Through Merrick Farm

A path, marked and recorded in 1750, through John Merrick's farm. Merrick and his neighbor Joseph Parsons were both from Springfield, Massachusetts. The plot was a May 10, 1716 Land Grant by the Connecticut General Assembly to Samuel Rockwell, Jonathan Elsworth and Mathew Grant apparently sold/transferred to Steven Steel who later sold it to Merrick, Aug. 1726.

This path, or "road" intersects with a "road" surveyed in 1735 that runs past the Merrick dwelling. Once the as-traveled way was surveyed, bound to bound for the length with a width defined, the "road" or "high way" was considered to have been "laid out".

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