The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-08-11
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To the Honorable Commission

10 the Honorable Commission
ers OF Roads for and within the County Of
| Worcester:
UMBLY SHEW, JOSEPH ROBINSON, Jr
II II and others, inhabitants of the County
aforesaid, as well as others, inhabitants of the
Counties of Hampshire and Mdd!esex, whose
names are hereunto affixed, that the communi-
cation from the line between the Counties of
worcester and Hampshire, near the fourishing
LnnahuIaeturing 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 hilly
and clrcuitous, at all times inconvenient 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
Portatlon OF the numerous and weighty articles
Manufactured IN this section of said County,
together with the vast products of a 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 a similar direc-
ton can boast an equal number, public high
way of sufficient width, and less cireui.ous. bv
means of which the Inconvenience aforesaid
may be removed, and the distance diminished.
mas become necessary for the public accommo-
dalton to be laid out, as follows, to wit: Com.
mencing at the line between Worcester and
Hampshire Counties, near a corner of the town
OF New Bralntree, about sixty or seventy rods
southerly 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 a Com.
mlttee OF the Honorable Court of Sessions. tn
Anderson's Mills, through Hardwick Gore. so
called; thence by the Furnace of s. Smith,
along the valley and near the said Ware river,
mace owned by Col S. Billings, and near iea FtH the
bridge across said river on the Sixth Massachu-
sets 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-
bic and practicable point between the Factories
of Dryden and Southwck in Holden thence
near Col. Dryden's lower Factory site and tho
houses of Mr.. White, Abner Perry, and Ebene-
zer Estabrook, Esq, in the easterly part of said
Holden thence crossing the Quinnapoxet river,
near a most valuable water power, eastwardly of
said Estabrook's, by the house Of Silas Newton,
to the main road leading to the tavern house of
Ezra Beaman, Esq, in West Boylston; and
your petitioners further shew, that the high
way leading from said Beaman'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 the several plans herewith
presented. Wherefore your petitioners pray
the Honorable Commissioners, that a new high
way or common road, to be laid out and made
oIesaid, and the aforesaid alterations of the
highway already laid out and established may
be determined by the Honorable Commission
ers 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 as public highway. AND
your petitioners ehall ever pray.
EBENEZER ESTABROOK,
and one hundred and seyenty.two others