The official documents giving an account of the
homesteads in Monongalia county are among the most
important of all the early papers relating to the
region, because they are the most complete regarding
the dates or the settlements and of the people who
founded early homes. They have the authority
of court accounts and were designed to make and keep
records of establishment of homes on the numerous
watercourses all over the old limits of Monongalia.
In these documents we have the highest extant
authority of times, persons, and of localities,
relating to the first homes founded in the region.
The year, and in some cases the month and day, of
some of the important founding of homes are given,
and we are justified in giving full credence to the
information contained in the papers, for the
commissioners who sat to adjust and determine the
matters had before them the best witnesses to be
secured, touching the dates and places where the
homes were founded. Men who had personal
knowledge of the affairs were the witnesses who gave
testimony of the things under consideration, and
when they spoke in presence of other men who knew
about the transactions, we may be sure that the
facts were arrived at as nearly as it was possible.
Usually the men who founded the settlements, and
their neighbors also, were the witnesses examined by
the commissioners in preparing the records; and the
short and concise statements concerning the
establishing of homes on a certain creek or in some
other locality, nearly always defined the places in
relation to some natural feature of the land.
This makes the record of the greatest worth as
evidence of what was done and when. The
spelling of the old records is often bad and the
grammar is faulty, but the facts are there, and they
may be relied upon as worthy of belief, as coming
form witnesses who had personal and definite
knowledge of what took place.
This chapter on the homesteads of Monongalia county may
be accepted as the highest authority on that
interesting subject that is now in our reach.
It should be given preference over nearly all
traditions and over recollections of old people,
many of whom, no doubt, told the best they could
remember of hte matters under investigation, but it
is a recognized fact that the memories of most old
persons is unsafe, for old people as well as persons
who are younger, are apt to forget in course of
time. But a document, written at the time, is
much more reliable. Forgetfulness has much
less opportunity to effect a written paper than to
impair the memory of a person, especially when years
have passed away since the occurrence of the things
spoken of. Writing remains as it is written,
but the memory changes or is impaired.
The superiority of documents over memories is shown in
this record of homesteads by alluding to the first
settlement of the site of Morgantown. The old
histories were wrong several years. They
depended upon tradition for their date of the
settlement on the place where the town was
afterwards built. Consultation of the
homestead record reveals the somewhat important fact
that the old histories were wrong eight years.
They had the settlement that much too early. A
historian of another state years ago argued from
other well known facts that the settlement of
Deckers' creek at Morgantown could not have been as
early as some of the old historians had placed it,
and it is seen by consulting the homestead records
that the date was eight years off.
The record of the homesteads in Monongalia county has
not been made much use of in correcting dates or in
ascertaining who the homesteaders were. When
Samuel T. Wiley wrote his history of
Monongalia in the year 1885, he evidently had the
record in his hands, for he made a few brief
quotations from its pages, but he missed his
opportunity when he failed to comprehend the
importance of the old document and laid it aside
with less than half a page of quotations from its
pages. Thus he missed the opportunity to make
use of hte highest and most complete authority to be
had of the times of the numerous settlements
in the county, and of the men who made them.
The records for Monongalia county, from 1766 to 1782,
both inclusive, show that 1117 homesteads were
issued to settlers in that time. The
issuing of homesteads ceased about 1782 with the
achieving of the independence of the United States.
The homesteads were issued by the state of Virginia
and not by the United States as in later times.
The land in Monongalia county, subject to
homesteading belonged to the state of Virginia and
not to the United States, as do the wild lands in
the west now, adn thereforethe title had to come
from the state, and provision was made by which
title could be secured. It was usually secured
by making a settlement, which was about the same
thing then as now, except that the time required for
the settler to live on the land, to perfect his
title, was indefinite. If he cold prove that
he had raised a crop of corn on the land in a
certain year it was considered that he had lived
there then and it established his claim that he had
resided on the land the requisite time to give him
the right to the title. That was the usual
proof offered by the claimant and it was generally
sufficient. It was sometimes called a "cornright"
and old settlers frequently spoke of it as such and
it was well understood by all persons familiar with
the customs of the country. It was not
specified in the proceedings of the land court what
the size of the cornfield had to be, in order to
make good the applicant's claim to the land.
