Protocol of the College of Overseers - 1793
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March 13, 1793
4) The preparations for the bridge over the Saucon, in which our town is also very interested, are going very slowly. It can be built for £250; £200 of that the County has granted, and £25 is subscribed. For the remaining £25, subscriptions will be found, if someone takes the trouble. Br. Beutel was asked, and was willing to take care of it.
April 3, 1793
5) Brothers Schropp, Horsfield, and Beutel will determine forthwith how the fences on the Lehigh lots on the street should be set new.
October 23, 1793
6) The Allentown path has now been laid out for several days and because the order from the court was only expressed in general, and the Jury heard that one wished the path to be laid out over the Monocacy Bridge by Br. Knaus [his residence], whereas it would really should be one mile nearer, they laid it out from there. Only the narrowness of the path between the houses of Br. Kliest and Weinland seemed risky, if the road should become more public, and one came again to investigate whether it would not be practicable to make a path from the new store building straight down to the Mill Race. Because it has never yet been measured, Br. Örter will be requested today to determine the height and width.
(this happened directly and it turns out that if the grade of the route starts from under the corner of the Market House and goes to the arch of the Mill Race, it comes to a horizontal distance of 320 feet, a height of at most 42 feet, and thus each horizontal foot must have 1 _ inch fall.)
Transcriptions and translations by Katherine Carté Engel
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