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WAYLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY
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WAYLAND ROAD BOOK Prepared by the Wayland Planning Board
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Wayland Public Library 5 Concord Road Wayland Ma 01778
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Foreword
Vote of 1798
First Section
Recora of County Roada
Second Section
Record of Proprietors Roads (1708)
Third Seotion Roads Laid Out by Selectmen of Sudbury (1728)
Fourth Sootion Roads Laid Out by Selectmen of East Sudbury
Fifth Section
Roads Laid Out by Selectmen of Wayland (1842)
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1798
At a legal meeting or the Inhabitants of the Town of East Sudbury held March 19 1798.
To see if the rown will choose some suitable County and Town Hoads in said Town of Last Sudbury and find what land has wrongfully taken up and by whom and the quantity of the same and also of the Common land and report the same as soon as is convenient.
The Town by their vote chose Nathaniel Reeves Esq and Doct. Joseph Hoby their Committee to search the Records and Report as soon as they conveniently can. February 3 1800 The Town accepted the report of this Committee and ordered it to be filed with the Records of said Roads.
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Record of County Roads in the Town of Sudbury lying on the Easterly side of Sudbury River.
At a county Court held at Cambridge 2 8ber 1683
Captain John Shearman Corporal William Bond Er Daniel Champney & Samuel uoff Captain Goodnow & Deacon Haynes a Committee to lay out a highway between Cambridge & Sudbury.
Captain Shearman to appoint time & place & to make return to the next county Court at Cambridge.
At a County Court held at Cambridge April 1 1684. The Committee appointed in Oct last to lay out a highway between Cambridge & Sudbury made their return to the Court & is on file. And this Court doth approve thereof.
1684 Cambridge to Sudbury
We the Subscribers being as above appointed to lay out a highway from Cambridge to Sudbury met the 19th of March last at the West end of Watertown plain at the house of John Ball & their jointly agreed that from that place to Cambridge the high- way was sufficient except where John Maratt have taken it in near his house next Cambridge which he is to amend or lay out.
From Masters prook to Suaoury we went in the best place we could find to be most suitable & marked trees of both sides & and do conclude where the highmay have been dram upward of 40 years that from the middle of the old highway there shall be two rods; but the hills and vallios noar John Chadwicks house must be made passable for a cart & the highway there enlarged to a suitable breadth.
Memorandum -- that against a fence of Nathaniel Coolidge he hath liberty to come to the old road out of the marked trees South- ward.
Where we found fence set up, there the 4 rod begin and run Northward.
dated the first of April 1684.
John Shearman Danl Champne William Bond Edwd Goodnow
Samuel Goffe John Haynes
N.B. The word west in the original report was marked through with a pen as in the foregoing copy.
Mesters Brook was the original name of the brook now called Stoneybrook between Waltham and Weston.
1683
1684
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1734 John Grout to Old County Road
At a Court of Genl Sessions of the Peace at Concord Augt 27 1734 --
The Sheriff made return of a warrant for laying out a road in Sudbury with the doings of the Jury he summoned for that purpose.
The way by them altered or laid out is described as follows
"We have have laid out said highway beginning at a stake set down in the hedge fence of Mr. John Grout on the old road about seven rods to the Westward of Phillip Kiteley's fence & so ran about hest to a white oak marked with the bark out with a hatchet on Joseph Parminter's land and so from said oak on the land of said furuinter to another white oak which we marked by cutting the bark & from said white oak on a straight line westward to a stake & from said atake turning West a little Northerly to a pitch pine tree marked & is straight down to the brook on the Westerly bound of said Parminter land & from said mark Westward tending Northerly to a white oak standing on Mr. Samuel Graves land & from said white oak on said Graves land over a large rook to the Northerly or Northwesterly side or part of said Graves' land to a heap of stones set by a post in said Graves fence joining the old County road. The aforementioned line is from the first mentioned bound Westward to the East bound, the said highway lyeth on the Northerly side of the aforementioned bounds four rods wide in each and every part of the same & reaches from the hill on the East Side, the gully to the hill on the west side the gully agreeable to the petition."
Then follows the names of the jurors their estimate of damages & the Courts acceptance of the doings etc.
