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HomeMy WebLinkAbout458 Report (copy) of the Committee on the Road from West Cambridge to Burlington, 1792Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. At a Court of General sessions of the peace began and held at Cambridge within & for the County of Middlesex on the second tuesday of December being the eleventh day of said month anno Domini 1792 by adjournment from the last tuesday of November last agreeably to a resolve of the General Court. And now the Committee appointed at November term 1791 un der a warrant from this Court to lay out alterations in the road leading from Dunstable toward Salem and towards Charlestown make their return thereon and the following which describes the way from Capt Woods in Woburn to the foot of the rocks so called in Cambridge / being the alterations which they made between Dunsatble & Charlestown / being read as follows viz "We the subscribers five disinterested sufficient freeholders in the County of Middlesex being appointed a committee by the Honorable the Justice of the Court of General sessions of the peace for said County to lay out a County road from the Rocks so called in Cambridge through a part of Lexington & Woburn to Capt John Woods in Woburn precinct, having attended that service in October 1792 & after being duly sworn to the faithful discharge of the same service according to the commission hereunto annexed proceeded as follows viz- And now having previously agreed that the aforementioned road should be two rods wide thro the town aforesaid and no more except in some certain places in the same which is particularly described ~ We began at the great Road at the foot of the Rocks at a stake and stones a few feet to the south of an ash tree at the corner of Francis Locks land it being the southerly side of the road to be laid out & running strait to the stone wall on the easterly side of the yard of Joseph Lock's barn, then along said wall round a corner opposite to Daniel Hill's house & following said wall to a heap of stones then a curve line to a savin busle[?] marked making the road two rods wide from the opposite wall then running from said Busle[?] by the stone wall and by northarly end of Gershom and Stephen Cutters barn and along as the wall goes to a savin marked in said Stephen Cutters land & then in a strait line to a stake & stones among large rocks in the road near Joseph Locks corner from said stake to a small savin tree marked near the wall against Joseph Locks land & then as the stone wall runs to the line between Cambridge & Lexington & so on to a road near Thomas Winships house, & crossing said road & running by the southerly wall up to Reuben Reeds house & so on keeping the southerly wall against said Reeds land & on by Nehemiah Munroe's land & by Moses Harringtons land & on by John Wyetts land to the northeast corner of the same & from said corner a strait line to the northeast corner of Nathan Fessenden's house & still by the southerly wall along by said Fessenden's land & John Peirce's land to the lane leading to his house, then from said lane to the southeast corner of his barn then along by the end thereof then to the northeast corner of said Peirce's land to a stake and stones then to view at two rods distance from the northerly wall up to an elm tree marked near Moses Harrington's house then to the corner of a wall near another elm tree and so on by the wall to a heap of stones near a walnut tree then a strait line to the southeast corner of land of the late George Munroe decd [deceased] & from said corner following the southerly wall by land of the widow Anna Munroe & Thaddeus Munroe up to a corner, then changing & making the natherly side of the road the bounds thereof up to a corner of Thaddeus Munroe's land, the crossing on old road on to ridge hill so called & following said hill a rod on each side the middle thereof to make the road & to continue the whole length of said hill then the northerly side of said road to be bounded beginning at a white oak tree marked & on to another white oak tree walked both said oaks being in Moses Harringtons land then crossing land of James Wright & Job Lock strait to a pine tree marked in Frances Locks land then to a stake & heap of stones near the old road & near the line between Lexington & Woburn, then changing & the southerly wall to be the bound of the road up to the end of the wall by Thomas Lock's house then from said end of the wall to a white oak tree marked then to an apple tree marked then turning from the old trod way on the southerly side of the same & running to a stake & heap of stones in Thomas Lock's field then to a stake and stones thereto a white oak tree marked all the above 4 marks are in Thomas Locks land & from said white oak tree the road to be three rods wide, to the edge of said Locks grist mill pond & on across the mill dam pond the road to be two rods wide then the road to be three rods wide up the hill by a pine tree marked to a black oak tree marked from thence but two rods wide to a small pine tree marked with stones about it / the last three marks in Robert Reeds land / then to a pine tree marked in James Reeds land near a path, then to a pine tree marked then to a small pine marked, then to a stake near a great rock in the wall near said James's corner then changing & making the northerly fence of the old road the bounds up to the end of the stone wall near said James' house then by his house buildings and barns to a corner of a stone wall near a locust tree then from said corner of the wall crossing a brook to a white oak tree marked, then from said white oak tree to a pine tree marked in Sette Woods land then to a stake and stones in said Woods land then to a grey oak tree marked then to a pine tree marked and to the old trod way again / the road from Cap James Reads corner at the locust tree aforesaid to the old trod way aforesaid to be then rods wide / from the pine tree last mentioned running to a heap of stones near the rail fence against Reuben Kimballs land, then to a pine tree marked in said Kimballs land then to a small oak tree marked in Edward Walker's land, then to a small pitch pine marked, then to another pitch pine marked then to a birch tree marked all on said Walker's land, then to a heap of stones on the great rock so called and on to a heap of stones near the wall by David Cannings land & on by said wall to the end thereof near great meadow brook, then to a black oak tree marked in Jonathan Simonds land, then to another oak tree marked then to the end of a stone wall following said well and fence up to an oak tree marked in front of said Edward Walker - house and from said tree to the south west corner of the orchard at a pair of barrs wear his barn then following the northerly stone wall to the corner joining Deacon Samuel Reads land then changing and making the southerly wall against said Reads land the bounds of said road up to said Reads come illegible & along as the wall goes to the end thereof from thence to a stake and stones near a white oak tree not far from the parting of the tree road, then changing and making the northerly wall to be the bounds of said road and running to a rail fence and along with said fence up to a white oak tree marked and on to a heap of stones at the corner of Deacon Joseph Johnsons land, then shifting and making the southerly side of said road the bounds therof beginning at a small pine tree marked and following the southerly stone wall to the end thereof then to a white pine tree marked in William Johnsons land and on to the corner of Capt John Woods wall and following said wall to the corner thereof at the garden gate opposite his dwelling house. The Committee estimated damages to be paid the persons hereafter named viz, Samuel Russell fifteen shillings John Fowle ten shillings both to be paid by the town of Cambridge. And Nehemiah Munroe fifteen shillings Thomas Robbins six shillings, Nathan Fessenden one pound four shillings, Moses Harrington one pound ten shillings, Thaddeus Munroe twenty shillings James Wright twenty shillings, Job Lock three pounds ten shilling Thadeus Perry twenty one shilling these last mentioned eight persons to be paid by the town of Lexington and Setti[?] Woods twenty shilling Dane Skilton two shillings, Thomas Skilton six shillings Joseph Johnson twenty shillings these last names form persons to be paid by the town of Woburn. It is however to be understood that Thomas Locke & others have engaged to pay the names above set to Sette Woods and Dane Skilton as well as to give certain lands and perform certain services as expressed in the annexed paper by them subscribers The aforesaid described road to be laid open within one year from the acceptance of this reprt. December 13 1792 Eleanor Brooks & seal ~ Daniel Whitney & seal ~ William Winthrop & seal ~ William Rice & seal ~ Ephraim Wood & seal ~ The same is accepted by the Court and ordered to be recorded, to the end the way therein described may be established & here after known for a public highway.- And the Court defer the consideration of the report of said Committee describing the way between Dunstable and Salam to the next term. A Copy of Record Attest[?] Abram Biglow Esq.[?]