524 Annals ov the Carnegie Museum. 



ing report of the running of Mason and Dixon's line to the western 

 extremity thereof, dated December 23, 1784, will be fomid 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." 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. 



