. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. s of theEnglish at the head of the Ohio were consequently now pre-vented, until Fort Duquesne fell before General Forbes in Novem-ber, 1758, and the Indian troubles were quieted. For stillsixteen years longer the strife between Pennsylvania and Virginiawas delayed, during which period the two governments erectednew counties and maintained separate courts within the limits 1 Col. Rec, vol. vi., p. 3. The previous communication referred to in this letter wasone made May 6, 1753, proffering the aid of Pennsylvania to Virgin
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. s of theEnglish at the head of the Ohio were consequently now pre-vented, until Fort Duquesne fell before General Forbes in Novem-ber, 1758, and the Indian troubles were quieted. For stillsixteen years longer the strife between Pennsylvania and Virginiawas delayed, during which period the two governments erectednew counties and maintained separate courts within the limits 1 Col. Rec, vol. vi., p. 3. The previous communication referred to in this letter wasone made May 6, 1753, proffering the aid of Pennsylvania to Virginia in the proposed ex-pedition to build a fort on the Ohio, on condition that such aid given would not be construedas prejudicing the rights of the Pennsylvania proprietaries in that region. See Col. Rec,vol. v., p. 629. Even before this date the anxiety of Pennsylvania on the subject in questionhad been manifested. See Governor Hamiltons letter to Thomas Lee of the Ohio Com-pany and president of the Virginia Council, Col. Rec, vol. v., p. 423 Col. Rec, vol. vi., p. ,0f LINE MAfi VIRGINIA CLAIMS INSOUTH-WESTERNPENNSYLVANIA History of Beaver County 135 of the territory in dispute. Some time prior to 1756 Virginiaerected the District of West Augusta, covering all this territory,and in that year she divided this district into three counties, viz.,Monongalia, Yohogania, and Ohio, to the second of which,Yohogania, the region now embraced in the south side of BeaverCounty belonged. Pennsylvania also erected upon the dis-puted territory Bedford County in 1771, and WestmorelandCounty in 1773. Penns manor of Pittsburg, too, was surveyedfor the proprietaries early in 1769, and in the beginning of 1771magistrates were appointed by Pennsylvania and for some timedischarged the duties of their offices without having their au-thority questioned. But in 1772 Fort Pitt was ordered to be evacuated and dis-mantled and in that year there arrived in Virginia as governor aman who was a past-mast
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