Botetourt County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Court.....Minutes, County Court June 1781
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Source: Annals Of S W Virginia
Written: June 1781

At a ct held for Botetourt County the 14th day of June, 1781.

Present: Thomas Rowland, Martin McFarran, Robert Poague, Samuel Eason and
William Walton, Gent. Justices.

    Curtis Alderson is apptd. Surveyor of the Road in the room of Joseph
Carroll, who is dischd. from that office.

    The order entered at September Court, 1778 directing the church wardens of
Botetourt Parish to bind out Catharine Hance, a bastard child of Grace Thompson,
to Lettie Breckinridge accdg. to law is hereby set aside.

    Jasper Terry, Jonathan Grimes and James Turman being first sworn do view the
road from the road that leads from Henry County's to the top of the mountain on
Little River to the Montgomery line leading towards the lead mines and report
the nearest and best way to the court.

    Henry Lewis is set levy free on acct. of his age & infirmity.

    Ord. that Henry Watterson's inclusive survey be certfd. to the Register as
it appears to this court just & reasonable.

    Ord. that the road be opened from Sledding's Branch to the fork of Catawba
Road agreeable to the way proposed by Colo. Thomas Rowland and Mr. Andrew Henry.

    Ord. Stephen May, Nicholas Carper, Robert Harvy, and Saml. McRoberts, Junr.,
being first sworn, do view the way from Mr. Harvey's field and report the best
way to the court.

    Thomas Madison is apptd. State's Attorney in this County.

    Ordered that four thousand pounds of tobacco be ordered for Thomas Madison
for acting as State's Attorney for this County for the ensuing year.

    Ord, that the ct. be adjd. till the court in course. The mins. of these
prcdgs. were signed by
                                              Thomas Rowland


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
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United States of America

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