Thoreau surveys for a plan for a road through land owned by James P. Brown, connecting land owned by Luther Hosmer and Thomas Wheeler and is paid $38.50 by the Town of Concord (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Survey at the Concord Free Public Library, 8; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

“H. D. Thoreau, for plan of town way laid out near the house of James P. Brown, 4 00” (Concord Mass. Town Reports, 1851-1852, 18).