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From: "Robin Pyatt Bellamy" <>
Subject: Martin Smith
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:41:13 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)


http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wv/greenbrier/court/record1.txt

This is a transcript of The History of Monroe County West Virginia, by Oren
F. Morton, B. Lit.,
Originally Published: Staunton, Virginia, 1916, Reprinted,
Regional Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1988, pages 68-78


Chapter VIII

RECORDS OF TWENTY YEARS
Extracts from Record-books and Petitions.

IN THIS chapter the record-books of Greenbrier and the
petitions from the said county to the General Assembly
tell their own story. Such extracts are given as are of
most general interest and deal more particularly with
that portion of Greenbrier that became Monroe.

NOVEMBER, 1780
Justices present: Samuel Brown, John Anderson, William Hutchinson,
John Henderson, William Poage.

John Archer resigns as clerk. John Stuart elected. Andrew Donally
qualifies as sheriff to succeed James Henderson, his deputies being John
Rodgers, Adam Caperton, and James Thompson, and his sureties, John
Henderson and James Thompson.

Grand Jury: William Frogg, John Humphreys, Matthew Gwinn, Andrew
Willson, John Wiley, Thomas Hamilton, John Benson, Charles O'Hara,
John Miller, Sr., John Akins, John Riley, George Davidson, John McCan-
lis, Martin Smith, Sampson Archer, William Hedding, Archibald McDowell.


***Greenbriar County is one of the parent counties of modern day Nicholas
County, WV where we find Mary Smith Pyatt, daughter of Martin Smith.








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