The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-02-14

| by the Court, that the substance OF said he
port be forthwith published, at the expense
of the Blackstone Canal Company three
weeks successfully, in enc or more OF the
newspapers printed in Worcester, in said
County.
The foIlolping as The substance Of said Rspori'
WE, the undersigned. Commissioners
appointed by the Warrant which is hereunto
annexed, to estimate all such damages as any
person or persons, Corporation or Corporations,
shall sustain by the opening the Blackstone
Canal, or any of its branches or feeders, or by
I the construction Of any reservoirs, embank-
ments, tow paths, basins, wharves. or any 9TH
er appendages over whose land that section
| Of said Canal which lies between its head,
near Thomas Street, in Worcester, and Elijah
| Burbank's paper-mill dam, in said Worcester,
is located, after having given thirty days
public notice to all persons and Corporations
interested to iile their claims, as by said War
| rant directed, and Of the time, aud the route
! to be examined, and after having been duly
| sworn TO the faithful and impartial discharge
OF our duty, did, on the twenty-fourh day Of
October, A. ID. 1895, begin at the head of said
Canal, near Thonas-Sueet aforesaid, on land
of John Davis, George I. Rice, and Nathan
Heard-thence southerly on land of William
Eaton, John Green, Benjamin F. Haywood,
John NJ Earle, Anthony Chase, and John F.
Clark, $40 chains--thence southerly, as
said Canal is located, on land Of Nathan
Heard, John +. Clark, FeIley Goddard and
Daniel Goddard, Q 35-l00 chains, and of the
average width Of b chains-thence, in the
same direction, on land OF Enoch Flagg, 3
3-l00 chains-thence s. 90 F. 8 chains, on
said Flagg's land, to the road, and of the aver
Of, cna in he
direction, 10 links, across the road-thence in
the same direction on land Of Daniel Haywood
and Company, 10 10-100 chains-thence south
erly, as located, 80 7-l00 chains, on land of
Trumbull and w ard, and of the average width
of one chain-thence southerly on land of
Samuel Hathaway, as located, 10 76 100
cha ms, and OF the width OF one chan-thence
on land of Daniel Haywood and Company, A.
D. Foster, and Enoch Flagg, southerly, as To-
Gated, 5 90-l00 chains to whom we award
| no damages, they all, except the inhabitants
of Worcester, having released the same to the
said Blackstone Canal Corporation. 70 the
said Inhabitants of Worcester. for crossing the
road aforesaid, we award no damages, but that
they receive the bridge now built by the said
Canal Corporation over the Canal in said road
10 lieu Of the old bridge, and forever after keep
it 10 repair. the advantages resulting to said
Inhabitants, by reason of the construction of
said Canal, being full equivalent there for
We then passed over land of William B. Fox,
southerly as located 75-l00 chains, and of
the width of ! J chain: TO whom we award no
damages, by reason of the benefits and adyau
!ages accruing to said Fox from opening SAID
Canal as aforesaid. The said Canal Corpora
ton are TO have right TO construct lock on
said Fox's land and they are to keep the
water flowing from spring on the east side ot
the Canal drained off from said Fox's land, by
cuiverts or other ways. Thence, in the same
direction, being S. 39s w. crossing the road,
90 links-thence, in the same direction, on
land of Daniel Haywood and Company and
Foster and Flagg, 20l00 chains, and Of the
width OF u chains-thence on same land, :.
34k w. Q chains, Z. 29k W. Q chains, 6. 28a
w. 6 74-l00 chains, and of the width of u
chains-thence on land Of Lewis Bigelow, 10
the same erection, 6-l0o chains, and of the
width Of one and half chains No damages
are claimed from William 3. Fox's land to
land owned by Nathaniel Paine. The Canal
crosses lane between said Paine and Bge-
lows land, which is used in common by said
Paine, Bgelow and Moses Perry, in which
and over said Canal the said Corporation ara
to build and maintain farm-bridge, for the
use oil the said Paine, B;gelow, and Perry,
their heirs and assigns forever. The said Cor
poration are also TO build good aui sufficient
bridge aver the Canal, in the road by William
B. Fox's land; and the inhabitants OF said
town are forever after to maintain and sup
port the same at their expense, in considera-
ton of the utility Of said Canal TO said inhab-
itants Thence on land OF Nathaniel Paine,
ESQ., in the same direction, 7-lO0 chains
thence on said Paine's land, s 24a w. 10 $40
chains. and of the width Of u chains; 10 whom
we award no damages, the benefits resulting
to him being equal to the damages accruing
to him but the said Corporation are to build
and maintain, FOR the use of the said Paine, his
heirs and assigns forever, good and Conve
nient cart-vay on the west bank of said Ca
nal, through a wet piece of land, to communi-
cate with the lane aforesaid, and also to per
init said Paine to tap the Canal, for watering
his cattle only. Thence southeTly on land OF
Israel Whitney, SLIGO chains. to road,
and Of the width of Il chains-thence south
erly across said road, GAL 100 chains-thence
southerly on said Whituey's land, % 24-l00
chains, and Of the width of / CHAINS, to Mo.
SEES Perry's land the said Whitney having re-
leased his damages, we award him nothing
The said Cooperation are TO build good and
sufficient bridge over the Canal in the last
mentioned road, and the Inhabitants of said
town are forever after TO maintain the same,
for the reasons assigned in the case of the last
bridge. Thence southerly on land of Moses
Perry, AZ 100 chains, and Of the width of l I
chains to whom we award no damages, the
benefits being equal thereto. Thence on land
o. Jonathan Grout, southerly, and Of he width
of u chains, to Elijah Burbank's paper mill
pond to whom we award no damages, for the
reasons aforesaid. Thence partly in said mill
pond, as located with the right of locking
in and out, and of navigating said pond to
whom we award no damages, this having been
settled by an agreement under hand and seal
entered into on the twenty-ninth day of No.
vember, in the year-of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and twenty six, by and between
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