Petition to Pave Atkinson Street, March 1746

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Petition, 1746 March to the town selectmen of Boston

To the Freeholders & other Inhabitants of
the Town of Boston, in Town meeting
Regularly assembled the       
March A: D: 1746

The Memorial of Sundry of the Proprietors of
Houses & Lands, & Others the Inhabitants of said Town
of Boston, Living in & some of 'em frequenting the Street
commonly known by the name of Atkinson Street,
bounded Northerly on Milk Street & Southerly on
Cow Lane-

Sheweth-
That there has been for some years past
much pains as well as money expended in planking, gravel:
= ing & draining said Street, in order to make it more
commodious, but to so little purpose hither to that it is
notorious to every Passenger in the Spring, Summer & Fall
of the year, that is scarse passable with Carts, Trucks
or any heavy carriage, in so much that the urgent necessity
of it's being paved has excited the Memorialists, severall
of em to Contribute to their utmost, & as they humbly conceive,
generously towards it; and now they all pray the Town
to order & Direct that said Street be accepted & register'd
as one of the Common Streets of the Town & paved as soon
as may be, and that what the Cost thereof shall amount
to more than the Subscriptions already obtained, being
about Eleven hundred pounds old tenor, & what other
Subscriptions may be still got, be paid out of the Town
Treasury.

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Petition, 1746 March to the town selectmen of Boston

Petition, 1746 March to the town selectmen of Boston