So far as the records in hundreds of cases showed,
the lot of a quarter of an acre was as good in law
as the field of ten acres. A few hills,
planted and grown, was called a crop, as well as the
more pretentious field, and if questions were asked
as to the extent of the corn crop, the record book
that kept account of hte transcaction made no record
of it, and the reader is justified in concluding
that no such quetions were customarily asked of or
concerning the applicant for the tract of forest
land. The sentiment of the western country was
that the settler was wanted in the country, and,
since there was plenty of land, no unnecessary
obstacles were placed in his way in obtaining the
farmhe was applying for.
Raising a crop of corn was not the only way of
perfecting title to a piece ofl land in the process
of proving out on a homestead. It could be
done by making an "improvement." That was an
indefinite term and capable of several different
interpretations. Sometimes it was called
simply a "tomahawk right." The hunter nearly
always carried a very small ax in in his belt, and
it was a small matter to use the tomahawk in hacking
notches in three and bushes, if he wanted to do so
as evidence that he had stopped there and laid claim
to some part of the land. He generally cut his
name on some of the trees, but that was not deemed
necessary and it might or might not be done in
leaving a perfectly good record that he had been
there and had in mind that he wished to return and
claim the land on which hte marked trees grew.
Some of the homesteaders in the old days of
Monongalia county left their records in chippings of
hte tomahawk instead of the cornright, and it doers
not appear that one method was given any preference
over the other in establishing rights to the land.
Each was good in itself, and it seemed to be
allowable to use both together. It was a loose
way of making records, but under the conditions
obtaining on the frontiers of that time it was
probably as good a way as could have been used in
the woods and in the out of the way places, and the
purposes were served well. A large number of
the most valuable farms of the country have their
titles founded in such crude beginnings as the corn
right or tomahawk right.
Inasmuch as the homestead was not the most common means
of securing title to land in the east, it is proper
to inquire why it was done in this part of West
Virginia, which was then Virginia, and was not done
generally elsewhere with state lands which were
apportioned to settlers in filling up the country.
The homestead law as applied in what is now West
Virginia was different in some respects from the
land laws of most other parts of the United States.
It grew out of careful respect for the rights of the
Indians to that part of the land in Virginia west of
the Alleghany mountains and between those mountains
and the Ohio river. After the close of
Pontiac's war in 1763 the Indians set up claim to
that part of West Virginia, basing the claim in part
on the conquest of the region by the Indians of the
state of New York from other Indians who claimed to
have long before held it. The New York Indians
claimed that they secured the land by conquest about
1670 and that it had been theirs ever since that
time.
Whether their claim was good or not, they made
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Dunlap Creek flows into
the Monongahela river, in Pennsylvania.
The following entry follows the certificate and is
signed by the clerk, James Chew:
"This certificate cannot be entered with the
surveyor after June 26, 1780. Entered Apr. 13,
1780."
WILLIAM HOUGHLAND is entitled to 400 acres of
land in the county of Monongalia on the waters of
Decker's creek, to include his settlement made in
the year 1775.
Decker's creek flows into the Monongahela river at
Morgantown, West Virginia.
EDWARD DORSEY, assignee to DAVID ROGERS,
is entitled to 400 acres of land in the county of
Monongalia, on the west side of the Monongahela
river to include his settlement made in 1774, to be
bounded by the lines of JOSEPH BRENTON, also
a right in preemption to 1,000 acres adjoining
thereto.
RICHARD JACKSON is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county, situated and lying on the
south fork of Tenmile, to include his settlement,
made in the year 1775; also a right in preemption to
1,000 acres adjoining thereto.
THOMAS BISHOP is entitled to 400 acres of land
in the county of Monongalia, on Crawford's run, to
include his settlement made in the year 1774.
GEORGE BEATTY is entitled to 400 acres of land
in the county of Monongalia, on the waters of
Yohogania, to include his settlement made in the
year 1775.
