ar from the place of Public
Worship in either of the said Towns, Many of them Eight Miles
distant, some more, and none less than four miles, Whereby Your
Petitioners are put to great difficulties in Travelling on the
Lord's Days, with our Families.

Your Petitioners therefore Humbly Pray Your Excellency and Honours
to take their circumstances into your Wise and Compassionate
Consideration, And that a part of the Town of Groton, Beginning at
the line between Groton and Dunstable where inconvenient to Erect a
Township in the it crosses Lancaster [Nashua] River, and so up the
said River until it comes to a Place called and Known by the name
of Joseph Blood's Ford Way on said River, thence a West Point 'till
it comes to Townshend line &c. With such a part and so much of the
Town of Dunstable as this Honourable Court in their great Wisdom
shall think proper, with the Inhabitants Thereon, may be Erected
into a separate and distinct Township, that so they may attend the
Public Worship of God with more ease than at present they can, by
reason of the great distance they live from the Places thereof as
aforesaid.

And Your Petitioners, as in Duty bound, shall ever Pray &c.

Richard Warner
Benjamin Swallow
William Allin
Isaac Williams
Ebenezer Gilson
Ebenezer Peirce
Samuel Fisk
John Green
Josiah Tucker
Zachariah Lawrence Jun'r
William Blood
Jeremiah Lawrence
Stephen Eames

"[Inhabitants of Groton]"

Enoch Hunt
Eleazer Flegg
Samuel Cumings
William Blanchard
Gideon Howe
Josiah Blood
Samuel Parke
Samuel Farle
William Adams
Philip Wolrich

"[Inhabitants of Dunstable]"

[Massachusetts Archives, cxiv, 274, 273.]

Province of the Massachusetts Bay

To His Excellency The Governour The Hon'ble Council & House of
Rep'tives in Generall Court Assembled Dec'r 1739

The Answer of y'e Subscribers agents for the Town of Groton to y'e
Petition of Richard Warner & others praying that part of Said Town
with part of Dunstable may be Erected into a Distinct & Seperate
Township.

May it please your Excellency & Hon'rs

The Town of Groton Duely Assembled and Taking into Consideration
y'e Reasonableness of said Petition have Voted their Willingness,
That the prayer of y'e Pe