitchel C. O. 
 Zachy Connell v Poe &x A C 
 Cresop's Exors. v Campbell C. O 
 Biddle v Good &x A C 
 Cresop v Plumber discontd. 
 Logan v Miller A C 
 Devore v Johnson agd. 
 Johnson &x v Cotes C O 
 Evans v Richards Als. 
 Mathew v McLain A C 
 Stockwell v A B agd. 
 (226) Thompson v Hopkins. Spl. Bl. Impl. 
 Kincaid v Henderson Impl. 
 Means v Graham Dissent, no appr. 
 Beeler v Scott Spl. Bl. 
 Bruce v Hougland agd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 387 
 
 Wills v Quick spl. Bl. Impl. 
 Nicholds v Day discontd. 
 Shaaf v Douner A C 
 Pentecost v Jones C. O 
 Fosset v Hall C. O 
 Lynch v Same C. O 
 Crow v Watson Agd. 
 Johnson v McAdam agd. 
 Sills v Burns S. Impl. 
 Crow v Dye Spl. Bl. 
 Dunn v Stuart Discontd. 
 Spivy v Records Impl. 
 Marshall v Huff Agd. 
 
 Recog'ce. 
 C. W. v Mounce discontd 
 v Springer discontd 
 v Steel disch'd. 
 v Black. Contd. 
 v Bradley contd 
 v the same Contd. 
 v Beall Discontd 
 
 v Winemiller. Ordered that his recogn. be prose- 
 cuted for want of appearance. 
 (227) Commonwealth v James Chambers, failing to appear, ordered 
 to be prosecuted. 
 
 v David Duncan. Do. 
 v Moses Davidson Do. 
 v David Irwin Do. 
 v Susannah Schley Do 
 v Brawdy. Discontd. 
 v Dean Contd. 
 
 v John Carr. No. Appl. Ord. R. P. 
 v Hall Do. 
 v Ross Do 
 
 v. Smith & others Discontd. 
 v. Michl. Tygert. No appl. O. P. R. 
 Court met accord'g to adjrnt, Sept. 30, 1779. 
 Present, Thomas Freeman, Oliver Miller, Joshua Wright, 
 Judge Beckett, Isaac Cox, Gent. Just. 
 
388 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Grand Jury Presentment. 
 
 v Johnston Campbell Discontd. 
 
 v John McDonald fined accd'g to Law 
 
 v Richd. McMahen Do No Guilty 
 
 v Christie agd. 
 
 v Henry Bowling fined according to Law. 
 
 v Roberts fined Do. 
 
 v McAdams fined accdg. to Law. 
 
 v Oharra fined accdg to Law. 
 
 v Johnston &x Discontd. 
 
 v Newkirk and others. Discontd. 
 
 v Labatt fine. 
 
 v McClellen N. Guilty 
 
 v Robertson fine 
 
 v Daviss Do 
 
 v Persons N. Guilty. 
 
 v McKendley fine. 
 
 v Irwin N. Guilty 
 
 v Duncan fine 
 
 v Flemming fined 
 
 v Bealle Do 
 
 v Lentenburger N. Guilty. 
 
 v Roberts fined 
 (228) Commonwealth v Devoir Abtes. D. Dead. 
 
 v Dodds fined 
 
 v Judy Do 
 
 v Henderson Do 
 
 v McKendley Do. 
 
 v Irwin Do. 
 
 v Castleman Discontd. 
 
 v Corn fined. 
 
 f Informations agt Gray. Discontd. He 
 I adhering to the state of Penn'a. 
 Indictments. 
 Lyda v Cox. Then came a Jury towit. James Wright, 
 Gabl. Cox Benjamin Forster, Thos. Applegate Samson Bever 
 Abraham Miller Ezekiel Bernard Andrew Pearse, W m - Haw- 
 kins Hezekiah Applegate Robert McKie, John Alexander. 
 Verdt. & Judgt. for Pit. L. 100. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 389 
 
 Hopkins v Johnson. Att a . 
 
 Judgt for L 80 & Ord. Sale and that the Sheriff pay to Abi- 
 gail Johnson out of the money arising from the sale the sum of 
 L 480 and the Bal oe - if any to be applied towards satisfaction of 
 this Judgment. 
 
 Johnson v Johnson. Atta. Judgment & Order of Sale, 
 except Sixbushells of wheat and all the Keggs in the Shffs. 
 return and the Bed Tick & one Ax & 1 pr. Geers being the 
 property of Abighil Johnson, and the balance if any to be paid 
 the plaintiff. Joshua Wright being sworn Garnishee sayeth he 
 hath 130 1. flour in his Hands the property of the Defendt. 
 
 (229) James Boyce &x v James Grimes &x. N. G. & Joined. 
 Then came a Jury, towit : James Wright, Abraham Miller 
 Gabriel Cox, Ezekiel Barnett John Alexander, John Quick 
 Uriah Johnston William Hawkins Thomas Applegate Hezekiah 
 Applegate Samson Beavers Robert Macky Verdt. & Jugmt. for 
 Plaintiff, L. 20. 
 
 James Boyce v James Grimes. Case. 
 
 Then came a Jury towit, James Wright, Gabriel Cox, John 
 Alexander, Uriah Johnston, Thomas Applegate, Samson Beavers, 
 Abraham Miller, Ezekiel Barnitt, John Quick, John Gabridge 
 Hezekiah Applegate & Robert McKey. Verdt. Defd. 
 
 Ordered that Margaret the wife of Jeremiah McCarty a poor 
 Soldier in the Continental Service from this State be allowed 
 four pounds pr. month for the support of herself and three 
 children, To Commence the first day of Apl. Last & Ending 
 the first day of Apl. Next. 
 
 Anderson & Todd v Saml. Newell. W. Rep. Dismissed 
 and a Writ of Restertution (on Returno Habondo) awarded. 
 
 Ordered that Matthews the wife of Matthews a 
 
 poor Soldier in the Continental Service be allowed three 
 pounds per month to commence from the first day of January 
 last and to continue for nine months. 
 
 Thos. Freeman Gent. Abst. 
 
 (230) Ordered that George Wrey an Orphan of Sixteen years of 
 age the first day of November next be bound to John Robert- 
 son according to Law the sd. John to give him a horse & Sad- 
 dle at the expiration of his time. 
 
 Lewis Nicholas v David Day. Dismis'd for w't. of appear- 
 
390 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that Benjaman Kuykendall Gent, be Impowered to 
 Borrow five hundred pounds upon Interest, to be applied To- 
 wards Discharging the County Debt, and that the Court at the 
 Laying the Next County Levy provide for the payment 
 Thereof. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow Morning 
 9 oClock. Isaac Cox. 
 
 Court met according to adjournment Oct. ist, 1779. 
 
 Present Isaac Cox Joshua Wright Samuel Newell Joseph 
 Beckett Oliver Miller Gent. Justices. 
 
 C. Wealth v Andrew Pearse. Then came a jury towit, Joseph 
 Skelton James Wright Gabl. Cox Wm. Murley Isaack Custard 
 Thos. Applegate John Wall Moses Holaday Saml. Lemin Elijah 
 Rittenhouse Richd. McMahan Uriah Johnson. Verdt. for De- 
 fendant. 
 (231) Absent Saml. Newel Gent. 
 
 Wright v Kenneday. Atta. Judgt. L 41, and Ofdered that 
 40 L be condemned in the hands of Edwd. Gather. 
 
 C. W. v Mary Boyce Sen. & Mary Boyce Junr. discon- 
 tinued. Costs paid. 
 
 Golahar & ux v Bradly, Sen. Ordered that an Atta. do 
 Issue. 
 
 Tacitus Gilyard v Isaac Ellis. Ordered to be redock'd. 
 
 Com Wealth v Douging. The Defendt. failing to appear 
 Ordered that his Recogze be prosecuted. 
 
 Sciri Facias. 
 Martha Lapsly v John Reed , contd. 
 Wm. Brashears v Thos. Hamilton Judgt. 
 Bazil Brown v The Same Judgt. 
 Com Wealth v James Smith &u. discontd. 
 
 Chancery. 
 Thomas Cresop v Willm. Shearer, contd. 
 Joseph Simon &u. v Alexander McKee contd. 
 Benjamin Wells v Thomas Rearden contd. 
 Ordered that the Sheriff do Summon a Grand Jury 24 good 
 - & Lawfull men, to attend at Nov. Court. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 391 
 
 (232) Present Oliver Miller Gent. 
 
 Ordered that Richd. Noble be recommend to serve as an 
 Ensign in Capt. Freeman Co. of militia in the room of Wm. 
 Colvin who was broke by Verdt. of Ct. Martial. 
 
 Joshua Wright Sworn Capt. in the Militia. Com. read. 
 
 Ordered that Rebecca Davis Orpan & Infant of Lem'l. 
 Davis be bound to Isaac Cox according to Law She being three 
 years old the 1 6th Day of Augt. last. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned till Court in Course. 
 
 Isaac Cox. 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County Oc- 
 tober 25th, 1779. 
 
 Present Edward Ward, Joshua Wright Benjaman Kuykendal 
 Thomas Smallman Oliver Miller, Gent. Justices. 
 
 Colo. Isaac Cox having applied to us for a pasport to re- 
 move himself, family and attendance from this County to the 
 County of Kentucky on the Ohio, It ordered that the sd. 
 Isaac Cox have leave to remove himself and attendance as 
 aforesd, he Deporting himself as a good Citizen and in amen- 
 ity with the United States, having been long a Magistrate in 
 this County, and Demeaned himself well therein. It is Ex- 
 pected that all good offices be done him by the Inhabitants of 
 this Com. Wealth. 
 
 George Roots & Dolphin Drew, Sworn Atty's. 
 
 (233) Adm. of the Estate of Jacob Stelty dec'd, is granted to 
 Anne his wife she having Complied with the Law. Wm. 
 Frye, Zadock Wright, John Jones & John Trumbo or any 
 three of them app's. sd. Estate. 
 
 Deed Poll James Bruce to George Bruce. Ackd. O. R. 
 
 Daniel Leet Sworn Deputy Surveyor having Produced a 
 Commission for that Purpose. 
 
 Power of Att. Morris Brody to Gabriel Cox Ackd. O. R. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow morning 
 9 o'Clock. 
 
 Edwd. Ward. 
 
 October the 26th, 1779, Court met according to Adjourn 
 ment. 
 
392 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Present Edward Ward Thomas Smallman Isaac Cox Joshifei 
 Wright Samuel Newell, Gent. Justices. 
 
 Power of Atto. Daniel Swolevan to Geo. Roots. Ackd. 
 0. R. 
 
 Thos. Reed v Evert Springer Impal. Granted, Money 
 Deposited with the Court. 
 
 Benjamin Kuykendall Gent. Present. 
 
 (234) John Embly v John Crow. Then came a Jury Towit. Gab- 
 riel Cox John Kinkaid, John Duglass, James Wright, Henry 
 Hogland, John Bowley, John Springer, Hugh Brawdy, Zadock 
 Wright, Joseph Perkerson, Richd. Crooks, Isaac Newkirk. 
 
 Verdict for Defdt. & Ju. 
 
 Fife v Tygert. N. G. with leave & Issued. Then came 
 the same Jury towit, Gabriel Cox, John Kinkaid, John Em- 
 bly James Wright, Henry Hoagland, John Bowley, John 
 Springer, Hugh Brawdy, Zadock Wright, Joseph Perkerson, 
 Richd. Crooks & Isaac Newkirk. Verdict for Plaintiff & 
 Jud. L 50. 
 » Edward Ward Gent, came into Court and being Sworn on 
 
 the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God Sayeth, That Thomas 
 Smallman, Gent, was a Lieutenant and Quarter Master in the 
 first Batalion in the Pennsylvania Redgment in Actual Service 
 in the year 1758. 
 
 Oliver Miller Gent. Present. 
 
 Philip Gilliland v William Lynn, then came a Jury, towit, 
 John Kinkaid, John Embly, James' Wright, Henry Hogland, 
 John Bowley, Wm. Crow, Hugh Brawdy, Zadock Wright, 
 Joseph Perkerson, Richard Crooks, Isaac Newkirk, Jno. Crow. 
 Verdt. for Plaintiff & Judmt. L 1000. 
 
 ( 2 35) Ordered that Jno. Springer be Sommoned to appear at the 
 Next Court to shew Cause if any why he refused to Serve as a 
 Jury man. 
 
 Van Swearengen v William Burris, David Williams S. B. & 
 Impl. 
 
 Benjaman Kuykendall Gent, come into Court and being 
 Sworn Sayeth, that in the Spring of the year 1754 he saw Maj. 
 Edward Ward on his march to Virginia from what is now Fort 
 Pitt, that the sd. Maj. Ward had the command of the party with 
 him & that he understood that he was the commanding officer 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 393 
 
 of the Post at the aforsd. place as an officer in the Virginia line 
 & Surrendered to the French. 
 
 Todd v Gibson. Saml. Newell S. B. & Imp. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow morning 
 9 oClock. Edwd. Ward. 
 
 October 27th, 1779 Court met according to adjournment. 
 
 Present William Crawford. Thomas Smallman, Isaac Cox 
 Benjamin Kuykendall and Oliver Miller, Gent. Justices. 
 
 Certificate Adam Stephens to Isaac Cox On motion ordered 
 to be record. 
 
 Colo. Crawford being Sworn Sayeth that The sd. Isaac Cox 
 was a Subaltron Officer in the Virginia Service in the year 
 1764. 
 (236) Spears y Winemiller. then came a Jury, Towit. John 
 Kinkaid, John Embley, James Wright,. Henry Hogland, John 
 Bowley, Hugh Brawdy, Zadock Wright, Joseph Perkerson, 
 Richd. Crooks, Isaac Newkirk, John Crow & William Crow. 
 Verdi' t. for Plaintiff & Judmt for L 19. 17.4. 
 
 Crow v Williams. Then came a Jury, towit, Enoch Springer, 
 John Springer, Andrew Robertson, Thomas Spencer, Saml. 
 Devoir, Saml. St. Clair, Samson Beavers, Saml. Hinch, Saml. 
 Brice, Robert Johnston, Elisha Ritinghouse & Moses Holliday. 
 Verdi't for plaintif & Jdm. L 300. 
 
 Joshua Wright Gent. Prest. 
 
 Spears v Gist. Then came a Jury towit. John Kinkaid, 
 John Embly, James Wright, Uriah Johnston, John Bowley, 
 Hugh Brawdy, Zadock Wright, Joseph Perkerson, Richd. 
 Crooks, Isaac Newkirk, Thomas Bond, William Crow. Vedt. 
 for plaintiff & Judm L 11. 16. 
 
 Crow v Dye Non asstn. & I'd. 
 
 Brawdy v Beavers. N. G. leave & Jo'nd 
 
 Wright v the same. N. Asst & Jo'nd 
 
 Ordered that the wife of John Overlin a poor soldier be al- 
 lowed fifteen pounds pr. month for the support of herself and 
 five Children commencing the first day of July Last and ending 
 the first of January Next. 
 
 Ordered the wife of David Smith a poor soldier, be allowed 
 twelve pounds pr. month for the suppurt of herself and four 
 Children, Commencing & ending as afores'd. 
 
394 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that the wife of Thomas Dunn be allowed twelve 
 pounds pr. month for the support of herself and four children 
 Commencing the first of July Last & ending the first of Janu- 
 ary next. 
 
 Ordered that the States attorney Prefer a Bill of Indictmt. 
 agt. David Williams for ass't on the Body of Elizabeth Crow. 
 
 Ordered that Ezuby Munri be allo'd. two Days attendance 
 in the suit of Crow v Williams. 
 
 Ordered that Jacob Bouseman be allo'd. half a Dollar for a 
 man & the same for a Horse for ferrying a Cross Monongahela. 
 (237) Berry v Crawford. Non Asst & Jo'nd. 
 
 Meers v Hooper Dis. Contd. 
 
 Same v Same. Do. 
 
 Hooper v Myers. Do. 
 
 Kinkaid v Henderson. N. G. leave & Jo'nd. 
 
 Same v Same . Do. 
 
 Johnston v Springer Judmt W. Ey. 
 
 Bouseman v Ormsby. In Tresp. Dismd. 
 
 Ordered that John Lad serve his master Wm. Crawford, 
 Eighteen month after the Expiration of his Time by Ind'tr. for 
 Loss of Time in riming away and Expence in Taking him up. 
 
 James Hoge is app. Ensign & Joseph Kirkpatrick Liut. of 
 Militia. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Court in Course. 
 
 Tho. Smallman. 
 
 (238) 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Yohogania County, 
 December 27th, 1779. 
 
 Present Edward Ward, Benjaman Kuykendal, Joshua Wright, 
 Benjaman Frye & Joseph Beckett Gent. Present. 
 
 Deed of Surrender Pentecost to [ ?] Ackd. O. R. 
 
 Indenture Elenor Frazer to James Mf.Mahen. Ackd. O. R. 
 
 Oliver Miller Gent. Present. 
 
 On motion of Michael Vonbuskkirk praying a Certificate of 
 his Military Services, It appears to this Court (from Testimony) 
 that the said Vonbuskkirk Served as an Insign under a Com- 
 mission now produced in Court, from his Excellency Horatio 
 Sharpe Governor of Maryland, dated the 2 nd - of May, 1756, 
 in a corps raised by Alexander Bealle for the Service of Mary- 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 395 
 
 land, and that the sd Vonbuskkirk hath for many years past 
 and now is an Inhabitant of this State. Ord. to be Certif 'd. 
 
 Ordered that James Wall, Walter Wall Richd. Sparks & 
 Andrew Pearce Ju. do Review a road the nearest and best from 
 the New Store on the Monaungohela River into the road near 
 Andrew Dye's, and make return of the Conveniency and In- 
 conveniences to next Ct. 
 
 Riddeck v Springer. John Springer Sp. bl. 
 
 Majr. Edward Ward having applied to this Court to Certifie 
 his Gen'l. Character, It is ordered therefore to be Certified. 
 That the sd. Maj. Edward Ward hath been a Justice of the 
 Peace in this County since its Institution, and Demeaned him- 
 self wel therein, as also in the Ofice of Sheriff for sd. County, 
 and that he has always deported himself as a Good Citizen of 
 the Com. Wealth, & as an honest Man and a good Neighbour. 
 
 Ordered that Walter Wall and Joseph Warner 1 be app'd. 
 Cons' b. and be sworn before the Next Majistrate to Qualify. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Tomorrow Morning 
 9 oClock. 
 
 Edwd. Ward. 
 
 (239) Court met according to adjournment Decemb. 28th, 1779. 
 Present Edward Ward, Benjaman Kuykendal Joshua Wright 
 Oliver Miller, Gent. Justices. 
 
 License is granted to Cabriel Cox to keep an Ordinary at his 
 House the Ensuing, he complying with the Law. 
 Dr. The County of Yohogania, 
 
 To the States attorney, L 500. 
 
 To the Sheriff for Ex[?]. Services, 1200 To. 
 To three called Courts, 600 
 
 To the Clerk for Ex[?] Services, 1200. Do 
 To three Called Courts, 600. Do. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff collect forty Eight Shillings from 
 each Tithable as a County Levy for the present year. 
 
 Ordered that Samuel Irwin Gent, be appointed attorney for 
 the Com. Wealth in this County the ensuing year, in the room 
 of Phil. Pendleton Gent, who has resigned. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate of James Devoir Deceas'd retd. 
 Order to be recorded. 
 1 Intended probably for Joseph Warne. 
 
396 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that Elizabeth Keyher, widow of Frederick Keyher 
 a soldier from this State who died in the Service be allowed 
 fifteen pounds pr. month for the support of herself and four 
 children, commencg the' 26th of Octob. and ending 26 Apr. 
 next. 
 
 Ordered that Ruth Davis widow of James Daviss a soldier 
 who died in the Service be allowed Twelve pounds pr. month 
 for the support of herself and three children, commencing the 
 26 th of Octob'r. Last and ending the'26 day Apl. next. 
 
 Ordered that Geo. McCormick and William Harrison Gent, 
 the present and late Sheriffs, do bring in their accounts for 
 settlement at the next Ct. 
 (240) Division and allotment of the one third of the Landed Es- 
 tate of James Devoir, Deceased to his widow or Relict, 
 returned and O. R. 
 
 At a Called Court held for the Trial of David Donee who 
 stands charged with passing one eigh and one five Dollars, 
 continental Counterfit Bills of Credit. 
 
 Prest. Edwd. Ward, Benj. Kuykendal, Joshua Wright, John 
 Cannon, Saml. Newel, Joseph Becket, Benj. Frye & Oliver 
 Miller. 
 
 The prisoner being set to the Bar, and being asked guilty or 
 not Guilty pleads not guilty, the Court upon hearing the wit- 
 nesses are of opinion that the prisoner is not Guilty of 
 Forgery or counterfeiting but that he is Guilty of a high Mis- 
 demeaner, and fraudulent Imposition. Ordered that the said 
 David Donee be bound over to the next Grand Jury Court and 
 that the States Attorney prefer a Bill of Indictment. Where- 
 upon the said David Donee with Hugh Brawdy and Stephen 
 Hall his Security come into Court and entered into recogn. 
 as aforesd. The sd Donee held in L 500 the sd sureties in 
 L 250 Each. 
 
 Daniel Caugha & John Cannon come into Court and en- 
 tered into recognizance for the appearance of the sd. Caugha, 
 appearance at the next Grand Jury Court, and give testimony 
 agt. David Donee, held in L 250 each. 
 
 Berry v Crawford Contd. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 397 
 
 James Spear being bound in recognizance appeard. Ordered 
 to be bound to the next G. Jury. James Spears with Andrew 
 pearce Ju. his seer, held L 500 each. 
 
 John Brackenridge bound in recgn. appd. Ordered to be 
 bound to Next G. Jury Ct. John Brackenridge with James 
 Brackenridge his Sec. come into Cot. held in L 500 Each. 
 (241) Whereas John Campbell Esqr. Lieut, for this County, is 
 now a Prisoner with the Indians, and it is uncertain when he 
 may return to Take the Command of the Militia of this 
 County, upon considering the same and the present situation 
 of the Melitia of this County, it is the opinion of this Co't. that 
 it is Necessary that some person should be appointed in the 
 stead of the said Colo. Campbell, & it is therefore ordered 
 that Dorsey Pentecost be recommended to his Excelh the 
 Governor as a proper person to be appointed in the stead of 
 the sd. Colo. Campbell. 1 
 
 Ordered that Joseph Beeler be recommend as Colo, of the 
 First Batalion of Militia in the stead of John Stephenson who 
 hath resigned, the sd. Joseph being Colo, of the sd. Battalion. 
 
 William Harrison is recommd. to the Governor as a proper 
 person to serve as Lieut. Colo, of sd. Battalion in the sd. of 
 the sd. Joseph Beeler, the sd. William being Majr. ofsd. Batta. 
 
 George Vallandingham is recomd. as Colo, of the 2 nd ' Bat- 
 talion in the stead of Isaac Cox who hathres'd. the said George 
 being Lut. Colo, of sd. Battalion. 
 
 Gabriel Cox is appointed Lieut. Colo, of the 2 na - Battalion 
 he being Maj. Thereof. 
 
 Ordered that Colo. Joseph Beeler furnish the next Court 
 with a List, Seniority and rank of the Caps, of the Militia of 
 the first Battalion This County in order to Enable the Court to 
 proceed to the choice of majors of the Melitia. and Colo. 
 Vallandingham of the second Battalions. 
 
 Ordered that Benjaman Kuykendal be appointed to contract 
 with some person to bring up two Hundred Bushels of Salt 
 which now lies at Alexandria in the house of Joseph Watson, 
 belonging to the County, and that John Cannon assign an 
 Order relating thereto that he has in his hands to the sd. Ben- 
 jaman Kirkendall. 
 1 This was the John Campbell, one of the gentlemen justices of the court. 
 
398 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned Til Court in Course. , 
 
 John Canon. 
 
 (242) At a Called Court held the 18th day of January 1780 for the 
 Examination of David Lindsey and Thomas Pearcesal who 
 stands charged with Perjury. 
 
 Present Edward Ward William Goe Benjaman Frye Joseph 
 Beckett John Cannon, Joshua Wright Gent. Justices. 
 
 The Prisoners being set to the Bar pleads not Guilty, but 
 they refusing to go through the Examination before the Ex- 
 amining Court, offered to Enter into Recognizance to ap- 
 pear before the next Genl. Court, Ordered that they Enter 
 into recognizance accordingly. Whereupon the said David 
 Lindsey with Henry Kersey & Tobias Mattocks his Securitys 
 enter into recognize as aforesd, the sd. David held in L 1000 
 and his Secur'y. in L 500 Each, and the said Henry Kearsey 
 enters securities for the personal appearance of the said Thomas 
 as aforesaid held in L 1000. John Springer with Isaac Sprin- 
 ger his Surety enter into recognizance for the Personal appear- 
 ance of the sd. John at the next Gen. Ct. to Testify agt. the 
 sd. David & Thomas. 
 
 John Springer Surety for Enoch Springer as afsd. held as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 Joseph Ross with John Springer his Security held as afsd. 
 
 Edwd. Ward. 
 
 (243) At a Court held for Yohogania County January 24th 1780. 
 Present Edward Ward John Cannon Benj. Kuykendall, 
 
 Joshua Wright Gent. Justices. 
 
 Ward v Broadhead. CO. 
 
 Administn. of the Estate of Potter Smith dec. is granted to 
 William Brown he having complied with the Law. 
 
 John Munn, John Hopkins, John Collings & Levingston 
 Thomas appointed Appraisers to sd. Estate. 
 
 Ordered that Isaac Justin, John Chamberlain William Bruce 
 & W m - May hall be allowed 175 lb of Tob'o. for 7 days attend- 
 ance as a Guard on a prisoner, 84 dollars Each for finding their 
 own provisions, and that the Sheriff pay the same. 
 
 Ordered that Joseph Perkerson be sommoned to Next Court 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania Countv. 399 
 
 to Shew Cause why he detains James Drenning as a Servant 
 who alleges he is a free person. 
 
 George Heart v Jacob Trowbough, the plaintiff failing to 
 appear the Defd. prays not suit for want of security for Costs, 
 which is accordingly granted. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned until Court in Course. 
 
 Edwd. Ward. 
 
 (244) At a Court held for Yohogania County February the 28th, 
 1780. 
 
 (Present) John Cannon Benjaman Kuykendall Joshua Wright 
 Samuel Newell Gentl. Justices. 
 
 Samuel McKay heir of AEneas McKay deceased proved to 
 the satisfaction of this Court that his said Father was a Depy. 
 Commissary under Genl. Commissary Leake in the Service of 
 the King of Great Britain in the years 1771 and 1772, and that 
 the said McKey has been a residenter in this State, and has 
 never recv'd. any warrants for Lands under the sd. King's 
 Proclamation of 1763, and Ord. to be Certified. 
 
 At the request of Ann Hammon Ordered that her son Isaac 
 Hammon be bound to Isaac McMichael until he arrive at the 
 age of 21 years being now 5 years of age, and that the sd. Mc- 
 Michl. teach him to read wright & cipher as far as the rule of 
 three, also trade and Mystery of Husbandry and give him one 
 new suit of Cloth, a Bible, Grubing how and ax, at the expira- 
 tion of sd Term. 
 
 Samuel Semple proved to the satisfaction of the Court that 
 he served as a Captain in a Corps of rangers in the Pennsy'a. 
 Service in the Last, and is Intitled under the Kings Proclama- 
 tion of 1763. 
 
 Walker v McMahen. Order for Dedemus to Take Deppo- 
 sitions. 
 
 John Ormsby proved to the satisfaction of the Court that he 
 served as Commissary in the Service of the Crown of Great 
 Britain in the years 1758 & 1759 & 60, and that he has never 
 obtained any warrant for lands under the sd. Kings Proclama- 
 tion of 1763. 
 
 Philip Pendleton Asse. of John Ormsby prov'd. as afsd. 
 that the said John Ormsby serv'd. as Paymaster in the service 
 afsd. 
 
400 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 On the application of Catherine Doblin who is afflicted with 
 convulsive fits which render her Incapable of Procuring her 
 Subsistence, Ordered that Richd. McMahen agree with some 
 person to provide . her with Necessary Subsistence untill the 
 Next Court. 
 
 Andrew Heath Sworn Deputy Clerk. 
 (245) George McCarmick proved to the satisfaction of the Court 
 that he served as an Ensign in a Company of rangers in the 
 Virg'a. Service in 1764 and that he has never rec'd any pre- 
 miums for sd. Service under the Procl. of 1763. 
 
 Thomas Smallman Gent, one of the Justices of the peace for 
 this County, Proved to the satisfaction of the Court, that he 
 was an Ensign Penna. redgment in the year 1756, and that he 
 never receiv'd. any warrant or other Bennifeet under the Kings 
 Proclamation of 1763. 
 
 Same as Lieut, in the first Penna. Redgmt. in 1756. 
 
 Same as Lieut, of Cavalry in the year 1757. 
 
 George Roots & Charls Wier Thruston, asse of sd. Small- 
 man, pro'd. as Capt. in the first Pen'a. Redgmt. in the year 
 1760. 
 
 Same as Asse. of the same. Indian Agent at fort Charters 
 in the year 1761 . 
 
 Wm. McCarmick as Lieut, in a Virginia ranging Compy. in 
 the year 1764. 
 
 Judy v Boyce. James Grayham SI. B. & Impl. 
 
 Vannatree v Grimes. W m - Boyce. Spl. B. & Iml. 
 
 Wm. Tully and Charles Records, his Sec'y, being bound 
 in Recgn. and failing to appear Ordered to be prosecuted. 
 
 Thomas Smallman, John Cannon, George Vallandingham 
 Gent, are recommended to the govern, to appoint one as 
 Sheriff the Ensuing year. 
 
 Bargain & Sale. Dorsey Pentecost to John Hombler. ackd. 
 & O. R. 
 
 Ordered that ferry keeps on the Monongahela River be 
 allowed three dollars for ferrying a man & Horse. 
 
 Moore v Reddeck. Disctd. plaintiff. 
 
 Joseph Perkerson being Summoned to shew cause why he 
 detains James Denning as a Servant appeared and after hearing 
 the allegations of the parties the Court are of Opinion that the 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 401 
 
 sd Drenning is a free person and is hereby Discharged from 
 any farther Service. 
 (246) Alexander Fowler proved to the satisfaction of the Court 
 that he serv'd. as Lieut, in the 74 th1 Redgmt. in the British 
 Service in America in the Last War, and contd. therein to the 
 end of sd. War, and that he never Reed, any Benefiet under 
 the Kings procl. of 1763. 
 
 Alexd. Fowler assee. of Leut. George Brock proved as 
 aforesd. 
 
 Alexd. Fowler Asse. of Leut. Anguish McNeill, p'd. as afsd. 
 
 Alexd. Fowler Assine of Leut. Henry Dolway. Prov'd. as 
 afsd. 
 
 Alexd. Fowler, Asse. of Leut. Butler Stubbs. Provd. as 
 afsd. r 
 
 John Gibson Gent, one of the Justices of the peace fqr jMs 
 County prov'd. to the Satisfaction of the Court that he s'd. as 
 a Deputy Commissr. in the Service of/Great Brittain at Fort 
 Pitt in the year 1760, and that he ha% Never ree'd. any Bene- 
 fiet under the kings procl. of 1763^ 
 
 Bargain and Sale James Swolevan to Robert Campbell, 
 ackd. O. R. 
 
 James Colvin prov'd to the satisfaction of the Court that he 
 ' serv'd. as Ensign in a Company of Volunteers in the Virga. 
 Service, in the year 1764, and that he never reed, any Bene- 
 fiet under the kings procl. of 1763. 
 
 Oliver Miller Gent, being bound in recognizance appeared 
 in Court, and after hearing the Evidences are of Oppinion 
 that the sd. Miller be discharge from his recogn. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned untill Court in Course. 
 
 Benja. Kuykendall. 
 
 At a Court held for Yohogania County March the 27th, 1780. 
 
 Present, Wm. Crawford, Joseph Beeler Edwd. Ward, Jos. 
 Wright, Thos. Smallman Geo. Valandigham, Gentlemen 
 Justices. 
 (247) On Motion Admn. is granted to Catherine Hull up. the 
 Estate of Francis Hull dee'd. 
 
 Ordered that James Enis, James Shane, W'"- Ward & W m 
 Jenkins or any three of them being first sworn do appraise the 
 same. 
 
402 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that she enter into Bond & security for the due 
 administration thereof in a bond for thirty thousand pounds, 
 which was entered into accordingly. 
 
 Present Richd. Yeates. 
 
 On the motion of Tobias Woods ordered that the Admrn. 
 Bond of John Stephenson Admr. of Jeremiah Woods be put in 
 Suit. 
 
 On Motion Admn. is granted Lewis Williams of the Estate 
 of Wm. Wms. dec'd. & that he enter into bond with Security 
 for the sum of ten thousand pounds, & that W m ' Dunn, Joseph 
 Clem Thos. Mercer & Andw. Baker or any three first sworn do 
 appraise the same. 
 
 Ordered that Jno. Cannon & Richd. Yeates Gentlemen do 
 examine & settle the administrators acct. of the estate of Peter 
 Smith deed. 
 
 W m - Parkerson v Benj. Tomlinson. Thos. Edgington Spl. 
 Bail. 
 
 Ordered that Joseph Cox be bound in the sum of ten 
 thousand pounds with two securities to appear at the next 
 Grand Jury Court to answer for stab'g. Jno. Elliott, himself 
 in the sum of ten thousand pounds & the securities in the 
 sum of five thousand each & that he Cox be of good behaviour 
 in the meantime. 
 
 Ordered that Jno. Elliott be recognized to appear at the 
 next Grand Jury Ct. to give evidence v Joseph Cox, in the 
 sum of five thousand pounds w'ch is done accordingly &c. 
 
 Joseph Cox entered into Recognizance in the sum of ten 
 thousand pounds & Jas. Innis & Hugh Scott his securities in 
 C248) the sum of five thousand pounds each, that the sd. Cox appear 
 at the next Grand Jury Court to answer the Complain for 
 stabing Jno. Elliott, &: that he be of good behavior in the 
 meantime. 
 
 Ordered that it be certified that Edwd. Ward Gentleman 
 Acted as a Captn. in the 1 s1 Pensylv. Battalian in the years 57 
 &*58, & as a Lieuten. 56 & 57 & as an indian agent in Service 
 of the Crown in the years 60. 61. 62 & that he has had no satis- 
 faction for the same from the K. of G. B. proclamation of 63. 
 
 Same that Andw. Vaughan served in the Virga Rejiments in 
 the year 55 as a sirgeant & as above. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 403 
 
 Same Andw. Rote served at the same time as a private &c. 
 
 Ordered that Thos. Miller be appointed a Constable in the 
 room of W m - Benwich for 1780. 
 
 Ordered that the Court adjourn untill tomorrow morning 10 
 oClock. 
 
 W. Crawford. 
 
 At a Court Continued & held for the County of Yohogania 
 March 28th, 1780. 
 
 Present Edwd. Ward William Goe Thos. Smallman Richd. 
 Yeates, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 (249) Ordered that Andrew Heth do agree by Auction to the 
 lowest bidder with some person to repair the Court house and 
 Jail likewise to errect a Pillory & Stocks as soon as possibly 
 may be. 
 
 Bazil Brown v Robt. Hamilton, Thos. Hamilton Spl. bail 
 & impl. 
 
 Ordered that Saml Wells be summoned to appear before the 
 next Court to answer the Petition of Ann Wells his wife & 
 that attachment Issue that he give security to appear & abide 
 the order of Court & that he be of the peace towarrj the sd 
 Ann and all other good subjects of this Commonwealth. 
 
 Upon the Complaint of James ODonald that Andrew Dun 
 serjt. and John Shey soldier did grossly beat abuse & other- 
 wise ill treat him the sd ODonald. Ordered that Col'o. Broad- 
 head be requested to have the sd Soldiers delivered to the Civill 
 Authority to be dealt with according to Law. 
 
 License granted to John Collins to keep a Tavern he com- 
 plying with the law. 
 
 Ordered that Capt. Thomas Freeman be recommended to the 
 Governour as a Majr. in the first Yohogania Battalion in the 
 Room of Majr. W m - Harrison promoted. 
 
 Ordered that Captn. Matthew Richie be recommended to 
 the Governour to serve as Majr in the 2 d battalion of Yohogania 
 County in the Room of Majr Gabl. Cox promoted. 
 
 Ordered that Hezekiah M c Gruder be rec'd. as Captn in the 
 1st Batt'an. in the room of Captn. Freeman promoted. 
 
 (250) Ordered that George Redman be recommended as a Captn 
 in the 2d Battalian in the room of Captn Philip Ross resigned. 
 
404 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Bazil Brown v Thos. Hamilton, Joseph Parkison Spl. Bail 
 & imp. 
 
 Ordered that John Johnson be Recommended Capt. in the 
 room of Ct. John Crow. 
 
 Ordered that Andrew Dye be recommended first Lut. in the 
 room of Elija Hart. 
 
 Ordered that Uriah Johnson be recommended 2d Lieut in 
 the room of Wm. Crow. 
 
 Ordered that Samuel Devore be recommended as Ensgn in 
 the room of John Johnson prom'td. 
 
 Jas. McClellin v Thos. Cummins, Gabriel Cox Spl. Bail & imp 
 
 Bawline v Norris. dismd. 
 
 On the Motion of James Richason that the Shf had attachd 
 sundry goods in the hand of Garnishees upon the Supposition 
 they were W m ' Lynn's, Ordered that the sd Goods be released. 
 
 Ordered that Jacob Bousman be allowed six dollars ferriage 
 for a man and horse, three for each. 
 
 Ordered that all the Ferry keepers of this County, Jacob 
 Bousman excepted, do receive four dollars ferriage for one man 
 and one horse & no more. 
 
 Ordered that Peter Ellrod be allowed Sixty doll rs - pr. week 
 for two months for boarding & Lodg Catherin Devilin. 
 (251) W m - Christy proved his title to Military Service as ensign in 
 the first Pensylv. Regement. &c &c. 1760. 
 
 W m - Evans proved his title to military service as Artificer 
 by warrant from the year 58 to 63 &c. 
 
 Hawkins v Clerk discontd. 
 
 Colwell v Lynn same. 
 
 Ordered that Nathaniel Brown be allowed Eighty pounds for 
 maintaining Christopher Deklin four months past. 
 
 Brawdy v Beaver peremtory rule to try at next Court. 
 
 Jno. McClure proved his title to Military Service as an En- 
 sign in the first Pennsylv. Regiment in the year 1760 & never 
 has sold the same &c. 
 
 Whiteside v Girty. Then came a Jury towit, Gabl Cox Jno 
 Johnson Jos. Wright, Jno Wall, Saml Devoir Stephen Hall, 
 Elija Rittenhouse W'"' Crow, Andw. Dye, Henry Newkirk, 
 James Spears, Andw. Pearce. Verdict for plf. 170 Damages 
 & Judgmt. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 405 
 
 Dedimus to take the deposition of Thos. Talbott to perpetuate 
 his Testimony respecting a piece of Land on which Matthew- 
 Ritchie now lives. 
 
 Johnson v Springer W. I. 
 
 Day v Stanberry. Then came a Jury towit Zadock Wright, 
 Jas. Brice, Robt. Johnson, Thos. Applegate, Tobias Mattocks, 
 Tobias Deckart, Jas. Ferguson, W m - Redick, Sampson Beavers, 
 John Munn Antony Dunlavy Thos. Hambleton, find for the 
 Pit. L 50 dam. & Judgmt. 
 
 (252) James Stevenson proved his Service as a Lieuten. in a rang- 
 ing Compy &c. 74. 
 
 Wm. Harrison proved he Servd. as a Lieutnt. in the year 74 
 in a ranging Company &c. 
 
 Jno. Stephenson served as a Captn. in a Ranging Company 
 in 74. 
 
 John Hinkston served as a Lieutn. in a Ranging Company 
 in 74 &c. 
 
 Marcus Stevenson served as an Ensign in a Ranging Com- 
 pany in 74 &c. 
 
 William Crawford proved he served as a Lieut, of Light 
 Horse in 1758 &c. 
 
 William Crawford proved his Services as a Majr of Rangers 
 1774 &c. 
 
 Administration granted to W m - Park of the estate of James 
 Park deed, he giving Security according to Law. 
 
 Joseph Vance Henry Graham, Thos. Stoms William Van- 
 usan appointed to appraise the same being first sworn. 
 
 Ordered that Geog. Scott Orphant be bound to David Gaut 
 to learn the art of Tanning trade &c. 
 
 Ordered that John Scott Orphant be Bound to John Cannon 
 Gent. 
 
 George Valandigham Proved to the satisfaction of the 
 Court that he Served as Lieut, under L. Dunmore 1774. 
 
 John Robinson as Capt. same. 
 
 (253) Thos. Warrin proved that he served as Insign under Capt. 
 Cresop, in the year 1774. 
 
 John Lemon v Tobias Mattocks. John McComis Sp. Bl. 
 & Impl. 
 
 Joseph Becket proved that he served as Lieut, in the year 
 1772 under Lord Dunmore. 
 
406 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 John James Wood, same. 
 
 Ordered that John Wright be returned as Constable in David 
 Andrews District in the room of Tobias Mattocks. 
 
 Ordered that Gersham Hull be appointed Constable in Capt. 
 Thos. Bays district. 
 
 Zadock Wright proved to the satisfaction of the Court that 
 he served as Lieut, under Ld. Dunmore 74. 
 
 The same as Serjt. in a Rangin Company in 64. 
 
 George Berry the sam. under Ld. Dunmore in 74. 
 
 Tater Elrod vs Elijah Hart. Atta. Isued. 
 
 Fantlyroy Seal vs Aquilla Whittaker. Atta. Isued. 
 
 Ordered that Isaac Israelos be appointed Overseer of half the 
 road Leading from Pentecost's Mill to Cattfish Camp, in the 
 room of Jno. McDonel. 
 
 Ordered that Richd. Johnson be appointed Overseer of the 
 road from Devoirs Ferry to where the road Lead'g to the new 
 St.ore strikes out of Fromans road & that the Tithables within 
 three miles on each side work thereon. 
 
 Ordered the Court be adj'd. Till Tomorrow 8 oClock. 
 
 William Goe. 
 
 At a Court held for Yohogania County March 29, 1780. 
 
 Present Edward Ward Thos. Smallman John McDonald 
 Joseph Bealor Joshua Wright. 
 
 Crow v Dye. Then came a Jury towit, John Johnson John 
 Robertson James Machen John Dean Thos. Spencer David 
 Day Henry Newkirk Stephen Hall Samuel Devore Elija Rit- 
 enhouse David Williams, James Peirce. Vdt. for Plantf & 
 Judgt. 
 (254) Ordered that the Atty do Indict Gersham Hull for assaulting 
 John McDonald. 
 
 Ordered that Gersham Hull be recognized to appear at the 
 next Grand Jury Court to ansr. the Complaint of Jno. Mc- 
 Donald, himself in the sum of five thousand pounds with two 
 Securities of in two thousand five hundred each, Hugh Brady 
 & Tobias Mattocks undertook for the sd Hull. 
 
 Ordered that Andrew Heth do furnish the Court with fire & 
 water & make an acct. of the same. 
 
 Ward v Robertson, order that dedim's. Isue for either Party. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 407 
 
 Connel v Wells, then came a Jury towit, Stephin Ashby, 
 Andw. Dye, W m - Crow, Joseph Warner, Andw. Pierce, Robt. 
 Creghead, Mos 8, Hollyday, Hugh Brady Tobias Mattocks John 
 McComis, Girsham Hull Danl. Apelgate. Verdt. for Plaintiff 
 L 5000 & Judgment. 
 
 On Motion George Roots, Administn. is granted him on the 
 estate of John Gabrial Jones deceased. Thos. Smallman, 
 Robt. Campbell, Joseph Skelton, Samuel Sampel Appraisers of 
 the same. 
 
 On motion Andw. Heth Administn. is granted him on the 
 estate of Patrick M°Ellroy deceased. John Robertson, Gabl. 
 Cox, Samuel Newil, Benjn. Keykindall, apprs. of the estate. 
 
 Braudy v Beever. then came a Jury towitt, John Johnson, 
 John Robertson, James Spear, David Day, Henry Newkirk, 
 Andw. Dye, Stephen Hall, Saml Devore, Elija Rittenhouse, 
 Thos. Spencer, Joseph Warner, Jacheriah Connal. Verdt. for 
 Plantff. & Damage L 2000. 
 
 Margaret Weever 1 2 days attendance on the above suit. 
 
 Katherin Unsetler 6 days, same. 
 
 John McComis 2 days, same. 
 
 Ward v Broadhead. N. Guilty with leave to put in what 
 Plea he pleases. 
 (255) Andw. Dye v John Allintharp. Nt. Guilty & Join'd. 
 
 Ordered that Andw. Heth have the uper story of the Goal 
 put into order for a Jury room. 
 
 James Spear v John Backingrig. 
 
 Ordered that a Ded'ms. Isue to take the depositn of Samuel 
 
 Mc Adams & wife for Plantiff. 
 
 Richd. McMahen v Arnold Evins. Non assum'st join'd. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff summon a Grand Jury to May Court. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriffs settle their accounts at the May 
 Court. 
 
 Ordered that a Dedimus Isue to take the deposition of 
 Martin Shundon in a suit between John McDonald & Gersham 
 Hull. 
 
 Ordered that Court be adjurnd till Court in Course. 
 
 Ed wd. Ward. 
 
 At a Court held for Yohogania County April 24th 1780. 
 
408 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Present Edward Ward, Joshua Wright William Harrison, 
 Samuel Newil Joseph Beeler. 
 
 Admn. is granted to Jacob Beason of the Estate of Geo. 
 Greaves he havg entd into Bond &c. 
 
 Ordered that Phil. Shute, Henry Beason, Jno. Collins, and 
 Wm. Campbell or any three do appraise the sd Estate. 
 
 Ord'd. that Benja. Die be summon' d. to appear at the next 
 Court to show cause why John Frazer an Orphan should not be 
 taken from him 
 
 ( Pres'- Jos. Beeler, Gent) 
 
 Ordered that the Sherif do summon twenty four freeholders 
 to attend as a Grand Jury against May Court. 
 
 'rv, D T*° C H I P rocm ced their Commissions as Deputy 
 
 1 hos Bond V Sufv & took the oath Accordingly. 
 
 David Steel ) J 
 (256) Ordered that Jacob Lancaster Orphan four years old be 
 Bound apprentice to David McLean to Learn the Mistery of 
 farming, to learn him to read write & Cipher as far as the 
 Rule of three, two suits of Cloathing, sufficient shirts stock- 
 ings & shoes or equivalent, ax Grubing hoe wedges. 
 
 Joseph Becket came into Court. 
 
 David Rice proved to the satisfaction of the Court that he 
 served as a private in a Ranging Compa. commanded by Capt.- 
 Evan Shelby raised in Maryld. & in the Service of the Crown, 
 in the year 1759 and that he was at the time of his enlistmt. 
 an inhabt't of Virga. 
 
 Same, that he served as Pack hors drive in the year 1764 in 
 the State of Virginia, & received No satisfaction for the same. 
 
 Joseph Bealor sworn Col. of Militia. Commission read. 
 
 Gabriel Cox sworn Lieut. Col. of Militia. Commission 
 Read. 
 
 Inventory of the Estate with the settlement of Potter Smith 
 returned. Ord. for R. 
 
 Ann Rolerson proved that John Robins was the father of a 
 base born child begoten on her Body. Ordered that the sd 
 Robins give Security for the maintenance of sd child. 
 Whereupon the sd Robins with John Lemon his Security come 
 into Court & entered into Recognizance of two Thousand 
 pounds each &c. for the sufficient maintainence of sd. Child, 
 so as to Indemnify the Parrish. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 409 
 
 William Mitchell v John Bowlie. Disctd. plaintiff. 
 Joshua Wright v Sampson Beever, Disctd. plantiff. 
 Rolison v Robins. David Steel S. B. 
 James ODonald v John & Isaac Williams. Disctd. Plff. 
 James Sterit v Skinner Hutson. Andw. Dye. S. B. 
 Peter Ellrod v Elija Hart. Atta Judgt & W. E. 
 Benjaman Wells v Samuel Wells. Attmt. Judmt. & O. Sale. 
 
 (257) License is granted John Downer to keep an Ordinary at his 
 House in Beeson's Town The ensuing year he having Com- 
 plyed with the Law. 
 
 Van Swearengen proved to the Court that he servd. as a 
 subaltron officer in the Last war in a corps raised in the Vir- 
 ginia Service, and continued therein until regular discharged, 
 and that he never reed, any Satisfaction or advantage under the 
 king of Great Britains Procl. of 1763. 
 
 Thomas Gist proved to the satisfaction of the Ct. that he served 
 as a Cadet in the year 1757, and an Ensj'gn in the year 1758, 
 and a Lieut, in the year 1760 in a redgmt. raise in the Vir- 
 ginia Service and employed in the Last war, and continued 
 therein until regularly disch'd., and in the year 1762 he again 
 served as a Lieut, in another Regmt. raised and Imployed as 
 afsd. and contd. therein until regularly discharged, and that he 
 never reed, any satisfaction or advantage under the king's proc- 
 lamation of 1763, except a warrant from Lord Dunmore for 
 two thousand acres of land, and has ever since continued an 
 Inhabitant of this State. 
 
 Admn. of the Estate of Philip Heath is granted to William 
 Richman he having complid with the Law. 
 
 John Beal James Beal William Beal and Phil. Ross aptd 
 appraisers. 
 
 Jacob Bowsman v John Ormsby. Injunction to stay waste. 
 
 Edwd. Ward v Daniel Broadhead. C. O. 
 
 Ed. Ward v Jno. Robertson. Bill & Time. 
 
 Ed. Ward v Dl. Broadhead. Plea Joind. 
 
 Indenture Mary Willson Samuel Semple proved ordered to 
 be recorded. 
 
 (258) Benjamin Keykindall Sworn Sheriff for one month. 
 Ordered that Court be adjourned until Court in Course. 
 
 Edwd. Ward. 
 
410 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 At a Court held for Yohogania County May 22, 1780. 
 
 Present Edward Ward, Oliver Miller Th> mas Freeman 
 1 Gent. Just's. 
 
 Colo. Joseph Beeler provd. that he served as a wagon Mas- 
 ter from the State of Virginia in the late war between Great 
 Britain and france and that he Contd. therein until regularly 
 dischd. O. to be Certd. 
 
 Appraismt. and Sale of the Estate of Saml. Griffith deed, 
 retd. Or. R. 
 
 Gabl. Green Sworn Depy. Survey. Com. Read. 
 
 W m - Colvin appd. Constable in the place of Jacob Knap. 
 
 Thomas Patterson Assinee of Thomas Eaby produced a 
 Disch'd signed Adam Steven Liet. Colo, of the first Virginia 
 Redgmt, for the service of the sd Thomas Eaby as Artificer 
 [?] for the Time of his Inlistment in the late war between 
 Great Britain & France, which Ordered to be Certified. 
 (259) Joseph Beeler Jun. Sworn Lieut, of Militia. Com. Read. 
 
 Indenture Elizabeth Hazel ton to Christopher Beeler prov'd. 
 by Joseph Beeler Sen. and Joseph Beeler Jun. two of the sub- 
 scribing witnesses. { O. R. 
 
 Present Joseph Beeler Gent. 
 
 Abst. Edwd. Ward Gent. 
 
 David Duncan is appointed Gardian to John Farree Heir of 
 Frederick deceasd. he having complied with the Law. 
 
 George Vallandingham Gent. Prest. 
 
 Edwd. Ward, Gent. Present. 
 
 Ordered that Thomas Fortner, And Vinson Fortner be 
 bound to John Peters until they arrive to the age of twenty one, 
 he learning them the Coopers Trade art and Mistery, and at 
 the end afsd. Term give them the usual Freedom dues. 
 
 Deed of Surrender Jacob Knapp to William Chipley. Ackd. 
 O. R. 
 
 The Last Will and Testimenl of Stephen Richards deceas'd 
 proved by the oaths of Charles Morgan and Samuel Park the 
 two Subscribing Witnesses. O. R. 
 
 Ordered that Thomas Freeman and William Goe Gent settle 
 with the Administratrix of the Estate of Saml. Griffith deceasd. 
 and make return to the next Court. 
 
 Admn. of the Estate of Joseph Fortner deceas'd. is granted 
 to John Peters he having complied with the Law. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 411 
 
 Return of a Road from the new Store on Monongahala to the 
 road Leading from Guests fort to Devores Ferry. Ordered to 
 be confirm' d. 
 
 James Hodge Sworn Ensign. Commission Read. 
 
 (260) Then came a grand Inquest for the body of this County to- 
 wit : John Wall, Stephen Hall, Walter Wall, Robert Craig- 
 head, Moses Holliday, James Sparks, John Robertson, Mabary 
 Evins, John Taylor, Andrew Nigh, Stephen Richards, Henry 
 Sawings, Samuel Devoir, Andrew Dye, John Johnston, who 
 were Sworn, reed, their Charge and retired to their Chamber. 
 
 Thomas Smallman Gent. Sworn Sheriff. Commission Read. 
 
 Jeremiah Wright is recom'd. as Liut. of Militia in the stead 
 of David Cox who has removed out of the County. 
 
 William McCarmick. recom'd. as Capt. in the stead of John 
 Minter who has resigned. 
 
 Samuel Wilson recom'd. as Liut. in the stead of the said 
 McCarmick, and William McKee ensign in the stead of the 
 said Wilson. 
 
