Mary Margaret McKinney Robinson
BIRTH 1712
DEATH 1781 (aged 68–69)
w/o James William Robinson
My fourth great grandmother's mother reportedly "..was sister to Lord Leich (Linch, Lynch) of Scotland. (Family Records, Harrison Co. WV 0163815) "
Most likely moved west between 1745 & 1750 to newly created Augusta county.
In the year 1745, all that portion of the Colony of Virginia which lay west of the Blue Ridge Mountains was erected into a county which was named Augusta. In December of that year, the County Court was organized and held its first sitting. Prior to that time it had become the refuge and abiding place of a strong body of Scotch-Irish immigrants. The bounds of the new county were limited on the north by Thomas Lord Fairfax's Northern Neck Grant and the boundaries of Maryland and Pennsylvania to the westward of Fairfax; on the east by the Blue Ridge mountains; on the south by the Carolina line. On the west its territory embraced all the soil held by the British without limit of extent. For about twelve years the County Court of Augusta was the only Court and repository of records within that district. From the end of that period, at frequent intervals, its jurisdiction was restricted by the erection of other counties as the demands of the settlers required. Its original constitution embraced all Virginia west of the Blue Ridge (with the exception of the Northern Neck Grant under Thomas Lord Fairfax, whose southern boundary was in the present County of Shenandoah, and western, through the counties of Hardy, Hampshire, and northward to the Potomac); the whole of the present state of West Virginia; a portion of the present Southwestern Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh, which was, at times, the seat of the County Court; and the lands on the waters of the
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers."
SOURCE: Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia; Volume I
[page 7]
In 1776 Monongalia county was created and from it came Harrison county Virginia, and southwestern counties in Pennsylvania, south of Ohio River by, in part court action, the 1784 act which very much displeased a George Washington who had built his state of the art grist mill in what now was Pennsylvania, plus providing another state controling the waterway route for the Ohio Company products to the Potomac river waterway, thence to Alexandria and the world. George looked to other water routes through Harrison County for a possible water route during his 3rd trip to area in September 1784.
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