1886-11-20 PerambulationManchester and Beverly
We, the subscribers, Selectmen of Manchester and Beverly, having met on the twentieth day
of November A. D. 1886 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 500 West, fourteen 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 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 200 30' West eighty rods to a stone post marked
M.B.W. on the westerly side of a swamp on a sloping ridge of land, and is the corner bounds
between Beverly and Wenham; being the same bound as agreed-upon by the committee in the year
1739 as per former returns.
John H. Cheever
Henry A. Bingham
William A. Stone
Selectmen Augustus Williams Selectmen
of Rufus H. Woodbury of
Manchester John H. Woodbury Beverly
A true copy.
Attest. Wm. H. Lovett, Town Clerk