Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-12-06

presented to the opening road enoned in the above
| notice. ARCHIBALD THWEAT0T
OF Chesterfield County.
VIM. III. ROBERTSON,
Of Amelia County.
Further notice the ADORE Road:-Thc UNDERSIGNED
will also prefer his individual petition opposing the Road in
question, called for by the public Its
local question: about connecting the lower of Ame
ma by anew Bridge, and continued Road 10 and in
Chesterfield is judicial case expressly provided for
by our general Road Law whereby the Courts of the two
Couies have competent jurisdiction grant and refuse
the Road and Bridge public and private convenience
may require At the last Session the General ASSEM-
bly,, petition presented for this Road be notice no.
ing at that time signed by other citizens of Amelia
than Mcssrs. Thomas T. Giles Robert Cousins Sen FL
W. Anderson and Wash. l.. Torburn-Mr Anderson be-
ing me proprietor Of the Idrer1, The Amelia side of
the Rirer. 1t will be observed, that sgners lust nam
ed are residents andholdcr of lower Amelia and that
the residents oil that part of the County will be conve
menty accommodated in going to the Richmond market
by the Bridge authorized to be built at the Exeter Mills
the middle position between Petersburg and Bcvs Bridge
where pubic roads in convenient direction each
side OF the River, have been long established and ferry
supported That Mr.. ID. Moody the proprietor of me
Spring Hin Tavern, on the Chesterfield side and Mr. J.
u. Boiling of lower Amelia vho was sgner of the first
notice. did make application to Chesterfield County Court
for opening this Road and were opposed in Cont
and an appeal is depending between them and the
undersigned, concerning the That the iocali-
ties oil this Road adapted TO the private views few
and as the County Courts of Chesterfield Amelia have
original jurisdiction with the right of appeal the under
signed ought not to be aggeved by proceedings at the
same time before the Court of Justice and honorable
Legislature And the notice of the aSession brought
into view, besides Amelia, Dinwiddie, Nottoway &C. &c
becomes proper to state, that at former period the
General Assembly, undera special Act appointed fourteen
Commissioners of their selection, two from each of
the Counties of Dinwiddc, Brunswick Meckenburg Luz
nenburg Nooway Amelia and Chesterfield with authori-
ty to to be opened with the experimenting
OF the Courts of Justice the Road to the Rich
mond Market for the benefit of fellow citizens
tam portions OF those Southern Counties, and part of
carolina, bordering on Brunswick and Mecklenburg
These Commissioners assisted by their Surveyor after
careful examination rejected any route for Road the
lands OF Cousins and Puryear, Amelia across Appoat-
tox, and through the lands i'm the Fork near the con
ence oil Winterpock Creek and the River in Chesterfield
(he lands through which II is proposed conduct the pre-
sent Road because it only impraccablc to get
good public Road on account of the low grounds the
RIVER and Creek, liable to frequent reshes, and the
vemng lengthy supcndousy high clay hills in woods
that Bevs Bridge sufficiently to the largest
portion of the Southern Counties They located their Road
and Brdge-stc below the confluence at Goose Island in
Amelia ridge and eligible ground TO enter into the
public Road, in Chesterfield beio,o Moody's T;are,J,
Their Bridgese, 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
the result proved that the saving distance
throughout its whole length, and the public
on comparison with the existing direct and in
tersecnng old roads, did not justify the execution of the
plan-Ihc undersigned was with some of the Commits
sioners, when they the lands and Just above
the confluence and after they had completed their duties
and the certificates of two of the last survivors them
sustain the material facts TO their proceedings above
| stated
Ii is also proper mention that the proposed Road
es Wnterpock Creek few yards above the junction of
Buckhom Branch TO which the back-water of the Ri
yer flows in Freses then passed by the Old Mill the
branch near the Creek, formerly Francis Eppcs' after
wards Chdcrs thence across the bed of the old mill pond
(besides the bridge and causcway side of the
creckO 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.. Moody's Tavern. The saving of
distance on this course in travelling to Manchester,
when compared with the convenience of the numerous
diversified Roads by which Amelia and Chesterfield are
nterected in every direction will prove 10 be unworthy
oil consideration. ARCHIBALD THWEATT,
Long resident on lands adjoining EEPcs Falls Apo
mattox River, and each side of Winterpock Creek
short distance above the confluence.
Nov. 15