Name/Title
Highway Survey, 1818Entry/Object ID
2026.014.039Scope and Content
Petition and Selectmen's report on a public highway from Groton Bank to "Sinisett" near Capt. James Mitchell's residence, August 31, 1818
"To the gentlemen Selectmen of the town of Groton - The petitioners of the subscribers inhabitants of said Groton humbly showeth that in their opinion the public stand in great need of a highway from the gate at or neat the house of Nathan Darrow at the end of the present highway laid out in Groton Bank, to continue in a southerly direction to the house of Capt. James Mitchell, they pray that you gentlemen may take the case into consideration and as soon as may be, view the proposed route and if your opinion the petition is found just and reasonable, lay out a highway in said place and make report to the town for this approbation and your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray - Dated Groton this 31st day of August 1818."
Signed by Elisha Chester, Ebenezer Avery Jr., Amos A. Niles, Erastus Fish, Christopher Morgan, Ralph Hurlbut, Noyes Barber, Erastus T. Smith, Rufus Smith, Peter A. Gallup, John O. Miner
"We subscribers Selectmen of the town of Groton on the petition of Elisha Chester and other inhabitants of said town of Groton praying for the Selectmen to lay out a road or highway met on the 16th of September 1818 at the dwelling house of Capt. James Mitchell and after hearing the petitioners and examining their case were of opinion that the prayer of the petitioners should be granted as it appears that there was much need of a road or highway in that place. Accordingly we laid out the following road or highway..."
Signed by Groton Selectmen Erastus Williams, Elisha Stoddard and Stephen Haley.Collection
Lacerte CollectionAcquisition
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2026.014Source or Donor
James LacerteAcquisition Method
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Road Construction, Groton BankArchive Details
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1818Archive Notes
Date(s): 1818
