VIRGINIA COURT RECORDS IN SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. RECORDS OF THE DISTRICT OF WEST AUGUSTA AND OHIO AND YOHOGANIA COUNTIES, VIRGINIA 1775 - 1780.

Baltimore: Clearfield Company, Inc. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. (2001), 542pp, index. Wrps. VG+. From the foreword: "By an Act of 1776 the District of West Augusta, Virginia was divided into the counties of Ohio, Yohogania, and Monongalia - now constituting territory in both southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia - in consequence whereof many Virginia court records of great rarity and importance are today found in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, including a very large proportion of early land titles. Much of the area disputed between Virginia and Pennsylvania was ultimately placed in the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, the rest stayed with Virginia until it was forged into part of the new state of West Virginia. When the border controversy was at length settled an Act was passed authorizing the clerk of Washington County, Pennsylvania to collect the probate registers, records of deeds, and records of court administrations from the clerks of the counties of Yohogania, Monongalia, and Ohio insofar as they related to the Pennsylvania territory then embraced by Westmoreland and Washington counties. Those parts of Monongalia and Ohio Counties pushed out of Pennsylvania by the running of the new boundary lines were, of course, responsible for the custody of their own records. Everything else, though, including the records of the court held at Fort Dunmore in the District of West Augusta, became the official records of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and they are herein transcribed for the period 1775 - 1780 - the period most likely to cause consternation to the genealogical researcher because of the legal chaos coincident to the border controversy.".