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Author: edwirvin
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Great work, Linda. I have a Bedford Court Order that has puzzled me for a couple of
years.
Order Book 1-A. March Court 1756. "Upon the petition of Robert Mitchell and
others, it is ordered that a road be cleared from Randolph's Rolling Road to where the
county line crosses Mitchell's road and William Rodgers is appointed Surveyor thereof
and that he, together with William Caldwell, Richard Dudgeon, Robert Mitchell, John
Cunningham, George McDavid, William Chamerlane, Patrick McDavid, James McLaughlin, Daniel
Mitchell, William Rogers, Robert Shipley, Thomas McMurray, Matthew Campbell, William
Thompson, James Mitchell, and William Dugon (?), and their male laboring tithables do
forthwith lay open, clear, and keep the same in repair." end quote
I have an interest in many of these names. It appears all of them are residents (or
at least landholders) in newly created Bedford county. This area is that part of Bedford
that was hard up against the Lunenburg (later Charlotte and Campbell) county line. This
is definitely Ulster Scot, Presbyterian country. You can tell that many of these men are
the heirs of the Little Falling River/Turnip Creek/Cubb Creek settlers. I have a William
Rodgers on the Little Falling River who is NOT the Cubb Creek William Rodgers who died in
1750. (In fact, I may have two William Rodgers??) I am not sure if he is connected to
Cub Creek at all. I have a William Caldwell who may or not be the son of old Cubb Creek
John. I don't know. Some of these men may have had parcels that straddled the
Bedford/Lunenburg line? Perhaps you can figure some of this out. Edwin
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