THE STORY OF BLACK'S CABIN (Now W. Liberty, Ohio)
Source: Excerpts from "History of the Pan-Handle; being Historical Collections of the counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia, with Illustrations" by J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle, 1879, pages 159, 160.
Early Proceedings of the County Court. Order Book No. 1.
Black's Cabin, Ohio Co., Jan 6, 1777.
...In compliance with which and Certain other Instructions directed to John McColloch Esqr. directing him the said McColloch to summon the several landholders within the said County to meet at the house of Ezekiel Dewitts on Buffalo Creek on the 27th of December last as well for the purpose of electing and Constituting a Committee in and for the said County, as for the making choice of the seat for County Courts to be held at in future, within said County, which was done accordingly.
A majority determined in favor of a place known by the name of Black's Cabin on the waters of Short Creek to be the place of holding courts in future....
...For as much as the tract of Land agreed upon for holding Courts at, ...for not less than two acres of said Tract including the Cabbin and Spring, in behalf of this County for the purpose of erecting and building thereon a Court House, Prison and other necessary public building, for any sum not exceeding Twenty pounds... |