Records of Dkeds for West Augusta, Virginia. 245 



Frf. Smyth, 



CJiief Justice of Netv Jersey. 

 Thomas Walker, 



Commissioner for Viri::;iiiia. 

 Richard Peters and James Tiiohmax, 



Of the Coiiiici/ of Pennsylvania. 

 John Skinner, 



Captain of tJie yotJi Regt. 

 Joseph Chew, 



of Connecticut. 

 John Witherhead, 



of New York. 

 John Walker, 



of Virginia. 

 E. FncH, 



of Connecticut. 

 Thomas Walker, Jan., 



of Virginia. 

 John Butler, 



Interpreter for tiie Crozvn. 

 Recorded in the office for recording of Deeds for the City and 

 County of Philadelphia, in Book J., vol. 5, page 243, etc. 



Certified under my Hand iS: Seal of my Office aforesaid. This 

 12th day of January, 1769. 



[Seal] Will Parr, Reed. 



[Ox Margin.] 

 This is the Copy of the Grant mentioned in The annexed Affidavit 

 of John Skinner, Es(piire, SWORN before me this Day. 



Dated the Third Day of February, One Thousand Seven Hundred 

 and Seventy Six. 



WILLIAM ATKINSON, 



MAYOR, 

 of New Castle upon 

 Tyne in the Kingdom 

 of Great Britain. 



William Trent, the grantee of the foregoing deed, was the Captain 

 Wm. Trent, under whom Ensign Edward Ward, with his small force 

 of men, was constructing the fort at the Forks of the Ohio, when, on 

 April 17, 1754, he surrendered to the P^rench and Indians, who com- 



