torney for me and in my name to sell transfer and Convey or otherwise dispose of all my right Title and Interest of in and to Two Tracts of Land the one situate on the Ohio River the other on Raccoon Creek also one Lott or parcel of Land on the banks of the Allgany River whereon the said Alexander Ross formerly had a house in the Town of Pittsburg in what manner and to such person or persons, as to him shall appear best and most conducive to my Interest, and for me and in my name to make and Execute such deeds and Conveyances as may be necessary for transferring and Conveying my Right and Title to said Lands to any person or persons that may become purchasers thereof or any part thereof hereby ratifying and Confirming whatever my said Attorney lawfully and legally (71) shall do relative thereto In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of August 1775 Signed Sealed and delivered Alexr Ross [LS]

In presence of

C Graydon

James McKee

Danl Brown

At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts-
burgh April the 17th 1776

This Power of Attorney from Alexander Ross to Charles
Simms was proved by the Oaths of Caleb Graydon and Daniel
Brown two of the Witnesses thereto and Ordered to be Certified

At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County at Pitts-
burgh April 18th 1776

This Power of Attorney from Alexander Ross to Charles
Simms being formerly proved by the Oaths of Caleb Graydon
and Daniel Brown two of the Witnesses thereto was this day
further proved by the Oath of James McKee the other Witness
thereto and Ordered to be recorded

Test

CONCLUSION.

The publication of the records of these old Virginia Courts, exercising jurisdiction over the valleys of the Monongahela and Ohio more than a century ago, has now been completed. Communications.

received by the editor have disclosed that these records have excited much interest both north and south of Mason and Dixon's Line. Their existence seems to have hitherto been wholly unknown to many of the historians of old Virginia. Our work, however, should be supplemented by a small addition.

It is only of late that the full significance of a portion of the contents of one of the deed books in the recorder's office for Washington County, Pennsylvania, has been understood. It is apparent that when Col. James Marshel, the first recorder of deeds for Washington County, had filled his first volume, marked Deed Book A, vol. 1, with deeds acknowledged before Washington County officials and recorded from January 1, 1782, to November 20, 1784, utilized for his next volume a book in which had been recorded a number of last wills that had been admitted to probate before the County courts of the District of West Augusta and Yohogania County, Virginia. These wills, with their probate, were first recorded in a manuscript volume, and the balance remaining blank was utilized by Colonel Marshel as his second volume, marked Deed Book B, vol. 1, by simply beginning his Washington County records with a deed recorded on November 20, 1784, and proceeding 410 pages until his last deed was recorded on April 25, 1786, when he struck the wills which had been recorded by Dorsey Pentecost, the Clerk of the old Virglnia Courts, many years before.

It will be remembered that at the session of the County Court for the District of West Augusta, held on September 18, 1776, at Augusta Town (now Washington, Pa.), Dorsey Pentecost, who then lived on the East Branch of Chartiers Creek, in what is now North Strabane Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, was appointed Clerk of Court in the stead of John Madison, and on December 23, 1776, he was reappointed, and a demand was made by the Court upon John Madison, Jr., Deputy of John Madison, to turn over to his successor the records then in his possession, which demand was refused, and process awarded to compel compliance: Vol. I of these ANNAls, pp. 567, 568; Vol. II, pp. 79, 81. On the organization of Washington County, Pennsylvania, Dorsey Pentecost, theretofore an ardent Virginian, became an ardent Pennsylvanian and a prominent official of that jurisdiction.

On account of the genealogical interest in the old wills referred to, brief abstracts of them will now be presented as a final instalment of these papers.

ABSTRACTS OF OLD VIRGINIA WILLS.

1. Ellis Ellis, of Redstone Settlement; dated July 13, 1776; attested by Thomas Freeman, Thomas Prather and Leven Green; proved November 20, 1776, at a court for the District of West Augusta: Beneficiaries, wife, Ann; sons, Isaac, Thomas, Jonathan; daughter, Ann.

2. Jacob Lamb, of Pigeon Creek in West Augusta County; dated November 4, 1776; attested by John Crow, Andrew McClean, John Wright, Abraham Westfall, Archevil White; proved June 24, 1777: Beneficiaries, brothers Peter, John; brother-in-law George Kintner; sisters Catharine, Susannah.

3. Job Robins; dated August 10, 1777; attested by Joseph Brown, Francis Sprouse; proved on August 25, 1777 Beneficiaries, wife Rebecca; sons Amos, James, John; daughter Anne.

4. Jonathan Reed, of West Augusta, Colony of Virginia; dated November 4, 1776; attested by Hugh McCreedy, Noah Fleaharty; appoints Edward Cook and Dorsey Pentecost and Joseph Beckett, to settle and have adjusted all his late public accounts in regard to his vitualing the Troops stationed on the Ohio; proved September 23, 1777 Beneficiaries, wife Sarah; sons John, Jonathan; daughters Mary, Sarah, Martha, Ruth; executors Edward Cook, wife Sarah, and Joseph Beckett.

5. Joseph Kirkwood, of Yohogania County, State of Virginia; dated April 24, 1777; attested by Nicholas Little, George Gallaspie, Robert Meek; proved October 29, 1777: Beneficiaries, wife Margaret; son David; unborn child, "the old woman," and Martha and Mary.

