Boutetorst County.
Had your great-great-grandfather left Virginia in 1770 and settled where Glenford now stands, his friends at home would have said that he had gone to live on the Moxahala in Boutetorst County. Virginia would not abide by the Quebec Act. The part she had taken in the French and Indian war she thought ought at least prevent her from losing her land that she obtained by charter. In 1769 her Legislature passed an "Act," placing the territory north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi under her jurisdiction, as Boutetorst County. The next year George Washington floated down the Ohio to the mouth of the Great Kanawha to select 200,000 acres of land for his soldiers, or their widows, who had served with him in the French and Indian war. This is as near as he ever came to our county. It might be interesting to know that the Is- land of Blennerhasset, famous in history and story, was a part of this tract. While Virginia had, no doubt, the better claim to this territory, yet under this "Act" her jurisdiction was only nominal, for Great Britain still claimed it a part of the Province of Quebec. It was not until 1778 that she assumed complete control.63