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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 oi)pose 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 Peunsylvania 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 19, 20, 1776. The new division then 

 took effect. All three of the new counties came together at Catfish 



