Samuel Browne W Browne Joseph Blanchard John Fowle Jun'r Nath Saltonstall Joseph Eaton Joseph Lemmon Jeremiah Baldwin Sam'l Baldwin Daniel Remant John Malven Jon'a Malven James Cumings Isaac Farwell Eben'r Procter In the House of Representatives Dec'r 12th. 1738. Read and Ordered that the Petitioners Serve the Towns of Grotton and Dunstable with Coppys of the petition. In Council January 4'th. 1738. Read again and Ordered that the further Consideration of this Petition be referred to the first tuesday of the next May Session and that James Minot and John Hobson Esq'rs with Such as the Honourable Board shall joine be a Committee at the Charge of the Petitioners to repair to the Lands petitioned for to be Erected into a Township first giving Seasonable notice as well to the petitioners as to the Inhabitants and Non Resident Proprietors of Lands within the s'd Towns of Dunstable and Groton of the time of their going by Causing the same to be publish'd in the Boston Gazette, that they carefully View the s'd Lands as well as the other parts of the s'd Towns, so farr as may be desired by the Partys or thought proper, that the Petitioners and all others Concerned be fully heard in their pleas and Allegations for, as well as against the prayer of the Petition; and that upon Mature Consideration on the whole the Committee then report what in their Opinion may be proper for the Court to do in Answer there to Sent up for Concurrence. J QUINCY Sp'kr. In Council Jan'ry 9'th. 1738 Read and Concurred and Thomas Berry Esq'r is joined in the Affair SIMON FROST Dep'ty. Sec'ry. 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.]