owells farm until you come to Massapoag Pond, which is full
of small islands; from thence it is bounded by the aforesaid Pond
until you come to Chelmsford line, after that it is bounded by
Chelmsford and Nashoboh lines until you come to the most southerly
corner of this Plantation, and from thence it runs West-North-West
five miles and a half and sixty four poles, which again reacheth to
Nashua River, then the former west-north-west line is continued one
mile on the west side of the river, and then it runs one third of a
point easterly of north & by east nine miles and a quarter, from
thence it runneth four miles due east, which closeth the work to
the river again to the first pine below Nissitisset hills, where we
began: it is bounded by the Farms and plantations as aforesaid and
by the wilderness elsewhere; all which lines are run and very
sufficiently bounded by marked trees & pillars of stones: the
figure or manner of the lying of it is more fully demonstrated by
this plot taken of the same.

By JONATHAN DANFORTH,
April 1668.
Surveyor.

The map of Old Dunstable, between pages 12 and 13 in Fox's History of
that town, is very incorrect, so far as it relates to the boundaries of
Groton. The Squannacook River is put down as the Nissitissett, and this
mistake may have tended to confuse the author's ideas. The southern
boundary of Dunstable was by no means a straight line, but was made to
conform in part to the northern boundary of Groton, which was somewhat
irregular. Groton was incorporated on May 25, 1655, and Dunstable on
October 15, 1673, and no part of it came within the limits of this town.
The eastern boundary of Groton originally ran northerly through
Massapoag Pond and continued into the present limits of Nashua, New
Hampshire.

On the southeast of Groton, and adjoining it, was a small township
granted, in the spring of 1654, by the General Court to the Nashobah
Indians, who had been converted to Christianity under the instruction of
the Apostle Eliot and others. They were few in numbers, comprising
perhaps ten families, or about fifty persons. During Philip's War this
settlement was entirely deserted by the Indians, thus affording a good
opportunity for the English to encroach on the reservation, which was
not lost. These intruders lived in the neighboring towns, and mostly in
Groton. Some of them took possession with