Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

3 December 1808

Petition of Ludowick and James Hunter stating that "Your Honorable House have bin pleased to Lay out a new Road over Said Hill (Ardoise) at the distance of two Hundred Rods North from the old road, and one mile and a half distant from where your Petitioners are Setled towards Windsor and three fourths of a mile distant towards Halifax – your Petitioners further State that they have no way of comeing at the new road but by the old road, as their Land doth not join or come to the new road in any direction nearer than above stated, consequently your Petitioner must be at the heavy expense of keeping up a Road (and one Large Bridge) the distance of one mile and half to git to the County town, and half that distance to git to Halifax, your petitioners therefore beg leave to submit their case to your Honorable House to grant such relief as you in your Wisdom may think just and mete, and your Petitioners as in duty Bound will ever Pray." Signed.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 15 number 111