Subject: South Side of the Wateree River
Resent-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:16:53 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 00:19:02 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
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To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

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 2d of March 1758.

"... Read also the Petition of the Inhabitants on the South Side of the Wateree
River & Parts Adjacent Setting forth as Viz.

That your Petitioners Labours under many deficultys for want of a Road To
markett, And your Petitioners being informed that Mr. Thos. Howell hath
Petition'd for a Road from Rice Creek to the Path, That Leads from the Congaree
to Charles Town; We your Petitioners, humbly prays, That the said Road, may be
Continued from Rice Creek upwards opposite to the upper part of the Waxcaw
Settlement, And our Prayer is, that the Road Petitioned for may be Annex'd to
the Said Thomas Howell's Petition, & that one Law may pass for the same, This
being only the Lengthning the Said Howells prayer, it being one Road, and that
the Inhabitants within Eight Miles of the said road may work on the same, And
that Mark Jones, Capt. James Lesley, James Patton Senr., James Patton Junr.,
John Leanard Senr. & Richd. Griffin, be appointed Commissioners of the said
Additional road & therefore Praying &c.

Order'd 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. Taylor, Mr. Wright, Mr. Trapier, Mr.
Coachman, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Lynch...."

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