Book of the Virginia Court Held for Ohio County, Virginia, at Black’S Cabin (Now West Liberty, W
PUBLICATIONS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM SERIAL No. 29 ANNALS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM VOL. III. No. I. W. J. HOLLAND, Ea’z'tor PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE BOARD or TRUSTEES 01'-‘THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OCTOBER, I904 I. MINUTE (OR ORDER) BOOK OF THE VIRGINIA COURT HELD FOR OHIO COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AT BLACK’S CABIN (NOW WEST LIBERTY, W. VA.), FROM JANU ARY 6, I777, UNTIL SEPTEMBER 4, 1780, WHEN ITS JURISDICTION OVER ANY PART OF PENNSYLVANIA HAD CEASED. EDITED uv BOYD CRUMRINE, or WASHINGTON, PA. INTRODUCTION. There have now been published 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., 1775-1776 (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, 1778-1780 (I. 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 I796. 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.
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