XXI. MINUTH BOOK OF THK VIRGINIA COURT HELD 

 AT FORT DUNIVIORE (PITTSBURGH) FOR THE DIS- 

 TRICT OF WEST AUGUSTA, 17 75-1 776. 



EnrrFP i;v I'cnD Crumrine, of Washingiox, 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.] 



[The formal organization of the court.] 



(1)'° His Majesties Writ for adjorning 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, E^arl 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 Moffett, 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 (libson, 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 Camjibell, John Connolly, John 

 Gibson, George Vallandegham, William Goe, Gentlemen, took 



•"The figures to left of pages in brackets refer to the pages of the original MS. 

 Editor Annals Carnegie Museum. 



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