Name/Title
Selectmen's Report on Public Highway, 1812Entry/Object ID
2026.014.034Scope and Content
Selectmen's report on a road across the lands of John Avery, received for record by the Groton Town Clerk, Amos Niles, Nov. 9th, 1812.
"Pursuant to a petition to us signed by a number of the inhabitants of the town of Groton praying for a public highway to be laid out across the lands of Mr. John J. Avery laying in the second society in said Groton at the southeast end of the road leading from the late dwelling house of Elder Park Allyn southeasterly to the land of said Avery running across said Avery's land to the road leading from Burnet Smith's in said Groton to Present. We the subscribers Selectmen of the town of Groton for the time being appointed Friday the 6th of November First to meet at 8 o'clock in the morning at the house of Mr. Peter Gallup in said Groton and gave legal notice these of to Mr. John J. Avery to attend if he [?] and being so met proceeded to view said way and after viewing have laid out the same two rods wide and have put meets and bounds in the manner and form following..."
Signed by the Selectmen of the Town of Groton, Amos A. Niles, Seth Williams, John Morgan, James Allyn Jr., Noyes Barber, Elisha Haley, Stephen Billings.Collection
Lacerte CollectionAcquisition
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2026.014Source or Donor
James LacerteAcquisition Method
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Date(s) of Creation
1812Archive Notes
Date(s): 1812