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.

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