Name/Title
Petition for Public Highway, 1793Entry/Object ID
2026.014.078Scope and Content
Petition for and survey of a public road in Groton, September 17, 1793.
"To the Selectmen of the town of Groton we the subscribers would humbly show that we conceive it necessary and conducive to the public good that there should be a public highway laid out in said Groton, beginning at the south end of the highway near William Ebenezer Avery's, south of Ebenezer Ledyard Ens. house, from thence leading southerly by the widow Theoda Williams and widow Eunice Latham's to Capt. Ebenezer Avery 2nd whereupon we wish you to view the way proposed and report thereon make - Dated Groton 17, Sept. 1793."
Signed by Rufus Smith, Christopher White, Walton Burdick, Nathan Darrow, Ebenezer Ledyard Ens., Jon Chester, Stephen Morgan, Gurdon Ledyard, William Leeds, Joseph Moxley, Nathan Morgan, Rufus Avery, Amos Avery, Ebenezer Lester, Ebenezer Ledyard, Ebenezer Avery, Ebenezer Avery 2nd, Daniel Avery 2nd, Charles Avery, Ebenezer Avery 3rd, Giles Chester, Simeon Chester, Nicholas Morgan, William Chester, Caleb Avery 2nd, Roswell Burrows, Nathan Chester, Park Avery Jr., William Morgan, Joseph Gallup, Benjamin Avery, Moses Morgan, William Avery, William Eldredge, Elisha Williams, Oliver Smith, Peter Avery 2nd, William Avery 2nd, Christopher Bill, John O. Miner, John Avery, Starr Chester, Isaac Chester, John Avery 3rd.
"The above and foregoing is accepted by the Town at their meeting - December 16, 1793 and ordered to be recorded in the record of the town."
"Pursuant to the within and foregoing petition, we the subscribers Selectmen of the Town of Groton having viewed the way proposed in said petition are of the opinion that a road to be laid out agreeable thereto would be conducive to the public good and have accordingly laid out a way as follows..."
Beginning at the road near Ebenezer Avery's and running over the land of John Williams, Giles Chester, Edward Latham, Ebenezer Avery, John Sangford, Francis Daniels, Christopher Chipman, Nathan Darrow, John Williams and Jonathan Latham, to the house of Capt. Ebenezer Avery.
Dated October 22, 1793.
Signed by Groton Selectmen Simeon Avery, Shapley Morgan, Thomas Allyn and Robert Gere.Collection
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Date(s): 1793
