Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-12-10

We authorized to state that counterpetitions will he
notice. ARCHIBALD THWEATT
VIM H. RoBERTsoN S'0"'s'
of Amelia County.
Further notice on the ADORE Road:-The UNDERSIGNED
VIII also prefer his individual petition opposing Road
question: as not called for by the public
local question, about connecting the lower of Ane
liza, by Bridge and continued Road to and in
Chesterfield It Judicial expressly provided for
by our general Road Law whereby the Courts of the two
s Rosa n anS as @ to grant and refuse
may require. At the last Session of the General Assem-
bly, petition presented for this Road; the notice be
ing at that time signed by other citizens Amelia
than Messrs. Thomas T. Giles, Robert Cousins SEN Ed
W. Anderson, and Wash. L. Torbun-Mr. Anderson be-
ing ne prowfetor Of the Tdpern the Amelia side Of
me RtreT IL will be Observed that the sgners Just
ed residents land holders of lower Amelia and that
all the residents of that part of the County will be conyc
nenty accommodated in going 10 The Richmond market
by the Bridge authorized TO be built at the Exeter Mills
the middle position between Petersburg and Bevis Bridge
where public roads in every convenient direction each
supported: That Mr.. b. Moody the proprietor of the
Spring Hill Iacern, on the Chesterfield side, and Mr. j.
r. Boiling, of lower Amelia, (who sgner of the first
nouce did make application Chesterfield County Court
Tor opening this same Road and opposed in Court
and AN appeal is now depending between them and the
undersigned, concerning the same: That the loca!i-
fies OF this Road adapted the private views of few
and as the County Courts of Chesterfield and Amelia have
original jurisdiction the right of appeal the under
signed ought not to be aggeved by proceedings at the
time before the Court of Justice and the honorable
Legislature And the notice of the sSession brought
becomes proper 10 state that at former period the
General Assembly, undera special Act appointed fourteen
Commissioners OF their selection from each
the Counties of Dnwddic, brunswick Meckenburg, Luz
nenburg Nooway Amelia and Chesterfield with authori-
y to cause to be opened with the experimenting agency
OF the Courts OF Justice, the most direct Road the Rich
mond market for the benefit of fellow citizens of GER
tain portions of those Southern Counties and part of
Carolina, bordering Brunswick and Meckenburp
These Commissioners, assisted by their Surveyor after
careful examination, rejected any for Road on the
lands of Cousins Puryear in Amelia across Appomat
no in Enrl
ence of Winterpock Creek and the River in Chesterfield
he lands through which it is proposed the pre-
sent Road because it was not only impaccablc get
good public Road account of the low grounds the
River and Creek liable TO frequent esbes the inter
yenng lengthy upendousy high clay hills in woods, but
that Bev Bridge sufficiently convenient TO the largest
portion OF the Southern Counties. They located their Road
and Brdge-sc below the confluence at Goose Island in
Amelia on ridge and eligible ground to enter into the
public Road, in Chesterfield, belotc 1foodys Tavern
Their Bridgesite, the south side of the River was al
point in direct land route only short distance above
Exeter Mills This Road Of the Commissioners was soon
abandoned, the result proved that the saving distance
throughout its whole length and the public convenience
on comparison with the existing numerous, direct and in
tersectng old roads, did not justify the execution of the
plan.--Ihe undersigned with of the Commits
soners when they were on the lands in and Just above
the confluence and after they had completed their duties
and the certificates of two of the last survivors of them
sustain the material facts, TO their proceedings, above
stated.
1t also properto mention that the proposed Road
es Winterpock Creek few yards above the junction
yer flows in FTehcs then il passed by the Old Mill on the
Branch, near the Creek, formerly Francis Eppes after
wards Chlder thence the bed of the old mill pond
bcsides the bridge and causeway each side of the
creek) serious distance of dtehing, raising cause
waying and bridging will be required and after
wards it is conducted through untrodden inciaibl,
ground, down TO Mr. Moody's Tavern. The saving 0
distance on this course in travelling Manchester
when compared with the convenience of the numcrou
! diversified Roads by which Amelia and Chesterfield are
ntersected in every direction will prove TO be unworth,
OF consideration. ARCHIBALD THWEATT
Long resident on lands adjoining Eppes' Falls Appo
in parh side pf r.
short distance above the confluence
II Nov. 10. s6 a