the following documents:--

To His Excellency Jon'a. Belcher Esq'r. Captain General and
Governour in Chief &c The Hon'ble. the Council and House of
Rep'tives in General Court Assembled at Boston November the 29th
1738

The Petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants and Proprietors of the
Towns of Dunstable and Groton.

Humbly Sheweth

That your Petitioners are Situated on the Westerly side Dunstable
Township and the Northerly side Groton Township those in the
Township of Dunstable in General their houses are nine or ten miles
from Dunstable Meeting house and those in the Township of Groton
none but what lives at least on or near Six miles from Groton
Meeting house by which means your petitioners are deprived of the
benefit of preaching, the greatest part of the year, nor is it
possible at any season of the year for their familys in General to
get to Meeting under which Disadvantages your pet'rs has this
Several years Laboured, excepting the Winter Seasons for this two
winters past, which they have at their Own Cost and Charge hired
preaching amongst themselves which Disadvantages has very much
prevented peoples Settling land there.

That there is a Tract of good land well Situated for a Township of
the Contents of about Six miles and an half Square bounded thus,
beginning at Dunstable Line by Nashaway River So running by the
Westerly side said River Southerly One mile in Groton Land, then