1773 Petition to build a Road by
Bennet Bryan's new house

Source: Delaware Public Archive, Dover, DE - Public Records

Return of a Road Near the Head of Mispilion Creek in Ceder Creek Hundred Sussex County.
The within return being offered to the Court was rejected and a Review Granted at Expence of Samuel Davis Whereupon the Court Appointed George Walton, ? Parker, William Hazzard, Nath Hays junr, and Saul Davis.
Sussex County
on Delaware

At a Court of Quanter Sessions held for the County of Sussex afsd at Lewes Town the third day of November Seventeen Hundred and Seventy three Sundry of the inhabitance of Ceder Creek Hundred of the County afsd Presents a Petition Prayin the said Court to appoint five freeholders to Lay out a Road from near Samuel Davis untill it Intersectes with the Public Road Again -

Where upon the Court Appoints five Men as the Law Directs Vt Bethuel Wattson, John Draper, Benjamin Truet ___ William Pointer ___ and David Thorton to lay out the aforesaid Road and Make Return thereof to the Court as the Law Directs. -

In Obeydiance to which order we the appointed subscribers view the Premisis and finding the afsd Road Nessessary and wanting being duly qualified for that purpose Proceeded to Lay off the said Road and assess the Damages that shall arise by Reason of the Said Road Crossing the Lands and Tenements of any Person or Persons whatsoever in Manner and form Following.-

Viz/ Beginning in the Old Road colled Tussekee Branch Road at the head of a glade to the south west of Bennet Bryans New House from thence North fifty Deg__ Thirty Minutes East one Hundred and seventy eight Perches to Intersect with the old Road again on North East side of a Branch called Pond Branch by Samuel Davis.

And Lastly we do Return and say that the said Petitioners thems their Heirs Executers or Admins shall pay or cause to be paid unto Bennett Brion the sum of one Shilling and to pay unto Samuel Davis or any peron or persons making the land appear to be their property the sum Ten Shillings for their Damages Sustained by Reason of the afsd Road Crossing through their lands and premisis. In Wittness whereof we have here unto set our Hands and Seals assiced? this twenty sencond day of January in the year of Our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Seventy four.

Bethuel Wattson
John Draper
Benjamin Truitt Junior
William Poynter
David Thornton


Received the 29th January 1774 of William Polk the sum of one shilling in full for Damages of the road Mentioned within.
Recieved sum of Bennet Bryan
Tasker Polk

I was present and heard William Polk tell Samuel Davis that he would pay the Damage mentioned in the Return at any time when the said Davis should make it appear that he has a Right to the Land. Witness my hand Jonathan Burroughs this 25th Day of January 1774.


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