78 Annals of the Carnecur Museum. 



Organization ; First Day's Business. 

 (i)' Yohogania County, Dec. 23, 1776. 



In consequence of an Act of the General Asseml)ly of \iv- 

 ginia ])Utting off all that part of the District of AN'est x'\ugusta 

 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 Oibson, William 

 Crawford, John Stephenson, John Cannon, (reorge 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 (ieorge 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, x^ndrew Swearingen and John Cannon, as Justices 

 of the Peace. 



' The marginal figures in ( ) represent the original paging of these records. 



