Identifier: canonsburgcenten01cano (find matches)
Title: Canonsburg centennial
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Canonsburg, Pa. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Pittsburgh, Pa., Pittsburgh printing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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urts of Justice p. 217. The location of Canons house and mill is shown in acurious way. A road to Jacob Bausmans Ferry opposite Pittsburghwas reported in June of 1784, and ordered to be openedthirty-three feet wide. On the map showing its coursesand distances, both the house of John Canon and GeneralNeville are shown, and as they both were viewers andsigned the order filed with the plot, it is not probable thatthey would sanction a false location for either house. Thisplot may throw some light on a locally disputed question,as to the site of John Canons House. The authority to grant roads having been for sometime now vested at Washington, instead of the east forkof Chartiers having its own way undisputed, the Countyseat seems to have been somewhat jealous of our Found-ers influence, for at No. 6 September Sessions of 1784, wefind the following curious record:—To the WorshipfulCourt of Washington County now sitting, The petitionof a number of the inhabitants of Strabane Township hum-
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1/ 5 The Chartee or Shurtee Settlement 145 bly showeth; your petitioners being well assured from theGreat Care taken by your Worships, respecting Layingout of Roads for the Benefit of the Public at Large,and al-so to prevent too Great a Number therof: Consider ourproperty and Personal Services Secure from the Imposi-tion of Individuals, it was therefore resolved by the saidCourt that all Petitions for by-roads should be laid overuntil the principale Roads should be Laid off, also that allSubsequent Petitions for New Roads should not be ad-mitted of, unless setting ofif at a Reasonable Distance fromthe principale Roads; it was also Resolved by the SdCourt that the Following principal Roads Should be Suf-ficient, viz: One from the town of Washington to Pitts-burg ; Second, from the sd town toward - Wheeling;thirdly. One Leading (from) sd town to Redstone OldFort; forthly; one towards the forks of Ten Mile Creek;fifthly, one leading Lyndlys Mill and. Sixthly, One towardsMingo bottom; Sev

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