To the honorable speaker and members of the House of Delegates of Virginia. : The memorial of the subscribers respectctfully represents, that your memorialists reside in counties lying to the south of James River, and in travelling, and bringing their produce to the Richmond market, by land ... using the Manchester Turnpike Road ..

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 21919.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roads--Virginia.

Roads.

Virginia.

Roads--Virginia--Maintenance and repair.

Toll roads--Virginia.

Toll roads.

Manchester Turnpike Road.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Memorials (Legal)

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

[Petersburg, Va.?] : [publisher not identified], [1810]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Petition urging that the Manchester Turnpike Road be protected from continued damage by coal merchants, "who carry such enormous weights," by compelling them to either use broad wheels or pay a proportionately higher toll for using the road.

Place of publication suggested by the Virginia State Library, whose original is dated Dec. 17, 1810, in ms.

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