Petitioned for as aforesaid, and the Subscriber in Behalf of the
Town of Groton &c will as in Duty Bound ever pray &c.

NATHANIEL SARTELL

[Massachusetts Archives, cxiv, 300.]

_John Jeffries_, Esq; brought down the Petition of _Peter Lawrence_
and others of _Groton_, praying to be annexed to _Littleton_, as
entred the 12th ult. Pass'd in Council, _viz._ In Council _January
4th_, 1738. Read again, together with the Answer of _Nathanael
Sartell_, Esq; Representative for the Town of _Groton_, which
being considered, _Ordered_, That the Prayer of the Petition be so
far granted as that the Petitioners with their Families & Estates
within the Bounds mentioned in the Petition be and hereby are set
off from the Town of _Groton_, and are annexed to and accounted as
part of the Town of _Littleton_, there to do Duty and receive
Priviledge accordingly.

Sent down for Concurrence. Read and concur'd.

[Journal of the House of Representatives (page 86), January 4,
1738.]

In the autumn of 1738, many of the settlers living in the northerly part
of Groton, now within the limits of Pepperell, and in the westerly part
of Dunstable, now Hollis, New Hampshire, were desirous to be set off in
a new township. Their petition for this object was also signed by a
considerable number of non-resident proprietors, and duly presented to
the General Court. The reasons given by them for the change are found in