oOO Annals of jhf: Caknkgie Museum. 



1 do hereby Assign all my Right and 'I'itle of the within 



(48) ^ValTant of fifty Acres of Land to which I am intituled as a 

 disbanded Soldier of the forty Second Regiment residing in 

 America under his Majestys Proclamation of 1763 unto John 

 Campbell Esc} of Pittsburg he having paid me a valuable Con- 

 sideration for the same therefore desire the same may be sur- 

 veyed for him & a Patent issued out in his Name 



Given under my hand this 17th May 1775 



his 



Witness Peter P M McCachney 



mark 



John Gibson 

 Andrew Robertson 

 Thomas Russell 



At a Court continued and held for Augusta County at Fort 

 Dunmore May the 17th 1775. 



Peter McCachney acknowledged this Claim of Land to John 

 Campbell Gent which is ordered to be recorded 



Test John Madison 



Know all Men 

 by these presents 

 That I John 

 Ormsby of the Town of Pittsburgh Gentleman for and in Con- 

 sideration of the sum of twenty four pounds lawful money of 

 the Colony of Virginia to me in hand paid by Benjamin 

 Johnston of Fredericksburgh in the said Colony the receipt 

 whereof I do hereby acknowledge have granted bargained and 

 sold and by these presents do grant bargain and sell unto the 

 said Benjamin Johnston his heirs and Assigns Two certain 

 Lotts in the said town of Pittsburgh situate within a Square of 

 Ground in the Occupation of and being the property of the 

 said John Ormsby viz the first to contain Sixty feet fronting 

 the River Monongahela to begin at the Eastermost or South 

 Eastermost Corner of the said Square and to extend back as 

 far as the West side of the Second Street of the said Town, the 

 other Lott containing Sixty feet front on said Second Street 

 and opposite to the Lott now in- the Occupation of Samuel 



(49) Evalt it being the Corner Lott and to extend back as far as the 

 Eastermost side of Third Street together with the appurtenances 



