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| | Town of Groton, Tompkins Co., NY (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The present town of Groton was formed as Division, April 7, 1817 and was taken from the older town of Locke. |
 | | Tracing briefly the formation of the several towns, of which Groton was once a part, we learn that the original town or provisional district of Milton was organized January 27, 1789, as one of the civil divisions of Montgomery county. |
 | | In 1817 Groton, under the original name of Division, was made a separate town of Cayuga county, and ten days later, April 17, 1817, Tompkins county was created, and this town was made one of its original civil divisions. |
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