Matt Selcer
Josiah Barns
Humbly Sheweth
That your Petitioners for many years past have great
difficulty in passing through ye mountian from that part of Sharando called
Mesenuting without a Road from that place to Thorntons Mill: a road being
needful that way, not only ye sd Mesenuting inhabitants, but also for ye
North rvr, Linvils Creek, & Cap Capon Inhabitants who all come that
way as also from the other parts, ye number or Tythables who are willing
to clear ye sd road ... are sixty odd...pray your worships to grant us
an order...& that there may be two gangs, & that Matthias Selser
& Peter Rufanough be appointed over seers of ye sd road...
(Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Orange
& AugustaOrange County Road Petitions
To the Worshipful Court of Orange County
The Petition of
Peter Rufanough
Wm Taylor
Adam Cuningam
Stephen Phillips
James Leide
Ben Moor
George Leide
Will Bur (to ?)
Robert McCoy
Phillip Long
Joshua Jobe
Paul Long
Jeremiah Litton (?)
Abraham Strickler
____________Egin
Daniel Stover
Henry McCoy
Michell Rynehard