. West Virginia historical magazine quarterly . it wasCatarina Beierlin that was alive in 1735. W. S. Laidley. DISTRICT OF WEST AUGUSTA. This district was the western part of the County of Augusta inVirginia; it was east of the Ohio river, and west of the Alleghenymountains. It was not created by statnte, yet was recognized by law. It was not a county, yet had a county court, and a countys repre-sentation in the General Assembly. Its boundary and civil jurisdiction were both unknown. How or when it began were never known, yet we know when it ended. As a part of the territory now in West Virgin
. West Virginia historical magazine quarterly . it wasCatarina Beierlin that was alive in 1735. W. S. Laidley. DISTRICT OF WEST AUGUSTA. This district was the western part of the County of Augusta inVirginia; it was east of the Ohio river, and west of the Alleghenymountains. It was not created by statnte, yet was recognized by law. It was not a county, yet had a county court, and a countys repre-sentation in the General Assembly. Its boundary and civil jurisdiction were both unknown. How or when it began were never known, yet we know when it ended. As a part of the territory now in West Virginia, it is well for us toknow all that there can be learned of this peculiar jurisdiction. Itseems that when the new State was named, that West Augusta was avery appropriate name for the same. The sub-division of a Colony or a Commonwealth or a State, isusually made by the legislative department of the government, and it 22 The West Virginia is supposed these sub-divisions are made for the convenience ant benefit of the people within the IDI5TRIGT OF We ST AUGVS1A THIS REPRESENTS THE OUTLINES OF THE DISTICT OF WEST AUGUSTA AS DETERMINED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA AND ALSO THE DIVISION OF THE SAME INTO THREE COUNTIES. Hennings Statutes at Large is a compilation of all the statutesmade by the General Assembly of the Colony of Virginia from the Historical Magazine. 23 beginning until the end of the said Colony as a Colony and on until1800. We find in 5 Hen. 78, that the county of Augusta was made atthe session of Xov. 1738, which was in the 12th year of the reignof George II. King of England., by whose grace and royal favorsaid acts were permitted. Augusta was taken from Orange and ex-tended westward from the Blue Ridge and around the county ofFredrick, to the utmost limits of Virginia westward, which had beforebeen declared to be from sea to sea. Augusta county was organized in Dec 1745 and its first court washeld in Staunton, with John Lewi-, presiding justice: Ga
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