. Down the eastern and up the Black . in any other singlepaper. In the winter of that year Edwards presented his petitionto the Court of Quarter Sessions, stating that he had laid out his whole substance in building a corn mill in Nantmel to ac-commodate his neighborhood, there being nothing of that kindwithin four or five miles of his place, which he hath with greatdifficulty at last effected. But not having any road to his saidmill a great part of the custom which first put him upon it cannot reap the benefit of the cheiff design of its building which isa very great hardship bot
. Down the eastern and up the Black . in any other singlepaper. In the winter of that year Edwards presented his petitionto the Court of Quarter Sessions, stating that he had laid out his whole substance in building a corn mill in Nantmel to ac-commodate his neighborhood, there being nothing of that kindwithin four or five miles of his place, which he hath with greatdifficulty at last effected. But not having any road to his saidmill a great part of the custom which first put him upon it cannot reap the benefit of the cheiff design of its building which isa very great hardship both to them and your petitioner. Inconclusion, Edwards asked for a road from the Lancaster line tohis mill. This petition, while an old one, has a most familiar reads like an application of a modern hotel keeper settingfoith his generous self-denial in building a house exclusivelyfor the accommodation of a needy and suffering public—ex-pressing his willingness to undertake the conduct of the same [ 36 Ho ?si > a W>Pi CO o 2 faCD. and asking only for the Courts official recognition of his altru-istic spirit. Against this petition of Edwards the combined wisdom ofthe Welsh and Scotch drafted a remonstrance, which I quote,not for my lay readers, who may pass it by without loss, but formy legal friends, who will be delighted to add to their store ofpleading a novel form of absque hoc. Your petitioners understand that Francis Edwards an In-habitant of our s Township hath provided a Petition to be Ex-hibited unto you requesting a Road from ye line of the Countyof Lancaster Thro, our s-J Township, w^i road if granted willbe of unsupportable charge to us your Petitioners. Neither canit be of Much Benefit to the s^ Francis as shall hereafter bemade appear. And first as to the Charge it will bring upon us your Peti-tioners: the s<^ road must pass thro a Meadow belonging toJames Logan w^i is about thirty poles wide and so swampy thatHorses cannot pass through it & the ma
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