6 AxxAi.s ov iHF, Carnegie Museum. 



withdrawn from Pennsylvania, a large part of the territory in what is 

 now Washington and Greene Counties, Pennsylvania, was within the 

 jurisdiction of the Ohio County Court, of Virginia, it is proper that 

 so much of these records as were made prior to August 28, 1780, 

 when the last term of Court was held for Yohogania County, should 

 also be published. 



'J'he Act of the Virginia Assembly of October, 1776, which divided 

 the District of West Augusta into the three new counties, Ohio, 

 Yohogania, and Monongalia, also established the boundary line be- 

 tween the County of Augusta and the District of West Augusta, which 

 line had before that time been undefined. It was then defined as 

 follows : 



" Beginning on the Allegheny mountains between the heads of the 

 Potowmack, Cheat, and Green Briar Rivers ; thence along the ridge of 

 mountains which divides the waters of Cheat river from those of Green 

 Briar, and that branch of the Monongahela called Tygers Valley 

 river, to the Monongahela river; thence up the said river and the 

 west fork thereof to Bingeman's creek, on the northwest side of the 

 said west fork ; thence up the said creek to the head thereof; thence 

 in a direct course to the head of the Middle Island creek, a branch of 

 the Ohio, and thence to the Ohio, including all the waters of the said 

 creek in the aforesaid District of West Augusta ; all that territory 

 lying to the northward of the aforesaid boundary, and to the west- 

 ward of the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland, shajl be deemed 

 and is hereby declared to be within the District of West Augusta." 



Then follow the provisions establishing out of the District of West 

 Augusta the new counties of Ohio, Yohogania, and Monongalia, and 

 the division lines between them, as quoted in Vol. II, p. 74 of these 

 Annai.s.' 



By reference to our map of the District of West Augusta, fac- 

 ing p. 518, Vol. I, of these Annals, studied in connection with the 

 division lines of the three new counties made from said District, 

 as shown in Vol. II, p. 74, it will be seen that the northern end of 

 the present ** Panhandle" of West Virginia, was put into Yohogania 

 County. But on the settlement of the boundary controversy by the 



1 For the entire act .ind t)ther interesting matters relating to tlie subject, see Crum- 

 rine's History of \Vashington County (1882), p. 1S5 and notes. 



