The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-12-07
Canal
M HEREAS the Hon. Court

OF Sessions, at Term thereof, held
within and for the County of Worcester. on
the second Tuesday of September, A. d. 1926.
and, by adjournment, on the fifth Tuesday of
November, A. ID. 1925, Oh the petition of the
BLACKSTONE CANAL COMPANY. did
appoint the Subscribers, Commissioners. 10
estimate all damages accrung to the following
named persons, through whose land section
of the Blackstone is located, and on whose
land dam in the town of Mendon is located.
to stop the food and other waters for the use
of the Canal aforesaid: viz. beginning at the
Canal of the Blackstone Manufacturing Com
pany, in the town of Mendon. thence RUNNING
eastwardly through their street chains and 80
links, and fifty links wide also. through land
belonging TO the Blackstone COMPANY seven
chains and forty-seven links, and Of the width
of one chain and thirty links; also, through
land of Nathan George, minor, son of Rich
ard George, Esq. tventy-nine chains and
seventy nine links, ana. OF the width o! .one
chain and thirty links; also, through land of
Peter GaSkell, ten chains and ninety. eight
links, and Of the width of one chain: also.
through road, ten chains and nuety-eight
links, and of the width of fifty links; also.
through land of COgShaH Chase, twenty chains
and ninety-eight links, and of the average
width of thirty-five links; also, through land,
supposed to belong to man of the name OF
BuShe, whose place of residence is unknown,
twenty-one chains, and Of the average width
of eighty links: and, also, through the same
tract of land, the additional distance Of three
chains and ten links, and of the average width
of one chain and fifty links also, through a
road twenty-five chains, and of the average
width Of fifty links, ending at the line be.
tween Massachusetts and Rhode Island: also,
the location of dam across the Blackstone
river, on the top of a dam now belonging to
the Blackstone Manufacturing Company, in
the town of Mendon, which said dam is to be
erected TO the height OF five feet above the
| cap-log of the present dam, for the purpose Of
saving the flood and other waters; and fol
this purpose reservoir above said dam is 10.
Gated to conform to the height of the dam
aforesaid, which occupies land belonging tc
- HARNESS. Eliphalet T'rdSk, .4nnania.
Clifford, ESek Pits, John SOuthwick, and the
Blackstone Manufacturing Company, and tc
other persons unknown.
The foregoing persons and corporation are
therefore hereby notified, that the Commits
sioners will meet them at the Blackstone Fac
tory, in Mendon, aforesaid, on Tuesday, thu
third day of January next, at ten of tn,
CLOCK Iu inc ioIehoous iom iHenCe lney VIII
pass over the aforesaid section of said Canal
and will view the same and estimate tn
damage of each individual; at which tim
and place all parties in interest may be heard
Ali parties interested in the location of tn
dam and reservoir aforesaid, are also hereb
notified, that the Commissioners will be a
the location of said dam, at two of tn
clock in the afternoon of the same day. fc
the nurnnse Of viewing aid l---t:~-s, iIoarfu
the parties in interest, and estimating the dan
ages of each individual.
Notice is also hereby given, to all persons an
corporations interested in any of the location
aforesaid, that they must file their claims f
damages with some one of the Commissioner
or with the Clerk of the Court aforesaid
within thirty days from the seventh day
December, A. ID. 1926, after which time tn
Commissioners will complete their estimate
damages agreeably to their view, and tn
evidence furnished them by the several CLAIM
ants. NAfHL. p. DENNY,
WILLIAM CRAWFORD, jr. Conn.,
SAMUEL DAMAN,
Leicester, Dec z, 1926.