At & Court of Sessions Dec. 1748
A Committee who were appointed to view the highway leading through Sudbury from Weston to Framingham reported that in their opinion said highway should be three rods wide, saving from Mr. Hopestill Bent's barn so far as till it comes to Mr. Jason Gleason's land where the fences are to remain as they now stand & that the boundaries be as follows. Vis.
From the main road leading to sudbury so far as to the brook by Mr. Joseph Livermore's house the fence on the South side of the road from the said brook till it comes to the West end of the fence enclosing some of the Ministerial land, the fence on the North side.
From thence as the road is now trod till it comes to a wall erected by Mr. Robt. Cutting which wall so far as till it comes to the way leading to Mr. Peter Bents house we apprehend ought to be moved one rod at least to the Southward forasmuch as that length it incroaches on the road. Said wall when new set up to be the south boundary in that place from thence as the road is now trod till it comes to mr. John Smith's land where his North fence is to be the boundary till it comes to the land of Mr. Joseph Smith whose South fence & so the fence all along on that side till it comes to Mr. Hopestill Bent's land to be the boundary from thenoe the North fence to be the boundary till it comes to said Hopestill Bent's barn before mentioned.
1748 Weston to Framingham
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That on the said Jason Gleasons land so far as to his second gate so called, the fence on the West side or the way to be the boundary. From thence as the way is now trod to the new bridge between Sudbury & Framingham, excepting in a small bend or turn upon the brow of the hill over against Deacon Stones old house where we apprehend the moving of the fence about a rod Southwesterly will very much accommodate the road, except also about te ods where the fences now said Micah Bent which as it now is we hope w .1 accommodate the Public & the removal of his barn as he must unavoidably do if the road be three rods wide there will be very prejudicied to him.
This Report was accepted by the Court and the Sheriff directed to summon a Jury to lay out the my accordingly,
At the next term the Sheriff made return of his doings & the verdict of the Jury which is as follows
"We the Subscribers being summoned and appointed a Jury being out of the next towna by richard Foster Sheriff of the County aforesaid to view and lay out the highway in the menner & with the alterations in the foregoing koport of the Committee annexed having been sworn according to law as therein directed have this day met and i id out the highway agreeable to the report of the Committee annezed, saving our particularising the way in some places vis. the stone mall in Mr. Robert Cuttings land lately erected to be removed one rod Southerly until it comes to a point at a white oak again move the corner fence of Mr. Hopestill Bents orchard back to a heap of stones. & to have the road three rods wide on the Framingham road at a place on Jason Gleasons land from an old stump & stones the way Southerly of it near his second gate against the barn of Micah Bent being old and decayed we think it necessary when he ereots another to have it half a rod more Southerly.
. At Deacon Stones we have moved the fense at the bend about a rod Southerly as pr stones for monuments & from thence to the bridge over Sudbury kiver near David Stones the way to be three rods wide from the several trees marked & stones from monuments erected & at David Stones near the bridge three rods Southerly from a cherry tree marked.
This return was accepted by the Court and the way therein described was established by the Court.
1750 Stimpsons Bridge over Charles River to Framingham
At August Term 1750
The Court established a public highway from Stimpsons bridge over Chs kiver through part of Weston Natick & Sudbury to the County road in Framingham -- the way is described in Sudbury as follows :
"Thence past through Natick to the road in Sudbury which begins where Natick town road ends, and so running in the road lately laid out by Sudbury through the land of Phinihas Brintnall till it cross the road of Thomas Damon. Then from a rail of stones set up by Phinihas Brint- nallis' fence crossing the land of said Brintnall, then the land of said Damon, then the land of said Brintnall in a straight line to a white oak tree marked in the land of Isaac Rice the road to be North- ward of said marks, then to a white oak tree marked in Thomas Damon's land, then to a red oak tree marked, then across a brook to a walnut
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1750
1763
Weston Line to
Jjaml Griffin
"We, the Subscribers, have repaired to the way petitioned for, and viewed and laid out the same as follows. Beginning at Weston line where Weston way comes to an end, from thence westerly on the land of Amos Sanderson to a small walnut tree marked, thence to a grey oak tree marked on the land of Ezra Graves, from thence on said Graves land to a walnut tree marked: thence to a black oak tree marled on the land of the said Amos Sanderson: from thence on the said Sanderson's land to an old oak stump of a tree blown over, being an ancient bound between the lands of the Sanderson's and the lands of the said Graves. Thence turning northerly partly over a corner of said Sanderson's fence, and over the bridge to a stacked heap of stones by the fence. Thence turning a little westerly as the fence now stands to a large rock lying by the fence. Thence leaving the fence as the way is now trod to a white oak tree marked on the land of Jonathan Parmenter; from thence on said Parmenter land to a birch tree marked from thence on the land left by the Proprietors of Sudbury for a way between the lands of said Parmenter and the lands of Samuel Griffin; thence on said Proprietors way. until it comes into the Town way leading by the said Griffin's dwelling house in Sudbury.
