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son, Jun', William Biggs, Andrew Fouts, Isaac Tayler, Hinry 

 Taylor, John Hanley, David English & Isaac Phillips be like- 

 wise recommended as Ensigns. 



& Foreasmuch as the tract of land agreed upon for holding 

 Coarts at in future doth of right appertain unto Abraham Van- 

 metre of Opechan Creek in the County of Hartley, Order'.', 

 therefore, that Zachariah Sprigg, Silas Hedges, Esq', be ap- 

 pointed to Contract & Covenant with s! Vanmetre for not less 

 than Two acres of s'! Tract Including the Cabbin &: spring, 

 In behalf of this County, for the purpose of erecting & 

 Building thereon a Coart house, Prison and other necessary 

 publick Buildings, for any sum not exceeding Twenty pounds, 

 &: Report make of their proceedings therein as soon as may be 

 to this Coart. 



& Whereas it may be expedient that Constables should be 

 [appointed] within this County, Ordered therefore that John 

 (3) Caldwell, Stephen Parr, Tho.! Williamson, Eliazer Williamson, 

 John Bodkin, Tho'^ Clark, Danl Morgan be summoned to attend 

 our next County Coart, then and there to be sworn in as Con- 

 stables ; But if any of the above Recited persons shall think it 

 expedient to Qualify in as Constables before the next Justice of 

 the peace, there attendance at Coart is hereby Remitted Re- 

 spectively. 



Ordered that Cap't" Sam' Mason, Lieu*. Ebenezar Zane, 

 James M''Connel, & Conrad Wheat, being first sworn, do 

 view the best & most direct way for the laying out a Road 

 from Fort Henery to the first fork of Wheeling, & thereupon 

 due return make to our next County Court. 



Ordered that this Coart be adjourned until Coart in Coarse. 



David Sheepherd 



At a Court held in and for the County of Ohio on the third 

 day of March 1777, present David Sheepherd, Silas Hedges, 

 Zachariah Sprigg, William Scott, James Caldwell, Gentlemen. 



David Rodgers took the oath of Justice of peace & took his 

 seat on the Bentch According. 



Mess" Ebenezar Zane, Conrad Wheat & Sam.'. Mason, agree- 

 able to a former order of this Coart for the purpose of laying 



