Name/Title
Petition for Road, 1832Entry/Object ID
2026.014.049Scope and Content
Petition for a road at Portersville (Mystic), December 1832.
"To the Honorable the Selectmen of the Town of Groton gentlemen the subscribers inhabitants of the Town of Groton petitioners humbly showeth and would give you gentlemen to understand that they now labor under great inconvenience for the want of a short distance of road in the Village of Portersville in said Town of Groton. - The road prayed for is merely the road passing the Meeting House southerly to be continued by the east end of Capt. Jesse Crary's house (now owned by Mr. Jedediah Randall) and on Eldridge Packer's land a little westerly of said Packer's dwelling house - and Peter Rowland's land and littlefields to the road opened and worked by Simeon Fish the whole distance here asked for in only thirty rods or thereabouts. - Your petitioners would further state that in extending the North Road from the Turnpike to the road made and worked by Simeon Fish as above stated will be of great public convenience avoiding a steep and almost impassible hill without additional [freight?] of team to ordinary loads it is also a much short distance lay out about one third less. -
We therefore pray you gentlemen to come and lay out said distance of Road in as short a period of time as may with you gentlemen be deemed consistent or in someway grant relief and your petitioners in duty will every pray - Groton December 1832."
Signed by Roswell Fish, Ezekiel Lamb, Russel Gallup, James Gallup, Avery Gallup, Russel Lamb, Henry W. Avery, Joseph Gere, Ebenezer Avery, Daniel A. Denison, John S. Burrows, Henry Williams, Elisha Haley, Calen Haley, William Crouch, Erastus Gallup, Rufus Allyn, Cyrus Newton, Luke Gallup, Jonathan Whipple, Silas Watrous, John Chapman, Erastus Williams, Aaron Lamb, Nathan Lamb, Gilbert Heath, William Lamb, Daniel Lamb, William Chapman, Nathan Noyes Jr., Hadlai Fish.Collection
Lacerte CollectionAcquisition
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2026.014Source or Donor
James LacerteAcquisition Method
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Road Construction, Mystic, Downtown MysticArchive Details
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1832Archive Notes
Date(s): 1832