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REPORTS OF PROCESSIONERS
Source: History of Rockbridge County, Virginia - 1920
In 1747, Joseph
Long and Richard Woods were ordered to
procession in the Forks of James; Alexander McClure and
Robert Huston from teh North Branch of James to Andrew
Baxter's, thence, on a straight line to the mill of John
Hays, "joining the North Mountain"; Francis McCown and John
Montgomery fromthe North Branch of James on a straight line
from the Hays mill to the upper end of Beverly Manor.
Houston and McClure reported for the following
settlers, April, 1748:
Andrew Baxter (present, Nathaniel Evans), William
Givins, John Gray, William Hall (present, Robert Allison),
Charles Hays (present, Robert Allison), Charles Hays
(present, Andrew Hays), Robert Huston, Matthew Lyle
(present, John Lyle,) Alexander McCleary (present, Moses
Whiuteside), John McNab (present, Baptist McNab), John Paul
(present, Roger Keys), John P. Paul (present, Michael
Finney), John Stevenson (present, Andrew Stevenson.)
Montgomery and McCown reported for these:
James Archer, Samuel Anderson, Thomas Berry, William
Berry, William Cowden, Joseph
Coulton, Robert Coulton,
Samuel Dunlap, Robert Dunlap, Patrick Hays, George
Henderson, John Lowry, Nathan Lusk, William Lockridge,
William McCanless, William Michell, Francis McCown (present,
John Downey), James Moore, Samuel McCutchen, James Martin,
James Robinson, James Sheids, John Shields, James Trimble,
Alexander Walker, John Walker.
In 1764, John Paxton and Abraham Brown processioned
between North River and the Buffalo for the following:
James Allison, James Bailey, Andrew Brown, Abraham
Brown, Edmund Crump, James Campbell, George Campbell, James
Davis, James Edmiston, Willilam Foster, William Hall,
William Holeman, Joseph Lapsley, Robert Morre, John Moore,
Samuel Moore, Samuel McClure, John McKnight, John McCollom,
Patrick McCollom, Christian Milliron, James McLang, William
Paxton, John Paxton, John Sommers, John Taylor, James
Trimble, Joseph Walker, Richard Woods, James Welch, Peter
Wallace.
A part of the precinct of Paxton and Brown was
processioned by Alexander Collier and Andrew Miscampbell (McCampbell)
for the following:
John Beaty, Archibald Buchanan, James Campbell, Moses
Cunningham, Hugh Cunningham, Margery Crawford, Alexander
Deal (Dale), James Davis, Robert Erwin, Edward Fairies,
George Gibson, John Gilmore, William Gilmore, William Hall,
Robert Hamilton, John Hanna, John Huston, James Hutton,
Henry Kirkham, William McCasney, John McKee, Robert McKee,
John McMurtry, James McCalster, George McConne, (McCown),
John McConne, Robert McKelhenny, Robert McHenry, William
Moore, William Porter, John Somers, Robert Talforde, David
Talford, Solomon Whitley, John Wylie, John Wylie, Jr., James
Young, Robert Young.
In the same year, Andrew Hall and James, son of William
Buchanan, processioned for the precinct between North River
and the Beverly line, and between North Mountain and the
great road leading from Captain Bowyer's to the courthouse.
The men they visited were these:
Robert Allison, John Allison, Isaac Anderson, James
Anderson, Jacob Anderson, William Berry, Reverend John
Brown, Andrew Buchanan, James Buchanan, Jasper Buntin,
William Davies, Samuel Dunlap, Andrew Fitzpatrick, James
Greenlee's heirs, Andrew Hays, John Lyle's heirs, William
Lusk, James McLang, Henry McLang, Alexander McCroskey, David
McCroskey, John McCroskey, Captain Samuel McDowell, James
McKee, William Patton, Samuel Robinson, Edward Tarr,
Alexander Telford, James Thompson, William Young.
In 1767, James Simpson and John Mitchell processioned
for the following, between the Buffalo and the James:
Charles Allison, Alexander Baggs, William Crawford,
John Davis, David Dreadden, James Dreaddin (Dryden), James
Gilmore, John Gilmore, John Hickman, Richard Mathews,
William Mathews, William McBride, Arthur McClure, James
McGavock, Robert Miller, John Murray, John Paxton, John
Poage, George Salling, John Thompson, John Walker, Benjamin
Wattson, John White, Robert Whittle. |
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