1875-10-11 PerambulationPerambulation of Town Line. Beverly and Danvers
Agreeably to notice given to the town of Danvers, by the town of Beverly to meet at the boundary
stone on Elliott Street near the house of Joseph Bushby on the 11th day of October A.D. 1875 at 2
o'clock P.M. for the purpose of perambulating the boundary lines between said towns, and renewing
the bounds. We the subscribers, Selectmen of said towns, have met at the time and place, and for the
purposes aforesaid, and do make the following return of our doings; viz: Beginning at a bound stone
marked B.D. situated about two hundred feet easterly from the dwelling house of William Moulton,
thence running South nineteen degrees, fifteen minutes East, about thirty four hundred ninety feet to
a stone marked B.D. situated on the Southerly side of the way from Burley to Trask streets, on land
of W. B. Witham thence on the same course about forty two hundred and forty feet, to a stone
marked B.D. situated on the Northerly side of Conant Street about twenty nine feet Easterly of
Charles Brown' s barn, thence running South Eleven degrees, thirty minutes West, about thirty three
hundred and Sixty feet to a stone marked B.D. situated on the Easterly end of the hill called "Brown' s
Folly" on land now or lately of Benj. Wilson & Sally B. Lovett, thence on the same course about
twenty two hundred and forty feet to a stone marked B.D. situated on the Northerly side of Elliott
Street near the dwelling house of Joseph Bushby; thence running South twenty five degrees, fifteen
minutes west, about twenty nine hundred and thirty feet to a stone marked B.D. situated in B. F.
Porter' s pasture, north of the wall near high water mark, then running the same course to the channel
of the river.
In witness whereof we hereunto mutually set our hands this 11th day of October A.D. 1875
Joseph Wilson
Freeborn Cressy
Selectmen of
Beverly
Henry A. Brown
Otis F. Putnam
Selectmen of
Danvers
A true record Attest
James Hill, Town Clerk