& Chose Capᵗ. William Lawrance Madderator for said meeting &c:
In Answer to the Petion of Richard Warnor & others Voted that the land with the Inhabitance mentioned in said Petion Including the Riuer from Dunstable Line to oʳ. ford way Called and Known by yᵉ. Name of Joseph Bloods ford way: be Set of from the town of Groton to Joyn with sum of the westerdly Part of the town of Dunstable to make a Distinct and Sepprate town Ship Prouided that their be no: More taken from Dunstable then from Groton in making of Said new town. Also Voted that Nathaniel Sawtell Esqʳ. and Capᵗ William Lawrance be Agiants In the affair or Either of them to wait upon the Great and Generial Cort: to Vse their Best in Deauer to set off the Land as a foresᵈ, so that the one half of yᵉ. said New town may be made out of Groton and no: more.
Abstract Examined & Compaird of the town book of Record tor Groton per
Groton Decemᵇʳ: 24th: A: D: 1739
Province of yᵉ Massᵗᵗˢ Bay
Whereas some few of the Inhabitants of Groton & Dunstable have Joyned in their Petition to this Honᵈ. Court to be erected with Certain Lands into a Township as per their Petition entered the 12ᵗʰ: Curr. which prayer if granted will very much Effect yᵉ. Quiet & Interest of the Inhabitants on the northerly part of Groton
Wherefore the Subscribers most Humbly begg leave To Remonstrate to yᵒʳ Excellency & Honʳˢ, the great & Numerous Damages that we and many Others Shall Sustain if their Petition should be granted and would Humbly Shew
That the Contents of Groton is abᵗ. forty Thousand Acres Good Land Sufficient & happily Situated for Two Townships, and have on or near Two Hundred & Sixty Familys Setled there with Large Accomodations for many more
That the land pray'd for Out of Groton Could it be Spared is in a very Incomodious place, & will render a Division of the remaining part of the town Impracticable & no ways Shorten the travel of the remotest Inhabitⁿᵗˢ.
That it will leave the town from the northeast and to the Southwest end at least fourteen miles and no possibillity for those ends to be Accomodated at any Other place wᶜʰ will render the Difficulties we have long Laboured under without Remidy
That part of the lands Petitioned for (will when This Honᵈ. Court shall see meet to Divide us) be in & near the Middle of one of yᵉ. Townships
And Althò the number of thirteen persons is there Sett forth to Petition, it is wrong and Delusive Severall of them gave no Consent to any Such thing And to compleat their Guile have entered the names of four persons who has no Interest in that part of the town viz Swallow Tucker Ames & Green
That there is near Double the number On the Lands Petitᵈ. for and Setled amongst them who Declare Against their Proceedings, & here Signifie the Same
That many of us now are at Least Seven miles from Our meeting And the Only Encouragement to Settle there was the undeniable Accomodations to make An Other town without wᶜʰ. We Should by no means have undertaken
That if this their Petⁿ. Should Succed—Our hopes must Perish—thay by no means benifitted—& we put to all the Hardships Immaginable.
That the whole tract of Land thay pray may be Taken Out of groton Contains about Six or Seven Thousand Acres, (the Quantity and Situation may be Seen on yᵉ. plan herewith And but Abᵗ. four Or five hundred Acres thereof Owned by the Petiʳˢ. and but very Small Improvements On that. Under all wᶜʰ. Circumstances wee Humbly conceive it unreasonable for them to desire thus to Harrase and perplex us. Nor is it by Any means for the Accomodation of Dunstable thus to Joyn who have land of their Own Sufficient and none to Spare
