Acres, (the Quantity and Situation may be Seen on y^e. plan herewith And but Ab^t. four Or five hundred Acres thereof Owned by the Petit^rs. and but very Small Improvements On that. Under all w^ch. Circumstances wee Humbly conceive it unreasonable for them to desire thus to Harrase and perplex us. Nor is it by Any means for the Accomodation of Dunstable thus to Joyn who have land of their Own Sufficient and none to Spare [pg 353] without prejudicing their begun Settlement Wherefore we most Humbly pray Y^or. Excellency & Hon^rs. to compassionate Our Circumstances and that thay may not be set off and as in Duly bound &c

Benj^a. Parker
John Woods
Josiah Sartell
Samuel Shattuck iu
Joseph Spoaldeng Juner
James Larwance
Jonathan Shattuck
Nath^ll. Parker
James Shattuck
Jacob Lakin
John Chambrlen
Thomas Fisk
John Cumings
Isaac Lakin
Henery Jefes
John Shattuck
David Shattuck
John Scott
Seth Phillips
Benjⁿ. Robines
Samuel Wright
Isaac Woods
John Swallow
Enoch larwance
William Spoalding
John Blood
Jonathan Woods
James Green
Wiliam Cumings
Joseph Blood
Nathaniel Lawrence iu

[Massachusetts Archives, cxiv, 282-284.]

Wee the Sub^rs: Inhab^ts: of y^e Town of Dunstable & Resident in that part of it Called Nissitisitt Do hereby authorize and Fully Impower Abraham Taylor Jun^r. and Peter Power to Represent to Gen^ll. Court our unwillingness that any Part of Dunstable should [be] sett off to Groton to make a Township or Parish and to Shew forth our Earness Desire that a Township be maide intirely out out [sic] off Dunstable Land, Extending Six mils North from Groton Line which will Bring the on the Line on y^e Brake of Land and Just Include the Present Setlers: or otherwise As y^e Ho^ll. Commitee Reported and Agreeable to the tenour thereoff as The Hon^rd Court shall see meet and as Duly bound &c

Tho^s: Dinmore, and 20 others.

Dunstable Dece^r; y^e 21^st; 1739

These may sertifie to y^e Hon^rd. Court that there is Nomber of Eleven more y^t has not signed this Nor y^e Petetion of Richard Worner & others, that is now setled and About to setle

[Massachusetts Archives, cxiv, 277.]