To His Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq'r Governour &c To The Hon'd.
His Majesty's Councill & House of Representatives in Gen'll Court
Assembled December 1739

Whereas some few of the Inhabitants of Groton & Dunstable have
Joyned in their Petition to this Hon'd. Court to be erected with
Certain Lands into a Township as per their Petition entered the
12'th: Curr. which prayer if granted will very much Effect y'e.
Quiet & Interest of the Inhabitants on the northerly part of Groton

Wherefore the Subscribers most Humbly begg leave To Remonstrate to
y'or Excellency & Hon'rs. the great & Numerous Damages that we and
many Others Shall Sustain if their Petition should be granted and
would Humbly Shew

That the Contents of Groton is ab't. forty Thousand Acres Good Land
Sufficient & happily Situated for Two Townships, and have on or
near Two Hundred & Sixty Familys Setled there with Large
Accomodations for many more

That the land pray'd for Out of Groton Could it be Spared is in a
very Incomodious place, & will render a Division of the remaining
part of the town Impracticable & no ways Shorten the travel of the
remotest Inhabit'nts.

That it will leave the town from the northeast and to the Southwest
end at least fourteen miles and no possibillity for those ends to
be Accomodated at any Other place which will render the
Difficulties we have long Laboured under without Remidy