Records of Dkf.ds for Wks'i- Augusia, Virginia. 251 



Sealed and delivered in the presence of us : The word " Croghan " 

 being first written on Rasures eleven times, and the words "and, or 

 down tract," being first interlined. Sealed and delivered in presence 

 of us all, the foregoing interlineations, Rasures and writings on Rasures 

 l^eing first made. 



W'.M. Franklin, Governor of New Jersey. 



Fre. Smyth, Chief Justice of New Jersey. 



Thomas Walker, Commissioner for Virginia. 



Richard Peters, 1 , , ,^ ■, r t. 



of the Council of Pennsylvania. 



JaMFS 1 ILGHMAN, ) 



John Skinner, Capt. in the 70th Regiment. 



Joseph Chew, of Connecticut. 



J»iHN Wf A 1 hfkhead, of N. V. 



John Walker, of Virginia. 



E. Fitch, of Connecticut. 



Thomas ^\'ALKER, Junior, Virginia. 



John Butler, Interpretor for the Crown. 



The foregoing deed to George Croghan is copied here from Pey- 

 ton's History of Augusta County, page 74. It was recorded in the 

 Recorder's office at Philadelphia, and on September 23, 1775, it was 

 offered for proof and record before the Court for the District of West 

 Augusta held at Fort Dunmore on that date, but objection being 

 made it was ordered to lie over for further proof. (See Vol. I ot 

 these Annals, page 554.) 



It will be remembered that in 1768, the year of the treaty at Fort 

 Stanwix when all these Indian grants were made, the boundary con- 

 troversy between Pennsylvania and Virginia was not yet ended, and 

 it was still unknown how far the province of Pennsylvania extended 

 to the westward. Mason and Dixon, when extending the southern 

 boundary line in 1767, had been stopped by the Indian chiefs com- 

 posing their watchful escort, at the second crossing of Dunkard Creek, 

 in the southern part of (ireene County, at a point thirty six miles 

 short of Pennsylvania's five degrees of longitude from the Delaware ; 

 " it was the will of the Six Nations that the survey should be stayed :" 

 l.atrobe's Address. But, when it was settled by the Baltimore Con- 

 ference of 1779 that the southern boundary of Pennsylvania should be 

 extended to its full length, and that from the southwest corner thus 

 reached the western boundary should be a line drawn due north from 



