1876-11-13 Perambulation Manchester and Beverly
We the subscribers, Selectmen of Beverly & Manchester, having met on the 13th day of
November 1876 agreeably to a notice from the Selectmen of Manchester, (it being the most ancient
town) for the purpose of perambulating the lines, renewing and marking the bounds between said
towns, do make the following return of the said Perambulation VIZ. Beginning at the mouth of
Chubbs Creek and running through the middle of said creek to a stone post marked M.B. standing
on the side of the new Bridge, thence North 50° West fifteen rods to a Stone post, marked M.B.
standing on the Northwest side of the Old Road, thence North 290 West twenty five rods to a Stone
post marked M.B. in Israel F. Tappan's pasture, thence same course, Eighty rods to a stone post
marked M.B. on the top of a hill in Isaac Preston's woodland, thence same course Eighty rods to a
Stone post marked M.B. on a hill, thence One hundred and twenty rods, running by a stone post at
the base of said hill on the Northerly side, which evidently was set for a bound stone between the
towns of Beverly and Manchester to a stone post marked M.B. near a swamp or pond hole on Nathan
Preston land thence Noah 22° 30' West Eighty rods to a Stone post marked M.B.W. on the Westerly
of a swamp, and a sloping ridge of land, and in the corner bound between Beverly and Wenham,
being the same bound as agreed upon by the Committee in the year 1739. As per return.
H. W. Foster Selectmen John Lee
N. H. Foster of Samuel Knight
Beverly Wm. A. Stone
Selectmen of Manchester