1694-04-06[Town Meeting April 6, 1694]
April 6 day, 1694. At a general meeting of the freeholders & other inhabitants of Beverly town, legally
warned & qualified as the law directs, Lieut. Andrew Elliott being moderator, it was voted by general
vote of the inhabitants then convened, that the men that are or shall be appointed from our town, to meet
with gentlemen of Wenham on the tenh day of this instant, in order to perambulation of the line between
the town of Wenham & our town of Beverly, shall run from the pine stump by the swamp which runneth
out of Lawrence Leach's meadow, and so to Manchester bounds, according to Salem's grant to us.
At the same town meeting the 6 of April 1694, was voted that a committee chosen to inspect particular
persons bounds, bounding on our town's land, according to record bearing date the 5 th of March 1693/4,
hath liberty and power to sell to any person that hath already fenced in of our town common land, not
exceeding half one acre to any one person, as they shall agree with any person or persons, that hath
fenced in of the common as above said & make a return of any such sale with the money received, to the
selectmen for the use of the town.
At the same time meeting April the 6 1694, Deacon John Hill, Mr. Thomas West & George Hull were
chosen the committee to view a certain piece of land, claimed by Joseph Dodge and Joseph Eaton, near
the house of Nathaniel Stone senr. and make return to the town at the next town meeting.