ir heirs and Assignes Respectivly forever,
According to their Several Interests; Provided the same do not
interfere with any former Grant of this Court nor Exceeds the
Quantity of Eleven thousand and Eight hundred Acres and the
Committee for the Town of Ipswich are Allowed and Impowred to lay
out such quantity of Land on their West line as is Equivalent to
what is taken off their East line as aforesaid, and Return a plat
thereof to this Court within twelve Months for confirmation.

In Council Read & Concurr'd.

Consented to J Belcher

And in Answer to the said Memorial of Benj'a Prescott Esq'r

In the House of Represent'a. Ordered that the prayer of the
Memorial be Granted and the Com'tee. for the new Township Granted
to some of the Inhabitants of Ipswich are hereby Allowed to lay out
an Equivalent on the West line of the said New Township
Accordingly.

In Council Read & Concurr'd

Consented to J Belcher

[General Court Records (xvi, 334), June 15, 1736, in the office of
the secretary of state.]

This grant, now made to the proprietors of Groton, interfered with the
territory previously given on April, 1735, to certain inhabitants of
Ipswich, but the mistake was soon rectified, as appears by the
following:--

_Voted_, That one thousand seven hundred Acres of the
unappropriated Lands of the Province be and hereby is given and
granted to the Proprietors or Grantees of the Township lately
granted to sixty Inhabitants of the Town of _Ipswich_, as an
Equivalent for about that quantity being taken off their Plat by
the Proprietors of the Common Lands of _Groton_, and that the
_Ipswich_ Grantees be allowed to lay out the same on the Northern
or Westerly Line of the said new Township or on both sides.

Sent up for Concurrence.

[Journal of the House of Representatives (page 108), January 12,
1736.]

[Illustration: Groton Gore in 1884]

The record of the grant clearly marks the boundaries of Groton Gore, and
by it they can easily be identified. Dram Cup Hill, near Souhegan River,
the old northwest corner of Dunstable, is in the present territory of
Milford, New Hampshire. From that point the line ran south for six or
seven miles, following the western boundary of Dunstable, until it came
to the old Townsend line; then it turned and ran northwesterly six miles
or m