I. MINUTE (OR ORDER) BOOK OF THE VIRCHNIA COURT 

 HELD FOR OHIO COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AT BLACK'S 

 CABIN (NOW WEST LIBERTY, W. VA.), FROM JANU- 

 ARY 6, 1777, UNTIL SEPTEMBER 4, 1780, WHEN ITS 

 JURISDICTION OVER ANY PART OF PENNSYLVANIA 

 HAD CEASED. 



Edited hv Bovd Crumrixe, of Washington, Pa. 



Introduction. 



There have now been pubh'shed the Minutes of the Virginia Court 

 held for the District of West Augusta, first at old Fort Dunmore, now 

 Pittsburgh, Pa,, and for a while at Augusta Town, now Washington, 

 Pa., 1 775-1 776 (Ann. Car. Mus., Vol. I, pp. 525-568) and also the 

 Minutes of the Virginia Court held for Yohogania County, first at 

 Augusta Town, and afterwards on the Andrew Heath farm, near West 

 Elizabeth, i 778-1780 (/. c, Vol. II, pp. 71-140, and pp. 205-429), 



As stated in Vol. I, on p. 524, the Minute- or Order-books of 

 the Court held for Monongalia County, at the house of Theophilus 

 Phillips, on George's Creek, in the southern part of what is now 

 Fayette County, Pennsylvania, were destroyed on the burning of the 

 Court House at Morgantown in 1796. Therefore, the records of 

 that Court, having jurisdiction over the southern part of what is now 

 Fayette County, the southeastern part of the present Washington 

 County, and more than half of the eastern part of the present Greene 

 County, Pennsylvania, cannot now be reproduced. But, fortunately, 

 when the Court for Ohio county, Virginia, was removed from Black's 

 Cabin, on Short Creek, to Wheeling, in 1797, its records also were 

 removed and are still to be found in the office of the Clerk of the 

 County Court, in the Court House for Ohio County in that city. 



These records of Ohio County, much used for over one hundred 

 and twenty-five years, are in many places almost illegible, notwith- 

 standing the great care that has been taken to preserve them ; yet, 

 because of the fact that, until the Virginia jurisdiction was entirely 



