Road Petition, 1797

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Groton Public Library

Road Petition, 1797

Name/Title

Road Petition, 1797

Entry/Object ID

2026.014.023

Scope and Content

Petition for a road running from Captain Jasper Latham's house to the Post Road, November 30, 1797. "To the gentlemen selectmen of the town of Groton, The petition of William Starr, Jonathan S. Bailey, and other inhabitants of the town of Groton ~~~ Humbly Showeth ~ That they respectively by leave to submit to the consideration of the selectmen the expediency of a public highway being laid out in Groton from the highway [?] to the dwelling house of Mr. John Wood thence easterly by the dwelling house of Capt. Jasper Latham so as to intersect the pathway on the north of the grist mill owned by the legates of Elder Park Avery late of said Groton deceased then to the Post Road. Your petitioners further beg leave to state that considerable traveling is performed on an unchained pathway beginning from and pursuing the direction aforesaid that from said pathway not being [entitled?] by law to any part of the money raised on the inhabitants of the town of Groton for the reparation of the public roads the inhabitants in its vicinity and the public in general are not enabled to enjoy the same in such a manner as the good of the community requires therefore your petitioners pray that said pathway may be laid out as a public road and your petitioners in duty bound shall pray - Groton, Nov. 30th 1797." Signed by William Starr, Jonathan Bailey, James Street, Vine Starr, Nathan Forsythe, Jonathan Moxley, John Woodmansee, Joseph Woodmansee, Joseph Bailey, Oliver Buddington, Amos Colver, Obadiah Perkins, Charles Chester and John Starr.

Collection

Lacerte Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2026.014

Source or Donor

James Lacerte

Acquisition Method

Gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Petition

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Request

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Road Construction

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1797

Archive Notes

Date(s): 1797