The way from Weston line to the proprietor's way to be two rods in width except over the sand bridge which is but one rod wide with convenient openings each way until it is two rods wide on each side of the bridge. All the bounds of said way are on the southerly side thereof the Proprietors to be the way.
1791
At Nov. 2 Term 1791.
The Court accepted the Com. who were appointed to make certain alterations in the road leading through Weston, Natick, and East Sudbury to Framingham, which so far as relates to the Town of East Sudbury, is as follows. "We then proceeded to widen the road through East Sudbury from Natick line, vis."
East Sudbury
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latick Line.
tree marked in Henry Lokers land, then to a black oak marked the way being to the Northward of said marks then to the end of the stone wall to a stake drove down., then across said Lokers orchard to a stake at the rail fence the way being two rods to the Northward of said marks, from thence across said Lokers land to a stake by a rail fence netween said Loker and Samuel Gould, then across said Gould's land to a stake by a rail fence, then in a line of said Gould's two rods from the fence, taking part of Israel Rice's land running as the way goes till it comes near a small pond, then leaving said pond to the Southward and going on said Rice's land to a stake Www the rail fence then across said Rice's land near the way that is now food or trod, then through he
land of David Rice and so on a straight line to a great white on marked, the road being to the Southward, then through the land of Micah . ant, then through the land of Joseph Beale, the way being all of two rods wide and so to the road leading to Framingham way, the way being to the Southward of the North fence which leads to said way.
At Dec. term 1763
The Court laid out a way in Sudbury which was before rejected by the town - and is described in the Com returns as follows:
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Watertown to Quabong
The southerly stone wall on said road to be the bounds of the same except some certain short turns therein especially one against Phineas Bond's land; two others against Isaac and William Damon's land to the brook, which they have agreed to remove to the bounds of the road to the widow Buelah Loker's lane against her house; the northerly stone wall to be removed so as to make the road three rods wide. From thence the southerly line of said road to run straight to an elm tree marked near a house under the care of Capt. John Noyes and tre road to be on the northerly side of said line three rods wide. com thence the southerly fence to be the bounds of said road up as far as half mile tree so called; from thence the Northerly fence and ditch to be the bounds of said road, and the fence where there is any to be removed northerly to make tge road three rods wide; except a little piece of fence to be removed to straighten the road on the northerly side of the descent of the hill to Beal's house, as far as to a stake and stones about half way down said hill; and from thence the northerly fence is to be removed and run with a curved line by two stakes and stones at the head of Long Pond so called and an apple tree marked to a white oak tree, the bounds between East Sudbury and the Town of Framingham.
The Town of East Sudbury to be at the expense of romovin .. the stone wall and the fence where there is any; the stone wall at a shilling per rod and the rail fence at sixpence per rod, which shall be in full compensation to the owners thereof for the road being widened against their lands.
Extracted from Records attest Abrm. Bigelow Clark. Copies of loose papers attested by Abrm. Bigelow Clark of Courts as follows:
In 1673 the County Court appointed a Committee to lay out a highway from Watertown, beginning near the house of John Livermore thence to a horse bridge upon Sudbury River and from thence the best way that could be found to Marlboro and thence to Queboag. This Committee in 1674 made a report of their doings which was accepted by Court and report filed. I have found the files for that year but the report is missing. This report is referred to in a petition of Suddry inhabitants of Sudbury in 1748, and the road is said to be three rods wide but from the description of the way, I think it must be the road leading from the corner where Jno. Flagg, Jr. is now living towards Framingham.
Cambridge 1799
A.B. Clark.
1768
J Brilce to School House 1
At a Court Sessions Sept term 1768
The Court made an alteration in the highway in the Town of Sud- bury which is described in the Records as follows.
