Your Petitioners therefore Humbly Pray Your Excellency and Honours to take their circumstances into your Wise and Compassionate Consideration, And that a part of the Town of Groton, Beginning at the line between Groton and Dunstable where inconvenient to Erect a Township in the it crosses Lancaster [Nashua] River, and so up the said River until it comes to a Place called and Known by the name of Joseph Blood's Ford Way on said River, thence a West Point 'till it comes to Townshend line &c. With such a part and so much of the Town of Dunstable as this Honourable Court in their great Wisdom shall think proper, with the Inhabitants Thereon, may be Erected into a separate and distinct Township, that so they may attend the Public Worship of God with more ease than at present they can, by reason of the great distance they live from the Places thereof as aforesaid. And Your Petitioners, as in Duty bound, shall ever Pray &c. Richard Warner Benjamin Swallow William Allin Isaac Williams Ebenezer Gilson Ebenezer Peirce Samuel Fisk John Green Josiah Tucker Zachariah Lawrence Jun'r William Blood Jeremiah Lawrence Stephen Eames "[Inhabitants of Groton]" Enoch Hunt Eleazer Flegg Samuel Cumings William Blanchard Gideon Howe Josiah Blood Samuel Parke Samuel Farle William Adams Philip Wolrich "[Inhabitants of Dunstable]" [Massachusetts Archives, cxiv, 274, 273.] Province of the Massachusetts Bay To His Excellency The Governour The Hon'ble Council & House of Rep'tives in Generall Court Assembled Dec'r 1739 The Answer of y'e Subscribers agents for the Town of Groton to y'e Petition of Richard Warner & others praying that part of Said Town with part of Dunstable may be Erected into a Distinct & Seperate Township. May it please your Excellency & Hon'rs The Town of Groton Duely Assembled and Taking into Consideration y'e Reasonableness of said Petition have Voted their Willingness, That the prayer of y'e Petition be Granted as per their Vote herewith humbly presented appears, with this alteration namely That they Include the River (viz't Nashua River) over w'ch is a Bridge, built Intirely to accommodate said Petitioners heretofore, & your Respondents therefore apprehend it is but Just & Reasonable the same should for the future be by them maintain'd if they are Set of from us.