they may be at their proportionable part according to
their respective Interest in Lands there, for the building a
Meeting-house and Settling a Minister, and so much towards Constant
preaching as in your wisdom shall be thought proper.

Settlers on the afore'sd Lands

Obadiah Parker Will'm Colburn
Josiah Blood Stephen Harris
Jerahmal Cumings Tho's Dinsmoor
Eben'r Pearce Peter Pawer
Abr'm Taylor Jun'r Benj'a Farley
Henry Barton Peter Wheeler
Robert Colburn David Vering
Philip Woolerick Nath'l Blood
William Adams Joseph Taylor
Moses Procter Will'm Shattuck
Tho's Navins

Non Resident Proprietors

Samuel Browne W Browne
Joseph Blanchard John Fowle Jun'r
Nath Saltonstall Joseph Eaton
Joseph Lemmon Jeremiah Baldwin
Sam'l Baldwin Daniel Remant
John Malven Jon'a Malven
James Cumings Isaac Farwell
Eben'r Procter

In the House of Representatives Dec'r 12th. 1738. Read and Ordered
that the Petitioners Serve the Towns of Grotton and Dunstable with
Coppys of the petition.

In Council January 4'th. 1738.

Read again and Ordered that the further Consideration of this
Petition be referred to the first tuesday of the next May Session
and that James Minot and John Hobson Esq'rs with Such as the
Honourable Board shall joine be a Committee at the Charge of the
Petitioners to repair to the Lands petitioned for to be Erected
into a Township first giving Seasonable notice as well to the
petitioners as to the Inhabitants and Non Resident Proprietors of
Lands within the s'd Towns of Dunstable and Groton of the time of
their going by Causing the same to be publish'd in the Boston
Gazette, that they carefully View the s'd Lands as well as the
other parts of the s'd Towns, so farr as may be desired by the
Partys or thought proper, that the Petitioners and all others
Concerned be fully heard in their pleas and Allegations for, as
well as against the prayer of the Petition; and that upon Mature
Consideration on the whole the Committee then report what in their
Opinion