The Yohogania mentioned was the Youghiogheny river, in
one of its early and erratic spellings. One
banch of hte river has its source in Preston county,
West Virginia, whence it flows across a portion of
Maryland into Pennsylvania and empties into the
Monongahela river. That part of the river now
in Preston county was at the time of this record in
Monongalia county, and much of that in Pennsylvania
was then considered to be in Monongalia county.
MICHAEL COX is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county, on the waters of Dunlap's creek,
to include his settlement made the year 1772, also a
right in preemption to 1,000 acres adjoining
thereto. Dunlap's creek is in Pennsylvania.
LEVI BEATTY is entitled to 400 acres of land in
the county of Monongalia, on the waters of Yohogania
to include his settlement made in the year 1774.
ROBERT BEATTY, assignee to John Waggoner,
is entitled to 400 acres of land in the county of
Monongalia, on Buffalo run, a branch of Cheat river,
to include his settlement made in the year 1774.
JOSEPH CRABIT is entitled to 400 acres of land
in the county of Monongalia, on the waters of
Dunlap's creek, to include his settlement made in
the year 1772.
WILLIAM HILL is entitled to 400 acres of land in
the county of Monongalia, on the waters of Indian
creek, to include his settlement made in the year
1774.
JACOB COLEMAN is entitled to 400 acres of land
in the county of Monongalia, on the waters of
Dunlap's creek, to include his settlement made in
the year 1770, also a right to preemption of 1,000
acres adjoining thereto.
HENRY HAWK is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county on the waters of Yohogania, to
include his settlement made in the year 1774.
JOHN HEATH
SAMUEL BRIDGEWATER
JAMES WALKER
DAVID OWEN
Tenmile creek is in the present county of Harrison.
ELIAS BEAN
THOMAS BISHOP
JACOB WHOSONG, JUNIOR
ROBERT McCLELEN
THOMAS JOHN,
assignee of THOMAS HUGHES, is entitled to 250
acres of land in Monongalia county, on Tenmile creek
to include his settlement made in 1772.
JAMES TUCKER, assignee to GEORGE GREGG,
is entitled to 400 acres of land in Monongalia
county, on the West Fork of Tenmile creek, to
include his settlement made in the year 1773.
JACOB WHOSONG (or WHOSING)
THOMAS SLATER
JOHN THRUSHER, assignee to DAVID RODGERS, is
entitled to 400 acres of land in right of
preemption, in Monongalia county, lying on the South
Fork of Tenmile creek, ti include his cabin and
other improvements made in the year 1773.
JAMES HOOK
JAMES HOOK,
assignee of ABNER PIPES, is entitled to 400
acres of land in MOnongalia county, on Tenmile cree,
to include his settlement made in the year 1770.
JOHN ANKRAM
JOHN SWAN
The following certificates' were granted in 1781 by
the commissioners at a meeting held at the residence
of COL. JOHN EVANS. The commissioner at
the meeting were JOHN P. DUVALL, JAMES NEAL,
WILLIAM HAYMOND, and CHARLES MARTIN; and
WILLIAM M'CLEARY was clerk. He was
subsequently succeeded as clerk by COL. JOHN
EVANS.
JOHN EVANS, assignee to DANIEL VEATCH, is
entitled to 400 acres of _and in Monongalia county,
on the west side of the Monongahela river, to
include his settlement made in the year 1770.
STEPHEN HARDIN is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county, on the waters of Indian creek,
adjoining lands of MICHAEL TEABOLT, deceased,
in right of residence, to include his improvement
made in 1775.
THOMAS CLARE, assignee to JACOB WHITE, is
entitled 400 acres of land in Monongalia county on
the Laurel run, to include his settlement made in
17733.
JESSE BAYLES is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county, on a branch of Tygart's Valley
river, lying below Glady creek near to land known as
the Levels, to include his settlement made in 1772.
THOMAS CLARE, assignee to JACOB WHITE, is
entitled to 1,000 acres of land in Monongalia county
in the right of preemption adjoining his settlement
made on Laurel run in 1773.
THOMAS CLARE, assignee to JACOB WHITE, is
entitled to 400 acres of land in Monongalia county
on Laurel run to include his settlement made in the
year 1773.
