Notes: V. Cove Creek

Note 1. Wythe County, Va., Deed Book 1, p. 268 (Patrick Calhoun to Jesse Evans on July 14, 1795).

Note 2. Wythe County, Va., Deed Book 1, p. 273 (Hugh Montgomery to Jesse Evans on March 11, 1795); Wythe County Deed Book 1, p. 284 (Alexander Smyth to Jesse Evans on Aug. 11, 1795).

Note 3. Wythe County, Va., Deed Book 1, pp. 296-99 (Robert Breckenridge to Alexander Smyth on Aug. 11, 1795).

Note 4. Wythe County, Va., Entry Book 1, p. 260 (Alexander Smyth to Jesse Evans on Feb. 6, 1796); Wythe County, Va., Survey Book 1, pp. 265-66 (Alexander Smyth to Jesse Evans on Feb. 6, 1796).

Note 5. Wythe County, Va., Deed Book 3, pp. 16-19. Subsequently, Evans executed other related deeds to Robert Crockett that do not reflect additional transactions. See Wythe County Va., Deed Book 4, p. 408 (Jesse Evans quitclaim on Helvey property to Robert Crockett on Aug. 16, 1806); Wythe County, Va., Deed Book 6, p. 219 (Jesse Evans to Robert Crockett on Sept. 28, 1814).

Note 6. List of actions pending in General Court, Nov. 14, 1795, Misc. Microfilm 5380, Box 7, Folder 27, Library of Virginia.

Note 7. Jesse Evans petition, Legislative Petitions, Montgomery County, Microfilm Reel 131, Box 171, Folder 54, Library of Virginia.

Note 8. Wythe County, Va., Deed Book 3, p. 124.

Note 9. Wythe County, Va., Deed Book 3, p. 228 (Michael Dechert to Jesse Evans on April 19, 1802); Wythe County, Va., Deed Book 3, p. 230 (Jesse Evans to Peter Wetzell on April 29, 1802).

Note 10. Virginia land grant to Jesse Evans, Oct. 21, 1811, Land Office Grants No. 62, 1811-1812, Virginia State Land Office Grants A-Z, Microfilm Reel 128, Library of Virginia, pp. 240-41. This document is available in digital format on the Library of Virginia website.

Note 11. Wythe County, Va., Deed Book 6, p. 218 (Jesse Evans to Robert Crockett on Sept. 28, 1814).

Note 12. Wythe County, Va., Deed Book 6, p. 217 (Jesse Evans to Robert Crockett on Sept. 28, 1814).

Note 13. Wythe County, Va., Deed Book 6, p. 297 (Jesse Evans and Joseph Evans to James Ward on Sept. 1, 1815).

Note 14. Wythe County, Va., Deed Book 5, p. 257 (Jesse Evans to Joseph Evans on Oct. 4, 1809). The boundary description in this deed is inconsistent with other information, but any discrepancy was made moot by the joint deed to James Ward in 1815.

Note 15. Cynthia Miller Leonard, The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619 – January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members, Richmond: Virginia State Library (1978), pp. 191-93.

Note 16. Ibid., pp. 195-97.

Note 17. “Address of the Democratic Society in Wythe County, Virginia,” Dunlap and Claypool’s American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia (Aug. 2, 1794), p. 3.

Note 18. See Part I Note 13.

Note 19. Wythe County, Va., Order Book, Nov. 10, 1795. This order book is not paginated.

Note 20. Following is a list of the dates Jesse Evans is shown in the Wythe County court order books as present in the capacity of justice:

1795: Nov. 10, 11, 12; Dec. 5
1796: Jan. 12; April 12, 14, 15
1797: March 15; Sept. 12; Oct. 10
1798: Jan. 9; Feb. 14; March 13; Sept. 11; Nov. 11
1799: Feb. 14, 15; April 12; Oct. 9
1800: Jan. 15; Feb. 12; April 8; May 13, 14; Aug. 13; Sept. 11
1801: April 15; May 12; June 10, 12, 13; Sept. 12; Nov. 11
1802: April 12, 13, 15; June 9; July 11; Aug. 10, 11; Sept. 15, 16
1803: Jan. 12; March 8
1804: Aug. 14, 15
1810: June 10, 14, 15
1815: Sept. 12

He also signed the court’s daily order book as presiding justice on August 14 and 15, 1804, and on June 10 and 14, 1810.

Note 21. Wythe County, Va., Order Book, p. 261, Sept. 1, 1800. The entry reads:

A letter was produced in Court from Majr. Jesse Evans to Col. Robert Sayers purporting a resignation of his commission as Majr. in the 35th Regiment whereupon James McCampbell Gent. is recommended in his Room.

See also Wythe County, Va., Order Book, April 13, 1802 (recommendation of “John Hownshell Major in the 35th Regiment in lieu of Jesse Evans resigned seven votes to six”).