1774 Petition to build a Road by
Bennet Bryan's new house
Source: Delaware Public Archive, Dover, DE - Public Records
Petition from Ceder Creek Hundred May Sessions 1774
To the worshipfull the justices of the Court of Quarter Session of the ___. Held at Lewis for the County of Sussex the first Tuesday in May 1774. The Petition of divers Inhabitants of Ceder Creek Hundred in the County aforesaid humbly shuseth-
That whereas and petition was granted and return was made by five men upon oath for a Road from a Samuel Davis to Eastward of Bennett Bryans New House untill it intersects with the Publick Road that and Samuel Davis objected against said road on account of the ___ publick road not being evacuated by the same ___.
_____ Petitioners therefore Pray your worships to appoint five men to conceive the new road and to allow the ___ road to be stop up and Cultivated by the Persons through whose Lands it as the new Road is much the nearest and Best way and lest injurious to the persons through whose Land it runs.
That for the use and benifet of us your Humble Petitioners who come the Road Called Townsand Road.
Your Petitioners pray your worships to order that said five men or other five men may turn the roal call Crappers Mill Road from the west corner of Samuel Davis's fence on the line of Bennett Bryans land untill it Intersects with the new road near Bennett Bryans house and thence on a line untill it intersects with Townsands Road.
That the new road shall be cleared and made as good for the passer as the old Road on the Expense of your Humble Petitioners -
And your petitioners may ever pray be~
Jonathan Burrough
John Knofls ?
George Richmand
Francis Ralrents ?
Stephen ?
Manuel Polk
Randol Misihelle ?
John Hazzard
Thomas Pearson
Ephraim Polk
John Williams
Le ? Willey
Bennet Bryan
Sheppard Bryan
Joseph Lane
Luke Watton
Pemberton Carlile
William Polk
Joshua Tiskaroon
Tasker Polk
William Mulnix ?
Poserh ? Polk
Samuel Bennet ?
Elijah Williams
Richard Hays Jur.
Moses Argo
Absalom ? Willey
Joseph Griffith
Mitchel Tatman
Joseph Pollock
John Polk
Nathaniel Haise ?
George Waller
William Willey
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