A Petition of _Benjamin Prescot_, Esq; Representative of the Town of _Groton_, and in behalf of the Proprietors of the said Town, shewing that the General Court in _May_ 1655, in answer to the Petition of Mr. _Dean Winthrop_ and others, were pleased to grant the Petitioners a tract of Land of the contents of eight miles square, the Plantation to be called _Groton_, that in taking a Plat of the said tract there was no allowance made for prior Grants &c. by means whereof and in settling the Line with _Littleton Anno_ 1715, or thereabouts, the said Town of _Groton_ falls short more than four thousand acres of the Original Grant, praying that the said Proprietors may obtain a Grant of what remains undisposed of of a Gore of Land lying between _Dunstable_ and _Townshend_, or an equivalent elsewhere of the Province Land. Read and _Ordered_, That Col. _Chandler_, Capt. _Blanchard_, Capt. _Hobson_, Major _Epes_, and Mr. _Hale_, be a Committee to take this Petition under consideration, and report what may be proper for the Court to do in answer thereto. [Journal of the House of Representatives, November 28, 1734, page 94.] Col. _Chandler_ from the Committee appointed the _28th._ ult. to consider the Petition of _Benjamin Prescot_, Esq; in behalf of the Proprietors of _Groton_, made report, which was read and accepted, and in answer to this Petition, _Voted_, That a Grant of ten thousand eight hundred acres of the Lands lying in the _Gore_ between _Dunstable_ and _Townshend_, be and hereby is made to the Proprietors of the Town of _Groton_, as an equivalent for what was taken from them by _Littleton_ and _Coyachus_ or _Willard's Farm_ (being about two acres and a half for one) and is in full satisfaction thereof, and that the said Proprietors be and hereby are allowed and impowred by a Surveyor and Chain-men on Oath to survey and lay out the said ten thousand eight hundred acres in the said _Gore_, and return a Plat thereof to this Court within twelve months for confirmation to them their heirs and assigns respectively. Sent up for Concurrence. [Journal of the House of Representatives, December 12, 1734, page 119.] The proprietors of Groton had a year's time allowed them, in which they could lay out the grant, but they appear to have taken fifteen months for the purpose. The record of the grant is as follows:--