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��Groton, May lo, 1753. We have con- cluded to Joine with Dunstable in settling the gospell and all other affairs hart & hand in case Dunstable woud meet us in erecting a meting house in center of Lands or center of Travel.

Joseph Spaulding jr.

John Swallow.

Timothy Read.

Samuel Cumings.

Joseph Parkhurst.

[Nason's History of Dunstable, page 85.]

The desired result of annexation was now brought about, and in this way Joint Grass became a part and portion of Dunstable. The following extracts give further particulars in regard to it: —

A Petition of a Committee in Behalf of the Inhabitants of Dunstable, within this Province, shewing, that that Part of Dun- stable by the late running of the Line is small, and the Land much broken, unable to support the Ministry, and other neces- sary Charges ; that there is a small Part of Groton contiguous, and well situated to be united to them in the same Incorpora- tion, lying to the West and Northwest of them; that in the Year 1744, the Inhab- itants there requested them that they might be incorporated with them, which was con- ceeded to by the Town of Groto?t ; that in Consequence of this, upon Application to this Court they were annexed to the Town of Dunstable with the following Proviso, viz. " That within one Year from that Time a House for the publick Worship of GOD should be erected at a certain Place therein mentioned'* : Which Place was esteemed by all Parties both in Groton and Nottinghajn, so incommodious, that it was not complied withal ; that on a further Application to this Court to alter the Place, Liberty was given to the Inhabitants of Groton and Nottingliani, to withdraw, whereby they are deprived of that con- tiguous and necessary Assistance which they expected : Now as the Reasons hold good in every Respect for their Incorpora- tion with them, they humbly pray that the

��said Inhabitants of Groton by the same Bounds as in the former Order stated, may be reannexed to them, for the Reasons mentioned.

Read and Ordered, That the Petitioners serve the Inhabitants of Groton therein refer'd to, as also the Clerk of the Town of Groton, with Copies of this Petition, that so the said Inhabitants, as also the Town of Grot 071, shew Cause, if any they have, on the first Tuesday of the next May Session, why the Prayer thereof should not be granted.

Sent up for Concurrence.

[Journal of the House of Representatives (pages 138, 139), April 4, 1753.]

JoJin Hill, Esq ; brought down the Petition of a Committee of the Town of Dunstable, as entred the 4th of April last, and refer'd. Pass'd in Council, vis. In Council Jutie 5th 1753. Read again, together with the Answer of the Inhabitants of that Part of Groton commonly called Joint-Grass, and likewise Williajn Law- rence, Esq; being heard in Behalf of the Town of Groton, and the Matter being fully considered. Ordered, That the Prayer of the Petition be so far granted, as that Joseph Fletcher, Joseph Spaulding, Samuel Comings, Benjamin Robbitis, Timothy Read, John Swallow, Joseph Parkhurst, and Ebenezer Parkhurst, Jun. with their Families and Estates, and other Lands petitioned for, be set off from the Town of Groton, and annexed to the town of Duti- stable, agreable to the Vote of the Town of Groton on the i8th of May 1747, to receive Priviledge and do Duty there, pro- vided that TimotJiy Read, Constable for the Town of Groton, and Collector of the said Parish in said Town tlie last Year, and Joseph Fletcher, Constable for the said Town this present Year, finish their Col- lection of the Taxes committed or to be committed to them respectively ; and also that the said Inhabitants pay their Propor- tion of the Taxes that are already due or shall be due to the said Town of Groton for the present Year, for which they may be taxed by the Assess- ors of Groton, as tho' this Order had not

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