in Deauer to set
off the Land as a fores'd so that the one half of y'e said New town
may be made out of Groton and no: more.

Abstract Examined & Compaird of the town book of Record for Groton
per

Iona't. Sheple Town Clark

Groton Decem'br: 24'th: A:D: 1739

[Massachusetts Archives, cxiv, 281.]

Province of y'e Mass'tts Bay

To His Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq'r Governour &c To The Hon'd.
His Majesty's Councill & House of Representatives in Gen'll Court
Assembled December 1739

Whereas some few of the Inhabitants of Groton & Dunstable have
Joyned in their Petition to this Hon'd. Court to be erected with
Certain Lands into a Township as per their Petition entered the
12'th: Curr. which prayer if granted will very much Effect y'e.
Quiet & Interest of the Inhabitants on the northerly part of Groton

Wherefore the Subscribers most Humbly begg leave To Remonstrate to
y'or Excellency & Hon'rs. the great & Numerous Damages that we and
many Others Shall Sustain if their Petition should be granted and
would Humbly Shew

That the Contents of Groton is ab't. forty Thousand Acres Good Land
Sufficient & happily Situated for Two Townships, and have on or
near Two Hundred & Sixty Familys Setled there with Large
Accomodations for many more

That the land pray'd for Out of Groton Could it be Spared is in a
very Incomodious place, & will render a Division of the remaining
part of the town Impracticable & no ways Shorten the travel of the
remotest Inhabit'nts.

That it will leave the town from the northeast and to the Southwest
end at least fourteen miles and no possibillity for those ends to
be Accomodated at any Other place which will render the
Difficulties we have long Laboured under without Remidy

That part of the lands Petitioned for (will when This Hon'd. Court
shall see meet to Divide us) be in & near the Middle of one of y'e.
Townships

And Altho the number of thirteen persons is there Sett forth to
Petition. it is wrong and Delusive Severall of them gave no Consent
to any Such thing And to compleat their Guile have entered the
names of four persons who has no Interest in that part of the town
viz Swallow Tucker Ames & Green

That there is near Double the number On the Lands Petit'd. for and
Setled