Hi, The book Settlers, Southerns, Americans: The History of Essex County, Virginia by James B. Slaughter on page 18 has "Justices John Catlett, Robert Brooke, Thomas Edmondson, John Battaile and Edward Thomas presided at the first meeting of the Essex Court in April 1692." With note #82 which refers to Essex Order Book #1, 1692-1695,1.