Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-12-02

NEW RoAD-NEw BRfDGE-ArroMArro III,
vER--.aneiia and Chesterfield Cou,ties 90
the next General Assembly Of Virginia prayips sho,
may De passed authorizing road 10 be opened from
COUSIN road IN the county of Amelia crossing Appoma
thence to the Petersburg road at or near Benan Moody
tavern, in the county of Chesterfield
THOS r. GILES
ROBERT COUSINS, Sen.
Ed w. ANDERSON,
Sept 30 3e-wtw WASH. f. TORBURN.
We authorized 10 state that counter ons will be
presented to the opening Of the road in the above
notice. ARCHIBALD THWEATT
VIM. ii. ROBERTSON
OF Amelia County.
Further notice on the aJore Road.-The undersigned
WIN also prefer his individual petition opposing the Road in
question: as not called for by the public convenience Tits
ques,on about connecting the lower Ame-
La by anew Bridge, and new continued Road 10 and In
chesterfield judicial case expressly provided for
by our general Road Law Whereby the Courts of the two
Counties have competent jurisdiction 10 grant and refuse
the Road aud Bridge, public and private conven;cnco
may require At the last Session of the Tori Assa,s
bly, petition was presented for this Road the notice be-
ing at that time signed by other citizens of AmeIi,
than Messrs. Thomas T. Giles, Robert Cousins Sen Ed
w. Anderson, and Wash. f. Torbum--Mr. Anderson be-
ing ne proprietor Of the Idrern the Amelia side of
me Rirer II will be Observed that tho signers lust nam
cd arc residents or andhodcrs Of lower Amelia that
all inc residents OF that part of the County will be conve
niently accommodated in going the Richmond Market
ny the Bridge authorized to be built the Exeter Mills
the middle position between Petersburg and Bevs Bridge
where public roads in every convenient ON ea
side of the River have been long established and ferry
supported: That Mr.. b. Moody, the proprietor of the
Spring HfH Tarer, on the Chesterfield side and Mr. J.
r. Boiling, of lower Amelia, (who signer of the first
noce did make application to Chesterfield County Court
ior opening this same Road and opposed in Court
and an appeal is now depending between them and the
undersigned, concerning the That the local.
and as the County Courts Of Chesterfield and Amelia have
original jurisdiction with the right of appeal tho under
signed ought not to be aggreved by proceedings at tho
same time before the Court Of Justice and the honorable
Legislature And the notice of the Session brought
into view, besides Amelia Dinwiddie Nottoway &C. &c
1t becomes proper state that at former period tho
General Assembly, special Act appointed fourteen
Commissioners Of their selection two from each of
the Counties Of Dnwdde, Brunswick, Mecklcnburg Luz
nenburg Notoway, Amelia and Chesterfield with auhori
W TO cause TO be opened with the experimenting agency
OF the Courts of Justice, the direct Road to the Rich
mom market for the benefit of fellow citizens of GER
tain portions of those Southern Counties and part of NJ
Carolina, bordering Brunswick and NIccklcnbure
ihese commissioners, assisted by their Surveyor after
careui cxainina'ion rejected for Road on tho
lands of Cousins and Purycar in Amelia across Appomat
tox and through the lands in the Fork near the conu
ence oil "incrpock Creek and the River in Chesterfield
hc lands through which il is proposed conduct the pre-
sent Road because it only impracticable to got
good public Road on account of The low ro,nds on e.
RIVER and Creek, liable TO frequent Teshcs and the inter
venins lengthy, stupen,ousy high clay hills woods but
that Beys Bridge was sufficiently convenient the largest
portion OF the Southern Counties They located their Road
and dge-sitc below the confluence, Goose Island in
Amelia ridge and eligible ground enter into the
III Sneserncld, 0elOtC .1f0OdUs Tdrern.
Their Bndge-ste, the south side of the River was at
point IN direct land route, only short distance above
Exeter Hills. This Road Of the Commissioners was soon
abandoned as the result that the saving of distance
throughout its whole length and the public convenience
on comparison with the existing numerous, direct in
tersectng old roads, did not justify the execution of the
pian-lhe undersigned was with some of the Commits
sloners, when they the lands in and lust 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 their proceedings above
stated 80
1t is also proper mention, that proposed Road cross
es Mntepock Creek few yards above the junction of
Buckhom Branch, to which the back-water of the Ri
yer ows in Freses, then it passed by the Old Mill on tho
Branch near the Creek, formerly Francis Eppes after
wards Chder thence across the bed of the old mill pond
(pesdes The bridge and causeway each side of tho
creek0 serious distance of ditching, raising cause
waying and some bridging will he required and affcr
wards it is conducted through uutrodden inelpibjo
ground, dewn to Mr.. Moodys Tavern Tho saying or
distance on this in travelling to Mancbess,.r
when compared with the convenience of the numerous
diversified Roads by which Amelia and Chesterfield are
nersected in every direction, will prove TO be unsorbv
9i CONSIDERATION ARCHIBALD THWEATT,
Long resident on lands adjoining Eppcs' Falls Ammo
mattox River, and each side of Winterpock Cseek
short distance above the confluence.
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