GEORGE GILLESPIE
CALEB HALE
THOMAS RUSSELL
NATHAN LOW
BELTOSHARZER BRAGRO is entitled to 400 acres of
land in Monongalia county, on the waters of Cheat
river adjoining land of JAMES CONNOR, to
include his settlement made thereon in the year
1777.
JOHN CONNOR
JOSEPH MARTIN is
entitled to 400 acres of land in Monongalia county,
adjoining lands claimed by JEREMIAH DOWNING,
to include his settlement made in 1776.
JOSEPH MARTIN is entitled to 300 acres of land
in Monongalia county in the right of preemption ad-
adjoining to his settlement made in the year 1776.
JAMES CONNOR is entitled to 400 acres of land in
the county of Monongalia, on the waters of Cheat
river, adjoining the lands of ROBERT CONNOR,
to include his settlement made thereon in 1776, with
a preemption of 400 acres adjoining thereto.
WILLIAM HAMILTON is entitled to
WILLIAM HAMILTON is entitled to
JOHN LEFEVORS is entitled to
ROBERT CONNOR is
entitled to 400 acres of land in Monongalia county,
on Cheat river, adjoining the lands of JAMES
CONNOR, in the right of residence, to to include
his settlement made thereon 1776, with 1,000 acres
in preemption adjoining thereto.
JOSEPH DOWNING is entitled to 400 acres of and
in Monongalia county on the waters of Hazle run, on
Cold Grave Yard Branch, adjoining lands claimed by
CHARLES DONALDSON, in the right of residence,
to include his improvement made thereon in 1772.
Hazle Run is a branch of Sandy creek, in the present
county of Preston.
JEREMIAH TANNIHILL is entitled to 400 acres of
land in Monongalia county, on Laurel run, adjoining
land claimed by Nathan Low, in the right of
residence, to include his improvement made in 1772.
MICHAEL KERN, assignee of JOSIAH VEACH,
is entitled to 215 acres of land in Monongalia
county at the mouth of Decker's creek, on the
Monongahela rier, to include his settlement made
thereon in 1774, with a preemption to 1,000 acres
adjoining thereto.
Part of the town of Morgantown now occupies this land.
HENRY CRULL, assignee of GEORGE PARKER is
entitled to
JOSIAH WILSON is entitled to
DAVID WATKINS is entitled to
JACOB COZAD, assignee to MOSES TEMPLIN,
is entitled to
JAMES WILSON is entitled to
JAMES MOORE is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county, on the head of Hazle run,
adjoining lands of MARTIN JUDY, to include
his settlement made in 1775.
THOMAS MOORE is entitled to
JAMES CLARK is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county, adjoining lands of JAMES
McCOLLUM on Sandy creek, to include his
settlement made in 1776.
Heirs of law of JOHN JUDY are entited to 400
acres of land in Monongalia county, adjoining lands
of JAMES McCOLLUM, to include his settlement
made in 1772.
JACOB JUDY, heir at law of JOHN JUDY,
assignee to JOSIAH WINSLOW, is entitled to
400 acres of land in Monongalia county, on the
waters of Sandy creek, adjoining the lands of
CHARLES DONALDSON, to include his settlement
made in the year 1769.
WILLIAM CLARK is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county, on Miracle run, adjoining the
lands claimed by JACOB FARMER, in the right
of residence to include his improvements made in
1777.
PHILIP ALFIN is entitled to
HENRY SNIDER is entitled to400 acres of land in
Monongalia county on the West Branch of the
Monongahela river adjoining lands claimed by
ENOCH JAMES, to include his settlement made in
the year.
JAMES CURRENT is entitled to
JAMES CURRENT is entitled to
PHILIP SHIVELY is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county, on Scott's run, adjoining
DAVID WATKINS, to include his settlement made
thereon in 1774.
CHRISTOPHER GARLOW is entitled to 400 acres of
land in Monongalia county, on Crooked run, adjoining
lands of THOMAS RUSSELL and RICHARD
HAMPTON, to include his settlement in 1772.
FRANCIS WARMAN is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county, on Cheat river, adjoining
lands claimed by JOHN RAMSEY, to include his
settlement made in 1770.