. "Turning out of the old road against the dwelling house of the Rev. Josiah Bridge in Sudbury, at a post standing in the fence marked with an X west of the chaise house near a large elm tree. From thence across the lands of said Bridge, the land of Joseph Rutter the land of Jonathan Parmenter and the land of Jason Parmenter into a Town way by the dwelling house of Zach Bryant; thence across the land of said Briant
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J Bridge to School House
to the northern corner of the Town School House near the meeting house into the old road again. And from the post first mentioned to the said corner of the School House is a straight line, and is the southwest bounds; the way to be three rods wide from said post to the said School house.
Attest A.B. Clark.
Roads laid out by the Proprietor a undivided lands in Sudbury on the east side of the river from the Proprietor's Books.
Sudbury, October 1708.
Laid out to Benjamin Parmenter, Sen. by the Proprietors order fifteen acres and 100 rods of land on the East side of the river without the cow common joining northerly to land in the possession of Joseph Moore, Sen. bounded Easterly partly by land late laid out to the right of Edmond Rice partly by common land; southerly by Carter, his land and meadow; westwardly to a highway and the land laid out to John Parmenter Jr.'s right leaving a highway four rods wide running through it to the first divisions of land where the path now is as may appear by the platt.
Likewise there is a highway from Joseph Moore, his saw mill to the way before mentioned in the most convenient place through his land, four rods wide, this land being a sale from the proprietors to said Benjamin Parmenter.
Sudbury, March 24th., 1713-14.
Laid out to the right of Richard Newton in two parcels five acres and one half of land on Ashen swamp hills on the east side of the river, as namely; four acres and ninety nine rods on Ashen swamp hill, joining eastwardly to the land in possession of Jonas Rice, bounded southerly by land in the possession of Ephraim Rice; west by land in the possession of Edward Grout; bounded North by land laid out to the right of Richard Newton.
Also a highway running through it two rods wide, where the cart road now is for passing the wood and timber to be his stile. Also one acre and half of land on the north side of the said hill; bounded north by land in possession of Daniel "aker, bounded every way else by common land on the platts is 97 rods for allowance of the road going through said lot as may more fully appear by said platt.
Sudbury, May 16, 1721.
Laid out to the right of John Rutter four acres and a half of land within ye common ir undivided land in Sudbury and on the east side of said Sudbury river on Hog House hills; bounded northerly partly by land claimed by Isaac Stanhope, and partly by common land; easterly bounded partly by land laid out to the right of Mr. Edmund Brown and partly by land lefg for a highway. Said land left for a highway is two rods wide, southerly bounded partly by land claimed by Sergt. Ephraim Rico, and partly by land laid out to the right of John Rutter; and westerly bounded by land laid out to the right of John Wood partly, and partly by land claimed by Isaac Stanhope, and partly by common.
Joseph Moore .Mill
1713
Ashen Swamp
1721
fog House Ilill
1708
Cow Common
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This four acres and a half of land is laid out to the second addition granted by the Proprietors of the common land in Sudbury, and is surveyed and laid out as it is signified in the platt.
Sudbury, January 16th., 1722 - 3.
Laid out to the right of Walter Haynes Lc Do, ninety six rod of land lying on the east side of the river joining to Capt. Joshua Haynes Sweetham, bounded southwosterly by Capt. Haynes Sweetham fenco; northwesterly by Sudbury river; northcasterly by the County Road; southwesterly by land left for a highway to the great meadow lots. Note the land where the new pound stands is accepted and is pioked out in the platt of said land.
Also forty one rod on the east side of said river lying a little below Sudbury Town Bridge; bounded westerly by Sudbury river, southerly by the County Road, easterly by land loft for a highway already leading from Capt. Joshua Haynes to Ledge Meadows. This said acre and a half of land was laid out to the second addition granted by the Proprietors of the common land in said Sudbury and is laid out as is signified in the platt surveyed by John Haynos.
Sudbury April 18th., 1720.
Laid out to the right of John Parmenter Sen., nine acres and a half and forty six rods of land within the common or undivided land in Sudbury and on the east side of said Sudbury river, upon and joining to a hill called Long Hill on the westerly side of said hill, bounded northerly by land left for a highway two rods wide, and northeasterly by land left for a highway, and every way olse by common as it is signified in the platt.
