Topographical And Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester in the Commonwea
Topographical And Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester in the Commonwea
Emory Washburn
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It is one of the most travelled and important roads in the interior of New England, and was, until 14 HISTORY OF LEICESTER. •within a few years, the route of the commercial Mail between Bos- Ion and New York. This road was laid out as early, if we mis- take not, as 1722, it being- petitioned for in that year, and the town appropriated £12 2* for their share of the expense in making- it, and in 1725, were indicted at the Quarter Sessions in Middlesex, for not having a bridge over Seven Miie Rive...r, which is supposed to have been the stream now called by tbe same name, in the western part of Spencer. The road is called in the petition the " country road, " and always bears that name when referred to in the early records of the town. When tirst laid out through what is now the village, it passed north of its present location, running north of the Academy, near the dwelling house of the Rev. David Parsons, the first minister of the town, which stood north west of the Academy, the collar of which house is yet visible : Passing across the present common lands, east of the meeting house, it came into the road as it now is, west of the meeting house.
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