Excerpt from Travels in New-England and New-York, Vol. 2 of 4
As we arrived at Groton in the evening, and left it early in the morning, and as our road passed by the body of the town at some distance on the right, we had no opportunity of observing it particularly. As we saw it, it appeared to be a very pretty village, pleasantly situated on an easy slope, and containing a considerable number of good houses, a church, and an academy. The country around it was apparently fertile. In 1790, the number of inhabitants was in 1800, and, in 1810, The number of houses, in 1800, was 230. It includes two congregations; one of them a Presbyterian proper.
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