Saving convenient Allotments and portions of Land to the remaining
Indian Inhabitants for their Setling and Planting.

Is'a ADDINGTON Secry.

In the House of Representatives

Octo'r: 23th: 1713. Read

[Massachusetts Archives, cxiii, 600.]

The inhabitants of Groton had now become alarmed at the situation of
affairs, fearing that the new town would take away some of their land.
Through neglect the plan of the original grant, drawn up in the year
1668, had never been returned to the General Court for confirmation, as
was customary in such cases; and this fact also excited further
apprehension. It was not confirmed finally until February 10, 1717,
several years after the incorporation of Nashobah.

In the General Court Records (ix, 263) in the State Library, under the
date of June 18, 1713, it is entered:--

Upon reading a Petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Groton,
Praying that the Return & Plat of the Surveyor of their Township
impowered by the General Court may be Accepted for the Settlement &
Ascertaining the Bounds of their Township, Apprehending they are
likely to be prejudiced by a Survey lately taken of the Grant of
Nashoba;