1683-05-26[Selectmen May 26, 1683]
At a meeting of the Selectmen the 26 of May 1683 in order to make satisfaction to Isaac
Woodberry for damage done him by a drift highway laid out through his land. In consideration
thereof by agreement is granted and laid out to him a small triangle of and rocks situate lying and
being bounded as followeth viz on the south side with the land of the said Isaac Woodberry and on
the north side with the town’s drift highway and on the east end with the land of Thomas Woodberry
and at the west end with the north edge of a rock at the northwest corner of the land of the said Isaac
Woodberry and also five acres of swamp and rocks lying a little to the eastwards of the land of Joseph
Lovett laid out by Exercise Conant, Thomas West and Nehemiah Grover and is bounded as followeth:
at the southeast corner with a red oak tree and at the south side with a hemlock tree standing on in
knoll of rocks and at the southwest corner with a small hemlock standing in the edge of a swamp and
at the northeast part with a white oak tree standing in or near the line of the south side of land that
formally belonged to John Sampson and on the north side with a great hemlock tree standing on the
edge of the upland and at the northwest corner with a walnut stump on the south side of a hill with
a heap of stones about it.