A Memorial of _John Whitney_ and others of the Southwesterly Part
of _Groton_, praying that their Petition exhibited in _November_
1749 may be revived, and the Papers prefer'd at that Time again
considered, for the Reasons mentioned.

Read and _Ordered_, That the Petition lie on the Table.

[Journal of the House of Representatives (page 64), October 9,
1751.]

_Ordered_, That the Petition of _John Whitney_ and others of the
Southwesterly Part of _Groton_, lie upon the Table.

[Journal of the House of Representatives (page 81), January 3,
1752.]

The Memorial of _John Whitney_ and others, as entred _October_ 9th
1751, Inhabitants of the Southwesterly Part of _Groton_ and the
Eastwardly Part of _Lunenberg_, setting forth that in _November_
1749, they preferred a Petition to this Court, praying to be set
off from the Towns to which they belong, and made into a distant
[distinct?] and seperate Town and Parish, for the Reasons therein
mentioned; praying that the aforesaid Memorial and Petition, with
the Report of the said Committee thereon, and all the Papers
thereto belonging, may be revived, and again taken into
consideration.

Read again, and the Question was put, _Whether the Prayer of the
Petition should be so far granted as that the petition and Papers