Zachariah Milam and John Kelly Lived near Each Other in Bedford County, 25 MAY 1772

Microfilm Image of BEDFORD COUNTY ORDER BOOK 4, page 31.

The importance of "road orders" is that they list all the land holders who work on a particular road. Therefore live near it and thus are neighbors.

“The hands of Charles Lambert, John Allen, Zachariah Milam, John Kelly, Charles Barnett,  Samuel Hensley, Wm Lear, John Ross, John Dewit & William Willams with their male tithes {Tithables} are ordered to work on the old road from the fork in the road above Francis Holley’s leading through Peteet’s Gap and Keep the same in Repair, and that the said hands be exempted from working on the New Road, & that the Said Hands work on the Road from Thomas’ Ferry {on the James River} to the new Road.”