 Ordered that a former order of this Court'recom'ding Heze- 
 kiah McGruder as Capt. of Militia in the stead of Capt. Free- 
 man be set aside, and that Thomas Prother be recom'd. in the 
 stead of the said Thomas Freeman. 
 
 Richd. Noble is recom'd. as Liut. in the stead of Thomas 
 Prother, and Thomas Brown Jun. be recom'd. as Ensign. 
 Rich'd. Beall Capt. in the stead of Capt. Joseph Ford who is 
 removed, and Robert McGlaughlin, Liut. 
 
 Ordered that John Frazeer Orphan of John Frazier, deed, at 
 the request of his mother be bound to James Wilson until he 
 arrives to the age of twenty one years of age, he being at this 
 time ten years old, and learn the sd John Orphan the Trade 
 art and Mistery of a wheel wright and Teach or cause to be 
 taught to read and Wright the English Language and to Cypher 
 as far as the rule of three, and at the end of said Term give 
 him two Suits of Cloathes one of which is to be New. 
 
 (261) Ordered that Court be adjourned until tomorrow morning 9 
 oClock. Edwd. Ward. 
 
 Court met according to adjournment May 23*- 1780. 
 Present Edward Ward Joseph Beeler George Vallandingham 
 Samuel Newell William Harrison, Thos. Freeman. 
 
412 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 issues. 
 Wherry v White contd. 
 Brounles v Douglas, do. 
 Shilling v Newkirk. do. 
 Do. Do. Do. 
 
 same v Fortney Do. 
 Fullum v Johnson. Do 
 Bouseman v McGoldrick do. 
 Pentecost v Briscoe do. 
 Shilling v Taylor do 
 Hawkins vs Clarke do 
 same v Kuykendall do 
 Ward vs Thorn do 
 Sample v McKensie do 
 Beall v Finn do 
 same v McMahan do 
 Neville v Guest do. 
 Cresop v Swearengen do 
 Campbell v Beall. do 
 (262) Fullum v Johnson contd. 
 Same v Same contd. 
 Same v McComish contd. 
 Andrew v Johnson do 
 Same v Same do 
 Heth v Bruce do 
 Christie v Heth do 
 Same v Same do 
 Caldwell v Fry do 
 Boley v Springer do 
 Same v Same do 
 Ward v Wells do 
 Vance v Williams do 
 Riggle v Die do 
 Morroson v Vanater do 
 Bradley v Boly do 
 Curry v Wells do 
 Waller vs Springer do 
 Pierce v Evans do 
 Hogland v Laughlin do 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 413 
 
 Cox v Betsman do 
 Vanatre v Parkinson do 
 Dawson v Kirkpatrick do 
 Froman v Boyce do 
 Crooks v Hoagland ( do 
 Pierce v Evans do 
 Tyger v Boley do 
 Boyce vs Froman do 
 Caldwell v Hoagland do 
 Wetzell v McKelwaine do 
 Caldwell v Corn do 
 Spears v M°Mahan do 
 Day v Deane Do. 
 Beler v Inks do 
 Wright v Hart do. 
 Boyce v P'roman contd 
 Mooney v Ricord do 
 Boyce v Froman do 
 Same v Same do 
 Same v Same do 
 Boling v Nprris do 
 Miller v Humble discontd. 
 Shilling v Newkirk contd 
 Crow v Pierce do 
 Crow v Dye Do. 
 
 Presentments at issue. 
 State vs 
 
 Richard McMahan discharged 
 defendt. paying Costs. 
 vs W m - Christy, do 
 vs Jno. McClellan do. 
 v — Parsons do. 
 vs Agnes Irwin do 
 vs Geo. Lintenberger do. 
 
 Common Orders. 
 Wilson Exrs. v Lynch &c. W. E. 
 Reddick v Ross W E. 
 
414 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Saml. Bruer & ux v Tacey W. E. 
 Dye v Tharp W E. 
 Henderson v Evans W E. 
 Steel v Hamilton W E. 
 Burns v Louderback W. E. 
 Barrickman v Harry W E 
 Same v Wood W. E. 
 Lindsey v Hamilton W E 
 Pierce v Evans W. E. 
 (263) Heth v Stokes W E 
 
 Guest v Cornwall W E. 
 Forrester v Murphy W E. 
 Ward v Clarke W E. 
 Boley v Orr W E. 
 Johnson v Springer W E. 
 Cooke v McCastlin W E. 
 Cresops, Exrs. v Campbell W E. 
 Johnson v Kates W E. 
 Pentecost v Jones W E. 
 Fossett v Hall W E. 
 Lynch v Hall W E. 
 
 Writs Enq'y. 
 Hawkins v Wheat contd 
 
 Mcllroy v Templin abated by plaintiffs death. 
 Same v Same Same Order. 
 Roleson v Lowry contd. 
 Fry v Tilton contd 
 White, Jun. v Johnson do. 
 Fry v Tilton do 
 Swigart v Murphy do 
 Brashiers Admr. v Brashier Do. 
 Whitesides v Girty do 
 Froman v Dean discontd 
 Elliott v Mcintosh contd 
 Same v Same do. 
 Smallman v Such do. 
 Day v Hansberry do 
 Richards v Boley do. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 415 
 
 Gist v Waller do 
 Same v Hall do 
 Same v Boyles do 
 Beeler v Walker do 
 Tigart v Chamberlain contd 
 Same v Same do 
 McKee v Davison Do 
 Same v Same do 
 Fossett v Meeks do 
 Ells v Roach do 
 Kidd v McConnell do 
 Lynch v Jones do 
 Same v Berwick do 
 Drenning v Bay do 
 Braden v Elliott et als. do. 
 McElry v McMahan do 
 Ferguson v Heath do 
 Protsman v Hill do 
 Norris v Vineyard & ux do 
 Bentley v Eglin do 
 Clarke v Boley do 
 Hoffman v Leatherman do 
 Munn v Crawford do 
 McAllister v Corn do 
 McGlaughlin v Wood do 
 Newill v Robison Do 
 Nevill v Wiseman Do. 
 Neville v Holliday Do. 
 Wells v Quick Do. 
 Grubbs v Carter Do. 
 Taber v Applegate 
 
 Imparlances. 
 Spears v Beckett Admr. N. Guilty. 
 Kersey v Springer N. Guilty 
 Henderson v Douglas N. Guilty 
 Stocker v Aicklen N. Guilty 
 Boley v Manning Do. 
 Same v Same Do. 
 
416 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Day.v Dean Do. 
 McCulloch v Taylor do. 
 Kinkaid v Henderson do. 
 Decker v Jacob contd 
 Kuykendall v Colvin N. Guilty. 
 (264) Thompson v Hopkins, paymt & sett off. 
 Beeler v Scott, Infancy. 
 Nolls v Quick N. Guilty 
 Sills v Burns, Do. 
 Spivy v Rickets, do. 
 Kinkead v Henderson, do. 
 same v same, do. 
 Spears v Jones, do. 
 Berry v Crawford, contd. 
 Bousman v Ormsby. N. Guilty &c. 
 Keykendall v Bogard, Non Assumpsit. Sp. Bail. 
 
 Plurias Capias. 
 
 Stewart v Purdie A P. Capias. 
 
 Miller v Parkison do. 
 
 Dun v Stewart, do. 
 
 Johnson v Evans, do. 
 
 Dye v Brent, do. 
 
 Steel v Stevens, Do. 
 
 Beavers v Mahal, do. 
 
 same v Miller, et als. do. 
 
 Chambers v Evalt Co 
 
 Chambers. Inft. v. Evalt C O. 
 
 Ward v Broadhead W. E. 
 
 Kuykendal v Decker, Imparlance. 
 
 Sheaff v Downer do. 
 
 Clarke v Clarke C O. 
 
 same v same C O. 
 
 same v Quinn P C. 
 
 Conell v Poe & others Exors. P. C. 
 
 Riddell v Goard P C. 
 
 Logan v Miller P C. 
 
 Mathews v McLean P C. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 417 
 
 Boling v Wells, P C 
 
 Workman, Assee. v Saltsman P C. 
 
 Ros&v-Manning CO. 
 
 Miner v Blazier &c P C. 
 
 (265) Thomas Freeman proved to the Court That he served as 
 Dept. Comissy in the Last war between Great Britian & 
 France & was regularly discharged. O. to be Certified. 
 
 David Vance being bound in Recogn. being called came 
 into Court which ordered to be discontd, also the witness Re- 
 cogn. discd. said Vance giving security for his good behaviour 
 for one year and one day in the sum of ten thousand Pounds 
 with one Security in the like Sum whereon the sd. Vance with 
 Moses Holladay his Security came into Court & entered into 
 Recg. accordingly. 
 
 Ordered that John Bradly be bound over to his good Be- 
 havor for a year & a Day in the Sum of two Hundred five 
 Hundred Pound & one Security in the like sum, whereon the 
 sd. Bradly with Jacob Bousman his security came into Court 
 & entered into Recognc. accordingly. 
 
 Jacob Bousman — John Ormsby. order' d. a writ to stay 
 Waste. Isue. 
 
 James Boys v John Atkins, then came a Jury towit. Za- 
 dock Wright Hugh Stirling James Quick John Vanater, Will- 
 iam Redick. Willm. Bruce Jacob Bousman John Springer 
 Gabriel Cox Skiner Hutson Garsham Hull John Marshall. 
 Verdt. for Plaintiff, Judt. L 30. 
 
 Enock Enis v William Hoglan. then came the same Jury 
 as before. Verdit for pt. Judmt. for L 12.16. 
 
 Rich'd. McMahen v Paul Matthews. Then came the same 
 Jury as before. Verdit. for pt. Judmt for L 73.10. 
 
 (266) Ordered that James Innis, Thomas Gist, Thomas Warren, 
 Hezekiah McGruder, James Eager, David Ritchie, Henry 
 Taylor, Benjaman Johnston, Samuel Semple, Charles Wheeler 
 Jacob Bouseman, Joseph Scott James Ewing, Samuel Johnston, 
 William Lea, Andrew Heath, John Robinson, Thomas Moore, 
 Jacob Beeson, Reuben Kemp, and Walter Wall be recom- 
 mended to the Governor as proper persons to be added to the 
 Commission of the peace, and that the Clerk certify to the 
 
418 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Govenor of the Names of those persons now named in the 
 Commission of the peace who refuses to serve. 
 
 Ordered that Joseph Bealor & John Canon be recommended 
 as proper Person for Corenors for this County. 
 
 On the petition of Dorsey Pentecost siting forth that he is 
 desirous of Building and compleating a water Mill on the 
 Eastern branch of-Churteers Creek, and that he owns the lands 
 on both sides of the Creek so that no person will be Effected 
 by the overflowing from his dam. Ordered that the sd Pente- 
 cost have leave to build and compleat a water mill at the place 
 aforesaid according to law. 
 
 Administration of the Estate of William Fulks deed, is 
 granted to his widow Anne Fulks she having complied with 
 the Law, and that Samuel Beeler Joshua Meeks, Garshom Hull 
 and John Hull or any three of them Appraise the sd Estate. 
 
 John Dean proved to the satisfaction that he served as a 
 soldier in a ranging Company in the late war between Great 
 Britain and France and continued in said Service until regu- 
 larly discharged. Ordered to be Certified. 
 
 David Livingston being bound in recognizance and no prose- 
 cutor appearing ordered to be Discharged. 
 
 Ordered that Wm. Bruce Capt, James McMahon, Lieut., 
 Joshua Carman, Ensign, be recomd. as proper persons to serve 
 as Officers of Militia. 
 
 Ordered that Thos. Rigdon, Lieut Andw. Nigh proper 
 person as Lieuts. of Militia. 
 (267) The Grand Jury found the following Bills Vizt. vs Joseph 
 Cox, for an assault on the Body of John Eliot ; one against 
 John Reed for Forgery being called pleads not Guilty, -Where- 
 upon the said John Reed with Hugh Sterling and Zadock 
 Wright, his securities, held, himself in Ten thousand pounds 
 the securities five thousand pounds each, for the appearance of 
 the sd. John and answer to a Bill of Indictment Exhibited 
 agt. him. and the said Joseph Cox held in the like sum of 
 Ten thousand pounds and Hugh Sterling and Alexandr Eady 
 his securities in the like sum of five thousand pounds Each for 
 the sd. Josephs appearance to answer as afores'd. 
 
 Jesse Beezon and Robert Davidson appointed Constables, 
 som'ed before John McDaniel Gent, to be Qualified. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 419 
 
 The Grand Jury present the following Bills, against Garsham 
 Hull : for an assault on the body of John McDonald N. G. ; 
 against John Brackinrig an assault on Mary Spear, order a 
 Capias Isue : against Do. assault on the Body of Jas. Spear, 
 Cap. ; against Joseph Parkeson assault on the Body of Sarah 
 Jacob. Cap. Isue. 
 
 Garshom Hull with Richd. McMahen & John Dean his 
 securities come into Court and entered into recognizance for 
 his personal Appearance at the Next Court to answer a Bill of 
 Indictment exhibited agt. him, held in Then thousand pounds 
 his Securities in five thousand each. 
 
 The Grand Jury found a Bill agt. Garshom Hull for an assault 
 on John McDonald Gent. Ordered that Capias Issue. 
 (268) Ordered that Court be adjourned to Court in Course. 
 
 Samuel Newell. 
 
 At a Court held for Yohogania County June 26th 1780. 
 Present Samuel Newil, W" 1 - Harrison Joseph Becket Oliver 
 Miller W m - Goe, Present. 
 
 Alias Capias 
 Keykendall v Deckart. Imparlance. 
 Boxton v Peas P. C. 
 Caldwell v Wray P. C. 
 Masters v Benet P. C. 
 
 Cresops, Exrs. v Power agred. G. Brant, Cost. 
 Keykendall v Creghead C O. 
 . McDonald v Clerk P. C. 
 Johnson v Evins C O 
 M°Gee v Gambol P. C. 
 Taylor v Applegate C. O. 
 Sterling v Beevers. C O 
 Campbell v Quick P. C. 
 White v Williams P. C. 
 Crawford v Yates disctd. 
 Boxton v Norris, P. C 
 Enis v Spencer P. C 
 Leamon v Mattocks C. O. 
 
420 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Appearances. 
 Smallman v Irwin A. C 
 Same v same A. C 
 Applegate v Evins A. C. 
 Hutson v Whitacre A. C 
 Ward v Broad head C O 
 Fleming v Cooper A. C 
 Holladay v Beever A. C 
 Moor v Taylor. A. C 
 (269) Eliot v Cox C. O 
 
 Steret v Hutson A. C 
 
 Leaman v Holladay A. C 
 
 Barrackman v Raymon A. C 
 
 Crow v Humble disctd. 
 
 McDonald v Hull A. C 
 
 Protsman v Lypolt A. C 
 
 McMachen v Bruce C. O 
 
 Ellrod v Hart A. C 
 
 Onsetler v Humble disctd. 
 
 Seal v Whitacre Do. 
 
 Spear v Mclwain A. C 
 
 Nesbit v Harden A. C 
 
 Provines v Froman C. O 
 
 Gilfilin v Tygart A. C 
 
 Cuningham v. Louderback A. C 
 
 Keykendall v Matthews C. O M s - Holaday. A Bail. 
 
 Warrin v McKenzey Disctd. 
 
 Hutson v Deckart C. O 
 
 Bradin v Vanater C. O 
 
 Roleston v Robins C. O 
 
 Keykendall v Fokes C. O 
 
 Walker v M'Machen & Wife C. O 
 
 Farrin v Keykendall C. O Rt. McKee A. B. 
 
 Vanater v Braden C. O V"' Swearengen A. B. 
 
 Smallman v Peterson A C 
 
 Brown v McCurdy A. C 
 
 Gambol v Beall A C. 
 
 Keneday v McCollolloige disctd. 
 
 Crow v Williams C. O Aw. Pierce A. B. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 421 
 
 Sraallman v Broadhead. C. O 
 Smallman v Duncan C. O 
 Same vs same C. O 
 
 Morry Boyd v Humble C. O leave to amend writ. 
 Ward v Broadhead C. O 
 Crawford v Sharp A. C 
 McMachen v Eyins C. O 
 Brady v — & wife dismisd. 
 
 Williams, Asse. v Crow C. O Joshua Wright A. B. 
 Records v Thomas C. O 
 Williams, Asse. v Crow C. O 
 Williams, Asse. v Crow C. O J a - Wright A. B. 
 Boice v Workman. C. O 
 Cox v Campbell & wife 
 McAdams v Rarden A. C 
 (270) Cox & wife v Walker A. C 
 
 Jacobs v Parkison. disctd. P. for Cost. 
 
 Pentecost v McAdams disctd. 
 
 Mcllhose v Colvan C. O 
 
 Paterson v Moor A. C 
 
 Sweringen v Fryer C. O 
 
 Sweringen v Brooks Imp. 
 
 Clerk v McDonald C. O 
 
 Pegg v Evins C. O 
 
 Appelgate v Evins C. O. 
 
 Cox v Davis & wife A. C 
 
 Cox v Thompson A. C 
 
 McMachen v Leamon discontd. 
 
 Campbell v Blackman A. C. 
 
 Beever v Mayhall A. C 
 
 Same v Miller Sen. &x. A. C 
 
 Hopkins v Johnson disctd. 
 
 Mathews v McClain A. C 
 
 Blackman v Peirce A. C 
 
 Same v Campbell A. C 
 
 Willson v Blackman A. C 
 
 Blackman v Willson A. C 
 
 Bonom v Sapington A. C 
 
 Boling v Wills A. C 
 
422 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Johnson v Lindsey A. C 
 Campbell v Totton A. C 
 Same v Scoot A. C 
 Campbell v Blackman A. C 
 Ross v Blunck A. C 
 Pierce v Hogland discontd. Cost pd. 
 Keykendall v Colvin A. C 
 Spivas v Record A. C 
 Sweringen v Burrace C. O 
 Harrison v Stuart- A. C 
 Downer v Lawson. A. C 
 Anderson & Tod v Gibson C. O 
 Grahm v Boys agreed. 
 Mitchel v Downs. C. O 
 Fokes v Boley C. O 
 Fife v Holladay. C. O 
 McColley v Hogland agreed. 
 Newil v Irwin Imparlance. 
 Commonwealth v Lindsey. C. O 
 Corn v Elis A. C 
 Same v Pelton A. C 
 Anderson v Darby A. C 
 Vanater v Graham & wife C. O 
 (271) Jacobs v Workman & wife A. C 
 Clark v Mf.Donald A. C. 
 Vanater Asse. v Creghead A. C 
 Masters v Benet A. C 
 McDonald v Clark A. C 
 White v Williams A. C 
 Little v Cherry C. O 
 Peters v Crow A. C 
 Peters Assne. v Same A. C 
 Same v Same A. C 
 Andrew v Singers A. C 
 Vance v Williams discontd. 
 Thomas v Egerton &c A. C 
 Gumbwill v Bell A. C 
 Downer v Waller A. C 
 Bruce v Mattocks A. C 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 423 
 
 Romine v McKinzey discontd. 
 Ward v Robertson, discontd 
 Records v Postelwait. Imparl. Jh. Alexr. S. B. 
 Miller v Vanater C. O 
 ODonald v Williams C O 
 McCleland v Beelor A. C 
 Redock v Irwin A. C 
 Humble v Crow A. C 
 Dunlavy v Mc Adams C. O 
 Campbell v Boley C. O 
 McDonald v Hull A. C. 
 Hall v Appelgate discontd. 
 Spencer V Cills A. C 
 Wallers v Hatfield A. C 
 Conal v Vanater C. O 
 Cook v Hardin A. C 
 Quick v Vanater C. O 
 Miller v Burns C. O 
 Kelly v Campbell A. C 
 Hammon v McClain A. C 
 Jacobs v Parkeson A. C 
 Justice v Frame Impalnce. 
 Springer v Tygart A. C 
 Richie v Parkeson A. C 
 Chamber v Evalt C. O 
 Fokes v Boley A. C 
 Duglas v Henderson Contd. 
 Frame v Justice C. O 
 Vanater v Stockwell contd. 
 Jacobs v Parkeson A. C. 
 (272) Edward Mills v Jackman A. C 
 Elis v Johnson A. C 
 Barnet v McDowel A. C 
 Hill v Lyday Contd. 
 Same v Same Contd. 
 Adams, Assne. v Richards C. O 
 Same v Same C. O 
 Thos. Cummin v Jas. Beggs, A. C 
 Paterson v Custer agreed 
 
424 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Nigh v Anderson A. C 
 Hurley v Pharlon C. O 
 Grubb v Carter A. C 
 Briscoe v Appelgate A. C 
 
 Attachment, W m - Crawford v Benjn. Wells. Attcht two 
 steers three Cows two mares two colts two two-year Olds two 
 Hogs two Smooth guns one Shot Pouch & a Poder horn. 
 Judmt. & O. Sold. 
 
 Chancery. 
 Bouseman v Ormsby. Injunction bill. 
 
 Indictments at issue. 
 C. W. vs Gresham Hull. Assault & Battery, 
 vs Jno. Reed. Misdemeanor. 
 vs Joseph Cox. Assault and Battery. 
 
 (273) Ordered that the Certificates Granted Alexr. Fowler, Assne. 
 of Lieut. George Brooks, of Lieut. Butler Stubbs, of Anguish 
 McNeil, of Henry Dolway, himself as Lieut., served in the 
 Last war & Reduced upon halfe pay be properly certified. 
 
 Benjn. Johnson Produced a Commission of.Depy. Surveyor. 
 Commission Read & s*orn in. 
 
 W m - Johnson Produced a Commission as Depy Surveyor it 
 being read & sworn to accordingly. 
 
 On the Petition of Joseph Saxton setting forth that he is in- 
 firm & not capable of git his living. Ordered that he be al- 
 lowed one Hundred Dollars for one Month & that the Sheriff 
 pay it out of the Money deposited in his hands. 
 
 The last will and Testement of John Blakley deceased proved 
 by the Oath of John Wright one of the Subscribing witnesses. 
 O. R. 
 
 Robert Blackley took the Oath of Executor of the Last will 
 & Testement of John Blackley deed., he having Complied with 
 the Law. 
 
 Ordered that John Bougher, Thomas Morehead, Samuel 
 Holms & Thomas Fasithe or any other three of them being 
 first Sworn do appraise the personal Estate and slaves if any of 
 John Blackley dee'd, and make return to the next Court. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 425 
 
 Peter Nesewanger being charge before the Court for wilfully 
 exhibiting a melitious and Scandelous Lybell, Ordered that he 
 give security to answer the next G. Jury, to be held in L 20,- 
 000. and two suretys of L 10,000, W m - Beagle held in L 1000, 
 with Joseph Warner his securty L 1000, Matthew Beazle held 
 in L rooo, with W m ' Beazle his secuity held in L 1000, Hugh 
 Gundy with John Whiston his Security held L 1000, James 
 Freeland held in L 1000, with Andrew White his security 
 held 
 
 (274) L Andrew White held in L 1000 with James Freeland his 
 
 Security held in L 1000. for their appearance at the next G. 
 Jury Court to Testify against the aforesaid Peter Nesewanger. 
 
 Duglass v Henderson. W m - Frye S. B. & Impl. 
 
 Mordaicai Richards and Stephen Richards took the oath of 
 Executors to the Estate of Stephen Richards Deceas'd, they 
 having Complied with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that John Fossit Chas. Morgan, Richd. Boyce and 
 Jacob Long or any three appraise the sd. Estate and make 
 return to next Court. 
 
 Ordered that Summons Isue for Benj. Pegg and Catherine 
 his wife to attend at the next Court to give farther Security 
 for the administration of the Estate of Francis Hull deceas'd. on 
 the Complaint of David Williams one of the Securities for the 
 sd. Administration. 
 
 Inventory and appraisement of the Estate of Francis Hull 
 deed, returned. O. R. 
 
 Frome v Justis. Robt. Henderson Spl. B. & Imp. 
 
 On the petition of James McGoldrick seting forth that he is 
 desirous of building a water Mill on Becks Run and that the 
 land on each side belongs to himself so that no person will be 
 effected by the overflowing from sd. Dam, Ordered that he have 
 leave to build and Compleat a water mill on sd. Run according 
 to Law. 
 
 Ordered that John Decker be summoned appear at the next 
 Court to shew Cause why he Detains Elizabeth the Daughter of 
 Jacob Kuykendall and that he bring the sd Elizabeth with him 
 before the Court as aforesaid. 
 
 John Springer — Michael Tygert. Henry Kasey S. B & Imp. 
 
 Richd. Burns Sworn D. Sheriff". 
 
426 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 (275) Ordered that Paul Mathews be allowed two Thousand Dol- 
 lars for Erecting a Whiping post Stocks and Pillory. 1 
 
 Gentleman deposetied 
 W m - Goe, One hundred & fifty Dollars. 
 Oliver Miller Do. Do. 
 Joseph Becket One Hundred 
 Dorsey Penticost One Hundred 
 Samuel Newil One Hundred 
 to be Deducted out the money when Levied by the Sheriff. 
 Ordered that Court ajourn till Court in course 
 
 William Goe. 
 
 At a Court held for Yohogania County on the 24 day of 
 July, 1780. 
 
 present Saml. Newil, Joseph Becket, Joseph Beeler & Oliver 
 Miller. 
 
 Appearances. 
 
 Jno. Ryan vs Peter Neiswanger. Trespass Case. C. O. 
 
 Samuel Cuningham v Conrod & Andrew Louderback, Benjn. 
 Keykendall, S. B. 
 
 Ann Roleston appeared in Court in Consequence of a Sum- 
 mons & confest having a base born Child & paid the fine 50 s. 
 Lodge in the hands of Saml. Newil, Esqr. 
 
 Alexr. Steel appeared in Consequence of a Summons & con- 
 fest the Crime of swearing four profain oath. 20 s. Lodged in 
 the hands of Samuel Newil, Esqr. 
 
 (276) Robert Sheerer bound in the sum of L 10000 & Philip Tabor 
 in the sum of L 5000 his security to appear at the next G. Jury 
 Court to testify for the State against Skiner Hutson, Minor 
 Asterges. 
 
 Minor Asterges & Larince Roleston his Security bound in 
 the sum of L 20,000 & his security in the Sum of L 10000 to 
 appear at the next G. Jury Court to answer to what may be 
 objected against him by the State. 
 
 Alexander Mclntire bound in the sum of L 10000 & John 
 Wall his security in the sum of L 5000 for his appearance at the 
 next G. Jury Court to testify for the State against Skinner 
 Hutson. 
 
 1 See Introduction. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 427 
 
 Philip Tabor v Thos. Applegate. 
 
 Then came a Jury, towit. Alexan. Steel, James Spear, Benjn. 
 Pegg, Jacob Knight, Archibell Hull, John Boley, David 
 Philips, Paul Mathews, Sampson Beever, David Richie, 
 Robert Creghead, Edward King, W. Enqy, Judg. & Damage 
 L 17, Plff. 
 
 Commonwealth v Ann Rardin, Nole proseque. fees paid. 
 
 Thos. Smallman Sheriff Protest against th Goal. 
 
 Ordered that Court adjourn till Court in Course. 
 
 Samuel Newell. 
 
 At a Court held for Yohogania County, Augt. 28, 1780. 
 
 Present Edwd. Ward, Joseph Beelor, Richd. Yates, George 
 Valandigin, Oliver Miller. 
 
 Richd. McMachen v James Bruce. Judgt. Wrt. of Enqy. 
 
 Same v Arnold Evins. Judgt. Wrt. of Enqy. 
 
 George Valandigin produced a Commission of Col. of 
 Militia & Sworn to accordingly- 
 
 The last will & Testament of Abington George Colvin proved 
 in Court. O. R. 
 
 John Miller is exemted from paying any future County tax. 
 
 (277) At a Call Court held for the tryal of John Jackson for Pass- 
 ing Counterfeit Continental Money. 
 
 Com. Wealth v Jackson by Evidence of Daniel Appilgate & 
 Joseph M°Cune the sd. Jackson is acquited. 
 
 23 forty Dollar Bills ■> Counterfeit lodged in the hands of 
 7 thirty Dollar Bills > Andrew Heth. 
 
 Ordered that Exn. Isue Hugh Brady agt. Sampson Beever 
 David Steel & James M°Mullin on the Repleve. Bond given 
 by them to replevy the effects of Sampson Beever on a Judgt. 
 obtained by Hugh Brady & that it be indorsed no security or 
 bail be taken. 
 
 Commonwealth v Garsham Hull. Jmdt. N. G. Joinder. 
 
 Commonwealth v John Brackenrig Indt. -1 . 
 
 same v same Indt J 
 
 Recognizance for John Brackenrig appearance at the Grand 
 Jury Court, himself in two Thousand five Hundred Pounds 
 upon each Inditiment & his Security W»- Mayhall in the Same 
 Sum. 
 
428 Annals of fkE Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that Summons Isue for Mordecai & Stephen Richard 
 to give fresh security for the Estate of their Deceased father 
 Stephen Richards. 
 
 Ordered that Summons Isue for Agness Stille to give fresh 
 security for the Estate of of her deceased husband Jacob Stille. 
 
 Commonwealth v Joseph Parkeson, Ple'd. Guilty Jud't & 
 dam'g. for Plf. L 300. David Richie security for fine & fees. 
 
 Commonwealth v Elizabeth Deckart Came into Court & 
 Confest herself of haveing a base born Child & paid 50 s. fine, 
 pd. to Richd. Yates, Gent. 
 
 Commonwealth v Sarah Jacobs, Came into Court & confest 
 herself of haveing a base born Child & paid 50 s. fine. pd. to 
 Richd. Yates Gent. 
 
 Commonwealth v Mary Boyd Came into Court & Confest 
 herself of haveing a base born Child & paid 50 s. fine. pd. to 
 Richd. Yates, Gentn. 
 
 Commonwealth v Catharin Develin failing to appear being 
 sum'd. & return'd ex'd. Judgt. for 50 s. fine & the fees thereon 
 accruing for haveing a base born Child. 
 
 Commonwealth v Ann Walker failing to appear being sum'd 
 return'd Ex'd. Judgt. for 50s. fine & the fees thereon accruing 
 for having a base born Child. 
 
 D'd. Richie v Jos. Parkeson ) Imparlance. 
 
 same v same J Apearances John Wall S. B. 
 
 George Brown v Hugh McCrady. Apearnce, Nathaniel 
 Blackmore S. B. 
 
 Jacob Knight v Tobias Wood Apearance. Mos. Holla- 
 day S. B. 
 (278) Michael Burk v Jacob Knight. Appearn. John Brotsman . 
 ' S. B. 
 
 Bill of Sale. W">- Long to Morris Kaho. Acknowledged 
 by W m - Long and O. R. 
 
 Commonwealth vs James Dornin, Recognizance for his 
 appearance at next G. Jury Court, himself in L 5000 & Thos 
 Timons & Joseph McKinnen in L 2500 Each. 
 
 Commonwealth v Mordecai Richards. Recognized in the 
 sum of L 5000 to appear at the next G. Jury Court & his Se- 
 curities John Leamon & W" 1 - Mayhall in L 2500 Each to pros- 
 ecute Jas. Dornin. 
 
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 429 
 
 Commonwealth v Jeremiah Morgan, Robt. Peat & Stephen 
 Richards. Recognized to testify for the Commonwealth at 
 the next G. Jury Court against James Dornin, each in L 3000. 
 
 Ordered that Court ajourn till Court in Course. 
 
 Edwd. Ward. 
 
 [Here six leaves have been cut from the end of the volume con- 
 taining the foregoing records. But, as the entries last copied above, 
 closing with the signature of Edwd. Ward, are at the top of the last 
 page upon which there are any entries, most probably they are the 
 last made in the volume, which, so far as we know, is the last record 
 of a Court of Yohogania County, Virginia, held within the limits of 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 The Edward Ward whose name closes these records was the En- 
 sign Edward Ward who surrendered the fort at the junction of the 
 Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, to the French and Indians on 
 April 17, 1754, and with his small command marched back and re- 
 joined Washington at Fort Necessity. 
 
Publications of the Carnegie Museum Serial No. 29 
 
 ANNALS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
 
 Vol. III. No. 1. 
 
 W. J. HOLLAND, Editor 
 
 Published by the Authority of the 
 
 Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute 
 
 October, 1904 
 
Press of 
 
 The new era Printing Compah* 
 
 Lancaster, Pa. 
 
I. MINUTE (OR ORDER) BOOK OF THE VIRGINIA COURT 
 HELD FOR OHIO COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AT BLACK'S 
 CABIN (NOW WEST LIBERTY, W. VA.), FROM JANU- 
 ARY 6, 1777, UNTIL SEPTEMBER 4, 1780, WHEN ITS 
 JURISDICTION OVER ANY PART OF PENNSYLVANIA 
 HAD CEASED. 
 
 Edited by Boyd Crumrine, of Washington, Pa. 
 
 Introduction. 
 
 There have now been published the Minutes of the Virginia Court 
 held for the District of West Augusta, first at old Fort Dunmore, now 
 Pittsburgh, Pa., and for a while at Augusta Town, now Washington, 
 Pa., 1775-1776 (Ann. Car. Mus., Vol. I, pp. 525-568) and also the 
 Minutes of the Virginia Court held for Yohogania County, first at 
 Augusta Town, and afterwards on the Andrew Heath farm, near West 
 Elizabeth, 1778-1780 (/. c, Vol. II, pp. 71-140, and pp. 205-429). 
 
 As stated in Vol. I, on p. 524, the Minute- or Order-books of 
 the Court held for Monongalia County, at the house of Theophilus 
 Phillips, on George's Creek, in the southern part of what is now 
 Fayette County, Pennsylvania, were destroyed on the burning of the 
 Court House at Morgantown in 1796. Therefore, the records of 
 that Court, having jurisdiction over the southern part of what is now 
 Fayette County, the southeastern part of the present Washington 
 County, and more than half of the eastern part of the present Greene 
 County, Pennsylvania, cannot now be reproduced. But, fortunately, 
 when the Court for Ohio county, Virginia, was removed from Black's 
 Cabin, on Short Creek, to Wheeling, in 1797, its records also were 
 removed and are still to be found in the office of the Clerk of the 
 County Court, in the Court House for Ohio County in that city. 
 
 These records of Ohio County, much used for over one hundred 
 and twenty-five years, are in many places almost illegible, notwith- 
 standing the great care that has been taken to preserve them ; yet, 
 because of the fact that, until the Virginia jurisdiction was entirely 
 
 5 
 
6 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 withdrawn from Pennsylvania, a large part of the territory in what is 
 now Washington and Greene Counties, Pennsylvania, was within the 
 jurisdiction of the Ohio County Court, of Virginia, it is proper that 
 so much of these records as were made prior to August 28, 1780, 
 when the last term of Court was held for Yohogania County, should 
 also be published. 
 
 The Act of the Virginia Assembly of October, 1776, which divided 
 the District of West Augusta into the three new counties, Ohio, 
 Yohogania, and Monongalia, also established the boundary line be- 
 tween the County of Augusta and the District of West Augusta, which 
 line had before that time been undefined. It was then defined as 
 follows : 
 
 "Beginning on the Allegheny mountains between the heads of the 
 Potowmack, Cheat, and Green Briar Rivers ; thence along the ridge of 
 mountains which divides the waters of Cheat river from those of Green 
 Briar, and that branch of the Monongahela called Tygers Valley 
 river, to the Monongahela river ; thence up the said river and the 
 west fork thereof to Bingeman's creek, on the northwest side of the 
 said west fork; thence up the said creek to the head thereof; thence 
 in a direct course to the head of the Middle Island creek, a branch of 
 the Ohio, and thence to the Ohio, including all the waters of the said 
 creek in the aforesaid District of West Augusta ; all that territory 
 lying to the northward of the aforesaid boundary, and to the west- 
 ward of the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland, shall be deemed 
 and is hereby declared to be within the District of West Augusta." 
 
 Then follow the provisions establishing out of the District of West 
 Augusta the new counties of Ohio, Yohogania, and Monongalia, and 
 the division lines between them, as quoted in Vol. II, p. 74 of these 
 Annals. 1 
 
 By reference to our map of the District of West Augusta, fac- 
 ing p. 518, Vol. I, of these Annals, studied in connection with the 
 division lines of the three new counties made from said District, 
 as shown in Vol. II, p. 74, it will be seen that the northern end of 
 the present "Panhandle" of West Virginia, was put into Yohogania 
 County. But on the settlement of the boundary controversy by the 
 
 1 For the entire act and other interesting matters relating to the subject, see Crum- 
 rine's History of Washington County (1882), p. 183 and notes. 
 
Minutes op Court for Ohio Counts. 7 
 
 Baltimore Conference of 1779 (Vol. I, p. 522, of these Annals), the 
 portion of Yohogania County north of Cross Creek was at first put 
 into Ohio County, and subsequently became Brooke County. ' 
 
 It will also be seen that Ohio County, as originally created, ex- 
 tended northward to the mouth of Cross Creek, southward to the 
 mouth of Middle Island Creek, and from the Ohio River, eastward, so 
 as to include the present townships of Hopewell, Independence, Buf- 
 falo, Blaine, Donegal, East Finley, and West Finley, and parts of 
 Canton and Franklin in Washington County, as well as perhaps the 
 western one-third of Greene County, Pennsylvania. Thus it was 
 that a large part of the transactions of the early Ohio County Court 
 of Virginia related to the business and protection of inhabitants of 
 Washington and Greene counties, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Black's Cabin where the first courts of Ohio County were held, was 
 on the north fork of Short Creek, about eleven miles northeast from 
 Fort Henry, now Wheeling, and about six or eight miles northwest 
 from West Alexander, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. There 
 was Vanmeter's Fort, and not far away was Rice's Fort on Buffalo 
 Creek in Washington County, Pennsylvania; and Beeman's and 
 Ryerson's stations in Greene county, and Fort Jackson, now Waynes- 
 burg. And it will be remembered that in the days of this early court, 
 before Washington, town or county, was thought of, the people who 
 looked to it for protection to their lives and property were on the 
 frontiers of civilization ; across the Ohio was a wilderness of savages, 
 the enemies of civilization. Our present knowledge of events in these 
 times will be freshened and confirmed by entries made in the course 
 of judicial business shown in these records. 
 
 Ohio county, Virginia, like Washington County, Pennsylvania, has 
 been shorn of its magnificent proportions. Its southern part has been 
 made into a number of new Virginian (now West Virginian) counties, 
 and its northern part, above the mouth of Short Creek, has been 
 divided into Brooke and Hancock counties, while, by the actual run- 
 ning of the western boundary of Pennsylvania, in 1784-5, it lost all 
 its old possessions in Pennsylvania. 
 
 Following the records of the early Ohio County Court we shall 
 later give the contents of a small manuscript volume containing the 
 
 'See History of Augusta County, Va., by J. Lewis Peyton, p. 177. 
 
8 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 records of deeds, etc., proved before the court for the district of West 
 Augusta, 1775-1776, and ordered to be recorded. The records 
 referred to embrace conveyances made by many of the early settlers, 
 and include permits by the commandant at Fort Pitt, for the occu- 
 pancy and cultivation of portions of the "King's Orchards," etc., 
 and will be very interesting to the student of the early history of 
 Pittsburgh and its vicinity. 
 
 Order-Book No. i. 
 
 Black's Cabin, Ohio County, Jan. 6'?, 1777. 
 ( 1 ) In pursuance of an order of the General assembly of this 
 
 Commonwealth for the division of the district of West Augusta 
 into three distinct Counties, whereof the County of Ohio is 
 one distinct & separate County, Agreeable to its Circumscribing 
 Boundaries ; 
 
 In Complyance with which & Certain other Instructions 
 directed to John M c Colloch, Esq., directing him, the s' 1 M°- 
 Colloch, to summon the several landholders within s? County 
 to meet at the house of Ezekiel Dewits on Buffalo Creek, on 
 the 2 7 ~ of Decemb'- last, as well for the purpose of Electing 
 & Constituting a Committe in & for the s County, as for the 
 making Choice of the seat for County Coart to be held at in 
 future, within s. 1 ! County, which was done accordingly ; & a 
 Majority determin'd in favour of a place known by the name 
 of Black's Cabbin, on the waters of Short Creek, to be the place 
 of holding Coarts in future. 
 
 Accordingly & in Complyance with a Certain writ of dedi- 
 mus potestatom, directed to Will™ Scott, James M c Mechen, & 
 David Rodgers, Impowering eighther of them to administer 
 unto Mesrs. David Sheepherd, Silus Hedges will"' Scott & 
 James Caldwell, theoath of Justice of the peace within s? County; 
 therefore the Commission being red at Blacks Cabbin afores? 
 James M°Mechan there did on Monday the sixth of this Instant, 
 did administer unto s* David Sheepherd, Silus Hedges, W m 
 Scott & James Caldwell the oaths of Justice of the peace, who 
 being duly qualified the aforesaid Sheepherd did administer 
 unto Messrs. Zachariah Sprigg, Thomas Waller & Dan 1 M c Clain 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 9 
 
 the said oath of Justice of the peace, who being duly qualified 
 took their seats on the Bentch accordingly. 
 
 Whereupon, the Court Being sworn, Jn" M c Colloch, Esq. 
 as high sheriff of said County, then did offer Messrs. John 
 Mitchel & Sam! M c Colloch, Boath of this County, as sureties 
 for the due executing the office of Sheriff within this County, 
 who being accepted a Bond for that purpose was then accord- 
 ingly executed in open Coart. Likewise another Bond of one 
 thousand pounds Conditioned for his faithfully Collecting & 
 duly accounting for all officers fees & Cetera & producing 
 Mes PS Jn'o Mitchel, Sam.! M c Colloch & James M c Mechen, as 
 Sureties, who being likewise accepted & approved & a Bond 
 for that purpose was likewise accordingly executed, & the 
 s* M°Colloch took the oath of office in open Coart. 
 (2) The Coart then proceeded to the choise of a Clark, & James 
 
 M'Mechen being approved of for that purpose & having taken 
 the usual oath took his seat at the Clark's table accordingly 
 
 The Coart then adverting to the expediency that the Militia 
 of this County should be under the best of Regulations and 
 discipline, came to the following resolutions viz : that David 
 Sheepherd, Esq. r . be recommended to his honour the Governour 
 as County Lieutenant in and for this County, & Silas Hedges 
 Esq as Colonel, & M. r . David M°Clure as Lieutenant Colon!., & 
 M r Sam! M c Colloch as Major of Militia. 
 
 The Court then adjourned untill tomorrow at eight of the 
 Clock. D. Sheepherd. 
 
 The Court met according to adjournment ; present David 
 Sheepherd, Silas Hedge, Will 1 ! 1 Scott, James Caldwell, Zacha- 
 riah Sprigg, Tho* Waller & Daniel M"Clain, Gentlemen. 
 
 Furthermore it is ordered by the Court that Joseph Tumlin- 
 stone, Sam!. Mason, Jn° Mitchel, Joseph Ogle, Sam!. Teter, 
 David Williamson, Jacob Lefler, James Bochanen & Reasin 
 Virgin be likewise Recommended to his honour the Governour 
 as Captains of the Militia ; & that Mes" Dan 1 . M'Clain, Thomas 
 Ryan, John Biggs, Derick Hoaglin, Thos Clark, James Gillaspy, 
 Charles Bonner, James Pattin & Jn? Boggs be recommended as 
 Lieutenants ; and that Mess™ Morgan Jones, Moses William- 
 
10 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 son, Jun!', William Biggs, Andrew Fouts, Isaac Tayler, Hinry 
 Taylor, John Hanley, David English & Isaac Phillips be like- 
 wise recommended as Ensigns. 
 
 & Foreasmuch as the tract of land agreed upon for holding 
 Coarts at in future doth of right appertain unto Abraham Van- 
 metre of Opechan Creek in the County of Bartley, Order d , 
 therefore, that Zachariah Sprigg, Silas Hedges, Esq', be ap- 
 pointed to Contract & Covenant with s d Vanmetre for not less 
 than Two acres of s d Tract Including the Cabbin & spring, 
 In behalf of this County, for the purpose of erecting & 
 Building thereon a Coart house, Prison and other necessary 
 publick Buildings, for any sum not exceeding Twenty pounds, 
 & Report make of their proceedings therein as soon as may be 
 to this Coart. 
 
 & Whereas it may be expedient that Constables should be 
 [appointed] within this County, Ordered therefore that John 
 (3) Caldwell, Stephen Parr, Tho. s . Williamson, Eliazer Williamson, 
 John Bodkin, Tho s Clark, Dan! Morgan be summoned to attend 
 our next County Coart, then and there to be sworn in as Con- 
 stables ; But if any of the above Recited persons shall think it 
 expedient to Qualify in as Constables before the next Justice of 
 the peace, there attendance at Coart is hereby Remitted Re- 
 spectively. 
 
 Ordered that Cap't" Sam 1 Mason, Lieu!. Ebenezar Zane, 
 James M c Connel, & Conrad Wheat, being first sworn, do 
 view the best & most direct way for the laying out a Road 
 from Fort Henery to the first fork of Wheeling, & thereupon 
 due return make to our next County Court. 
 
 Ordered that this Coart be adjourned until Coart in Coarse. 
 
 David Sheepherd 
 
 At a Court held in and for the County of Ohio on the third 
 day of March 1777, present David Sheepherd, Silas Hedges, 
 Zachariah Sprigg, William Scott, James Caldwell, Gentlemen. 
 
 David Rodgers took the oath of Justice of peace & took his 
 seat on the Bentch According. 
 
 Mess" Ebenezar Zane, Conrad Wheat & Sam. 1 . Mason, agree- 
 able to a former order of this Coart for the purpose of laying 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 11 
 
 out the best and most direct way for a Road from fort Henery 
 to the first forks of Wheeling, Reported as follows viz : from 
 Fort Henery over the Ridge to the lower end of Mason's 
 Bottom ; thence up the Creek Bank to wheet's Narrows ; 
 thence to the top & along the north side of Wills' ' Nobb to a 
 Blas'd white walnut on Will's old Road ; thence to the upper 
 end of Wills field on the Creek Bank ; thence up the Creek 
 Bank to Hawkins's old house ; thence to a blas'd white oak 
 on Williamson's Road ; thence to the forks of Wheeling. 
 
 Ordered that Conrad Wheat be appointed an overseer of s d 
 road & that the Tithables on three miles of each side be sum- 
 moned to work thereon until the same be- completed. 
 (4) Henry Nelson Came into Court and Complains that W" 
 
 Sparks had in an illegal manner taken away his Child & 
 unjustly detains the same without his consent. Ordered that 
 the s? Sparks be summoned to attend our next Court & answer 
 make to the above complaint 
 
 Ordered that James Fitspatrick, an orphan Child, be bound 
 unto Sam' Bruce to learn the art and Mystery of a Taylor 
 until he shall arrive to the age of Twenty one years. 
 
 Order' d that Isaac, Tade, & hannah, Melatto orphan Chil- 
 dren, be bound unto David Rodgers, Esq' until the boys shall 
 be of the age of Twenty one years, & the girl untill she be of 
 the age of Eighteen. 
 
 Ordered that Robert Henderson, a Retaken prisoner amongst 
 the Indians, be bound unto David Rodgers, Esqf. until he be of 
 the age of Twenty one years, to learn the art and Mystery of 
 a weaver. But provided any parent or near Relative should 
 appear, further ordered that said Rodgers yield up s d Child, 
 the parent or Relative paying Reasonable Costs & Expenses. 
 
 Ordered that this Coart be adjourned untill Coart in Coarse. 
 
 David Sheepherd 
 
 At a Court held m and for the County of -Ohio on Monday 
 7 th of Aprile, 1777 ; present Silas Hedges, William Scott, Dan- 
 iel M c Clain, David Rodgers, Gentlemen. 
 
 This Coart is adjourned till Tomorrow at eight of the Clock. 
 
 Silas Hedges. 
 
 1 It is hard to decide from chirography of the original whether this is Mills' or 
 Wills'. 
 
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 The Court met according to Adjournment ; present Silas 
 Hedges, David Rodgers, Zacharia Sprigg, Daniel M c Clain & 
 Tho" Waller, Gentlemen. 
 
 Isaac Tayler took the oath of subsheriff in open Court. 
 
 William Hawkins acknowledged a Bill of sale made unto Jn° 
 Wilson in open Court & ordered that the same be Recorded. 
 
 W? Sparks appeared before this Court, & having not had an 
 opportunity of Convening his Evidence ordered that it lay 
 over unto the next Coart & that the Child Continue in the 
 Care of W™ Sparks untill that time. 
 
 Jn° Walker appeared Before this Court & answer made to 
 the Complaint Jn? O'Fin, with respect to the property of a 
 Certain Bed ; whereupon the Coart having duely Considered 
 (5) the matter & Evidence, ordered that the Sheriff be order'd to 
 give up to Jn? Walker the Bed in dispute as his property, & 
 that Judgment & execution be Issu'd against the s? OFin 
 for the Costs; & further that, whereas the afores?. O'Fin has 
 not produced to this Coart sufficient Evidence to support the 
 Charge against s* Walker, ordered that it be dismiss' d as 
 Litigious. 
 
 Winney Price Came into Coart & made Complaint that she 
 was unjustly detained in service by her Master Jn? Mitchel ; 
 the Court having Considered the matter agreeable to the Evi- 
 dence that appeard orderd that the Case lay over till the 
 next Court and that she Continue in the service of s d Mitchel 
 untill that time. 
 
 ]n°. Mitchel appeard in support of his attachment & pro- 
 ducd Benjamin Biggs as his surity Notwithstanding the Case 
 is ordered to lye over untill the next Coart. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourn' d untill three of the 
 Clock in the afternoon. 
 
 Silas Hedges. 
 
 The Coart met according to adjournment, present as above. 
 
 Then came into Court Winey Price, & having Informed 
 this Coart that she would Cheerfully Compromise matters with 
 her Master Jn'o Mitchel, Beggs leave of this Court that she 
 be Indulged the liberty of Indenting herself to her old Master 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 13 
 
 Jn° Mitchel for & during the Term of Eighteen months from 
 the Twenty fifth day of may Insuing ; therefore order'd that 
 the s'd Winey Price be indulged that Liberty for & in Con- 
 sideration of all her past offences & Misdemanours. 
 
 The Court taking unto their Consideration the Expediency 
 of having a Courthouse Erected, ordered that a house for that 
 purpose be erected of the following Dimentions & Con- 
 veniences, viz : 
 
 a Dimond Cornerd house of Dimentions Twenty Two by 
 eighteen feet in the Clear ; one Story & one half high ; a 
 floor above & below of hewd or sawn plank ; Ten Joice in 
 the upper floor, nine or ten feet high ; in the Lower Story a 
 Coart's Bentch & Clark's Table : Two windows of eight lights 
 each eight by ten Inches; a pair of stairs & Cabbin Roof; a 
 plain Door & hinges of Iron ; likewise plain window Shutters, 
 w 1 ? Iron hinges. 
 (6) A Jail Twenty by sixteen feet on the outside, the Loggs of 
 
 the walls to be round & Close laid the loft ; floors & partitions 
 to be of loggs squarid to eight inches thick ; Two Rounds of 
 Loggs above the Loft; Cabbin Roof'd; Doors & windows 
 agreeable ; A Stone Chimney with Iron Grates, the doors done 
 with nails ; Lock Sufficient ; the Loft & floor to have each a 
 Large Summur Supporting them in the middle. 
 
 & for the purpose of having the aforementioned Buildings 
 Completed as soon as possible agreeable to the aforesaid Dimen- 
 tions, ordered that Jn° M°Colloch, high sheriff, be ordered to 
 put the same up at publick auction to the lowest undertaker. 
 
 Ordered that This Coart be adjourned untill Coart in Coarse 
 
 Silas Hedges. 
 
 The Court met according to adjournment on Monday the 
 second day of June, 1777. Present David Sheepherd, Silas 
 Hedges, Zacharia Sprigg, Daniel M°Clain, James Caldwell, 
 William Scott, Gentlemen. 
 
 The last will & Testament of Tho* Newbury was proven in 
 open Court. George M c Colloch made oath well and truly to 
 Execute the last will & Testament of Thomas Newbury, De- 
 ceas?; therefore order'? that Edward Robinson, Andrew 
 
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 Boggs, James Miller & Isaac Meeks do appraise the si Estate 
 of Thos Newbury dec.'!. 
 
 Judgment is ordered against George McColloch as Guar- 
 nishee for Jn° M c Swain, six pound Remaining in his hands 
 attach by Joseph Ogle. 
 
 The following Militia officers took the oath of office in open 
 Court (Viz) : David Sheepherd as Colon 1 , Sam 1 . M c Colloch 
 as Major, Sam 1 Mason, Jn°. Mitchel, Joseph Ogle & Sam 1 Teter 
 as Captains, Sam 1 . Tumlinston, Jn° Biggs, Derick Hoaglin, 
 & Tho s - Gillaland as Lieutenants, & William Sparks as Ensign 
 of Militia. 
 (7) Jacob Lefler took the oath of Captain of Militia in open 
 
 Coart. 
 
 Ordered that the Coart be adjourn ? until Coart in Coarse. 
 
 David Shepherd. 
 
 At a Coart held for Ohio County on Monday the 6 ,b of 
 Aprile, 1778; present David Sheepherd, Silas Hedges, Zacharia 
 Sprigg, W m Scott & James Caldwell, Gentlemen Justices & 
 Tho! Waller. 
 
 John Williamson Came into Court and took the oath of Jus- 
 tice of the peace and took his seat accordingly. 
 
 Ordered that David Sheepherd, Esq' officiate In the office 
 of high sheriff for this County, in the stead of Jn° M c Colloch, 
 Deceasl, agreeable to an act of assembly in that case made & 
 provided. 
 
