Following is a transcription of the document. Rev. Hemingway notes that it is from Beverly Fleet's Colonial Abstracts, Volume 2, pp195-96. The original is in the courthouse at Tappahannock. Further, it names families who lived near each other, hence would benefit from the construction of the 'rolling road' across widow Ann Smith's land. The transcription for this site was done by Maida Crowther Spaulding.
Spelling is as in the original.
Essex County, Virginia, Records. Court Order Book No. 34. Original at Tappahannock, Virginia. August Court 1744. Be it Remembered that on Tuesday the twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty four came Philomon Bird Thomas Stark Jos.