Name/Title
Petition for Public Highway, 1833Entry/Object ID
2026.014.074Scope and Content
Petition for a public highway leading to Stoddard's wharf and store, January 1833.
"To the gentlemen Selectmen of the Town of Groton, the petition of the subscribers would respectfully represent that there is a great need of a public highway from the present road near the house of Obadiah Stoddard and extending (south) westerly through the lands of Robert Stoddard and Sandford Stoddard to the River Thames at Sanford Stoddard's Wharf in said Groton, or in such other direction as shall be most proper to accommodate the public travel to and from said wharf - And your petitioners would further state that there is a large amount of business doing at said wharf requiring the travel of horses and teams - Frequently in the winter season the Norwich Packets are obliged to stop and discharge their cargoes at said wharf from whence the goods is carried by teams to Norwich and in various other directions, and the present travel way is obstructed by bars and other impediments to the great annoyance of the public travel, Your petitioners therefore pray that you gentlemen would examine into the premises, and layout such road as soon as convenient, or in some other way grant relief and your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray - Dated Groton Jany. 1833,"
Signed by Theophilus Avery 2nd, Theophilus Avery, William Brewster, Jon Brewster, Joseph Chapman, George A. Lydleman Jr., Joseph Smith, Joseph Tyler, Elisa Satterlee, Henry Davis, James Gere, Roswell Allyn, Amos Williams, Gurdon Bill, Christopher Newton, Rufus Allyn, John Spicer, Stephen Billings, Daniel Stoddard, Norman B. Brown, Samuel G. Allen, John M. Miner, Daniel Stoddard Jr.Collection
Lacerte CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2026.014Source or Donor
James LacerteAcquisition Method
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Road Construction, Gales Ferry, Stoddard's WharfArchive Details
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1833Archive Notes
Date(s): 1833
