The Newtown bee., 1904-02-19

dlrHelu county, IO geu uO COuIG uO Danbury in 1920:
 To the Honorable County Court to be held at Danbury, in and for the County of Fairfield, on the third Tues day of November, A. D., 1920:
 The Petition of John S. Cannon and | others whose names are hereunto sub- scribed, citizens of the towns of Strat- ford, Trumbull, Huntington, Newtown, Danbury and New Fairfield. all in said County, respectfully sheweth:
 That there is necefsarily much inter- course between the inhabitants of the towns of Stratford, Trumbull and Huntington aforesaid, and the said town of Danbury, by reason that one half the courts of the County are by law holden there, and that there is no convenient direct publick road through which such intercourse can be carried on, and that all other parts of the County are accommodated with roads as direct to said Danbury as the face of the country will admit, and that the citizens of said Stratford, Hunt ington and Trumbull are equally en- titled to such accommodation with their fellow citizens in the other parts of the County. And that there is no convenient direct road for the inhabi tants of large part of said Newtown, the whole of Danbury, New Fairfield and a considerable district in the state of New. York whereby they can transport the production of their farms to the port of Bridgeport, the principal market in the County, and the only place in it where the people of the interior can at all times be SUD- piled with articles of foreign merchant dize such as they may need. And that the inhabitants of said Stratfor, Trum bull and Huntington, Danbury, New Fairfield, large part of Newtown, and said district in the state of New York may all be accommodated with road for the said several purposes and also for the travel of the inhabitants on the seaboard at the southeastern part of the County into said State of New York by road direct, as the face of the ground will render convenient, from < the Bridgeport and Newtown turnpike road between the dwelling house of Levi Edwards on the north and the dwellinghouse of Burr Turney on the south, in said Huntington, to and nearIAmbler $. mills and Benedict's factory in said Danbury, which may ho off of ent roads and by cutting off corners, and the rest of it on new ground con- venient and tolerably level and the whole at reasonable expense, hence that common and publick convenience and necefsity require that there should be such road made and opened, and made from said turnpike road between said Levi Edwards dwelling-house on the north and Burr Turney's on the south, in said Huntington, to said Am bler's mills and Benedict's factory in said Danbury, and that as speedily as may be, to do justice to the citizens of said southeastern part of said county, who are now obliged to travel circui- tous rout on roads rough, rugged and mountainous and almost impafsible, an unnecefsary distance of at least six miles to get to the court house in said Danbury, for the erection of which they are now taxed and shall most willingly pay if they can be accommo- dated with a convenient road leading to it. Whereupon, the Petitioners pray your Honors to appoint commit tee of three disinterested free-holders to enquire into the convenience and necefsity of laying out public high way, beginning on the western side of the Bridgeport and Newtown turn pike road between the dwelling-house of Levi Edwards on the north and the dwelling-house of Burr Turpey on the south, in said Huntington, and thence running on the level ground for the ac- commodation of the publick, and wheresoever it will be equally as good, on old roads already laid open, to said Ambler's mills and Benedict's factory, in said Danbury, pafsing in the inter mediate space, as near as the publick good will permit, by the house of An drew Leavenworth, in said Hunting ton, and also as near to the dwelling
 house of Levi Taylor, in said Newtown
 as the object of the road and the pub lick good will permit. And if suct committee shall be of the opinion thai
 such road will be of common conven
 fence and necetsity to proceed to sur
 vey and lay out the same and afsef
 the damages which willlthereby accur'
 to individuals, and thereupon mak, their report in writing of their doings . and the same return to your Honor at such fefsion of said court as you s Honors may legally direct. Or tha @ your Honors will in some other wa, a grant relief to the Petitioners in tn . premises, and they. as in duty bound : will ever pray.
 Dated at Stratford, the 22d day 0
 September, A. D., 1920.
 John S. Cannon, Daniel Fairman.
 Samuel Burr, Gidion Peck,
 Ernest Foote, Newtown.
 John Brooks, Jr., Isaac Burroughs, Fayerweather & A. w. Hamlyn
 Bird, Co.,,
 Charles B. Hub William Peck,
 bell, Thos. c. Worder
 Step h.en Bur- Hyde Nichols .
 TOughs, Co.,,
 Joseph Cook, Jesse Sterling, n Nathaniel Wade S. C. Rattard