lOO FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



AT a Legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Groton, 

 Assembled May 8 th, 1773. 

 Voted and Chose, jfames Frescott Esq ; Oliver Prescott Esq ; and 

 jfosiah Sawtell Gent, a Committee of Correspondence for the Town 

 of Groton, unanimously. 



Attest. OLIVER PRESCOTT, Town-Clerk. 



AN OLD POTTERY. 



Pawtucket, R. I., Sept. 5, i 

 Dr. S. a. Green: 



Dear Sir, — Sometime in the last century there was a pottery 



between the Pollard house and my grandfather's house [Major Farns- 



worth's] at Groton, on the north side of the road, near where, as I 



understand, a new house has been built. It stood, say two hundred 



yards easterly from where my grandfather last lived. When I was a 



boy the cellar, a part of the old chimney, and great quantities of 



brown sherds lay scattered around. Do you know anything about 



this industry then carried on? I have forgotten the name of the 



potter. He was said to have been a relation of ours, but not a 



Farnsworth by name, and to have moved away somewhere. I don't 



think I have heard anything about it for fifty years ; but the old 



fragments were well known to my childhood. 



Very truly yours, 



C. B. Farnsworth. 



THE FIRST BRICK HOUSE. 



The first brick house in Groton was built by John Park in 

 the year 1791, and is still standing. It is situated on Park 

 Street, in that part of the town now Ayer, and in 1832 was 

 occupied by Nathaniel Stone, according to Mr. Butler's Map 

 of Groton, then recently published. On the gable, near the 

 eaves, at the southwest corner of the dwelling, is a small slate 

 tablet, with a sundial at one end, and this inscription at the 

 other J. P. 



1791. 



