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the United
States
of America seeking
repeal of the laws.
The selectmen were also instructed to send
copies of
the petition to the Speaker of the House and Speaker of the
Senate in
Congress.
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There
is no
record of how successful the
efforts of the townspeople were, in evaluating the subjects
which were
undertaken by the town meetings of early Oxford.
It does not appear that the case of the grave
robbing was
ever resolved, and that medical center referred to in the
early town
records is still in existence, thriving in New Haven.
What role the little town of Oxford played
in the
ending of the embargo act is unknown, but it is certain that
the
wide-spread outcries which were raised by small communities
and large
played a role in the developments which followed.
At
one time the
townspeople of Oxford
attempted to give away a road, but they could not get anybody
to accept
it. The town even offered to pay a company to take the road
off their
hands.
At a town meeting held on November 18,
1930, the
residents voted to direct the selectmen to give the Dug Road
to the Dug
Road Turnpike Company for the consideration of $200 to be paid
by the
town to the company.
The meeting also voted that there would be
no
opposition to a toll on the road, provided Oxford residents
would be
exempt from the toll.
However, residents had to hold a special
town
meeting on December 3, 1831. In the thirteen months since the
previous
meeting, the selectmen had been unable to give the road away,
in spite
of the financial inducements offered.
The residents were forced to rescind the
stipulation
that Oxfordites should be exempt from the toll, before the
company
would accept the road and the $200.
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