 For this assembly, Cumberland County had changed its name to Fayette County but changed the name back to Cumberland County for the next assembly in October.In April 1784, this assembly voted "to give Congress the  lying between the Allegheny Mountains" (as the entire Appalachian range was then called) "and the Mississippi River" to help offset its war debts.This area was a large part of what had been the Washington District (usually referred to simply as the "Western Counties").