1783-06-04 Perambulation[Perambulation June 4, 1783]
We, the Subscribers, being appointed by the Selectmen of Wenham and Beverly in the County of
Essex to perambulate on the line and renew the bounds between said Towns have accordingly met
this fourth day of June 1783 and beginning at the white oak tree standing in the wall between the land
of Baker and Crowninshield marked W. B. & D. and from thence on a straight course South seventy-
one degrees and thirty miles [sic] east to a bounds in George Crowninshield’s orchard which is a
stone set in the ground marked W. B. and from thence South eighty degrees and thirty miles [sic] east
to a bounds called Alford’s Stone or stump marked W. B. Thence to the corner of the wall on the
east side of the country Road three feet and a half southerly of an apple tree standing to the
northward of Charles Dodge’s land formerly Free Balch’s land marked W. B. Thence to a stake and
stones in Peter Woodbury’s land three feet and a half to the northward from a poplar stump thence
to a heap of stones in or on the wall on the south side of the highway a few rods easterly of the barn
belonging to Jacob Edwards and others one rod northerly from an apple tree stump thence to a stake
and stones near Larcom’s Corner so-called marked W. B. thence to a heap of stones to the east side
of Raccoon Marsh so-called thence to a white oak stump in the wall formally Nathaniel Dodge’s
marked W. B. thence turning northerly to a white oak tree on Gravelly Ridge marked W. B. with
stones about it thence more easterly to a stump in Parsons Corner three feet southerly from a walnut
tree marked W. B. thence to a stake and stones in a straight line from Parsons Corner to a pine tree
marked W. B. which is a bounds between Wenham, Manchester and Beverly.
Tyler PorterSelectmenJonathan Conant
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Stephen DodgeofJohn Lovett, 4
WenhamSelectmen
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Beverly
The foregoing is a record of the tour of the perambulation bounds between Beverly and Wenham.