Botetourt County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Court.....Minutes, County Court August 1799
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Source: Annals Of S W Virginia
Written: August 1799

August 13, 1799

    Robert Harvey resigns as Justice of the Peace.

    The grand jury presented the following:

    True bill against Daniel Denney

    True bill against John Smyth.

    Presentment against Robert Rowland, dismissed.

    Presentment against Jeremiah Pate, dismissed.

    John Riddlesbarger fined for not appearing to serve as a juryman.

    John and Cornelius Pates & Co., granted license to keep an ordinary at their
house.


August 14, 1799

    License granted Michael Book to keep an ordinary at his house.

    Samuel Steel and John Legg fined for failing to attend as jurymen.

    James Davis placed under bond for his good behavior.

    John McCury, Joseph Polk, Thomas Churchwill, John Newill and Samuel Steel
fined for failing to attend as jurymen.

    Henry Fridley, Thomas and George Sickles bound to William Preston to be
taught the trade of nailors. 

ers [sic] of the Revenue Tax.


August 15, 1799
    Jacob Clapsaddle bound to keep the peace, his father George Clapsaddle
security.

    George Clapsaddle placed under bond for his good behavior.

    Ordered that Nancy Readman be three times ducked by the Sheriff of this
County at the public ducking stool.

    James Breckinridge, Matthew Harvey and William Anderson appointed
commissioners for repairing the old stocks or erecting new ones, as they may
think most advisable.


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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