Yohogania County, Virginia Court Records 1776-1780 By Boyd Crumrine, 1903 365 pages, searchable Annals of the Carnegie Museum Vol. II No. 1, June 1903 - Bonus Book – An Historical Account of the Expedition Against Sandusky in 1782 By C.W. Butterfield, 1873 403 pages, indexed, searchable ******************************************************************* Digital Book CD Requires Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher to View ******************************************************************** $11.99 + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200395497920 This publication includes the Virginia court records for Yohogania County for its first four years before it became Pennsylvania. Yohogania County was created by the new state of Virginia in 1776, in an area long disputed between Virginia and Pennsylvania. The county ceased to exist after the border dispute between the two states was resolved in the 1780s. Thus, it is sometimes referred to as a "lost county," although a million and a half people live within the territory it once claimed, which encompasses two entire counties and parts of four others in two states. The problem arose through the complex and conflicting manner of granting territory and defining boundaries during the Colonial period. The North American continent was not surveyed until long after various land grants were made to individual colonies, and such land grants and even governmental entities frequently overlapped. In 1776, shortly after the American Revolutionary War began, the Virginia General Assembly formed three new counties from the District of West Augusta, an area of Augusta County, Virginia, which encompassed much of what is now northern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. These were Monongalia County, Ohio County, and Yohogania County. All three included, or at least claimed, land in what is now Pennsylvania as well as in Virginia, now West Virginia. The county seat of Yohogania County was probably near the Monongahela River, across from the present borough of Elizabeth, Pennsylvania. On December 27, 1779, a resolution by the United States Congress recommended to the two now-states of Virginia and Pennsylvania that, rather than continue to quarrel with each other as well as fighting the British, they should reach an agreement on the border situation. This was done in theory by an agreement reached by commissioners from both states in Baltimore in 1779, and ratified by the legislatures of both states in 1780, "to extend the line commonly called Mason and Dixon's line five degrees of longitude from Delaware River ... and from the western termination thereof to run and mark a meridian line to the Ohio River," which was the northern boundary of Virginia's claim. That would be the boundary between the two states. This publication includes the Virginia court records for Yohogania County for its first four years before it became Pennsylvania.