ANNALS 



• OF THE 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



VOLUME IL NO. 3. 



Editorial. 



Tin: present portion of the second volume of the Annals goes to 

 press in December, owing to unavoidable delays in getting out the 

 preceding part of the Annals. The publication of the Records of the 

 Old Virginia Courts which claimed jurisdiction in western Pennsyl- 

 vania has excited a great deal of interest in many portions of the 

 United States, and the editor feels that a genuine service has been 

 rendered to the cause of historical and genealogical research by com- 

 mitting to the printed page these old documents which throw a great 

 deal of light upon the early history of the settlement of the region of 

 which Pittsburgh is the metro-polis. While the publication of the 

 long lists of names of those who were concerned in law suits may to 

 the casual reader appear to have been scarcely necessary, nevertheless 

 these apparently dry and barren records furnish in many cases posi- 

 tive information as to the presence in the region of persons from 

 whom are descended many of the inhabitants of the Ohio Valley. 

 The editor is in receipt of letters from various persons high in station 

 throughout the land expressing their gratitude and reporting that they 

 have been able to settle definitely to their own satisfaction a number 

 of questions of a genealogical character which have puzzled them 

 heretofore. It is the intention of the Museum in the future from 

 time to time to jniblish other historical documents which will serve to 

 illustrate the story of the past. 



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