The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-08-04
To the Honorable Commission

ers of Roads for and within the County of
Worcester:
En- UMBLY SHEW, JOSEPH ROBINSON. Jr..
"a n and others, inhabitants of the Countv
aforesaid, as well as others, inhabitants of the
Counties of Hampshire and Middlesex, whose
names are hereunto affixed, that the communal
cation from the line between the Counties of
Worcester and Hampshire, near the fourishinp
manufacturing village in the town of Ware. IS
tor the distance of about thirty miles in said
County OF Worcester, to the central part of the
town OF West Boylston, and the highways or
common roads heretofore laid extremely hillv
and clrcuitous, at all times inconvenent and
unsuitable for the accommodation of travellers
passing upon them to the metropolis of the
Commonwealth that owing to the great in
crease OF travelling, and particularly the trans-
portation OF the numerous and weighty articles
manufactured in this section of said County,
together with the vast products of most fer
tile and fruitful soil, and the accommodation of
the numerous and most valuable water powers
employed and unemployed, of which no section
OF said County of equal space in similar direc-
ton can boast an equal number, public high
way OF sufficient width, and less circuitous, by
means of which the inconvenience aforesaid
may be removed, and the distance diminished,
has become necessary for the public accommo.
dation to be laid out, as follows, to wit Com
mencing at tho line between Worcester and
Hampshire Counties, near a corner of the town
OF New Braintree, about sixty or seventy rods
southery of the house of A. Bowen, and nearly
between the house of said Bowen and Ware
river, in southerly direction thence passing
northerly and easterly of said Bowen's house
and near or on the location of road BY Com.
mittee of the Honorable Court of Sessions, to
Andersons Mills, through Hardwick Gore, 80
called; thence by the Furnace of s. Smith,
along the valley and near the said Ware river,
about one hundred rods southerly of the Fur
Haoe owned by Col. s. Billings, and near the
bridge across said river on the Sixth Massachu-
setts Turnpike, between the towns of Hardwick
and New Braintree thence in the best direction
near Felton's Mills, Wadsworth's Factory site,
Beamis's Mills, and the manufacturing estab-
lishment of Benjamin Clark in Barre. and the
village in the northerly part of the town of
Oakham thence through the town of Rutland,
north OF the Meeting House, to the most suita-
BILE and practicable point between the Factories
OF Dryden and Southwick in Holden thence
near Col. Dryden's lower Factory site and the
houses of Mr.. White, Abner Perry, and Ebene-
ger Estabrook, Esq, in the easterly part of said
Holden; thence crossing the Quinnapoxet river,
near most valuable water power, enstwafdly Of
said Estabrook s, by the house of Sias Newton,
to the main road leading to tho tavern house of
Ezra Beaman, ESQ.,, in West Boylston: and
your petitioners further shew, that the high
way leading from said Bcaman's, in said West
Boylston, through the towns of Boylston, part
of Lancaster, Berlin, and part of Bolton, to the
line between the Counties of Worcester and
Middlesex, which is, also the line between the
towns Of Bolton and Marlborough, near the
house of Joel Cranston, Esq, is circuitous and
uneven, and will admit of alterations, which
will greatly facilitate travelling, by shortening
the distance an6 reducing the hills, as may be-
seen by recurring to tho several plans herewith
presented. Wherefore your petitioners pray
the Honorable Commissioners, that new high
way or common road to be laid out and made
aforesaid, and the aforesaid alterations of the
highway already laid out and established, may
be determined by the Honorable Commission
srs to be of public convenience and necessity,
and that such further proceedings may be had
in the premises, that the same may be laid out
and made in due form of law, and established
and known hereafter public highway. And
your petitioners shall ever pray.
EBENEZER ESTABROOK,
and one hundred and seventy-two others.