Botetourt County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Court.....Minutes, County Court August 1776
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Source: Annals Of S W Virginia
Written: August 1776

At a meeting of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Botetourt the 13th
of August, 1776.

    Present: John Bowyer, William Fleming, Benjamin Estill, Philip Love, William
McKee, Richard May, William Madison, and Adam Smyth, Gentlemen Justices.

    The ordinance to enable the Magistrates and Officers to continue the
administration of justice and for other purposes being read, the said John
Bowyer having taken the oath of a Justice therein prescribed, which was
administered to him by William Fleming and William Madison, he the said Bowyer
administered the said oath to the above named William Fleming, Benjamin Estill,
Philip Love, Wm. McKee, Richard May, William Madison and Adam Smyth, who
severally took the same. The said John Bowyer then administered the oath
directed by another ordinance of Convention to be taken by the County Court
Clerks to John May, who took the same, and also administered the oath of Sheriff
in the said ordinance 'to George Skillern, who took the same.

    At a court held the aforesaid day. Present: The aforesaid Justices.

    Samuel Lapsley, a peputy Sheriff for the County, took an oath to the
Commonwealth of Virginia according to Ordinance of Convention.

    Michael Kiney is set levy free on account of his age.

    Andrew Donnally, a Justice of the Peace, took the oath ordered by the
Convention.

    The last will & testament of Andrew Ralston, decd., was proved by William
Craig and administration of the estate with the will annexed is granted to
Elizabeth Ralston, and the said Wm. Ralston, who made oath and entered into bond
in £1000 according to law.

    Ord. that Benjamin Estill be apptd. Surveyor of the Road from James River to
Reonix's place in the room of David Smith, and it is ord. that the hands
formerly allotted to that bounds do work thereon when required to keep the same
in repair according to law.

    John Reaburn the same in the room of Hugh Crockett, who is dischd. from that
office.

    Ord. that John Humphries, Andrew Willson and John Willson being first sworn
do appraise in current money the slaves (if any) and personal estate of Andrew
Ralston, deceased, and return an account thereof to the court.

    Andrew Woods, a Justice of the Peace, took the oath required by Ordinance of
the Convention.

    Ord. that the church wardens bind out Tom, a mulatto male child of a servant
woman of Richard Morris', to Michael Sharkey untill he arrives to the age of 21
years, it appearing to the court that the said child was born during, the term
of his mother's servitude with said Morris and purchased by the said Shirley. [sic]

    Nathaniel Evans is apptd. a Constable in the room of James McNeell, who is
dischd. from that office.

    Upon a motion of John Paxton ordered that the road as it stood past his
house before the appeal be opened & kept in repair untill the said appeal be
determined, & as it appears that the same has been stopped up by Samuel Wallace
& Mathew Elder since the appeal was granted, it is ordered that they immediately
open those parts of the same which they have respectively shut up, that the
present Overseer from Buffaloe Creek to the North River with the tithables
belonging to that bounds do keep the same in repair according to law.

    Ordered that the court be adjd. till court in course.

    The minutes of these proceedings were signed.
                              William Fleming


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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