 David Sheepherd came into Coart & Executed one Bond of 
 office of five hundred pounds & produced Soloman Hedges, 
 Sam! Mason, Joseph Ogle & Andrew Fouts as sureties, who 
 were Excepted by the Coart. Likewise one other Bond of 
 three thousand pounds conditioned for his faithfully Collecting 
 & duly accompting for all office fees by him Rec d et cetra, & 
 produced Sam! Mason, Joseph Ogle, Soloman Hedges & an- 
 drew fouts as sureties, who were Likewise Excepted, Ordered 
 that the same be recorded. 
 
 This Coart is adjourned untill tomorrow Morning at seven 
 of the Clock. 
 
 Silas Hedges. 
 
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 The Court met according to adjournment ; present Silas 
 Hedges, Jn° Williamson, Tho 8 Waller, Zacharia Sprigg & Jaf 
 Caldwell, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 David Sheepherd produced a Commission from his honour 
 Jn? page, Esq!, Lieu! Governor of this state, appointing him 
 Lieu' of Ohio County, was Red & sworn to in open Court. 
 
 Silas Hedges produced a Commission from his honour Jn? 
 Page, Esq!, Lieu! Governor, appointing him Colonel of the 
 Militia for this County which, was Re? & sworn to in open Court. 
 (8) Ordered that Rebekah Coons, wife of Adam Coon, Dec 1 ! be 
 
 admitted to administer upon the Estate of her husband, she 
 complying with the law. 
 
 Rebekeh Coons then produced James M c Mechen & George 
 M c Colloch as Surities, who were excepted accordingly. 
 Ordered that Ebenezer Zane Sam! M°Colloch Jacob Reager 
 & Sam 1 Mason, or any three- of them being first sworn, do ap- 
 praise the goods, Chatties & credits of the s d Adam Coon, 
 Deceas'd, & make report to the next Court 
 
 Ordered that Margret unsel, alias Margret Rentials, be 
 admitted to administer upon the Estate of Henry Wall, 
 Deceas?, She Complying with the Law. Margret then pro- 
 due'? W m hawkins & Jacob Lefler as surities, who were ex- 
 cepted accordingly. 
 
 Ordered that Thof Waller, Jacob Miller, Barney Booner & 
 Edward Geater, or any three of them, do appraise the goods 
 and Chatties of the s a . Deceas?, they Being first sworn, and 
 make return to next Court 
 
 Jn? handly product a note executed by Rob! walker, attested 
 by Alexander Rice, whereupon Alexander Rice Came into Court 
 to prove that he Testifi'd the s a note, & that the same was his 
 handwriting & that he saw Robert walker execute the Same 
 for Value Received. 
 
 Ordered that Jacob Reager be permitted to administer upon 
 the estate of waiter Colhoon, Deceas'd, he Complying with the 
 law. S d Reager produc?. Sam! Mason, Neil Galaspy, Conrad 
 Stroup, & Jn° Mitchel as sureties, who were excepted accord- 
 ingly. Ordered that Ebenezar Law, Sam! M c Colloch, David 
 Sheepherd, & W"? mlntyre, do appraise the same, they being 
 first sworn, & make Return to next Court. 
 
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 Sam! Mason proved an accompt of 12.10 against the estate 
 of Rodgers M c Bride, Deceas", therefore Ordered that Sam 
 (9) Mason be admitted to administer upon the Estate of Rodgers 
 M°Bride he complying with the law. S d Mason produced 
 Jacob Reager & Conrad Stroup & Neal Gillaspy as sureties, 
 who were accepted accordingly 
 
 Ordered that David Sheepherd, W m M c Lane, James M'Con- 
 nel, and James Clark, or any three of them, being first sworn, 
 do appraise the estate of s d m c Bride, deceas d , and Report the 
 same to next Court. 
 
 Ordered that Neal Gillaspy be admitted to administer the 
 estate of Mathew Atkinson, deceas*?, he complying with the 
 Law. 
 
 S d Gillaspy then produced an account against s d atkinson, 
 whereupon s d Gillaspy produced Jacob Rearger & Sam! Mason 
 as Sureties for his administering, who were accepted accord- 
 ingly. Ordered that henry Stemiker, Jacob Links, James 
 Martin & Jn° Williamson, they being sworn, do appraise the 
 Estate, & make due Returns to our next Coart. 
 
 Conrad Stroup produced to this Court a Commission from 
 his honour the Governor appointing him Lieutenant of Militia 
 for this County, which was read & sworn to in open Coart. 
 
 Jerimiah Duns produc' d . to this Coart a Commission from his 
 honour the Governour appointing him Ensign of Militia for 
 this County, which being Red was sworn to in open Court 
 
 Charles Bonner produced to this Court a Commission from 
 his honour the Governour appointing him Lieu', of the Militia 
 for this County, which was red & sworn to accordingly 
 
 George M c Colloch produced the Inventory of the Estate of 
 Thof Newbury, Deceas d ; ordered that the same be Recorded. 
 
 [Upon the motion of George M'Colloch to this Court, 
 wherein he has Exhibited Certain Instances of David Sheep- 
 herds having acted out of the Line of his office as Command- 
 ing Officer of the Militia by commissioning certain officers of 
 Militia without the recommendation of this Court ; where- 
 upon this Court has thought that information thereof be made 
 to his excellency the Governor, praying that he may take 
 cognizance thereof as to him shall seem meet 
 
 Whereupon Colo. David Sheepherd came into Court and 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 17 
 
 produced sundry Commissions of Certain Gentlemen that he 
 had Commissioned in the time of this Court's Recess, & 
 pray 4 that the Court would regulate the sd Commissions as to 
 them shall seem meet as he acknowledges that he had no Inten- 
 tion to detract from the prerogative of this Court as he Conceives 
 that the urgent necessity of the times compell 4 him to act thus, 
 and further prays that this Court would proceed to recommend 
 suitable officers to fill up the sundry vacancies in the Militia.] 1 
 
 Jno. Hanly produc d an acknowledgment from Jacob Crow, 
 attested by Jno Williamson & James Caldwell, Gentlemen Jus- 
 tices, and others ; whereupon the sd Williamson & Caldwell, 
 Two of the subscribing witnesses, Came into Coart & attested 
 that the sd Crow had acknowledged the same before them, 
 Two of the subscribing Witnesses ; Ordered that the same be 
 recorded. 
 
 Colo. David Sheepherd came into Court & prays the opin- 
 ion of the Court as to whether he in the Case of his Commis- 
 sioning Certain Militia officers of this County without the 
 Recommendation of this Court for that purpose, was Inten- 
 tionally to detract from the prerogative of this Coart in that 
 Case or not, the Coart are of Opinion that he did not, Two 
 members Ignoramus. 1 
 (10) W? Scott enter"! Special Bail in the Case wherein Jesse 
 
 Martin is plaintiff & henry Martin def.' ; ordered that a didi- 
 mus be issued to take the Evidence of Jn° Isral, as well in 
 Behalf of Jesse Martin plaintiff & henry Martin defend!, Before 
 ]n° Williamson, Ja! Caldwell, Thos B Waller, Gentlemen Justices, 
 (n) W Williams came into Coart & entered himself Defend' in 
 the Case wherein Jesse Martin is plaintive, in a Case of 
 Ejectment. 
 
 W™ williams came into Court & entered himself defend! in 
 the Case wherein Jesse Martin is plaintiff in Ejectment. 
 
 Henry martin enters Special Bail in the Case wherein Jesse 
 Martin is plaintiff and W ra Williams Def! in ejectment. 
 
 Ordered that Sam'l m c Colloch 2 be admitted to administer 
 
 1 The portions above enclosed in [] are erased in the original ; Editor. 
 
 2 This was the famous Major McColloch, who, surrounded by Indians on the 
 high hill in the rear of Wheeling, made the famous horse-back leap over into Wheel- 
 ing Creek, and escaped unharmed. 
 
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 upon the Estate of his father Jn° M c Colloch, Deceas'. 4 he 
 Complying with the Law ; whereupon the s d Sam 1 produced 
 Jn° Mitchel, George m'Colloch, & Isaac Tayler as sureties, 
 who were approved accordingly. Ordered that Ebenezer 
 Zane, Jo 8ph Vanmetre, Benjamin Hammit, & Jno Wilson, or any 
 three of them, being first sworn, do appraise the sam & make 
 Return to next Court. 
 
 Ordered that a suppena be Issued to bring Joseph Wilson & 
 Mathias Ault before our next Court, to give evidence relative 
 to an orphan Child. 
 
 Tho s Waller produc 4 an Indenture Executed by hercules 
 Roony, & margret unsel. Binding a Certain henry unsel unto 
 s d Roony, adjudged by this Coart sufficient to Bind s a henry 
 agreeable to s d Indenture which was attested in open Court. 
 
 John Huff Enters Special Bail in the Case wherein hercules 
 Roony is plaintiff & Margret unsel and W m Hawkins defendant. 
 
 Order'd that the Clerk issue summons for Thos. Peak, Letty 
 Peak, Moses Sheepheard, Charles Bonner, Francis Sharnick, 
 Thomas hawkins, Tho 8 . waller, to give evidence in the Case 
 wherein Hercules Roony is plaintiff and Margret Unsel and W m 
 Hawkins defendant. 
 (12) agreeable to the Requisition of C. David Sheepherd this 
 
 Coart ordered to recommend to his honour, the Governour, 
 the following Gentlemen for Militia officers for this County, 
 viz : Conrad Stroup & Isaac Micks, as Lieut 8 & Jeremiah Dun, 
 William Biggs & Hugh M c Connel, as Ensigns of the Militia. 
 
 ordered that the Clerk issue Suppenas for Jn? Caldwell, Jno 
 Smith, to give evidence in the Case between hercules Roony 
 & margret unsel & W".' hawkins Deftf 
 
 Jn° Bodkin vs Peter Rentials, Continued. 
 
 W™ hawkins Enters special Bail in the Case wherein Jn° 
 Bodkin is plaintiff & Peter Rentials Defenl. 
 
 James Bochannon produced to this Coart a Commission from 
 his honour the Governour appointing him Capt of Militia which 
 was red and sworn to in open Coart. 
 
 William Caldwell enters special Bail wherein the Common- 
 wealth is plaintiff & James Caldwell Defendant, viz the Grand 
 Jury Court next. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned untill tomorrow at 
 eight of the Clock. Silas Hedges. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 19 
 
 Court met according to adjournment ; present Silas Hedges, 
 Thos Waller, W m Scott, & Zacharia Sprigg, Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Isaac Tayler Came into Court, and on the motion of David 
 Shipherd, high sheriff, si Tayler took the oath of deputy sheriff 
 in open Court. 
 
 Whereas Jn° NPColloch, Esq., late high sheriff for this 
 County, having Deceas*, ordered therefore that David Sheep - 
 herd, Silas Hedges & W m Scott be recommended to his Ex- 
 cellency the Governour and the honorable Council as high 
 sheriffs in his stead; & whereas this Court has never yet 
 Recommended a Coroner, ordered therefore that Zachariah 
 Sprig & Thos. Waller Esq rs be Recommended as Coroners. 
 
 Ordered that the sheriff be directed to summons a Grand 
 Jury against the next Court to be held in May next. 
 
 Ordered that W? Scott & James M c Mecken Esq™ be ap- 
 pointed to meet Certain Gentlemen Commissioners from the 
 County of Yohogany, for the settling the County line between 
 this & the Counties of Yohogania & the County of Mononga- 
 hala agreeable to act of Assembly, Return to our next Court. 
 (13) ordered that several Magistrates in this County do take the 
 
 list of tithables agreeable to the following precincts. Viz : 
 
 That James Caldwell, Esq., take the list of all the Tithables 
 on the waters of Wheeling Creek; & Zachariah Sprigg, Esq., 
 take those on the waters of short Creek ; Silas hedge, Esq! 1 , 
 all those on the waters of Buffalo Below Ezekiel Dewits ; & 
 Thof waller, Esq., all the Tithables on the South side of 
 Williamsons fork of Buffalo Creek & above Ezekeil Dewits ; & 
 Jn? Williamson, Esq!\, all those on the north side of Buffalo 
 above Andersons mill to the County line, south of and along 
 the Road from Andersons mill past Isaack Taylors leading to 
 Robt Cunninghams ; & William Scott, Esq., all those remain- 
 ing in the County. 
 
 Whereas Jn? M c Colloch & D! M c Clain, Esq!., are deceased, 
 & Thos poak not within the limits of this county & Abraham 
 . . . declines to qualify, Ordered that the following Gentlemen 
 be Recommended to his excellency the Governour as proper 
 persons to be added to the Commission of the peace in & for 
 the County, viz : Edward Robinson, George M'Cdlloch, James 
 Miller, Ebenezer Zane, David M°Clure, Sam! M c Colloch, Jos 
 
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 Boggs, Jn° Dodridge, Charles) Wells, Ja s .Gillaspy, Jun r . , & 
 whereas, in the former Commission of the peace for this 
 County, there must have been a Mistake in the Recommenda- 
 tion placing that of Silas prior to that of Soloman Hedges, s d 
 Soloman having formerly acted as Jude in the Coart of ham- 
 shire, this Court therefore would pray that Soloman aforesaid 
 be inserted the first in the List in the new Commission. 
 
 Ordered that Jn° Wrights, Jno Tilton, David English, 
 Eliazer Williamson, & Thos Williamson, be summoned to next 
 Coart to be qalified as Constables, to serve the insuing year. 
 
 Dan! Glallaspy ver Conrad Wheat, Continued 
 
 William hawkins ver Thos oge, Continued. 
 
 Jn? Caldwell ver Catherine Neel, Continued. 
 
 Isaac Tayler ver William Caldwell, Continued. 
 
 Charles Stephenson ver Rob't. Lemmon, Continued. 
 (14) W 1 ? Caldwell ver Isaac Tayler, dismissed, not legally served. 
 
 Rob' M°kin ver James Clark, Continued. 
 
 Isaac Tayler ver Nathan Templeton, C. O. in Ejectment. 
 
 Jn? hanly ver Rod. Walker, S B, Continued. 
 
 Joseph Wells ver Jn° Carpenter, Continued. 
 
 W™ Scott ver William Caldwell, Continued. 
 
 Ja s Gillaspy ver W m Caldwell. C. O. 
 
 Thos. Waller Esq. produced to this Court a recognisance 
 against Murty Hanly & W"? hawkins & James Patton as sure- 
 ties, Wherein the Commonwealth is plaintiff, & the said 
 Handly not appearing though solomly Called, nor either of 
 the sureties, it is Considered by the Court that a Common order 
 be Issued against s? Murty handly, W m Hawkins & James 
 Patton, or either of them, to answer at our next Coart to the 
 above Charge 
 
 Tho 8 Waller produc d to this Court a Recognisance, wherein 
 the Commonwealth is plaintiff & Isaac Foglor Defen d & no evi- 
 dence appearing, ordered that the s d Case be dissmissed, 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourn d until Coart in Coarse. 
 
 Silas Hedges. 
 
 At a Court Continued & held for Ohio County ; present Silas- 
 Hedges, Zachariah Sprigg, Jn? Williamson, & David Sheap- 
 herd, Gentlemen, 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 21 
 
 A Commission of the peace directed to David Sheepherd, 
 Solomon Hedges, Silas Hedges, David Rodgers, W™ Scott, James 
 M'Mechen, James Caldwell, Jn° Williamson, Zachariah Sprigg, 
 Thomas waller, Edward Robinson, George M c Colloch, James 
 Miller, Ebenezer Zane, David M c Clure, Sam! M"Colloch, 
 Jn° Boggs, Jn° Dodridge, Charles Wells & James Gillaspy, 
 Jun r . , w 1 ! Being Red the following Gentlemen named therein 
 took the oath of Justices of the peace & took their seats accord- 
 ingly, viz : Silas Hedges, Zachariah Sprigg, James Gillaspy, 
 Juny, Jn° Williamson, Jn° Doldridge, Jno. Boggs, & George 
 M°Colloch, Gentlemen. 
 
 A Commission from his Excellency the Governour, to David 
 Sheepherd appointing him High Sheriff of the County of Ohio 
 was red & swore to in open Court, whereupon s a Sheepherd 
 produs d Resin virgin, Joseph ogle, & Andrew Fouts, sureties, 
 & entered into Bond. 
 (15) Zacharia Sprigg, Gentlemen, took the oath of Coroner for 
 
 this County, a Commission from his Excellency the Governour 
 appointing him to that office being first red. 
 
 Letters of administration are granted to Margret alhauce on 
 the Estate of George alhauce, Deceas M , she Complying with 
 the Law ; whereupon the s a Margret product Ezekiel Dewit & 
 Thomas Waller as sureties. 
 
 Ordered that Barny Bonner, Alexander Douglas, Edward 
 Geater, & Jacob Lifier, or any three of them, they being first 
 sworn, do appraise the afores d Estate & make Report to next 
 Court. 
 
 Administration is granted to Susannah Burn & James Car 
 upon the Estate of Jonothan Burnn, Deceas d they Complying 
 with the Law ; whereupon the s d Susannah & James pro- 
 dusd Frederick Lamb & John Doldridge as Sureties, & entered 
 in to Bond and oath accordingly 
 
 Ordered that Tho s Clark, Arthor M^Connel, Andrew Scott 
 & David Reynolds, or any three of them, they being first sworn, 
 do appraise the good Chattle & Credits of s d Deceas d & make 
 report to next Court. 
 
 Ordered that Allen Steward be Bound unto James Gillaspy 
 agreeable to his acknowledgment & requisition before W m 
 Scott or any other Justice of the peace. 
 
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 Resin Virgin produs? to this Court a Commission from his 
 Excellency the governour appointing him Captain of the 
 Militia which was red & swore to accordingly. 
 
 Isaac Meeks produced to this Court a commission from his 
 Excellency the governour apointing him a Lieutenant of the 
 Militia which was Red & sworn to accordingly. 
 
 John Boggs produced to this Court a commission from his 
 Excellency the governour apointing him Lieutenant of Militia 
 which was Red & sworn to accordingly. 
 (16) Andrew Foutts produced to this Court a Commission from 
 
 his Excellency the governour apointing him an Ensign of 
 Militia which was Red & sworn to accordingly 
 
 ordered that Isaac Phillips & W Mi List be recommended to 
 his Excellency the governour as proper persons to serve as 
 officers in the Militia, Phillips as Lieutenant and List as Ensign. 
 
 Jona Simmons took the oath of Deputy sheriff in open 
 Court. 
 
 William Hawkins enters himself special for Peter Hildi- 
 brand at the suit of Jn? Tilton 
 
 Bargain & sail from Alexander Douglas to Jesse Hollings- 
 worth, for six hundred acres of Land, & ordered to be Re- 
 corded. 
 
 ordered that the Court be adjourned till tomorrow at eight 
 of the Clock at the house of Andrew Ramsay 
 
 Silas Hedges. 
 
 The Court met according to adjournment on the 2? day of 
 June, 1778. present Jn° Williamson, Zachariah Sprigg, Jn° 
 Boggs, James Gillaspy, George M'.Colloch & Silas Hedges, 
 Gentlemen Justices. 
 
 Ordered that James Henderson, an orphan Boy, be Bound 
 unto Joseph ogle, to Learn the Shoemakers Trade & Mystery, 
 Before any Justice of this County, aged ten years, Feb. 17 , 1778. 
 
 Solomon Hedges, Edward Robinson, & James M°Mechen, 
 Gentlemen named in the Commission of the peace for this 
 County, came into Court & took the oaths of Justice of the 
 peace accordingly. 
 
 ordered that Mary ogle, wife of Jacob ogle, deceas. 4 , killed 
 in the service of the United States, a Militia soldier of this 
 
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 County, be allowed the sum of twenty five pounds to enable 
 her to support herself & six small Children for the ensuing 
 year, & to draw on the Treasurer for the same. 
 
 Ordered that Sarah Clark, wife of Hezekiah Clark, a Regu- 
 lar enlisted soldier in the thirteenth Virginia Regiment, be 
 allowed for her own support & Two small Children for one 
 year, the sum of fifteen pounds, & that a draft for the purpose 
 issue to the treasurer. 
 (17) Zacharia Sprigg, with George McColloch Surety, Came in to 
 
 Court and executed a Bond of ^500 for the due Execution of 
 the office of Coroner for the County of ohio. 
 
 Ordered that the sheriff apply to Mr Richard Yates for per- 
 mission to make use of the district ' Jail to Imprison Delin- 
 quents during these difficult times of danger & want of Jail 
 at the Courthouse seat for this County, upon the most Reason- 
 able Terms possible. 
 
 Ordered that David Sheepherd, sheriff for this County, ad- 
 vertise to the Lowest undertaker the Building of the publick 
 Buildings for this County, agreeable to the Dimentions therein 
 Containd. 
 
 James Bruce produced to this Court a Commission from his 
 Excellency the Governour appointing him Ensign of the Mili- 
 tia, which was red and sworn to accordingly. 
 
 Upon the motion of Benjamin Biggs ordered that his ear 
 mark an upper half-peny marck & slit in the right & Brand 
 B B be recorded upon the near thigh. 
 
 Upon the motion of Nicholas Rodgers ordered that his 
 mark a S waller fork in the left ear & a crop in the right be 
 recorded 
 
 Upon the motion of George M°Colloch, ordered that his 
 mark a Crop off the left ear & slit in the same & under half 
 peny in the right be Recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of Zachariah Sprigg, order that his mark a 
 Crop in each ear & hole in the right ear be Recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of Isaac Tayler, orderd that his mark, a 
 Crop in the left Ear be Recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of Joseph ogle, ord that his mark a Crop 
 in the left ear and under bit in the same be Recorded. 
 
 1 This was the jail erected for the District of West Augusta, on the late Gabby farm, 
 just west of Washington. 
 
24 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Upon the motion of Tho? waller, orderd that his mark a 
 Crop & Slitt in each ear be Recorded. 
 
 Upon motion of James Gillaspy, Jun', orderd that his ear 
 mark a Crop & Slitt in the near ear & two slits in the off ear 
 be Recorded. 
 
 Jn° warford mov'd that his ear mark a Crop in the left ear 
 & under Bitt each be Recorded 
 (18) Upon the motion of Resin virgin ordered that his ear mark 
 
 a swallow fork in the right ear be Recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of Jn° Boggs order' d that his ear mark a 
 crop in each ear & hole in the right ear & Brand IB on the 
 sholder & Buttock be Recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of Edward Robinson, ordered that his ear 
 mark an upper half-peny in the right ear & under half peny in 
 the left be Recorded ; also the Brand E on the sholder & R 
 on the Buttock boath on the left side 
 
 Upon the motion of Jacob Newland, ordered that his mark 
 a Crop in the left ear & hole in the right be Recorded 
 
 Upon the motion of Charles Hedges ordered that his ear 
 mark an under half crop in the right & under bit in the same 
 & under bit in the left ear be recorded 
 
 Upon the motion of Andrew Fouts orderd that his ear mark 
 a Crop in the right ear & two under cross slits in the left ear be 
 recorded 
 
 Upon the motion of Jno. Harris, ordered that his mark a 
 crop and under slipe in each ear be Recorded 
 
 Upon the motion of James Andrews, ordered that his ear 
 mark a Crop in the right ear & under bit out of each ear be Re- 
 corded. 
 
 Upon the motion of Derick hoaglin, ordered that his ear 
 mark a swallow fork in the lift ear & under half peny in the 
 right be recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of James Newal, orderd that his ear mark 
 a Crop off the right ear & under bit out of the left be Recorded 
 
 Upon the motion of Ebenezer Zane, ordered that his mark 
 a Crop and slitt in the near ear & slitt in the off ear be Re- 
 corded 
 
 Upon the motion of Isaac Meeks, ordered that his mark a 
 Crop off the right ear & slitt in each ear be Recorded 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 25 
 
 (19) upon the motion of David Sheepherd, ordered that his mark 
 a Crop in the right & swallow fork in the left be Recorded. 
 
 A Recognisance against Sam! Mason, for disposing of & ex- 
 changing some of the Continental Stores at Fort Henry, Ex- 
 hibited by C- 1 . David Sheepherd ; whereupon the Defendant 
 came in to Court & acknowledgd the Charge in part ; where- 
 upon this Court have Considered that Sam! Mason afores? be 
 fined five pounds & Return into the hands of Co 10 Sheepherd 
 an equally good gun,' or the value thereof; valued by Raesin 
 virgin & Joseph hoge, sworn for that purpose, valued at 
 seventeen pounds ; furthermore it appears to this Court that 
 Sam! Mason afores 1 had exchangd his own property for the 
 stores aforesd with a Certain V. Doulton, D. Q. master in the 
 Continental service. 
 
 The Commonwealth v. Murty Hanly for Dissaffection to the 
 State, the breach of a penal [statute] for the punishment of 
 Certain offences ; the Defend! being Bound in Recognisance to 
 this Court, the def'dt came in to Court & pleads not guilty; 
 then came a Jury, viz : Resin Virgin, Jacob Newland, Benja- 
 min Biggs, Charles Hedges, Isaac Tayler, Joseph ogle, Derick 
 Hoaglin, W™ Biggs, Andrew Fouts, Oliver Gorrel, Jn° war- 
 ford & Jn.° Harris ; who Bring a verdict for the Common- 
 wealth. Mauty Hanly, guilty of speaking of offensive words 
 against the Commonwealth, to suffer imprisonment from now 
 to the first day of September next, then to pay a fine of ten 
 pounds & to be discharged then upon taking the oath of fidelity 
 or giving Security for his further Behavior. 
 
 W m Hawkins v. Edward Mills, in attachment, the sheriff 
 returns no goods found ; orderd to be dismissed with Costs to 
 plaintiff. 
 
 Upon the Motion of C! David Sheepherd, ordered that Re- 
 quisition be made to the worshipfull Justices of Yohogania 
 County, to Call upon the Commissioners for adjusting the 
 Boundary line Between the Coutnyf of Yohogania & Ohio as 
 
 (20) soon as possible & report their proceedings, so the Militia in 
 the disputed Territory may forthwith be Called upon if Re- 
 quir'd. 
 
26 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Absolam Sparks ver Jn° Carpenter, A Sum. 
 
 Joseph Wells ver Jn° Carpenter, C. o, in Eject. 
 
 W ra Scott ver William Caldwell, Continued. 
 
 Jn° Tilton v Jn° Bodkin, alias 
 
 James M°Mechen v Alexander Douglas ; the Defendt Came 
 in to Coart & acknowledged the debt in the plaintiffs Declara- 
 tion alledg"?. Wherefore, the Court have Consider? that the 
 s? douglass pay the sum of Twenty pounds fifteen shillings 
 Pen's money, of equal value to sixteen pounds twelve shillings 
 Virginia money & Costs 
 
 George Corn ver Jona Simmons, Continued 
 
 Rob't walker v. W ra Hawkins, C o 
 
 v. Jn? Hanly, alias 
 
 David M c Clure v Jeremiah Dunn, Dismiss' d 
 
 James Caldwell v Sam! Mason, Continued, the sf. Mason 
 entering himself Defendant. 
 
 Orderd that Isaac Tayler be allowd for his service of going 
 express to & Returning from Williamsbourgh, the sum of 
 Twenty five pounds. Likewise 1 2 shillings he paid upon the 
 Cards Consignd for this County, to be paid by the party that 
 may draw the same agreeable to Certificate. 
 
 Ordered that Soloman Hedges & Jn? Williamson, Gentle- 
 men, distribute the publick cards Consignd to this County 
 upon proper & sufficient Certificates to them produc.d 
 
 Orderd that the sheriff Collect a publick Tax of four & 
 Twenty shillings Poll upon all Tithables within this County, 
 & pay the same to the Different orders from this Court, Except- 
 ing the proportion Levy to the treasurer. 
 
 Isaac Tayler v Nathan Templeton, S. B. 
 
 Andrew Robinson v Conrad Wheat, C o 
 
 James Gillaspy v W m Caldwell & Jane, in Slander ; the 
 Defend william failing to appear thoug Solomly Call? by de- 
 fend, t and on order from this Court, on Motion of the plaintiff, 
 ordered that the same be forthwith try d . Whereupon then 
 Came a Jury as above, & bring a verdict for the plaintiff of 
 three pounds & Costs, & Damage 1 peney. 
 (21) Sprig v. Jeremia Dunn C. O. against William Hawkins for 
 Rescue. 
 
 Dan 1 Gillaspy v Conrad Wheat, Continued. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 27 
 
 W"P Hawkins v Conrad Wheat, Continued. 
 
 W? Hawkins v Tho s ogle, Continued. 
 
 Isaac Tayler v William Caldwell, C. O 
 
 Charles Stephenson v Rob! Lemmon, Dissmissed. 
 
 Jn° Bodkin v Peter Rentials, Cont. 
 
 Hercules Roany v Margret unsel, 1 
 v William Hawkins, j 
 
 Jn° Hanly v Rob't Walker, Continued. 
 
 Jesse Martin ve Henry Martin, Continued, 
 ver W m William, Continued, 
 ver Elisabeth Cunningham, the same 
 
 David Sheepherd protests against the sufficiency of the Jail 
 of this County. 
 
 James Gillaspy ver James Caldwell, C. O. 
 
 Ordered that David Martin, David Cox, John Ferguson, 
 Henry Martin, be appointed Constables to serve the Ensuing 
 year, & that they be summond to swair into said office be- 
 fore the nearest Magistrate Respectively. 
 
 Isaac Tayler v william Caldwell, in Case, came the parties, 
 & the Defendant pleads the general Issue, whereupon there 
 Came a Jury, viz : Resin virgin, Jacob Newel, Benjamin Biggs, 
 Charles Hedges, John Harris, John Carpenter, Derrick Hoag- 
 lin, W™ Biggs, Andrew Fouts, oliver Gorril, Joseph ogle; 
 Jn° warford, who being sworn & impanel"? find for the 
 plantiff the sum of i shilling damage. It is considered by the 
 Court that this Judgment be discharge by payment of one hun- 
 dred and sixty pounds Current money of the State & Costs in 
 that Behalf Expended. 
 (22) William Caldwell Enters special Bail for Nathan Templeton 
 
 at the suit of Isaac Tayler 
 
 Ordered that it be a Rule in future in this Court to hold 
 Courts for the trial of Jury Cases only in the months of Martch, 
 May, august, and November. 
 
 Isaac Tayler took the oath of Deputy Clerk for this County 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned till Court in Coars. 
 
 Solomon Hedges. 
 
 At a Coart Continued and held by adjournment for Ohio 
 
28 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 County July the 6'! 1 1778 ; Press' nt Solomon Hedges, Edward 
 Robinson, Silas Hedges, George McColloch, Esq! Gentlemen. 
 
 Jacob Wolf produced to this Court a comission from his Ex- 
 cellency appointing him Lieutenant of the Militia of this 
 County, which was Read & sworn to accordingly. 
 
 W" 1 Leet & David English produc'd to this Court Commis- 
 sions from his Excellency appointing them Ensigns of Melitia, 
 which was Read & sworn to Accordingly. 
 
 James Caldwell mentioned in the didimus came into Court 
 and took the Oath of a Justice of the Peace & took his Seat. 
 
 David English being summoned as Constable to serve in that 
 office, and took the oath agreeable thereto in open Court. 
 
 George McColloch Enters special bail for W™ Hakins in a Case 
 wherein James Smith is plaintiff & the s d Hakins is Defendant. 
 
 At the motion of James Smith it is ordered that a Didimus 
 to Thomas Freeman, W m Goe, & Joshue Wright, or any two 
 of them, to take the Evidence of Johnston Campbell & Hugh 
 Brison, in behalf of the Defendant & plaintiff, as also Benj? 
 Parkison &c. 
 
 John Carpenter enters himself Defendant in a Case wherein 
 Joseph Wells is plaintiff in Ejectment, and Thomas Nichols 
 Entrs himself Defendant at the suit of Rizon Virgin on an 
 Ejectment. 
 (23) Jacob Wolf Enters himself Defendant at the suit of James 
 
 McBride in Ejectment. Chrisly Wolf Enters himself Defen- 
 dant in the suit wherein James M'bride is plaintiff in Eject- 
 mont. 
 
 ordered that this Court be adjourned to Court in Course. 
 
 Solomon Hedges. 
 
 The Court met according to adjournment, August the 3 d , 
 1778. Present Solomon Hedges, Silas Hedges, James Cald- 
 well & James Gillespy, Gentlemen. 
 
 David McClure, Charles Wells, James Miller & W m Scott, 
 being mentioned on the didimus, came into Court & took the 
 oath of Justices of the Peace, & took their seats accordingly 
 
 David McClure produced to this Court a commission from 
 his Excellency appointing him Lieutenant Colonel of Melitia 
 for this County, which was red & sworn to accordingly 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 29 
 
 Ordered that a didimus Issue to take evidence of Cap' 
 Bohanar in behalf of Rob Walker against W? Hakins & that 
 David M c Clure & W? Scott Do take this examination 
 
 Eloner Cox & Israel Cox Produced to this [Court] the Last 
 will & testament of Gabrial Cox, Deceased, & the same was 
 Proved in open Court & Ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Ordered that Jn° Huff, Benj a Biggs, Jn? Biggs & Derick 
 Hogland, Do Appraise the Estate of gabrill Cox, Deceasd, and 
 make report to next Court. 
 
 Whereupon Eleoner Cox produced to this Court Thomas 
 M c Guire & Francis M°Guire as Secureties & entrd into bond 
 & oath accordingly 
 
 Ordered that Eloner Cox & Israel Cox be admitted to ad- 
 minister on the afforsd Estate. 
 
 Ordered that Jemima Buckey be admitted to administer on 
 the Estate of her husband she complying with the Law Where- 
 upon the Last Will & Testament of s d Buckey was Producd in 
 Court & Provd & ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Whereupon s a Eloner Product Levi Mills as a surety who 
 was approved of accordingly & entered into bond 
 
 Ordered that Samuel M°colloch, Jn° Mitchel, Joseph Van- 
 metter & Jn? Willson, they being first sworn, do aprais the s d 
 (24) Estate & make report to next Court. 
 
 Andrew moore enters himself Defendant in a case wherein 
 W m Haskins is plaintiff in Ejectment. 
 
 Robert Heger enters special bail for Andrew Moore in a case 
 wherein W m Hawkins is plaintiff & sd moore Defendnt, in an 
 action of Trespass. 
 
 W™ Scott enters special bail for James Galaspy at the suit of 
 W!" Caldwell, in a case of Tresspass & Detener. 
 
 John Tilton came into Court & took the oath of a Constable 
 
 Thomas M°guire enters himself special Bail for Jn°. Carpenter 
 at the suit of Nicholas Rogers, in a case of Trover & conversion 
 
 Joseph Hedges producd to this Court a Certificate from 
 under the hand of Silas Hedges, Gent., of his taking up two 
 stray Heifers with a Description of them, they being apraisd at 
 _^3 Each. Ordered that they be Advertised by the Clerk 
 agreeable to Law & recorded. 
 
 Silas Hedges producd in Court a Certificate Certifid by Solo 
 
30 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 mon Hedges, Gen!, of his being the taker up of a stray steer 
 apraisd to £&. Ordered that the same be advertisd accord- 
 ing to Law & recorded. 
 
 Ordered that Catherine Smith, wife of Samuel Smith, a 
 regular Enlisted soldier in the 13 th Virginia regiment, be alowed 
 the sum of seven pounds Ten shillings to support herself and 
 Three small Children for the Ensuing six months, and that a 
 draught Issue to the Treasurer for that purpose. 
 
 Absolum Sparks vir Jn? Carpenter, P S. Then cam the 
 parties & the Defendant pleads the general Issue & the same is 
 ordered to lye over till tomorrow until the defendant has the 
 benefit of his evidence. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned until tomorrow morn- 
 ing at six o'clock. 
 
 Solomon Hedges. 
 
 Court met according to adjournment, August 4'? 1778, Pres- 
 ent, Solomon Hedges, Silas Hedges, James Caldwell, James 
 Gallespy, & James Miller. 
 
 Isaac Phillips producd to this Court a commission from his 
 Excelency appointing him Second Lieutenant of Militia, which 
 was red and sworn to accordingly 
 
 Upon the motion of Francis M c guire, ordered that his ear 
 mark two swallow forks & an under bit in the Left ear be 
 recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of W m Harvey, it is orderd that his ear 
 mark a crop in the Left ear a slit in the right and a half Crop 
 be recorded. 
 (25) Upon the motion of Luke Seermehok (?), ordered that his 
 
 ear mark a swallow fork in the right ear & a whole in the Left 
 be recorded. 
 
 upon the motion of James Moore, it is ordered that his ear 
 mark a slit in the Left ear & an uper bit out of the right be 
 recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of John Carpenter, it is ordered that his 
 ear mark a swallow fork in the off ear two nicks, one on each 
 side of the neer ear, and Brand I. C. on the neer shoulder be 
 recorded. 
 
 Upon the motion of Andrew Ramsey it is orderd that his 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 31 
 
 ear mark a crop of the right ear and an under bitt under the 
 same & a swallow fork in the Left be recorded 
 
 upon the motion of Jonas Simons, it is ordered that his ear 
 mark a Crop of the neer ear & an under bitt under the off Do 
 be recorded. 
 
 Ordered that David Inglish be recommended a' Captain to 
 his Excellency the governer, And Luke Enlow, a Lieutenant 
 & Thomas Ryeres as Ensign. 
 
 David M c clure, Gent, absent. 
 
 An attachment David Mcclure on the goods & chatties of 
 Alexander Dooglas, the sheriff returns that by virtue of sd at- 
 tachment he hath attachd the following effects : two potts, one 
 frying pan, 2 wheels, 1 bed stead, 1 Churn, 1 Barrel, Twelve 
 sheep, four cows & calves, & one hefer, in the hands of Satrtuel 
 Mason, Thomas Peak & W? Hawkins, and the said Alexander 
 Douglas being solemnly called does not appear, Whereupon 
 the said mason producs Hugh Siddwel an evidence, who being 
 sworn saith he saw Samuel Mason Purchase the above articles 
 of sd Dooglas, & the Coart is of opinion that the sale is good, 
 & Thomas Peak & Samuel mason was sworn as garnishee, & 
 nothing apers in their hands Except a side of Lether, in the 
 hand of Mason, when taned. 
 
 Upon the motion of Samuel white, orderd that his ear mark 
 a Under bitt out of each ear & a Slitt in the right be recorded. 
 
 On the motion of Jn° M c Cormick, orderd that his ear mark 
 a Crop of the Left ear a Slit & under bitt in the right be re- 
 corded. 
 
 Upon the motion of Henry Levens ordered that his mark a 
 crop and Slitt in the right ear & a hole & half crop in the Left 
 be recorded. 
 
 On motion of Isaac Phillips, it is ordered that his mark a 
 crop of the Left ear & a slitt & upper bitt in the right be 
 recorded. 
 
 On the motion of Jn° Biggs, ordered that his mark a swallow 
 fork in the Left & a hole in the right ear, Brand I B on the 
 neer shoulder, be recorded. 
 
 David English product in this Court a commission from his 
 Excellency apointing him a captain of the Melitia which was 
 red & sworn to accordingly, recorded. 
 3 
 
32 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 (26) Luke Enlow producd a commission from his Excellency ap- 
 pointing him a Lieutenant of Melitia which was red & sworn 
 to accordingly 
 
 The issue Absolum Sparks against John Carpenter, in case, 
 by petition & summons, is ordered for a hearing. Then came 
 the parties and Pleads upon the Issue joined as in Debt for one 
 Deer skin, & the Court gives a Judgment for the plaintiff to 
 have his account of £1.. 10.. & Costs in this behalf Expended. 
 
 Henry Nelson an Evidence, 2 days attendance allowed. 
 
 Jesse Martin Trespass and Detiune. 
 
 vs Dismissd at Pffs Request 
 
 Henry Martin. 
 
 It appearing to the Court Rowland Martin an Evidence be 
 allowed two days attendance — ordered that he be allowed 
 for the same 
 
 Jesse Martin ( Ejectment. 
 
 vs < The Deft appears & enters himself 
 
 Harry Martin (. Defendant in the Cause 
 
 Jesse Martin Ejectment. 
 
 vs The sheriff returns that he served this 
 
 Dement ejectment on Dement, the Defendant ; 
 
 whereupon Rawly Martin, a Serjeant in Capt Scotts Company 
 in the service of the United States, informs the Court on oath 
 that he is materialy concerned in the ejectment, and if the 
 same is tried when he may be ordered to some other state and 
 consequent be not able to attend, the Court [m pursuance of 
 the Orders of the Honble the Continental Congress direct that 
 no further proceedings be had thereon till the sd Martin is 
 discharged. 
 
 James Gillespy Gent Absent. 
 
 James Gillespy Gent 
 
 v In Case 
 
 William Caldwell Then came the Ptff and the De- 
 
 & Jane Caldwell fendant Jane Caldwell personally ap- 
 
 peared in Court and prays that this Cause may be enquired of 
 (27) by the Country to which the Plff having signified and both 
 parties being willing to have the same tried without the for- 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 33 
 
 mality of a Declaration, The Sheriff is commanded that he 
 summon Twelve good and lawful men of his County to appear 
 here in Court immediately ; Whereupon Jesse Martin W 1 ?. 
 Buchannon, Joseph Wells, John Carpenter, Jacob New land, 
 Rezin Virgin, Derich Hogland, Ja s Garrison, Samuel Mason, 
 John Harris, Benjamin Biggs and James Clemons, who duly 
 elected and sworn on their oaths do say they find for the De- 
 fendant one Penny damage and one penny Cost 
 
 Evidinces, 7. 
 
 Nicholas Maulson Trepass & Detinue, 
 
 v Then came the parties and jointly prayed 
 
 John Donavan that the Differences between them may 
 
 be enquired of by the Country without the form of a Declara- 
 tion. Ordered that the Sheriff is commanded that he cause a 
 jury to come before the Court immediately to enquire of the 
 same ; Whereupon David English, W™ Hawkins, W m Caldwell, 
 James Asby, Isaac Philips, Sam 1 M°Bride, John Warford, Isaac 
 Meek, Rawley Martin, Harvey Martin, Samuel Osburn & 
 W" Williamson, who being duly elected and sworn do say on 
 their oaths that there is nothing for the plantif by his suit. 
 
 Ordered that the sherif do sumons a grand Jury to attend at 
 November Coart. 
 
 Robt Walker vr. W ra Hawkins, in Trepass & Detinue Con- 
 tinued. 
 
 W m Hawkins enters special bail for Joseph Arnold at the 
 suit of Nicholas Maulson. 
 
 Ordered that a didimus issue to take the Deposition of 
 (28) Rawley Martin before Zacharia Sprigg & Silas Hedge, at the 
 suit of Jesse Martin and Harry Martin in Ejectment, and on 
 behalf of W m Williams likewise, he being a Soldier & of Conse- 
 quence must be absent. 
 
 Ordered that the sheriff Collect Twenty shillings & sixpence 
 off of every Tithable within this County as a County Levy & 
 the sum of Three shillings & six Pence as a proportion Levy, 
 & Double that sum from all Who refuse to take the Oath of 
 Allegiance, That is above sixteen years of age. 
 
 Orderd that David M°clure's attachment against Dooglas be 
 continued over to next Coart. 
 
34 Annals ok the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that the balance due on a bond attached in the 
 hands of Samuel Mason after deducting ^5 of discount, be 
 paid to David M c clure on account of his attachment. 
 
 John Bodkins v. Peter Renchals, in Defamation, ordered 
 that the cause be Dismist for non Prosecution. 
 
 Joseph Wells v. Jn? Carpenter, Ejectment, Dismist. 
 
 George Corn v John Seamons, Defraud, Continued to next 
 Court at the Cost of the Plaintiff. 
 
 Joseph Tumbleston v Sam! Mason, in ace', the plantift not 
 appearing tho solomly Called to Prosecut, Ordered that the 
 s? suit be Dismist. 
 
 Upon the Evidence of David Shepherd Exhibited to this 
 court upon oath of Jn? Huff's assaulting this court, order'd that 
 the s? Huff be find the sum of Six Dollors & remain in Custody 
 of the sheriff Until paid, & then Dismist w* Costs. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned untill Coart in Course. 
 
 Solomon Hedges. 
 
 (28) At a Coart continued and held for Ohio County the 7 1 ? day 
 of September 1778 
 
 Present, Silas Hedges, David M c Clure, James Gillespy, 
 John Boggs, EdT Robinson, John Williamson, Gentlemen 
 Justices. 
 
 Mr James M°Mechen, Clerk of this Court, being down the 
 Country, the Court proceeded to appoint James Berwick Clerk 
 for the present Court who took the oath accordingly. 
 
 Absent David M c Clure, Gent. 
 
 David M c Clure Gent produced two Letters signed James 
 M c Mecken, relative to his being appointed Clerk of this 
 County. Ordered that the same be rejected and the said 
 Letters filed among the records of this Court. 
 
 David M'Clure, Gent, Present 
 
 Isaac Taylor entered into Bond and Security to finish the 
 Goal and Court house for this county the court house by the 
 1" March next, and the Prison by the i 8 .' May next; Ordered 
 that the sheriff do advance Mr Taylor the sum of fifty pounds 
 and take Mr Taylors receipt for the same. 
 
 Isaac Taylor acknoweldged a Bill of Sale to George Cor- 
 rothers for 200 acres of Land, which, is ordered to be recorded. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 
 
 35 
 
 Report of the Commissioners of the County Line between 
 this County & County of Yohogania returned, & confirmed by 
 the Court and ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Two Depositions of Raleigh Martin, a Soldier in the Con- 
 tinental service, ordered to be filed in the office 
 
 (29) 
 
 (3°) 
 
 Hugh Gillilan 
 
 v Jeremiah Dunn, S. B. 
 
 Annaniah Davis 
 Zephaniah Dunn. 
 
 Jeremiah Dunn enters himself Defendant in a Action of 
 Ejectment at the suit of David M°Clure. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to the Court in Course 
 
 Silas Hedges 
 
 Summons to Sept™ 1778. 
 
 Hawkins v Kintelo, continued 
 
 Martin v Tuel, contnd 
 
 Flavin v Mason, contd 
 
 Appearance &c to Sept m 1778. 
 
 Huff v Berwick, contd 
 
 Berwick v Huff, contd 
 
 Same v Same, contd 
 Tomlinson v Mason, contd 
 
 McClure v Dunn (Ejectment), contd 
 
 Virgin v Brounlee, contd. 
 
 Taylor v Caldwell, contd 
 
 Caldwell v Taylor, contd 
 
 Wells v Carpenter, contd Ejectm. 
 
 Hawkins v Kentielo, contd do 
 
 Walker v Handley, Plu Caps 
 
 Tilton v Bodkins, Al Caps 
 
 Martin v Leet, Alias Capias 
 
 Drennin v Nemons, Al Caps 
 
 Markland v McBride, Al Caps 
 
 At a Court held for Ohio County on Monday, November 
 2 a , 1778; Present Solomon Hedge, Silas Hedge, W m Scott, 
 Geo. M c Colloch, James Caldwell, Charles Wall. 
 
36 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Philip Pendleton & Geo. Brent, Gent™ took the oath of 
 Attorney at Law and is admitted to practice as such in this 
 Court. 
 
 Philip Pendleton Gent is appointed as a Deputy Common- 
 wealth Atty for this County till some person is appointed by 
 the Governor. 
 
 On the motion of John Moore seting forth his great age & 
 Infirmits, It is Ord that he be for the future Exempted from 
 the Payment of levy in this County James M c Machen the 
 Clerk having removed himself out of this State and neglected 
 to do his duty as such. It is ordered that a Complaint be 
 Entered in the General Court against him for the same. 
 
 Admon of the Estate of Thomas Glenn, dec d , is granted to his 
 Widow Elizabeth Glenn, she having Complied with the Law 
 
 Ord that John Mitchell, Ebenezer Zanes, Levy Mills, Jos. 
 Vanmeter, or any 3, app the Estate. 
 
 The Court having ordered a Complt to be lodged against 
 James M c Mechan as Clerk of this county & he being out of this 
 State the Court doth appoint David M c Clure Clerk until the 
 same shall be determined, & thereupon the s d McClure took the 
 Oath of a Clerk. 
 
 Grandjury for this County being called, James Clemons was 
 sworn as foreman, and then Jacob Newland, Jacob Peat, James 
 Moore, James Andrew, Samuel Mason, Jesse Dement, anna- 
 niah Davis, Ezekiel Biggs, Benjamin Biggs, Nicholas Rogders, 
 James Newell, Thomas Gilliland, John Huff, John Mitchell, 
 Jacob Drenning, & Ebenezer Martin was sworn 
 (31) David Williamson took the Oath of Captain of the Militia of 
 
 the County which he produced in Court & O Certified 
 
 Samuel Williamson prod an Ensign Com of the Militia, took 
 the Oath & Ordered to be Certified present, James Gillespie, 
 Gent. 
 
 Upon examining Isaac Ellis, John Downing, W m Williams 
 and John Baker, who was suspected of the murder of James 
 Caldwell & Sam! Kennady, are of the opinion that they are not 
 Guilty, & that they be discharged. 
 
 Ord that Jacob Lefler, Edward Gaither, James Brownlee & 
 Sam! Mason, or any 3, app the Est of Geo Allhaunts, dec d , & 
 report the app, the former appraiser failing to return the ap- 
 praisement. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 37 
 
 On the Motion of Jacob Lefler seting forth that he was secy 
 for Margt Unsel (who is since married to Peter Kintelo) for 
 her admon of the Estate of Henry Wall, & that it app that he 
 is Likely to suffer, It is ordered that the s d Margt & peter be 
 summoned to appear at the next [Court] to deliver her up the 
 Est or give him Counter Security. 
 
 The Grandjury having made several presentments, It is ord 
 that the Several defts be Sum 1 ?. 
 
 Orderd that the Court be adjd until tomorow morning 8 
 oclock Silas Hedge. 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Ohio County November 
 3, 1778, Prest Solomon Hedge, Sila Hedge, James Caldwell, 
 W m Scott, James Galespie, Geo M°Colloch. 
 
 Ord that William Price, a bastard child of Sarah Price, of 
 the age of two years, be bound according to Law to John 
 Waits on his motion. 
 
 Present Edward Robertson. 
 
 Ordered that the sheriff of this County pay Richard Yeats 
 Six pounds it being this County's proportion of the district 
 Goal out of the Money by him collected of the Tithables in this 
 County. 
 
 Ordered that the sheriff pay Abraham Vanmetre Twenty 
 pounds for the Lands which the County took to build a Court 
 house and prison on, out of the Money by him collected of the 
 Tithables in this County. 
 (32) Admons of the Estate of Frances Duke, dec?, is granted to 
 Col David Shepherd, he having Complied with the Law. 
 
 Ord that Jacob Newland, Charles Headges, John Mitchell, 
 & Joseph Vanmeter, or any 3, app the Estate. 
 
 Galespie v Wheat, Con d 
 
 Mitchell v Hamell, dis d by pit 
 
 Hawkins v Ogle, con 1 
 v Wheat, con d 
 
 Caldwell v Neal, discon d 
 
 Delong v Flanagan, Cond. 
 
 Stephanson v Lemenon, descd. 
 
 MfQuire v Clark, Cond 
 
 Taylor v Templeton, a dedim to take the Dep s of Wit s in 
 the State of Pennsylvania. 
 
38 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Handley v Walker, conl 
 
 Raaney v Unsel & Hawkins, 
 
 Handley v Walker, cond. 
 
 Martin v Williams, Cond. 
 
 Cunningham, Cond. 
 
 Scott v Caldwell, Sp. Imp. B. 
 
 Taylor v Caldwell, 
 
 Tilton v Bodkin, dis°, no Inhab. 
 v Hillibrand, Cond. 
 
 Com v Lemons, Cond. 
 
 Walker v Hawkins & Handl, Cond 
 
 Caldwell vs Spindall, Saml Mason Enters himself def & Con- 
 fesses the Lease Entry & ouster pleads N. G. A Demidmus to 
 take the Dep a of Wits P. 
 
 Crow v Handley, Co. 
 
 Douglas v M°Guire, dis d no app. 
 
 Smith v Hawkins, Cond. 
 
 M°bride v Spindall ; Jacob & Chrisley Wolf enter themselves 
 deft, Confess the Lease Entry & ouster plead N. G. joined." P. 
 
 Virgin v Nichols, cond. 
 
 Maulson v Arnold, cond. 
 
 Gilliland v Dunner, agreed. 
 
 Caldwell v Zane, agreed. 
 
 English v Clark, Disd. 
 
 Martin v Martin, Ejec. Cond. 
 
 Galespie v Templeton, agd. 
 
 Hawkins v Moore, agd. 
 (33) Rodgers v Carpenter, Cond. 
 
 Jesse Martin v R. Martin, Cond. 
 
 McClure v Douglas, dis by pit. 
 
 McClure v Dunn, Ct. 
 
 Caldwell v Galespie, Emp. P. 
 
 Huff v Berwick, Cond. 
 
 Berwick v"Huff, Cond. 
 Huff, Cond. 
 
 Drenen v Neinans, agd. 
 
 Hawkins v Kintole, Cond. 
 
 Wells v Carpenter, Cond. 
 
 Hawkins v Kintole, Cond. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 39 
 
 Tomlinson v Mason, Cond. 
 
 Glenn v Douglas, discond. 
 
 Garrison v Shepherd, agd. 
 
 Martin v Tuell, agd 
 
 Martin v Leek, cond. 
 
 Hawkins v Mason, agd. 
 
 Hawkens v Kentoll, Cond. 
 
 Markland v M°bride, NG, with leave Nom 1 ! B 
 
 Virgin v Brownlee, Cond. 
 
 Caldwell v Taylor, Sp. Imp. P. 
 
