86 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



May the 27th 1777, Court met according to adjournment. 



Present : Isaac Cox, William Crawford, Oliver Miller, John 

 McDaniel, Benjamin Kirkindall and Benjaman Frye, Gentle- 

 men Justices. 



Upon the Petition of Benjaman Jones exhibited against a 

 certain John Bennitt for unlawfully detaining his son Enoch 

 Jones, an Infant. 



Ordered that the Said John Bennitt deliver the said Boy 

 Enoch Jones unto the said Benjaman Jones, with Such House- 

 hold hrniture as he may have, the property of the said Boy 

 Enoch Jones, and the said Benjaman Jones pay the said John 

 Bennitt the Sum of Six pounds on the delivery of the said Boy 

 Enoch Jones, and that the said John Bennitt deliver unto the 

 said Infant, Enoch Jones, when he arrives at the age of Twenty 

 one years, one good Cow and Calf. 



Michael Thorn and Joshua Meeks both come into Court and 

 Took the oath of Captains of the Melitia. 



Ordered — That Zacheriah Connell Gentleman, Take in the 

 List of Tithables in the following Bounds, Viz : — Beginning 

 at the head of Maryland and Extending along Bradock's Road 

 To Thomas Crist, Thence with Froman's Road to Byer's Run, 

 (10) thence down the said Run to Yough River, Thence down the 

 said River to the mouth of Swedley Creek, Thence with said 

 Creek and the Northern bounds of the County to the Begin- 

 ning.' 



Ordered — That Edward Ward, Gentleman be appointed to 

 Take in the List of Tithables within that part of the County 

 Lying West of Swedley Creek East of the Alleghany River & 

 North of the Monaungahela River. 



Ordered — That William Goe Gentleman be appointed to 

 take in the List of Tithables within the following Bounds, 

 (Vizt) Beginning at William Castleman's on the head of Little 

 Redstone Creek, Thence on a Strait line to the mouth of 

 Worshington's Mill Run,^ Thence down Yough River To its 

 Junction with Monaungahela River, thence up the said River 



1 At this time there were no townships, in Vohogania County at least, created by 

 statutory authority, as in Pennsylvania. 



2 Doubtless Washington's Mill Run. 