FRANCIS WARMAN, assignee of THOMS EVANS
is entitled to400 acres of land in Monongalia county
on Cheat river, adjacent to lands claimed by
BARTHOLOMEW JENKINS, to include his settlement
made in 1772.
JAMES MOORE, assignee to ROBERT ERWIN, is
entitled to 400 acres of land in Monongalia county
on the waters of Cheat river to include his
settlement of the said ERWIN made in 1775.
BARTHOLOMEW ZENDEN, assignee to RICHARD
LESTER is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county on the waters of Crab tree creek
to include his settlement made thereon in1776.
BARTHOLOMEW JENKINS, assignee to THOMAS CRAFT,
is entitled to 400 acres of land in Monongalia
county on the waters of Cheat river adjoining lands
claimed by FRANCIS WARMAN, to include his
settlement made 1770.
JOHN RAMSEY, senior, assignee to
ROBERT CHAMBERS, is entitled to 400 acres of
land in Monongalia on a tract that was formerly
known as the Ice Place, to include his settlement
made thereon in 1770.
PHILIP ASKINS is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county on Ice's run, joining lands
claimed by JOHN GRAY, to include his
settlement made in 1770.
JACOB YOUNGMAN is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county, on Decker's creek, to include
his settlement made in 1774.
JACOB YOUNGMAN, assignee to THOMAS HARBERT,
is entitled to 350 acres of land in Monongalia
county on Decker's creek to include his settlement
made thereon in 1774.
JOHN RAMSEY, the lesser, is entitled to 400
acres of land in Monongalia county, on the waters of
Scott's Mill run, adjoining lands claimed by
JAMES STERLING, to include his settlement made
thereon in 1775, with a preemption of 1,000 acres
adjoining thereto.
JOHN SCOTT, SENIOR, is entitled to
400 acres of land in Monongalia county situated in
the neck of Cheat river, joining lands claimed by
WILLIAM NORRIS, to include his settlement made
thereon in the year 1770.
RICHARD MORRIS is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county on the waters of Sandy creek to
include his settlement made thereon in 1770, with a
preemption of 1,000 acres adjoining.
SIMON TROY, assignee to JOB SIMMS, is
entitled to400 acres of land in Monongalia county on
Cheat river, adjoining the lands of BARTHOLOMEW
JENKINS, including his settlement made thereon
in 1769.
SAMUEL LEWELLEN, assignee to JOHN McDONALD,
is entitled to 400 acres of land in Monongalia
county on the waters of Indian creek, adjoining
lands of BENJAMIN WILSON, to include his
settlement made in 1775.
SAMUEL LEWELLEN is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county in the forks of Pawpaw creek in
the right of residence, to include his improvement
made in 1773.
The commissioners met at the residence of SAMUEL
LEWELLEN in 1781, and it is now uncertain where
he lived, but it was doubtless a central and
convenient place or the commissions would not have
had the meeting there.
STEPHEN MORGAN is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county, on Little Pawpaw creek,
including the land on both sides of the creek about
the mouth of Minister's run, in the right of
residence, and to include his improvement made in
1773.
JOHN STEWART is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county, in the right of residence, to
include his settlement adjoining lands claimed by
WILLIAM STEWART.
WILLIAM STEWART is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county, on the waters of the Monongahela
river, adjoining lands claimed by THOMAS MILLS,
to include his settlement made thereon in 1770.
WILLIAM STEWART is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county, on the waters of Cheat river,
adjoining lands claimed by THOMAS MILLS, to
include his settlement made thereon in 1770.
DAVID CRULL is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county on ?Aaron's creek, joining lands
claimed by JOHN BURK, to include his
settlement made in 1770.
THOMAS JOHN is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county on waters of Cheat river,
adjoining lands claimed by WILLIAM JOHN, to
include his settlement made thereon in 1773.
JAMES STAFFORD, assignee to ROBERT CURRY,
is entitled to 400 acres of land in Monongalia
county, in the forks of Cheat and Monongahela
rivers, to include his settlement made thereon
in1774.
JAMES COBURN is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county on the water of Booth's creek,
adjoining the land of JOHN GIFFFORD, to
include his improvements made in 1773.
