--=======5794D70======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-5BD987E; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Clare, You're putting me on the spot. There was an article in one of the Sunday papers a couple of weeks ago which is where my misconceptions were cleared. I probably saved it but haven't scanned it into my computer. IIRC, all of what we know today as West Virgina, Washington County and everything south of the Mon and Ohio Rivers was in one big county of Virginia. It had an odd name. West Virginia, which many if not most people don't know, was not a state until sometime during the Civil War. That area was pro-north. Whether they seceded from VA solely because of their sympathies, I don't know. Perhaps we have a lister who is more into that area than I. My ancestors didn't show up until 1835 in Union Twp. If I can find that article, I'll scan it and let the list know in the event that anyone wanted a copy. Al At 09:29 AM 9/26/2004, you wrote: >Al, >So are you are saying that the Point was Ft. Duquesne; then Fort >Necessity, then Fort Pitt? Was the VA line prior to the Rev. War, just >south of the Point? If that is so, was the southern part of Washington >Co. and Allegheny Co. in VA at that time? > >Clare in Fla. >(Jeanne is on us now. I'm in Clearwater in the Tampa Bay Area.) >================ --=======5794D70======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-5BD987E Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.769 / Virus Database: 516 - Release Date: 9/24/2004 --=======5794D70=======--

The following is from a Monongalia County website I found when I googled, hope it helps. Bobbi Monongalia County was one of three counties created by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in October 1776 from the District of West Augusta (Virginia). The others were Ohio and Yohogania counties. Monongalia County was named in honor of the Monongahela River, named by the Algonquin (Delaware) Indians. The river's name means "river of crumbling banks" or "high banks fall down." When the bill creating the county was being prepared the spelling was changed to Monongalia. It is not known if the spelling was changed on purpose or was an error. Monongalia County is known as the mother county for northern West Virginia because many other counties were created from its original territory. The precise number is difficult to determine because the original county's boundaries fell along watersheds which shifted over time. However, at least thirteen West Virginia counties were created in whole, and perhaps as many as eighteen West Virginia counties were created either in whole or in part, from Monongalia County. Moreover, parts of Greene, Fayette and Washington counties in Pennsylvania also were created from the county. The Pennsylvania counties were carved from Monongalia County when the Mason-Dixon line was accepted as defining the borders of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. That approval process began in 1779, and was officially agreed to by the three states in 1784. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Lenkner" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [PITTSBURGH] VA and PA line > --=======5794D70======= > Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-5BD987E; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Clare, > > You're putting me on the spot. There was an article in one of the Sunday > papers a couple of weeks ago which is where my misconceptions were > cleared. I probably saved it but haven't scanned it into my computer. > > IIRC, all of what we know today as West Virgina, Washington County and > everything south of the Mon and Ohio Rivers was in one big county of > Virginia. It had an odd name. West Virginia, which many if not most > people don't know, was not a state until sometime during the Civil > War. That area was pro-north. Whether they seceded from VA solely because > of their sympathies, I don't know. > > Perhaps we have a lister who is more into that area than I. My ancestors > didn't show up until 1835 in Union Twp. If I can find that article, I'll > scan it and let the list know in the event that anyone wanted a copy. > > Al