The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-02-04

V~F- QUITTING done at short notice, and war
ranted to fit if properly made.
Millbury, Jan. 81.
| COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
/ WORCESTER, SIS. At meeting of the County
! Commissioners, September Term, 1928, and
holden by adjournment on the fifth Tuesday
/ of December, 1928:
J a ND now the Report of Nathaniel p. Dennv.
\ IN William Crawford, Jr., and Logeu Peters,
/ Commissioners appointed, on the application of
the Blackstone Canal Company, to estimate
all such damages as they should think any per-
son or persons, corporation or corporations
would sustain by the location by said Canal
] Company, as appendages 10 said Canal of the
North Pond in Worcester, and the Long Pond
Half Moon Pond and Flint's Pond, with the
other Ponds connected with them, situated in
the towns of Worcester, Shrewsbury and Graf
ton, as reservoirs for the use of said Canal, hav-
| ing been duly considered by the said County
Commissioners, is allowed, accepted, and order
ed to be recorded. And it is further ordered by
! the County Commissioners, that the Report
J he forthwith published, at the expense of said
Corporation, in each of the newspapers printed
in Worcester, in said County, which Report is
as follows:
Worcester, IS. August 26, 1928. We, the
| subscribers, Commissioners named in the fore
going warrant, pursuant the directions therein
contained, having given public aud seasonable
notice to all persons, and corporations interest
! ed to file their claims in the manner therein
pointed out, by publishing a notice of the time
OF meeting and of the route and ponds to be
examined and the lands of the several owners
around said ponds, three weeks successfully
IN each of the following public papers, printed
in Worcester in the County of Worcester, viz
TIE .baSSdchusettts Spy, and Forester .4drer-
! tizcr, the National .EgiS and the massachusetts,
| which notion all u
rations interested as aforesaid were desired to
file their claims for damages, if any they had,
with some one of the Commissioners, or with
/ the Clerk ofthe County Commissioners, within
thirty days from the fourteenth day of MAY last
past and after having given the above notices.
we caused at the same time notice to be qiven
to all persons and corporations interested as
aforesaid, of the time and place Of meeting for
the purpose of estimating damages, and of the
route to be examined, by publishing an adver-
| tlsement thereof in three successive papers of
each of the aforesaid newspapers, and then in
pursuance to said notice, and in conformity
Herewith, we met at the floating bridge in
Shrewsbury in said County on the thirtieth day
of June, A. D. 1898, and after having been
sworn TO discharge the duties assigned us faith
fully and impartially, did pursuant to said war
rant enter upon the route and lands hereafter
described, hearing all claimants who appeared
before us.
To the Worcester Turnpike Corporation. we
! award nothing in damages, the benefits being
equivalent thereto.
To Gregory Mason for flowing about six
acres of meadow and half an acre of woodland.
IN Cold Spring meadow. called, we award in
damages the sum of one hundred and eight dol
lars. To Joseph Nurse for flowing about 81
acres Of land on the east side of Long Pond in
the town OF Shrewsbury, we award the sum of
thirteen dollars in damages To Calvin Slo-
comb for flowing about I3b acres of meadow
and swamp land in said Shrewsbury, we award
as damages the sum of two hundred and twenty
seven dollars. The damages for 1927 are as
sessed at thirteen dollars and sixty two cents
and for Cold Spring meadow for 1897, he then
being III possession of the same, seven dollars
and twenty cents, To Lewis Barnard for flow
ing about fourteen acres of meadow land north
Of the road leading from Worcester to Shrews-
bury, and about one acre of wood land south of
said road, we award the sum of four hundred
and twenty five dollars. The damages for 1927
are awarded at twenty five dollars and fftv
cents. To the sixth Massachusetts Turnpike
Corporation we award nothing in damages, thew
having been adjusted between the two corpora
tons. To Abner Harlow for flowing about 81
acres of meadow and swail land in Shrewsbury
we award the sum of ninety dollars as damages
after 1927, and for 1927 we award him five dol
lars and forty cents as damages for that year.
To Samuel Stowell for flowing III acres OF
meadow land, adjoining North Pond in Won
cester we award as damages after 1927 the sum
of one hundred and twenty dollars, and for the
year 1927, seven dollars and twenty cents To
Daniel Chadwick for flowing about two acres of
wood land on the easterly shore of said North
Pond, we award as damages the sum of twenty
two dollars. To Samuel Mills for howinp
about seven acres of meadow land. we award
the sum of two hundred dollars as damages af.
ter 1897, and for 1897 we award him the sum
of twelve dollars. To Eathan Davis for flow
ing about four acres of meadow and upland, we
award him the sum of sixty dollars in damages
after 1927, and for the year 1927 we award him
as damages three dollars and sixty cents. To
Amos Whitney for flowing about twelve acres
Of meadow swail land on the west side of
said North Pond, we award the sum of one
q hundred and eighty four dollars for damages
after 1927, and eleven dollars and four cents as
? damages for 1927.
To Theophilus Wheeler for flowing about
one acre of low land we award fifteen dollars
ard for 1897 ninety cents To William Eaton,
Jr., for flowing about half an acre of wood land
on the east side OF Long Pond, we award as
damages the sum of five dollars
To jeremiah Harrington for flowing about
, one and half acre of wood land on the east
side of said Long Pond we award the sum ff.
teen dollars. To Prescott Brigham for flowing
land on the shores of the last mentioned pond.
we award the sum of one hundred dollars. Al
the same time we viewed the land belonginr to
Samuel T., Ebenezer and Benjamin Reed on
the west shore Of North Pond aforesaid. About
seventy acres of wood land, swamp, meadow
and upland, owned by said Reeds, are flowed by
raising the dam at the outlet of said North
Pond And after viewing the premises a: the
request OF said Reeds, we adjourned to hear
fifth day of the following August at ten of the
clock in the forenoon at which time we again
met at Worcester aforesaid, and after hearing
the said Reeds, their witnesses, allegations and
pleas, and after maturely considering the same,
we do award to the said Samuel t., Ebenezer
and BENJAMIN Reed, the sum of eleven hundred