The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-08-22
To the Hon. the Justices of the

Court of Sessions, held at Worcester, within
and for the County of Worcester, by adjourn
mont, on the third Wednesday of June, A. D.
1927:
DEPRESENTS- BLACKSTONE CANAL
~ CoMPANY, by the undersigned, Commits
sioners, duly appointed and authorized to act
in behalf of said CorPo-ation-tha the said
Company, by virtue OF the second section OF
the act, by which said Company was incorpo-
rated, have located, as appeadages to said Ca
nal, the North Pond in Worcester and the
Long Pond, Half Moen Pond, and Flints Pond,
with the other Ponds connected with them, sit
uated in the towns of Worcester Shrewsbury
and Grafton, as reservoirs for the use of said
Canal. The names of the owners of tho lands
adjoining said Ponds, which will be overlooked
by raising the water in said reservoirs, so far
as known TO the undersigned, are hereunto an
nexed.
And the said Corporation prays, that this
report may be placed on the files of the said
Court, and notice thereof be directed, and three
disinterested freeholders be appointed by said
Court to estimate all damages which any per-
son or Corporation shall sustain by the use of
the reservoirs above located, agreeably to the
provisions of the acts by which said Company
has been incorporated
JOHN w. LINCOLN,
SYLVANUS HOLBROOK.
The land about Long Pond, and and other
Ponds above the Blackstone Canal Dam in
Grafton, is supposed to belong to-
John Gleason, jr., William Eaton ir., Sam
uel Harrington, jr,, heirs of Joshua Patch, Sim
con Burt, Nahum Maynard, Russell Eaton,
Francis T. Merrick, Samuel Jennison, heirs Of
Silas Gleason, Lewis Barnard, town of Wor-
cester, heirs of George Slocumb, Joseph Nurse
Abner Harlow, Artemas Baker, Joseph Pratt
Benjamin Anger, David Rice, jeremiah Har-
rngton, Seth Hemmenway, Sewall Stearns,
John Green, William Eaton, Wing Kelly,
Abel Wesson, Samuel Smith, Joshua Whee-
lock, Isaac Harrington, Josiah Nelson, Silas
Allen, Noah Allen, Thomas Harrington, John
Wesson, Jonas Temple, Denny Munroe, Pres
colt Brigham, New England Company, Gard
ner Goddard, Martin Newton, Silas WheelocI.
John Maynard, Lyman Howe, Joel and Nahum
Gates, George and John Putnam, Josiah Tenn
pie, Amasa Nelson, John Bragg, Isaac Stone
Benjamin Newton, William Eaton, Gregory
Mason, David Smith, Edward Hemmenway,
heirs of Andrew Slater, Elijah and Ephraim
Hapgood, Isaiah Munroe, town of Shrewsbury
have 2 roads, the sides of which are washed BY
the waters of said reservoir, as also the Wor-
cester and Boston turnpike, and the 9th Mas
sachusetts turnpike.
The land about North Pond is believed to be
owned by Samuel Stowell, Samuel L. Read.
Ebenezer Read, Benjamin Read, Amos Whit
ney, Samuel Mills, Theophilus Wheeler, Dan
iel Chadwick, Joel Gleason.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
WORCESTER, SIS. Court of Sessions, at Wor-
cester, March Term, 1927 and holden BY
adjournment on the third Wednesday Of
June, A. d. 1927:
On the Petition aforsaid, Ordered, That
the Petitioners notify all persons interested
in the location of the appendages to said Ca
nal, in said location mentioned and described
to appear before this Court to be holden al
Worcester aforesaid, on the second Tuesday
OF September next, by causing an attested
copy of said petition, and location, and of this
order of Court thereon, to be published in each
OF the newspapers printed in Worcester, in
said County, three weeks successfully, lat the
expense of said Corporation) the last pubIioa-
ton to be fourteen days, at least, before the
sitting of said Court, that all persons interest
ed therein may then and there be heard, if thew
see cause, upon any matters or things relative
to the petition and location aforesaid
Attest.
WILLIAM JENNISON, Clcrk pro ten.
A copy off the petition, location, and order of
Court thereon.
Attest. ABiJAH BIGELOW, Clerk.
N. u. Ethan Davis is also hereby notified
II ne is interested in land adjoining said Pond