84 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



According to the answer given to the third Article, the 

 Council adjourned to meet at Marlborough, on June 18, 1712. 

 While there is no record extant of what was then done at this 

 adjourned meeting, the general result of the proceedings, and 

 the action of the town thereon, may be gathered from the 

 following entries in the Groton town-records (p. 24) : — 



Whereas at A Melting of the Reu'f Elders & messengers lately con- 

 uened At Grotton april 15 i7i2&at the meting of said Reu'^ Elders & 

 messengers at Malbro June 18° 1712 upon adiournmen Aduice hath 

 been giuen to the Reu'! M' dudley Bradstret Pastor of the church in 

 Grotton & to the church of Christ there that the s'' church & town 

 should forthwith proseed to dismis the said M' Bradstret from his office 

 bond & Relation to them as the most probable expedient in their 

 Judgment to promote their peace & comfurt 



In pursuance of the aboue specified Aduice the church of Christt In 

 Grotton declare and ItMS uoted that the Reud M' dudley Bradstret is 

 dismised from & is discharged of his pastorall Relation & office Obliga- 

 tion to the church of Grotton uoted allso that our Bretheren capt 

 prescot simon stone Jonas prescot ir be desiered & are impowered to 

 present the aboue written notes of the church to the Inhabitanes of 

 the town of Grotton for thair concurrence & to joyn with such person 

 or persons as the town shall appoint to presant these uots & the 

 towns coucurrence therewith to the Reud M' Bradstret 



Grotton July 22 17 12 



At a Meting of the Inhabitants of the town of Grotton legalley 

 warned to consider certain uotes of the church of Christ in Grotton 

 Refaring to their discharging the Reud : M' dudley Bradstret from his 

 Pastorall Relation to tham & his office bond to sd church = uoted that 

 the town doth concur with the uots of the church refering to M' brod- 

 strets dismission as a boue expresed & that the Inhabitants of sd 

 Grotton doe release the sd M' Bradstret from the Relation he stands 

 in to them as their minister 



uoted also that Nathanill Woods Ephrim Pare with capt prascot 

 simon ston Jonas Prascot ir Chosen by the church to present the uotes 

 to the town at this presant meeting of the Inhabitants be a commitey 

 on the behalf of the town to presant the uots of the church & town 

 to the Reud M"^ Bradstret 



Grotton July 24 



" Proceedings," Massachusetts Historical Society, November 9, 1S99. 



