The Bay State Monthly. Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884

In the House of Rep

June. 10, 1742.

Read and Ordered that the Pet

serve the Town of Groton with a Copy of this Pet

that they shew cause if any they have on the first fryday of the next session of this Court why the Prayer thereof should not be granted

Sent up for concurrence

T Cushing Spkr

In Council June 15. 1742;

Read & Non Concur'd

J Willard Sec'ry

[Massachusetts Archives, cxiv, 779, 780.]

To his Excellency William Shirley Esq

. Captain General and Governour in Cheiff in and over his Majesties Province of y

. Massachusetts Bay in New England: To y

. Honourable his Majesties Council and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled on y

: Twenty sixth Day of May. A:D. 1742.

The Petition of as the Subscribers to your Excellency and Honours Humbley Sheweth that we are Proprietors and Inhabitants of y

. Land Lying on y

. Westerly Side Lancester River (so called) [now known as the Nashua River] in y

North west corner of y

. Township of Groton: & Such of us as are Inhabitants thereon Live very Remote from ye Publick worship of God in s

Town and at many Times and Season of y

. year are Put to Great Difficulty to attend y

. same: And the Lands Bounded as Followeth (viz) Southerly on Townshend Rode: Westerly on Townshend Line: Northerly on Dunstable West Precint, & old Town: and Easterly on said River as it now Runs to y

. First mentioned Bounds, being of y

. Contents of about Four Miles Square of Good Land, well Scituated for a Precint: And the Town of Groton hath been Petitioned to Set of y

. Lands bounded as afores

. to be a Distinct and Seperate Precint and at a Town Meeting of y

. Inhabitants of s

. Town of Groton Assembled on y

Twenty Fifth Day of May Last Past The Town voted y

Prayer of y

. s

. Petition and that y

Lands before Described should be a Separate Precinct and that y

. Inhabitants thereon and Such others as hereafter Shall Settle on s

. Lands; should have y

Powers and Priviledges that other Precincts in s

. Province have or Do Enjoy: as p

. a Coppy from Groton Town Book herewith Exhibited may Appear: For the Reasons mentioned we the Subscribers as afores

. Humbley Prayes your Excellency and Honours to Set off y

s

Lands bounded as afores

. to be a Distinct and Sepperate Precinct and Invest y

Inhabitants thereon (Containing about y

N

. of Forty Famelies) and Such others as Shall hereafter Settle on s

. Lands with Such Powers & Priviledges as other Precincts in s

. Province have &c or Grant to your Petitioners Such other Releaf in y

. Premises as your Excellency and Honours in your Great Wisdom Shall think Fit: and your Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall Ever pray &c.