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��The Boundary Lines of Old Groton. — ///.

��by no means have under taken The Hard- ship We have already & must go Throu. Wherefore Your Petitioners Would farther Shew that Part of ye Land here Prayed for all Redy Voted of by the S^ town to be a PresLnct & that the most of them that are in that Lines have Subscribed with us to be a Dest[i]ncte Township Wherefore Your Petitioners Humbly Pray your Honnors to Grante us our Desire according to This our Request as we in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray &c

Joseph Spaulding iur ' Zachariah Lawrance

William Allen Jeremiah Lawrance William Blood Nathaniel Parker Enoch Lawarnce Samuel Right James larwance Josiah Tucker Samil fisk Soloman blood John Woods Josiah Sartell benjn. Swallow Elies Ellat Richard Worner Ebenezer Gillson Ebenezer Parce James Blood iu Joseph Spaulding Phiniahas Parker iur Joseph Warner Phineahas Chambrlin Isacc laken Isacc Williams John Swallow Joseph Swallow Benj" : Robins Nathan Fisk John Chamberlin Jacob Lakin Seth Phillips John Cumings Benj" : Parker Gersham Hobart Joseph Lawrance John Spaulding Isaac Woods

��In the House of Repines June. 10. 1742. Read and Ordered that the Pet*^^ serve the Town of Groton with a Copy of this Pet" that they shew cause if any they have on the first fryday of the next session of this Court why the Prayer there» i should not be granted

Sent up for concurrtcce

T Cu: ling Spkr In Council June 15. 1742; Read & Non Concur'd

J Willard Sec'ry

fMassachusetts Archives, cxiv, 779, 780.]

To his Excellency William Shirley Esqr. Captain General and Governour in Cheiff in and over his Majesties Province of ye. Massachusetts Bay in New England : To ye. Honourable his Majesties Council and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled on ye : Twenty sixth Day of May. A: D. 1742.

The Petition of as the Subscribers to your Excellency and Honours Humbley Sheweth that we are Proprietors and In- habitants of ye. Land Lying on ye. West- erly Side Lancester River (so called) [now known as the Nashua River] in ye North west corner of ye. Township of Groton : & Such of us as are Inhabitants thereon Live very Remote from ye Publick worship of God in sd Town and at many Times and Season of ye. year are Put to Great Difficulty to attend ye. same : And the Lands Bounded as Followeth (viz) South- erly on Townshend Rode : Westerly on Townshend Line : Northerly on Dunstable West Precint, & old Town : and Easterly on said River as it now Runs to ye. First mentioned Bounds, being of ye. Contents of about Four Miles Square of Good Land, well Scituated for a Precint : And the Town of Groton hath been Petitioned to Set of ye. Lands bounded as aforesd. to be a Distinct and Seperate Precint and at a Town Meeting of ye. Inhabitants of s^. Town of Groton Assembled on ye Twenty Fifth Day of May Last Past The Town voted ye Prayer of ye. s^. Petition and that ye Lands before Described should be a Separate Precinct and that ye. Inhabitants thereon and Such others as hereafter Shal'

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