Name/Title
River Landing Survey, 1803Entry/Object ID
2026.014.067Scope and Content
Petition and survey for landing place at the head of the Mystic River in Old Mystic, September 20, 1803.
"To the Selectmen of the town of Groton for the time being, a petition of the inhabitants of said Groton humbly showeth that they labor under great disadvantage in not having any landing place at or near the head of Mistick River to land their wood and timber. We pray your honors to take our case into your wise consideration and come to lay us out an open road beginning at a pair of bars the south side of the Post Road before Capt. Nathan Crary's house thence southerly and easterly to the shipyard and then layout a landing place suitable for the inhabitants to land their lumber and wood and other produce all which your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray. Dated Groton September 20th AD 1803."
Signed by Benadam Gallup Jr., Stephen Haley, Caleb Haley, Daniel Chesebrough, Simeon Smith, Henry Niles, Christopher Gallup, Samuel Lamb, Amos Babcock, John Stark, William Smith, William Taylor, Edward Welles, Nathaniel Park Jr., Thomas B. Crary, Elisha Haley, Isaac Wightman, Nathan Niles, John Gallup, Abiel Lamb.
"Agreeable to a petition of a number of inhabitants of the town of Groton to have an open road laid out from the Post Road near Capt. Nathan Crary's to a landing on Mistick River so called the old ship yard. We the subscribers Selectmen of the town of Groton for the time being proceeded to view the ground of proposed way and landing. Mr. Daniel Eldredge agreeing to enlarge the landing and there being a pentway to said landing now that is only twenty one rods further than the proposed road did not lay out an open road on the petition Groton October 24th, 1803."
Signed by Groton Selectmen, John Dabboll, Joseph Morgan, Roswell Fish and Ebenezer Morgan.Collection
Lacerte CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2026.014Source or Donor
James LacerteAcquisition Method
GiftLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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PetitionNomenclature Primary Object Term
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Road Construction, Mystic River, Old Mystic, Post RoadArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1803Archive Notes
Date(s): 1803
