Hello Everyone,
Maybe I'm way behind here, but doing a google search for a Hezekiah Bussey, I
came across the following Virginia Dept of Transportation website that has
several early road order books online in PDF format. (Free Adobe Reader needed
for PDF files downloadable at:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html).
I hope there's someone else out there besides me that didn't know about this
(smile).
Best Regards, Janet (Baugh) Hunter -- Info & List follows:
http://www.virginiadot.org/vtrc/main/index_main.htm
Using the links on the left, click on Publications.
Click on this at the bottom of the lefthand column: VTRC's historic road
documents are now available online.
You will find the following (links at end):
The establishment and maintenance of public roads were among the most
important functions of the county court during the colonial period in Virginia. Each
road was opened and maintained by an overseer (or surveyor) of the highways,
who was appointed each year by the Gentlemen Justices. The overseer was usually
assigned all the able-bodied men (the "Labouring Male Tithables") living on
or near the road. These laborers then furnished their own tools, wagons, and
teams and were required to work on the roads for six days each year.
County court records relating to roads and transportation are
collectively known as "road orders." The Virginia Transportation Research Council's
published volumes of road orders and related materials contain not only information
on early roads, but also the names of inhabitants who lived and worked along
the roadways, plantations, farms, landmarks, landforms, and bodies of water.
Much of this information is found nowhere else in early records, making
these publications invaluable not only to historical and cultural resource
research, but also to other disciplines, including social history, preservation
planning,
environmental science, and genealogy.
VTRC Number Author, Title
04-R17 Miller, A.B. New Kent County and Hanover County Road Orders 1706-1743
Online Report
03-R19 Mitchell B. Fairfax County Road Orders 1749-1800 Online Report
02-R14 Pawlett, N.M., Miller, A.B., and Clark, K.M. Amelia County Road Orders
Online Report
99-R17 Pawlett, N.M., Miller, A.B., Clark, K.M.and Samuel, T.L. Jr. Augusta
County Road Orders 1745-1769 Online Report
94-TAR13 Miller, A.B. Culpeper County Road Orders, 1763-1764 Online Report
93-R17 Pawlett, N.M., and Boyd, T.J. Lunenburg County Road Orders, 1746-1764
Online Report
90-R6 Miller, A.B. Orange County Road Orders, 1750-1800 Online Report
89-R1 Pawlett, N.M. Brunswick County Road Orders, 1732-1749 Online Report
85-R17 Pawlett, N.M. Spotsylvania County Road Orders, 1722-1734 Online Report
85-R2 Miller, A.B. Orange County Road Orders, 1734-1749 Online Report
81-R36 Pawlett, N.M. Albemarle County Roads, 1725-1816 Online Report (2 MB.
Size)
78-R16 Pawlett, N.M. A Brief History of Roads in Virginia, 1607-1840 Online
Report
76-R45 Pawlett, N.M. An Index to Roads in the Albemarle County Surveyor’s
Books Online Report
76-R32 Pawlett, N.M. and Newlon, H. The Route of the Three Notch’d Road
Online Report
76-R27 Pawlett, N.M. Albemarle County Road Orders, 1783-1816 Online Report
75-R72 Pawlett, N.M. Albemarle County Road Orders, 1744-1748 Online Report
75-R71 Pawlett, N.M. Goochland County Road Orders, 1728-1744 Online Report
75-R59 Young, D. A Brief History of the Staunton and James River Turnpike
Online Report
75-R43 Pawlett, N.M. Louisa County Road Orders, 1742-1748 Online Report
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