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Description
Numerous citizens of Worcestor petition for a public works project.
Transcription
To the Honorable his ? justices of the court of General ? of the peace to be ? at Worcestor in and for the county of Worcestor on the third ? of August 1741 The petition of the subscribers Humbly shown - That in or about the year 1719 a highway or road was laid out in Worcester by order of a committe ? and General Court from the north end of the long pond so called by the house of James Tailor and the house of Jonas Rice to the house of Ephrim Rice and over Riveroon Plain? hill it came to halfway River ? the papers hearwith Exhibitted will appear that ????? Wherefore your Petitioners humbly pray your Honorable would ? in the affair according to the rules proscribed in the law that so said road so very ? both to ? and ? of the inhabitants of Worcestor may be opened and as in duty bound shall our pray James Taylor Joshua Child william Calldwell? Benjamin Gates ? Rice James Holdin James Rice jr ? Holdin Jonas Rice Nathaniel Moore Elijah Cook Thomas Parker Charles Davenport William McClellian Daniel Hubbard Ephraim Church Sam Drinker? Adonijah Rice
Creation Date
8-1-1741
City
Worcester
State/Province
Mass.
Creator Life Dates
1672-1753
Keywords
Jonas Rice, James Taylor, petition, Worcester, road, 1741
Resource Identifier
080616-61
Date Digital
October 2013
Document Type
Article
Publisher
Wofford College
Format (medium)
Manuscript
Format (IMT)
Language
En-us English
Digitization Specifications
800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adope Acrobat XI Pro.
Source
The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, James, ""Petition of Jonas Rice and others"" (1741). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 67.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/67