1684-01-09[Selectmen January 9, 1684]
At a meeting of the Selectmen the ninth day of January 1683: there was granted unto John
Patch senior of Beverly three acres of swamp land be it more or less bounded westerly with a black
oak which oak is Richard Thissell’s bounds and from thence unto a maple tree northerly marked with
four marks & from thence to a hemlock tree easterly and from thence to an elm tree southerly marked
with four marks which is Richard Thissell’s bounds likewise: which land was granted for & in
consideration of highways laid out by a committee appointed for that purpose said land being laid out
by Robert Bradford, Thomas West & Richard Ober by order of the Selectmen: said land was laid out
of the Town Common.
At the same meeting of the Selectmen there was granted unto Samuel Morgan of Beverly two
acres of land be it more or less of the town common being bounded easterly with a stump with stones
laid about it and from thence to a great hemlock tree westerly duly marked with four marks and from
thence to a black oak marked with the same mark northwest and from thence to a dry black oak with
the top broken off marked with four marks easterly and so to the first bounds: for and in
consideration of a highway laid out of said Morgan’s land by the aforesaid committee: said land laid
out by Robert Bradford, Thomas West and Richard Ober by order of the Selectmen.