During this period of local excitement an effort was made to annex Nottingham to Dunstable; and at the same time Joint Grass to Dunstable. Joint Grass was a district in the northeastern part of Groton, settled by a few families, and so named from a brook running through the neighborhood. It is evident from the documents that the questions of annexation and the site of the meeting-house were closely connected. The petition in favor of annexation was granted by the General Court on certain conditions, which were not fulfilled, and consequently the attempt fell to the ground. Some of the papers relating to it are as follows: A Petition of sundry Inhabitants of the most northerly Part of the first Parish in _Groton_, praying that they may be set off from said _Groton_ to _Dunstable_, for the Reasons mentioned. Read and _Ordered_, That the Petitioners serve the Towns of _Groton_ and _Dunstable_ with Copies of this Petition, that they show Cause, if any they have, on the first Friday of the next Sitting of this Court, why the Prayer thereof should not be granted. Sent up for Concurrence. [Journal of the House of Representatives (page 264), March 11, 1746.] _Francis Foxcroft_, Esq; brought down the Petition of the northerly Part of _Groton_, as entred the 11th of _March_ last, and refer'd. Pass'd in Council, _viz._ In Council _May_ 29th 1747. Read again, together with the Answers of the Towns of _Groton_ and _Dunstable_, and _Ordered_, That _Joseph Wilder_ and _John Quincy_, Esqrs; together with such as the honourable House shall join, be a Committee to take under Consideration this Petition, together with the other Petitions and Papers referring to the Affair within mentioned, and report what they judge proper for this Court to do thereon. Sent down for Concurrence. Read and concur'd, and Major _Jones_, Mr. _Fox_, and Col. _Gerrish_, are joined in the Affair. [Journal of the House of Representatives (page 11), May 29, 1747.] _John Hill_, Esq; brought down the Petition of the Inhabitants of _Groton_ and _Nottingham_, with the Report of a Committee of both Houses thereon. Signed _Joseph Wilder_, per Order. Pass'd in Council, _viz._ In Council _June_ 5th 1747. The within Report was read and accepted, and _Ordered_, That the Petition of _John Swallow_ and others, Inhabitants of the northerly Part of _Groton_ be so far granted, as that the Petitioners, with their Estates petition'd for, be set off from _Groton_, and annexed to the Town of _Dunstable_, agreable to _Groton_ Town Vote of the 18th of _May_ last; and that the Petition of the Inhabitants of _Nottingham_ be granted, and that that Part of _Nottingham_ left to the Province, with the Inhabitants theron, be annexed to said _Dunstable,_ and that they thus Incorporated, do Duty and receive Priviledges as other Towns within this Province do or by Law ought to enjoy.