Consented to

J. BELCHER

A true Copy Exam'd per Simon Frost, Dep'y Sec'ry.

In the House of Rep'tives June 7'th: 1739

Read and Concurred

J QUINCY Sp'kr;

[Massachusetts Archives, cxiv, 268-271.]

The Committee Appointed on the Petition of the Inhabitants and
Proprietors situated on the Westerly side of Dunstable and
Northerly side of Groton, Having after Notifying all parties,
Repaired to the Lands, Petitioned to be Erected into a Township,
Carefully Viewed the same, Find a very Good Tract of Land in
Dunstable Westward of Nashuway River between s'd River and Souhegan
River Extending from Groton New Grant and Townsend Line Six Miles
East, lying in a very Commodious Form for a Township, and on said
Lands there now is about Twenty Families, and many more settling,
that none of the Inhabitants live nearer to a Meeting House then
Seven miles and if they go to their own Town have to pass over a
ferry the greatest part of the Year. We also Find in Groton a
sufficient Quantity of Land accommodable for settlement, and a
considerable Number of Inhabitants thereon, that in Some Short Time
when they are well Agreed may be Erected into a Distinct Parish;