“At the same date, in response to a petition signed by Moses Lakin and one hundred and three others, the selectmen, after due deliberation and having heard all the parties interested who desired to be heard, laid out a road described as follows: ‘Beginning at a stake in the line between the towns of Dublin and Hancock, about twentyfive rods south of Joshua S. Lakin’s barn, in said Lakin’s meadow, thence north-easterly through land of Joshua S. Lakin one hundred and seventy-four rods to a stake near the wall between John Hayward’s and Joshua S. Lakin’s, thence north-easterly through John Hayward’s land eighteen rods to a stake, thence northerly through Joshua S. Lakin’s land sixty-six rods to a stake by the wall between Ebenezer Ware, Jr.’s, and Joshua S. Lakin’s, thence northerly through Ebenezer Ware, Jr.’s, land sixty-six rods to a stake near a large rock, thence north-easterly through land of said Ware seventytwo rods to a stake near a pair of bars on the west side of the old road south of said Ware’s house.’ ”

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The History of Hancock, New Hampshire, 1764-1889, by William Willis Hayward, 1889, page 270