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Minute Book of the Virginia Court Held at Fort Dunmore (Pittsburgh) for the District of West Augusta 1775-1776.
Note: in copying these minutes no portions will be omitted, save certain lists, here and there, containing the names of cases called and unintelligible memoranda concerning them, with nothing identifying the parties, the causes of action, or the localities whence they came.
The formal organization of the court - His Majesties Writ for adjorning the County Court of Augusta from the Town of Staunton to Fort Dunmore, and with a new Commission of the Peace and Dedimus and a Commission of Oyer & Terminer and Dedimus from under the hand of John, Earl of Dunmore, his Majesties Lieutenant & Governor in chief, bearing date the Sixth day of December One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy four, directed to . . . Samuel McDowell, George Moffett . . . Alexander Robertson . . . David Shepherd . . . Gentlemen, being read, & thereupon, pursuant to the said Dedimus, the said George Croghan, John Campbell, John Connolly, John
