1881-10-04 PerambulationManchester and Beverly
We the subscribers, Selectmen of Manchester and Beverly having met on the fourth day of
October A.D. 1881 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 hereby make the following return of said Perambulation, Viz.;
"Beginning at the mouth of "Chubb's Creek" and running through the middle of said creek,
to a stone post marked M. B. standing on the North side of the New Bridge thence North 50° West,
Fourteen rods, to a stone post marked M. B. standing on the Northwest side of the Old road, thence
North 29° West twenty five rods to a stone post marked M. B. in Israel F. Tappan's pasture, thence
by the 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 said towns of Manchester and Beverly) to a stone post marked
M. B. near a swamp or Pond hole, on Nathan Preston's land, thence North 22° 30' west Eighty rods
to a stone post marked M. B. W. on the westerly side of a swamp and on a sloping ridge of land, and
is the corner bound as agreed upon by the Committee in the year 1739 as per former returns.
We the abovesaid Selectmen of the towns of Manchester and Beverly have also by mutual
agreement moved the bound stone on the County road leading from Manchester to Beverly, from
where it has stood since the year 1836, back to the line of said County road on its Western side,
preserving the same courses Viz.; Noah 50° West. This was done to prevent damage to public travel,
and possible expense to the two towns above mentioned, by reason of its proximity to the line of
travel on said road. The distance from this bound stone to the next on the Old Road, is now Fourteen
rods, instead of Fifteen rods, as per former returns.
Joseph Wilson Selectmen Wm. A. Stone Selectmen
Freeborn W. Cressy of J.H. Cheever of
Beverly A. Gilman Manchester
A tree copy. Attest.
Wm. H. Lovett, Town Clerk