In the spring of 1771, Governor John Wentworth and the King's Council voted that a highway be made from the Governor's estate at Wolfeborough to Dartmouth College. Joseph Senter, David Copp, and Samuel Shepard surveyed the 67-mile road, which followed this route to Plymouth. From there it passed through Groton, around Lary's and Goose ponds, over Moose Mountain, and to Hanover. Wentworth rode over it to Dartmouth's first commencement on August 28, 1771.