Subject: Petition, Road from Day's Creek to Savanna River 22 November 1758
Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 23:33:09 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 02:35:53 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
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To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

Wednesday the 22d Day of November 1758.

"... A Petition of Jermyn and Charles Wright was presented to the House and Read
Setting forth That a Public Road between Day's Creek and Savanna River will be
of great Convenience to all Persons travelling from Charles Town to Savannah in
Georgia; by making the swamps passable the Journey will be reduced to about One
hundred and five Miles and render a much Easier Correspondence between His
Majesty's two Provinces than heretofore. That the Petitioners having surveyed
the Woods find the Distance to be nine Miles and half or thereabouts from the
Bank of Savanna River to Day's Creek; That not only many of the Inhabitants of
this Province are desirous to have this Road compleated, but the Inhabitants of
Georgia in Order to promote so public a Service have subscribed as by the Paper
hereunto annexed. That the Petitioners most humbly pray a Bill may be brought in
to confirm the same and to oblige the Petitioners and such other Inhabitants as
now are, or hereafter may settle on the South side of Day's Creek within Ten
Miles of such Road to work thereupon and keep it in Repair; And that a Ferry
over Savannah River to the Land of Mr. Jonathan Bryan in Georgia may be vested
in the Petitioners, their Heirs or Executors for the Term of fourteen Years.

Ordered that the said Petition be referred to the Consideration of a Committee
and that they do examine the matter thereof and report the same, as it shall
appear to them, to the House; And It is referred to Mr. Ralph Izard, Mr.
Middleton, Mr. Bull, Mr. McQueen, Mr. Rattray, Mr. Roper, Mr. Leigh, Mr. Murray,
Mr. Drayton...."

Source:
The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
Published by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
ISBN: 1-880067-28-5

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