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To his Majesties Worshipfull
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Justices of the Peace in and for the
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The Humble Petition of the Inhabitants of
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Sheweth
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That sheet is a certain Brook of Water
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running across the Kemp Highway near Forty Hill in
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which at certain times as the year is so Deep and
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Dangerous to his Majesties Leige Subjects passing
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with their Horses Carts and Carriages shall way as
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to make it absolutely necessary for the safety of
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their Lives that a Bridge should be a built our
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the same for Carts Horses and carriages
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That last Wintes a Cart and Horse with
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the Order passing this the Brook was washd
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away and the Man Drowned thereby and that
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within there fear Months past a
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of Mr
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Mellishs also lost his Life in passing
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such
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Brook-That the said Highway as a very-
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Publick one & the direct road from that part of
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-your Petitioner therefore Humbly
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Pray your Worships to Order a Bridge
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to be Built across the said Brook so
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present the Lives of his Majesties subject
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being Endangerd that pass that way
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and your Petitioners shall ever
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Geo:
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on behalf of himself &
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the rest of the Plan Seconds
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24 May 1792.
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