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LEGISLATIVE PETITION FROM AUGUSTA COUNTY 6 November 1777.
Virginia State Library, Req. C 170. To the Honourable the Speaker & Gentlemen of the House of Delegates of Virginia. The Petition of a number of the Inhabitants of Tigers Valley Settlement and the West Fork of the Monangalia River and Buckhannan's Creek Settlement. Humbly Sheweth that your Petitioners Labours under great Hardships from their being obliged to tend Courts at Stauntown in Order to have their necessary business done, at the distance of one hundred & eight Miles from the nearest Inhabitants in the Tigers Valley. One hundred and fifty from the nearest Settlement on the West Fork of the Monangalia and two hundred Miles from the best inhabited part of our Settlement, which great distance & exceeding badness of the Roads, and the Difficulty of Crossing eight Large Mountains, forty Miles of which Road is uninhabited Viz from the Tigers Valley Waters to Powtowmack Waters. We are informed that the old part of Augusta are petitioning to have the same Divided into Smaller Counties for the convenience of the People; We your Petitioners Humbly Pray we may not be joined to any County on the Waters of James River or the South Branch of the Potowmack, nor Monongalia County for we flatter our selves we are able to Build & Support all Public buildings necessary for a County Town - Therefore we your Petitioners humbly request your Honourable House would take their Case under your Consideration & grant them a New County including the Tigers Valley Settlement & the Settlement on the west fork of [torn] Monangalia and also Buckhannan's Creek Settlement, which will greatly Ease your Petitioners and they in duty shall ever Pray &c. The names are arranged on the first page in four columns and on a shorter second page in three columns. |
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| William Westfall William Currents John Casaday William Casaday George Westfall Henry Deleya Peter Casaday, Junior James Westfall David Casaday William Blair Readen Blunt Francis Riffle Alexander Maxfield John Crouch Jacob Westfall, Senior Peter Casaday, Senior George Shaver Jacob Shaver Peter Shaver Daniel McClane John McClane William White Daniel Westfall Nicholas Smith Peter King John White Jacob Stalnaker, Senior Valentine Stalnaker Jacob Stalnaker, Junior Benjamin Wilson Joel Westfall Cornelius King Solomon Ryan Edward Skidmore Francis Trader [Strader] Mathew Lambert Henry Pedro Jacob Wolf |
Jonathan Smith Anthony Sandusea [Sandusky] Anthony Smith Thomas Lovet Thomas Philips William Lovet Peter Dodson Benjamin Cutrite Michael Ausner [Isner] Thomas Ausner John Lambert, Junior John Lambert John Yeokem Francis Wire Aaron Richardson Nicholas Wools, Senior Nicholas Wools, Junior James Simms Jacob Springston Andrew Crouch Daniel Simerman Thomas Price Jacob Westfall, Junior Jacob Everman, Junior Samuel Everman Jacob Everman, Senior William Cleaver, Senior Joshua Cleaver Benjamin Cleaver Charles Cleaver Daniel Booth Jesse Hamilton Moses Thomson Anthony Huston Thomas Scidmore Andrew Skidmore John Hunter Elias Barker William Gibson Aaron Vanscoy David Matthew Benjamin Jones |
James Booth Enoch James Samuel Merifield Edward Conningham Philip Coone William Tucker Thomas Cunningham Thomas Merifield John Tucker Jonathan Boyer Henry Tucker Nathan Tucker Nathaniel Cochron John Merifield George Tucker John Tucker James Current Samuel Tucker William Williams William Tucker, Junior Henry Snider Richard Merifield Joseph Koon Thomas Hellen Conrad Koon James Tucker John Cross Anthony Coon Nicholas Carpenter William Childers Obediah Davison Nathaniel Davison Hezekiah Davison Josiah Davison Thomas Barkley Daniel Davison Joseph Heastings John Wollf John Nutter Joseph Gregory Samuel Cotral Thomas Reed John Reed Adam O'Brian Christopher Hanaman |
Hezekiah Stout Aaron Smith Benjamin Shin William Grundey John Grundey Charles Burkem Joseph Wilkeson Samuel Wilkeson John Thomas John Owens, Senior John Owens, Junior John Murphy Denis Murphy Gilbert Husteg Moses Husteg John Gooden John Wickwire Amissah Davison John Rife John Merrit Levi Duglas Charles Person, Senior Charles Parson, Junior William Thomson Christopher Baker Sotha Hickman William Moore Mathew Nutter Samuel Beard Jonah Webb Thomas Webb Benjamin Webb Thomas Nutter Christopher Nutter William Taylor William Lowther Robert Parks Conrad Richards Joseph Woolf Samuel Came John Cane Arnold Richards Isaac Richards |
| Charles Washburn Isaac Washburn Steven Washburn James Washburn Robert Louther Joel Louther Richard Ratlift Charles Ratclift Joshua Allen William Roberson John Powers Daniel Stout Jonathan Lambert Job Stout William Murphey |
Thomas Slin [Shin] John McDonald Thomas Herbert Abraham Reece Barns Allen James Owens David Edward John Hustey Archilbald McCenney James McCeenney John Stackhouse Benjamin Couplan [Coplin] Gabriel Wilkeson |
John Watts William Pettyjohn William Pettyjohn, Junior Amos Pettyjohn John Pettyjohn Mayer Powers Edmond Freeman John Chacker (Hacker) William Martin William Martin, Junior Abraham Sandres Samuel Blair Richard Skidmore William Powers |
| ENDORSED: Inhabitants of Tygers Valley Petition November 6, 1777. Referred to Propositions. December 16, 1777 referred to the consideration of the next Session of Assembly. November 25th 1778 (Rejected) | ||
EDITOR'S
NOTE: It is no wonder this petition was circulated in 1777.
In 1776 the VA Legislature had finally defined the bounds
of the District of West Augusta and by the same act wiped
it off the map and created Monongalia County from it. But
as the maps of the boundaries published in Core's MONONGALIA
STORY show the legislature seems to have had motives other
than efficiency in mind. The courthouse was on the river below
present day Morgantown. Persons in today's Fairmont area,
only about 20 miles from the Mon County court, were left in
Augusta County with the courthouse 120 miles away (distances
are given as the crow flies). Yet persons (if any) on the
headwaters of the Shavers Fork of Cheat River, only about
50 miles from the Augusta Court at Staunton were placed in
Monongalia with the court below Morgantown nearly double the
distance from them as the court at Staunton. The people in
this petition would not get their wish for a separate county
until 1784 when the county of Harrison was formed.
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