 Taylor v Caldwell, Sp. Imp. B. 
 
 Kintolle & wife v Wall, Cond. 
 
 Clemans v Lane ■ \ John Waits, Spl in both suits & agreed 
 
 Lane i deft paying Costs 
 Drenin v Jolly, Ind. 
 
 Gillyard v Hawkins, Samuel Mason, Sp. Imp. B. 
 Caldwell v M c Mechen, dismd, no Inhab, Taylor, C. 
 
 Present Zachariah Sprigg, Gent. 
 
 The Last will & test of Samuel Wheat, dec'd, was proved by 
 Zachariah Sprigg & Geo M c Colloch, two of the wit, & OR, & 
 at the Motion of Jemima Wheat & Isaac Meek, the Est therein 
 named Cert is granted them for Obtaining a probate, they 
 having Compd with the Law : Ord that James Miller, Derick 
 Hogland, Joseph Hedges & And™ Ramsey, or any 3, app 
 (34) the Est. 
 
 Then the Court proceeded to Lay the County Levy : 
 
 To John Biggs, by account ^21 21- 0-0 
 
 To William Scott, by account, £ 8- 0-0 
 
 To Philip Pendleton, Gent, as deputy Commonwealth atty £50- 
 
 To Isaac Tayler, by account, 8 
 To David Shepherd, Gent, for extra services for 3 months 
 
 310 tob. 
 To also 230 tob. for extra services, for 12 months, 9-12- 
 To James McMechin, by ace for extra services & for at- 
 tending the running of the county line, 1 1- 2-6 
 To the sheriff for collection, 1 2-1 5-0 
 To a deposition in the sheriff's hands, 81-18-0 
 By 352 tithables a n s. 6 p. each 202- 8-0 
 
40 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ord that the sheriff Collect of every tithable person in the 
 County n/6, it being the County Levy for this County. 
 
 David Shepherd, Gent, with Secy, acknowledged their bond 
 for his Collection of the County Levy. 
 
 Ord that Ezekiel Dewitt, Jeremiah Dunn, Edwd Smith, & 
 Zachariah Sprigg, or any 3 of them, view the Most Convenient 
 way for a road from the Court House to Annaniah Davis's Mill 
 & mak report of the Conv. & Inconv thereof to the next Court. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned until the Court in 
 Course. Solomon Hedge. 
 
 (35) At a Court held for Ohio County on monday the 1st day of 
 March, 1779. 
 
 Present, Solomon Hedges, Silas Hedges, James Caldwell, 
 Edward Robinson, & Charles Wells, Gent. — Present James 
 Miller. 
 
 M c Robbin 
 
 v Attachment 
 
 Kerr, Frederich Lamp, Didimus issue to take evidence 
 
 for Pit. 
 
 Ordered that Rawley Martin, an Orphan Child About 14 
 years of age, be bound to Henry Martin according to Law. 
 
 Crow v Hanley, Ordered that Didimus issue to examine 
 pits evidences. 
 
 Ordered that David Hall, an orphan Child of three years of 
 Age, be bound to Nathaniel Redford according to Law. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Nathaniel Redford to James Caldwell 
 for six hundred acres of Land & O R 
 
 Present, James Gillespie, Gent. 
 
 Henry Leven came into Court & took the Oath of Ensign of 
 the Militia & O R to be Certified 
 
 Letters of Administration is Granted to Jacob Reager on 
 the Estate of Thos. Worthington, he Complying with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that Ebenezer Zane, Conrad Stroup, Saml McCol- 
 loch, & Yeates Conaor, or any three of them, being first sworn, 
 do app". s the Estate. 
 
 The Last will & Testament of Thos Worthington, deceased, 
 was proved by Ebenezer Zane & Samuel Mason, two of the 
 Witnesses & O R. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 41 
 
 (36) Ordered that John Mitchell, John Willson, John Wiaths, & 
 John M°Colloch, or any three of them, being first sworn, do 
 app a . s the Estate of John Bukey, Dec a . 
 
 Ordered that the Adm of Henry Walls Estate Granted to 
 Peter & Margarett Kintialo, alias Unsell, be revoked, Being 
 Granted contrary to Law, & that the Same be Granted to 
 Catherine Wall, Widow, who Entered into Bond 
 
 Certificate of a Stray rec d and O R. 
 
 Orderd that W m Peak, Thos Waller, Sam 1 . Mason, & James 
 Clemens, or any three of them, being first sworn do app"* the 
 Estate. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from W" Hawkins to James Caldwell for a tract 
 of Land & OR. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Jesse Martin to Thos Holbore & John 
 Batsell for a tract of Land & O.R. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from W m Hawkins to Thos Edgington for a 
 tract of Land & O.R. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from John Boggs to James Clerk for 400 
 Acres of Land & OR 
 
 Certificate of Stray Hogs recd & O.R. 
 
 Appraismt of the Estate of Samuel White is returned to 
 Court & OR. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Walter Jerdon & Henry Moore for a 
 tract of Land to John Mecombs & OR. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from W™ Caldwell to James Fisk for a tract 
 of Land & O.R. 
 
 B & S from W? Caldwell to W m Williams ackd & O.R. 
 
 Steel ") Case dam ^250. 
 
 v I W m Hawkins Enters S.B. 
 Dewitt j 
 
 (37) Samuel Irwin took the Oath of An Atty at Law & is Ad- 
 mitted to Preach as Such in this Court. 
 
 The Last will & testament of James Leper was proved in 
 Court by Arch d Brownlee & John Gibby, & OR, and on the 
 Motion of Margarett Leper, Certificate is granted her on the 
 estate of James Leper, she having complyd with the Law. 
 Ordered that John Brownlee Sam 1 buyers, Chas Dodd, & John 
 Allison, or any three of them being first sworn do app rs the 
 Same 
 
42 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 B. & S. from Matthias Allto to Joseph Alixander ackw & 
 0. R. 
 
 Ordered that Isaac Taylor, James Andrew Piter Killer & 
 John Bess, or any three of them, being first sworn do view the 
 the nearest & best way for a Road from the Court house to 
 Annaniah Davis Mill & make report of the Conveniences & 
 Inconveniences of the Same 
 
 B. & S. from John Carpenter to Francy Ryley Acknowl- 
 edged & OR 
 
 Grand Jury Presentments 
 Commonwealth v SamueJ Grahams ; Not Guilty 
 Thos M°Guire, 
 Walter Jordon ; Not Guilty. 
 Peter Keller ; Fined. 
 Kenneth M c Clellend, Fined. 
 W m Biggs ; Fined 
 Ordered that the Court adjourn untill 8 OClock tomorrow 
 
 Edw. Robinson 
 
 The Court met according to Adjournment, 2 n . d March 
 
 Present, Soloman Hedge, Silas Hedge, Chaf Wells, & James 
 Gillespie, Gent. 
 
 B & S from Hercules Roney to Joseph Alexander, Acknowl- 
 edged and O.R. 
 
 B & S from Isaac Taylor to W™ Polk proved by one witness 
 & orderd to Lie for further Proof 
 
 Present, Edward Robinson, Gent, John Boggs, & James 
 Miller, Gent™. 
 
 Markland ~\ 
 (38) v V Discontinued 
 
 M c Bride ) 
 
 Grand Jury presentments James Gillespie Gent Enters his 
 Dissent 
 
 Markland ~\ Ordered that Joseph Arnold & Jeremiah Arnold 
 v >■ Each be allowed two days for attendance as 
 M°Bride J witnesses in this Action 
 
 M'Clure v Douglas Attach 1 ! Judgment & Sam 1 Mason Con- 
 fesses he has Ten Shillings in his hands 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 43 
 
 On the motion of Matthias Alts Ordered that his mark the 
 Left Ear a Crop & Slitt & the right Ear half Crop & O.R. 
 Commonwealth v. M c Guire Not guilty to which 
 B & S from Isaac Taylor to David Williamson acknowledged 
 & OR. 
 
 Lamb ) Ejectment 
 
 v. >- Ordered that Didimus Issue to take witnesses 
 Dewitt ) Depositions for pit 
 
 M°Bride \ Eject 
 
 v > Ordered that Didimus Issue to take Witnesses 
 Wolf ) Depositions 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff Summons a Grand jury to attend 
 next may Court 
 
 Commonwealth v. John Warford, the Atty for Deft objects 
 to the validity of the Grand jury, Annanias Davis, one of 
 them, being an occupier of a Mill ; upon hearing the same the 
 Court is of Opinion that the Same be quashed. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff pay the money for the Publick 
 buildings as soon as collected to Isaac Taylor, Rob' Taylor — 
 (David Williamson Jacob Wolf Sarah Taylor David William- 
 son Jacob Wolf) 
 
 Ordered that Matthias Alt be allowed the Sum of fifteen 
 pound for keeping Joseph Taylor a soldier For One Year past, 
 that a Draft be drawn on the Treasurer for the same 
 (39) Appraisment of the Estate of Gabriel Cox, Deceased, is 
 returned to Court & OR. 
 
 Wolf v Maulson, Ace"! proved & Judg 
 
 Clemens v Maulson, Judg for £2 1-1 7 
 
 W™ Caldwell v Gellespy, order for Ded 1 to Examine Evi- 
 dence 
 
 Ord, that the Court be Adjourned untill tomorrow 8 oclock. 
 
 Solomon Hedges 
 
 The Court met according to adjournment 3 d March, Present, 
 Solomon Hedgs, Silas Hedges, E d Robinson & John Boggs, 
 Gentlemen, present. 
 
 Williamson v Douglas Dismissd 
 
 Hedge v Dunbar, Dismissd. 
 
44 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Glen v Douglas, abates by Pit. 8 marriage. 
 
 Issues 
 M°Bride v Wolf, Eject Cond. 
 Taylor v. Caldwell, Cond. 
 
 References 
 Gillespie v Wheat, Disd. 
 Hawkens — Ogle, Cond. 
 
 — Wheat, Cond. 
 Delong — Flanagan, Disd. 
 Hanley — Walker, Discd. 
 Roney — Hawkins, Discd. 
 Martin — Williams, Cond. 
 
 — Cunningham, Cond. 
 
 — Dement, Cond. 
 
 — Martin — Henry Martin Deft by General Rule 
 Tilton — Hildebrand Dissd. 
 
 Com — Seamon Cond. 
 Scott — Caldwell 
 Walker — Hawkins Discond. 
 
 Crow — Handley, Not Guilty with Leave & Joined 
 Smith — Hawkins, Cond. 
 Virgin v Nichols, C O. 
 Taylor v Templeton, Cond. Plea Joined. 
 Maulson v Arnold, Discd. 
 McClure v Hildibrand, Dismd. 
 Rogers v Carpentor, Not Guilty, Joined. 
 McClure v Dunn, Judgment Finall. 
 (40) Caldwell v Gillispie, Not Guilty & Joined. 
 
 Huff v Berwick, Discond. 
 Berwick v Huff, Discd. 
 Huff, Deed. 
 Wells v Carpenter, John Carpenter Deft & General P L. 
 Hawkins v Kintialo, Cond. 
 Tumbleston v Mason, Payment, Joined. 
 Martin v Leet, Discd. 
 Virgin — Brownlee, Dismd. 
 Taylor v Caldwell, Not Guilty with Leave & Joined. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 45 
 
 Caldwell v Taylor, Not Guilty with Leave & Joind. 
 Kintialo & wife — wall, Discd. 
 
 Gilliard — Hawkins, Pendleton Security for Cost conditions 
 performed Cond. 
 
 Caldwell v. Taylor, not guilty with leave joined. 
 Sprigg v Dunn, Dismd. 
 Walker v Handley, Disd. 
 J. Handly — Crow, Dismd. 
 M. Handly — Crow, Dismd. 
 — Crow, Dismd. 
 Hannah — Johnston, CO. 
 Kelly — Douglas, Dismd. 
 Dickens — Flinn, Dismd. 
 Lyons — Caldwell, Dismd. 
 Dewitt — Dunn, Cond. 
 Robeson — Wheat, Agreed. 
 Grewes — Davis, Dismd. 
 Saunders — Smyth, Dismd. 
 Smyth & wife — Saunders, Dismd. 
 Kelly — Douglas, Dismd. 
 McClure — Lyons, Dismd. 
 Lloyd — Cole, Dismd. 
 Dewitt — Warford, Dismd. 
 
 Petitions 
 Hawkins — Kintialo, Cond. 
 Huston — Mason, Judgt. 
 
 Appearances 
 Stroup — Clerk, agreed. 
 Seamon — Cam, CO 
 Hawkins — Wheat, Agreed. 
 R. Taylor — Williamson, Sp Imp. 
 S. Taylor the same, Sp Imp. 
 Buchanan — Mason, Sp Imp. 
 Keller ^- Clerk, Dismd. 
 Steel — Dewitt, Sp Imp. 
 
 ( 4I ) Appearances 
 
 Bukanan — Mason, Sp Imp. 
 Harton — Hawkins, Sp Imp. 
 
46 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 — Taylor, Sp Imp. 
 
 Madison — Strieker, Lawrence Strieker Enters Deft. Not 
 Guilty Joined. 
 
 Lamb v. Dewitt, Ezekiel Dewitt Deft, Not Guilty & Joined. 
 
 Ordered that Charles Wells, David M c Clure, Isaac Taylor 
 & Ebenezer Zane be and the same is hereby appointed to view 
 & Give their Opinions to any money brought before them to 
 know whether it be good or not. 
 
 Ordered that Isaac Meek, Derrick Hogland, Ed Robeson & 
 John Shaw, or any three of them, being first Sworn, do view 
 the nearest & best way For a Road from James Millers to the 
 Court house, and make report of the Conveniences and Incon- 
 veniences of the same. 
 
 Ord that this Court be adjourned untill Court in Course 
 
 Solomon Hedges 
 
 At a Court held for Ohio County April 5 th 1779 ; Present 
 Silas Hedges, Ed Robinson, James Miller, Charles Wells, & 
 Solomon Hedges Gentm. 
 
 Ordered that David McClure Sind to Oldtown, Maryland, 
 for the Books Left there by Doctor M c Mechen, for the use of 
 this County, & that the Sheriff reimburse him what he pays 
 for the same. 
 
 Patrick McGaughen v Spendall, Joseph Wells Enters himself 
 Deft. O R 
 
 Keller v Clark, acct Proved ^36. Jud' & O R 
 
 Ordered that Chaf Wells mark a crop & hole in the right 
 Ear & brand C W & O R 
 
 Ordered that Joseph Wells mark a swallow fork in the Right 
 Ear & under bitt eS: under bitt in the Left and his Brand I W 
 &0. R. 
 
 Robert Woods came into Court & took the Oath of Sur- 
 veyor for this County & gave bond 
 
 Ord : that this court be adjourned to Court in Course. 
 
 Solomon Hedges. 
 
 At a Court held for Ohio County Monday, 3rd May, 1779. 
 Present Solomon Hedges, Silas Hedges, George McColloch, 
 Ed Robison & Charles Wells, Gentlemen. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 47 
 
 The appraisement of the Estate of John Buckey is returned 
 to Court & O. R. 
 
 Ordered that Thos. Gardner be Exempted from paying any 
 Further Levy in this County. 
 
 Present James Miller, Gent. 
 
 Bargain & Sale From Go. McColloch to Chas. Wells ac- 
 knowledged and O. R. 
 
 Ordered that the Treasurer of this Commonwealth pay unto 
 Andrew Robeson the sum of Twenty-five pounds, being allowed 
 Ann Flemming for her support, her husband being in Con- 
 tinental Service. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Dewit Hogland to Isaac Meek acknowl- 
 edged & O. R. 
 
 James Miller v. Thomas Clerk attach" & ans Proved ^ 12 
 judgm'. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Thomas Clark to John Chapman, 
 acknowledged & O. R. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Will™ Bayley to Geo. Parker, acknowl- 
 edged & O. R. 
 
 Ordered that the Treasurer of this Commonwealth pay unto 
 Samuel McColloch the sum of Eighty pounds being allowed 
 Mary Ogle for her support, her husband being killed in the 
 Continental Service. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Jonah Seaman to Geo. Stephenson, 
 acknowledged & O. R. Jno. Mitchell, Security for pay. 
 
 Present John Boggs and James Gillespie, Gentleman. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Robert Taylor to Ezekiel Boggs 
 acknowledged & O. R. 
 
 On the motion of David McClure, ordered that his mark a 
 crop in the right ear and hole in the same and crop in the left 
 ear and hole in the same be recorded. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Samuel McColloch to Moses William- 
 son, acknowledged & O. R. S. Mason pays Costs. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from James Richardson to John Chapman. 
 Proved by Isaac Taylor one of the witnesses and ordered to 
 lye for further Proof. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Samuel Williamson to Joseph Arnold, 
 acknowledged & O. R. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Moses Williamson, Jun r , to Samuel 
 
 4 
 
48 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Williamson. Proved by Murtey Handley one of the witnesses 
 and ordered to Lye for further Proof. 
 
 Bargain and sale from Joseph Arnold to Samuel Mason, 
 Proved by Murtey Handley and Samuel Williamson, two of 
 the witnesses, and ordered to lye for further proof. 
 
 Ebenezer Zane and Samuel McColloch being mentioned in 
 the Didimus, came into Court & took the oath of justices of 
 the peace & took their seats accordingly. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Patrick Magahan to Laurance McCar- 
 ran acknowledged & O. R. 
 
 (42) At a court held for Ohio County 4" 1 October, 1779 : Present 
 
 Solomon Hedges, Silas Hedges, Zachariah Sprigg, James Mil- 
 ler, & Geo McColloch, Gentlemen. 
 
 The Commissioners for viewing the Clerks Office have made 
 a return of the same Ordered that the same be Recorded. 
 
 Ordered that a License for Keeping an Ordinary be Granted 
 unto Zachariah Sprigg he Complying with the Law; then 
 s a Zachariah Sprigg Came into Court and Gave Dorrick Hog- 
 land for his Security 
 
 Kelly v Williamson, Dismist at Pits request. 
 
 Davis v French, Dismist at Pits request. 
 
 Commonwealth v Slidgegar, Dismised, Samuel Grahams 
 Cost 
 
 Appraisment of a Hog returned to Court & OR 
 
 Hannah v Johnston, Dismist at Pits Request. 
 
 Ordered that the Clerk of this Court Certify Unto the Audi- 
 tors of this Commonwealth that Mary Knox, Widow of Thos 
 Knox, Deceased, was a serjant in Stephen Ashby's Compy in 
 Colo. James Wood's Regiment and is Now Entitled to half 
 pay Since March 17 7-. 
 
 B & Sale from Jonah Seaman to W™ Harris, Acknowledged 
 & OR. 
 
 Seaman v Corn, Dismised at Pits Request. 
 
 Corn v Seaman, Dismised at Pits Request. 
 
 Graham v Hill, Judgment for five pounds Equiv. to four 
 pounds, Current Money of this State. 
 
 the Commissioners for Laying out a road from wells Mill, 
 on Cross Creek, to the Court house, has Returned to Court 
 their Report, ord that the Same be Recorded 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 49 
 
 Ordered that Francis McGuire do Act [overseer] of the 
 Above Road, & that he summons all the tithables within three 
 miles Each way. 
 
 (43) Samuel Graham then Came the Parties & Jointly Prayed 
 v that the Differences between them may 
 
 James Hannah be Enquired of by the Court without 
 the Formality of a Declaration. Ordered that the Sheriff 
 Cause a Jury to Come before the Court Imondiately to Enquire 
 of the Same ; Whereupon Ezekiel Dewitt, Annaniah Davis, 
 Jacob Newland, John Carpenter, Jonah Seaman, Jeremiah 
 Dunn, Christian Slidegar, Joseph Worley, Derrick Hogland, 
 James McBride, W™ Harris & James Parks were Sworn. 
 
 The Jurors Agree that James Hannah, Deft, pay the Pit 
 Samuel Graham ten Dollars and that the Pit Samuel Graham 
 pay the Costs of Action and One Shilling Damage 
 
 Ezekiel Dewitt. 
 
 McColloch v Sutherland, James Garrison S B. 
 Ordered that the Clerk Deliver Unto Robert Woods Sur- 
 veyor of this County, four Blank Books & four Alphabets for 
 said Books, for the Surveying Department of this County. 
 Moses Holliday v Henry Nelson, John Carpenter SB 
 Commonwealth v Jacob Drinnen, Fined. 
 
 v Joseph Paull, Cond. 
 
 v Kennith McClelland, Fined. 
 
 v McGinnis — Fined 
 
 v Huston — Fined 
 
 v Harris — Fined 
 
 v Wolf — Fined 
 
 v Graham — Fined 
 
 v Sprigg — Fined 
 
 v Altt — Fined 
 
 v Gillespy — Fined 
 
 v Miles — Fined 
 
 v Warford — Fined 
 
 v Dewitt — Not guilty 
 
 v Smith Fined 
 
 v Biggs Fined for Retailing Liquors. 
 
50 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 (44) Common Wealth v Huff, Fined one Oath 
 
 v Huston, Find one Oath 
 v Harris, Find one Oath 
 v Williamson, Do Do 
 v Willson, Do Do 
 
 v Bowling, Do Do 
 v Dodd, Do Do 
 
 v Virgin, Do Do 
 
 v Taylor, Do Do 
 
 as Common Swearers 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff Summons a Grand Jury to attend 
 Next Month 
 
 Ordered that Susannah Fisher, an Orphan Child, be bound 
 Unto Solomon Hedges according to Law. And that said 
 Hedges pay unto sd Orphan the Sum of thirty Dollars Over & 
 Above the Sum allowed by Law to Orphans at the Expiration 
 of their time. 
 
 on the Motion of Joseph Worley Ordered that Samuel Teter, 
 W? Sparks, Joseph Worley & John Ferguson, or any three of 
 them, being first Sworn, do View the Nearest & best way for 
 a Road from John Boggs Mill to Alexr. Wells, on Cross Creek, 
 & make Report to Next Court. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned Untill Court in Course 
 
 Silas Hedges 
 
 (45) At a Court held for Ohio County Monday 1 s1 November 
 1779; Present, Solomon Hedges, Silas Hedges, W? Scott, 
 James Gillispy, Gents. 
 
 B & Sale from Isaac Taylor to William Polk, being formerly 
 Proved by Thomas Gilliland & now Proved by Hugh Gilli- 
 land, OR 
 
 B & Sale from James Clemens to Robert Taylor, Acknowl- 
 edged & OR 
 
 B & Sale from Edward Smyth to Isaac Smyth, acknowledged 
 &OR. 
 
 Ordered that Andrew Ramsey do Act as Oveer from Wells' 
 farm to Buffalo Creek, and Derrick Hogland From s* Creek 
 to the Court house, and that the Summons all the Tithables 
 within three miles Each side the road to Work on sd Road 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 51 
 
 Administration of the Estate of Joseph Miller Deceased is 
 Granted to James Clemens, he Complying with the Law ; then 
 sd Clemens gave Rob' Taylor as his Surety. Ordered that 
 Harry Martin, W° Johnston, Rob' Taylor, & Sammel John- 
 ston, or any three of them, being first sworn, do appraise the 
 Estate 
 
 Thomas Scott 1 Came into Court and took the Oath of an 
 Attorney at Law and is Admitted to act as such 
 
 Present, Edward Robinson, Samuel M c Colloch, Gent. 
 
 Ordered that Robert Guthry be Summoned to Appear at 
 Next Court to Declare what part of the Estate of Joseph Miller, 
 Deceased, Remains in his hands 
 
 A Grand Jury. for this County being Called, Samuel Mason was 
 Sworn as Foreman, then W™ Sparks, James Garretson, John 
 Carpenter, John Chapman, Joseph ogle, Joseph Wells, Charles 
 Hedges, Thos Gilliland, Ezekiel Dewitt, Daniel Harris, Levy 
 Mills, Thomas Chapman, Joseph Hedges, & Andrew Fouts 
 was sworn 
 
 B & Sale from Joseph Wells to Isaac Miles, Ack & OR 
 (46) Appraisement of the Estate of John M'Colloch, Deceased, 
 Returned to Court & OR 
 
 Gillespy \ Ordered that the Defendant be Summoned 
 
 v [• to Next Court to Give sp. bail 
 
 Dickeson ) 
 
 Administration of the Estate of Samuel Kennedy is Granted 
 to James Buchanan, he Complying with the Law ; then 
 s a Buchanan Came into Court & Gave David M c Clure as his 
 Surety 
 
 Ordered that Thomas Waller, Thos. Peek, David Hosack, 
 & Neal Gillespy, or any three of them, being first Sworn, do 
 appraise the Estate and make report to next Court. 
 
 B & Sale from W Hawkins to Peter Hildebrand, acknowl- 
 edged & OR. 
 
 1 Could this have been Thomas Scott, an adherent of the Pennsylvania jurisdiction, 
 arrested by John Connolly's posse and taken before Lord Dunmore at Redstone Old 
 Fort, in November 1774, just after the close of " Dunmore 's War ?' ' See Crumrine's 
 History of Washington County, 178. That Thomas Scott resided on Dunlap's Creek 
 near Redstone Old Fort, and on the organization of Washington County, Pennsyl- 
 vania, became the first prothonotary of the new county, and was its representative in 
 the First Congress of the United States. 
 
52 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ordered that a Licence for keeping an ordinary be Granted 
 unto Edward Smith, he Complying with the Law ; then 
 s d Smith Came into Court and Gave John Huff as his Surety. 
 
 Ordered that James Clemens take Care of the Real Estate of 
 Joseph Miller Deceased, untill Further Orders. 
 Hawkins v Jacob & Mary Miller, Jacob Lefler SB. 
 Worley -\ Ordered that the Pit be Summoned to appear at 
 v (• next Court to Prosecute this Action or the same 
 Huff ) will be Dismist. 
 the Commissioners for Laying out a Road from Davis Mill 
 to Court house Returned their Report to Court & OR. 
 
 Return of an Inquisition held by Chas. Wells & James Miller, 
 Gent, Returned to Court & OR. 
 
 the Grand jury having made Severall presentments, Ordered 
 that the Severall offenders be Summoned to next Court 
 
 B & Sale Isaac Miles to Joseph Smyth, ackd & OR. John 
 Polk Security for Costs 
 (47) Buskirk~i Ordered that a Didimus Issue to take the Ex- 
 v lamination of Elizabeth Ash for the Pit. 
 Barber J 
 Rogers •) 
 
 v V Dismist 
 
 Carpenter J 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned untill tomorrow morn- 
 ing at 8 O'Clock Solomon Hedges 
 
 The Court Met According to Adjournment ; Present, Solo- 
 mon Hedges, Silas Hedges, Edward Robison, James Gillespie, 
 W m Scott & Zachariah Sprigg, Gent. 
 
 Rogers \ Ordered that Elijah Huff be allowed for four 
 v V days attendance a Witness 
 
 Carpenter ) 
 Rogers ^ Ordered that Luke Scarmehorn be allowed For 
 v V five days Attendance as a witness and Likewise 
 
 Carpenter ) ordered that Jacob Fokler be allowed For five 
 days attendance in this Action as a witness 
 
 Robeson ~) Attachment ; the Sheriff returns he has Attached 
 
 v y one hundred acres of Land or one half of a Sur- 
 
 Ashby ) vey and Summoned Isaac Taylor as a Garnishee 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 53 
 
 Isaac Taylor Came in, by Thos Scott his Atty, and moved 
 that the s d Attachmt should be Quashed, Supposing the Same 
 to be Improperly Brought ; on Consideration the Court is of 
 Opinion that the Same Shall Lye. 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned to meet Immediately 
 at Zachariah Spriggs Gent 
 
 Silas Hedges 
 
 (48) The Court met According to adjournment. Present, Solo- 
 mon Hedges, Silas Hedges, Wf Scott, Edward Robison & 
 James Gillespy, Gent. 
 
 Then the Court Proceeded to Levy the County Levy 
 
 To James McMechen by acct £80 .17. 8 
 
 To David M°Clure for Extra Services 31 . 13. 2 
 
 To James Gillespy by acct 1 . o . o 
 
 To Thomas Mlntosh by acct 36.12. o 
 
 To W™ Nimmons by Acct 6.12. o 
 
 To David Shepherd for Extra Services for 1 year 28-14- ° 
 To David Shepherd for Express to Winchester or 
 
 Ruther Zane's work 100 o o 
 
 ^285- 8-10 
 To David Shepherd for Ball" of Last years acct 14- 6- 6 
 
 ,£299-15- 4 
 To Sheriff for Collection 21 o o 
 
 To a Depositum in the Sheriffs hands 31 14 8 
 
 ^352-10- o 
 
 By 470 Tithables a 15s Each £,ZS 2 I0 ° 
 
 James Gillespy pd 5s, having reed that Sum for drunken- 
 ness 
 
 B & Sale from Robt Cwam to Charles M°Bride, Proved by 
 James Gillespy one of the witnesses and Ordered to Lye for 
 further proof. 
 
 M c Bride v Wolf, Cond. 
 
 Taylor v Caldwell, Cond. 
 
 Scott v Caldwell, Cond. 
 
 Caldwell v Mason, Cond. 
 
54 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Crow v Handly, Cond. 
 Taylor v templeton, Cond. 
 Caldwell v Gillespy, Dismist. 
 Wells v Carpenter, Agreed. 
 Tumbleston v Mason, Dismist. 
 Taylor v Caldwell, Cond. 
 Caldwell v Taylor, Dismist. 
 
 v the same, Dismist. 
 Ordered that the Sheriff Collect 1 5s from Each tithable Per- 
 son within this County 
 (49) Hawkins v ogle, Cond. 
 
 v Wheat, Cond. 
 v Kintialo, Cond. 
 Jesse Martin v Williams, Cond. 
 
 v Cunningham, Cond. 
 
 v Dement, Cond. 
 
 v Martin, Cond. 
 Smith v Hawkins, Cond. 
 Hawkins v Kintialo, Cond. 
 Gilliard v Hawkins, Cond. 
 Virgin v Niccols, Cond. 
 Dewitt v Dunn, Cond. 
 Taylor v Williamson, Cond. 
 Sarah Taylor v Williamson, Cond. 
 Buchanan v Mason, Dismist. 
 
 v the same, Dismist. 
 Huston v Sayler, Cond. 
 Maddison v Strieker, Cond. 
 Lamb v Dewitt, Cond. 
 M°Gaughan v Wells, Con. 
 Miller v Cox, Cond. 
 
 v Geo & Mary Sparks, Cond. 
 Clerk v Huff, Cond. 
 Williamson v M c Bride, Cond. 
 Lamb v Wells, Agreed. 
 Mason v. M°Bride & Wilson, Cond. 
 Gillespy v Dukeson, Cond. 
 Buskirk v Barber, Cond. 
 Cox v Cane, Cond. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 55 
 
 Barber v Spencer, Cond. 
 Worley v Huff, Cond. 
 M°Entire v Carpenter, Dismist. 
 Huff v Ryley, Agreed. 
 Flahavin v Huston, Cond. 
 English v Curry, Cond. 
 Holliday v Nelson, Cond. 
 M c Colloch v Sutherland, Cond. 
 
 Appearances 
 Hawkins v Miller, Cond. 
 
 v Guther, Agreed. 
 Moore, agreed. 
 (50) Huff v Boner, Agreed. 
 
 French v Graham, Cond. 
 
 Commonwealth v Paul, Judgn' for £10 & Costs 
 
 Petition and Summons 
 Hawkins v Kintialo, Con'?. 
 
 Attachment 
 Robeson v Ashby, Cond. 
 
 Ordered that Ezekial Dewitt do act as overseer for the 
 Opening the Road from Boggs Mill to the Court house & that 
 he Summons the tithables within one mile to North of sd 
 Road & the tithables within three miles of the South of sd 
 Road to work thereon. 
 
 Ordered that Samuel Mason do act as an oveer to make a 
 Road from Jacob Wolfs to Thomas Wallers, and that he Sum- 
 mons the tithables within Three Miles Each side said Road to 
 work thereon. 
 
 Ordered that David Shepherd, Brice Virgin, Rich? Dicker- 
 son, & Daniel Leet, or any three of them, being First Sworn, 
 do View the Nearest & best way for a Road from Jacob Wolfs 
 to the County Line Leading towards Redstone, & make Report 
 to Next Court. 
 
 Ordered that a Review be made for a Road from W|" Haw- 
 kins to the Forks of Whelan, & that W? Hawkins W m M°En- 
 tire, David Shepherd, & Samuel Mason, or any three of them, 
 
56 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 being first Sworn, do view the Same and make Report to next 
 Court. 
 
 Ordered that Thomas Waller, Cha? Boner, David English, 
 and Andrew Robinson, or any three of them, being first 
 Sworn, do view the nearest and best way for a Road from Wal- 
 lers fort to the County Line, Leading Towards Crawfords ferry, 
 & make Report to next Court 
 
 Commonwealth v Isaac Taylor ; a Number of Depositions 
 being returned to Court against the Deft, the Court on Con- 
 sider are of Opinion that the s? Taylor Be Dismissed 
 (51) Ordered that this Court be adjourned Until Court in Course 
 
 Silas Hedges 
 
 At a Court held for Ohio County, on Monday the 6 th Day 
 of March, 1780, Present. 
 
 Solomon Hedges, W™ Scott, James Caldwell, & George 
 M c Colloch, Gent. 
 
 Ordered that a License be Granted unto John Biggs to keep 
 an ordinary at his house, he Complying with the Law ; Where- 
 upon sd John Came into Court and Gave Charles Hedges as 
 his Surety. Present, Ebener Zane & Charles Wells, Gent. 
 
 Admn of the Estate of Thos Ryan, dec?, is Granted to 
 Silas Zane, he Complying with the Law. 
 
 Ordered that John Mitchell, Benjamin Hammitt, Joseph 
 "Vanmeter, & Jacob Reager, or any three of them, Being first 
 Sworn, do appraise the Estate of Tho! Ryan. 
 
 Joseph Beeler came into Court And Proved his Service as a 
 Captain in the Virginy Service in Col? Brocodes [Bouquet's] 
 Campaign ; he Likewise proved his being a Waggon master in 
 General Forbes Campaign. 
 
 Present, James Miller, James Gillespy, Gen'. 
 
 Carpenter v Rogers, Benjamin Biggs Enters S Bail. 
 
 Cox v Cane, slander. Ordered that a Didimus Issue to 
 take the Deposition of Sarah Barber for the Pit 
 
 Wheat v Conner, slander. Ordered that a Didimus Issue to 
 take the Deposition of James Beagham for Pit. 
 
 (52) William Flavhavin " 
 
 v V debt 
 
 William Huston ) 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 57 
 
 Then Came the Parties and Jointly Prayed that the Differ- 
 ences Between them may be Enquired of by the Country 
 without the form of a Declaration. Ordered that the Sheriff 
 summons a Jury to attend Immediately to Enquire of the same: 
 Whereupon James Clemmens, Jesse Martin, James Parks, 
 James Moore, John Warford, James Andrews, Jacob Newland, 
 James Garretson, Jacob Reager, Benjamin Biggs, Nicholas 
 Rogers, & Samuel Mason, who being duly Elected and Sworn 
 do say : l 
 
 Ordered that William Scott, Silas Hedges, Gent, be recom- 
 mended to his Excellency to appoint One of them to Serve as 
 a Sheriff in the Room of David Shepherd. 
 
 John Carpenter fully proved to this Court that he served as 
 a Soldier in the Old Virginy Regiment before 1763. 
 
 Matthew Fowler fully proved to this Court that he served as 
 a Corporall in the Old Virginy Regiment before 1763 
 
 that 2 the Assess the Pits damage to Seventy pounds sixteen 
 shillings ; but it is Considered by the Court that this Judgment 
 be Discharged by the payment of thirty Five pounds Eight 
 Shillings, & Costs. 
 
 Ordered that a Licence be Granted Unto James Gillespy, 
 Jun', to keep an Ordinary at his house, he Complying with 
 the Law ; Whereupon sd James Came into Court & Gave 
 William Scott as his Surety. 
 
 Jesse Martin Came into Court & Fully proved his Service 
 as an Ensign in the State of Virginy in the year 1758. 
 
 Jesse Martin Came into Court and proved his Serving as an 
 Artificer in the Virginy Service in the year 1760. 
 (S3) Joseph Worley v. Elijah Huff, Ordered that the Same Be 
 Dismissed 
 
 Ordered that Andrew Scott be Appointed Constable For the 
 Ensuing year in the Room of Jacob Reager. 
 
 James Parkes Proved to this Court that he Served as an arti- 
 ficer in the Virginy Service in the year 1760, and Ordered to 
 be Certified. 
 
 John Carpenter ~v 
 
 v I Attachment, 
 
 James Karr ) the Sheriff Returns he Could find no 
 
 1 See verdict, infra. 
 
 2 See beginning of entry, supra. 
 
58 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Goods, but has Summoned Arthur M c Connell as Guarnishee. 
 Ordered that the same Lye Over Untill to Morrow. 
 
 Wheat v Conner, Slander. On the Motion of the Deft that he 
 should only be held to Common Bail, the Court Ordered it so. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned to meet at Zachariah 
 Spriggs tomorrow at 8 o'clock. 
 
 William Scott 
 
 The Court Met according to adjournment : Present, James 
 Caldwell, George McColloch, Ebenezer Zane, & James Gil- 
 lespy, Gents. 
 
 Certificate of a Stray Heifer is returned to Court by James 
 Gillespy, Gent, & O.R. 
 
 Certificate of a mare is Returned to Court by John Boggs, 
 Gent, & O.R. 
 (54) Certificate of a Stray Sow returned to Court by James Gil- 
 
 lespy, Gent, & OR. 
 
 Certificate of a Stray Heifer is returned to Court by Charles 
 Wells, Gent, & O.R. 
 
 Certificate of a Stray mare is returned to Court by Charles 
 Wells, Gent, & OR. 
 
 Certificate of a Stray Colt is returned to Court by W m Scott, 
 Gent, returned to Court & OR. 
 
 Certificate of a Stray Hogg is returned to Court by James 
 Gillespy, Gent, & OR. 
 
 Certificate of five Stray Hogs is Returned to Court by 
 W m Scott, Gent, & O R. 
 
 Certificate of a Bay mare is returned to Court by W." Scott, 
 Gent, & O R. 
 
 Ordered that Edward Geither be summoned to attend at 
 Next Court to answer the Complaint of his Late Servant John 
 Rower. 
 
 Present W" Scott, Silas Hedges, Jas. Miller, Gent. 
 
 John Carpenter \ 
 
 v j- Attachment. Ordered that John 
 
 James Kerr ) Doldridge, Arthur M c Connell, John 
 
 Huff, William Sparks, & Thomas Uri, be and they are hereby 
 appointed to Settle all Disputes in this Action Between the 
 parties and make report to next Court. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 59 
 
 Davis v French, Jeremiah Dunn Enters himself Special 
 Bail. 
 
 Worley v Huff ; Ordered that Michael Huff Be allowed For 
 three days attendance Before November, & three days Since 
 Nov as a Witness in this Action. 
 
 Hedges v Tilton, Ordered that the same be Dismissed at 
 Pit request. 
 (55) Certificate of a Stray Steer is returned to Court by James 
 Miller, Gent, & OR. 
 
 Sarah Taylor 
 v 
 
 David Williamson Dismissed at Pits Request. 
 
 Robert Taylor 
 v 
 
 David Williamson Dismissed at Pits Request. 
 
 Appearance' 
 Wheat v Kerr, Allias 
 
 Conner, Continued. 
 
 Beagham, Allias 
 Hawkins v Miller, Continued, 
 Wall v Miller, Allias. 
 
 Carpenter v Rogers, Continued & Set to Sept for tryall 
 Smyth v Curry Allias. 
 
 Garretson v Robinson, Settled & Costs paid. 
 Stroup v Williamson, Continued. 
 Hawkins v Rower, Continued. 
 State & Gillespy, v Virgin, Alias. 
 Gillespy v Virgin, Allias. 
 Tombleston v Mason, Allias. 
 Snowden v Alexander, Allias. 
 Lutes v Miller, Continued. 
 Roany v Smyth, Allias. 
 Mills v Stroup, Allias. 
 
 Wheat, Allias. 
 Tule Fitzgerald, Allias. 
 M c Gee Russell, Allias. 
 Davis v French, Continued. 
 Hedges v Tilton, Discontinued at Pits request, Costs paid. 
 
60 Anjjals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Parks v Cox, Discontinued at Pits request Costs paid. 
 Miller v Lutes, Continued. 
 Ryley v Rogers, Continued. 
 (56) M c Bride Wolf, Continued. 
 
 Taylor v Caldwell, Continued. 
 
 Scott v Caldwell, Issue for tryal next Sept Court 
 
 Caldwell v Mason, Discontinued. 
 
 Crow v Handly, Continued. 
 
 Taylor v Templeton, Continued. 
 
 v Caldwell, Continued. 
 Hawkins v Ogle, Continued, 
 v Wheat Continued. 
 Kintialo, Eject. Judgment 
 Martin v Williams, Continued. 
 
 v Cunningham, Continued. 
 Dement, Continued. 
 Martin, Continued. 
 Smyth v Hawkins, Discontinued. 
 
 Hawkins v Kintialo, Trespass, Judgt & Writt of Enquirey. 
 Gilliard v Hawkins, Discontinued. 
 Virgin v Nichols, Continued. 
 Dewitt v Dunn, Discontinued. 
 Huston v Saylor, Discontinued. 
 Maddison v Strieker, Continued. 
 Lamb v Dewitt, Continued. 
 M c Gaughan v Wells, Continued. 
 Miller v Cox, Continued, set for tryal. 
 
 v Geo & Mary Sparks, Issue for tryal to Sepf. 
 Clerk v Huff, Continued. 
 Williamson v M°Bride, Discontinued. 
 Mason v M c Bride & Wilson, Discontinued. 
 Gillespy v Dickeson, Discontinued. 
 Buskirk v Barber, Continued & Set Sep r for tryal. 
 Cox v Cane, Continued. 
 Barber v Spencer, Continued. 
 English v Curry, M°Knight & Blackburn, Continued to 
 
 Sept next for tryall. 
 Holliday v Nelson, Continued. 
 M c Colloch v Sutherland, Continued. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 61 
 
 Hawkins v Miller, Discontinued. 
 French v Graham, Continued. 
 
 Appearances 
 (57) Davis v Tilton, Continued. 
 Cox v Mummey, Continued. 
 Delong v Snitiker, Allias. 
 
 Petition & Summons. 
 Hawkins v Kintialo, Judgmt, Fa Fie. 
 
 Attachments. 
 Robinson v Ashby, Discontinued at Pit 8 request. 
 Carpenter v Kerr, Continued. 
 Bolin v Dowlin, Continued. 
 
 Presentments 
 Commonwealth v Smyth, Continued 
 v Keller, Continued 
 v Moore, Continued 
 v Biggs Senr, Continued, 
 v Harris, Continued. 
 v Paul, Continued, 
 v Zane, Continued. 
 v Rogers, Continued. 
 v Graham, Continued. 
 Taylor Ordered that Eleazer Williamson be allowed 
 
 v for two days attendance as a witness in this 
 
 Williamson action. And Likewise Ordered that David 
 Frame be allowed for two days attendance in this Action. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Patrick M°Gaughan to Joseph Scott, 
 proved by W™ Scott, one of the Witnesses, & Ordered to Lye 
 for further Proof. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Fulton to Dunlap, proved by Ed Rob- 
 inson & And 1 ' Robinson, two of the Witnesses, & OR. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Kidd to Fulton, proved by Edward 
 
 Robinson & And™ Robinson, two of the Witnesses, & O.R., 
 
 Ordered that the Court be adjourned Until Court in Course 
 
 Silas Hedges 
 
62 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 (58) At a Court held for Ohio County on Monday 3d day of 
 April. Present, Salomon Hedges, Silas Hedges, W m Scott, 
 & Edward Robeson, Gent. 
 
 Appraisment of the Estate of Samuel Kennedy, Deceased, is 
 Returned to Court, & O.R. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Patrick M°Gaughan to Joseph Scott, 
 Being formerly Proved by W? Scott & now Proved by Andw. 
 Scott, sd Lands Adjoin the Land of sd McGaughan on the 
 south James Marshall on the North Andrew Scott on the West, 
 & OR 
 
 Stroup v Williamson, Dismist for Non Prost. Ordered that 
 Thomas Wiliiamson Be allowed for one days attendance in this 
 action 
 
 M°Colloch v Sutherland ; Judgment for One hundred & 
 Sixty Pounds with Costs upon Nihell Dicitt. Ordered that 
 this Court be adjourned Untill tomorrow 8 Oclock 
 
 Solomon Hedges. 
 
 The Court Mett According to Adjournment ; Present,' Solo- 
 mon Hedges, Silas Hedges, Edwd Robeson, & Zachariah 
 Sprigg, Gentlemen. 
 
 On the motion of W 1 ? Hawkins, Ordered that his mark a 
 Cropp of the Left Ear & Slitt in the Right be Recorded. 
 
 On the motion of Henry Green, Ordered that his mark a 
 Cropp of the Left Ear & hole in the same & slitt in the Right 
 Be Recorded. W™ Hawkins Security for Costs. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff Summons a Grand jury to attend 
 the Next Court 
 
 Ordered that Samuel Hill, an Orphan Child about 3 years 
 Old; be bound unto David Caldwell according to Law, if the 
 mother of sd Child will give her Consent to the Same. 
 (59) Common Wealth v E d Smyth for Retailing of Spiritious 
 Liquors ; Judgment for Ten pounds & Costs. 
 
 v Peter Keller, Judgment for Ten pounds & Costs, 
 v James Moore, Judgment for Ten pounds & Costs. 
 v Benj™ Biggs senr. Judgment for Ten pounds & Costs, 
 v John Harris, Judgment for ^10 & Costs, 
 v Jacob Paul, Judgmt for ^10 & Costs, 
 v Nicholas Rogers, for prophane Swearing. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 63 
 
 Judgment for 5 s, and Costs 
 
 v Samuel Graham Judgm' for 5 s & Costs. 
 
 Bethsheba Randle, Heiress at Law to David Randle who was 
 killed on the field of Battle, Proved to this Court S* David 
 Randle Served a Lieut in the Regular Service in the Year 
 1763, & O.R. that the Same be Certified. 
 
 James Park Proved to this Court that he Served as a Serjant 
 in the Regular Service in the Year 1763, & OR that the same 
 be Certified 
 
 Wheat v. Kerr, Plu Capias. 
 
 v. Beaghm, Plu Capias. 
 
 Wall v Miller, ' Plu Capias. 
 
 Smyth v Curry, Plu Capias. 
 
 State & Gillespy v Virgin, Plu Capias. 
 
 Gillespy v Virgin, Plu Capias. 
 
 Tomlinson v Mason, Plu Capias. 
 
 Snowden v Alexander, Dismist at Pit' Request. 
 
 Berry v Smyth, Plu Capias. 
 
 Mills v Stroup, Plu Capias, 
 v Wheat, Plu Capias. 
 
 v Fitzgerald, Plu Capias. 
 
 M c Gee v. Russell, Plu Capias, 
 
 Delong v Snidiker, Plu Capias. 
 
 Carey v Robinson, Con d . 
 
 Taylor v Williamson, Con a . 
 
 Caldwell v Martin, Cond a . 
 (60) Carpenter v Bailey, All Capias. 
 
 Caldwell v Taylor, All Capias. 
 
 Graham v M°Donald, All Capias, 
 v the Same, All Capias. 
 
 Zane v Reagan, Dismist. 
 
 Dunn v Snidiker, All Capias. 
 
 Huston v Sayler, All Capias. 
 
 Dewitt v Hupp, Dismist at Pits Request. 
 
 Hannah v Spencer, All Capias, 
 v the Same, All Capias. 
 
 Hawkins v Wheat, All Capias, 
 v Boney, All Capias. 
 
 Dunn v Taylor, Cond. 
 
64 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 On the Motion of James Hannah Ordered that his mark a 
 Crop of the Right Ear & hole in the Left Ear be Recorded 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned Untill Court in Course 
 
 Solomon Hedges 
 
 At a Court held for Ohio County on monday the i" day of 
 May. 
 
 Present, Solomon Hedges, Silas Hedges, Zachariah Sprigg, 
 & Geo. M°Colloch, Gent. 
 
 John Mitchell Came Into Court and Entered himself Security 
 for the Good Behavior of Joseph Wilson Untill Next Court. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned Untill Seven OClock 
 tomorrow Morning. Solomon Hedges 
 
 (61) The Court met according to Adjournment. Present, Solomon 
 Hedges, Silas Hedges, Geo. M c Colloch, & Sam^ M c Colloch, 
 Gent. 
 
 Certificate of a Stray Steer taken up by And w Roany, Before 
 Solomon Hedges, Gent, is returned to Court & O R. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Zephania Dunn to W™ Johnston, Ac- 
 knowledged & O R 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Zephania Dunn to Kennith M c Clelland, 
 Acknowledged & OR. 
 
 Bargain & Sale from Zephania Dunn to Thomas Gilliland, 
 Acknowledge O.R. 
 Wheat \ 
 
 v I Dismist at Plaintiffs Request. 
 Conner J 
 
 On the motion of Silas Zane, Ordered that his mark a Slope 
 of the Under side of Each Ear & his Brand S. Z. be Recorded. 
 DeLong 
 
 Zephania Dunn Enters himself S B 
 
 Zephania Dunn enters himself S. B. 
 
 , Jacob Reager Enters himself S B. Ordered that 
 V a Didimus Issue to take the Deposition of Conrad 
 Stroup J Wheat, Jun^, for Defendant 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 65 
 
 (62) Dewitt 1 
 
 v V Frederick Lamb Enters himself S. B. 
 Garrison ) 
 
 Issues 
 M°Bride v Wolf, Dismist. 
 Taylor v Caldwell, Dismist. 
 Scott v Caldwell, Con? to Sep' for tryal. 
 Crow v Handly, Con 1 ?. 
 Taylor v Caldwell, Dismist. 
 v Ternpleton, Dismist. 
 
 References 
 Hawkins v Ogle, Cond to Next Court for tryal. 
 
 v Wheat, Cond to Next Court for tryal. 
 Martin v Williams, Dismist. 
 
 v Cunningham, Dismist. 
 
 v Dement, Dismist. 
 
 v Martin, Dismist. 
 Virgin v Niccols, Con* to Next Court for tryal. 
 Maddison v Strieker, Dismist. 
 Lamb v Dewitt, Dismist. 
 
 M„Gaughan v Wells, Continued to Next Court for tryal. 
 Miller v Cox, Con* to Sepf for tryal. 
 
 v Geo & Mary Sparks, Con d to Sepr for tryall. 
 Clerk v Huff, Contd to Next Court for tryall. 
 Buskirk v Barber, Cond to Sep^ for tryall. 
 Cox v Cane, Cond to Next Court for tryall. 
 Barber v Spencer, Cond to Next Court for tryall. 
 English v Curry, Cond to Sep r for tryall. 
 Halliday v Nelson, Cond to Next Court for tryall. 
 McColloch v Sutherland, Cond on a Nihell Dicitt, Judgment. 
 French v Graham, Dismist at Pit 5 Request. 
 Hawkins v Miller, Cond to Next Court for tryall. 
 Carpenter v Rogers, Cond to Sep r for tryall. 
 Hawkins v Bower, Cond to Next Court for tryall. 
 Lutes v Miller, Dismist. 
 
 (63) Taylor v Williamson, Cond to Sep r for tryall. 
 Davis v French, Cond. 
 
 Miller v Lutes, Dismissed at Pit 8 Request. 
 
66 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Ryley v Rogers, Dismist at Pit" Request. 
 Davis v Tilton, Dismist. 
 Caldwell v Martin, Cond. 
 Cox v Mummy, Cond. 
 Dunn v Taylor, Cond. 
 
 Appearances 
 Wheat v Kerr, Dismissed at Pl ts Request. 
 Wall v Beagham, Dismist. 
 
 v Miller, a 2 d PI Capias. 
 Smyth v Curry, Cond. 
 State & Gillespy v Virgin, Attachm'. 
 Gillespy v Virgin, Attachmt. 
 Tomlinson v Mason, 2 d PI Capias. 
 Berry v Smith, 2° PI Capias. 
 Mills v Stroup, Cond. 
 v Wheat, Cond. 
 Tuel v Fitzgerald, Dismissed. 
 McGee v Russell, 2" PI Capias. 
 Delong v Snidiker, Cond. 
 Carpenter v Bailey, Cond. 
 Caldwell v Taylor, Cond. 
 Graham v M°Donald, Cond. 
 v The same, Cond. 
 Dunn v Snidiker, Cond. 
 Huston v Sayler, Cond. 
 Hannah v Spencer, Dismist. 
 
 v The same, Dismist. 
 Hawkins v Wheat, PI Capias. 
 v Roney, PI Capias. 
 (64) Bargain & sale from Benj m Biggs to James M c Kay, Acknowl- 
 
 edged & O R 
 
 Appearances. 
 
 Manly v Rogers, cond. 
 
 Dewitt v Garrison, Cond Plea Not Guilty with Leave & 
 Joinder. 
 
 Davidson v Wolf, allias. 
 Lamb v Bailey, Cond. 
 Huff v Bailey, Cond. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 67 
 
 Cary v Robinson, capias. 
 
 Manly •) 
 
 v V Frederick Lamb Enters himself S.B. 
 
 Rogers ) 
 
 Carpenter v Kerr, Dismist. 
 
 On the motion of Ezekiel Dewitt, Ordered that his mark a 
 Crop of the Near Ear be Recorded. 
 
 On the Motion of Yeates Conner, Ordered that his mark 
 two Swallow Forks in Each Ear be Recorded. 
 
