Botetourt County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Court.....Minutes, County Court December 1779 ************************************************ 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 May 5, 2007, 12:43 pm Source: Annals Of S W Virginia Written: December 1779 At a court held for Botetourt County the 9th day of December, 1779. Present: The Revd. Adam Smyth, Thos. Rowland, John Armstrong and Wm. Ward, Gent. Justices: James Ritchey's claim as a soldier who served in Wm. Christian's Company of Rangers in the year 1760 on the Cherokee Expedition commanded by Wm. Byrd is ordered to be certified. William Nully and Martin McFarran, two of the Gent. named in the Commission of the Peace for this County, took the oaths reqd. by law. Ord. that Humphrey Madison's claim be certified who served in the year 1760 in Capt. Dickerson's Company of Rangers as Ensign on the frontiers of this Colony and that he lost life in the said service and then one proof was made to the court that Katharine Arbuckle, wife of Wm. Arbuckle, is the proper heiress at law. The Reverend Adam Smyth, John Armstrong and William Ward having retd. their report of the state & condition of Mr. John Howard's mind, it is referred till tomorrow, to be then considered. James Rowland, Executor of Francis Riley, decd., proved to this court that the said Francis Riley served in Capt. William Preston's Company of Rangers as a soldier for the protection & defence of the frontiers of this Colony in the year 1759 & it is ord. to be certified. Ord. that James McGuire's claim be certfd. proof having been made in court that he served in Capt. Christian's Company of Regulars of the Second Virginia Regement in the year 1760 as a soldier commanded by Capt. Wm. Byrd. Ord. that the ct. be adjd. till tomorrow morning, six o'clock. The minutes of these prcdgs. were signed by Adam Smyth At a court contd. & held for Botetourt County the 10th day of December, 1779. Present: Pat Lockhart, Thomas Rowland, James Barnctt, Wm. Neelly & William Walton, Gent. Justices. On the motion of John Madison by Thomas Madison, his attorney, against John Maxwell, formerly High Sheriff of this County, for his fees delivered to Francis Smith, a Deputy under him, amounting (word omitted) 7375 pounds of tobacco to collect, it is ordered that judgment be entered against the Sheriff for the sum of thirty pounds, fourteen shillings & seven pence, the amount of the fees at a penny per pound. Ordered that it be certified that proof was made to this court that Robert Breckinridge, Gent., decd., commanded a Company that was incorporated with a detachment of the First Virginia Regement in the year 1756, and that he served in tho Expedition against the Shawnees commanded by Colo. Andrew Lewis and that Alexander Breckinridge is the heir at law. Ord. that Laird Fream's claim be certified who proved to this court that he served in Capt. Christian's Company of Regulars as a soldier in 1760 in the old Virginia Regement commanded by Colo. Wm. Byrd. Ord. that the claim of Solomon Simpson, Edward Gill, Senr., Christopher Finnie, Wm. Cross and Christopher Best be certified who proved to this court that they respectively served as soldiers in the first old Virginia Regement commanded by Colo. Washington. John Cuntley's claim is ordered to be certified who proved to this court that he served in Capt. Christian's Company of Regulars in the year 1760 as a soldier for the protection and defence of the frontiers of this Colony. Ordered that the claim of John Tunley & John Collier's claim be certified who served each in Capt. Christian's Company of Regulars in the year 1760 on the Cherokee Expedition as soldiers commanded by Colo. William Byrd. George Peeter's claim to be certified who proved to the court that he served as a soldier in Capt. Gish's Company in the First Virginia in the year 1760. (According to law, Charles Allison proved his discharge.) A report of a road was made and returned from William Ward's saw mill to the Stone House. Ordered that the road be established agreeable (missing words) and that the petitioners for the same open and keep (missing words) in repair, of which road James Robinson is apptd. the Surveyor. Ord. that the sum of sixty pounds be allowed to Mary Ralston, widow of John Ralston, who died in the Continental service for the support of herself and two children for the present year and then draw on the Treasurer for the same. Ord. that forty pounds be allowed to Mary Wiers, wife of James Wiers, a soldier, for her and the support of her children for the present year & that she draw on the Treasurer for the same. The report of the Gentlemen apptd. by this court to enquire into the state & condition of the mind of John Howard, who is supposed to have been for some time past in a state of insanity, was this day agreeable to the order of yesterday the said Howard freely heard in his defence, on consideration whereof it is the opinion of the court that the said John Howard from the report and what appears from several letters and papers of his own writing and the testimony of William Ward and Andrew Woods that he is in a state of insanity and that his estate ought to be taken out of his management and placed in the hands of trustees for the future support of himself and benefit of his family, and that he ought to be sent to the publick hospital. It not having been in the power of the Gentlemen appointed to enquire into the real profits of his estate, a considerable part thereof being at a great distance and in another County, it is ordered that whenever it can be ascertained the said John Howard shall be entitled to a support out of the proportionable (missing word) to the real profits thereof. And that the Sheriff convey him hither according to law. From which proceedings Martin McFarran, Gent., dissented. Whereupon the defendant's motion for an appeal, which was overruled, and that he be allowed for his support untill the real profits of his estate be ascertained the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds per month. Ord. that the ct. be adjd. The mins. of these prcdgs. were signed by Patrick Lockhart 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/minutes64gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 7.2 Kb