136 NATURAL HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF GROTON, MASS. 



Road throiis:Ji Carlisle. 



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Loring's in Groton to Hartwell's 

 Hartwell's to Dupee's 

 Dnpee's to Nickles' 

 Nickles' to Porter's 

 Porter's to Simond's 

 Simonds to the forks 



Miles iS 275 09 



mis. rods, links 



Through Concord 19 192 04 



Through CarHsle iS 275 09 



Difference 236 20 



From the preceding statement it will be seen that the road from 

 Loring's tavern to Lexington through Concord is 236 rods and a 

 fraction longer than that through Carlisle ; this difference however 

 is less than three quarters of a mile. 



There are eleven public houses on the road through Concord : 

 and six public houses on the road through Carlisle. 



This measurement of the Carlisle road agrees, within a very few 

 rods, with the measurement of that road by Caleb Bltler, Esq. 

 of Groton. If this gentleman had also measured the road through 

 Concord the public would have had a correct statement of the dis- 

 tances. r>ut unfortunately the gentleman, who about that time 

 measured the road througii this town, apparently did it with very 

 little accuracy. In one place, namely, from Thompson's tavern in 

 this town to Bigelow's, the short space o[ fifty-srcen rods, he made 

 a mistake of sixteen rods : wo therefore place little confidence in 

 his measurement of any parr of the route. It should be observed 

 that one public house in this town, viz. Mr. Alexander's within a 

 few rods of Mr. Bigehno's was accidentally not mentioned in this 

 measurement of roads. 



JOSIAH DAVIS. 

 PHIXEAS HOWE. 

 EBEXEZER THOMPSON. 

 STEPHEN PATCH. 

 DANIEL SH.VITUCK. 



