as the Prescott who commanded at Bunker Hill is, indeed, possible;
but, as the grant was probably made before the Revolutionary War,
that supposition seems hardly tenable. (Page 15.)

By an act of the General Court, passed February 25, 1793, a large
section of territory was taken from Groton and annexed to Dunstable.
This change produced a very irregular boundary between the two towns,
and made, according to Butler's History of Groton (page 66), more than
eighty angles in the line, causing much inconvenience. The following
copy from the "Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" gives the
names of the families thus transferred:--

An Act to set off _Caleb Woods_, and others, from _Groton_, and to
annex them to _Dunstable_.

BE _it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in
General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same_, That
_Caleb Woods, Silas Blood, Amaziah Swallow, Nathaniel Cummings,
Ebenezer Procter, Silas Blood_, jun. _Silas Marshall, Levi Parker,
Amos Woods, Isaac Lawrence, Peter Blood, Caleb Blood_, jun. _Henry
Blood, Caleb Woods_, jun. and _Silas Marshall_, jun., together with
their families and estates, and also the estates of Doctor _Jonas
Marshall_, the heirs of Captain _Solomon Woods_, deceased, and
_Joseph Parkhurst_, which they now own in said _Groton_, be, and
they are hereby set off from the town of _Groton_, in the county of
_Middlesex_, and annexed to _Dunstable_, in said county, and shall
hereafter be considered a part of the same, there to do duty and
receive privileges, as the other inhabitants of said _Dunstable.
Provided, nevertheless_, That the persons above-mentioned shall pay
all taxes that have been legally assessed on them by said
_Groton_, in the same manner as if this Act had never been passed.

[This act passed _February_ 25, 1793.]

The zigzag line caused by this act was somewhat modified by the two
following ones, passed at different times a few years later. I think
that the very irregular boundary between the two towns, with its
eighty-six angles, as mentioned by Mr. Butler, was produced by the
subsequent annexations to Dunstable.

An Act to set of _Nathaniel Lawrence with_ his Estate, from the
Town of _Groton_, and annex them to the Town of _Dunstable_.

BE _it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in
General Court a