318 Annai.s of ihk Carnegie Miskim. 



Attorney Ross to Charles Sims was proved by the Oaths of 

 Caleb (iraydon and Daniel Brown two of the \\'itnesses thereto 

 and Ordered to be Certified 



At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts- 

 burgh April the i8th 1776 



I'his deed of Bargain and Sale from William Dunbar by his 

 Attorney Alexander Ross to Charles Simms being formerly 

 proved by the Oaths of Caleb Graydon and Daniel Brown two 

 of the Witnesses thereto was this day further proved by the 

 Oath of James McKee the other Witness thereto and Ordered 

 to be recorded 



Test 



This Indenture 

 made this twenty 

 sixth day of Au- 

 gust in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 

 Seventy five Between Alexander Ross Esq of Pittsburgh in the 

 County of Augusta and Colony of Virginia of the one part and 

 Charles Simms Esq Attorney at Law of the same place of the 

 other part Witnesseth that the said Alexander Ross for and in 

 Consideration of the Sum of two hundred and two Pounds 

 Sterling Money of Great Britain to him in hand paid by the 

 said Charles Sims the receipt whereof he doth hereby Acknowl- 

 edge Hath Granted bargained and sold aliened and Confirmed 

 and by these presents Doth Grant Bargain and sell alien and 

 Confirm unto the said Charles Simms his heirs and Assigns the 

 following Lands that is to say, one half or equal Moiety of a 

 Tract of Land situate on the Southwest side of the River Ohio 

 above the Mouth of Raccoon Creek being part of the Bottom 

 commonly called the long Bottom, beginning at a Swamp 

 Maple Tree standing on the lower Bank of a Small run 

 where it emptys into the River Ohio being the first run below 

 Ryleys run which Run emptys itself into the river at the head 

 the aforesaid long Bottom, then from the said Swamp Maple 

 tree up the several Courses of the river Ohio to a Swamp'd 

 Maple tree Marked on two sides With three notches on each 

 side and a blaze above them for a Corner thence South forty five 

 degrees West One hundred and forty three chains to a stone, 



