1857-06-08 PerambulationBeverly and Danvers
Agreeably to notice given to the town of Danvers by the town of Beverly to meet at the cornerstone
between Beverly, Wenham and Danvers on the eighth day of June 1857 at Nine o’clock A.M. for the
purpose of running the lines between said towns and renewing the marks and bounds. We the
subscribers Selectmen of said towns have met at the time and place and for the purpose aforesaid and
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do make the following return of our doings. Viz.. Beginning at a bound stone marked
situated about two hundred feet easterly from the house of William Moulton; thence running South,
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nineteen degrees, fifteen minutes East, about three thousand four hundred feet to a stone marked
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. situated on the south side of the way leading from Burley to Trask Street; thence on the same
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course about four thousand two hundred and forty feet to a Stone marked to . situated on the
northerly side of Conant Street about twenty-nine feet easterly of Josiah Trask’s barn; thence running
South Eleven degrees Thirty minutes West, about three thousand three hundred and sixty feet, to a
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stone marked . situated on the easterly side of the hill [called Brown’s Folly] on the land of
James Perry & Sally B. Lovett; thence on the same course about two thousand two hundred forty feet
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to a stone marked to . situated on the northerly side of Elliott Street, near the house of John Bell
Jr.; thence running South, Twenty Five Degrees, fifteen Minutes West, about twenty nine hundred,
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thirty feet to a stone marked . situated in John Bell’s pasture, north of the wall near high
watermark; thence running the same course to the channel of the river.
In witness whereof we have hereunto mutually set our hands this eighth day of June A. D.
1857.
Wm. H. Lovett
Lawson WalkerSelectmen of Beverly
Thos. A. Morgan
William Dodge Jr.
Augustus FowlerSelectmen of Danvers
Chas. P. Preston
A true record.Attest.James Hill, Town Clerk.