The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . James Elliot, James Fulker-son were apjiointed Commissioners to view a road from George Blackburns byJames Fulkersons to the fork of the path leading to Kentucky and the mouth ofReedy Creek. (1777 Court Records of Washington Co., Va.) The forks werejust west of Arcadia, I think, in the Block House neighborhood. In 1780, Capt. John xAnderson was named a Justice of the Peace for SullivanCo., N. C. This circumstance adds to the probability that he was then living at theBlock House because there was such an overlap])ing of claims as to
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . James Elliot, James Fulker-son were apjiointed Commissioners to view a road from George Blackburns byJames Fulkersons to the fork of the path leading to Kentucky and the mouth ofReedy Creek. (1777 Court Records of Washington Co., Va.) The forks werejust west of Arcadia, I think, in the Block House neighborhood. In 1780, Capt. John xAnderson was named a Justice of the Peace for SullivanCo., N. C. This circumstance adds to the probability that he was then living at theBlock House because there was such an overlap])ing of claims as to the boundaryline between Virginia and North Carolina, and the Block House was so near thestrip in controversy that until the state boundary had been given somewhat de-finite location, John Anderson himself hardlv knew to which state he owed alle-giance. In 1815 he was chosen high sheriff of Scott County which office he held at thetime of his death. He seems to have built the Block House sometime between 1777and 1780. (Letter of R. M. Addington Dec. 6, UHO). House on exact site of Block House
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