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Facts and Events
Records in Orange County, VA
- Orange County Road Petitions: To the Worshipful his Majesty's Justices of Orange County, June 1738-9. The Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of Opekon Sheweth. That yr petitioners at present lay under great inconveniency for want of a Road from Just Hytes Mills to Ashbeys bent Ford on Shanando humbly pray that yr worships will order that a Waggon Road be cleared. (Those that signed include:) David Vance, Johannes Stockli (GB), John Hite, Abraham Christman, Jacob Christman, Jost Heid [Hite], Thomas Branson, Jr., John Branson, Benjamin Borden, Edward Corder. [Source: Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Orange & Augusta Counties, with Tithables, Delinquents, Pettioners, 1730-1754, Vol. 1, Peggy Shomo Joyner, pg. 54].
- Orange County Road Petitions: To the Honourable Court may it Please Your honours that wee [sic] the Subscribers do humbly petition untio Your honours for a Wagon Road to be made from John Hite Mill to John Funks Mill. The Road which is now from John Hite to John Funks is very Difficult for a Wagon to go therefore your humble Petitiners beg the favour of you that you will Grant an Order unto Your Petitiners to make a sufficient Road for a Wagon... Orange County Shanandoe Jany. 20th 1742/3. (Those that signed include:) John Funck, John ffunk, Junr., Georg Dellinger, George Seller, Woolerich Kreybiel, Peter Gurtner, Peter Bowman, Jost Heid [Hite] (GS), Henrich Wiess (GS), Lewis Stephans, Peter Stephans (GS), Jacob Christman (GS), Jacob Neuschwanger (GS), J(o)hannes New(sch)wanger (GS), George Dieter (??) (GS), Johan Woodell (GS), William Vance, John Stoeckli (GS), Petter Stauffer (GS), Jon.(?) Hite, Gorg Baumann (GS). [Source: Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Orange & Augusta Counties, with Tithables, Delinquents, Pettioners, 1730-1754, Vol. 1, Peggy Shomo Joyner, pg. 56].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 .
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
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