17th-19th centuries property owners were quite usually required to maintain any principal road that bordered or passed through their land.  Thus, the "road orders" that administered those activities involved many hundreds of names of land owners.

This is an important URL for such names and activities, the same sent to VA Southside by E. W. Wallace.  Paul 
http://www.virginiadot.org/vtrc/main/historic_roads.htm

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