And it is further _Ordered_, That the House for publick Worship be placed two Hundred and forty eight Rods distant from Mr. _John Tyng's_ North-East Corner, to run from said Corner North fifty two Degrees West, or as near that Place as the Land will admit of. Sent down for Concurrence. Read and concur'd with the Amendment, _viz._ instead of those Words, ... _And it is further Ordered, That the House for publick Worship be_ ... insert the following Words ... _Provided that within one Year a House for the publick Worship of_ GOD _be erected, and_.... Sent up for Concurrence. [Journal of the House of Repesentatives (page 26), June 6, 1747.] To his Excellency William Shirley Esquire Captain General and Governour in Chief in and over his Majestys Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England The Hon'ble: the Council and Hon'ble: House of Representatives of the said Province in General Court Assembled at Boston the 31'st. of May 1749. The petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Dunstable in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay Most Humbly Shew That in the Year 1747, that part of Nottingham which lyes within this Government and part of the Town of Groton Called Joint Grass preferred two petitions to this Great and Hon'ble: Court praying that they might be Annexed to the Town of Dunstable which petitions Your Excellency and Honours were pleased to Grant upon Conditions that a meeting house for the Publick Worship of God should be built two hundred and forty Eight Rods 52 Deg's: West of the North from North East Corner of M. John Tyngs land But the Inhabitants of the Town Apprehending Your Excellency and Honours were not fully Acquainted with the Inconveniencys that would Attend placeing the Meeting House there Soon after Convened in Publick Town Meeting Legally Called to Conclude upon a place for fixing said meeting house where it would best Accommodate all the Inhabitants at which meeting proposals were made by some of the Inhabitants to take the Advice and Assistance of three men of other Towns which proposal was Accepted by the Town and they accordingly made Choice of The Hon'ble: James Minot Esq'r. Maj'r: Lawrence and M'r. Brewer and then Adjourned the Meeting.