Name/Title
Notice for Election of Town Officers, 1811Entry/Object ID
2026.014.032Scope and Content
Copy of a "Town Warning" alerting all legal voters in the Town of Groton of an upcoming election for town officers, November 4, 1811
"These are to warn all the inhabitants of the town of Groton who are legal voters in the Town Meeting to meet together at the Meeting house in first Society in said Groton on Monday the 11th day of November at 1 o'clock in the morning then and there to choose Town Officers for the year ensuing and to grant taxes for defraying the [?] of said town for repairing highways, etc. for the year ensuing. And also to hear the report of their Selectmen of laying a pentway from the East Baptist Meeting house in said Groton to the pentway near Mr. Samuel Lamb's, and of their laying a highway from the Lower Road commencing at the same near Mystic ferry, thence northward to the Post Road near the dwelling house of Capt. Stephen Haley and to do any of the business proper to be done at said Meeting - Dated at Groton, Nov. 4th AD 1811."
Signed by the Selectmen of the Town of Groton, Amos A. Niles, Rufus Smith, John William, James Allyn Jr., Noyes Barber.Collection
Lacerte CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2026.014Source or Donor
James LacerteAcquisition Method
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Road Construction, Poquonnock Bridge, Packer's Ferry, Post RoadArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1811Archive Notes
Date(s): 1811