 On the Motion of Christian Snidiker, Ordered that his mark 
 a Swallow Fork in the right Ear and Slitt in the Left Each be 
 recorded. 
 
 On the motion of Matthew Kerr, Ordered that his mark a 
 Crop & two Slitts in the Left Ear and upper bitt in the Right 
 Ear be recorded. 
 
 A Bond Given to Ezekiel Dewitt by Frederick Lamb is OR 
 
 Ordered that Joseph Ogle, David English, David William- 
 son, Isaac Meek, Thomas Chapman, Samuel Glass, George 
 Humprys, Thomas Gilliland, John Carpenter, Andrew Fouts, 
 Daniel Harris, John Huff & George Dement, Each be Find 
 in the Amount of two Hundred pounds of Tobacco for not 
 Appearing agreeable to Summons as Grandjurymen. 
 (65) Ordered that Silas Zane, Conrod Stroup, Yeates Conner & 
 And" zane, or any three of them, being first Sworn, do ap- 
 praise the Estate of Walter Calhoon, Deceased, the former 
 app" being moved from that part of the County where the 
 Estate Lyes so as the Cannott Attend. 
 
 Frederick Lamb applied this day to Ezekiel Dewitt For a 
 rehearing of the plantation whereon Dewitt now Lives but 
 said Dewitt positively refused. 
 
 Bolin ~j Attachm no Goods found but Summoned sd 
 v \ Dolin as Garnishee & Ordered to be Continued. 
 
 Dolin j 
 
 Ordered that this Court be Adjourned Until Court in Course 
 
 Solomon Hedges 
 
 At a Court held for Ohio County on Monday the 5th day 
 of June, 1780. 
 
 Present, Solomon Hedges, E d Robeson, James Miller, & 
 Zachariah Sprigg, Gent. 
 
68 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Joseph Vanmeter Fully Proved to this Court that he Served 
 as a Soldier in a Ranging Compy in 1758 & 1759, Com- 
 manded by Rob' Rutherford, Cap' & Comandante & ordered 
 to be Certified 
 
 Carey v Robinson, Dismist at Pits request. 
 
 Holliday v Nelson, Dismist for Non Prosecution. 
 
 Present, James Gillespy, & W™ Scott, Gent. 
 
 Delong v Snidiker, debt ; Tne parties appeared & prayed 
 that their Cause may be Enquired of by their Country without 
 the Formality of a Declaration, Ordered that the Sheriff Sum- 
 mons a Jury to appear Immediately to Inquire of the same. 
 Whereupon Thomas Mills, George Dement, Ezekial Dewitt, 
 Jacob Keller, John Wilson, Tho s Chapman, James Moore, 
 Joseph Vanmeter, Conrod Stroup, John Mitchell, Daniel Har- 
 ris & Joshua Russell, who being duly Elected & Sworn, do 
 say that the Assess the Pltf damage to one Shilling & Costs. 
 It is Considered by the Court that this Judgment be Discharged 
 by the Payment of Six pounds twelve Shillings & Costs. 
 
 Ordered that Luke Scurmehorn, Sen r , & Luke Scurmehorn, 
 Jun! be allowed for One days attendance as Witness in this 
 Action 
 (66) The award of an arbitration held between Ezekial Dewitt & 
 
 Frederich Lamb is proved in Court & OR 
 
 On the Motion of William Carson Ordered that his mark a 
 hole in the Left Ear & swallow fork in the Right Ear be 
 Recorded. 
 
 Ordered that Jennet Clark, Daughter of Kiah Clark, now 
 two Years of Age, be bound Unto William Carson According to 
 Law, Agreeable to her Father & Mothers Request by Letter. 
 
 Jeremiah Dun v Christian Snidiker; Case, Dam ^700, 
 then Came the parties & Jointly Prayed that their Difference 
 may be Enquired of by their Country without the Formality of 
 a Declaration. Ordered that the Sheriff Summons a Jury to 
 Appear Immediately to Enquire of the same. Whereupon 
 Thomas Mills, George Dement, Ezekial Dewitt, Jacob Keller, 
 John Wilson, Tho 8 Chapman, James Moore, Joseph Vanmeter, 
 Conrod Stroup, John Mitchel, Daniel Harris & Joshua Russell, 
 who being duly Elected and sworn, do say that the Find for 
 the Deft Thomas Mills, Forman. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 69 
 
 Ordered that Edward Geither Deliver unto John Bower in 
 one month from this Date Clothing to the Value of two Hun- 
 dred and Ten pounds to be adjudged by W? Hawkins & James 
 Clemens to be worth that sum or that sum in money. 
 
 (67) Ezikeal Dewitt v James Garrison; Case. Then Came the 
 parties & Jointly Pray that their Differences may be En- 
 quired off by their Country without the Formality of a Decla- 
 ration. Ordered that the Sheriff Summons a Jury to appear 
 Immediately to Enquire of the same, whereupon George De- 
 ment, Derrick Hogland, Annaniah Davis, Samuel Glass, James 
 Clemens, Joseph Ogle, Sam! Mason, And" Fout, Isaac Meek, 
 John Whitsel, Edward Geither & Daniel Harris. 
 
 Ordered that Luke Scarmehorn be Allowed for one Days 
 Attendance in this Action. 
 
 State & Gillispie v Virgin, in Attachment ; the sheriff re- 
 turns there is nothing to be found. 
 
 Gillispie v Virgin, in attachmnt ; the sheriff returns there 
 is nothing to be found. 
 
 Wall v Miller, Ed Geither, S.B. 
 
 Hawkins v Geither, Jacob Miller, S.B. 
 
 Bower v Geither, Jacob Miller, S.B. 
 
 Davidson v Wolf, Jacob Wolf S.B. 
 
 MP.Gee v Russell, James Clemens, S.B. 
 
 Miller v Wheat ; Ordered that a Didymus Issue to take the 
 Deposition of James Beagham. 
 
 Ordered that Thof Gilliland, Isaac Phillips, & Isaac Ellis 
 be recommended to his Excellency the Governour as Capt a , & 
 Timothy Downing, John Carpenter, Henry Nelson, James 
 Brownlee, & John Bean, as Leut 5 
 
 (68) Thomas Holburt, Matthew Mackland, & Joseph Worley, as 
 Ensigns of the Militia 
 
 W? Scott Came into Court & took the Oath of Sheriff of 
 this County & Entered into Bond Accordingly. 
 
 Ordered that a Licence for Keeping an Ordinary be Granted 
 unto Ezekial Dewitt at his house, he Complying with the Law. 
 Whereupon sd Ezekial Came into Court & Gave John Car- 
 penter as his Surety. 
 
70 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Assignment on a Bill of sale Dunn to Gilliland is acknowl- 
 edged by Tho" Gilliland to Hugh Gilliland & O R. 
 
 Virgin v Niccols, Dismist at Pit 8 Request. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be Adjourned Until Eight OClock 
 tomorrow morning. 
 
 E Robinson 
 
 (69) The Court Met According to Adjournment. Present, Solo- 
 mon Hedges, Edward Robinson, James Miller & James Gil- 
 lispie, Gentlemen. 
 
 Ordered that a Licence be Granted unto Jacob Wolf for 
 Keeping an Ordinary at his house, he he Complying with the 
 Law. Whereupon s a Jacob came into Court & Gave James 
 Clemence as his Surety. 
 
 Then the Court Proceeded to Settle the Rates For ordinary 
 Keepers. 
 
 Ordered that the Ordinary Keepers in this County sell at 
 the following rates : 
 
 For half a pint of whiskey, 6 dollars. 
 
 For a breakfast or Supper, 4 ditto. 
 
 For 1 dinner, 6 ditto. 
 
 For Lodging with clean sheets, 3 ditto. 
 
 For 1 horse to hay one Night, 6 ditto. 
 
 For pasturage one Night, 3 do. 
 
 For 1 Gallon of Corn, 5 do. 
 
 For 1 Gallon of Oats, 4 do. 
 
 For half pint whiskey with negas, 8 do. 
 
 For 1 Quart strong Beer, 4 do. 
 
 Present Zachariah Sprigg Gent 
 
 Scott v Caldwell, Con d to Sep'. 
 
 Crow v Handly, Cond. 
 
 Hawkins v Ogle, Judgmt confesed for Six pounds & Costs. 
 
 v Wheat Judgnt for Deft. 
 M c Gaughan v Wells, dismissed. 
 Miller v Cox, Cond to Sept. 
 
 v Geo & mary Sparks, Cond to Sept. 
 Clerk v Huff, Judgmt confessed for ^11-4 & Costs. 
 Buskirk v Barber, Cond to Sep r . 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 71 
 
 Cox v Cane, Cond. 
 Barber v Spencer, Dismissed. 
 English v Curry, Cond to Sep'. 
 M°Colloch v Sutherland, Cond. 
 
 (70) Taylor v Williamson, Cond to Sep r . 
 Hawkins v Miller, Dismissed at Pits request. 
 Carpenter v Rogers, Cond to Sep r . 
 Hawkins v Bower, Dismissed at Pit 8 request. 
 Davis v French, Cond to next Court for Tryall. 
 Caldwell v Martin, Cond to next Court for Tryall. 
 Cox v Mummy, Cond to next Court for Tryall. 
 Dunn v Taylor, Dismist. 
 
 Smyth v Curry, Cond to next Court for Tryall. 
 Mills v Stroup, Cond to next Court for Tryall. 
 v Wheat, Cond to next Court for Tryall. 
 Carpenter v Bailey, Cond to next Court & Frederick Lamb 
 Enters S B. 
 
 Caldwell v Taylor, Dismissed. 
 
 Graham v MTJonald, Cond to next Court for Tryall. 
 
 v the same, Contind to next Court for Tryall. 
 Huston v Saylor, Cond to Sep' for Tryall. 
 Manly v Rodgers, Cond. 
 Lamb v Bailey, Dismissed at Pits request. 
 Huff v Bailey, Dismissed at Pits request. 
 Wall v Miller, Cond. 
 
 Tomlinson v Mason, Dismissed at Pits request. 
 Roney v Smyth Attachment, 
 M c Gee v Russell, Cond. 
 Hawkins v Wheat, Cond. 
 
 v Roney, Attachment. 
 Davidson v Wolf, Cond. 
 
 (71) Ordered that Ebenezer Zane Take a List of the tithables 
 from the Mouth of Whelan to the forks of said Creek ; that Silas 
 Hedges take a List of Capt Mitchells Compy ; That James 
 Miller take a List of Capt Ogles Compy ; that George Mc- 
 Colloch take a List of Leflers Compy . That Zachariah Spriggs 
 take a List of Englishes Compy ; That James Gillispie take a 
 List of Ellis Compy ; That James Caldwell take a List of Wil- 
 
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 liamsons Compy ; That John Williamson take a List of Philips 
 Compy : That Charles Wells take a List of Gillilands Compy ; 
 
 Appearances. 
 
 Graham v Hannah, Con?. 
 
 Whitsell v Biggs, Dismist at Pits request. 
 
 Ward v Waller, Dismissed at Pits request. 
 
 v The Same, Dismist at Pits request. 
 
 v the same, dismissed at Pits request. 
 
 v the same, dismissed at Pits request. 
 Hawkins v Geither, Cond. 
 Bower v Geither, Cond. 
 Sharp v Summers, Allias. 
 Russell v Gillespie, Cond. 
 Russell v Gillespie, Cond. 
 Lamb v Barr, Dismissed at Pits request. 
 
 Attachments. 
 
 Bolin v Dolan, Dismissed. 
 
 State & Gillespie v Virgin, Dismissed. 
 
 Gillespie v Virgin, Dismissed. 
 (72) Ordered that Ann Brickell, Daughter of George Brickell, 
 
 be Bound Unto Edward Robinson According to Law. 
 
 The Court is of Opinion that the Court house is Compleated 
 by Isaac Taylor, & that his Bond for that purpose be Made 
 Void. 
 
 On the Motion of Peter Keller, Ordered that his mark a 
 Crop of the Right Ear &: Slitt in the Left Ear be recorded. 
 
 On the Motion of Aron Delong, ordered that his Mark a 
 Cropp off the Right Ear and an Under Slope in the Left Ear 
 be recorded. 
 
 On the Motion of W™ Scott, Ordered that his mark a Crop 
 off the Near Ear and a Swallow Fork in the off Ear be recorded. 
 
 On the Motion of Jacob Keller, Ordered that his mark a 
 swallow fork in the near Ear & a half Crop in the Upper side 
 of the Off Ear. 
 
 Dewitt v Garrison, Ordered that this Action Lie Over Untill 
 Next Court & that the Jury already Sworn do appear at the 
 Court House the first day of Next Court to try the same Cause. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 73 
 
 (73) Hawkins v Wheat. The Pit Appeared, the Deft failing to 
 Appear though Solemnly Called, Ordered that the Sheriff 
 Summons a Jury Immediately to appear to Enquire the same. 
 Whereupon James Hannah, Aron Delong, Benjamin Biggs, 
 Jun', James Garrison, W™ Lamb, Ezekiel Dewitt, Robert 
 French, James Moore, Isaac Taylor, James Andrew, Zephaniah 
 Dunn & Andrew Moore, who being duly Elected and Sworn 
 do say that they Find for the Deft 
 
 Benj" Biggs, Forman 
 
 Ordered that this Court be Adjourned Untill Court in Course 
 
 Solomon Hedges 
 
 (74) At a Call Court held for the Examination of Edward Chap- 
 man for Passing Money Supposed to be Counterfeit : 
 
 Present, Solomon Hedges, Silas Hedges, Zachariah Sprigg, 
 James Caldwell, George M°Colloch, James Miller, & James 
 Gillespie, Gent, 
 
 it is the Opinion of this Court that the said Edward Chap- 
 man, Now a Prisoner at the Barr, be Delivered to the Sheriff 
 to Go to Goal, Unless he Can Give Security to appear at Next 
 
 Grand jury Court 
 
 Solomon Hedges 
 
 (76) at a Court held for Ohio County on Monday the 7 th day of 
 August 1780. 
 
 Present, Solomon Hedges, Charles Wells, Zachariah Sprigg, 
 James Miller, James Gillispie & John Williamson, Gent. 
 
 Commonwealth v Samuel Bruce ; the Constable returns a 
 Mitimus with the Body of sd Samuel ; it appears by the Miti- 
 mus he was Committed on Supposition of stealing of a Bell, 
 the property of James Dornan, of the Value of Nine pounds. 
 The Court after hearing the Witnesses Examined is of Opinion 
 that the sd Bruce is guilty of stealing sd bell & that the Sheriff 
 take the sd Samuel Bruce and Give him Twenty-five Lashes 
 on his Bare Back. 
 
 Certificate of a stray Horse taken up by Samuel Buskirk 
 returned to Court & O.R. 
 
 Taylor \ Ordered that a Didimus Issue to take the 
 v V Examination of David Frame, For Pit. 
 
 Williamson J 
 
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 English -\ Ordered that a- Didimus Issue to take the Ex- 
 
 v lamination of John Dickeson, for Pit. 
 Curry J 
 Crow ") Ordered that a Didimus Issue to Examine the 
 
 v I Pits Evidence. 
 Handly J 
 
 Wall v Miller, Debt ; Judm' Confessed for Nineteen Pounds 
 Four Shillings & Costs. 
 
 Miller v Hawkins, Dismissed at Pits request. 
 Hawkins v Miller, Dismissed at Pits request. 
 Ordered that Alexander Bowling do Act as Constable for the 
 Ensuing year in the room of Harry Martin. 
 
 (77) James Gillespie, Gent, has returned his List of Tithables. 
 James Caldwell, Gent, has returned his List of Tithables. 
 Present Ebenezer Zane, Gent. 
 
 Whereas Rawley Martin, an Orphan Boy, being Formerly 
 Bound to Harry Martin, is Brought to Court, it being supposed 
 that the sd boy was 111 Used. After hearing the Evidence the 
 Court is of opinion that the Boy be taken from sd Martin and 
 Bound Unto Jacob Reager, to Learn the Art & Mistery of a 
 Blacksmith, to be Bound According to Law. the Boy is Six- 
 teen years of Age the First day of Last April. 
 
 Certificate of a Stray mare taken up by Thomas Stephenson 
 is returned to Court & O.K.. 
 
 Carpenter v Bailey, Dismissed at Plt s Request. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned For three Quarters of 
 an hour. 
 
 The Court Met According to Adjournment. 
 
 Present, Solomon Hedges, E d Robeson, John Williamson, 
 Samuel McColloch, James Gillespie, James Miller, Gent. 
 
 Admn is Granted Unto Geo Dement on the Estate of Joseph 
 Black, Deceased, he Complying with the Law ; whereupon sd 
 Geo : Came into Court and Gave Jesse Dement his Surety. 
 
 (78) Ordered that John Williamson, Robt Taylor, James Cald- 
 well & John Lane, or any of them, being First Sworn, do ap- 
 praise the Estate of Joseph Black, Deceased, &: make return to 
 Next Court. 
 
 Isaac Taylor Came into Court & took the Oath of Deputy 
 Sheriff. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 75 
 
 Cha! Wells, Gent, returned his List of Tithables. Caldwell 
 v Martin, Slander ; the Defendant says the Pit is Perjured and 
 he Can Prove it ; therefore he Pleads Justification. Ordered 
 that the Sheriff Summons a Jury to Attend Immediately, where- 
 upon Annaniah Davis, Fred Lamb, James McCoy, John Har- 
 ris, James Hannah, Aaron Delong, Sen r , Derrick Hogland, 
 W™ Logan, Cha s Hedges, And w Zane, Andrew Fouts & John 
 Nichols, Being Duly Elected & Sworn, do say that the Find 
 the Plaintiff Guilty of False Swearing and Judgment on motion. 
 
 Annaniah Davis, Forman. 
 
 Ordered that James Gillespie Jun r , Harry Martin, John 
 Baker, Charles Tuel, Each be Allowed for One Days Attend- 
 ance in this Action. 
 
 Ordered that Thos Pritchard be Allowed For Forty Miles 
 traveling to Court & the same home & for one Days attend- 
 ance at Court. 
 
 (79) Ordered that a Licence be Granted Unto David English to 
 Keep an Ordinary at his house, he Complying with the Law. 
 Whereupon s a David Came into Court & Gave W™ Hawkins as 
 his Surety. 
 
 Sharp v Summers, Jas. Caldwell, S.B. 
 
 Dewitt v Garrison, Dismissed at Pits request, it being agreed 
 by the Parties. 
 
 Scott v Caldwell, Ordered that James Marshall & Tho! Urie 
 do Act as Arbitrators in this Action & their Judgment to be 
 Finall. 
 
 Ordered that Isaac Taylor & John Nichols Each be Allowed 
 for four days Attendance as witnesses in this Action. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be Adjourned Untill Eight OClock 
 
 tomorrow Morning 
 
 ET Robinson 
 
 (80) The Court Met According to adjournment. Present, Ed 
 Robinson, James Miller, James Gillespie & John Williamson, 
 Gent. Present Solomon Hedges, Gent. 
 
 Scott v Caldwell, Cond. 
 Miller v Cox, Do. 
 
 v Geo & Mary Sparks, Cond. 
 
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 Buskirk v Barber, Cond. 
 English v Curry, Do. 
 Taylor v Williamson, Do. 
 Carpenter v Rogers, Do. 
 Huston v Sayler, Do. 
 Crow v Handly, Do. 
 Cox v Cane, Do. 
 M c Colloch v Sutherland, Do. 
 Davis v French, Do. 
 Cox v Mummy, Do. 
 Smyth v Curry, Dismissed. 
 Mills v Wheat, Cond to Oct r . 
 
 v Stroup, Cond. 
 Carpenter v Bailey, Dismissed. 
 Graham v McDonald, Cond. 
 v the same, Cond. 
 
 References 
 Manly v Rogers, Cond. 
 M"Gee v Russell, Cond. 
 Hawkins v Wheat, Dismissed. 
 Davidson v Wolf, Judgment for ^56 & Costs. 
 Hawkins v Geither, Con?. 
 Bower v Geither, Cond. 
 Russell v Gillespie, Cond. 
 
 Appearances. 
 Hawkins v Miller, Agreed. 
 Miller v Hawkins, Agreed. 
 Dunn v Taylor, Cond. 
 Bailey v Grooms, Allias. 
 Bailey v Bailey, Agreed. 
 Sprigg v Taylor, Agreed. 
 Bailey v Bailey, Agreed. 
 Gilliland v Gilliland, Allias. 
 Lutes v Miller, Allias. 
 
 v the Same, Allias. 
 Nichols v M°Caley, Cond. 
 Scott v Ryley, Allias. 
 
Minutes of Court for Ohio County. 77 
 
 Allias Capias 
 Sharp v Summers, Cond. 
 
 Attachments. 
 Roney v Smyth, Cond. 
 Hawkins v Roney, Cond. 
 
 Caldwell v Martin, Ordered that Joseph Wells & Isaac Ellis 
 be Allowed Each i Days Attendance as Witness in this Action. 
 
 (81) Caldwell v Martin, Ordered that this Action be Continued 
 to next Court for a Rehearing. 
 
 Ordered that David M°Clure be Appointed Full Clerk of 
 this Court in the Room of James McMechen, who we Under- 
 stand is out of this State this two Years, he was Sworn in Ac- 
 cordingly. 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff Advertise the Goods taken in pos- 
 session of Edward Chapman, a Late Prisoner, for sale the first 
 Day of Next Court, in Order to Defray the Expenses incured 
 on acct of Trying and securing s a Chapman 
 
 Ordered that the Sheriff advertise the Goods taken in pos- 
 session of David Gamble, a Late prisoner, For Sale on Monday 
 the first Day of Next Court toward Defraying the Expenses 
 incurred by said Gamble. 
 
 Certificate of a stray Horse taken up by Robert M?Guire is 
 returned to Court & O R. 
 
 Andrew Lane Produced a Certificate that he had killed three 
 wolves, to be Allowed him at the Laying of Next County Levy. 
 
 (82) Graham v Hanna, Case: dam. ^300. Ordered that the 
 Sheriff Summons a Jury to Enquire of this Cause Immediately. 
 Whereupon Jesse Dement, John Nichols, Joseph Wells, George 
 Dement, David Inglish, Charles Tuel, And" Robinson, James 
 Parks, Andrew Zane, Cornelius MfEntire, John Caldwell & 
 Charles Hedges, who being Duly Elected & Sworn, do say the 
 assess the Pit Damage to One hundred Dollars & Costs. 
 
 Ordered that Nicholas Rogers be allowed for two Days 
 attendance in this Action. 
 
 (83) Ordered that the Ordinary Keepers in this County Sell at 
 the Following Rates — viz : 
 
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 Dollars 1 
 For Half pint whiskey, 6 do. 
 
 For Do with Sugar, 8 do. 
 
 For Breakfast or Supper, 6 do. 
 
 For Dinner, io do. 
 
 For Lodging with Clean sheets, 3 do. 
 
 For i Horse to hay 24 Hours 6 do. 
 
 For pasturage, Do, 3 do. 
 
 For 1 Gallon of Corn, 5 do. 
 
 For 1 Do Oats, 4 do. 
 
 For 1 Qt Strong Beer, 4 do. 
 
 Ordered that this Court be adjourned Untill Court in Course 
 
 John Williamson 
 
 [The next term of this Court was held on September 4, 1780, but 
 as Yohogania County had held its last term of court on August 28 of 
 that year, and no Virginia Court was ever held afterward within the 
 limits of Pennsylvania, our transcript of these court records will here 
 end. Yet the Ohio County Court, removed from Black's Cabin to 
 Wheeling in 1797, continues in existence to this day, and its ancient 
 records are now in the custody of Mr. Richard Robertson, the 
 present Clerk of that Court, by whose kind permission we have been 
 enabled to make our copy. This series of papers disclosing the 
 transactions of these old Virginia Courts within the limits of Pennsyl- 
 vania, will be followed in the next issue of the Annals of the Car- 
 negie Museum by a transcript of the Deed Book of the old court 
 held for the District of West Augusta at Fort Dunmore, 1775— 1776, 
 before the division of that district into the three counties, Ohio, 
 Yohogania, and Monongalia. — B. C] 
 
 1 For the depreciation of the currency of this date, see Vol. II, p. 210, of these 
 
 Annals. 
 
Publications of the Carnegie Museum Serial No. 33 
 
 ANNALS 
 
 OF "fHE 
 
 CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
 
 Vol. III. No. 2. 
 
 W. J. HOLLAND, Editor 
 
 Published by the Authority of the 
 
 Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute 
 
 March, 1905 
 
V. THE RECORDS OF DEEDS FOR THE DISTRICT OF 
 WEST AUGUSTA, VIRGINIA, FOR THE COURT 
 HELD AT FORT DUNMORE (PITTSBURGH, PA.), 
 1775-1776 ; COPIED CONSECUTIVELY AS RECORDED. 
 
 Edited by Boyd Crumrine, of Washington, Pa. 
 
 Introduction. 
 
 The following pages present a literal transcript of the original 
 manuscript volume, in paste-board covers, in which were recorded by 
 John Madison, the Clerk of the Court held for the District of West 
 Augusta at Fort Dunmore, in 1775 and 1776, the contracts, deeds, and 
 mortgages, proved, or acknowledged, before said Court and ordered to 
 be recorded. 
 
 The record of the first deed recorded was "examined" and the 
 deed delivered to Bernard Gratz, the grantee thereof, on May 28, 
 1775. Towards the end of the book, however, are found copied a 
 number of instruments relating to real estate, the records of which are 
 not shown to have been "examined" and attested by the Clerk. 
 Why this was is not known. 
 
 No similar book, containing the records of deeds, etc., proved or 
 acknowledged before the Court for Yohogania County, has been found. 
 When that Court was organized and held its first day's session, to wit, 
 on December 23, 1776, Virginia as well as Pennsylvania had become 
 an independent State in the newly-formed United States of America ; 
 and one of the matters of business done on that day was to choose 
 and appoint unanimously Dorsey Pentecost as the Clerk of Court, and 
 to demand "the Records and Papers from John Madison, Junior, 
 Deputy Clerk of East Augusta, in whose custody they are, which he 
 peremptorily refused, notwithstanding he confessed he had seen an act 
 of assembly directing him so to do," and to order " that a Process be 
 issued to apprehend the said John Madison, and forthwith bring him 
 before the Court to answer the above misdemeanor" (See Vol. II. of 
 these Annals, pp. 79, 81). 
 
 237 
 
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 This John Madison, Jr., was the son and deputy of John Madison, 
 who had been appointed Clerk of the County Court of Augusta County 
 when that court was first organized at Staunton, Va., to wit, on De- 
 cember 9, 1745, (Peyton's History of Augusta County, p. 32 ), and he 
 had been sworn in as Deputy Clerk at the last term of the Court held at 
 Fort Dunmore, to wit, on August 20, 1776, the next session being 
 held at Augusta Town (now Washington, Pa.), on September 17, 
 1776, (Vol. I. of these Annals, p. 565). John Madison, the Clerk, 
 was a cousin of the father of James Madison, who became President 
 of the United States, and was the father of Rev. James Madison, long 
 the distinguished head of William and Mary College, and the first 
 Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia. (Peyton's 
 History of Augusta County, p. 345). 
 
 Indian Titles. , 
 
 To make the transcripts of the conveyances by George Croghan and 
 others contained in the records following more intelligible, as well 
 as to throw light upon entries made of transactions before the Court 
 for the District of West Augusta, copies are presented of two old In- 
 dian conveyances made at the great Treaty with the Six Nations held 
 at Fort Stanwix, now Rome, Oneida County, New York. 
 
 The French and Indian War had terminated in 1763, resulting in 
 the ending of the French Occupation of the Monongahela and Ohio 
 Valleys. The same year had occurred and ended Pontiac's Conspir- 
 acy, and a general peace with the Indians followed until Dunmore's 
 War in 1774, the pioneers being disturbed only by sporadic Indian 
 raids and depredations. The Indians, however, still claimed the 
 lands upon the waters of the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio 
 Rivers as their own. These Indians, called by the French the Iro- 
 quois, formed a confederacy, named by the English " the Six Nations," 
 composed of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Senecas, Onondagas, Cayugas, 
 and Tuscaroras, and had their Council House, or seat of government, 
 in the valleys of western New York. It was chiefly to establish 
 certain boundaries limiting their exclusive rights on the East, that the 
 Treaty at Fort Stanwix had been brought about. 
 
 The congress was opened on October 24, 1768. There were pres- 
 ent Sir William Johnson, Baronet, his Majesty's Superintendent of 
 Indian Affairs; William Franklin, Esq., Governor of New Jersey; 
 Frederick Smith, Chief Justice of New Jersey; Thomas Walker, 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. ?39 
 
 Esq., Commissioner for the Colony of Virginia; Richard Peters and 
 James Tilghman, Esqrs., for the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania ; 
 George Croghan, Daniel Claus, and Guy Johnson, Esqrs., Deputy In- 
 dian Agents, as well as many others of the whites, attracted by inter- 
 est or curiosity ; and on November 5, 1768; after full conference and 
 extended discussion, at least three grants by the Six Nations already 
 executed were delivered ; one to Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, 
 the proprietaries of Pennsylvania ; one to William Trent, in trust for 
 the Indian Traders whose goods had been carried off by the Indians 
 from Logstown (below Pittsburgh) in 1763, and one to George 
 Croghan, for himself absolutely. 
 
 By the cession to the proprietaries of Pennsylvania, the Six Nations 
 granted a large tract of country lying within the general boundary of 
 Pennsylvania and contained within the following limits, to wit : 
 
 "Beginning in the said Boundary Line, on the East side of the 
 East Branch of the River Susquehanna, at a place called Owegy, and 
 running with the said Boundary Line down the said Branch on the 
 East side thereof, till it comes opposite the mouth of a Creek called 
 by the Indians Awandae, and across the River and up the said Creek 
 on the South side thereof, and along the Range of Hills called 
 
 Burnett's Hills by the English, and by the Indians •, on the 
 
 north side of them, to the head of a Creek which runs into the West 
 Branch of Susquehanna, which Creek is by the Indians called Tiad- 
 aghton, and down the said Creek on the south side thereof, to the said 
 West Branch of Susquehanna ; then, crossing the said River and run- 
 ning up the same on the south side thereof, the several Courses 
 thereof, to the Fork of the same River, which lies nearest to a place 
 on the River Ohio [Allegheny] called Kittanning, and from the said 
 Fork, by a strait line to Kittanning aforesaid, and then down the said 
 River Ohio [Allegheny] , by the several Courses thereof, to where the 
 western Bounds of the said Province of Pennsylvania crosses the same 
 River ; and then, with the said Western Bounds to the South Bound- 
 ary thereof ; and with the south Boundary aforesaid, to the East side 
 of the Allegheny Hills, and with the same Hills, on the East side of 
 them, to the West Line of a Tract of Land purchased by the said 
 Proprietaries from the Six Nation Indians, and confirmed by their 
 Deed bearing date the twenty-third Day of October, one thousand 
 seven hundred'.and fifty-eight ; and then with the Northern Bounds of 
 that Tract to the River Susquehanna, and crossing the River Susque- 
 
240 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 hanna, to the Northern Boundary line of another Tract of Land pur- 
 chased from the Indians by Deed bearing Date the twenty-second Day 
 of August, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine ; and then, 
 with that Northern Boundary Line to the River Delaware, at the 
 North Side of the mouth of a Creek called Lechawacsein ; then up 
 the said River Delaware, on the West Side thereof, to the Intersection 
 of it by an East Line, to be drawn from Owegy aforesaid, to the said 
 River Delaware ; and then, with that East Line to the Beginning, at 
 Owegy aforesaid." 
 
 The grant from which this quotation is made seems to have been 
 dated November 5, 1768 : See I Olden Time, p. 401 ; also, IX Col. 
 Records, p. 554. But two other grants had already been executed, 
 the first being that to William Trent, in trust for the Indian traders, 
 dated November 3, 1768, here given in full, our copy having been 
 made from the dupicate original parchment deed now or lately hang- 
 ing in the State House at Philadelphia. 
 
 The Six Nations to William Trent, in Trust. 
 
 TO ALL PEOPLE To whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: 
 Know ye That We, Abraham, a Mohawk Chief; Sennghois, a Oneida 
 Chief; Saguarisera, a Tuscarora Chief; Chenaugheata, Chief of the 
 Onondaga Council ; Tagaaia a Cayuga Chief, & Gaustarax a Seneca 
 Chief; Chiefs and Sachems of the Six United Nations, and being and 
 effectually representing all the Tribes of the Six United Nations, send 
 Greeting : 
 
 WHEREAS, Robert Callender, David Franks, Joseph Simon, Levy 
 Andrew Levy, Philip Boyle, John Baynton, Samuel Wharton, George 
 Morgan, Joseph Spear, Thomas Smallman, Samuel Wharton, Admin- 
 istrator of John Welch, deceased, Edmund Moran, Evan Shelby, 
 Samuel Postlethwait, John Gibson, Richard Winston, Dennis Crohon, 
 William Thompson, Abraham Mitchel, James Dundas, Thomas Dun- 
 das, and John Ormsby, in and by their several and respective letters 
 or Powers of Attorney duly signed, sealed, and delivered by them 
 and now produced, interpreted and explained to us, have constituted, 
 nominated and appointed William Trent, of the County of Cumber- 
 land and Province of Pennsylvania, Merchant, their lawful Attorney 
 and Agent to ask, Sollicit, demand and receive from the Sachems, 
 Councellors, and Warriors of the said Six United Nations, a Grant of 
 a Tract of Land as a Compensation, Satisfaction, or Retribution for 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 241 
 
 the Goods Merchandise and Effects of the said William Trent and the 
 Traders aforesaid, Which the Shawanese, Delaware and Huron Tribes, 
 Tributaries of the said Six Nations, (Contrary to all good faith, and 
 in Violation of their repeated Promises of Safety and Protection to 
 their Persons, Servants and Effects whilst Trading in their Country), 
 did, in the Spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty 
 three, Violently seise Upon and unjustly appropriate to their own 
 Use ; 
 
 AND WHEREAS, we are now convened in full Council by Order 
 of our Father the King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender 
 of the Faith, &c, at Fort Stanwix, in the province of New York, in 
 order to. agree for, ascertain and finally fix and settle a permanent 
 and lasting Boundary Line between the Hunting Country which we, 
 at the Conference aforesaid, shall and will reserve for ourselves, our 
 Children and our Tributaries, and the Territories of the said King of 
 Great Britain. 
 
 AND WHEREAS application was formerly made to the Six United 
 Nations by Sir William Johnson, Baronet, at the Requisition of the 
 aforesaid Traders who had sustained and suffered the losses aforesaid, 
 for a Retribution for the same, which the Six United Nations prom- 
 ised and agreed to, whensoever He the said Sir William Johnson, 
 Baronet, should be empowered by his said majesty, the King of Great 
 Britain, to establish the Boundary Line aforesaid ; 
 
 AND WHEREAS, the said Sir William Johnson, Baronet, has now 
 at this present Congress reminded the said Six United Nations of their 
 said Promise, and at the earnest desire of aforesaid Traders, by their 
 Attorney, Strongly recommended to the Six United Nations to make 
 them a Restitution by a Grant of a Tract of Land to his said Majesty 
 the King of Great Britain, his Heirs and Successors, to and for the 
 Only Use Benefit and Behoof of the said William Trent, in his own 
 Right and as Attorney as aforesaid : 
 
 ALL WHICH the said Six United Nations, having taken into their 
 Consideration and being heartily disposed to agree thereunto as an 
 Instance of their Justice and Concern in the said losses, do therefore, 
 by these Presents, signify publish and declare that notwithstanding 
 the Grant and Gift hereby made and given by them Unto his said 
 Majesty the King of Great Britain, and So forth, To and for the 
 Only use Benefit and Behoof of the said William Trent, in his own 
 Right and as Attorney as aforesaid, will be included within the Ces- 
 
242 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 sion, Sale and Boundary Line which the said Six United Nations 
 shall and will make, sell and grant to the said King of Great Britain, 
 at the Conference aforesaid, holden at Fort Stanwix aforesaid, by the 
 said Sir William Johnson, Baronet, yet nevertheless the said Six 
 United Nations have neither asked, demanded, nor received from 
 Him the said Sir William Johnson, Baronet, nor from any other Per- 
 son or Persons in Behalf of the said King of Great Britain, any Con- 
 sideration for the hereby given and granted Premises, neither shall 
 nor will the said Six United Nations, nor their Heirs nor Descendants, 
 (and by these presents They the Six United Nations wholly and in- 
 tirely interdict and prohibit them from so doing), demand nor receive 
 from the said King of Great Britain, nor from his Successors, nor 
 from his or their Ministers or Servants, any Consideration whatsoever 
 or howsoever for the hereby granted, bargained or now given prem- 
 ises, or any part, purpart, or parcel thereof, the same being their own 
 Voluntary Act and Deed Solely and bona fide designed and intended 
 by Them as a Compensation, Satisfaction and Retribution for the 
 Losses sustained by the said William Trent and the Indian Traders 
 aforesaid by the Depredations of the Shawnesse, Delaware and Huron 
 Tribes of Indians aforesaid In the aforesaid Year one thousand seven 
 hundred and sixty three • 
 
 NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH That we the said 
 Abraham, Sennghois, Saguarisera, Chenaugheata, Tagaaia, and Gau- 
 starax (Chiefs and Sachems of the said Six United Nations, and being 
 and effectually as aforesaid representing all the Tribes of the said Six 
 United Nations), for and in the consideration of the Sum of Eighty 
 Five Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixteen Pounds, Ten Shillings and 
 Eight Pence, lawfull Money of the Province of New York, (the same 
 being the amount of the Goods and Merchandise which were unjustly 
 seized and taken as aforesaid by the Shawnesse, Delaware and Huron 
 Tribes of Indians aforesaid, from the said William Trent, Robert Cal- 
 lender, David Franks, Joseph Simon, Levy Andrew Levy, Philip 
 Boyle, John Baynton, Samuel Wharton, George Morgan, Joseph 
 Spear, Thomas Smallman, Samuel Wharton, Administrator of John 
 Welch, deceased, Edmund Moran, Evan Shelby, Samuel Postle- 
 thwait, John Gibson, Richard Winston, Dennis Crohon, William 
 Thompson, Abraham Mitchel, James Dundas, Thomas Dundas, and 
 John Ormsby, in the aforesaid year one thousand seven hundred 
 and sixty three, Whereof just and fair Accounts have on Oath anp 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 243 
 
 Affirmation been produced, interpreted and explained to Us and 
 which at our Desire are now lodged and deposited with the said Sir 
 William Johnson Baronet ; And for and in Consideration of the Sum 
 of Five Shillings, lawfull Money aforesaid, to Us in hand paid by the 
 said William Trent, the Receipt whereof We do hereby acknowledge, 
 Do give, grant, bargain and Sell Unto his said Majesty, his Heirs 
 and Successors, to and for the only use Benefit and Behoof of the 
 said William Trent, in his own right and as Attorney aforesaid : 
 
 All that Tract or parcel of Land BEGINNING At the Southerly 
 side of the Mouth of little Kanawha Creek, where it empties itself 
 into the River Ohio, and Running from thence South East to the 
 Laurel Hill ; Thence along the Laurel Hill until it strikes the 
 river Monongahela; Thence down the Stream of the said River 
 Monongahela, according to the several Courses Thereof, To the South- 
 ern Boundary Line of the province of Pennsylvania ; Thence Westerly 
 along the Course of the said Province Boundary Line as far as the 
 same shall extend, and from Thence by the same Course to the River 
 Ohio ; Thence down the said River Ohio according to the several 
 Courses thereof to the place of Beginning, 
 
 TOGETHER with all and Singular the Trees, Woods, under-Woods, 
 Mines, Minerals, Oars, Waters, Water-Courses, Fishings, Fowlings, 
 Huntings, Profits, Commodities, Advantages, Rights, Liberties, Pas- 
 sages, Hereditaments, and Appurtenances, whatsoever, to the said 
 Tract or Parcel of Land belonging or in any wise appertaining, or 
 which now are or formerly have been accepted, reputed, taken, known, 
 and Occupied, or enjoyed, to or with the same or as part, parcel or 
 Member Thereof; and the Reversion and Reversions, Remainder 
 and Remainders, Rents, Issues, and Profits of all and singular the said 
 premises above mentioned and every part and parcel thereof, with The 
 Appurtenances ; and also all the Estate, Right, Title, Interest, prop- 
 erty, claim and demand, whatsoever, whether Native, legal or equita- 
 ble, of Us the said Indians and Each and Every of Us and of all and 
 every other person and persons whatsoever of or belonging to the said 
 Nations, of, in, to and out of all and singular the Premises above men- 
 tioned and of, in, to, and out of Every part and parcell thereof, with 
 the appurtenances, 
 
 TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all and singular the said Tract, 
 Parcel and parcells of Land, given, granted and bargained Premises, 
 with their Appurtenances, Unto his said Majesty King George the 
 
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 Third, his Heirs and Successors, but to and for the Only use Benefit 
 and Behoof of the said William Trent, in his own Right and as Attor- 
 ney aforesaid, his Heirs and assigns, forever ; 
 
 AND the said Abraham, Sennghois, Saguarisera, Chenaugheata, 
 Tagaaia, and Gaustarax, for themselves and for the said Six United 
 Nations and all and Every Other Nation and Nations, Tribes, Tribu- 
 taries, and Descendants of the said Six United Nations, and their and 
 Every of their posteritys, the said Tract and Parcell of Land and Prem- 
 ises and Every Part thereof, against them the said Abraham, Sennghois, 
 Saguarisera, Chenaugheata, Tagaaia, and Gaustarax, And against the 
 said Six United Nations and their Tributaries and Descendants, and all 
 and Every of their posteritys, to his said Majesty, his Heirs and Succes- 
 sors, but to and for the Only Use Benefit and behoof of the said William 
 Trent, in his own Right and as Attorney aforesaid, his Heirs and As- 
 signs, Shall and will Warrant and forever defend by these Presents. 
 
 IN WITNESS Whereof, we, the said Chiefs and Sachems, in be- 
 half of Ourselves respectively and in behalf of the whole Six United 
 Nations aforesaid, have hereunto set Our hands and seals, In the pres- 
 ence of the persons Subscribing as Witnesses hereunto, at the Con- 
 gress held at Fort Stamvix aforesaid, this the Third day of November, 
 in the Ninth year of his Majesty's Reign, and In the Year of our 
 Lord One thousand seven Hundred and Sixty Eight. 
 
 Abraham, or Tvchaurisera (Seal), 
 Chief of [ Totem] the Mohawks. 
 William, or Sennghois (Seal), 
 
 Chief of [ Totem] the Oneidas. 
 Hendrick, or Saguarisera (Seal), 
 
 Chief of \Toteni\ the Tascaroras. 
 Bunt, or Chenaugheata (Seal), 
 
 Chief of [Totem] the Oonondagas. 
 Tagaaia (Seal), 
 
 Chief of [Totem'] the Cayuagas, 
 Gausterax (Seal), 
 
 Chief of [ Totem] the Senecas. 
 Sealed and delivered in the presence of us — The letters (d n and 
 the words to said) being first interlined ; the words Sennghois, Sag- 
 uarisera, Chenaugheata wrote in a Razure. 
 
 Wm. Franklin, 
 
 Governor of New Jersey. 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 245 
 
 Fre. Smyth, 
 
 Chief Justice of New Jersey. 
 Thomas Walker, 
 
 Commissioner for Virginia. 
 Richard Peters and James Tilghman, 
 
 Of the Council of Pennsylvania. 
 John Skinner, 
 
 Captain of the joth Regt. 
 Joseph Chew, 
 
 of Connecticut. 
 John Witherhead, 
 
 of New York. 
 John Walker, 
 
 of Virginia. 
 E. Fitch, 
 
 of Connecticut. 
 Thomas Walker, Jun., 
 
 of Virginia. 
 John Butler, 
 
 Interpreter for the Crown. 
 Recorded in the office for recording of Deeds for the City and 
 County of Philadelphia, in Book J., vol. 5, page 243, etc. 
 
 Certified under my Hand & Seal of my Office aforesaid, This 
 12th day of January, 1769. 
 
 [Seal] Will Parr, Reed. 
 
 [On Margin.] 
 This is the Copy of the Grant mentioned in The annexed Affidavit 
 of John Skinner, Esquire, SWORN before me this Day. 
 
 Dated the Third Day of February, One Thousand Seven Hundred 
 and Seventy Six. 
 
 WILLIAM ATKINSON, 
 
 MAYOR, 
 of New Castle upon 
 Tyne in the Kingdom 
 of Great Britain. 
 
 William Trent, the grantee of the foregoing deed, was the Captain 
 Wm. Trent, under whom Ensign Edward Ward, with his small force 
 of men, was constructing the fort at the Forks of the Ohio, when, on 
 April 17, 1754, he surrendered to the French and Indians, who com- 
 
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 pleted the fort and called it Fort Duquesne. Subsequently Trent 
 must have executed a sufficient conveyance to his beneficiaries for 
 their interests in this grant, for at a session of the Court for the Dis- 
 trict of West Augusta held on April 17, 1776, there were proved and 
 ordered to be recorded a " Deed of Lease and Release of Trust from 
 William Trent," to the many persons named, and a " Deed of Parti- 
 tion from and between the same Persons," showing how very many 
 individuals had by that time become interested in this celebrated 
 grant : Vol. I of these Annals, page 562. 
 
 On November 4, 1768, the day after the above-mentioned grant to 
 William Trent, in trust, and the day before the delivery of the cession 
 to the proprietaries of Pennsylvania, there was made a grant to George 
 Croghan, which is presented here because of the many grants made 
 under it of lands lying on the south side of the Monongahela and 
 Ohio, extending southward to the neighborhood of the present Bridge- 
 ville, or beyond, which grants are recorded in the records to be 
 presented. 
 
 The Six Nations to George Croghan. 
 
 TO ALL PEOPLE to whom these presents shall come, Greeting : 
 Know ye, that we, Abraham, a Mohawk chief; Sennghois, an Oneida 
 chief; Chenaugheata, an Onondaga chief; Tagaaia, a Cayuga chief, 
 and Gaustarax, a Seneca chief, chiefs and sachems of the Six United 
 Nations, and being and effectually representing all the tribes of the 
 Six United Nations, send greeting. 
 
 WHEREAS, Iohonerissa, Scaroyadia, Cosswentanica, chiefs or 
 sachems of the Six United Nations, did, by their deed duly executed 
 bearing date the 2nd day of August, 1749, for and in consideration of 
 the following goods and merchandise being paid and delivered to 
 them at a full council of the Six United Nations, Delawares and 
 Shawanese, held at Logstown, on the river Ohio, on the 2nd of 
 August, 1749, that is to say : 240 strouds, 400 Dufneld blankets, 460 
 pairs of half thick stockings, 200 shirts, 20 pieces of calico, 20 pieces 
 of callimancre, 20 pieces of embossed serge, fifty pounds of vermil- 
 lion, 50 gross of gartering, 50 pieces of ribbon, 50 dozen of knives, 
 500 pounds of gunpowder, 1000 of bar lead, 3000 gun flints, 50 
 pounds of brass kettles, 4 pounds of thread, 1000 needles, ten dozen 
 jews-harps, 20 dozen tobacco tongs, and 100 pounds of tobacco: 
 grant and sell unto George Croghan, of the Province of Pennsylvania, 
 Esquire, in fee, a certain tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 247 
 
 being on the southernly side of the river Monongehela : BEGINNING 
 at the mouth of a run nearly opposite to Turtle Creek, and then down 
 the river Monongehela to its junction with the river Ohio, computed 
 to be ten miles ; then running down the eastern bank and sides of 
 and unto the said river Ohio to where Raccoon creek empties itself 
 into the said river ; thence up the said creek ten miles, and from 
 thence on a straight or direct line to the place of beginning on the 
 aforesaid river Monongehela, CONTAINING, by estimation, one 
 hundred thousand acres of land, be the same more or less. 
 
 AND WHEREAS, the said Iohonerissa, Scaroyadia and Cosswen- 
 tanica, chiefs or sachems, as aforesaid, for the consideration herein- 
 after mentioned to them in full council, as aforesaid, paid and de- 
 livered, that is to say: 140 strouds, 240 Duffield blankets, 275 pair 
 of half thick stockings, 120 shirts, 12 pieces of calico, 12 pieces of 
 callimancce, 12 pieces of embossed serge, 30 pounds of vermillion, 12 
 gross of gartering, 30 pieces of ribbon, 30 dozen knives, 300 pounds 
 of gunpowder, 600 of bar lead, 1000 gun flints, 30 pounds of brass 
 kettles, 4 pounds of thread, 500 needles, six dozen of jews-harps, six 
 dozen tobacco tongs, and 50 pounds of tobacco : did, by one other 
 deed bearing date the same day and year last aforesaid, grant, bargain 
 and sell unto the said George Croghan, in fee, one other tract or par- 
 cel of land, situate, lying and being on the river Yoxhiogeni, includ- 
 ing the Indian village called the Seurchly l old town ; the same tract 
 or parcel of land containing 15 miles in length, on the said river, and 
 ten miles in breadth, and including the lands on both sides of the said 
 river Yoxhiogeni, which 15 miles in length and ten miles in breadth, 
 he, the said George Croghan, has liberty to locate either upon or 
 down the said Yoxhiogeni, but nevertheless in such manner so as to 
 include and locate the said Indian village and land called the Seurchly ' 
 old town, which said tract or parcel of land contains, by estimation, 
 60,000 acres, be the same more or less. 
 
 AND WHEREAS, the said Iohonerissa, Scaroyadia and Cosswen- 
 tanica did, by one other deed, bearing date the day and year last 
 aforesaid, for the consideration herein mentioned to them in full 
 council paid and delivered, as aforesaid, that is to say : 96 strouds, 
 160 Duffield blankets, 184 pair of half thick stockings, 80 shirts, 8 
 pieces of calico, 8 pieces of embossed serge, 20 pounds of vermillion, 
 20 gross of gartering, 20 pieces of ribbon, 20 dozen of knives, 200 
 
 1 Perhaps Sewickley. 
 
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 pounds of gunpowder, 400 of bar lead, 1000 gun flints, 20 poun Is of 
 brass kettle, 2 pounds of thread, 500 needles, 4 dozen jews-harps, 4 
 dozen tobacco tongs, 50 pounds of tobacco : Grant, bargain and sell 
 unto the said George Croghan, in fee, one other tract or parcel of 
 land, situate, lying and being, and BEGINNING on the east side of 
 the river Ohio, to the northward of an old Indian village, crlled 
 Shanopinstown, at the mouth of a run called the two mile run ; 'hen 
 up the said two mile run where it interlocks with the heads of the two 
 mile spring, which empties into the river Monongahela ; then down 
 the said two mile spring to the several courses thereof unto the sd. 
 Monongehela ; then up the said river Monongehela to where Turtle 
 Creek empties itself into the same river ; then up the said Turtle 
 creek to the first forks thereof ; then up the north or northerly branch 
 of the said creek to the head of the same ; thence a north or northerly 
 course until it strikes Plum creek ; then down said Plum creek until 
 it empties itself into the river Ohio, and then down the said river 
 Ohio to the place of beginning, where, as aforesaid, the two mile run 
 discharges itself into the said river Ohio ; CONTAINING by estima- 
 tion 40,000 acres, be the same more or less, 
 
 Which said several grants, bargains and sales, [were] duly made 
 and executed, by the last mentioned chiefs or sachems, in pursuance 
 of certain powers and authorities delegated to and vested in them for 
 the purpose aforesaid by the chiefs or sachems of the Onondaga Coun- 
 cil, in full council assembled ; 
 
 AND, WHEREAS, the said first-mentioned chiefs or sachems of 
 the Six United Nations, parties to these presents, are not only truly 
 and sensible and convinced that the said George Croghan hath faith- 
 fully and justly paid and delivered unto Iohonerissa, Scaroyadia and 
 Cosswentanica, chiefs or sachems as aforesaid, all and several the 
 goods and merchandize herein particularly recited and mentioned, but 
 of the great justice and integrity of the said George Croghan, used 
 and reserved by him towards the said Six Nations and their allies in 
 all his public and private conduct and transactions, wherein they have 
 been concerned : 
 
 NOW, KNOW YE THEREFORE, that we, the said chiefs or 
 sachems of the Six United Nations, in full council assembled at Fort 
 Stanwix, for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings to them 
 in hand paid by the said George Croghan, the receipt whereof they 
 do hereby acknowledge, and for and in consideration of the aforesaid. 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 249 
 
 goods and merchandize paid and delivered by him unto Iohonerissa, 
 Scaroyadia, Cosswentanica, chiefs as aforesaid, have granted, bar- 
 gained, sold and aliened, released, enfeoffed, ratified and fully con- 
 firmed, and by these presents do grant,' bargain, sell, alien, release, 
 enfeoffe, ratify and fully confirm unto his Most Sacred Majesty George 
 III., King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the 
 Faith, &c, his heirs and successors, for the use, benefit and behoof 
 of the said George Croghan, his heirs and assigns, all those the above 
 described or mentioned tracts or parcels of land, granted or intended 
 to be granted by the said several recited deeds as aforesaid, and also 
 all mines, mineral ores, trees, woods, underwoods, waters and water 
 courses, profits, commodities, advantages, rights, liberties, privileges, 
 hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever unto the said several 
 tracts or parcels of land belonging or any way appertaining ; and also 
 the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues 
 and profits thereof, and of every part or parcel thereof, and all the 
 estate, right, title, interest, use, property, possessions, claim and 
 demand of them, the said Abraham, Sennghois, Saguarisera, Chen- 
 augheata, Tagaaia, Gaustarax, chiefs or sachems aforesaid, and of all 
 and every other person and persons whatsoever, or belonging to said 
 nations, of, in, to and out of the premises, and every part and parcel, 
 thereof, 
 
 TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said several tracts and parcels of 
 land, and all and singular the said granted or bargained premises, with 
 the appurtenances, unto his said Majesty, his heirs and successors, to 
 and for the only use, benefit and behoof of the said George Croghan, 
 his heirs and assigns forever ; 
 
 AND the said Abraham, Sennghois, Saguarisera, Chenaugheata, 
 Tagaaia and Gaustarax for themselves and for the Six Nations, and all 
 and every other nation and nations, tributaries and dependents on the 
 said Six United Nations, and their and every of their posterity, the 
 said several tracts of land and premises and every part thereof, against 
 them, the said Abraham, Sennghois, Saguarisera, Chenaugheata, 
 Tagaaia and Gaustarax, and against the said Six United Nations, and 
 their tributaries and dependents, and all and every of their posteritys, 
 unto his said Majesty, his heirs and successors, to and for the only use, 
 benefit and behoof of the said George Croghan, his heirs and assigns, 
 shall and will warrant and forever defend, by these presents ; 
 
 PROVIDED, always, nevertheless, and it is the true intent and 
 
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 meaning of these presents, and the said Abraham, Sennghois, Saguar- 
 isera, Chenaugheata, Tagaaia and Gaustarax, do hereby covenant and 
 agree to and with his said Majesty and his heirs and successors, to 
 for the only use, benefit and behoof of the said George Croghan, his 
 heirs and assigns, that if any or all of the said several tracts of land or 
 any part thereof, shall hereafter be found to be within the bounds and 
 limits of a certain grant bearing date the 4th of March, 1681, made 
 by Charles II., King of Great Britain, &c, to William Penn, Esq., 
 for the tract of country called and known by the name of Pennsyl- 
 vania, that then and in such case, his said Majesty, his heirs and suc- 
 cessors, to and for the only use, benefit and behoof of the said George 
 Croghan, his heirs and assigns, shall be permitted and shall have and 
 enjoy full right, power and authority to survey and locate the said 
 several quantities of 100,000 acres, 60,000 and 40,000 acres of land, 
 be the same more or less, as contained within the limits and bounds 
 of the said several and respective tracts or parcels of land mentioned 
 and described as aforesaid, in such quantities and in such parts and 
 places of, in and within the cession or grant of land or territory, 
 which shall be ceded and granted at the conference aforesaid, to the 
 said King of Great Britain by the chiefs or sachems of the said Six 
 United Nations, anything herein contained to the contrary thereof in 
 any wise notwithstanding. 
 
