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

At a court held for Botetourt County the 13th day of June, 1782.

Present: Geo. Skillern, Thomas Rowland, James Barnett, John Armstrong, Wm.
Davidson, & Samuel Eason, Gent. Justices.

    James Breckinridge was unanimously apptd. Deputy Clerk in this County, who
took the oath reqd. by law.

    Isaac Vanmeater is apptd. Surveyor of the Road in the room of Jonathan
Newman who is dischd. from that office.

    Thomas Finely is exempt from paying County levies in future on acct. of
infirmities of one of his children.

    Ord. that Lettice Breckinridge have leave to include all the lands whereon
she now lives in one survey, it appearing to the court she hath complyed with
the law in this case made it provided.

    Ord. that Captain James Robinson be entitled to rank as a Captain from the
4th day of December, 1780 agreeable to the date of his Volunteer Captain's
Commission.

    Andrew Lewis is recommended to his Excellency the Governor as a fit person
to execute the office of a Captain of the Militia in this County in the room of
Captain John Lewis who intends to remove himself and family from this to
Kentucky County, and John Love, Lieutenant.

    John Rutledge Lieutenant in Captain Wattcrson's Company of Militia comes
into court and resigns his commission on account of his unsettled state in this
County, and James Willson is appointed Ensign in the said Company.

    The Com. agst. James Knox, a person suspected of being unfriendly to the
liberties of America a jury sworn to try him according to evidence, towit: John
Breckinridge, Wm. Ritchey, Mathew Akin, Augustine Hackwith, Andrew Willson,
Alexander Simpson, John McCracken, Joseph Kyle, Samuel McFarran, Mathew Willson,
James Rowland and Saml. Baldwin retd. a verdt. in these words: "We the jury
impannelled on the trial of James Knox for dissatisfaction, after having
maturely considered the testimony of the witnesses and being informed he is the
chief support of a numerous & helpless family and we are to act with all the
leniency towards such objects, are of opinion that he be acquitted.

    Ord. that a road be establd. agreeable to a report retd. by Jasper Terry,
Jonathan Grymes, and James Trumur from the topp of the Black Water Mountain to
the Montgomery line, and that James Loyd, Jesper Terry and Thomas O'Flour be
Surveyors thereof, and that Capt. Eason and Thomas Goodson allott the bounds and
tithables to each of them respectively, who are to open and keep the same in
repair as the law directs.

    Ord. that the court 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
KINGSPORT PRESS
KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE
United States of America


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