In 1743 Edmund Allen was employed by the county for the work entailed with rebuilding the bridge, which was then in ill repair, and the Court agreed to share the expense of the work entailed with the County of New Kent. Later, Julius Allen was paid forty shillings by the Sheriff of Henrico Co. for repairing Bottom's Bridge.

During the Revolution, General Anthony Wayne crossed this bridge on his way to Williamsburg with his army in support of Lafayette. Wayne followed the State Road which passed through New Kent along the ridge to the Courthouse and then swung past Slatersville into Barnhamsville and entered James City a short distance beyond, near Doncastle's Ordinary.

In 1814 the Virginia Militia was marched over the bridge and the Richmond Regiment encamped here and reported the ill condition of the camp which they used. In a petition presented by the landowners in 1772 to the General Assembly concerning the line between Hanover and Henrico Counties, there were a number of planters living on both sides of the swamp, who signed, and among them, Thomas Watkins, Sr., who identified himself as living near Bottom's Bridge.

This located the home of Thomas Watkins of Chickahominy as the bridge over the Chicahominy River in Henrico County. In 1800 John Clopton had a deed from the Merediths which gave a boundary to the tract, the lines of David Bottom.