Name/Title
Report on Public Road Alterations, 1820Entry/Object ID
2026.014.044Scope and Content
Report of the Selectmen for altering a road near the land of Elisha Haley, given at a Town Meeting held April 3rd 1820. Recorded by the Groton Town Clerk, Amos A. Niles.
"We the subscribers Selectmen of the town of Groton in pursuance of the laws of this state for providing, altering, regulating and mending highways having first given notice to the owners of the land as the law directs did on the fourth day of March AD 1820 at the request of Joseph Culver Jr. and others of the town of Groton lay out the center line of a public pentway beginning at a heap of stone at the old pentway southerly from Capt. Elisha Haley's dwelling house thence south 5 degrees east thirty eight rods to a heap of stones in the center of the baseway of the Turn Pike Road. Dated Groton March 4th AD 1820."
Signed by Groton Selectmen Elisha Stoddard, Roswell Allyn, Nicholas Lester, Nathan Niles and James Gallup.Collection
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2026.014Source or Donor
James LacerteAcquisition Method
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1820Archive Notes
Date(s): 1820