Minutes or Court kor Ohio County. 13 



Jn" Mitchel for & during the Term of Eighteen months from 

 the Twenty fifth diy of may Insuing ; therefore order' d that 

 the s'd Winey Price be indulged that Liberty for cV- in Con- 

 sideration of all her past offences & Misdemanours. 



The Court taking unto their Consideration the Expediency 

 of having a Courthouse P>ected, ordered that a house for that 

 l)urpose be erected of the following Dimentions & Con- 

 veniences, viz : 



a Dimond Cornerd house of Dimentions Twenty Two by 

 eighteen feet in the Clear ; one Story <.\: one half high ; a 

 floor above iS: below of hewd or sawn plank ; Ten Joice in 

 the upper floor, nine or ten feet high ; in the Lower Story a 

 Coart's Bentch cS: Clark's Table : Two windows of eight lights 

 each eight by ten Inches; a pair of stairs & Cabbin Roof; a 

 plain Door & hinges of Iron ; likewise plain window Shutters, 

 w'!' Iron hinges. 

 (6) A Jail Twenty by sixteen feet on the outside, the Loggs of 



the walls to be round & Close laid the loft ; floors & partitions 

 to be of loggs squarid to eight inches thick ; Two Rounds of 

 Loggs above the Loft; Cabbin Roof'd; Doors &: windows 

 agreeable ; A Stone Chimney with Iron Grates, the doors done 

 with nails ; Lock Sufficient ; the Loft & floor to have each a 

 Large Summur Supporting them in the middle. 



(Sc for the purpose of having the aforementioned Buildings 

 Completed as soon as possible agreeable to the aforesaid Dimen- 

 tions, ordered that Jn" M*^Colloch, high sheriff, be ordered to 

 put the same up at publick auction to the lowest undertaker. 



Ordered that This Coart be adjourned untill Coart in Coarse 



Silas Hedges. 



The Court met according to adjournment on Monday the 

 second day of June, 1777. Present David Sheepherd, Silas 

 Hedges, Zacharia Sprigg, Daniel M'Clain, James Caldwell, 

 William Scott, Gentlemen. 



The last will & Testament of Tho' Newbury was proven in 

 open Court. George M'CoUoch made oath well and truly to 

 Execute the last will & Testament of Thomas Newbury, De- 

 ceas!*; therefore order'.' that Edward Robinson, Andrew 