Sudbury, February 15th., 1724-5.
Granted by the proprietors of the Common land in Sudbury, in answer to the Petition of Abraham Bryant, and have given to said Bryant all their right, title, and interest of in and into a certain tract or parcel of land, lying and being in Sudbury and the east side of said Sudbury river; lying near to and easterly of ensign Bents being "half an acro, be the same more or less; bounded eastorly by the County road, bounded northwardly by the now standing fence of Mr. Bent; southwesterly by land left for a highway three rods wide.
Laid out forty acres of land on the east side of Sudbury river upon the high land above Ashen Swamp between the lots laid out in the last division, another County Road leading from Watertown to the farm end, and it is laid out by virtue of a grant of the Proprietors of the individual lands, in Said Sudbury, for the benefit of the ministry there, And it is on it is signified in the platt, bounded southerly on the aforesaid road; westerly by the common, every way else by land laid out in this last division to several particular rights, only northeasterly touching upon some common land.
Sudbury, Nov. 26, 1708.
1721 nog House Hill
1722
Swootham
1722
Ledge Meadow
~1720 Long Hill
1724 County Road Ensign Bent
1708
LShen Swamp
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Sudbury, May 8, 1714.
Then laid out a certain parcel of land for a training field on the east side of the river near Ephraim Curtis, his house, and joining to the road leading from Joseph Moores to Capt. Moores, said training field being eight acres and one hundred and fourteen rods of land; there being two highways running through said training field, as they are picked out in the platt; bounded southerly by land laid out to the right of George Manning's and John Knight's bounded easterly and northerly by highways and land in the possession of said Curtis and Capt. Moore, as is signified in the platt. Beginning at a stake in the northwest corner of Manning's lot and so running a straight line east 27 degrees; south 56 rods to a small grey oak in the south corner of Manning's lot, so crossing the highway running as Nathaniel Moores fence now stands a small white oak tree being in the fence, so running to the highway leading from said Curtis, his house to John lioar's; the platt takes of the lot laid out to the right of George Manning's four acres and 114 rods and of the lot laid out to the right John Knights two acres. The rest of the platt was common land.
This was done and laid out by the Committee appointed by the Proprietors of Sudbury to lay out two training fields; one on the east side of the river, and one on the west side of the river; to lie for training ground forever, and is butted and bounded as may more fully appear by the platt.
Sudbury, Oct. 27th., 1726.
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Loker Hill
Laid out to the right of William Brown two acres and 140 rods of land in said Sudbury, and on the easterly side of the river on and joining to a hill called Loker hill being the easterly part of said hill, bounded southerly by land claimed by the Grouts, southwesterly bounded by common and marked trees; northwesterly bounded by land claimed by Zachariah Heard; northerly bounded by common and easterly bounded by land left for a highway of two rods wide, and further bounded as may appear by the platt. And it is in full of said Brown's second addition granted by the Proprietors of the Common land in said Sudbury and is surveyed and laid out as it is set forth by this platt.
1710
T. Frinks.
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At a meeting of the Proprietors of the common on undivided land in Sudbury by adjournment from Tuesday the 7th. of Feb. 1707-8, to Feb. 17 current, did thereby a vote grant to John Rice Sen., a piece of land, which land lyeth on the west side of the way that goeth from Mr. Thomas Frink's to Hopestill Bent's; the land beginneth at the east corner of his own land, and so goeth as the way now is to the highway, and west line to Edmond Rice's east corner, only leaving a way open to the spring for services done for said proprietors.
Thomas Brown, Moderator.
Rice Spring )
May 23, 1710. The way to said spring was stated by the selectmen of said Sudbury.
. Sudbury, July 16, 1711. The Proprietors voted that this said grant to John Rice should be recorded.
1714 Training Fiåld
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1719
Sudbury, Feb. Ist., 1719-20 At a meeting of the Proprietors of the common and undivided land in Sudbury by adjun ment from December 7, 1719.
Also the Proprietors granted and gave to John Grout a small piece of land by Spruce of Cranberry swamp on the north side of the highway by Whales Bridge, on both sides of the brook (except half an acre) not infringing on any highway, leaving a four rod highway on the southerly side of said granted land.
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