1691-06-25[Town Meeting June 25, 1691]
Nehemiah Grover did, being then one of our selectmen pay unto Andrew Elliott in behalf of the town, the
above said forty shillings to said Elliott's content.
At the same town meeting it was taken into consideration by the inhabitants then met of the want of a
driftway from John Grover's bottom, commonly so- called near unto the house of Hazediah Smith, unto
our town common, & there were chosen for committee, Lieut. William Dodge, Mr. Nehemiah Grover and
Mr. Mark Haskell senr., which said committee were empowered and authorized, to act and do in said
business as followith: [illegible] to discourse, & treat with Samuel Hibbert, or any other concerned about
said way, to be laid out in and through said Hibbert's land, & if said committee & said Hibbert shall agree
& bargain & then said committee are in the behalf of our town of Beverly, to make restitution & payment
unto said Hibbert for said driftway being laid out as aforesaid, of what breadth said committee shall think
mete, out of our town common land next & adjoining unto said Hibbert's easterly & to settle the bounds
between said Hibbert & our said town.