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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, 1777, UNTIL SEPTEMBER 4, 1780, WHEN ITS
JURISDICTION OVER ANY PART OF PENNSYLVANIA
HAD CEASED.
EDITED BY BOYD CRUMRINE, OF 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 1796. 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. But, fortunately,
when the Court for Ohio county, Virginia, was removed from Black's
Cabin, on Short Creek, to Wheeling, in 1797, its records also were
removed and are still to be found in the office of the Clerk of the
County Court, in the Court House for Ohio County in that city.
These records of Ohio County, much used for over one hundred
and twenty-five years, are in many places almost illegible, notwith-
standing the great care that has been taken to preserve them; yet,
because of the fact that, until the Virginia jurisdiction was entirely
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