Name/Title
Selectmen's Report on Public Highway, 1808Entry/Object ID
2026.014.030Scope and Content
Selectmen's report on the road at Gales Ferry Bank, received for record by the Groton Town Clerk, Amos A. Niles, Nov. 15, 1808.
"In pursuance of a petition signed by a number of the inhabitants of the town of Groton for a highway to be laid out at Gales ferry, we the subscribers Selectmen of the town of Groton for the time being gave legal notice that we would attend on said business at Gales ferry in said Groton on the 28th day of September 1808 and being met we proceeded to view said proposed way and after a full examination of all the circumstances were of the opinion that an open highway in the proposed place would be of public utility. Therefore we proceeded to lay out the same in the manner following..."
Signed by the Selectmen of the Town of Groton, Elisha Ayer, Elijah Bailey, Amos A. Niles, Rufus Smith.Collection
Lacerte CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2026.014Source or Donor
James LacerteAcquisition Method
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Road Construction, Gales FerryArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1808Archive Notes
Date(s): 1808