 In witness whereof the said chiefs and sachems, in behalf of our- 
 selves, respectively, and in behalf of the whole Six United Nations 
 aforesaid, have hereunto set our hands and seals, in the presence of 
 the persons subscribing as witnesses hereunto, at a Congress held at 
 Fort Stanwix, aforesaid, this, the 4th day of November, in the year 
 9th of his Majesty's reign, and in the year of our Lord 1768. 
 Abraham, or Tychauesera, The mark 
 
 ; ■ j: r 11 rnr i i [The Steel] (1. s.) 
 
 a chief of the Mohawks. of his natlon . 
 
 William, or Sennghois, The mark 
 
 a chief of the Oneidas. ^fs nation'.' ''' 
 
 HENDRICK., Or SAGUARISERA, The mark 
 
 a chief of the Tuscaroras. 'If^T.!™!' ^ 
 
 Burt, or Chenaugheata, The mark 
 
 , • r j- ., ~ . [The Mountain] (1 s.) 
 
 a chief of the Onondagas. of his nation. 
 
 TAGAAIA, The mark 
 
 a chief of the Cayugas. ^r'htoSl* ' 
 
 GAUSTERAX, The mark 
 
 , ■ j- jr ., o [The High Hill] (I. s ) 
 
 a chief of the Senecas. of his * atio n. 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 251 
 
 Sealed and delivered in the presence of us : The word " Croghan " 
 being first written on Rasures eleven times, and the words " and, or 
 down tract," being first interlined. Sealed and delivered in presence 
 of us all, the foregoing interlineations, Rasures and writings on Rasures 
 being first made. 
 
 Wm. Franklin, Governor of New Jersey. 
 
 Fre. Smyth, Chief Justice of New Jersey. 
 
 Thomas Walker, Commissioner for Virginia. 
 
 Richard Peters, ) _ , _ ., , _ 
 
 T „ > of the Council of Pennsylvania. 
 
 James Tilghman, J ' 
 
 John Skinner, Capt. in the 70th Regiment. 
 
 Joseph Chew, of Connecticut. 
 
 John Weatherhead, of N. Y. 
 
 John Walker, of Virginia. 
 
 E. Fitch, of Connecticut. 
 
 Thomas Walker, Junior, Virginia. 
 
 John Butler, Interpretor for the Crown. 
 
 The foregoing deed to George Croghan is copied here from Pey- 
 ton's History of Augusta County, page 74. It was recorded in the 
 Recorder's office at Philadelphia, and on September 23, 1775, ^ was 
 offered for proof and record before the Court for the District of West 
 Augusta held at Fort Dunmore on that date, but objection being 
 made it was ordered to lie over for further proof. (See Vol. I of 
 these Annals, page 554.) 
 
 It will be remembered that in 1768, the year of the treaty at Fort 
 Stanwix when all these Indian grants were made, the boundary con- 
 troversy between Pennsylvania and Virginia was not yet ended, and 
 it was still unknown how far the province of Pennsylvania extended 
 to the westward. Mason and Dixon, when extending the southern 
 boundary line in 1767, had been stopped by the Indian chiefs com- 
 posing their watchful escort, at the second crossing of Dunkard Creek, 
 in the southern part of Greene County, at a point thirty six miles 
 short of Pennsylvania's five degrees of longitude from the Delaware ; 
 " it was the will of the Six Nations that the survey should be stayed : ' ' 
 Latrobe's Address. But, when it was settled by the Baltimore Con- 
 ference of 1779 that the southern boundary of Pennsylvania should be 
 extended to its full length, and that from the southwest corner thus 
 reached the western boundary should be a line drawn due north from 
 
252 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 that corner, then it became known to a certainty that the grants to 
 William Trent, in trust, and to George Croghan, had both become 
 worthless as to lands within the boundaries of Pennsylvania. 
 
 The southwest corner and the western boundary of Pennsylvania 
 were actually marked out on the ground in 1784-5 ; and Croghan's 
 grant, which had been fruitlessly relied upon to protect the settlers 
 upon George Washington's lands in what is now Mt. Pleasant Town- 
 ship, Washington County, Pennsylvania, became extinct ; it is still in 
 evidence, however, by marks upon trees occasionally confusing the 
 surveyors of the present day. And by the beneficiaries under the 
 deed to William Trent, in trust, there was formed the Indiana Com- 
 pany, which had quite an interesting history. Pushed out of Penn- 
 sylvania, as it eventually was, Lieutenant Thomas Hutchins, an engi- 
 neer with Bouquet's expedition, made a survey of its lands in what is 
 now West Virginia, about the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania. 
 The company called its immense tract "Indiana," and pressed a 
 recognition of its title successively before the Legislature of Virginia, 
 the Congress of the United States, and the United States Supreme 
 Court, and failed in all its efforts ; so that for a hundred years that 
 celebrated grant, also, has been a matter of ancient history only. 
 
 It is manifest, however, that at the time all these Indian grants 
 were made it was believed that the western boundary of Pennsylvania 
 would fall on a line parallel with the meanders of the Delaware River, 
 and would eventually lie somewhere east of the Monongahela River 
 at Pittsburgh. 
 
 Transcript of the Record of Deeds. 
 (i) 1 Examined and delivered This indenture 
 
 Bernard Gratz, May 28, 1775. made the tenth 
 
 day of July in 
 the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and seventy two Be- 
 tween George Croghan Esquire on the one part and Bernardus 
 Gratz of the City of Philadelphia Merchant on the other part : 
 Whereas Iohonorissa Scaraydia and Cosowantinecea, Cheifs or 
 Sachems of the Six United Nations of Indians, did by their 
 deed duly Executed Bearing date the Second day of August 
 One Thousand Seven Hundred and forty nine for the Con- 
 sideration therein Specified Grant Bargain and Sell unto the 
 
 1 The marginal figures represent the pages of the original record. 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 253 
 
 said George Corghan in Fee a Certain Tract or Parcel of Land 
 Situate lying and being on the South side the Monongahela 
 River Beginning at the Mouth of a Run nearly Opposite to 
 Turtle Creek and then down the said Monongahela River to 
 its Junction with the River Ohio Computed to be ten Miles, 
 then Running down the Eastern bank or side of the said River 
 Ohio to where Racoon Creek empties itself into the said River. 
 Thence up the said Creek ten miles, and from thence on a 
 direct line to the place of beginning ; Containing by Estima- 
 tion One hundred thousand Acres be the same more or less as 
 by the said Deed may more fully appear ; And Whereas cer- 
 tain chiefs or Sachems fully representing the Six united Nations 
 aforesaid in full Council at Fort Stanwix Assembled did by 
 their deed duly executed bearing date the fourth day of No- 
 vember One thousand seven hundred and sixty eight for the 
 Consideration therein mentioned grant ratify and confirm unto 
 his most Sacred Majesty George the third by the Grace of 
 God King of Great Britain france and Ireland &c his heirs 
 and successors for the Use benefit and behoof of the said George 
 Croghan all the above bounded and described tract or parcel 
 of Land and premises as by the said Deed Poll Recorded in 
 the Office for recording of Deeds in the City and County of 
 Philadelphia in Book J Volume the fifth Page the two hun- 
 dred and thirty ninth &c may more fully and at large appear 
 Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the said George Croghan 
 for and in Consideration of the sum of Six hundred pounds 
 lawful money of Great Britain to him the aforesaid George 
 Croghan by Him the aforesaid Bernard Gratz in hand paid the 
 (2) receipt whereof the said George Croghan doth hereby ac- 
 knowledge And by these Presents doth freely and absolutely 
 grant bargain and sell alien release and confirm unto the said 
 Bernard Gratz (in his actual possession now being by virtue of 
 a Bargain and Sale thereof to him made for one whole year by 
 Indenture bearing date the day next before the day of the date 
 of these presents and by force of the Statute for transferring 
 of Uses into possession) and to his heirs and Assigns for ever 
 A Certain tract or parcell of Land being part of the aforesaid 
 tract of Land situate lying and being on the West branch of 
 Racoon Creek, Beginning at a White Oak tree marked on two 
 
254 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 sides with three Notches and a Blaze above them being the 
 most South Westerly Corner of the aforesaid tract of Land 
 granted by the United Nations of Indians as aforesaid North 
 forty three Degrees and thirty Minutes East, three hundred 
 Chains to a stone, thence South fifty-Six Degrees and twenty 
 one minutes East three hundred and fifty Chains to a Stone 
 Corner of Joseph Simons's Land, thence by the said Simons's 
 Land South fifty Degrees and thirty minutes West three hun- 
 dred and seventy two Chains and ninety links to a Stone Cor- 
 ner of said Simons's Land standing in the South West bounds 
 of the aforesaid original tract of land thence along the Bounds 
 of the said Original tract North forty four degrees and thirty 
 minutes West to the place of beginning containing Ten 
 thousand one hundred and twenty nine acres two Quarters and 
 thirty Perches with the allowance of Six Acres Pr Cent for 
 Roads &c — Together with all and singular the members Ap- 
 purtanances and advantages thereunto belonging And all the 
 Estate Right Title and Interest Claim and demand whatsoever 
 or both at Law and in Equity of him the said George Croghan 
 of in and to all and singular the said premises above mentoned 
 and of in and to every part thereof with the Appurtenances 
 To have and to hold the said tract of Land Heriditaments and 
 premises above mentioned and every part thereof with the Ap- 
 purtenances unto the said Bernard Gratz his heirs and Assigns 
 to the only Use benefit and behoof of Him the said Bernard 
 Gratz his heirs and Assigns forever Subject Nevertheless to the 
 Quit Rents to grow and become due to his Majesty his heirs 
 and successors & to no other Incumbrance whatsoever And 
 further that the said George Croghan and his heirs and every 
 (3) other person and persons and his and their heirs anything hav- 
 ing or claiming in the said premises above mentioned or any 
 part thereof by from or under him them or any of them shall 
 and will from time to time and at all times upon the reasonable 
 Request and at the proper Costs and charges of him the said 
 Bernard Gratz his heirs and Assigns make do and execute or 
 cause to be made done and executed all and singular such other 
 lawful and reasonable Act and Acts, Thing and things, Device 
 and Devices Conveyance and Conveyances in the Law whatso- 
 ever for the further better and more perfect granting and con- 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 255 
 
 veying of all and singular the said premises and every part 
 thereof unto the said Bernard Gratz his heirs and Assigns to 
 the only proper Use and Behoof of him the said Bernard Gratz 
 his heirs and Assigns forever As by the said Bernard Gratz his 
 heirs or asigns or his or their Council learned in the Law shall 
 be reasonably advised devised and required 
 
 In Witness whereof the said George Croghan hath hereunto 
 set his hand and affixed his seal the day and year first above 
 written. — Geo. Croghan [L S] Signed Sealed & delivered 
 in the presence of us, Joseph Simon Robt Lettis Hooper Junr. 
 
 Received the day of the date of the within written Indenture 
 Six hundred pounds Sterling money of Great Britain being the 
 full Consideration mentioned in this Deed. 
 
 Geo Croghan 
 
 Witness 
 
 Joseph Simon 
 
 Robt Lettis Hooper Junr. 
 
 Bedford ss 
 
 Personally appeared before me Alex' McKee one of his 
 Majestys Justices of the peace for said County Joseph Simon 
 and Robert Lettis Hooper Junr. subscribing Witnesses to this 
 Instrument in writing and being duly sworn according to Law 
 did say that they personally knew the said George Croghan 
 and saw him sign seal and deliver this Instrument in writing and 
 acknowledge it to be his Act and Deed and desired it might 
 be recorded as such Witness my hand and Seal July the tenth 
 one thousand seven hundred and seventy two 
 
 Alex. McKee [L S] 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore May 18th 1775. 
 (4) George Croghan Gent acknowledged this his deed of Bargain 
 
 and Sale with a receipt thereon Endorsed to Bernard Gratz 
 Gent which is Ordered to be Recorded 
 
 Test John Madison CI Cu 
 
 Examined and delivered This Indenture 
 
 Bernard Gratz, May 28, 1775. made the Six- 
 
 teenth day of May 
 in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and 
 
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 seventy five Between George Croghan of Pittsburg Esquire of 
 one part and Bernard Gratz of Philadelphia Merchant of the 
 other part : Whereas Iohonorissa Scarayadya and Cosswan- 
 tinicea Cheifs or Sachems of the six United Nations of Indians 
 did by their deed duly Executed bearing date the Second day 
 of August in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred 
 and forty nine for the Consideration therein specified grant 
 bargain and sell unto the said George Croghan in fee a certain 
 Tract or Parcel of Land situate lying and being on the South 
 side the Monongahela River, beginning at the mouth of a Run 
 nearly opposite Turtle Creek and then down the said Monon- 
 gahela River to its Junction with the River Ohio computed to 
 be ten miles then running down the Eastern Bank and sides of 
 and unto the said River Ohio to where Racoon Creek empties 
 itself into the said River thence up the said Creek ten miles 
 and from thence on a Direct line to the place of beginning 
 containing by Estimation One hundred thousand acres be the 
 same more or less as by the said Deed may more fully appear. 
 And Whereas certain Chiefs or Sachems fully represent- 
 ing the six united nations aforesaid in full Council at Fort 
 Stanwix Assembled did by their Deed Poll duly executed bear- 
 ing date the fourth day of November One thousand seven hun- 
 dred and sixty eight for the Consideration therein mentioned 
 Grant ratifie and confirm unto his most sacred Majesty George 
 the third by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France 
 and Ireland &c his heirs and successors for the Use benefit and 
 behoof of the said George Croghan all the above bounded and 
 described tract or parcel of Land and premises as by the said 
 Deed Poll Recorded in the Office for recording of Deeds in 
 the City and County of Philadelphia in Book J Volume the 
 fifth page the two hundred and thirty ninth &c may more 
 fully and at large appear Now This Indenture Witnesseth that 
 the said George Croghan for and in Consideration of the sum 
 of Two thousand One hundred and one pounds nineteen shil- 
 lings lawful money of Great Britain to him the said George 
 Croghan by him the aforesaid Bernard Gratz in hand paid the 
 receipt whereof he the said George Croghan doth hereby 
 acknowledge hath granted bargained sold aliened released and 
 confirmed and by these presents doth fully freely and absolutely 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 257 
 
 grant bargain sell alien release and confirm unto the said 
 Bernard Gratz and to his heirs and assigns for ever A certain 
 Tract or parcel of Land being a part or parcel of the aforesaid 
 described tract of Land situate lying and being on the Western 
 side of Chartiers Creek beginning at a stake corner to James 
 Innis and running thence with the said Innis's line S 83 E 680 
 Rod to a Stake on a line of Lot No 18 thence with the said line 
 N 7 E 186 Rod to a Stake Corner to said Lot and to Lot No. 
 22 thence No 63 15 West 47 Rod to a Stake Corner to said 
 Lott thence N 7 E 160 Rod to a white Oak Corner to said 
 Lot, thence N 52 E 130 Rod to a Stake on a line of the said 
 Lott Corner to Lot No 27 thence with a line of the said Lot 
 N 46 45 W 157 Rod to a Stake corner to said Lot, thence N 
 52 30 East 347 Rod to a Stake Corner to said Lott and to Lot 
 No 32 thence N 72 E 331 Rod to a stake on a line of Lot No 
 31 Corner to said Lot No 32 thence North 315 Rod to a Stake 
 Corner to said Lot No 31 and the Lot No 41 thence N 47 W 36 
 Rod to a Stake Corner to said Lot N 41 thence N 4 W 224 Rod 
 to a Stake Corner to said Lot No 41 thence N 86 E 126 1/2 
 Rod to a Stake corner to said Lot and to Lot No 42 thence 
 N 27 East 101 3/4 Rod to a Stake Corner to said Lot No 42 
 and to Lot No 46 thence N 7 E 354 Rod to a Stake Corner to 
 said Lot No 46 thence S 67 30 E 591/2 Rod to a Stake 
 Corner to said Lot and to Lot No 55 thence N 17 E 186 Rod 
 to a stake corner to said Lot No 55 and to Lot No 13 thence 
 North 56 Rod to a White Oak on the Western bank of Char- 
 tiers Creek Corner to said Lot No 13 thence down the Western 
 side of said Creek with the meanders thereof to a White Oak 
 on the said Western Bank thereof Corner to said Lot thence 
 with the line of the said Lot N 28 W 120 Rod to an Elm on 
 the said Western Bank of the said Creek Corner to said Lot 
 thence down the Western side of the said Creek with the 
 meanders thereof to a hickory on the said Western Bank of the 
 said Creek corner to John Mainard thence with the said 
 Mainard Line S 84 W 280 Rod to a stake Corner to the said 
 Mainard and to Lotts No 64 and 62 thence S 7 W 205 Rod to 
 a Stake corner to said Lot No 62 thence N 83 W 304 Rod to 
 a Stake corner to said Lot thence N 7 E 158 Rod to a stake 
 (6) Corner to said Lot and to Lots No 64 & 65 thence N 83 W 
 
258 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 240 Rod to a stake Corner to said Lot No 65 thence with a 
 line of said Lot N 7 E 116 Rod to a Stake on the said line 
 Corner to Edward Ward, thence with the said Wards line N 
 63 45 W 247 Rod to a Stake on the said Line and thence S 7 
 W 2697 Rod to the place of beginning including the Lots No 
 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 
 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 5°> 5 1 . 5 2 > 53- 54. 5 6 > 57, 
 58, 59, 60, 61, and 75 containing fourteen thousand and thir- 
 teen Acres with the Allowance of 6 Acres Pr Cent for Roads 
 and highways with the Rights Members and appurtenances 
 thereof and all houses Edifices, Buildings Orchards Gardens 
 Lands Meadows Pastures feedings Commons Trees Woods under 
 woods Way Paths Waters Watercourses Easements Profits Com- 
 modities Advantages Hereditaments and Appurtenances what- 
 soever unto the said tract of land belonging or in any wise 
 appertaining also the reversion and Reversions Remainder and 
 Remainders Rents and Services of all and Singular the said 
 premises above mentioned and every part and parcel thereof 
 with the Appurtenances And also all the Estate Right Title 
 Interest Claim and demand whatsoever both at Law and in 
 Equity of him the said George Croghan of in and to every 
 Part and parcel thereof with the Appurtenances. To have and 
 to hold the said tract of Land hereditaments and premises 
 above mentioned and every part and parcel thereof with the 
 appurtenances unto the said Bernard Gratz his heirs and Assigns- 
 to the only proper Use Benefit and Behoof of him the said 
 Bernard Gratz his heirs and Assigns forever Subject neverthe- 
 less to the Quit Rents to grow and become due to his majesty 
 his heirs and Successors and to no other Incumbrance whatso- 
 ever And farther that he the said George Croghan and his heirs- 
 and every other person and persons and his and their heirs any 
 thing having or claiming in the said premises above mentioned 
 or any part thereof by from or under him them or any of them 
 shall and will from time to time and at all times hereafter upon 
 the reasonable request and at the Cost and charges of the said 
 Bernard Gratz his heirs and Assigns make do and execute or 
 cause to be made done and executed all and every such further 
 and other lawful and reasonable Act and Acts, thing and 
 (7) Things Device and Devices, Conveyance and Conveyances in. 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 259 
 
 the Law whatsoever for the further better and more perfect 
 granting Conveying and Assuring of all and Singular the said 
 premises above mentioned unto the said Bernard Gratz his heirs 
 and Assigns to the only proper Use and behoof of him the said 
 Bernard Gratz his heirs and Assigns for ever as by the said 
 Bernard Gratz his heirs and Assigns or his or their Council 
 learned in the Law shall be reasonably devised or advised and 
 required In Witness whereof the said George Croghan hath 
 hereto set his hand and Seal the day and year first above 
 written 
 
 Sealed and Delivered Geo Croghan [L S] 
 
 In the presence of us 
 
 John Campbell 
 
 Joseph Simon 
 
 John Campbell 
 
 Memorandum Liviry and Seisin made by the said George 
 Croghan to the said Bernard Gratz of all and singular the 
 premises hereby conveyed or intended to be conveyed accord- 
 ing to the true Intent and meaning of the within Indenture of 
 Bargain and Sale, before the Signing Sealing and Delivery 
 thereof Witness my hand the date within written 
 
 Geo Croghan 
 
 Received the day of the date of the within written Indenture 
 of the within named Bernard Gratz Two thousand one hundred 
 and one pounds nineteen Shillings lawful money of Great 
 Britain being the full Consideration money in this written 
 Indenture mentioned. 
 
 Witness Geo Croghan 
 
 John Campbell 
 Joseph Simon 
 John Campbell 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore May the 18th 1775. 
 
 George Croghan Gent Acknowledged this his deed of Bargain 
 and Sale with Livery and seisen and a Receipt thereon En- 
 dorsed to Bernard Gratz which is Ordered to be Recorded 
 
 Test John Madison CI Cu 
 
260 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 (8) Examined and Delivered This Indenture 
 Bernard Gratz May 28th 1775 made the Six- 
 teenth day of May 
 
 in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy 
 five Between George Croghan of Pittsburgh Esquire of the one 
 part and Bernard Gratz of Philadelphia Merchant of the other 
 part Whereas Iohonorissa, Scarayadia and Coswantinecea chiefs 
 or Sachems of the six united Nations of Indians did by their deed 
 duly executed bearing date the second day of August in the year 
 of our Lord One thousand and Seven hundred and forty nine for 
 the Consideration therein specified grant bargain and sell unto 
 the said George Croghan in fee a certain tract or parcel of land 
 situate lying and being on the South side of the Monongahela 
 River Beginning at the mouth of a Run nearly opposite Turtle 
 Creek and then down the said Monongahela River to its Junc- 
 tion with the River Ohio computed to be ten miles then run- 
 ning down the Eastern Bank and sides of and unto the said 
 River Ohio to where Racoon Creek empties itself into the said 
 River thence up the said Creek ten miles and from thence on 
 a direct line to the place of beginning containing by Estima- 
 tion One hundred thousand Acres be the same more or less as 
 by the said Deed may more fully appear And Whereas certain 
 chiefs or sachems fully representing the six united nations afore- 
 said in full Council at Fort Stanwix assembled did by their 
 deed Poll duly executed bearing date the fourth day of Novem- 
 ber One thousand seven hundred and sixty eight for the Consid- 
 eration therein mentioned grant ratify and confirm unto his 
 most sacred Majesty George the third by the Grace of God 
 King of Great Britain France and Ireland & his heirs and Suc- 
 cessors for the use benefit and behoof of the said George 
 Croghan all the above bounded and described tract or parcel 
 of land and premises as by the said Deed Poll recorded in the 
 Office for recording of Deeds in the City and County of Phila- 
 delphia in Book J Volume the fifth page the two hundred and 
 thirty ninth &c may more fully and at large appear Now this 
 Indenture witnesseth that the said George Croghan for and in 
 
 (9) Consideration of the sum of four thousand seven hundred and 
 twenty two pounds sixteen shillings and sixpence lawful money 
 of Great Britain to him the said George Croghan by him the 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 261 
 
 said Bernard Gratz in hand paid the receipt whereof he the said 
 George Croghan doth hereby acknowledge hath granted bar- 
 gained sold aliened released and confirmed and by these 
 presents doth fully freely and absolutely grant bargain sell alien 
 release and confirm unto the said Bernard Gratz and to his 
 heirs and Assigns forever a certain Tract or Parcel of Land 
 being a part or parcel of the aforesaid described tract of Land 
 situate lying and being on the Waters of Robinson Run and 
 Racoon Creek Beginning at a Stone on the said Croghan 
 Boundary Line Corner to William Christy and running thence 
 with the said Line S 44. 30 E 3065 Rod to a Stake on the said 
 Line corner to James Innis thence with the said Innis's Line 
 N 45 E 360 Rod to a Stake corner to said Innis, thence N 7 
 E (along the lines of Lots 2 1-25. 29. 36-39-45-50-54-60 and 
 75) 2697 Rod to a Stake on the Line of Edward Ward thence 
 with the said Wards said Line N 63-45 W 1488 Rod to a 
 Stake Corner to said Ward thence S 45. 45. W 976 Rod to a 
 Stone corner to David Rogers and thence along said Rogers and 
 said Christys Lines S 44 W. 854 Rod to the place of beginning 
 containing thirty one thousand four hundred and eighty five 
 and a half Acres with the Allowance of Six Acres pr Cent for 
 Roads and high Ways with the Rights Members and appurte- 
 nances thereof and all Houses Edifices Buildings Orchards 
 Gardens Lands Meadows Pastures Feedings Commons Trees 
 Woods Underwoods Ways Paths Waters Water Courses Ease- 
 ment Profits Commodities Advantages heriditaments and appur- 
 tenances whatsoever unto the said tract of Land belonging or in 
 any wise appertaining And also the Reversion and Reversions 
 Remainder and Remainders Rents and Services of all and sin- 
 gular the said premises above mentioned and of every part and 
 parcel thereof with the appurtenances And also all the Estate 
 Right Title Interest Claim and Demand whatsoever both at 
 Law and in equity of him the said George Croghan of in and 
 to every part and parcel thereof with the Appurtenances To 
 have and to hold the said Tract of Land Hereditaments and 
 premises above mentioned and every part and parcel thereof 
 (10) with the appurtenances unto the said Bernard Gratz his heirs 
 and Assigns to the only proper Use benefit and behoof of him 
 the said Bernard Gratz his heirs and Assigns for ever Subject 
 
262 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Nevertheless to the Quit Rents to grow and become due to his 
 Majesty his heirs and Successors and to no other Incumbrance 
 whatsoever And farther that he the said George Croghan and 
 his heirs and every other person and persons and his and their 
 heirs any-thing having or claiming in the said premises above 
 mentioned or any part thereof by from or under him them or 
 any of them shall and will from time to time and at all times 
 hereafter upon the reasonable Request and at the Cost and 
 Charges of the said Bernard Gratz his heirs and Assigns make 
 do and execute or cause to be made done executed all and 
 every such further and other lawful and reasonable Act and 
 Acts Thing and Things Device and Devices Conveyance and 
 Conveyances in the Law whatsoever for the further better and 
 more perfect granting conveying and Assuring of all and sin- 
 gular the said premises above mentioned unto the said Bernard 
 Gratz his heirs and Assigns to the only proper Use and behoof 
 ' of him the said Bernard Gratz his heirs and Assigns for ever as 
 by the said Bernard Gratz his heirs and Assigns or his or their 
 Council learned in the Law shall be reasonably devised or ad- 
 vised and required In Witness whereof the said George Crog- 
 han hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first 
 above written 
 
 Geo Croghan [L S] 
 Sealed and delivered 
 
 In the presence of us 
 
 John Campbell 
 
 Joseph Simon 
 
 John Campbell 
 
 Memorandum Livery and Seisin made by the said George 
 Croghan to the said Bernard Gratz of all and singular the 
 premises hereby conveyed or intended to be conveyed accord- 
 ( 1 1 ) ing to the true Intent and meaning of the within Indenture of 
 Bargain and Seal before the Signing Sealing and delivery 
 thereof Witness my hand the date within written 
 
 Geo Croghan 
 
 Received the day of the date of the within written Inden- 
 ture of the within named Bernard Gratz four thousand seven 
 hundred and twenty two pounds sixteen shillings and six pence 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 263 
 
 lawful money of Great Britain being the full Consideration 
 money in this written Indenture mentioned 
 
 Witness Geo Croghan 
 
 John Campbell 
 
 Joseph Simon 
 
 John Campbell 
 
 At a Court continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore May the 18th 1775 
 
 George Croghan Gent acknowledged this his Deed of Bar- 
 gain and Sale with Livery and Seisen and a receipt thereon 
 endorsed to Bernard Gratz which is ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison CI Cu 
 
 Examined and delivered This Indenture 
 
 Joseph Simon, May 28th, 1775 made the 9th day 
 
 of July in the year 
 of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy two 
 Between George Croghan of Fort Pitt Esquire on the one part 
 and Joseph Simons of Lancaster in the province of Pennsyl- 
 vania Merchant on the other part Whereas Iohonorissa Scaya- 
 radia and Caswantiecea chiefs or Sachems of the six united 
 Nations of Indians did by their deed duly executed bearing 
 date the Second day of August One thousand seven hundred 
 and forty nine for the Consideration therein specified grant 
 bargain and sell unto the said George Croghan in fee a certain 
 tract or Parcel of Land sytuate lying and being on the south 
 side of the Monongahela River beginning at a Run nearly 
 opposite to Turtle Creek and then down the said Monongahela 
 (12) River to its Junction with the River Ohio computed to be ten 
 Miles then running down the Eastern Bank or side of the said 
 River Ohio to where Racoon Creek empties itself into the said 
 River thence up the said Creek ten miles and from thence on 
 a direct line to the place of beginning containing by estimation 
 One hundred thousand Acres be the same more or less as by 
 the said Deed may more fully appear And Whereas certain 
 Chiefs or Sachems fully representing the six united nations 
 aforesaid in full Council at Fort Stanwix assembled did by their 
 Deed poll duly executed bearing date the fourth day of Novem- 
 
264 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 ber One thousand seven hundred and sixty eight for the Con- 
 sideration therein mentioned grant ratify and confirm unto his 
 most sacred Majesty George the third by the Grace of God 
 King of Great Britain france and Ireland &c his heirs and 
 Successors for the Use benefit and behoof of the said George 
 Croghan all the above bounded and described tract or parcel 
 of Land and premises as by the said Deed poll Recorded in 
 the Office for recording of Deeds in the City and County of 
 Philadelphia in Book J Volume the fifth page the two hundred 
 and thirty ninth &c may more fully and at large Appear, Now 
 this Indenture witnesseth that the said George Croghan for 
 and in Consideration of the Sum of Six hundred and thirty 
 pounds lawful Money of Great Britain to him the said George 
 Croghan by him the said Joseph Symonds in hand paid he the 
 said George Croghan doth hereby acknowledge And by these 
 presents doth fully freely and absolutely grant bargain sell alien 
 release and confirm unto the said Joseph Symonds (in his 
 Actual possession now being by Virtue of a Bargain and Sale 
 thereof to him made for one whole year by Indenture bearing 
 date the day next before the date of these presents and by force 
 of the Statute for transferring of Uses into possession) and to 
 his heirs and assigns for ever a certain Tract or parcel of Land 
 being a part or parcel of the aforesaid described tract of Land 
 situate lying and being on Racoon Creek Beginning at a Stone 
 being the most South West Corner of Eight thousand Acres of 
 Land granted to Alexander Ross and others thence by the 
 same Land and Lands of the said George Croghan South twelve 
 Degrees East three hundred and Sixty five Chains to .a Stone 
 (13) thence South forty four Degrees West One hundred and eighty 
 Six Chains to where the Original bounds of the aforesaid tract 
 Granted to the said George Croghan by the united Nations 
 aforesaid cuts or intersects Racoon Creek at the South West 
 side or Bank thereof thence by the said Original Bounds North 
 forty four Degrees and thirty minutes West three hundred and 
 ninety four Chains to a Stone Corner of one other tract of 
 Land granted to Bernard Gratz thence by the same Land North 
 fifty Degrees and thirty minutes East three hundred and seventy 
 two Chains and ninety Links to another stone Corner of the 
 said Gratz's Land, thence South fifty six Degrees and twenty 
 
Records or Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 265 
 
 one Minutes East forty nine Chains and eighty Links to the 
 place of beginning Containing ten thousand five hundred and 
 eighty Acres with the Allowance of Six Acres pr Cent for 
 Roads and highways with the rights Members and Appurten- 
 ances thereof and all the Advantages unto the Same belonging 
 or in anywise appertaining And also all and Singular the Estate 
 Right Title 'Interest Claim and Demand whatsoever both at 
 Law and in equity of him the said George Croghan of in and 
 to all and singular the said premises above mentioned and of 
 in and to every part and parcel thereof with the appurtenances 
 To have and to hold the said tract of Land Hereditaments and 
 premises above mentioned with the Appurtenances and every 
 part and parcel thereof unto the said Joseph Simons his heirs 
 and assigns to the only proper Use and behoof of him the said 
 Joseph Simons his heirs and assigns for ever, Subject neverthe- 
 less to the Quit Rents to grow and become due to his Majesty 
 his heirs and Successors and to no other incumbrance whatso- 
 ever And further that the said George Croghan and his heirs 
 and every other person and persons and his and their heirs any 
 thing having or claiming in the said premises above mentioned 
 or any part thereof by from or under him them or any of them 
 shall and will at all times hereafter upon the Reasonable request 
 and at the Cost and Charges of him the aforesaid Joseph 
 Simonds his heirs and Assigns make do and execute or cause 
 to be made done and executed all and singular every such 
 (14) other lawful and reasonable Act and Acts thing and things, 
 Device and Devices, Conveyance and Conveyances in the Law 
 whatsoever for the further better and more perfect granting of all 
 and singular the said premises above mentioned unto the said 
 Joseph Symonds his heirs and assigns to the only proper Use and 
 behoof of the said Joseph Symons his heirs and assigns for ever 
 As by the said Joseph Symons his heirs and Assigns or his or 
 their Council Learned in the Law shall be reasonably advised 
 devised and required In Witness whereof he the said George 
 Croghan hath hereunto set his hand and affixed his Seal the day 
 and year first above written being the 9th day of July 1772 
 Sealed and Delivered Geo Croghan [L S] 
 
 In the presence of us 
 
 Bernard Gratz 
 
 Robt Lettis Hooper Junr 
 
266 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Received the day of the date of the written Indenture of 
 Joseph Simons Six hundred and thirty pounds lawful money of 
 Great Britain being the full Consideration in this deed mentioned 
 Witness Ge0 Croghan 
 
 Robt Lettis Hooper Junr 
 
 Bernard Gratz 
 
 Bedford ss 
 
 Personally appeared before me Alexander McKee Esquire 
 one of his Majestys Justices of the peace for said County 
 Robert Lettis Hooper Junr and Bernard Gratz subscribing 
 witnesses to this Instrument in writing and being duly sworn 
 according to Law did say that they personally knew the said 
 George Croghan and saw him sighn seal and deliver this 
 Instrument in writing as his Act and Deed and as such desired 
 it might be recorded Witness my hand and Seal this tenth day 
 of July 1772 Alex. 1 : McKee [L S] 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Drumore May the 18th 1775 
 
 George Croghan Gent acknowledged this his deed of Bar- 
 gain and Sale with a receipt thereon indorsed to Joseph Simons 
 Gent which is ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison CI Cu 
 
 (15) Examd & Delivered This indenture 
 
 Edward Ward, May 30th 1775. made the eigh- 
 
 teenth day of No- 
 vember in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred 
 and seventy three between George Croghan of Fort Pitt 
 Esquire of .the one part and Edward Ward of the same place 
 Gent on the other part Whereas Iohonorissa Scarayadia and 
 Cawantinecea Chiefs or Sachems of the Six united Nations of 
 Indians did by their Deed duly executed bearing date the 
 second day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand 
 seven hundred and forty nine for the Consideration therein 
 specified grant bargain and sell unto the said George Croghan 
 in fee a certain tract or parcel of Land situate lying and being 
 on the South side of the Monongahela River beginning ten 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 267 
 
 Miles up the said River above the mouth of a Run nearly 
 opposite Turtle Creek and then down the said Monongahela 
 River to its Junction with the River Ohio computed to be 
 ten miles then running down the Eastern Bank and sides of 
 and unto the said River Ohio to where Racoon Creek empties 
 itself into the said River thence up the said Creek ten miles 
 and from thence on a direct line to the Place of beginning con- 
 taining by Estimation One hundred thousand Acres be the 
 same more or less as by the said Deed may more fully 
 appear And Whereas certain Chiefs or Sachems fully repre- 
 senting the six united Nations aforesaid in full council at Fort 
 Stanwix assembled did by their Deed Poll duly executed bear- 
 ing date the fourth day of November One thousand seven 
 hundred and sixty eight for the Consideration therein mentioned 
 grant ratify and confirm unto his most sacred Majesty George 
 the third by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France 
 and Ireland &c his heirs and successors for the Use benefit and 
 behoof of the said George Croghan all the above bounded & 
 described Tract or parcel of Land and premises as by the said 
 Deed Poll recorded in the Office for recording of Deeds in the 
 City and County of Philadelphia in Book J Volume the fifth 
 Page the two hundred and thirty ninth &c may more fully and 
 at large appear Now this indenture witnesseth that the said 
 George Croghan for and in consideration of the sum of four 
 hundred and Eighty five pounds two Shillings lawful money of 
 Great Britain to him the said George Croghan by him the 
 aforesaid Edward Ward in hand paid the receipt whereof he 
 the said George Croghan doth hereby acknowledge hath 
 granted bargained sold aliened released and confirmed and 
 by these presents doth fully freely and absolutely grant bar- 
 (16) gain sell alien release and confirm unto the said Edward Ward 
 (in his actual possession now being by virture of a bargain and 
 Sale thereof to him made for one whole year by Indenture 
 bearing date the day next before the day of the date of these 
 presents and by force of the Statute for transferring of Uses 
 into possession) and to his heirs and Assigns forever A certain 
 tract or parcel of Land being a part or parcel of the aforesaid 
 described tract of Land situate lying and being on the Branches 
 of Montures or the half moon Run Beginning at a Stake on 
 
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 Westfalls^Line corner to David Price and running along the 
 said Price's Line South 7 West 216 Rod to a Stake Corner to 
 said Price and Thomas Joist and thence continuing the said 
 Course along the said Joists Line 124 Rod in all 340 Rod to a 
 Stake on the said Joists said Line thence North 63.45 West 
 1 7 35 Rod to a Stake thence North 32.15 East 323 Rod to a 
 Stake thence South 63.45 East 160 Rod to a Stake Corner to 
 the said Edward Ward thence continuing the said course 
 along the said Wards Line 814 Rod in all 974 Rod 
 to a Stake Corner to the said Ward and John Westfall 
 and thence continuing the said Course along the said 
 Westfalls line 612 Rod in all 15^6 Rod to the Tilace of 
 beginning containing three thousand two hundred and thirty 
 four acres with the Allowance of Six Acres pr cent for Roads 
 and Highways with the Rights Members and Appurtenances 
 thereof and all houses Edifices Buildings Orchards Gardens 
 Lands Meadows Pastures Feedings Commons Trees Woods 
 Underwoods Ways Paths Waters Watercourses Easements 
 Profits Commodities Advantages Heriditaments and appurte- 
 nances whatsoever unto the said tract of Land belonging or 
 in anywise appertaining And also the Reversion and Rever- 
 sions Remainder and Remainders Rents and Services of all 
 and singular the said premises above mentioned and of every 
 part and parcel thereof with the appurtenances And also all 
 the Estate Right Title Interest Claim and Demand whatsoever 
 both at Law and in Equity of him the said George Croghan of 
 in and to all and singular the said premises above mentioned 
 and of in and to every part and parcel thereof with the Ap- 
 (17) purtenances To have and to hold the said Tract of Land Her- 
 editaments & premises above mentioned and every part and 
 parcel thereof with the appertenances unto the said Edward 
 Ward his heirs and Assigns to the only proper Use benefit and 
 behoof of him the said Edward Ward his heirs and Assigns for 
 ever Subject nevertheless to the Quit Rents to grow and become 
 Due to his Majesty his heirs and Successors and to no other 
 Incumbrance whatsoever And farther that he the said George 
 Croghan and his heirs and every other person and persons and 
 his and their heirs anything having and Claiming in the said 
 premises above mentioned or any part thereof by from or under 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. - 269 
 
 him them or any of them shall and will from time to time and 
 at all times hereafter upon the Reasonable request and at the 
 Cost and Charges of the said Edward Ward his heirs and Assigns 
 make do and execute or cause to be made done and executed 
 all and every such further and other lawful and reasonable Act 
 and Acts thing and things Device and Devices, Conveyance 
 and Conveyances in the Law whatsoever for the further better 
 arid more perfect granting conveying and assuring of all and 
 singular the said Premises above mentioned unto the said 
 Edward Ward his heirs and Assigns to the only proper Use of 
 him the said Edward Ward his heirs and Assigns for ever As by 
 the said Edward Ward his heirs or Assigns or his or their Council 
 learned in the Law Shall be reasonably devised or Advised and 
 required in Witness Whereof the said George Croghan hath 
 hereto set his hand and Seal the day and year first above written 
 
 Sealed and Delivered Geo: Croghan (Seal) 
 
 In the presence of us 
 
 N. B. The words on the other part in 
 
 the fourth line of the first page and the 
 
 word Ward in the Sixteenth line of the 
 
 Second page were interlined before signing. 
 James Innis 
 John Campbell 
 
 Received the day of the date of the within indenture of the 
 therein named Edward Ward the full and just sum of four hun- 
 dred and eighty five pounds two Shillings Sterling or eight 
 hundred pounds eight Shillings and three pence three fifths 
 (18) Currt lawful money of Pennsylvania being the full Consider- 
 ation money in the within written Indenture mentioned 
 Witness Geo Croghan 
 
 James Innis 
 John Campbell 
 
 At a Court continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore May the 20th, 1775 < 
 
 George Croghan Gent acknowledged this his Deed of Bar- 
 gain and Sale with a receipt thereon Endorsed to Edward Ward 
 Gent which is ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison CI Cur 
 
270 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Examined and delivered This Indenture 
 
 Edward Ward, May 30th, 1775 made the eigh- 
 
 teenth day of No- 
 vember in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hun- 
 dred and seventy three between George Croghan of Fort 
 Pitt Esquire of the one part and Edward Ward of the sd 
 place Gent on the other part Whereas Iohonorissa Scarayadia 
 and Coswantinecea Chiefs or Sachems of the Six United Nations 
 of Indians did by their deed duly executed bearing date the 
 second day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand 
 Seven hundred and forty nine for the Consideration therein 
 specified grant bargain and sell unto the said George Croghan 
 in fee a certain tract or parcel of Land situate lying and being 
 on the South Side of the Monongahela River beginning ten 
 miles up the said River above the mouth of a Run nearly op- 
 posite Turtle Creek and then down the said Monongahela 
 River to its Junction with the River Ohio computed to be ten 
 miles then running down the eastern Bank and sides of and 
 unto the said River Ohio to where Racoon Creek empties itself 
 into the said River thence up the said Creek ten miles and 
 from thence on a direct line to the place of beginning by Esti- 
 mation One hundred thousand Acres be the same more or less 
 as by the said Deed may more fully appear And whereas certain 
 chiefs or Sachems fully representing the Six United Nations 
 aforesaid in full Council at Fort Stanwix Assembled did by 
 their Deed Poll duly executed bearing date the fourth day 
 (19) of November One thousand seven hundred and Sixty eight for 
 the Consideration therein mentioned grant ratify and confirm 
 unto his most Sacred Majesty George the third by the Grace 
 of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland &c his heirs 
 and Successors for the Use benefit and behoof of the said 
 George Croghan all the above bounded and described tract or 
 parcell of Land and premises as by the said Deed poll recorded 
 in the Office for Recording of Deeds in the City and County 
 of Philadelphia a in Book J Volume the fifth Page the Two hun- 
 dred and thirty ninth &c may more fully and at large appear. 
 Now this Indenture witnesseth that the said George Croghan 
 for and in Consideration of the sum of Five hundred and 
 seventy seven pounds nineteen Shillings lawful money of Great 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 271 
 
 Britain to him the said George Croghan by him the aforesaid Ed- 
 ward Ward in hand paid the receipt whereof he the said George 
 Croghan doth hereby acknowledge hath granted bargained sold 
 aliened released and confirmed and by these presents doth fully 
 freely and absolutely grant bargain Sell alien release & confirm 
 unto the said Edward Ward (in his Actual possession now be- 
 ing by Virtue of a Bargain and Sale thereof made to him for 
 one whole year by Indenture bearing date the day next before 
 the date of these presents and by force of the Statute for 
 transferring of Uses into possession) and to his"heirs and as- 
 signs for ever a certain tract or parcel of Land being a part or 
 parcel of the aforesaid described tract of Land situate lying 
 and being on the Northern Bank of the Ohio River Beginning 
 at a White Oak on the said Southern Bank of the said River 
 and nearly opposite to the Lower end of the Long Island and 
 likewise beginning to John Westfall and running with the said 
 Westfalls Line South 32 . 15' West 760 Rod to a Stake Corner 
 to said Westfall thence North 63.45 West 814 Rod to a Stake 
 Thence North 32.15 East 928 Rod to an Elm on the said 
 Southern Bank of the Ohio River and thence up the said 
 Southern Side of the said River with the Meanders thereof 
 South 46.30 East 24 Rod thence South 33.45 East 22 Rod 
 thence South 25.15 East 54 Rod thence South 19.30 East 48 
 Rod Thence South 27 East 38 Rod thence South 22.45 -East 4 
 Rod, thence South 47.15 East 54 Rod thence South 31.15 East 
 20 Rod thence South 44.30 East 48 Rod thence South 59.30 
 East 56 Rod thence South 71.15 East 112 Rod thence South 
 (20) 62 East 56 Rod thence South 60.30 East 40 Rod thence South 
 79 East 14 Rod thence South 69.15 East 12 Rod thence South 
 61 East 32 Rod thence South 65.30 East 22 Rod Thence 
 South 44 East 26 Rod thence South 56.45 East 88 Rod thence 
 South 74 East 22 Rod and thence South 52.30 East 54 Rod to 
 the place of beginning containing Three thousand eight hun- 
 dred and sixty-three Acres with the Allowance of Six Acres 
 Pr Cent for Roads and highways with the Rights Members 
 and appurtenances thereof and all houses Edifices Buildings 
 Orchards Gardens Lands Meadows Pastures Feedings Commons 
 Trees Woods Underwoods Ways Paths Waters Watercourses 
 Easement Profits Commodities Advantages Hereditaments and 
 
272 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Appurtenances whatsoever unto the said tract of Land belong- 
 ing or in any wise appertaining and also the Reversion & 
 Reversions Remainder and Remainders Rents and Services of 
 all and singular the said premises above mentioned and of 
 every part and parcel therof with the appurtenances And also 
 all the Estate Right Title Interest Claim and demand whatso- 
 ever both at Law and in Equity of him the said George Crog- 
 han of in and to all and singular the said premises above 
 mentioned and of in and to every part and parcel thereof with 
 the appurtenances To have and to hold the said Tract of Land 
 heriditaments and premises above mentioned and every part 
 and parcel thereof with the Appurtenances unto the said Ed- 
 ward Ward his heirs and Assigns to the only proper Use benefit 
 and behoof of him the said Edward Ward his heirs and Assigns 
 for ever. Subject nevertheless to the Quit Rents to grow and 
 become due to his Majesty his heirs & Successors and to no 
 other incumbrance whatsoever And farther that he the said 
 George Croghan and his heirs and every other person and per- 
 sons and his or their heirs any thing having or claiming in the 
 said premises above mentioned or any part thereof by from or 
 under him them or any of them shall and will from time to time 
 and at all times hereafter upon the reasonable request and at the 
 Cost and Charges of the said Edward Ward his heirs and 
 Assigns make do and execute or cause to be made done and 
 (21) executed all and every such further and other lawful and reason- 
 able Act and Acts Thing and Things Device and Devices Con- 
 veyance and Conveyances in the Law whatsoever for the 
 further Better and more perfect granting conveying and assur- 
 ing of all and Singular the said premises above mentioned 
 unto the said Edward Ward his heirs and Assigns to the only 
 proper Use and Behoof of him the said Edward Ward his heirs 
 and Assigns for ever As by the said Edward Ward his heirs 
 or Assigns or his or their Council Learned in the Law shall be 
 reasonably devised or Advised and required In Witness whereof 
 the said George Croghan hath hereto set his hand and Seal the 
 day and year first above written 
 Sealed and Delivered Geo: Croghan (Seal) 
 
 In the presence of us 
 
 N. B. The words, Ten Miles up 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 273 
 
 the said River above at the 
 beginning of the Ninth line 
 of the first page were inserted 
 before signing — 
 
 James Innis 
 
 John Campbell 
 
 Received the day of the date of the within Indenture of the 
 therein named Edward Ward the full & just sum of five hun- 
 dred and seventy seven pounds nineteen Shillings Sterling or 
 nine hundred and fifty three pounds one penny and four fifths 
 Currt lawful money of Pennsylvania being the Consideration 
 Money in full in the within written Indenture Mentioned 
 Witness Geo Croghan 
 
 James Innis 
 
 John Campbell 
 
 At a Court continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore May the 20th 1775 
 
 George Croghan Gent acknowledged this his Deed of Bar- 
 gain and Sale with a Receipt thereon endorsed to Edward 
 Ward Gent which is Ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison CI Cur. 
 
