Data. Albemarle County Road Orders mentioning "Cowans"

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Intermediate Source:Virginia DOT Online Reports Virginia Highway & Transportation Research Council (A Cooperative Organization Sponsored Jointly by the Virginia Department of Highways & Transportation and the University of Virginia) Charlottesville, Virginia, June 1975, Revised October 2003, VHTRC 75-R72

THE ROUTE OF THE THREE NOTCH’D ROAD: A PRELIMINARY REPORT, Nathaniel Mason Pawlett Faculty Research Historian, and Howard H. Newlon, Jr., Assistant Head Virginia Highway & Transportation Research Council (A Cooperative Organization Sponsored Jointly by the Virginia Department of Highways & Transportation and the University of Virginia) Charlottesville, Virginia January 1976

Revised September 2003, VHTRC 76-R32

Original Source:Albemarle County Order Book I, 1744-1748, 27 June 1745 O.S., p. 23, Albemarle County Order Book 1

Related

Historical American Building Survey, HABS No 1019, DS Tavern

See also:Library of Congress Files

DS Tavern, Albemarle County, VA

Three Notch'd Road

Data

1. 27 June 1745 O.S., p. 23. Road. Andrew Wallace is Appointed Surveyor of the High Way from D. S. to Mitchams River. and Archibald Woods, Jeremiah Marris, William Shaw, Robert Mannely, John Dickey William Wallace Mirlock Mc.dowell Micah Woods junr. Micah Mc.Dowell Anthony Osbrook John Lawson John Cowan William Little and Robert Anderson Are Ordered to Assist the said Wallace in clearing the same.

Commentary

The persons indicated in this road order appear to have lived in or near Woods Gap. The road in question is the Three Notch'd Road which connected Tidewater Virginia to the Valley of Virginia, passing through Woods Gap to Staunton and Beverley's Manor. Many of the workers on the road crew, such as Andrew Wallace, Archibald Woods, Micha Woods, John Cowan, etc are kinsmen of person:Michael Woods (1) who settled in the area about 1734.