6. James Pearce, Yohogania County, State of Virginia; dated February 15, 1778; attested by James Wall, Joseph Warne, Walter Wall; proved March 24, 1778: Beneficiaries, wife Sarah; sons Andrew, Lewis, James, Stephen, Jonathan.

7. William Chaplin, of West Augusta, Colony of Virginia; attested by Charles Bilderback, Elizabeth Swearingen, William Nation; proved on March 23, 1778: Beneficiaries, Abraham Chaplin, Isaac Chaplin, Elizabeth Swearingen, Mary Chaplin, William Chaplin, Vance Chaplin, -devises "one place at Cain Tuck."

8. John Vance, of Yohogania County in Virginia; dated December 10, 1777; attested by William Crawford, Benjamin Wells, Samuel Hecks; proved March 23, 1778: Beneficiaries, wife Margaret, sons

1 This and the wills following were all proved before the Yohogania County Court.

David, William (land on waters of Raccoon Creek joining Crohan's line), Moses; daughters Elizabeth, Mary.

9. James Freeman, Schoolmaster, in the County of Yohogania ; dated July 3, 1778; attested by John Thompson, Gilbert Cameron ; proved August 26, 1778: Sole beneficiary John McDonald, of the said county, farmer.

10. Abranam Vaughan, of Yohogania County, State of Virginia ; dated September 8, 1778; attested by Edward Hatfield, Christopher Brice, Thomas Gist; proved September, 1778: Beneficiaries, son Richard, daughters Isabel and Hannah Comly; devises a tract on "Harmon's Run, it being the place whereon I now reside."

11. Will of John Pearce, Senr., of Augusta County, Colony of Virginia; dated March 19, 1776; attested by Dorsey Pentecost, Moses Coe, John Peters; proved September, 1778: Beneficiaries, grandson Daniel, son of son Daniel; sons Isaac, Elisha, Joseph, John, Jonathan, Andrew; daughters Mary Smith, Sarah Watkins.

12. Catharine Lamb, of Yohogania County; dated January 22, 1779; attested by Peter Swath, Henry Devore, Jeremia Washburn ; proved March, 1779: Beneficiaries, Catharine Kintner, Susannah. Kintner; executor, George Kintner, husband of daughter Susannah.

13. James Devoor, of Yohogania County, Virginia; dated November 14, 1778; attested by Nicholas Depue, Tobias Decker, Daniel Depue, Jr.; proved March, 1779: Beneficiaries, children Jacob, Andrew, Henry, John, Sarah Pearshal, Samuel; children under age David, Moses, Catharine, Francis, James; all his real estate, except the Ferry to sons David and Moses.

14. John Bleakly, of Frederick County, Virginia; dated November 20, 1779; attested by John Wright, Samuel Burns; proved March -, 1779 Beneficiaries, mother Margaret Megill, Henry Megill, each £100 if they come to America; Robert Bleakly, William Alexander.

15. Stephen Richards, of Yohogania County, Virginia; dated March 1, 1780: Beneficiaries, wife Elizabeth; sons Mordecai, Stephen, Thomas. [Will not all copied, and no probate entered.]

16. James Ross, Gentleman, "of Racune Settlement in Yohogania County, Virginia"; dated January 6, 1781; attested by James McClellan, James Ross; proved March, 1781: Beneficiaries, wife Mary; sons James, Moses, Robert, Andrew, John; daughters, Hannah Andrews, Margaret Ross, Isabel Ross, Febee Ross.

VI. THE TRILOBITES OF THE CHAZY LIMESTONE.

BY PERCY E. RAYMOND.

During the forty years which have elapsed since the distinguished Canadian paleontologist, Elkanah Billings, published his descriptions of Chazy fossils, almost nothing has been added to our knowledge. of the fauna of the series of limestones which, in the Champlain region, immediately underlie the Lowville member of the Trenton Limestone. Billings, in the Canadian Naturalist and Geologist (1859), Decade Four of the Canadian Geological Survey (1859), and the First Volume of the Paleozoic Fossils of Canada (1865), added considerably to the very meager list of forms which Professor James Hall had described from the Chazy in the First Volume of the New York State Paleontology. Hall recognized seven species of trilobites, Illanus arcturus Hall, Illanus crassicauda? Wahlenberg, Asaphus obtusus Hall, Asaphus marginalis Hall, Isotelus canalis Conrad, Isotelus gigas? DeKay, and Ceraurus sp. undet. Of these, Illenus crassicauda? Isotelus canalis, Isotelus gigas? and Ceraurus sp. are so fragmentary as to be unrecognizable, and Illanus arcturus is a synonym for Thaleops ovata Conrad. The Calymene multicosta? which Hall described in the same volume from the "Birdseye" of the Isle La Motte is probably the same species that was later described by Billings as Amphion canadensis.

Billings, in 1865, recognized eighteen species of trilobites in the Chazy fauna, distributed as follows: Asaphus, 2; Amphion, 1; Ampyx, 1; Bathyurus, 1; Cheirurus, 3; Harpes, 1; Illanus, 6; Lichas, 1; Remipleurides, 1; Sphærexochus, 1; total 18.