8 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



records of deeds, etc., proved before the court for the district of West 

 Augusta, 1 7 75-1 7 76, and ordered to be recorded. The records 

 referred to embrace conveyances made by many of the early settlers, 

 and include permits by the commandant at Fort Pitt, for the occu- 

 pancy and cultivation of })ortions of the "King's Orchards," etc., 

 and will be very interesting to the student of the early history of 

 Pittsburgh and its vicinity. 



Order-Book No. i. 



Black's Cabin, Ohio County, Jan. 6'!', 1777. 

 (i) In pursuance of an order of the General assembly of this 



Commonwealth for the division of the district of West Augusta 

 into three distinct Counties, whereof the County of Ohio is 

 one distinct &: separate County, Agreeable to its Circumscribing 

 Boundaries ; 



In Complyance with which & Certain other Instructions 

 directed to John M'Colloch, Esq., directing him, the s'! M"- 

 Colloch, to summon the several landholders within s'' County 

 to meet at the house of Ezekiel Dewits on Buffalo Creek, on 

 the 27 '.' of Decemb' last, as well for the purpose of Electing 

 &: Constituting a Committe in & for the s County, as for the 

 making Choice of the seat for County Coart to be held at in 

 future, within s! County, which was done accordingly ; iS: a 

 Majority determin'd in favour of a place known by the name 

 of Black's Cabbin, on the waters of Short Creek, to be the place 

 of holding Coarts in future. 



Accordingly & in Complyance with a Certain writ of dedi- 

 mus potestatom, directed to Will'" Scott, James M'Mechen, i^c 

 David Rodgers, Impowering eighther of them to administer 

 unto Mesrs. David Sheepherd, Silus Hedges will*" Scott & 

 James Caldwell, theoath of Justice of the peace within s!' County; 

 therefore the Commission being red at Blacks Cabbin afores'' 

 James M^Mechan there did on Monday the sixth of this Instant, 

 did administer unto s.! David Sheepherd, Silus Hedges, W'" 

 Scott & James Caldwell the oaths of Justice of the peace, who 

 being duly qualified the aforesaid Sheepherd did administer 

 unto Messrs. Zachariah Sprigg, Thomas Waller & Dan' M'Clain 



