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MINUTES OF THE ORDINARY COURT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY, GEORGIA Page 100 GEORGIA } Inferior Court sitting for Ordinary purposes Randolph County } July Term 1840 Present their Honors Wm B Mitchener, David Rumph & Whitefield B Smith, Justices of the Inferior Court & sitting as a court of ordinary. To the Honorable the Inferior Court of said County sitting for ordinary purposes, we the undersigned would respectfully solicit your Honorable body to have suitable persons appointed to survey a route for a Public Road beginning at the county line of Early & Randolph. Near Mr. Henderson's house keeping the old Fort Gaines Road by the way of Watts Mill on the Simochechobi Creek. Leaving the old road near Mr. Watts house thence up the creek by the way of Terralls ponds mills crossing the aforesaid creek. Thence a new cut route to S A P Deans, then keeping the best route to Cuthbert going by Andrew Bass. Intersecting the Old Fort Gaines Road at or near Doct. John G. Gilbert's plantation. Thence to the Town of Cuthbert. This road is on the best & firmest ground for a Public Road running from Fort Gaines to Cuthbert and will shorten the distance five miles in our opinion, there is but few hills & them easily passed & the road is well watered. We would respectfully solicit your Honorable body would appoint Gabriel Smith, Philip Tinsley, Samuel Bufelow & Samuel A P Dean to be the reviews & to make their returns according & your petitioners will in duty bound. Signed: William Dunn Hampton Bishop Josiah Hendric Frances Brown Gabraeil Smith Mack Hendleberg John Barker S A P Dean L P Tabor John Alley Benj M Raley Richard White Martin Polluck Savage Strickland Fontain White George P Neely J M Collins Handy Faulkner Jess H Nelms James Bishop John McKinnon Stephen Johnson Philip Tinsely James A Ward Samuel R Bufilow Jordin Dykes Jesse Midon Isace Guilford Irby Gilder West Lane Amos Lane David E Hunt William Wetherbee Henry Hunt
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