Botetourt County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Court.....Minutes, County Court June 1783
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Source: Annals Of S W Virginia
Written: June 1783

                      June 12th, 1783.

Present: Geo. Skillern, Martin McFarran, John Baller and Mathew Willson, Gent.
Justices.

    Thomas Madison is apptd. State's Attorney in this County.

    Simpson Sawyer is apptd. Surveyor of the Road from James Brown's to John
Neell's, who with the tithables of James Brown, Edward Flood, John Robinson, Wm.
Reid, John Reid, Rodger Morning, Sampson Sawyer, David Tate and his ten sons,
David and Samuel Reace, Wm. Knox and Richard McCallister are to open and keep
said road in repair as the law directs.

    Also Saml. Loage the same as above from John Neell's to Wm. Hamm's, who with
Wm. Loage, John Reace, Jeremiah Wills, John Neell, David Jaycock, Owen O'Neell,
Wm. Neell, James McCallister, John Tygart, James McCaul, John McCallister, and
Drurey Smith's tithables are to open & keep said road in repair as the law directs.

    Edward McMullin and James Moss are apptd. Surveyors of the road from Wm.
Hamm's to the Greenbrier County line, who with tithables under James McMullin,
Bailey Greenwood, Wm. Hamm, Drury Hamm, Jacob Warren, Benjamin Halbut, Wm.
Russell, John Moss, Wm. Lewis, Wm. Hamilton and Companies including all the
tithables on Potts Creek from Geo. Green's to Thomas Carpenter's, who are to
open and keep said road in repair as the law directs.

    Ordered that Wm. Hamilton and John Lewis divide the tithables between the
said Moss and Mullin.

    Geo. Frazer took the oath of Captain of the Militia in this County.

    Ordered that William Cunningham an orphan child be bound out to James
Robinson, son to Wm. Robinson, accdg. to law.

    Humphry Smith and John Smith apptd. Deputy Surveyors in this County.

    Joseph Carpenter allowed 16 shillings for 4 bushels of wheat furnished to
the publick.

   Joseph Looney took the oath of Justice of the Peace, of a Justice of the
County Court in Chancery, and of a Justice of Oyer & Terminer.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Annals of Southwest Virginia
1769-1800

BY LEWIS PRESTON SUMMERS

Member of American Historical Association, Virginia Historical Society; Alumnus
University of Virginia and Tulane University (Louisiana); Member American Bar
Association, Virginia State Bar Association

Author of

HISTORY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
1740-1786

WASHINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA
1777-1870

PUBLISHED BY
LEWIS PRESTON SUMMERS
ABINGDON, VIRGINIA
1929

COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY
LEWIS PRESTON SUMMERS

MANUFACTURED COMPLETE BY THE
KINGSPORT PRESS
KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE
United States of America

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