Hello Everyone, I posted the following to several VA and surname lists that I thought would be interested, but just realized that many subscribers here have Quaker connections to VA (including myself). So, I am submitting it here. FYI, I have corresponded with VDOT and they are doing Frederick Co. next, possibly available by end of year. Note: The list at the end does not contain links. You need to go to the website. My best Janet --- Here is the post. Subj: Early VA Road Orders Online Date: 3/9/2005 8:19:21 AM Eastern Standard Time Hello Everyone, I wanted to make sure you know about this valuable resource available at the VDOT (Va Dept of Transportation) website. If someone has already posted here, please accept this apology and also for cross-posting, but I think this is wonderful! Please feel free to pass on to other lists Janet (Baugh)Hunter === Here's the info and all counties already covered: (These are PDF files, and take a while to download. Free Adobe Reader needed for PDF files downloadable at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html). VDOT Website URL: 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

The following e-mail from England provides more detailed information on Jordans Meeting House. The warden is out of the hospital and appears to be doing well. Damage to the meeting house was not as intense (to the 1688 section) as I had heard earlier. Some folks have sent me e-mails stating that early American Friends meeting houses were constructed similar to Jordans. For those of you who are unfamiliar with its interior plan, it has the minister's gallery against one end wall and the partition placed parallel to the gallery, dividing the larger meeting room into the smaller entryway. This stands in stark contrast to the American system in which the gallery stretches along one side wall and is bisected by the partition. The second floor or loft only exists over the entryway (which they call the lobby below). Seth Hinshaw ----- News about the condition of the Meeting House. The lobby is largely unscathed; gallery (i.e., the loft) contents have been completely rescued; Meeting room is intact but has holes in the ceiling; all the benches and tables rescued and in storage at Old Jordans; Steve (warden) is out of hospital; Children's Room damaged by demolition of the chimney; the roof has to be dismantled; messages of love and prayers for Jordans Friends continue to flow in. Jenny and I would like to have an Open House at our house at 158 Cherry Tree Road, Beaconsfield, on Sixth Day evening 18th Third Month at 8pm when you can look at photos in detail. There are about 50 photos including work in progress, all the contents of the gallery (loft), and 10 of the condition of the inside of the Meeting House. Please ring me if you need directions. I would be pleased if you would pass this on to Friends who do not have e mail. Douglas Butterfield 01494 677221 or 07768 560560 There is good news. There has been a working party at Jordan today, and all the benches and the tables from the Meeting House have been brought out undamaged, except superficially with water and ash, and have been taken to the Mayflower Barn for temporary storage until the insurers can arrange for more permanent storage. None of the furniture in the lobby area, the table, bench, Windsor chairs, and the book rack, have been brought out but remain in the lobby undamaged, and can stay there. All the pictures and documents, together with the book chest, from the gallery (loft) have been brought out of the building and all seem to be relatively undamaged, and I have made a photographic inventory of all the items. All of these are also being stored temporarily at Old Jordans, until they can be stored more satisfactorily in a more permanent place in collaboration with the insurers. A couple of the framed letters of William Penn will need some minor professional attention, and Sue Smithson has the details of these. The Meeting House itself still has most of its ceiling, with some holes where the room is now open to the sky, but all the roof timbers need to be dismantled before a temporary tin roof can be put on. A representative of English Heritage has been at Jordans today giving advice about the structure of the building, and the need for the employment of a local structural engineer to give advice about the dismantling of the roof. A protective wooden shield is being built over the raised minister's gallery at the far end of the Meeting House to protect it from any damage from falling timbers or collapsing parts of the ceiling. Steve Bellamy has now been discharged from hospital and has moved into the gardener's cottage at Old Jordans, having been back to Wexham Park Hospital to have his dressings removed. He continues to be grateful for all the support he has received.