JAMES COBURN, heir at law of JONATHAN COBURN,
is entitled to 400 acres of land in Monongalia
county, on the waters of Decker's creek, include his
settlement made thereon in 1770.
MOSES TRADER is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county on the waters of Tom's and
Joe's run to include his improvements made
for him by PHILIP DODDRIDGE, by right of
residence.
PETER McCUNE is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county, at the mouth of Rooting creek, in
the right of residence, having made a crop of corn
in this county before the year 1778, to include his
improvements made on said land in the year 1778.
HEZEKIAH DAVISSON is entitled to 400 acres of
land in Monongalia county in the right of residence
and improvements made in 1773.
HEZEKIAN DAVISSON, assignee to JOHNATHAN
LAMBERT, is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia, on Lambert's run, adjoining the land of
JOSHUA ALLEN, to include his settlement made
in 1774.
JOSIAH DAVISSON is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county, on Pleasants creek, to include
his settlement made in 1775.
HEZEKIAH DAVISSON, assignee to JOHNATHAN
LAMBERT, is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county in the right of preemption on
Lambert's run, adjoining the lands of JOSHUA
ALLEN.
JOSIAH DAVISSON is entitled to 1000 acres of land
in Monongalia county in the right of preemption
adjoining his settlement on Pleasant creek. No
date is given.
ANDREW DAVISSON, JUNIOR, is entitled to 1,000
acres of land in Monongalia county in the right to
preemption, adjoining his right of residence by an
improvement made in the year 1774.
ANDREW DAVISSON, JUNIOR, is entitled to
400 acres of land in Monongalia county in the right
of residence on the branch of Simpson's creek,
called Thompson's run, including his improvement
thereon made in 1774.
JEREMIAH CLARK is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county, on Slack's run, to include his
settlement made thereon in 1774.
WILLIAM HAYMOND is entitled to 400 acres of land
on Decker's creek in Monongalia county, to include
his settlement made thereon in the year 1774.
ANDREW DAVISSON, JUNIOR, assignee to WILLIAM
BOON, is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county, on the waters of Simpson's creek,
adjoining the lands claimed by JAMES ANDERSON,
including his settlement made thereon in 1773.
THOMAS McCAN is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county adjoining his settlement made in
1775.
ARCHIBALD HOPKINS, assignee to ANDREW
DAVISSON, JUNIOR, is entitled to 400 acres
of land in Monongalia county on a run of the waters
of Simpson's creek, known by the name of Jerry's
run, to include his settlement made in 1773.
DANIEL DAVISSON is entitled to 1000 acres of
land in Monongalia county in the right of preemption
adjoining his settlement made in the year 1773.
NICHOLAS CARPENTER, assignee to John SIMPSON
is entitled to 400 acres of land in Monongalia
county on the West Fork, opposite to the mouth of
Elk, to include his settlement made in 1772.
EDWARD HAYMOND is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county in the right of residence on
the dividing ridge between the two Pawpaws, about
three miles from the Big Spring, to include his
improvement made in 1776.
HEZEKIAH DAVISSON, assignee to WILLIAM RUNION,
is entitled to 1000 acres of land in Monongalia
county in the right of preemption adjoining to his
settlement made in 1773.
GEORGE BAXTER, is entitled to 400 acres of land
in Monongalia county on Barrett's run, adjoining
lands of WILLIAM LOWTHER, including his
settlement made thereon in 1772.
GEORGE BAXTER is entitled to 1000 acres of land
in Monongalia county in the right of preemption
joining hte lands of WILLIAM LOWTHER,
including his settlement made in 1772.
THOMAS MILLS is entitled to 400 acres of land in
Monongalia county adjoining lands claimed by
WILLIAM STEWART, to include his settlement made
in 1772.
JOHN M'FARLANE is entitled to 100 acres of land
in Monongalia county, in right of residence, on the
waters of Cheat river, adjoining lands of RICHARD
HAIR, in the county of Monongalia, to include
his improvement made in 1776.
THOMAS EVANS, assignee to ROBERT GALLOWAY
is entitled to 400 acres of land in Monongalia
county on the waters of Cheat river, adjoining lands
claimed by WILLIAM STEWART, to include his
settlement made in 1773.
ANDREW
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