The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-01-28

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DAVIS, ESQ.,, Attorney at Law in Worcester,
who is duly authorized to effect assurances for
said Company. eoly Nov. ., 1928
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:
3 ND now the Report of Nathaniel p Denny,
"a William Crawford, Jr., and LOueu Peters,
Commissioners appointed, on the application of
the Blackstone Canal Company, to estimate
all such damages az 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 Flnt'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
be forthwith published, at the expense of said
Corporation, in each of the newspapers printed
in Worcester, in said County, which Report is
as follows
Forester, IS. August g. 1923. We, tho
subscribers, Commissioners named in the fore
going warrant pursuant the directions therein
contained, having given public and seasonable
notice to all persons, and corporations interest
ed to file their claims in the manner therein
pointed out, by publishing 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
The Massachusetts Spy, and Worcester .Adrer-
tizer, the National .FgiS and the Massachusetts
Woman, in which notice all persons and corpo-
ratious 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 of the 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 given
to all persons and corporations interested as
aforesaid, of the time and place of meeting for
the purpose of estimating damages, and of the
I route to be examined, by publishing an adver-
tsement 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. so called, we award in
! damages the sum of one hundred and eight dol
lars. 10 Joseph Nurse for flowing about 81
! acres OF land on the east side of Long Pond in
! the town of Shrewsbury, we award tile sum of
! thirteen dollars in damages. To Calvin Slo-
comb for flowing about l35 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 Tor Cold Spring meadow for 1927 he then
! being IN 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 Slrews-
| 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
I are awarded at twenty five dollars and fifty
cents. To the sixth Massachusetts TURNPIKE
Corporation we award nothing in damages, they
| 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 damages fer 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 SUN
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
| Fond, we award as damages the sum Of twenty
two 1ollars To Samuel Mills for flowing
about seven acres of meadow land, we award
the sum of two hundred dollars as damages af-
( ter 1927, 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
hundred and eighty four dollars for damages
after 1927, and eleven dollars and four cents as
damages for 1897.
To Theopbilus Wheeler for flowing alb out
one acre of low land we award fifteen dollars.
| ard for 1927 ninety cents. To William Eaton,
J 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
| 10 Jeremiah Harrington for flowing about
one and half acre of wood land on the east
! side of said Long Pond we award the sum Off
! teen dollars. To Prescott Brigham for flowing
land on the shores of the last mentioned pond,
we award the sum of one hundred dollars. AT
the same time we viewed the land belonging 10
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
them in support of their claim TO the twenty
fifth day of the following August at ten of the
clock in the forenoon; at which time we again