a road from Roanoke River to Meherrin River…
This is an interesting record…
10 Feb 1724 – Bertie Ct – John Perry is on jury “to lay out the road from Mr Simon Jeffries Landing on the Roanoke to the maine branch that begins at Mr James Bryants and goes to Chesshires Landing on Maherin River where the trading Vessell comonly lye according to law and that William Bridges be and he is hereby appointed overseer of the said road for the ensuing year.” Haun abstract
(I cannot find the original of this quote… if anyone can clue me in, please do so)
As a mapping guy, I get caught up in these things when I find some clues…
In this case I have found where “Chesshires Landing on the Maherin River” was… I won’t bore you with the details but suffice it to say I am willing to bet serious amounts of money I am right.
William Bridgers is below (upper left) on the Meherrin River in 1716. James Bryan has property (since 1708) near another grant of John Cheser (1720)… but I have not determined exactly where on the Meherrin River Bryan had any land… (But Moseley clearly has him on his map of 1733).
Note the next part: “where the trading Vessell comonly lye according to law “.
My question is… do the Trading Vessels commonly lie on the Roanoke River or the Meherrin River?
This is from the Moseley Map of 1733…
Note in the Moseley Map that the Jeffries Road never seems to have been completed or came into being… but the Road from Wheelers Mill appears from the “Landing Area’ through Stony Bridge and on to Bryan’s Ferry.
Here is my latest Chowan “PRECINCT” map… this was just before even Bertie County was formed (roughly). You can zoom in for details…
This is the area on the Collet map of 1770…
There are no particular questions I have about this Post… the area is just interesting to me. I do have a curiosity about the trade that was carried on in this early colonial period… particularly concerning the Indian Trade… hence my interest in any Trading “Vessels”… you know, small skiffs, boats, periaugers or whatever. And who were the captains.
an afterthought… I do have an ongoing suspicion that many of the modern roads have a genesis in the early colonial roads. Even to a point that many of ‘those’ roads were based on Indian Paths or trails.
This is an interesting article of the early ‘Militia’ of Bertie ‘precinct’ and later County. This author did his homework… a hat tip to him. These were many of the movers and shakers… real people.
Click to access History_NC_Bertie_Colonial_Militia.pdf
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If you have kept an interest thus far then you will find this interesting; I have consulted it a lot. I recognize this as someone who has studied enough to become comfortable with the history. This takes years.
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~fcharper/genealogy/JonesandWoodwards.html
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