may be proper for the Court to do in Answer there to Sent
up for Concurrence.

J QUINCY Sp'kr.

In Council Jan'ry 9'th. 1738

Read and Concurred and Thomas Berry Esq'r is joined in the Affair

SIMON FROST Dep'ty. Sec'ry.

Consented to

J. BELCHER

A true Copy Exam'd per Simon Frost, Dep'y Sec'ry.

In the House of Rep'tives June 7'th: 1739

Read and Concurred

J QUINCY Sp'kr;

[Massachusetts Archives, cxiv, 268-271.]

The Committee Appointed on the Petition of the Inhabitants and
Proprietors situated on the Westerly side of Dunstable and
Northerly side of Groton, Having after Notifying all parties,
Repaired to the Lands, Petitioned to be Erected into a Township,
Carefully Viewed the same, Find a very Good Tract of Land in
Dunstable Westward of Nashuway River between s'd River and Souhegan
River Extending from Groton New Grant and Townsend Line Six Miles
East, lying in a very Commodious Form for a Township, and on said
Lands there now is about Twenty Families, and many more settling,
that none of the Inhabitants live nearer to a Meeting House then
Seven miles and if they go to their own Town have to pass over a
ferry the greatest part of the Year. We also Find in Groton a
sufficient Quantity of Land accommodable for settlement, and a
considerable Number of Inhabitants thereon, that in Some Short Time
when they are well Agreed may be Erected into a Distinct Parish;
And that it will be very Form prayed for or to Break in upon
Either Town. The Committee are of Opinion that the Petitioners in
Dunstable are under such Circumstances as necessitates them to Ask
Relief which will be fully Obtained by their being made Township,
which if this Hon'ble. Court should Judge necessary to be done; The
Committee are Further of Opinion that it Will be greatly for the
Good and Interest of the Township that the Non Resident
Proprietors, have Liberty of Voting with the Inhabitants as to the
Building and Placing a Meeting House and that the Lands be Equally
Taxed, towards said House And that for the Support of the Gosple
Ministry among them the Lands of the Non Resident Proprietors be
Taxed at Two pence per Acre for the Space of Five Years.

All which is Humbly Submitted in the Name & by Order of the
Committee

THOMAS