Excerpt from The Early History of Manchester: An Address Delivered in Music Hall, Manchester, Vt., On Monday Evening, December 27, 1875 In December, 1764, the proprietors voted to have a highway laid out through the town, and Jeremiah French and Gideon Ormsby were appointed a committee for that purpose. This road was undoubtedly surveyed in the spring of 1765, and some labor was probably expended upon it the same year. Its general location was that of the present road from the Judge Pettibone place to the Vil lage, and thence past the Wheaten house to South Dorset. It was the first road made in the settlement, and was known on the records for several years as the main road through the town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.