HIGHWAY FROM GROTON TO CONCORD. 137 



HIGHWAY FROM GROTON TO CONCORD. 



At a session of the Middlesex County Court, held at 

 Cambridge and beginning on April I, 1673, according to the 

 records, the following commission was appointed : — 



M r Jn'.' flint, Jn.' Smedly, John fiske Jun r Abram Parker, James 

 Knap & Robert Bloud, are nominated & impowred by this Court, 

 to lay out & settle the high way between Grotton & Concord, & 

 this worke to be attended the 21. day of May next, at 9 : of the 

 clocke in the morneing, to meet & begin at the westerly end of 

 Tadmock meadows (III. 5S, 59). 



The members of the foregoing committee lived, respectively, 

 as follows : Flint and Smedly at Concord ; Fiske and Parker 

 at Chelmsford ; and Knap and Blood at Groton. The Tad- 

 mock meadows lie now within the limits of Westford, though 

 Tadmuck is the usual way of writing the word at the present 

 time. 



At a session of the same Court, held at Cambridge and be- 

 ginning on April 4, 1682, the following action was taken: — 



In answ r to a motion made by the select men of Grotton the 

 Comittee formly chosen out of Grotton Concord & Chelmsford are 

 appoynted to perfect y e Highway from Grotton to Concord, & to 

 settle y e same thorow Robert Blouds farme where it may be most 

 convenient (IV. 32). 



Robert Blood, whose farm is mentioned above, was of 

 Concord, where he was a large land-owner, and one of the 

 petitioners for the plantation of Groton, as also were two of 

 his brothers, Richard and John. Richard, however, was the 

 only one of the three who settled in Groton ; and after his 

 death, which took place on December 7, 1683, administration 

 on his estate was granted to the widow Isabel, and her three 

 sons, James, Joseph, and Nathaniel, whose names are given, 

 presumably, in the order of their ages. 



The following extracts, taken from " The Early Records 

 of Groton, Massachusetts," undoubtedly refer to the same 

 highway : — 



