Sunday, March 3, 2019

Opequon Creek


1769 Map Of The County Of Frederick, Virginia At the LOC
"Opeckon" Creek
4 March 1745 O. S., FOB 2, p. 26
John Neill is Continued Overseer of the Road from Opecken ford by his Mill to Kerseys ferry...

4 March 1745 O. S., FOB 2, p. 28 [Frederick Order Book]
On the Petition of Lewis Stephens, Martin Cartmell, Nathaniel Cartmell, Edward Cartmell, Benjamin Smith, Christopher Acklin, Samuel Vance, Samuel Glass, Joseph Glass, David Glass, Jacob Cooper, Joseph Fawcett, Thos  Fawcett, John Fawcett, Richard Fawcett, [blank in book] Snapp for a Road from Lewis Stephens’s Mills the Nearest & Best way to the Courthouse... [Source - Virginia DOT Using Frederick County Road Orders 1743-1772]

The Order Book also mentions widow Caldwell/Calwell (Colville?)
6 November 1771, FOB 15, p. 278
John Lupton, Joseph Covill, and David Brown having been Appointed to view the Ground from Opeckon ford at Col. Hite’s Tanyard to Hoop Petticoat Gap made their Report...[Note: The name is indexed as “Colvin.”] 

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