The Bay State Monthly. Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884. Various

      Sent down for Concurrence

      SIMON FROST Dep^y Sec^ry

      In the House of Rep^tives Dec 28. 1739 Read and Concur'd.

      J QUINCY Sp^kr:

      Janu^ry. 1: Consented to,

      J BELCHER

      [Massachusetts Archives, cxiv, 272, 273.]

      While this petition was before the General Court, another one was presented praying for a new township to be made up from the same towns, but including a larger portion of Groton than was asked for in the first petition. This application met with bitter opposition on the part of both places, but it may have hastened the final action on the first petition. It resulted in setting off a precinct from Dunstable, under the name of the West Parish, which is now known as Hollis, New Hampshire. The papers relating to the second petition are as follows:—