Botetourt County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Court.....Minutes, County Court September 1789 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com June 12, 2007, 10:08 pm Source: Annals Of S W Virginia Written: September 1789 September 8, 1789. Wm. Herbert appointed Constable in Capt. Estill's Company. Edward Green exempted from paying Parish and County levies for his Negro Sambo. William Hawkins appointed Overseer of the Road. Ordered that a road be established from Barkley Shepherd's up Jennings Creek to the Beadford line. Thomas Rowland, John Mills, Capt. Joseph Paxton, John Cartmill, Edward Mitchell, John Logan and George Skillern appointed Overseers of the Road. Ordered that view and marking be made of way from the turn of the road above the Salt-Petre Works, the nearest and best way to Humphries' Force, thence up Craigs Creek to the mouth of Ugley's Creek. Patrick Lockhart and Robert Harvey took the oath of Justice of the Peace. William McClenachan, James Mason, Thomas Rowland and James Woods took the oath to support the Constitution of the United States. George Skillern, Martin McFerran and James Robinson, Gent., same. George Hancock, Gent. Deputy State's Attorney, same. 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/botetourt/court/minutes175gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb