Botetourt County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Court.....Minutes, County Court June 1779
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Source: Annals Of S W Virginia
Written: June 1779

At a court held for Botetourt County the 10th day of June, 1779.

    Present: Adam Smyth, Pat Lockhart, John Armstrong & James Barnett, Gent.
Justices.

    For reasons appearing to the court it is ordered that the fine laid on Wm.
Crawford last court for not appearing as a witness on behalf of the Commonwealth
against Geo. Patterson be set aside, he paying costs to the Clerk.

    This court doth authorize John Logan to draw on the Treasures for forty one
pounds for the maintenance of an infant child of Edward Pearie, who is a soldier
in the Continental Army, that he apply eleven pounds thereof towards satisfying
Wm. Dempsey for his trouble & expences in taking care of the sd. infant
heretofore, and that the remainder be laid out in necessaries for its future
support.

    On the petition of Uriah Humphries leave is granted him to keep an ordinary
at his house in this County, he having entd. into bond in the sum of fifty
pounds accdg. to law with Joseph Pryor his security.

    William Caldwell is set levy free on acct. of his age and other infirmities.

    The order made to bind Samuel Kerr, infant orphan of Wm. Kerr, decd, to
James McCown, is set aside.

    James McCown and Robert McAfee are apptd. by the court guardians to Samuel
Kerr, decd., who with Archibald Woods, their security, entered into bond in five
hundred pounds accdg. to law.

    Ord. that James Cloyd, Joseph Richardson and Henry Pauling, having been
first sworn, do view and report to the court the nighest & best way from the
fork of the road at John Howard's field to Hugh Mills'.

    Benjamin Allen is apptd. Surveyor of the Road from John Stewart's to John
Howard's in the room of David May, who is discharged from that office, and also
Henry Pauling from Mr. Howard's to the Bedford line.

    Ord. that the ct. be adjd. till tomorrow morning, six o'clock. The mins. of
these procdgs. were signed by
                          Adam Smyth


   At a court continued and hold for Botetourt County the 11th day of June,
1779. Present: The Revd. Adam Smyth, Pat Lockhart, John Armstrong & James
Barnett, Gent. Justices.


David Mitchell   Plff.   )
agst.                    )
John Ross        Deft.   )

    This day came the parties by their attornies &c. & also a jury, towit:
Robert Harris, James Norvil, Wm. Thompson, Jas. Cloyd, Wm. Miller, Samuel
Baldwin, Jesse Clark, John Looney, John Davies, Samuel Kinnerly, Andw. Moore and
Hugh Neelly, who retd. a verdt. in favor of the defendant. Judgt. accdgly. & costs.

    Ord. that Mary Montgomery, wife of James Montgomery, be allowed for her
present support and till the suit in chancery be determined in this court the
sum of twenty shillings per day.

    Ord. that the court be adjd. till court in course. The mins. of these
procdgs. were signed by
                       Adam Smyth


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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