Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-11-29

presented to the opening of the road In the above
notice. ARCHIBALD THWEATT.
"a, OF Chesterfield County:
VIM ii. ROBERTSON,
= ia OF Amelia County.
will also prefer his individual petition opposing the Road in
questions not called FOR by the public vencnce It's
local question: about connecting the lower Ame-
la by anew Bridge, and new continued Road TO and i'm
Chesterfield 1t is judicial case expressly provided for
by our general Road Law whereby the Courts Of the two
Counties have competent jurisdiction to graht Sid refuse
the Road and Bridges as public and privse convenience
may require. At the last Session of the General Assem-
bly, petition was presented for this Roadj the notice be-
than Messrs: Thomas Il: Giles, Robert Cousins Sen Ed
w. Anderson, and Wash +: Torbun-Mr. Andersen, be-
ing te proprietor Of the Tdre1i the .drelia side of
the Rirer 1t will be Observed that the signers just
ed are residents and-hoders of lower Amelia and that
all the residents OF that part Of the County will be
monty accommodated In going to the Richmond market
by the Bridge authorized TO be built at the Exeter Mills
the middle posion between Petersburg Bcvs Bridge
where public roads in every convenient direction each
side oil the River have been long established and ferry
supported: That Mr.. b. Moody, the proprietor of the
Spring Hill Idre,r on the Chesterfield side, and Mr. j.
r. Boiling, OF lower Amelia, (who sgner Of the first
noce did make application tc Chesterfield County Court
Tor opening this same Road, and We're OPPOSED In Court
and an appeal is now depending between them and the
undersigned concerning the same That the locai-
ties of this Read are adapted to the private views of
and as the County Courts of Chesterfield and Amelia have
original jurisdiction with the right of appeal the Under
signed ought not TO be aggrcved by proceedings III the
same time before tile Court of Justice, and the honorable
Legislature And the notice of the last Session brought
into view, besides Amelia, Dnwiddie. Nottoway, Sc &C.
II becomes proper state, that former period the
General Assembly, undera special Act appointed fourteen
commissioners OF their own selection two from each Of
the Counties Of Dnwiddie, Brunswick, Mecke Luz
ncnburg Nottoway, Amelia and Chesterfield with auhor
y TO cause to be opened with the experimenting
oil the Courts OF Justice, the direct Road the Rich
ond markets for the benefit of fellow citizens of GER
tain portions of those Southern Countless and part of
Carolina, bordering Brunswick and Mecklenburr
These Commissioners, assisted by their Surveyors after
careful examiiiaon rejected any route for Road on the
lands OF Cousins and Puryear in Amelia across Apponot
'ox and through the lands in the Forks the conflu
s %e& a J 5y G ssaaS CHG 10
good public Road account of the low grounds On the
River and Creek liable frequent eses and the inter-
venng lengthy stdpendously high clay hills in woods but
that Bevis Bridge sufficiently convenient TO the LARGEST
portion of the Southern Counties They located their Road
and Bndge-st6 below the conluence Goose Isnd i'm
Amelia ridge and eligible grhd so as TO enter into The
public Road, in Chesterfield, Jeloto noody's Tavern
Their Bridge site, on the south side of the River at
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 of distance
throughout its whole length and the public convenience
on comparison with the existing numerous direct and in
tcrsecng old roads, did not justify the execution of the
plan-The undersigned was with some Of The Commits
soners, when they were ON tile 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 10 their proceedings; above
stated
1t also proper MENTION that tile PROPOSED Road cross
es Winerpck Creek few yards above the junction or
Buckhorn Branch to which the back-wa of the Ri
yer ows IN FTeshes then passed by the Old Mill the
Branch near the Creek, formerly Francis Eppes' after
wards Chders thence the bed of the old mill pond
(bcsdcs the bridge and causeway each side Of the
creck serious distance of ditching raising cause
waying and some bridging will be required, and after
wards it Is conducted. through untrodden, ineligible
ground, down to Mr. Moodys Tavern. The saving of
distance this course in travelling to Manchester;
when compared with the convenience of the tunierous
diversified Roads by which Amelia arid Chesterfield are
ntcrected in every direction, will prove be uuworhS
of consideration: ARCHIBALD THWEATTi
Long resident on lands adjoining Eppes Falls; Apro-
nlai.cx River, and on each side of Winerpock Creek
short distance above the confluence
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