the Petitioners a tract of Land of the contents of eight miles
square, the Plantation to be called _Groton_, that in taking a Plat
of the said tract there was no allowance made for prior Grants &c.
by means whereof and in settling the Line with _Littleton Anno_
1715, or thereabouts, the said Town of _Groton_ falls short more
than four thousand acres of the Original Grant, praying that the
said Proprietors may obtain a Grant of what remains undisposed of
of a Gore of Land lying between _Dunstable_ and _Townshend_, or an
equivalent elsewhere of the Province Land. Read and _Ordered_, That
Col. _Chandler_, Capt. _Blanchard_, Capt. _Hobson_, Major _Epes_,
and Mr. _Hale_, be a Committee to take this Petition under
consideration, and report what may be proper for the Court to do in
answer thereto.

[Journal of the House of Representatives, November 28, 1734, page
94.]

Col. _Chandler_ from the Committee appointed the _28th._ ult. to
consider the Petition of _Benjamin Prescot_, Esq; in behalf of the
Proprietors of _Groton_, made report, which was read and accepted,
and in answer to this Petition, _Voted_, That a Grant of ten
thousand eight hundred acres of the Lands lying in the _Gore_
between _Dunstable_ and _Townshend_, be and hereby is made to the
Proprietors of the Town of _Groton_, as an equivalent for what was
taken from them by _Littleton_ and _Coyachus_ or _Willard's Farm_
(being about two acres and a half for one) and is in full
satisfaction thereof, and that the said Proprietors be and hereby
are allowed and impowred by a Surveyor and Chain-men on Oath to
survey and lay out the said ten thousand eight hundred acres in the
said _Gore_, and return a Plat thereof to this Court within twelve