At 09:08 PM 8/23/2009, MMoeser237@aol.com wrote: >Several years ago I came upon some records of the area now in Greene & >Washington Co., PA from the time that VA claimed them on top of a filing >cabinet in the land records room at the courthouse in Morgantown, WV. Hi, Mark, The last time I was in the Mon. Co. Record Room, I asked about that book. Was told it had been removed to a protected area. Unfortunately, I didn't ask where that was. Gather they finally realized how important that Certificate book was. I believe that Earl Core transcribed and abstracted all those early certificates in his first book in the series, " The Monongalia Story." At the end of most of the abstracts he adds the name of the present day county in which the tract exists. I'm looking at one on p. 187 under the heading of 1771 which reads : "David Owens is entitled to four hundred acres of land in Monongalia County lying on the South fork of ten Mile Creek to include his actual Settlement made in the year of our lord one Thousand seven hundred seventy-one." To that Core adds: "On the site of Waynesburg, Greene County." Best regards, Jane