Name/Title
Highway Report, 1813Entry/Object ID
2026.014.075Scope and Content
Report of the Groton Selectmen on the survey of a road running from Mystic to the Post Road, voted on at the town meetings held November 9, 1811, November 9, 1812 and November 8, 1813.
"Pursuant to the petition of a number of inhabitants of the Town of Groton for to lay out a highway beginning at the road leading from New London ferry to Packer's ferry so called, near the house of Mr. George Ashbey, from thence northwardly to the Post Road near the dwelling house of Capt. Stephen Haley , accordingly we the subscribers Selectmen of Groton for the time being gave legal notice to all the proprietors owning lands on said range that we should attend on said business on the 24th day September 1811 - and that we should meet at the dwelling house of said Capt. Haley in said Groton and that we should proceed from thence at 9 o'clock a.m. to view said proposed way and being so much at the time and place aforesaid did proceed to view through the whole of said range and after so viewing did proceed to lay out the same in manner and form following..."
Beginning at the road from New London to Packer's ferry near George Ashbey's house and continuing through the lands of Edward Packer, Daniel Burrows, Capt. Amos Clift, Capt. Roswell Fish, Sands Fish, Thomas Wells, Stephen Haley and Elisha Haley.
"Dated at Groton, 9th Nov. 1811"
Signed by Groton Selectmen Amos A. Niles, Rufus Smith, Seth Williams, James Allyn, John Morgan, Noyes Barber.
With note that there was a a vote for the report to be continued at the next annual meeting, November 9, 1812, and that is was not accepted at the annual meeting on November 8, 1813.Collection
Lacerte CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2026.014Source or Donor
James LacerteAcquisition Method
GiftLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
ReportNomenclature Sub-Class
Administrative RecordsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Road Construction, Mystic, Packer's Ferry, Post RoadArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1813Archive Notes
Date(s) Created: 1811 - 1813
