Botetourt County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Court.....Minutes, County Court March 1782
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Source: Annals Of S W Virginia
Written: March 1782

At court held for Botetourt County the 14th day of March, 1782.

Present: Geo. Skillern, Josiah Martin, Wm. Neelly, Robert Poage and Pat
Lockhart, Gent. Justices.

    A licence is grtd. Archibald Kyle 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
James Rowland his secty.

    Ord. that Grace, a child of Elizabeth Anne Hudson, be bound to Jesse McComb
accdg. to law.

     Ord. that John & George Rowland, orphans of William Rowland, decd., be
bound to Wm. & Geo. Graham till they arrive at the age of twenty one years to be
bound by the Executors.

    Ord. that Robt. Rowland be bound also to Francis Graham, Wm. Rowland to John
and Robert Armstrong, Amey to James Rowland, and Sarah to Thomas Rowland, till
they arrive respectively to age.

    Ord. that a Platt, including all Thomas Meyer lands in the Falling Spring
Valley be certified it appearing to the court that he hath taken the regular
steps of the law in this case made & provided.

    Ord. that the ct. be adjd. till tomorrow morning, ten o'clock. The mins. of
these prcdgs. were signed by
                                       Geo. Skillern


At a court contd. & held for Botetourt County the 15th day of March, 1782.

Present:  Geo. Skillern, Patrick Lockhart, Thomas Rowland & Wm. Davidson, Gent.
Justices.
    Ord. that James Rowland, Nicholas Carper, Samuel McFarran & Wm. Kyle or any
three of them being sworn do view the way proposed by John Peck for altering the
road leading from this Town to the road by Thomas McFarran's, as also the way
that the road which Wm. Harvey proposes to take by his mill, and report the same
to the court.

    Wm. McClenachan prded. a commission from his Excellency the Governor apptg.
him Sheriff of this County, who took the oath reqd, by law.

    The Sheriff of this County enters his protest against the prison of this
County.

    Thomas Fulton took the oath of a Deputy Sheriff of this County.

    A licence is grtd. to Thomas Fulton to keep an ordinary at the house of
Capt. Thomas Bowyer in this Town, he having entd. into bond in the sum of fifty
lbs. accdg. to law with Wm. McClenachan his security.

    Ord. that a road be established agreeable to a report made & returned by
Moses Bennett, Samuel McClure and John Shields from Hugh Allen big mouth to
Isaac Vinsandt's and that Joseph Miller be Surveyor thereof, who with the
tithables petitioning for said road is to open & keep the same in repair as the
law directs.

    The mins. of these prcdgs. were signed by
                                Geo. Skillern


At a court contd. & held for Botetourt County the 16th day of March, 1782.

Present: Geo. Skillern, Pat Lockhart, Wm. Davidson and Thomas Rowland, Gent.
Justices.

    Ordered that Geo. Rutledge to take in the taxable property within the bounds
of Capt. Looney's Co. of Militia in the room of Wm. Hamilton and Pat Lockhart in
Capt. Holston's in case the Revd. Mr. Smyth doth not return home in time to do it.

    Ordered that Wm. Davidson, Gent., to take a list of the tithables within the
bounds Capt. Pryor and Beard Companies of Militia in the room of Capt. Bailer
who is to take in a list of the tithables in Capt. Galloway's Company.

    Ord. that the ct. be adjd. till ct. in course. The mins. of these prcdgs.
were signed by
                              Geo. Skillern


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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