Obadiah Parker Will’m Colburn
    Josiah Blood Stephen Harris
    Jerahmal Cumings Tho’s Dinsmoor
    Eben’r Pearce Peter Pawer
    Abr’m Taylor Jun’r Benj’a Farley
    Henry Barton Peter Wheeler
    Robert Colburn David Vering
    Philip Woolerick Nath’l Blood
    William Adams Joseph Taylor
    Moses Procter Will’m Shattuck
    Tho’s Navins

    Non Resident Proprietors

    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.]