Road cases for Unison are part of the Loudoun County Archives. These cases were petitions by landowners to open a new road over private land to assist in travel, business, or opening land to division. The petitioner had to plead a sufficient need before the county board would approve the new road because the petitioner, and the surrounding farms and businesses that would benefit from the road were also charged with upkeep and maintenance. Back in the horse and buggy era it was the local farmers who would scrape and level the roads, so ensuring this very critical issue was fully realized was the major concern of the county board. The court also required inspection, by three local citizens in good standing, of the proposed byway to insure it would not inconvenience any adjorning landowners before the road petition was approved.

We have scouted out the Unison area road cases in the county Archives. Those cases are shown below and will be linked to the original court papers once this project is complete.

Year	Name of Petitioner	Road Location	Road Case #
1817	Humphrey, Sarah	Union- Pumpkin Town (Bluemont)	224
1819	Hann, Mathias	Hann’s to Sinclair’s Mill (Unison area)	246
1820	Brown, Isaac	Unison – Open a road from the Quaker Road to the Road leading from Unison town to the Trap – Snicker’s Gap Turnpike Road	258
1834	Dulany, John	Palmer’s Mill to Union	338
1840	Handley	Snickersville to Union Town	379
1849	Furr, Fenton	Union	446
1878	Benton, James	Unison	658

Photos of Road Case documents

Following are images of the Unison road case documents housed in the Loudoun County Courthouse Archives. These images are for informational purposes, and genealogy research material only.

Please click on each link below to see the document(s):

• 1817 - Humphrey's petition for road, Note 1a, 1b
• 1818 Petition for a road out of Unison
• Hann Sinclar's Mill - 1819 - pg 1, pg 2
• 1820 Brown petition - pg 1, pg 2, pg 3, pg 4, pg 5
• 1840 - Handley petition
• July 1878 petitions - pg 1, pg 2

Names listed on the Road Cases

• 1817 - Case 224: Landowners: David Handley (Petitioner), John H. Butcher / Road Inspectors: Thomas Miholz, Silus Garrett, Timothy Taylor,
• 1819 - Case 246: