Section Seventeen

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An Index of Names for all sections is available for reference

Index for Section 17

Barry's Br
Bohannon
Bragg's Mill
Caviness
City Road [present route 49][sections 12,13,17]
Dance, W. S.
Dance, Mrs (near River)
Ellis
Ellis, E.
Finch
Finch's Mill
Foundry
Good Br [several]
Good Fd (2) [at South Meherrin]
Hamlin, W.
Har.... [near South Meherrin]
Hazlewood
Hepburn [present Ravenscroft home] 36°52'11",-78°24'38
Hepburns Mill (Bad Br)
Holmes
Jeter, J.
K?? [at South Meherrin]
Key...
Lamb?, R. H.
Lee's Mill [#631,Lee's Mill Rd,at Crupper Run, mill gone, owned by Samuel E. Lee]
Lester
McAllister
McKenny
Middle Meherrin River [SE cor. section 11,16,17]
Mill Grove
Moore
Mt. Olivet Ch
North Meherrin River [sections 11,12,17,18]
Pampter??, J. [unreadable name on both Gilmer and Hotchkiss maps]
Pennington
Phillip's Mill [clarified on 1871 Hotchkiss map]
Rawls?
Rehobeth
Rehobeth Rd
Robinson, A. [Ashley Robertson on 1860 Census]
Roger?
South Meherrin River
St. John
Tisdale, H. W.
Townsend, Mrs.
Vac [several]
Wilson
Wilson, E
Winn, W.
Winn, Mrs

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Annotations

Elliott and Nye's Virginia Directory and Business Register - 1852 Lunenburg County among merchants lists Kepburn [Hepburn] & Swepson
post office Yatesville.

The 1860 Census of Lunenburg shows:

E. M. Hepburn 66 farmerMartha S. Swepston [Swepson] 28
Robt Swepston [Swepson] 30 merchant
Thomas Ames 19 merchant clerk
Ebenezza Jones 64 overseer
M. H. Dodson 8/12 female

E. M. Hepburn was owner of Hepburn's Mill on the river. The mercantile business may have been at the mill site.