The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-08-18
To the Honorable Commission

U Tic honorable COMMISSION
ers of Roads for and within the County of
I Worcester:
I "UMBLY SHEW, JOSEPH ROBINSON, Jr,
IN and others, inhabitants Of the County
aforesaid, as well as others, inhabitants of the
Counties of Hampshire and Midd!esex, whose
names are hereunto affixed, that the commune
cation from the line between the Counties of
Worcester and Hampshire, near the fiourishng
manufacturing village in the town of Ware, is
for 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 billy
and circuitous, 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
portation 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 similar direc-
tion can boast an equal number, public high
way of sufficient width and less circui.ous, 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
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 a road by Com
mittee of the Honorable Court of Sessions, to
Anderson's Mills, through Hardwick Gore, so
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
mace owned by Col S. Billings, and near 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, Wadsworths Factory site,
Beams'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 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
inc 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 and reducing the hills, as may be
seen by recurring to the several plans herewith
presented. Wherefore your petitioners pray
the Honorable Commissioners, that new high
way or common road, to be laid out and made
as aforesaid, 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 shall ever pray.
EBENEZER ESTABROOK,
and one hundred and scventy-two others.