 (22) Examined and delivered This Indenture made 
 
 John McNess by your Order the eighteenth day of 
 
 October 15th 1776 November in the year 
 
 of our Lord one thou- 
 sand seven hundred and seventy four Between Michael & George 
 Kintner of the County of Augusta of yt one part and Francis 
 McBride of the County aforesaid of yf. other part Witnesseth 
 that the said Michael & George Kintner for and in Considera- 
 tion of the sum of Five Shills current money of Virginia to 
 him in hand paid by yf. said Francis McBride at or before 
 yf. sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof 
 is hereby acknowledged hath granted bargained and sold and 
 by these presents doth grant bargain and sell unto y e . said 
 Francis McBride and his heirs a part of two tracts the one of 
 one hundred of One hundred and sixty acres first granted to 
 
274 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Jonathan Douglass and was by him conveyed to Nicholas Mace 
 by Lease and release and was by him conveyed to said Kintners 
 and 97 Acres a part of a tract of 200 Acres first granted by 
 Pattent to said Kintners and Bounded as followeth viz Be- 
 ginning at a 2 Black Oaks on Poages Line and thence North 
 Sixty five degrees West Seventy Poles to a White Oak said 
 Poages Corner and with his Line North 30 Degr East 176 
 Poles to a forked Black Oak & Th No 56 West 35 Pole to a 
 White Oak and No 70 Degr West 50 Pole to Nicholas Maces 
 Corner of said tract & So 29 West 174 Po to the line of that 
 tract & thence So 39 West 150 Pole to a White Oak and 
 Locust Saplin & So 62 East 124 poles to 3 hiccorey Grubs & 
 thence and North East One hundred and twenty two poles to 
 a White Oak and Locust and thence the same Course 20 po. 
 to yf. beginning Corner Containing Two hundred and fifteen 
 Acres and all houses Buildings Ways Waters Watercourses pro- 
 fits commodities Herediatments and appurtenances whatsoever 
 to the said premises hereby granted or in any part thereof 
 belonging or in anywise apertaining & the Reversion and Re- 
 versions Remainder and Remainders Rents Issues and Profits 
 thereof To have and to hold y e . said tract of Land and all and 
 singular other the premises hereby granted with yl appurte- 
 nances unto the said Francis McBride his Executors Adminis- 
 trators and assigns from the day before the date hereof for and 
 (23) during the full term and time of One whole year thence next 
 ensuing fully to be compleat and Ended Yeelding and Paying 
 therefore the Rent of One Pepper Corn on Laddy Day next if 
 the same shall lawfully be demanded to the Intent and purpose 
 that by Virtue of these presents & of y". Statute for transferring 
 Uses into possession on the said Francis McBride may be in 
 Actual possession of the premises and be thereby enabled to 
 accept and take a grant and release of y° Reversion & inheri- 
 tance thereof to them and their heirs In Witness whereof the 
 said Michael & George Kintner hath hereunto set their hands 
 and Seals y e . day and year first above written 
 
 Sealed and Delivered Michael x Gindner [L S] 
 
 In the presence of George GG Gindner [L S] 
 
 John Dunbar 
 
 John B Bailey 
 
 John Thomas 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 275 
 
 At a Court held for Augusta County at Fort Drumore May 
 16th 1775 
 
 Michael Ginder and George Ginder acknowledged this their 
 lease for Land to Francis McBride and Ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 This Indenture made the nineteenth day of November in 
 the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy 
 four Between Michael Kintnerand Catherine & George Kint- 
 ner and Susanna his wife of the one part and Francis McBride 
 of the other part Witnesseth That for and in Consideration of 
 the sum of fifty six pounds fourteen Shillings and nine pence 
 current money of Virginia to the said Michael & Catherine 
 Kintner and George Kintner and Susanna in hand paid by the 
 said Francis McBride at or before the Sealing and Delivery of 
 these presents the Receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge 
 and thereof doth release acquit and discharge the said Francis 
 McBride his Executors and Administrators by these presents 
 them the said Michael and Catherine George Kintner & Susanna 
 hath granted bargained sold aliened and confirmed and by 
 these presents doth grant bargain sell alien and confirm to the 
 said Francis McBride a part of two tracts of Land y. e one of 
 one hundred and Sixty Acres first granted to Jonathan Douglass 
 and was by him conveyed to Nicholas Mace by lease and release 
 and was by him conveyed to said Kintners and 97 Acres a 
 part of tract of 200 Acres first granted by Pattent bearing date 
 to said Kintners and Bounded as followeth viz : — Beginning 
 (24) at 2 Black Oaks on Poages Line and thence North Sixty five 
 Degrees West seventy poles to a White Oak said Poages Cor- 
 ner and with his line No. 30 Degr East 176 poles to a forked 
 Black Oak and thence No. 56 West 35 pole to a White Oak 
 and No. 70 Degr West 50 poles to Nicholas Maces Corner of 
 said tract & So 39 West 174 to the line of that tract & thence 
 So 39 West 150 poles to a White Oak and Locust Saplin & So 
 62 Degr East 124 poles to 3 Hickory Grubs and then North 
 East 122 Poles to a White Oak and Locust & thence yJ. same 
 Course 20 pole to the beginning containing two hundred and 
 fifteen Acres and all houses Buildings Orchards Ways Waters 
 Water Courses Profits Comodities Hereditaments & Appur- 
 
276 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 tenances whatsoever to the said premises hereby granted or any 
 part thereof belonging or in anywise appertaining and the re- 
 version and reversions Remainder and Remainders Rents 
 Issues and profits thereof And also all the Estate Right Title 
 Interest Use trust Property Claim and Demand whatsover of 
 the said Michael & Catherine Kintner George Kintner and 
 Susanna of in and to the said premises and all Deeds Evi- 
 dences and Wrightings touching or in any wise concerning the 
 same To have and to hold the Lands hereby conveyed and all 
 and singular other the premises hereby granted and sold and 
 every part and parcel thereofWith their and every of their 
 » appurtenances to y?. said Francis McBride his heirs and Assigns 
 
 for ever to y?. only proper Use & behoof of him the said Fran- 
 cis McBride & for his heirs their Executors and Administrators 
 doth covenant promise & grant to and with the said Francis 
 McBride his heirs and Assigns by these presents that the said 
 Michael Kintner and Catherine George Kinter and Susanna 
 now at the time of the Sealing and Delivery of these presents 
 is seized of a good sure perfect and inde r esible Estate of inheri- 
 tance in fee Simple of and in the premises hereby bargained 
 and sold and that they have good power and lawful absolute 
 Authority to grant and convey the same to the said Francis 
 McBride in Manner and form aforesaid and' that the said 
 premises now are and so for ever hereafter shall remain and be 
 free of and from all former and other Gifts Grants Bargain 
 Sales Dower Right and Title of Dower Judgments Executions 
 Titles Troubles Charges and Incumbrances whatsoever made 
 done and Committed by the said Michael & G. Kintner or 
 any other person or persons whatsoever (the Quit Rents here- 
 after to grow due and payable to our Sovereign Lord the King 
 his heirs and Successors for and in respect of the premises only 
 (25) excepted and foreprised. And that the said Michael & Cath- 
 erine Kintner George Kintner and Susannan and their heirs 
 all and singular the premises hereby bargained and sold with 
 the Appurtenances unto the said Francis McBride his heirs and 
 Assigns against them the said Michael and Catherine George 
 and Susannah and their heirs and all and every other person 
 and persons whatsoever shall warrant and forever defend by 
 these presents And lastly that them y." said Michael Kintner 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 277 
 
 & wife and George Kintner and wife and their heirs and all 
 and every other person and persons and their and their heirs 
 anything having or claiming in the premises hereinbefore men- 
 tioned or intended to be hereby bargained and sold shall and 
 will from time to time and at all times hereafter at the reason- 
 able Request and at the proper Cost and Charges in Law of 
 him the said Francis McBride his heirs and Assigns make do & 
 * execute or cause or procure to be made done and executed all 
 and every such further &: other lawful and reasonable Act and 
 Acts, thing and things Conveyance and Assurances for the fur- 
 thur better and more perfect conveying and Assuring the prem- 
 ises aforesaid with their and every of their appurtenances to 
 the said Francis McBride heirs and Assigns as by the said 
 Francis McBride his heirs & Assigns or their Council 
 learned in the Law shall be reasonably devised advised or re- 
 quired In Witness whereof the said Michael Kintner & Cath- 
 erine and George Kintner and Susannah hath hereunto set 
 their hands and Seals the day and year first above written 
 Sealed & Delivered George x Gindner (Seal) 
 
 In the presence of George GG Gindner (Seal) 
 
 John Dunbar Cathrine C. Gindner (Seal) 
 
 John .B. Baily Susannah S Gindner (S L) 
 
 John Thomas 
 
 At a Court held for Augusta County May 16 1775 
 
 Michael Ginder & George Ginder acknowledged this their 
 release for Land to Francis McBride and Ordered to be re- 
 corded Test John Madison. 
 
 Augusta County to wit 
 
 George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain 
 (26) France and Ireland King Defender of the faith &c To Thomas 
 Smallman and John Gibson Gentlemen Greeting Whereas 
 Michael Kintner & Catherine and George Kintner and Susanna 
 his wife by their certain Deeds of Lease and Release bearing 
 date the 18 & 19th day of November 1774 for the consider- 
 ation therein mentioned did give grant bargain and sell Alien 
 release and Confirm unto Francis McBride two tracts of Land 
 one Containing 160 Acres first granted to Jonathan Duglassand 
 the other containing 97 Acres part of a tract granted the said 
 
278 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Kintners by Patent And Whereas Catharine and Susannah the 
 wives of the said Michael and George are unable to travel to 
 our said County Court of Augusta to be privately examined 
 apart from their said husbands and whether they voluntarily 
 without the force threats or compulsion of their said husbands 
 are willing to relinquish their Right of Dower to the said 
 Lands in the said Deed mentioned as the Law in that Case 
 directs — Therefore Know ye that We give Power and Author- 
 ity to you the said Thomas Smallman and John Gibson to go 
 to the houses of the said Michael and George and there to ex- 
 amine the said Catherine and Susannah privately and apart 
 from their said husbands whether they are willing to relinquish 
 their Right of Dower to the said Land in the said Deed men- 
 tioned and whether they do the same of their free will without 
 any force threats or Compulsion of their said husbands and 
 whether they are willing that their Acknowledgement shall be 
 recorded with the said Deeds and that you certify the same 
 distinctly to our Justices of our said County Court of Augusta 
 and that you have then there the said Deeds together with this 
 writ which we send you Witness John Madison Clerk of our 
 said Court the 21st day of February 1775 in the 15 year of 
 our Reign John Madison 
 
 The Execution of this Writ appears by a Schedule hereunto 
 annexed 
 
 By Virtue of the within writ to us Thomas Smallman and 
 (27) John Gibson directed We did personally on the 21st day of 
 February 1775 privately and apart from their said husbands ex- 
 amine Catherine & Susannah Ginder whether they are willing to 
 relinquish their Right of Dower to the Lands sold by their said 
 husbands to Francis McBride who declared and acknowledged 
 that they freely and voluntary relinquished the same without 
 the force threats or Compulsion of their said husbands and that 
 they desired that the said Deeds together with this relinquish- 
 ment of Dower by them made should be recorded in the 
 County Court of Augusta all of which we do hereby certify to 
 the Justices of our said Lord the King given under our hand 
 and Seals this 21st day of February 1775 — 
 
 Tho Smallman (L S) 
 John Gibson (L S) 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 279 
 
 At a Court held for Augusta County at Fort Dunmore May the 
 16th 1775 
 
 This Commission for the private Examination of Catherine 
 the wife of Michael Gender & of Susanna the wife of George 
 Gender to a tract of Land sold by their said Husbands to 
 Francis McBride being returned is Ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Examined and delivered This Indenture 
 
 John McNess October 15th 1776 with made the eigh- 
 
 Private Examination by Order teenth day of No- 
 
 vember in the year 
 of our Lord God one thousand seven hundred & Seventy four 
 Between Michael & George Kintner of the County of Augusta 
 of the one part and Nicholas Mace of the County aforesaid of 
 the other part Witnesseth that for and in Consideration of the 
 sum of five Shillings Current money of Virginia in hand paid 
 by the said Nicholas Mace at or before the sealing and delivery 
 of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowl- 
 edged hath granted bargained and sold and by these presents 
 doth grant bargain and sell unto the said Nicholas Mace 
 & to his heirs One certain tract or parcel of Land con- 
 taining fifty Acres lying and being in the County of Augusta 
 (28) on the Branches of Brocks Creek being a part of two tracts the 
 one of Two hundred Acres granted to said Michael and George 
 Kintner by Pattent bearing date the Twenty sixth day of July 
 One thousand seven hundred and sixty five And a part of a 
 tract of thirty four Acres made over to said Kintners by Jona- 
 than Douglass by Deeds of Lease & Release Dated y e . 14th & 
 15th days of November 1762 being all on the North side of a 
 Ridge joining to said Maces other Lands and Bounded as fol- 
 loweth viz & Beginning at a Black Oak on a Ridge and thence 
 No 29 Degrees East One hundred and ninety four poles to 
 crossing both tracts .to 2 Black Oaks on the Pattent Line & 
 with the same North seventy West twenty poles to 2 White 
 Oaks and hickory & So 41 Degrees West One hundred and 
 eighty pole to a White Oak thence North Sixty five degrees 
 West Thirty two poles to a Locust near a Branch and thence 
 South Twenty eight West Twenty four poles to some White 
 
280 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Oak Grubs on a Ridge and thence South Sixty five East ninety 
 four poles to the Beginning And all houses Buildings Orchards 
 Ways Waters Water Courses Profits Commodities Heredita- 
 ments and Appurtenances whatsoever to the said premises 
 hereby granted or any part thereof belonging or in any wise 
 appertaining and the Reversion and Reversions Remainder 
 and remainders Rents Issues and profits thereof To have and to 
 hold the said tract of Land and all and Singular other the 
 premises hereby granted with the appurtenances unto the said 
 Nicholas Mace his Executors Administrators and Assigns from 
 the day before the date hereof for and during and unto the end 
 & term of one whole year from thence next ensuing fully to be 
 compleat and ended yielding and paying therefore the Rent of 
 One Ear of Indian Corn on the last day of the said Term if the 
 same shall be lawfully demanded to the Intent and purpose 
 that by Virtue of these presents and of the Statute for transfer- 
 ring Uses into possession the said Nicholas Mace may be in 
 the more full and Actual possession of the said premises and be 
 thereby the better enabled to accept and take a Grant and Re- 
 lease of the Reversion and Inheritance thereof to him and to 
 his heirs In Witness Whereof the said Michael & George 
 Kintner hath hereunto set their hands and Seals the day and 
 year above written 
 
 his 
 
 Sealed and Delivered Michal x Gindner (L S) 
 
 in the presence of us 
 
 mark 
 his 
 
 John Dunbar George GG Gindner (L S) 
 
 his mark 
 
 John B Bayley 
 
 mark 
 
 John Thomas 
 
 (29) At a Court held for Augusta County at Fort Dunmore May 
 16th 1775 
 
 Michael Ginder & George Ginder acknowledged this their 
 Lease for Land to Nicholas Mace which is Ordered to be re- 
 corded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 This Indenture made the nineteenth day of November in the 
 year of our Lord God One thousand seven hundred & Seventy 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 281 
 
 four Between Michael Kintner & Kaithrine his wife & George 
 Kintner and Susannah his wife of the County of Augusta of 
 the one part and Nicholas Mace of the County aforesaid of the 
 other part Witnesseth that for and in Consideration of Twenty 
 pounds Current Money of "Virginia to the said Michael & 
 Catherine Kintner and George Kintner & Susannah his wife 
 in hand paid by the said Nicholas Mace at or before the Seal- 
 ing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof he doth 
 hereby acknowledge and thereof doth release acquit and dis- 
 charge the said Nocholas Mace his heirs and Assigns by these 
 presents Them the said Michael Kintner & Catherine his wife 
 and George Kintner and Susannah hath granted Bargained and 
 Sold aliened released and confirmed And by these presents 
 doth grant bargain Sell Alien release and confirm unto the said 
 Nicholas Mace (in his Actual possession now being by Virtue 
 of a Bargain and sale to him thereof made by the said Michael 
 and George Kintner for one whole year by Indenture bearing 
 date the day next before the day of the date of these presents 
 and by force of the Statute for transferring Uses into posses- 
 sion) and his heirs One certain tract or parcel of Land con- 
 taining fifty Acres lying and being in the County of Augusta 
 on the Branches of Brocks Creek being a part of two tracts the 
 one of Two Hundred Acres granted to the said Michael and 
 George Kintner by Pattent bearing date the twenty sixth day 
 of July One thousand seven hundred and sixty five and a part 
 of a tract of thirty four Acres made over to said Kinters by 
 Jonathan Douglass by Lease and Release dated the 14th and 
 15th days of November 1762 being all on the North side of 
 a Ridge joining to said Maces other Land and bounded as 
 followeth viz : Beginning at a Black Oak on a Ridge and 
 thence North Twenty nine Degrees East One hundred and 
 ninety four poles crossing both tracts to two Black Oaks on the 
 (30) Patent line & with the same North Seventy Degrees West 
 Twenty poles to Two White Oaks & a hickory and South forty 
 one Degrees West One hundred and eighty poles to a White 
 Oak and thence North Sixty five Degrees West thirty two 
 poles to a Locust near a Branch and South Twenty eight West 
 twenty four poles to some White Oak Grubs on a Ridge & 
 thence South Sixty five East Ninety four poles to the beginning 
 
282 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 and all houses Buildings Orchards Ways Waters Water Courses 
 Profits Commodities Hereditaments and Appurtenances what- 
 soever to the said premises hereby granted or any part & parcel 
 thereof with their and every of their appurtenances And the 
 Reversion and Reversions Remainder and Remainders Rents 
 Issues and Proffits thereof And also all the Estate Right Title 
 Interest Use trust property claim and demand whatsoever of 
 them the said Michael and Catherine Kintner & George Kint- 
 ner of in and to the said premises and all Deeds Evidences & 
 writings touching or in any wise concerning the same To have 
 and to hold the said tract of and all and singular other the 
 premises hereby granted and released and every part and par- 
 cel thereof with their and every of their appurtenances to the 
 said Nicholas Mace his heirs and Assigns forever to the only 
 proper Use and behoof of him the said Nicholas Mace his 
 heirs and Assigns forever. And the said Michael & Catherine 
 & George and Susannah Kintner for themselves their heirs 
 Executors & Administrators Doth covenant promise and grant 
 to and with the said Nicholas Mace his heirs and Assigns by 
 these presents That the said Michael & George Kintner now 
 at the time of the Sealing and Delivery of these presents is 
 seized of a good sure perfect and indefeisable Estate of In- 
 heritance in fee Simple of in and to the said premises hereby 
 granted and that he hath good power & lawful and absolute 
 Authority to grant and convey the same to the said Nicholas 
 Mace in manner & form aforesaid and that the said premises 
 now are and so forever shall remain and be free and clear of 
 and from all form and other Gifts Grants Bargains Sales Dower 
 Right and Title of Dower Judgments Executions Titles 
 Troubles Charges & Incumbrances whatsoever made done com- 
 mitted or suffered by the said Michael & Catherine Kintner 
 (31) and George & Susannah Kintner or any other person or per- 
 sons whatsoever (the Quit Rents hereafter to grow due & pay- 
 able to our sovereign Lord the King his heirs and Successors 
 for and in respect of the said premises only excepted and fore- 
 prised) And lastly that the said Michael and George all and 
 singular the premises with the appurtenances unto the said 
 Nicholas Mace his heirs and Assigns against them the said 
 Michael and Catherine Kintner & George Kintner & Susannah 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 283 
 
 & their heirs & all and every other person & persons what- 
 soever shall & will warrant and forever defend by these pres- 
 ents In Witness whereof the said Michael Kintner and Cath- 
 erine his wife and George Kintner & Susannah his wife hath 
 hereunto set their hands & Seals the day and year first above 
 written 
 
 Sealed & Delivered „. , , his _,. , „ „, 
 
 T . Michael x Gindner |L SJ 
 
 In presence of mark L J 
 
 his George GG Gindner [L S] 
 
 John B Baily 
 
 mark 
 
 mark 
 her 
 
 T . — ,. Catherine C Gindner PL SI 
 
 John Thomas mark L J 
 
 her 
 
 Susannah S Gindner [L S] 
 
 mark 
 
 At a Court held for Augusta County at Fort Dunmore May 
 the i 6th 1775 
 
 Michael Ginder & George Ginder acknowledged this their 
 Release for Land to Nicholas Mace which is Ordered to be 
 recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Augusta County to wit 
 
 George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain 
 France and Ireland King Defender of the faith &c To Thomas 
 Smallman and John Gibson Gentlemen Greeting Whereas 
 Michael Kintner and Catharine his wife and George Kintner 
 & Sussannah his wife by their certain Deed of Lease & Release 
 bearing date the 18th & 19th day of November 1774 for the 
 Consideration therein mentioned did give grant bargain sell 
 alien and confirm unto Nicholas Mace fifty Acres of Land on 
 the branches of Brocks Creek And Whereas Catherine & 
 Susannah the wives of the said Michael and George are unable 
 (32) to travel to our said County Court of Augusta to be privately 
 examined apart from their said husbands and whether they 
 voluntarily and without the force threats or Compulsion of 
 their said Husbands are willing to relinquish their Right of 
 Dower to the said Lands in the said Deed mentioned as the 
 Law in that Case directs Therefore Know ye that we give 
 power & authority to you the said Thomas Smallman & John 
 
2S4 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Gibson to go to the house of the said Michael & George and 
 thereto examine the said Catherine & Susannah privately and 
 apart from their said Husbands whether they are willing to re- 
 linquish their Right of Dower to the said Land in the said 
 Deeds mentioned and whether they do the same of their own 
 free will without any force threats or compulsion of their said 
 Husbands & whether they be willing that their Acknowledge- 
 ment shall be recorded with the said Deeds and that you cer- 
 tify the same distinctly to our Justice of our said County 
 Court of Augusta and that you have then there the said Deed 
 together with this writ which we send you Witness John Madi- 
 son Clerk of our said Court the 21st day of Feby. 1775 ' n tne 
 15 year of our reign 
 
 John Madison 
 
 The Execution of this Writ appears by a Schedule hereunto 
 annexed : 
 
 By Virtue of the within Writ to us Thomas Smallman & John 
 Gibson directed we did personally on the 21st day of Feby 
 1775 privately and apart from their said Husbands examine 
 Catharine & Susannah Kintner the Wives of Michael & George 
 Kintner whether they are willing to relinquish their Right of 
 Dower to the Land sold by their said Husbands to Nicholas 
 Mace who declared and acknowledged that they freely and 
 voluntarily relinquished the same without the force threats or 
 Compulsion of their said husbands and that they desired that 
 the said Deeds together with this relinquishment of dower by 
 them made should be recorded in the County Court of Augusta 
 all which We do hereby certify to the Justices of our said Lord 
 the King Given under our hands & Seals this 2 1st day of Feby. 
 1775: 
 
 Tho Smallman [L S] 
 Jno Gibson [L S] 
 
 At a Court held for Augusta County at Fort Dunmore May 
 16th 1775 
 
 This Commission for the private Examination of Catherine 
 the wife of Michael Ginder and of Susannah the wife of George 
 Ginder to a tract of Land sold by their husbands to Nicholas 
 Mace being returned is ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 285 
 
 (33) Examd & delivered By Captn Charles 
 
 Major Edward Ward June 6th 1775 Edmonstone com- 
 manding his Maj- 
 estys Forces on the Communication to Fort Pitt Permission is 
 hereby granted to Mr. Alexander Ross Agent for the Contrac- 
 tors for Victualling his Majestys forces in North America to 
 use and improve a certain piece of Ground adjoining his 
 Majestys fields at Fort on which he purposes to cultivate and 
 raise Corn & Meadow and at some considerable expense there- 
 from supply this Garrison with fresh provisions Under this 
 restriction Nevertheless that he is to give free and immediate 
 possession to the Commanding officer at this Garrison when- 
 ever and at whatever time it shall be demanded he repaying 
 the said Alexander Ross all the Costs and Charges accruing on 
 & by the Cultivation and Improvement of said piece of Ground 
 Given under my hand this Nineteenth day of September 1768 
 
 Chas Edmonstone Cap! 
 Commanding 
 
 I Alexander Ross do by this Indenture for and in Considera- 
 tion of one hundred pounds to me pd the receipt whereof I do 
 hereby acknowledge bargain sell make over and Assign my 
 right Title and claim to all the Estate mentioned in the within 
 permit to Maj. Edward Ward his heirs & assigns for ever To 
 have and to hold the same together with all the issues profits 
 immunities and hereditaments whatsoever thereunto belonging 
 hereby binding myself my heirs Exors & Admtrs to warrant 
 and defend the same against the Claim or Claims of any person 
 or persons claiming under me Witness my hand and Seal this 
 15th day of December Anno Dom 1774 
 Signed Seal'd & Delivered Alexander Ross [L S] 
 
 In the presence of 
 " My Right Title & Claim to " 
 being first interlined between 
 the third & Fourth lines 
 
 A McKee C. Graydon 
 
 John Free 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore May 20th 1775 Alexr Ross Gen' t acknowledged this 
 
286 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 his Deed of Bargain and Sale to Edward Ward Gen't which is 
 ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 (34) Examined & delivered By Capt Charles 
 
 Majr Edward Ward June 6th 1775 Edmonstone 
 
 Commanding 
 his Majestys Forces in the district of Fort Pitt Permission is 
 hereby granted to Mrs Susanna Edmonstone to occupy and im- 
 prove upon a piece of Ground containing joining to what 
 
 is commonly called the Kings Garden & Orchard, In Consider- 
 ation of which she or her Assigns is to pay Twenty Shillings 
 yearly if demanded and also to be subject to such regulations 
 as may be ordered by the Commander in Chief or by the Com- 
 manding Officer of the District for the Good of his Majestys 
 Service Given under my hand at Fort Pitt the 25th October 
 1767 
 
 Chas Edmonstone 
 
 Commanding 
 
 Know all Men by these presents That I Susannah Edmonstone 
 now at Fort Pitt for and in Consideration of Twelve pounds 
 Pennsylv Currency to me in hand paid by Alexander Ross 
 the Receipt whereof I .do hereby acknowledge have granted 
 bargained sold and assigned and by these presents do grant 
 bargain and sell and assign over unto the aforesaid Alexander 
 Ross his heirs and Assigns all my Right Title and Interest to 
 the within permit or Instrument of Writing for the piece of 
 Ground therein mentioned In Witness whereof I have hereunto 
 set my hand and seal this third day of November in the year of 
 our Lord One thousand seven hundred & Seventy two 
 
 Signed Sealed and Deliv- Susanna Edmonstone [L S] 
 
 ered in the presence of 
 Edw Hand 
 
 I Alexander Ross do by this Indenture for and in Considera- 
 tion of Thirty pounds to me in hand paid the receipt whereof 
 I do hereby acknowledge bargain sell & deliver make over and 
 Assign my Right Title & Claim to all the Estate mentioned in 
 the annexed permit from Charles Edmonstone to Susannah 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 287 
 
 Edmonstone and by her Assigned to me to Majr Edward Ward 
 his heirs and assigns for ever To have and to hold the same 
 together with the immunities & heriditaments thereunto in 
 anywise belonging Hereby binding myself my heirs Exors 
 & Admrs to warrant and forever defend the same against the 
 Claim or claims of any person or persons whatsoever claiming 
 under me Witness my hand and seal the 15th day of Dec. 1774. 
 
 Sign'd Seal'd & Delivered Alexander Ross [L S] 
 
 in presence of us 
 
 "my Right Title & Claim to" 
 
 being first interlined between 
 
 the Second & third lines 
 A McKee C Graydon 
 John Feree 
 
 At a Court continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore May 20th 1775 
 
 Alexander Ross Gent acknowledged this his Deed of Bargain 
 and Sale to Edward Ward Gent which is ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Examined & delivered By Captain 
 
 Majr Edward Ward June 6th 1775 Charles Edmon- 
 
 stone Com- 
 manding his Majestys Forces in the District of Fort Pitt — 
 Permission is hereby granted to Edmund Prideux to possess Till 
 and Occupy a certain piece of Ground containing Seven Acres 
 and eight chains Bounded and adjoining a piece of Ground 
 called the Kings Orchard & Brick Pounds In Consideration of 
 which he -or his Assigns is to pay twenty Shillings yearly if 
 demanded and also to be subject to such regulation as may be 
 ordered by the Commander in chief or by the Commanding 
 
 Officer of the district for the Good of his Majestys Service 
 
 Given under my hand at Fort Pitt the 8th of May 1 7 7 1 
 
 Chas. Edmonstone 
 
 Commanding 
 
 Know all Men by these presents That I Edmund Prideaux 
 Ensign in the 18th Regiment now at Fort Pitt for and in Con- 
 sideration of the sum of Fourteen pounds Pensylvania Cur- 
 
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 (36) rency to me in hand paid by John Campbell the receipt 
 whereof I do hereby acknowledge have granted bargained sold 
 and Assigned and by these presents do grant bargain sell and 
 assign over unto the aforesaid John Campbell his heirs and As- 
 signs all my Right Title and Interest to the within Permit or 
 Instrument of writing for the piece of Ground therein mentioned 
 In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 
 Sixteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One 
 thousand seven hundred and seventy two 
 Signed Sealed & Delivered Edmd Prideaux [L S] 
 
 in the presence of 
 Alexander Ross 
 
 I assign over all my Right and Title of the above Permit or 
 Instrument of writing unto Alexander Ross for the piece of 
 Ground therein mentioned as Witness my hand & Seal this 
 twenty Seventh day of Augt One thousand seven hundred and 
 seventy three 
 
 Witness John Campbell [L S] 
 
 William Richmond 
 
 I Alexander Ross do by this Indenture for & in Considera- 
 tion of thirty pounds to me paid the receipt whereof I do 
 hereby acknowledge bargain sell make over & assign my Right 
 Title & Claim to all the Estate mentioned in the annex' d per- 
 mit granted by Charles Edmonstone to Edmund Prideaux by 
 him assigned to John Campbell and by him to me to Majr 
 Edward Ward his heirs and Assigns for ever To have and to 
 hold the same together with all the issues profits and immuni- 
 ties & Hereditaments thereunto in anywise belonging Hereby 
 binding myself my heirs Ex" & Adm to warrant and for ever 
 defend the same against the Claim or Claims of any person 
 claiming under me Witness my hand and seal this 15th day of 
 Deer 1774 
 
 Sign'd Seal'd & Deliver'd Alexander Ross [L S] 
 
 in the presence of 
 
 " my Right Title & Claim to " 
 
 being first interlined between 
 
 the second & third lines 
 A McKee C Graydon 
 John Free 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 289 
 
 (37) At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dun more May the 20th 1775 
 
 Alexander Ross Gent acknowledged this his Deed of Bargain 
 & Sale to Edward Ward Gent which is ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Examined & delivered By Major Charles 
 
 Majr Edward Ward June 6th 1775 Edmonstone Com- 
 
 manding his Maj- 
 estys Forces in the District of Fort Pitt — Permission is hereby 
 granted to William Thompson and Alexander Ross to possess 
 till and occupy a certain piece of Ground containing 
 bounded and adjoining a piece of Ground claimed by John 
 Campbell and John Donne including what is called the Kings 
 and Artillery Gardens with the Orchards &c and the Brick 
 ponds In Consideration of which they or their Assigns is to pay 
 Twenty Shillings yearly if demanded And also to be subject to 
 such Regulations as may be ordered by the Commander in 
 chief or by the Commanding Officer of the District for the good 
 of his Majestys Service — 
 
 Given under my hand at Fort Pitt the 28th of October 1772 
 
 Charles Edmonstone 
 
 Commanding 
 
 Know all men by these presents that We Charles Edmon- 
 stone Esqr Major, Edmund Prideux and Edward Hand EnsVf 
 in the 18th Regiment now at Fort Pitt for and in Considera- 
 tion of the sum of Thirty five pounds Pensylva Currency to 
 Us in hand paid by William Thompson & Alexander Ross the 
 receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge have granted bar- 
 gained sold and assigned and by these presents do grant 
 bargain sell and assign over unto the said Thompson and Ross 
 their heirs and assigns all our Right Title & Interest to what 
 is commonly called the Kings fields Gardens and Orchard 
 together with all other Improvements made by us and in our 
 possession As Witness our hands and seals this 28th day of 
 
 October 1773 
 
 Charles Edmonstone [L S] 
 
 for myself & Ensign Prideaux 
 
 Edwd Hand [L S] 
 
290 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Know all whom it may concern That I Alexander Ross 
 have for and in Consideration of Forty pounds to me pd the 
 Rect whereof I hereby acknowledge bargained sold granted 
 (38) and made over and by these presents do bargain sell grant and 
 make over and assign Thompson and Ross Right Title and 
 Claim to all and singular the Estate mentioned in the within 
 permit granted to William Thompson and Alexander Ross 
 unto Major Edward Ward his heirs and Assigns for ever 
 together with all the issues profits immunities & Heredita- 
 ments thereunto belonging of whatsoever kind And I do 
 hereby warrant and forever defend the above mentioned Major 
 Edward Ward his heirs and assigns the above named premises 
 from the Claim or Claims of the aforesaid William Thompson 
 or any other person or persons claiming under him or me, for 
 the true performance of which I bind myself my heirs Exr & 
 Admr by this Indenture Witness my hand and seal this 15th 
 day of Dec Ann Dom. 1774 
 
 Sign'd Seal'd & Deliver'd Alexander Ross 
 
 ' ' Thompson & Ross's Right Title for self & [L S] 
 
 and Claim to" being first inter- William Thompson 
 
 lined between the fifth & Sixth 
 lines. 
 
 A McKee 
 
 C Graydon 
 
 John Free 
 
 At a Court continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore May 20th 1775 
 
 Alexander Ross Gent acknowledged this his Deed of Bargain 
 and Sale to Edward Ward Gent which is ordered to be 
 recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Examined & delivered This indenture 
 
 Jacob Bousman the 19th June 1775 made this Thirty 
 
 first day of De- 
 cember in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred 
 and seventy Between George Croghan of Fort Pitt Esquire on 
 the one part and Jacob Bousman of said place of the other 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 291 
 
 part Whereas Iohonorissa Scarayadia & Coswantinicea Chiefs 
 or Sachems of the Six United Nations of Indians did by their 
 Deed duly executed bearing date the Second day of August in 
 the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty 
 nine for the Consideration therein specified grant bargain and 
 sell unto the said George Croghan in fee a certain tract or 
 parcel of Land situate lying and being on the South side of 
 the Monongahela River beginning at the mouth of a Run 
 nearly opposite the mouth of Turtle Creek and then down the 
 said Monongahela River to its Junction with the River Ohio 
 (39) computed to be ten miles, then running down the Eastern 
 Bank and sides of and unto the said River Ohio to where 
 Racoon Creek empties itself into the said River Ohio thence 
 up the said Creek ten Miles and from thence on a direct line 
 to the place of beginning containing by Estimation one 
 hundred thousand Acres be the same more or less as by the 
 said deed may more fully appear And Whereas certain Chiefs 
 or Sachems fully representing the Six United Nations aforesaid 
 in full Council Assembled at Fort Stanwix did by their Deed 
 poll duly executed bearing date the fourth day of November 
 one thousand seven hundred and Sixty eight for the Considera- 
 tion therein mentioned Grant bargain ratify and confirm unto 
 his most sacred Majesty George the third by the Grace of God 
 King of Great Britain France and Ireland &c his heirs and 
 Successors for the Use benefit and behoof of the said George 
 Croghan his heirs and assigns for ever all the above bounded 
 and described tract or parcel of Land and premises as by the 
 said Deed Recorded in the Office for Recording of Deeds in 
 the City and County of Philadelphia in Book J Volume the 
 Fifth Page the two hundred and thirty ninth &c may more 
 fully and at large appear Now this Indenture witnesseth 
 that the said George Croghan for and in Consideration of 
 the sum of thirty pound sixteen Shillings lawful money 
 of Great Britain to him the said George Croghan by him the 
 said Jacob Bousman in hand paid the receipt whereof he the 
 said George Croghan doth hereby acknowledge hath granted 
 bargained sold aliened released and confirmed and by these 
 presents doth fully freely and absolutely grant bargain sell alien 
 release and confirm unto the said Jacob Bousman (in his actual 
 
292 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 possession now being by "Virtue of a bargain and sale thereof 
 made to him for one whole year by Indenture bearing date the 
 day next before the day of the date of these presents and by 
 force of the Statute for transferring Uses into possession) and 
 to his heirs and Assigns for ever a certain tract or parcel of 
 Land being a part or parcel of the aforesaid described tract or 
 parcel of Land situate lying and being on the West side of 
 Shirtees Creek beginning at a Maple tree on the West side of 
 said Creek thence North Eighty Six degrees West Seventy four 
 perches to a Marked White Oak thence South sixty five degrees 
 West forty seven and an half perches to a post set up on the 
 West Bank of said Creek thence down the said Bank and side 
 of the said Creek One thousand and four and three Quarter 
 perches to the place of beginning Three hundred and eight 
 (40) Acres and an half Acre with the Allowance of Six Acres pr 
 Cent for Roads and highways with the Right Members and 
 Appurtenances thereof and all houses Edifices Buildings 
 Orchards Gardens Lands Meadows Commons Pastures feedings 
 Trees Woods Underwoods Waters Water Courses Easements 
 Profits Commodities Advantages Hereditaments and Appur- 
 tenances whatsoever unto the said tract of Land belonging or 
 in anywise appertaining and also the reversion and Reversions 
 Remainder and Remainders Rents and Services of all and 
 Singular the said premises of every part and parcel thereof with 
 the Appurtenances And also all the Estate Right Title Interest 
 Claim and Demand whatsoever both at Law and in Equity of 
 him the said George Croghan of in and to all and singular the 
 said premises above mentioned and of in and to every part and 
 parcel thereof with the appurtenances To have and to hold the 
 said tract of Land Hereditaments & premises above mentioned 
 and every part and parcel thereof with the Appurtenances unto 
 the said Jacob Bousman his heirs and Assigns to the only 
 proper Use Benefit and behoof of him the said Jacob Bousman 
 his heirs and Assigns for ever Subject nevertheless to the full 
 Quit Rents to grow and become due to his Majesty his heirs 
 and Successors and to no other Incumbrance whatsoever And 
 further that he the said George Croghan and his heirs and 
 every other person or persons and his and their heirs anything 
 having or claiming in the said premises above mentioned or 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 293 
 
 any part thereof by from or under him them or any of them 
 shall and will from time to time and at all times hereafter 
 upon the reasonable Request and at the Cost and Charges of 
 the said Jacob Bousman his heirs and Assigns make do and 
 execute or cause to be made done and executed all and every 
 such further and other lawful and reasonable Act and Acts 
 thing and things Device and Devices Conveyance & Convey- 
 ances in the Law whatsoever for the further better and more 
 perfect granting conveying and assuring of all and Singular the 
 said premises above mentioned unto the said Jacob Bousman 
 his heirs and Assigns to the only proper Use and behoof of him 
 the said Jacob Bousman his heirs and Assigns for ever as by 
 {41) the said Jacob Bousman his heirs or Assigns or his or their 
 Council learned in the Law shall be reasonably devised advised 
 and required In Witness whereof the said parties to these pres- 
 ents that is to say the said George Croghan hath hereunto set 
 his hand and seal the day and year first above written 
 
 Sealed and Delivered Geo : Croghan [L S] 
 
 In the presence of us 
 William Sells 
 Ann Girty 
 
 Received the day of the date of the within Indenture of the 
 within named Jacob Bousman the sum of Thirty pounds and 
 Sixteen shillings lawful money of Great Britain being the full 
 Consideration Money in the said within written Indenture 
 mentioned 
 
 Witness Geo : Croghan. 
 
 William Sells 
 
 Ann Girty 
 
 At A Court held for Augusta County at Fort Dunmore May 
 the 16 1775 
 
 George Crogan Gent acknowledged this his Deed of Bargain 
 and Sale and a receipt thereon endorsed to Jacob Bousman 
 which is ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
294 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 This Indenture 
 made the thirty- 
 first day of De- 
 cember in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred 
 and seventy Between George Croghan of Fort Pitt Esquire of 
 the one part and Benjamin Tate now of the same place Sergeant 
 in his Majestys Eighteenth Regiment of foot of the other part 
 Whereas Iohonorissa Scarayadia & Coswentinicea chiefs or 
 Sachems of the six united Nations of Indians did by their Deed 
 duly executed bearing date the second day of August in the 
 year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and forty nine 
 for the Consideration therein specified grant bargain and sell 
 unto the said George Croghan in fee a certain tract or parcel of 
 Land situate lying and being on the south side the Monon- 
 (42) gahela River beginning at the Mouth of a Run nearly opposite 
 to Turtle Creek and then down the said River Monongahela 
 to its Junction with the River Ohio computed to be ten Miles 
 then running down the Eastern Bank and sides of and unto the 
 said River Ohio to where Racoon Creek Empties itself into 
 the said River thence up the said Creek ten miles and from 
 thence on a direct line to the place of beginning containing 
 by estimation One hundred thousand Acres be the same more 
 or less as by the said Deed may more fully appear And Whereas 
 certain Chiefs or sachems fully representing the Six united 
 Nations aforesaid in full council at Fort Stanwix Assembled 
 did by their deed poll duly executed bearing date the fourth 
 day of November One thousand seven hundred and sixty eight 
 for the Consideration therein mentioned grant ratify and con- 
 firm unto his most Sacred Majesty George the third by the 
 Grace of God King of Great Britain France & Ireland &c his 
 heirs and Successors for the Use benefit and behoof of the said 
 George Croghan all the above bounded and described tract or 
 parcel of Land and premises as by the said Deed Recorded in 
 the Office for recording of Deeds in the City and County of 
 Philadelphia in Book J Volume the fifth Page the Two hundred 
 and thirty nine &c. may more fully and at large appear Now 
 this Indenture witnesseth that the said George Croghan for and 
 in Consideration of the sum of Thirty eight pounds eight 
 shillings lawful money of Great Britain To him the said 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 295 
 
 George Croghan by him the said Benjamin Tate in hand 
 paid the receipt whereof he the said George Croghan doth 
 hereby acknowledge hath granted bargained sold aliened re- 
 leased & confirmed and by these presents doth fully freely and 
 absolutely grant bargain sell alien release and confirm unto 
 the said Benjamin Tate (in his actual possession now being by 
 Virtue of a bargain and sale thereof made to him for one whole 
 year by Indenture bearing date the day next before the day of 
 the date of these presents and by force of the Statute for 
 transferring of Uses into Possession) and to his heirs and 
 assigns for ever a certain tract or parcel of Land being a part 
 (43) or parcel of the aforesaid tract or parcel of the aforesaid de- 
 scribed Tract of Land situate lying and being on the East side 
 of Shirtees Creek beginning at a marked White Oak Tree on 
 the East Bank of said Creek a Corner of William Lees Land 
 thence by said William Lees Land South forty three Degrees 
 East One hundred and seventy six perches to another marked 
 White Oak tree another Corner of said William Lees Land 
 thence South fifty degrees East One hundred and fifty five 
 perches to a marked black Oak tree thence South Sixteen De- 
 grees West One hundred and seventeen perches to a marked 
 White Oak tree thence North eighty four degrees West One 
 hundred and thirty eight perches to another marked White 
 Oak tree thence South Twenty Seven degrees West forty Six 
 perches to another marked White Oak Tree, thence West Sixty 
 three perches to a marked Lyn Tree thence North fifty Degrees 
 West thirty One perches to a marked Sugar Tree thence North 
 eight degrees West eighteen perches to a post set up and 
 marked on the East bank of said Creek thence down the East 
 Bank and side of said Creek the different Courses thereof three 
 hundred and ninety perches to the place of beginning contain- 
 ing three hundred and eighty four Acres with the Allowance 
 of Six Acres Pr Cent for Roads & Highways with the Rights 
 Members and appurtenances thereof and all Houses Edifices 
 Buildings Orchards Gardens Lands Meadows Commons Pastures 
 feedings Trees Woods Underwoods Ways Paths Waters Water 
 Courses Easements Profits Commodities Advantages Heridita- 
 ments and Appurtenances whatsoever unto the said Tract of 
 Land belonging or in any wise appertaining and also the Re- 
 
296 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 version and Reversions Remainder and Remainders Rents and 
 Services of all and Singular the said premises above mentioned 
 and of every part and parcel thereof with the appurtenances 
 And also all the Estate Right Title Interest Claim and Demand 
 whatsoever both at Law and in Equity of him the said George 
 Croghan of in and to all and singular the said premises above 
 mentioned and of in and to every part and parcel thereof with 
 the appurtenances To have and to hold the said tract of Land 
 Heriditaments and premises above mentioned and every part 
 and parcel thereof with the Appurtenances unto the said Ben- 
 (44) jamin Tate his heirs and Assigns to the only proper Use bene- 
 fit and behoof of him the Benjamin Tate his heirs and Assigns 
 forever Subject nevertheless to the Quit Rents to grow and 
 become due to his Majesty his heirs & Successors and to no 
 other Incumbrance whatsoever And further he the said George 
 Croghan and his heirs and every other person & persons and 
 his and their heirs anything having or claiming in the said 
 premises above mentioned or any part thereof by from or 
 under him them or either of them shall and will from time to 
 time and at all times hereafter upon the reasonable Request 
 and at the Cost and Charges of the said Benjamin Tate his 
 heirs and Assigns make do and execute or cause to be made 
 done and executed all and every such further and other lawful 
 and reasonable Acts and Acts thing and Device and devices 
 Conveyance and Conveyances in the Law whatsoever for the 
 further better and more perfect granting conveying and Assur- 
 ing of all and Singular the said premises above mentioned unto 
 the said Benjamin Tate his heirs and Assigns to the only 
 proper Use and behoof of him the said Benjamin Tate his 
 heirs and Assigns for ever as by the said Benjamin Tate his 
 heirs or Assigns or his or their Council learned in the Law 
 shall be reasonably Devised or advised and required In Witness 
 whereof the said Parties to these presents have hereunto set 
 their hands and Seals the day and year first above written 
 Sealed and Delivered Geo : Croghan [L S] 
 
 in the presence of Us before 
 signing the words " Eighteen 
 Perches" in the twentieth line 
 of the Second page being inter- 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 297 
 
 lined and the words " Benjamin 
 Tate ' ' being wrote on Erasures 
 in the Second, third, Eleventh 
 Seventeenth Nineteenth and 
 Twentieth lines of the third page 
 
 John Campbell 
 
 Jacob Bousman 
 
 Received the day of the date of the within Indenture of the 
 within named Benjamin Tate Thirty eight pounds eight Shil- 
 (45) lings lawful money of Great Britain being the full consideration 
 Money in the said within Written Indenture mentioned 
 
 Geo Croghan 
 Witness 
 
 John Campbell 
 
 Be it remembered that on the thirty first day of December 
 Anno Domini 1770 Before me Charles Edmonstone Esquire 
 Captain in his Majestys 18th Regiment of foot commanding 
 the Garrison of Fort Pitt personally appeared the within named 
 George Croghan Esq who acknowledged the within written 
 Indenture to be his Act and Deed and desired the same may 
 be recorded as such Witness my hand and seal at Fort Pitt the 
 day and year above said 
 
 Chas Edmonstone [L S] 
 
 At a Court held for Augusta County at Fort Dunmore May 
 the 16th 1775 
 
 George Croghan Gent acknowledged this his Deed of Bar- 
 gain and Sale with a receipt thereon endorsed to- Benjamin 
 Tate which is Ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test. 
 
 This Indenture 
 made the ninth 
 day of October in 
 the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and seventy 
 two Between Benjamin Taite Sergt in his Majestys eighteenth 
 or Royal Regiment of Ireland of the one part and John Camp- 
 bell of the town of Pittsburgh County of Bedford and province 
 of Pensylvania of the other part Witnesseth that the said 
 
298 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Benjamin Taite for and in Consideration of the sum of Sixty 
 Six pounds ten Shillings Pensylvania Currency to him in hand 
 paid by the said John Campbell the receipt whereof the said 
 Benjamin Taite doth hereby confess and acknowledge he the said 
 Benjamin Taite hath granted bargained and sold and by these 
 presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said John Camp- 
 bell all that Plantation or tract of Land situate lying and being 
 on the East side of Shirtees Creek opposite to Lands of Jacob 
 (46) Bousman about eight miles from Fort Pitt with all the Im- 
 provements thereon and also the Reversion & Reversions Re- 
 mainder and Remainders Rents and services of all and Singular 
 the said premises above mentioned and of every part and 
 parcel thereof with the appurtenances To have and to hold 
 the said Lands and premises above mentioned and every part 
 and parcel thereof with the appurtenances unto the said John 
 Campbell his Executors, Administrators and assigns for the 
 only proper Use benefit and behoof of Joseph Simon James 
 Milligan and John Campbell Merchants of Pittsburgh aforesaid 
 their Executors Administrators & Assigns for ever Provided 
 always and upon Condition That if the said Benjamin Taite 
 his heirs and assigns do and shall well and truly pay or cause 
 to be paid unto the said John Campbell his Executors Admin- 
 istrators or Assigns the full sum of Sixty six pounds ten shillings 
 lawful Pensylvania Money in and upon the first day of October 
 next which will be in the year of our Lord One thousand seven 
 huudred and seventy three without any Deduction or Abatement 
 of Taxes Assessments or any other Impositions whatsoever 
 either Ordinary or extraordinary that then and from thence 
 forth these presents and everything herein contained shall cease 
 determine and be void anything herein contained to the Con- 
 trary notwithstanding In Witness whereof both parties have 
 hereunto interchangably set their hands & Seals the day and 
 year first above written 
 
 Sealed and Delivered Benj : Tate Sergt [L S] 
 
 In the presence of 
 
 James Heron 
 
 Robert Elliott 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 299 
 
 Bedford County ss 
 
 Before me John Fraser Esquire one of his Majestys Justices 
 of the peace & for the County aforesaid personally appeared 
 (47) the above named Benjamin Tate and acknowledged the above 
 Indenture to be his Act and Deed and desired the same may 
 be recorded as such In Witness whereof I have hereunto set 
 my hand and seal this thirteenth day of October 1772 
 
 John Fraser [L S] 
 
 Entered in the Office for Recording of Deeds in and for the 
 County of Bedford in Book A Page 35 the twenty fourth day 
 of December Anno Dom 1772 Witness my hand and seal of 
 my office aforesaid 
 
 A r S l Clair. 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore May 20th 1775. 
 
 This Mortage from Benjamin Tate to John Campbell Gent 
 was produced and Ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test. 
 
 Examined and Delivered I do hereby cer- 
 
 John Campbell Oct 1775 tify that Peter 
 
 McGachney is in- 
 tituled to fifty Acres of Land agreeable to his Majestys Proc- 
 lamation in the year 1763. And being desirous to locate the 1 
 same in the County of Augusta if he can lay it on any Vacant 
 Lands that has not been Surveyed by Order of Council & pat- 
 tented since the above proclamation you are hereby Authorised 
 and required to survey the same — Given under my hand 
 and seal this 24th day of September 1774 
 
 Dunmore [L S] 
 
 To the Surveyor of Augusta County 
 
 Entered in the Surveyors Office the 17th May 1775 and 
 requested to be located by the Assignee on his Improvements 
 at y e fort of Grants hill Pittsburg 
 To Major Crawford ' to Execute Thos Lewis, SAC 2 
 
 ■This was Col. Wm. Crawford, burned at the stake by the Indians in 1782. 
 2 Surveyor of Augusta County, Virginia. 
 
SOO Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 I do hereby Assign all my Right and Title of the within 
 
 (48) Warrant of fifty Acres of Land to which I am intituled as a 
 disbanded Soldier of the forty Second Regiment residing in 
 America under his Majestys Proclamation of 1763 unto John 
 Campbell Esq of Pittsburg he having paid me a valuable Con- 
 sideration for the same therefore desire the same may be sur- 
 veyed for him & a Patent issued out in his Name 
 
 Given under my hand this 17th May 1775 
 
 his 
 
 Witness Peter P M McCachney 
 
 mark 
 
 John Gibson 
 Andrew Robertson 
 Thomas Russell 
 
 At a Court continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore May the 17th 1775. 
 
 Peter McCachney acknowledged this Claim of Land to John 
 Campbell Gent which is ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Know all Men 
 by these presents 
 That I John 
 Ormsby of the Town of Pittsburgh Gentleman for and in Con- 
 sideration of the sum of twenty four pounds lawful money of 
 the Colony of Virginia to me in hand paid by Benjamin 
 Johnston of Fredericksburgh in the said Colony the receipt 
 whereof I do hereby acknowledge have granted bargained and 
 sold and by these presents do grant bargain and sell unto the 
 said Benjamin Johnston his heirs and Assigns Two certain 
 Lotts in the said town of Pittsburgh situate within a Square of 
 Ground in the Occupation of and being the property of the 
 said John Ormsby viz the first to contain Sixty feet fronting 
 the River Monongahela to begin at the Eastermost or South 
 Eastermost Corner of the said Square and to extend back as 
 far as the West side of the Second Street of the said Town, the 
 other Lott containing Sixty feet front on said Second Street 
 and opposite to the Lott now in the Occupation of Samuel 
 
 (49) Evalt it being the Corner Lott and to extend back as far as the 
 Eastermost side of Third Street together with the appurtenances 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 301 
 
 thereto belonging To have and to hold the aforesaid described 
 Lots of Grounds with the Appurtenances to the said Benjamin 
 Johnston his heirs and Assigns to the only proper Use and 
 behoof of the said Benjamin Johnston his heirs and Assigns 
 for ever hereby warranting and defending the same hereby 
 granted premises against all manner of Persons whatsoever 
 Subject only to the Lord of the fee for Quit Rents that may 
 become due for the said Lots and the expences of Pattenting 
 the same when requested the said John Ormsby shall and will 
 make all and every Deed or Deeds for the Conveying the said 
 Lots in fee simple subject as aforesaid unto the said Benjamin 
 Johnston his heirs and Assigns for the true performance hereof 
 I do hereby bind myself my heirs Executors and Administra- 
 tors to the said Benjamin Johnston his heirs and Assigns in the 
 penal sum of five hundred pounds like money firmly by these 
 presents Witness my hand and seal the seventh day of May 
 Anno Domini One thousand seven hundred and seventy four 
 
 Sealed and Delivered John Ormsby [L. S.] 
 
 In the presence of us 
 Tho : Smallman 
 John Boyd 
 James Berwick 
 
 Received the day of the date of the within Deed the sum 
 of twenty four pounds Virginia Currency being the Considera- 
 tion therein mentioned 
 
 Witness John Ormsby 
 
 At a Court continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore May 20th 1775 
 
 John Ormsby acknowledged this his deed of Bargain and 
 Sale to Benjamin Johnston which is ordered to be recorded. 
 
