SOME ROADS AND STREETS. II9 



make a crook in the road ; and in the course of time the cause 

 might disappear, but the effect would remain. Inconsequence 

 of their width, encroachments have often been made by the 

 abutters ; and on various occasions the town has appointed 

 committees to prevent such trespasses, and to prosecute the 

 offenders. The committees, however, generally settled with 

 them by receiving payment for the land. 



The following streets were accepted by the town, on the 

 dates given respectively after each one : — 



Station Avenue January 15, 1849. 



Willowdale Street .... November 12, 1849. 



Court Street April 2, 1855. 



Champney Street November 6, 1888. 



The easterly end of Pleasant Street, from the junction of 

 Elm Street, was laid out by the County Commissioners on 

 August 20, 1834, and at the same time that part of the Lowell 

 Road which runs on the north side of the First Parish Meeting- 

 house. High Street, now known as Powder House Road, has 

 never been accepted by the town. The road from the Paper- 

 mill Village to 'Tuity Row was accepted on March 4, 1845. 



There is in the library of the Massachusetts Historical 

 Society a map entitled " The Seat of War, in New England, 

 by an American Volunteer, with the Marches of the Several 

 Corps sent by the Colonies towards Boston, with the Attack 

 on Bunker's Hill." It was made soon after the Battle, and in- 

 cludes the eastern half of Massachusetts, nearly all of Rhode 

 Island, the southern part of New Hampshire, and the eastern 

 border of Connecticut. It gives the various townships as well 

 as the main thoroughfares converging at Boston, and in a rude 

 way it shows troops from various colonies on their march to 

 that neighborhood. The " Road from Stephens Fort and 

 Crown P! " which passes through the village of Groton, is 

 represented on the map. Stephen's Fort was situated in 

 Charlestown on the Connecticut River. " Rangers from New 

 Hampshire " are shown along this route, and an " Incamp- 

 ment " is represented at Worcester, with " New York Grena- 

 diers," " Virginian Horse," etc., in the neighborhood marching 



