Subject: Petition for High Ways in Parishes of St. Stephens and St. John
Resent-Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 22:46:43 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 01:49:07 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
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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

Thursday the 9th of March 1758.

"... And the said Petition was read Setting Forth as Viz.

That by a Law made many Years past, a Road was Laid out, made & ever Since kept
in repair from Murrays Ferry in St. Stephens Parish to the High Road in St. John
Parish Leading to Charles Town, That since Establishing St. Stephens Parish the
Commissioners have Laid out Such Roads as were most Convenient and have in
Conjunction with the Commissioners for St. John Parish Laid out a Road for the
Greater Conveniency of the Inhabitants of St. Stephens Parish, who hitherto used
the Said Murrays Ferry Road and will Equally Suit the Inhabitants of
Williamsburgh Township and praying that Leave may be Given to bring in a Bill
for Establishing the said new Road [to begin at Tippicut Law old Field, near
Biggon Church in St. Johns Parish, and continued to the halfway swamp at a place
commonly called Normans Rice Field & from thence to or near the plantations of
John Conners and Jeremiah Allen till it intersects Murrays Ferry Road, between a
place called a Hill and Theodore Gaillards plantation, and that the Inhabitants
may hereafter be exempted from working on any other part of Murrays Ferry Road.]

Ordered that the Petition be referred to the Consideration of a Committee & that
they do Examine the Matter thereof & report the Same with their Opinion
thereupon, to the House.

And it is Referred to Mr. Mazyck, Mr. Ralph Izard, Mr. Moultrie, Mr. Broughton,
Mr. Berresford, Collo. Izard, Mr. John Waties...."

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