Bath County NcArchives Court.....Road Assistance, Residents Seek ca. 1703-1707
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: ca. 1703-1707

Petition to Governor and Council
ca. 1703-1707

To the Honorable Governor and Councell

The Petition of the inhabitants of the County of Bath humbly sheweth.

That whereas the road betwinn this county and Pamtecoe being now in very good 
order and the bridges genirally made, and that the Nuse River continually 
haveing inhabitants comeing thither and the road from Pamtecoe thither being 
very obscure whereby straingers are in a great deficulty to finde the way 
thither without a guid, wherefore wee pray that your honors would be pleased 
to pass an order that the inhabitants upon the south side of Pamtecoe River 
includeing Squire Readings and so runing down the south side of the said river 
shall be oblidged to goe upon the dayes appointed by Act of Assembly upon the 
said road and the same to clear half way to the Nuse, and the inhabitants of 
the Nuse oblidged to clear the other part of the said road, and shall pray.

                                       Thomas Dereham, Umphrey Legg, 
                                       John Lawson, Levi Truewhitt, 
                                       James Leigh
[Endorsed]
The Petition
about the
Roads

[NC Colonial Records - Records of the Executive Council, 1664-1734, p. 401]



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