566 Annals of the Carnrcie Museum. 



Donald, Oliver Miller, Zachariah Spriggs, And'w Swearengen, 

 Benja Fry, Jonathan Coburn, John Hamilton, and Jonas Freind, 

 are recommended as proper persons to be added to the Com- 

 mission of the Peace. 



Moses ^^'illiamson, 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 '** 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 i8th, 1776 : 



Present, Edward AVard, 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, ^\'m 

 Lowther, John Evans, David Scott, John Harden, Senr., John 

 Swearengen, Thos. Gaddis, \\'m. Harrison, Sam'l Newell, Thos 

 Brown, 'Jlios Freeman, Joshua Wright, Erasmias Bochias, 



'^These words, "Catfish Camp," are erased in the original minutes, and Augusta 

 Town substituted. 



