Elizabeth Regan’s story about Tantummaheag Landing reports on our discovery of previously unknown documents outlining Richard Lord’s 1713 agreement with Lyme Town in which it traded a prior right of way obligation for his willingness to create a substitute right of way, but one that would be extinguished at his death along with all prior rights of way. (“Old Lyme landowner says he has proof public has no right to Tantummaheag Landing,” July 7)

Your readers may also be interested to know that the 1713 right of way tracks what is now Tantummaheag Road. All the original markers, including bridges and causeways near Neck Road, Lord constructed and the walls he erected to pool the brook for a “watering hole” he was granted by the Town are still there. As all government maps for the past 125 years clearly show, what became Tantummaheag Road turns over the last of these bridges and up-hill to access what was then the location of Richard and Thomas Lord’s homes. Neither the route of the 1701 right of way (abandoned by 1712, if not before) nor its replacement in 1713, ever involved the back driveway to our house, which was built at least a half a century after Richard Lord’s death in 1727.

George T. Frampton Jr.

Old Lyme