 Test John Madison CI Cu 
 
 Exam and delivered Know all Men by 
 
 Wra Elliott Nov 15, 1776 these presents that 
 
 I Robert Elliott of 
 Pittsburgh for and in consideration of the sum of One hun- 
 dred and fifty pounds lawful money of Pensylvania to me in 
 
302 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 hand paid by William Elliott of the County of Augusta the 
 receipt whereof I do hereby Acknowledge have granted bar- 
 gained and sold and by these presents do grant bargain and 
 (50) sell unto the said William Elliott a certain Improvement Planta- 
 tion and tract of Land situate of Forbes old Road and about 
 twelve miles from Pittsburgh adjoining Lands now or late the 
 property of Ephraim Douglas containing Nine hundred Acres 
 with all my right and Title of in and to the same To have and 
 to hold the said premises with the appurtenances to the said 
 William Elliott his heirs and Assigns to the only proper Use 
 and behoof of the said William Elliott his heirs and Assigns 
 for ever Subject to the purchase money Interest and Quit Rent 
 due to the Lord or the Lords of the fee thereof And I the said 
 Robert Elliott against me or my heirs and against all manner 
 of Persons whatsoever the Lord of the fee aforesaid only ex- 
 cepted the hereby granted premises to the said William Elliott 
 his heirs and Assigns shall and will warrant and for ever defend 
 by these Presents In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my 
 hand and seal the twentieth day of May One thousand seven 
 hundred and seventy five 
 
 Sealed and Delivered Robt Elliott (Seal) 
 
 in the presence of us 
 
 John Irwin 
 
 Jno Gibson 
 
 Jas Berwick 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore May 20th 1775 
 
 Robert Elliott acknowledged this his deed of Bargain and 
 Sale to William Elliott which is ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Examined & delivered Know all men by 
 
 Hannah Aston December 7th 1775 these presents that 
 
 I James Cumber- 
 ford for and in Consideration of the sum of Sixty pounds v. c. 
 to me in hand well and truly paid by George Aston the receipt 
 whereof I do hereby acknowledge have bargained and sold and 
 by these presents do grant bargain sell & assign and make 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 303 
 
 over to him all my Right Title Interest Claim and Demand of 
 two tracts one on Mill Creek & other Tract Land situate lying 
 (S 1 ) an d being on the Waters of Mountours Run with the appurte- 
 nances thereunto belonging or any wise appertaining To 
 have and to hold the same tract aforesaid unto the said George 
 Aston his heirs and Assigns to the only proper Use Benefit and 
 behoof of the said Aston his heirs and assigns and every part 
 thereof against all Manner of Persons (the Lord of Soil only 
 excepted) shall and will warrant the said. As Witness my 
 hand and Seal this 3d day of January in the year of our Lord 
 One thousand seven hundred and seventy five 1775 
 
 Sealed & Deliver' d In T w* 
 
 ., , Tames O Cumberford \L SI 
 
 the presence of mark L J 
 
 Valentine Tho D' Alton 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore February 23d 1775 
 
 This Deed of Bargain and Seal from James Cumberford to 
 George Aston was proved by Valentine Thomas D'Alton the 
 witness thereto and ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Examined & delivered Know all Men by 
 
 Hannah Aston 7 th December 1775 these presents 
 
 That I Simon 
 Butler for and in Consideration of the sum of One hundred 
 and fifty pounds v. c. to me in hand well and truly paid by 
 George Aston the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge 
 have bargained and sold and by these presents do grant bargain 
 sell assign and make over to the said Aston four Improvements 
 or tracts of Land situate lying and being on the Waters of Mill 
 Creek one of the Branches of the Ohio with the appurtenances 
 thereunto belonging or anywise appurtenaning To have and to 
 hold the said Improvements to said Aston his heirs and 
 Assigns to the only proper Use Benefit and behoof of the said 
 Aston his heirs and Assigns and every part and parcel thereof 
 against all manner of Persons (the Lord of the Soil only 
 excepted) shall and will warrant & Defend the said from all 
 Manner of Persons As Witness my hand and seal this third 
 
304 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand seven 
 
 hundred and seventy five 1775 
 
 Witness present „. h Ji „ . i-t en 
 
 F Simon X Butler | L S| 
 
 Valentine Thos D' Alton mar k 
 
 Jacob Bousman 
 (52). At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore February 23d 1775 
 
 This Deed of Bargain and Sale from Simon Butler to George 
 Aston was proved by Valentine Tho D'alton one of the 
 Witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Examined & delivered Articles of Agree- 
 
 Hannah Aston 7th December 1775 ment made and 
 
 concluded on by 
 and between Cornelius Doherty of the one part and George 
 Aston of the other part Witnesseth that the said Cornelius 
 Doherty doth covenant grant and agree with George Aston his 
 heirs and Assigns, my heirs hereby doth covenant grant agree 
 with the said George Aston to let him have a certain Quantity 
 or parcel of Land the said Doherty having one third of the 
 said Lands Aston hereby obtaining securing and getting for 
 me a patent or lawful Right for the said Lands being about 
 3000 Acres more or less which the said Aston is to be at the 
 expences attending the securing the said Lands and surveying 
 &c which land I do hereby Warrant and Defend from all man- 
 ner of Persons lawfully claiming the same (the Lord of the 
 soil only accepted) said Lands lying on the Waters of Lower 
 Traverse Creek joining Bostian Frederick on the one part and 
 Abraham Kuykendal on the other part said Lands being now 
 improved In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
 and seal this 30th day of Jany 1775 
 
 his 
 
 Witness present Cornelius A. Doherty [L S] 
 
 Valentine Tho D' Alton mark 
 
 his 
 
 Joseph J Kerswell 
 
 mark 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore February 23d 1775 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 305 
 
 This Agreement between Cornelius Doherty and George 
 Aston was proved by Valentine Thomas D'Alton one of the 
 Witnesses thereto and Ordered to be Recorded 
 
 Test John Madison [L S] 
 
 (53) Examined & delivered This Indenture 
 Geo Morgan September the 29th 1775 made the Nine- 
 teenth day of Sep- 
 tember in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred 
 and Seventy five Between George Croghan Esquire of Pitts- 
 burgh of the one part and Thomas Lawrence of the City of 
 Philadelphia Esquire of the other part Whereas Iohonorissa 
 Scarayadia and Cosswantinecea Cheifs or Sachems of the Six 
 United Nations of Indians did by their deed duly Executed 
 bearing date the Second day of August in the Year of our Lord 
 One Thousand Seven Hundred and forty nine for the Consid- 
 eration therein Specified Grant Bargain and Sell unto the said 
 George Croghan in Fee a Certain Tract or Parcel of Land situ- 
 ate lying and being on the South side of the Monongahela 
 River Beginning at the mouth of a Run nearly Opposite Turtle 
 Creek and then down the said Monongahela River to its Junc- 
 tion with the River OHio computed to be ten Miles then run- 
 ning down the Eastern Bank and sides of and unto the said 
 River OHio to where Racoon Creek empties itself into the said 
 River thence up the said Creek ten Miles and from thence on a 
 direct line to the Place of beginning Containing by Estimation 
 One hundred Thousand Acres be the same more or, less as by 
 the said Deed may more fully appear And Whereas certain 
 chiefs or Sachems fully representing the Six United Nations 
 aforesaid in full Council at Fort Stanwix assembled did by their 
 deed duly Executed bearing date the fourth day of November 
 One Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty Eight for the Consid- 
 eration therein Mentioned Grant Ratifie and Confirm unto his 
 Most sacred Majesty George the Third by the Grace of God 
 King of Great Britain France and Ireland &c his Heirs and 
 Successors for the Use Benefit and Behoof of the said George 
 Croghan all the above bounded and described Tract or Parcel 
 
 (54) of Land and Premises as by the said Deed Poll recorded in the 
 
306 Annals of the Carnecie Museum. 
 
 Office for recording of Deeds in the City and County of Phila- 
 delphia in Book J Volume the fifth page the two hundred and 
 thirty ninth & may more fully and at large appear Now This 
 Indenture Witnesseth that the said George Croghan for and in 
 Consideration of the Sum of Two Thousand seven hundred & 
 Eighty seven Pounds lawful Money of Great Britain to him the 
 said George Croghan by him the aforesaid Thomas Lawrance in 
 hand paid the receipt whereof he the said George Croghan doth 
 hereby Acknowledge hath Granted Bargained Sold Aliened 
 Released and Confirmed and by these Presents doth fully freely 
 and absolutely Grant Bargain Sell Alien Release and Confirm 
 unto the said Thomas Lawrance (in his Actual Possession now 
 being by Virtue of a bargain and Sale thereof made to him for 
 one Whole Year by Indenture bearing date the day next before 
 the day of the date of these Presents and by force of the Statute 
 for transferring of Uses ipto Possession) and to his Heirs and 
 assigns forever a Certain Tract or Parcel of Land being a part 
 or parcel of the aforesaid described Tract of Land situate lying 
 and being on the southwestern side of the River OHio and 
 bounded to the Northward by the Logs Town Tract and the 
 Lands of Alexander Ross Esquire to the Westward by the Land 
 of Joseph Simons, George Croghan Esquire and David Rodgers 
 to the Southward by the Lands of Barnard Gratz and Major 
 Edward Ward and to the Eastward by the River OHio Begin- 
 ning at a Sassafras on the Southwestern Bank of the said River 
 and Running S 78 W 320 perches to a Spanish Oak Corner 
 to Alexander Ross Esquire thence with the said Ross's line S 
 12 E 820 Perches to a White Oak Corner to said Ross thence 
 with the said Ross's line S 78 W 1748 perches to a Stake 
 Corner to said Ross and Joseph Simons thence with the said 
 Simons's line S 12 E 640 perches to a Stone Corner to said 
 Simons and George Croghan Esquire thence with the said 
 Croghans Line S 44 30 E 964 perches and 20 links to a Stake 
 (55) Corner to a Stake Corner to said Croghan and David Rodgers 
 thence continuing the said Cource with the said Rodgers' s 336 
 perches Making in the whole 1300 Perches and 20 links to a 
 Stone Corner to the said Rogers and Barnard Gratz thence with 
 the said Gratz's line N 43 15 E 977 Perches to a Stake Cor- 
 ner to Major Edward Ward thence with the said Wards line N 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 307 
 
 32 ° 15 E 323 perches to a Stake corner to said Ward thence 
 with the said Wards Line S 63" 45 E 160 perches to a Stake 
 Corner to said Ward thence with the said Wards line N 32 15 
 E 928 Perches to an Elm on the said Southwestern Bank of 
 the said River OHio Corner to the said Ward and thence down 
 the said River on the said Southwestern side with the Various 
 Courses thereof 1 347 Perches to the Place of Beginning Contain- 
 ing Eighteen Thousand five hundred and Eighty Acres with the 
 Allowance of six acres pr Cent for Roads and Highways with 
 the Rights Manners and Appurtenances thereof and all Houses 
 Edifices Buildings Orchards Gardens Lands Meadows Pastures 
 Feedings Commons Trees Woods Underwoods Ways Paths 
 Waters Watercourses Easements Profits Commodities Advant- 
 ages Hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever unto the said 
 Tract of Land belonging or in anywise Appertaining and also the 
 Reversion & Reversions Remainder and Remainders Rents 
 and Services of all and Singular the said Premises above Men- 
 tioned and of every part and parcel thereof with the Appurte- 
 nances and also all the Estate Right Title Interest Claim and 
 Demand whatsoever both at Law and in Equity of him the said 
 George Croghan of in and to all and Singular the said Premises 
 above Mentioned and of in and to every part and parcel thereof 
 with the Appurtenances To have and to hold the said Tract of 
 Land Hereditaments and Premises above Mentioned and every 
 part and parcel thereof with the Appurtenances unto the said 
 Thomas Lawrance his heirs and Assigns to the only proper use 
 (56) Benefit and Behoof of him the said Thomas Lawrance his heirs 
 and Assigns forever Subject Nevertheless to the Quit Rents to 
 grow and become due to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors 
 and to no other incumbrance whatsoever And farther that he 
 the said George Croghan and his Heirs and every other Person 
 and Persons and his and their Heirs any thing having or Claim- 
 ing in the said Premises above Mentioned or any part thereof 
 by from or under him them or any of them shall and will from 
 time to time and at all Times hereafter upon the Reasona- 
 ble Request and at the Cost and Charges of the said Thomas 
 Lawrance his heirs and Assigns make do and Execute or Cause 
 to be made done and Executed all and every such further and 
 other Lawful and Reasonable Act and Acts thing and things 
 
308 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Device and Devices Conveyance and Conveyances in the Law 
 Whatsoever for the further better and more perfect Granting 
 Conveying and assuring of all and Singular the said Premises 
 above Mentioned unto the said Thomas Lawrance his heirs and 
 assigns to the only proper use and Behoof of him the said Thomas 
 Lawrance his Heirs and assigns forever as by the said Thomas 
 Lawrance his Heirs and assigns or his or their Council learned 
 in the Law shall be Reasonably devised or advised and Re- 
 quired In Witness whereof the said George Croghan hath hereto 
 set his hand and seal the day and year first above Written 
 Sealed and Delivered Geo : Croghan [L S] 
 
 in the Presence of us 
 William Trent 1 
 Geo Morgan 2 
 
 Pittsburg September the Nineteenth One Thousand Seven 
 hundred and Seventy five Received of Mr. Thomas Lawrance 
 the sum of Two Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty seven 
 pounds Sterlg Money of Great Brittain being the full Considera- 
 tion Expressed in the above Deed as Witness my Hand 
 Witnesses Geo : Croghan 
 
 William Trent 
 Geo Morgan 
 
 (57) At a Court Continued & held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burgh September the twenty third day of September 1775 
 
 George Croghan Esquire Acknowledged this his deed of 
 Bargain and Sale to Thomas Lawrance which is Ordered to be 
 Recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Examd & delivered This Indenture 
 
 John Gabriel Jones Sept 25th 1775 made the nine- 
 teenth day of 
 September One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy five Be- 
 tween William Parkyson of the County of Augusta in the 
 Colony of Virginia of the one part and John Mitchell^ of the 
 said County and Colony aforesaid of the other part being of 
 
 1 See Introductory, ante p. 13. 
 
 2 Colonel Geo. Morgan, Princeton, N. J,, the Indian agent at Pittsburgh, subse- 
 quently (1796) removing to " Morganza," in Washington County, Pennsylvania. 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 309 
 
 lawful Age that for and in Consideration of the sum of Twenty 
 Pounds in hand paid hath put and placed himself Voluntary for 
 the Space of Three years and three Quarters from the date of 
 these presents and him the said William Parkyson to serve for 
 the aforesaid term in the Capacity of a Servant and as such to 
 demean himself According to his Wit Power and Ability and 
 Agreeable to the Laws of this Colony and the said William 
 Parkyson for himself his heirs or Executors doth Promise and 
 agree to find the said Servant in Competent and Sufficient 
 Meat Drink and Apparal Washing and Lodging and all other 
 things fit and Necessary for a Servant and at the Expiration of 
 the said Term to pay the Customary dues In Witness whereof 
 both Parties have hereunto set their Hands and Seals the day 
 and year above Written 
 Sign' d Sealed and Delivered John x McMullin 1 [L S] 
 
 his mark 
 
 in the presence of William Parkison [L S] 
 
 J G Jones 
 Benjf Davis 
 Silas Zane 
 
 (58) At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burg the 20th day of September 1775 
 
 This Indenture from John McMullin to William Parkyson 
 was Proved by the Oaths of John Gabriel Jones and Benjamin 
 Davis two of the Witnesses thereto and Ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Examined & delivered Know all men by 
 
 John Jeremiah Jacobs October 8th 1775 these Presents that 
 
 I Robert Denbow 
 of the County of Westmoreland in the Province of Pennsyl- 
 vania for and in Consideration of the Sum of fifteen Pounds to 
 me in hand paid by Michael Cresap the receipt whereof I do 
 hereby Acknowledge Have Bargained and Sold and by these 
 presents do bargain and sell unto the sd Michael Cresap 2 one 
 Tract or Parcel of Land Situate Lying and being in Westmore- 
 
 1 So recorded ; was it John Mitchell or John McMullin who thus became an " in- 
 dented servant ' ' ? 
 
 2 Charged by Logan with having killed his relatives in the spring of 1774. 
 
310 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 land County in the Province of Pens" af a adjoining the Lands 
 of David Rogers and Joseph Brenton on the Monongahaly 
 being part of a Larger tract of Land I purchased of James 
 Brenton and Containing by Estimation two hundred and fifty 
 acres To have and to hold the said Tract or Parcels of Land 
 with all and Singular the Appurtenances thereto belonging 
 unto the said Michael Cresap and his heirs forever and Whereas 
 the said Michael Cresap hath allowed me the use and Occupa- 
 tion of the said Land for the Space of Six Months from the 
 date hereof I do hereby further Covenant and agree with the 
 sd Michael that I my heirs Executors or Administrators shall 
 and will deliver up Possession of the said Land to the said 
 Michael Cresap at or before the Expiration of the said Six 
 Months from the date hereof In Witness whereof I have here- 
 unto set my hand and Seal this twenty eighth day of Septem- 
 
 ber J 773 his 
 
 Signed Sealed and Delivered Robert D Denbow [L S] 
 
 in the Presence of 
 
 Geo Brent 
 
 Jo s Dorsey 
 
 Henry Brenton 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burgh September the 21st 1775 
 (59) This Deed of Bargain and Sale from Robert Denbow to 
 
 Michael Cresap Gent was proved by George Brent Gent one 
 of the Witnesses thereto and Ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Examined and delivered Know all men by 
 
 John Jeremiah Jacobs October 8th 1775 these presents that 
 
 I James Brenton 
 of Augusta County Virginia Monongahela Settlement for and 
 in Consideration of the Sum of Fifty Pounds Pennsylvania 
 Currency to me in hand paid by Michael Cresap Senr the 
 Receipt whereof I do hereby Acknowledge and my self fully 
 Sattisfyd have Bargained & sold and delivered and by these 
 Presents do Bargain Sell and deliver a Certain Tract or Parcel 
 of Land lying about one Mile distant from Monongahela River 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 311 
 
 and Bounded by the following persons John Adams on the 
 North East Edward Dorsey on the East Thomas Brown West 
 and Edward White on the North with all and singular the 
 appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any ways appertaining 
 Containing by Estimation about two hundred and fifty Acres 
 be the same more or less To have and to hold the said Tract 
 or Parcel of Land to him the said Cresap his heirs and assigns 
 forever from and against me my heirs Executors Admr or 
 Assigns and from and against all Manner of Person or Persons 
 the Lord of the Soile Excepted only and shall and will forever 
 Warrant and defend the said Land with the appurtenances In 
 Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of 
 September 1775 
 
 Witness James Brenton 
 
 the D mark of Robert Denbow 
 Jno ]er h . Jacobs 
 
 Interlined (the Lord of the Soil Excepted only) before the 
 sealing and Delivery of these Presents 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burgh September 21st 1775 
 
 This Deed of Bargain and Sale from James Brenton to 
 Michael Cresap was proved by the Oath of John Jeremiah 
 Jacobs one of the Witnesses thereto and Ordered to be Recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 (60) Examined & delivered Know all men 
 
 John Jeremiah Jacobs October 8th 1775 by these pres- 
 ents that I Josiah 
 Little of Mannilling Township Westmoreland County in Penn- 
 sylvania for the Valuable Consideration of Seven Pounds ten 
 Shillings Pennsylvania to me in hand paid by John Corey of 
 Springhill Township in said County the Receipt whereof I do 
 hereby Acknowledge and myself therewith fully Sattisfied Con- 
 tented and paid have bargained Sold set over Released Con- 
 veyed and Confirmed and by these presents do bargain Sell Set 
 over and Confirm and deliver unto the said John Corey his 
 Attorney heirs Executrs Admrs and Assigns a Certain tract or 
 parcel of Land Containing two hundred Acres be it more or 
 
'M2 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 less as it is butted and bounded Easterly on the Lands of 
 Andrew Rob &c Westerly on the Land of Isaac Willson and 
 the Watters of the Middle run Northerly on the lands of sd 
 Willson and Rob & Southerly on the Land of Hugh Gilmore 
 at the Lick Called the Buffaloo Lick To have and to hold the 
 above bargained and Mentioned Peice of land together with all 
 its Improvements fences buildings timber Watter and Watter 
 Courses with all the other priveledges and Appurtainnances 
 Whatsoever thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining 
 against any Lawfull Claims or demand of myself my heirs Ex- 
 ecutrs Admintrs or Assigns or any other person or persons 
 Whatsoever Claiming the same (the Rites and Services belong- 
 ing to his Lordship the proprietor herein only Excepted) and 
 further I do hereby Certifie that at the time and untill the 
 Execution of these presents I am Justly and lawfully seized of 
 the said Premises by Virtue of a purchase made of the same (by 
 me) from a Certain James Willson of this place which said 
 (61 ) peice of Land together with all the above said Priviledges and 
 appurtenances I do hereby bind myself my heirs Executors 
 Administrs and every of them to the said John Corey his heirs 
 Exctr Admr and assignes to warrant and forever defend against 
 the Claime or demand of the said Willson his heirs or assigns 
 or any other person or persons whatsoever Claiming the same 
 in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal 
 this 1 8th day of March in the year of our Lord Christ One 
 Thousand Seven hundred and seventy four 1774 
 Signed Sealed and deliv- Josiah Littel [Seal] 
 
 ered in presence of us 
 
 his 
 
 John x Pettijohn 
 
 mark 
 
 Know all men by these presents that I John Corey of Dun- 
 laps C''eek Settlem't for and in Consideration of the sum of 
 Fifty Pounds Pennsylvania Curry to me in hand paid by 
 Michael Cresap Senr the Rect whereof I do hereby Acknowl- 
 edge have Bargained and by these Presents do Bargain and Sell 
 unto the sd Cresap all the Tract or Parcel of Land Contained 
 in the within Bill of sale from Josias Little to me dated the 
 18th of March 1774 together with all the appurtenances there- 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 313 
 
 unto Belonging or anyway appertaining but Nevertheless if the 
 said John Corey can and do pay the said Michael Cresap his 
 Certain Attorney heirs or Assigns within the space of twelve 
 Months from the date hereof a Certain sum of Money Con- 
 tained in a Bond from him to said Cresap of the 19th of Dec 
 1772 together with all Interest and Costs &c then this Bill of 
 Sale to be Void and the Property of the within Mentioned 
 Land to revert to me the said Corey as if such Bill of Sale had 
 never been given but on the Contrary I do Promise to deliver 
 to the said Michael Cresap or his Attorney Peaceable Posses- 
 sion when required by him or them and do and will forever 
 Warrant and defend the said Land to him the said Cresap his 
 heirs or Assigns against myself my heirs Executors or any other 
 Person or Persons Whatsoever According to the true Intent 
 and Meaning of these presents In Witness whereof I have 
 (62) hereunto set my hand and Seal this 1st day of September 1775 
 Witness John Corey 
 
 Jno Jerh Jacobs x 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burgh September 21st 1775 
 
 This deed of Bargain and Sale from John Corey to Michael 
 Cresap Gent was proved by John Jeremiah Jacobs the Witness 
 thereto and Ordered to be Recorded 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Examd & delivered This Indenture 
 
 Jacob Saylor made the Eleventh 
 
 day of September 
 in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and 
 Seventy five Between Andrew Robinson of Pittsburgh Taylor 
 of the one part and Jacob Saylor of the same place Gunsmith 
 of the other part Witnesseth that the said Andrew Robinson in 
 Consideration of the sum of five Shillings lawful Money of 
 Pennsylvania and also for the securing of the sum of forty 
 Pounds seven Shillings and one penny like lawful Money due 
 to a Certain Benjamin Elliott for which said sum the said 
 
 'Michael Cresap' s clerk in ttie Old Redstone storehouse ; subsequently married 
 Cresap' s widow. 
 
314 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Jacob Saylor stands bound by Recognizance for the said 
 Andrew Robinson in the County Court of Bedford County in 
 the Province of Pennsylvania he the said Andrew Robinson 
 hath granted bargained and Sold and by these Presents doth 
 grant bargain and sell unto the said Jacob Saylor a Messuage a 
 Stable and four Lotts of Ground situate in the Town of Pitts- 
 burgh aforesaid whereon the said Andrew Robinson now lives 
 with all the Improvements and Appurtenances thereunto 
 belonging and all the right Title and property of him the said 
 Andrew Robinson of in and to the same To have and to hold 
 the aforesaid hereby granted Premises with the Appurtenances 
 unto the said Jacob Saylor his heirs and assigns to the only 
 proper Use and behoof of the said Jacob Saylor his heirs and 
 assigns forever Subject only to the Purchase Money due and to 
 become due to the Cheif Lord of Lords of the fee thereof and 
 the aforesaid Andrew Robinson against him and his heirs and 
 against all Manner of Persons claiming by from or Under him 
 (63) the aforesaid Premises unto the said Jacob Saylor his heirs and 
 assigns shall and will Warrant and forever defend by these 
 Presents Provided Nevertheless and it is hereby declared to be 
 the true Intent and Meaning of these Presents that if the said 
 Andrew Robinson shall and do on or before the tenth day of 
 November next ensuing the date of these Presents well and 
 truly pay and Satisfy the afore mentioned Sum of forty Pounds 
 Seven Shillings and one penny together with all lawful Interest 
 and Charges of Court and all Incident Expences accruing on 
 the same and shall also indemnify and forever save harmless 
 the said Jacob Saylor his heirs Executors and Administrators 
 of and from the Payment of the said Judgment then this pres- 
 ent Indenture to cease and be Void to all Intents and purposes 
 as if the same had never been made in Witness Whereof the 
 said Parties have hereunto set their hands and Seals the day 
 and year afore written 
 
 Sealed and Delivered Andrew Robrtson [L S] 
 
 in the Presence of us 
 Ja s Berwick 
 John Rossan 
 Jno McCallister 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 315 
 
 At a Court held for Augusta County at Pittsburgh January 
 16th 1776 
 
 This Mortgage from Andrew Robinson to Jacob Saylor was 
 proved by the Oaths of James Berwick and John McCallister 
 two of the Witnesses thereto and Ordered to be certified. 
 
 Test John Madison 
 
 Know all men by 
 these presents that 
 I Mordecai Moses 
 Mordecai of Pittsburg for and in Consideration of the Sum of 
 Three Hundred Pounds Current Money of Pennsylvania to me 
 in hand paid the Receipt whereof I do hereby Acknowledge 
 Have Granted Bargained sold and delivered by these Presents 
 Doth Grant Bargain Sell and deliver unto Joseph Simon one 
 plantation and Improvement, situate lying and being on Sucks 
 run near Pittsburg, and all houses buildings and appurtenances 
 thereunto belonging and also two Copper Stills with all the 
 utensils thereunto belonging and all the household furniture now 
 in my Possession or belonging to me To have and to hold the 
 said Plantation and Improvement with all the appurtenances 
 (64) thereunto belonging, and all and Singular other the premises 
 hereinbefore mentioned unto the said Joseph Simons his heirs 
 and assigns to the only proper use and behoof of the said 
 Joseph Simon his heirs and assigns forever And I the said 
 Mordecai Moses Mordecai for myself my heirs Exors and 
 Administrators the said Plantation and Improvement with the 
 Appurtenances thereunto belonging with all and Singular 
 other the Premises herein before mentioned, unto the said 
 Joseph Simon his heirs and assigns Will Warrant and forever 
 defend — In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
 and Seal this 19th day of July 1775 
 
 Mordecai M Mordecai [L S] 
 Testes 
 Jno Anderson 
 John Campbell 
 Robert Campbell 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 
 Dunmore September the 20th 1775 
 
316 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 This Deed of Bargain and Sale from Mordecai Moses Mor- 
 decai to Joseph Simon was proved by the Oaths of John 
 Anderson and Robert Campbell two of the Witnesses thereto 
 and Ordered to be Certified 
 
 Test. 
 
 This Indenture 
 made this twenty 
 sixth day of August 
 in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and 
 Seventy five Between William Dunbar of Manchac Settlement 
 on the Missippi of the one part and Charles Simms of Pitts- 
 burgh Attorney at Law of the other part Witnesseth that the 
 said William Dunbar for and in Consideration of the Sum of 
 Ninety three Pounds Sterling to him in hand paid by the said 
 Charles Simms the Receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowl- 
 edge, Hath Granted Bargained and Sold aliened and Confirmed 
 and by these Presents doth Grant Bargain Sell Alien and Con- 
 firm unto the said Charles Simms his heirs and assigns one 
 third part of a Certain Tract of Land situate lying and being 
 on Raccoon Creek on the West side of the Laurel Hill in the 
 County of Augusta Beginning at the most South Easterly 
 corner of two thousand Eight hundred and Seventeen Acres of 
 Land Granted to Alexander Ross by George Croghan Gent 
 thence South twelve degrees East Sixty Eight Chains and 
 thirty three links to a Corner of a Certain Tract of Land 
 granted as aforesaid to Robert Lettis Hoopers Land South 
 Seventy Eight degrees West four hundred and thirty seven 
 Chains to another Corner of the said Hoopers Land thence 
 North twelve degrees West Sixty eight Chains and thirty three 
 links to a Corner of Alexander Ross's Land aforesaid thence 
 (65) by the said Alexander Ross's Land North Seventy eight 
 Degrees East four hundred and thirty seven Chains to the 
 place of Beginning containing two thousand Eight hundred 
 and Seventeen Acres which said Tract of Land was sold Con- 
 veyed to the said William Dunbar by George Croghan Gent 
 by deed bearing date the Ninth day of January in the year of 
 our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy two and 
 all Houses Buildings Yards Gardens Orchards Ways Woods 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 317' 
 
 Waters Water Courses Profits Commodities Hereditaments and 
 Appurtenances whatsoever to the same belonging or in anywise 
 Appertaining and the Reversion and Reversions Remainder 
 and Remainders Rents Issues and profits thereof and also all 
 the Estate Right Title Interest property Claim and demand of 
 the said William Dunbar of in and to one third part of the 
 aforesaid Tract of Land To have and to hold one third part of 
 the above Mentioned Tract of Land and premises unto the said 
 Charles Simms his heirs and assigns to the only proper use and 
 behoof of the said Charles Simms his heirs and assigns forever 
 And the said William Dunbar doth Covenant promise and 
 Grant to and with the said Charles Simms that he the said 
 William Dunbar his heirs and Assigns and all and every person 
 or persons claiming by from or under him or them shall and 
 will from time to time and at all times forever hereafter upon 
 the request and at the Cost and Charges in the law make do 
 and execute or cause or procure to be make done and Executed 
 all and every such further and other lawfull and reasonable 
 Act and Acts thing and things Conveyances and assurances in 
 the Law for the better and more perfect granting conveying 
 and assuring the hereby Granted Land and premises unto the 
 said Charles Simms his heirs and assigns as by the said Charles 
 Simms his heirs and assigns his or their Council Learned in 
 the Law shall be reasonably advised devised and required In 
 Witness whereof Alexander Ross Attorney for the said William 
 Dunbar by Virtue of a power of Attorney from the said William 
 Dunbar bearing date the twenty eighth day of February in the 
 year of our Lord 1772 hath hereunto set the hand and affixed 
 the Seal of the said William Dunbar the day and Year first 
 above written 
 Signed Seald and Delivered 
 
 In presence of 
 
 C Gray don 
 
 James M?.Kee 
 
 Dan 1 Brown 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burgh April the 17th 1776 
 (66) This deed of Bargain and Sale from William Dunbar by his 
 
318 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Attorney Ross to Charles Sims was proved by the Oaths of 
 Caleb Graydon and Daniel Brown two of the Witnesses thereto 
 and Ordered to be Certified 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burgh April the 18th 1776 
 
 This deed of Bargain and Sale from William Dunbar by his 
 Attorney Alexander Ross to Charles Simms being formerly 
 proved by the Oaths of Caleb Graydon and Daniel Brown two 
 of the Witnesses thereto was this day further proved by the 
 Oath of James McKee the other Witness thereto and Ordered 
 
 to be recorded 
 
 Test 
 
 This Indenture 
 made this twenty 
 sixth day of Au- 
 gust in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 
 Seventy five Between Alexander Ross Esq of Pittsburgh in the 
 County of Augusta and Colony of Virginia of the one part and 
 Charles Simms Esq Attorney at Law of the same place of the 
 other part Witnesseth that the said Alexander Ross for and in 
 Consideration of the Sum of two hundred and two Pounds 
 Sterling Money of Great Britain to him in hand paid by the 
 said Charles Sims the receipt whereof he doth hereby Acknowl- 
 edge Hath Granted bargained and sold aliened and Confirmed 
 and by these presents Doth Grant Bargain and sell alien and 
 Confirm unto the said Charles Simms his heirs and Assigns the 
 following Lands that is to say, one half or equal Moiety of a 
 Tract of Land situate on the Southwest side of the River Ohio 
 above the Mouth of Raccoon Creek being part of the Bottom 
 commonly called the long Bottom, beginning at a Swamp 
 Maple Tree standing on the lower Bank of a Small run 
 where it emptys into the River Ohio being the first run below 
 Ryleys run which Run emptys itself into the river at the head 
 the aforesaid long Bottom, then from the said Swamp Maple 
 tree up the several Courses of the river Ohio to a Swamp' d 
 Maple tree Marked on two sides With three notches on each 
 side and a blaze above them for a Corner thence South forty five 
 degrees West One hundred and forty three chains to a stone, 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 319 
 
 thence North forty five degrees West One hundred and fifty 
 three Chains to a Stake, (South Seventeen degrees East distant 
 17 links stands a white Oak tree mark'd A R) then from said 
 (67) stake, North forty five degrees East forty one Chains and fifty 
 links to a stone thence along the bounds of a Tract of Land 
 granted to Rob' Lettis Hooper Junr South forty five degrees 
 East thirty five Chains to a Stone corner of said Hoopers Land 
 thence North forty five degrees East one hundred and Seventy 
 Chains along the bounds of said Hoopers Land to the place of 
 Beginning containing two thousand One hundred and Sixty 
 seven Acres be the same more or less which said Tract of Land 
 was sold and Convey' d unto the said Alexander Ross by George 
 Croghan Gent by deed bearing date the ninth day of January 
 in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and 
 Seventy two also one third part of a Certain Tract or parcel of 
 Land situate lying and being on Raccoon Creek Bounded as 
 followeth Beginning at a Stake from which stake south three 
 degrees West distant hereby four links stands a Spanish Oak 
 tree Mark'd with the letter A and a blaze above, thence from 
 said stake South twelve degrees East sixty eight chains and 
 thirty three links to a Corner of William Dunbars Land thence 
 South Seventy eight degrees West four hundred and thirty 
 seven Chains to another Corner of William Dunbars Land ; 
 thence North twelve degrees West Sixty eight Chains and 
 thirty three links to a Stone from which stone North Eighty 
 three degrees East distant Seventy six links stands a White 
 Oak tree Mark'd with the Letter A and a blaze above, then 
 from said stone North Seventy eight degrees East by Lands of 
 the aforesaid George Croghan and Nathaniel Kerkendall four 
 hundred and thirty seven Chains to the Place of Beginning 
 containing two thousand Eight hundred and Seventeen Acres 
 be the same more or less which said Land was sold and Con- 
 veyed by George Croghan to the said Alexander Ross by deed 
 bearing date the Ninth day of January in the Year of our Lord 
 One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy two and all Houses 
 buildings Yards Gardens Orchards Ways Waters Water Courses 
 profits Commodities Hereditaments and Appurtances whatso- 
 ever to the same belonging or in anywise Appertaining and 
 the Reversion and Reversions Remainder and Remainders 
 
320 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Rents Issues and Profits thereof and also all the Estate Right 
 Title Interest property Claim and demand either in Law or 
 equity of him the said Alexander Ross of in and to the Moiety 
 of the first Mentioned Tract and to one third of the last Men- 
 tioned Tract of Land To have and to hold the hereby Granted 
 Land and premises unto the said Charles Simms his heirs and 
 Assigns to the only proper use and behoof of the said Charles 
 Simms his heirs and assigns forever and the said Alexander 
 Ross doth hereby covenant promise and Grant to and with the 
 said Charles Simms that he the said Alexander Ross and his 
 heirs and all and every person or persons claiming by from or 
 (68) under him or them shall and will from time to time and at all 
 times hereafter upon the request and at the Cost and Charges 
 of the said Charles Simms his heirs or assigns make do and 
 Execute or cause or procure to be made done and Executed all 
 and every such further and other Lawfull and reasonable Act 
 and Acts thing and things Conveyances and Assurances in the 
 Law for the better and more perfect Granting conveying and 
 assuring the before Mentioned Land and premises unto the 
 said Charles Simms his heirs and assigns forever as by the said 
 Charles Simms his or their Council learned in the Law shall be 
 reasonably advised devised and required In Witness whereof the 
 said Charles Simms hath hereunto set his hand and affixed his 
 seal the day and year first before written 
 Sign'd Seal'd & Deliver' d Alexr Ross [L S] 
 
 In presence of 
 
 C Graydon 
 
 James McKee 
 
 Received of the within named Charles Simms the within 
 Mentioned Sum of two hundred and two Pounds Sterling 
 Money of Great Britain being the Consideration within Men- 
 tioned Witness my hand this twenty sixth day of 
 Witness Alexr Ross 
 
 C Graydon 
 James McKee 
 Danl Brown 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burgh April the 17th 1776 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 321 
 
 This deed of Bargain and Sale from Alexander Ross to 
 Charles Simms was proved by the Oaths of Caleb Graydon 
 and Daniel Brown two of the Witnesses thereto and Ordered 
 to be Certified 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burg April the 18th 1776 
 
 This deed of Bargain and Sale from Alexander Ross to 
 Charles Simms being formerly proved by the Oaths of Caleb 
 Graydon and Daniel Brown two of the Witnesses thereto was 
 this day further proved by the Oath of James McKee the 
 other Witness thereto and Ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test 
 
 This Indenture 
 made this twenty 
 sixth day of Au- 
 gust in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred 
 and Seventy five Between Alexander Ross Esq of the Town of 
 Pittsburg of the first part and Charles Simms of the same place 
 Attorney at Law of the other part Witnesseth that the said 
 Alexander Ross for and in Consideration of the Sum of Fifteen 
 Pounds Current Money of the Province of Pennsylvania to him 
 in hand paid by the said Charles Simms the receipt whereof 
 (69) he doth hereby acknowledge Hath granted Bargained and Sold 
 and by these presents Doth Grant Bargain and Sell unto the 
 said Charles Simms his heirs and assigns one equal half or 
 Moiety of a Certain Quantity or parcell of Land situate in the 
 Town of Pittsburg on the Bank of the Allegheny River and 
 is the same Lott or parcell of Land whereon the said Alex- 
 ander Ross formerly had a house, and all houses buildings 
 yards Gardens Orchards Ways Waters Water Courses profits 
 Commodities Hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to 
 the same belonging or in any wise appertaining and the Re- 
 version and Reversions Remainder and Remainders Rents 
 Issues and profits thereof and also all the Estate Right Title 
 Interest use trust property Claim and demand of the said Alex- 
 ander Ross of in and to the said Moiety of the said Lott or parcel 
 of Land, To have and to hold the said half or Moiety of the 
 
322 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 said Lott of Land with the appurtenances unto the said Charles 
 Simms his heirs and assigns to the only proper use and behoof 
 of the said Charles Simms his heirs and assigns forever In 
 Witness whereof the said Alexander Ross hath hereunto set 
 his hand and affixed his seal the day and year first above written 
 Signed Sealed and delivered Alexr Ross [L S] 
 
 In presence of 
 the Words " one equal half or Moiety of" 
 being interlined before Signed 
 
 C Gray don 
 
 James McKee 
 
 Danl Brown 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burgh April the 17th 1776 
 
 This deed of Bargain and Sale from Alexander Ross to 
 Charles Simms was proved by the Oaths of Caleb Graydon and 
 Daniel Brown two of the Witnesses thereto and Ordered to be 
 Certified. 
 
 At a Court Court Continued and held for Augusta County at 
 Pittsburgh April the 18th 1776 
 
 This deed of Bargain and Sale from Alexander Ross to 
 Charles Simms being formerly proved by Oaths of Caleb Gray- 
 don and Daniel Brown two of the Witnesses thereto was this 
 day further proved by the Oath of James McKee the other 
 Witness thereto and Ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test 
 
 Know all men by 
 these presents that 
 I William Dunbar 
 of Manchac Settlement on the Mississippi for divers good 
 Causes and Considerations me hereunto moving have made 
 ordained Constituted and Appointed and by these Presents do 
 make ordain Constitute and Appoint Charles Simms of Pitts- 
 burg Attorney at Law my True and Lawfull Attorney for me 
 and in my name to sell transfer and Convey or otherwise dis- 
 pose of all my Right Title Estate and Interest of in and to a 
 Certain Tract or parcel of Land situate on the Waters of Rac- 
 coon Creek which Land I purchased from George Croghan 
 
Records of Deeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 323 
 
 Gent in what manner and to such person or persons as to him 
 (70) shall appear best and most conducive to my Interest and for 
 me and in my name to make and Execute such Deeds and 
 Conveyances as may be necessary for transferring and Convey- 
 ing my Right and Title to said Lands to any person or persons 
 that may become Purchasers thereof or any part thereof hereby 
 ratifying and Confirming whatever my said Attorney shall law- 
 fully and legally do relative thereto In Witness whereof Alex- 
 ander Ross Attorney for the said William Dunbar by Virtue of 
 a Power of Attorney bearing date the 28th day of February 
 1772 hath hereunto set the hand and Affixed the Seal of the 
 said William Dunbar 
 Signed Sealed & delivered Will Dunbar [L S] 
 
 in presence of 
 C Graydon 
 James McKee 
 Danl Brown 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burgh April 17 th 1776 
 
 This Power of Attorney from William Dunbar by his Attor- 
 ney Alexander Ross to Charles Simms was proved by the 
 Oaths of Caleb Graydon and Daniel Brown two of the Wit- 
 nesses thereto and Ordered to be Certified 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burgh April the 18th 1776 
 
 This Power of Attorney from William Dunbar by his-Attor- 
 ney Alexander Ross to Charles Simms being formerly proved 
 by the Oaths of Caleb Graydon and Daniel Brown two of the 
 Witnesses thereto was this day further proved by the Oath of 
 James McKee the other Witness thereto and Ordered to be 
 recorded 
 
 Test 
 
 Know all men by 
 these presents that 
 I Alexander Ross 
 for divers good Causes and Considerations me hereunto mov- 
 ing have made ordained Constituted and Appointed Charles 
 Simms of Pittsburg Attorney at Law, my true and Lawfull at- 
 
324 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 torney for me and in my name to sell transfer and Convey or 
 otherwise dispose of all my right Title and Interest of in and to 
 Two Tracts of Land the one situate on the Ohio River the 
 other on Raccoon Creek also one Lott or parcel of Land on 
 the banks of the Allgany River whereon the said Alexander 
 Ross formerly had a house in the Town of Pittsburg in what 
 manner and to such person or persons, as to him shall appear 
 best and most conducive to my Interest, and for me and in 
 my name to make and Execute such deeds and Conveyances as. 
 maybe necessary for transferring and Conveying my Right and 
 Title to said Lands to any person or persons that may become 
 purchasers thereof or any part thereof hereby ratifying and 
 Confirming whatever my said Attorney lawfully and legally 
 (71) shall do relative thereto In Witness whereof I have hereunto 
 set my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of August 1775 
 Signed Sealed and delivered Alexr Ross [L S] 
 
 In presence of 
 C Graydon 
 James McKee 
 Danl Brown 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burgh April the 17th 1776 
 
 This Power of Attorney from Alexander Ross to Charles 
 Simms was proved by the Oaths of Caleb Graydon and Daniel 
 Brown two of the Witnesses thereto and Ordered to be Certified 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 
 burgh April 18th 1776 
 
 This Power of Attorney from Alexander Ross to Charles 
 Simms being formerly proved by the Oaths of Caleb Graydon 
 and Daniel Brown two of the Witnesses thereto was this day 
 further proved by the Oath of James McKee the other Witness 
 thereto and Ordered to be recorded 
 
 Test 
 
 Conclusion. 
 The publication of the records of these old Virginia Courts, exer- 
 cising jurisdiction over the valleys of the Monongahela and Ohio 
 more than a century ago, has now been completed. Communications 
 
Abstracts of Old Virginia Wills. 325 
 
 received by the editor have disclosed that these records have excited 
 much interest both north and south of Mason and Dixon's Line. 
 Their existence seems to have hitherto been wholly unknown to many 
 of the historians of old Virginia. Our work, however, should be sup- 
 plemented by a small addition. 
 
 It is only of late that the full significance of a portion of the con- 
 tents of one of the deed books in the recorder's office for Washington 
 County, Pennsylvania, has been understood. It is apparent that when 
 Col. James Marshel, the first recorder of deeds for Washington County, 
 had filled his first volume, marked Deed Book A, vol. i, with deeds 
 acknowledged before Washington County officials and recorded from 
 January i, 1782, to November 20, 1784, utilized for his next volume 
 a book in which had been recorded a number of last wills that had 
 been admitted to probate before the County courts of the District of West 
 Augusta and Yohogania County, Virginia. These wills, with their 
 probate, were first recorded in a manuscript volume, and the balance 
 remaining blank was utilized by Colonel Marshel as his second volume, 
 marked Deed Book B, vol. 1, by simply beginning his Washington 
 County records with a deed recorded on November 20, 1784, and 
 proceeding 410 pages until his last deed was recorded on April 25, 
 1786, when he struck the wills which had been recorded by Dorsey 
 Pentecost, the Clerk of the old Virginia Courts, many years before. 
 
 It will be remembered that at the session of the County Court for 
 the District of West Augusta, held on September 18, 1776, at Augusta 
 Town (now Washington, Pa.), Dorsey Pentecost, who then lived on 
 the East Branch of Chartiers Creek, in what is now North Strabane 
 Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, was appointed Clerk 
 of Court in the stead of John Madison, and on December 23, 1776, 
 he was reappointed, and a demand was made by the Court upon John 
 Madison, Jr., Deputy of John Madison, to turn over to his successor 
 the records then in his possession, which demand was refused, and 
 process awarded to compel compliance : Vol. I of these Annals, pp. 
 567, 568; Vol. II, pp. 79, 81. On the organization of Washington 
 County, Pennsylvania, Dorsey Pentecost, theretofore an ardent Vir- 
 ginian, became an ardent Pennsylvanian and a prominent official of 
 that jurisdiction. 
 
 On account of the genealogical interest in the old wills referred 
 to, brief abstracts of them will now be presented as a final instalment 
 of these papers. 
 
326 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 
 
 Abstracts of Old Virginia Wills, 
 i. Ellis Ellis, of Redstone Settlement; dated July 13, 1776; at- 
 tested by Thomas Freeman, Thomas Prather and Leven Green ; proved 
 November 20, 1776, at a court for the District of West Augusta : Ben- 
 eficiaries, wife, Ann ; sons, Isaac, Thomas, Jonathan ; daughter, Ann. 
 
 2. Jacob Lamb, of Pigeon Creek in West Augusta County; dated 
 November 4, 1776 ; attested by John Crow, Andrew McClean, John 
 Wright, Abraham Westfall, Archevil White; proved 1 June 24, 1777 : 
 Beneficiaries, brothers Peter, John ; brother-in-law George Kintner ; 
 sisters Catharine, Susannah. 
 
 3. Job Robins ; dated August 10, 1777 ; attested by Joseph Brown, 
 Francis Sprouse ; proved on August 25, 1777: Beneficiaries, wife 
 Rebecca ; sons Amos, James, John ; daughter Anne. 
 
 4. Jonathan Reed, of West Augusta, Colony of Virginia ; dated 
 November 4, 1776; attested by Hugh McCreedy, Noah Fleaharty ; 
 appoints Edward Cook and Dorsey Pentecost and Joseph Beckett, 
 to settle and have adjusted all his late public accounts in regard to 
 his vitualing the Troops stationed on the Ohio ; proved September 23, 
 1777: Beneficiaries, wife Sarah; sons John, Jonathan; daughters 
 Mary, Sarah, Martha, Ruth ; executors Edward Cook, wife Sarah, and 
 Joseph Beckett. 
 
 5. Joseph Kirkwood, of Yohogania County, State of Virginia ; 
 dated April 24, 1777 ; attested by Nicholas Little, George Gal- 
 laspie, Robert Meek; proved October 29, 1777: Beneficiaries, wife 
 Margaret; son David ; unborn child, "the old woman," and Martha 
 and Mary. 
 
 6. James Pearce, Yohogania County, State of Virginia ; dated 
 February 15, 1778; attested by James Wall, Joseph Warne, Walter 
 Wall; proved March 24, 1778: Beneficiaries, wife Sarah; sons 
 Andrew, Lewis, James, Stephen, Jonathan. 
 
 7. William Chaplin, of West Augusta, Colony of Virginia ; attested 
 by Charles Bilderback, Elizabeth Swearingen, William Nation ; proved 
 on March 23, 1778 : Beneficiaries, Abraham Chaplin, Isaac Chaplin, 
 Elizabeth Swearingen, Mary Chaplin, William Chaplin, Vance Chaplin, 
 — devises "one place at Cain Tuck." 
 
 8. John Vance, of Yohogania County in Virginia ; dated Decem- 
 ber 10, 1777 ; attested by William Crawford, Benjamin Wells, Samuel 
 Hecks; proved March 23, 1778: Beneficiaries, wife Margaret, sons 
 
 1 This and the wills following were all proved before the Yohogania County Court. 
 
Abstracts of Old Virginia Wills. 327 
 
 David, William (land on waters of Raccoon Creek joining Crohan's 
 line), Moses ; daughters Elizabeth, Mary. 
 
 9. James Freeman, Schoolmaster, in the County of Yohogania ; 
 dated July 3, 1778 ; attested by John Thompson, Gilbert Cameron ; 
 proved August 26, 1778: Sole beneficiary John McDonald, of the 
 said county, farmer. 
 
 10. Abranam Vaughan, of Yohogania County, State of Virginia ; 
 dated September 8, 1778; attested by Edward Hatfield, Christopher 
 Brice, Thomas Gist; proved September — , 1778: Beneficiaries, son 
 Richard, daughters Isabel and Hannah Comly ; devises a tract on 
 " Harmon's Run, it being the place whereon I now reside." 
 
 11. Will of John Pearce, Senr., of Augusta County, Colony of 
 Virginia; dated March 19; 1776; attested by Dorsey Pentecost, 
 Moses Coe, John Peters ; proved September — , 1778 : Beneficiaries, 
 grandson Daniel, son of son Daniel ; sons Isaac, Elisha, Joseph, John, 
 Jonathan, Andrew ; daughters Mary Smith, Sarah Watkins. 
 
 12. Catharine Lamb, of Yohogania County; dated January 22, 
 1779; attested by Peter Swath, Henry Devore, Jeremia Washburn; 
 proved March — , 1779: Beneficiaries, Catharine Kintner, Susannah 
 Kintner ; executor, George Kintner, husband of daughter Susannah. 
 
 13. James Devoor, of Yohogania County, Virginia; dated Novem- 
 ber 14, 1778; attested by Nicholas Depue, Tobias Decker, Daniel 
 Depue, Jr.; proved March — , 1779 : Beneficiaries, children Jacob, 
 Andrew, Henry, John, Sarah Pearshal, Samuel ; children under age 
 David, Moses, Catharine, Francis, James ; all his real estate, except 
 the Ferry to sons David and Moses. 
 
 14. John Bleakly, of Frederick County, Virginia; dated November 
 20, 1779; attested by John Wright, Samuel Burns; proved March 
 — , 1779 : Beneficiaries, mother Margaret Megill, Henry Megill, each 
 ;£ioo if they come to America ; Robert Bleakly, William Alexander. 
 
 15. Stephen Richards, of Yohogania County, Virginia; dated 
 March 1, 1780 : Beneficiaries, wife Elizabeth ; sons Mordecai, Stephen, 
 Thomas. [Will not all copied, and no probate entered.] 
 
 16. James Ross, Gentleman, " of Racune Settlement in Yohogania 
 County, Virginia" ; dated January 6, 1781 ; attested by James Mc- 
 Clellan, James Ross; proved March — , 1781: Beneficiaries, wife 
 Mary ; sons James, Moses, Robert, Andrew, John ; daughters, 
 Hannah Andrews, Margaret Ross, Isabel Ross, Febee Ross. 
 
VI. THE TRILOBITES OF THE CHAZY LIMESTONE. 
 By Percy E. Raymond. 
 
 During the forty years which have elapsed since the distinguished 
 Canadian paleontologist, Elkanah Billings, published his descriptions 
 of Chazy fossils, almost nothing has been added to our knowledge 
 of the fauna of the series of limestones which, in the Champlain region, 
 immediately underlie the Lowville member of the Trenton Lime- 
 stone. Billings, in the Canadian Naturalist and Geologist (1859), 
 Decade Four of the Canadian Geological Survey (1859), and the First 
 Volume of the Paleozoic Fossils of Canada (1865), added considera- 
 bly to the very meager list of forms which Professor James Hall had 
 described from the Chazy in the First Volume of the New York State 
 Paleontology. Hall recognized seven species of trilobites, Illcenus 
 arctun/s Hall, Illmnus crassicauda ? Wahlenberg. Asaphus obtusus 
 Hall, Asaphus marginalis Hall, Isotelus canalis Conrad, Isotelus gigas ? 
 DeKay, and Ceraurus sp. undet. Of these, Illcenus crassicauda ? Iso- 
 telus canalis, Isotelus gigas ? and Ceraurus sp. are so fragmentary as 
 to be unrecognizable, and Illoznus arcturus is a synonym for Thaleops 
 ovata Conrad. The Calymene multicosta ? which Hall described in 
 the same volume from the " Birdseye " of the Isle La Motte is prob- 
 ably the same species that was later described by Billings as Amphion 
 canadensis . 
 
 Billings, in 1865, recognized eighteen species of trilobites in the 
 Chazy fauna, distributed as follows : Asaphus, 2 ; Amphion, 1 ; Am- 
 pyx, 1 ; Bathyurus, 1 ; Cheirurus, 3 ; Hatpes, 1 ; Illcenus, 6 ; Lichas, 
 1 ; Remipleurides, 1 ; Spharexochus, 1 ; total 18. 
 
 The species are : 
 
 Asaphus canalis Conrad, Illcenus vindex Billings, 
 
 Asaphus platycephalus Stokes, Illoznus clavifrons Billings, 
 
 Amphion canadensis Billings, Illoznus bayfieldi Billings, 
 
 Ampyx halli Billings, Illoznus globosus Billings, 
 
 Cheirurus satyrus Billings, Illcenus crassicauda? Hall, 
 
 Cheirurus pompilius Billings, Lichas minganensis Billings, 
 
 Cheirurus prolificus Billings, Bathyurus angelini Billings, 
 
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