1693-02-17[Selectmen's Meeting February 17, 1693]
At a meeting of the selectmen of Beverly at the house of Nehemiah Grover on the 17 of February 1692/3
Lieut. William Dodge, Thomas Woodbury senr., Nehemiah Grover who were chosen a committee to view
a certain piece of our town's common swamp land and lying next the dwelling house of John Clark of
said town, and to make sale of said land to the above said John Clark, according to record bearing date the
25 of December 1690, do make return as followeth, viz. first they have according to said record viewed
said land it being about three acres, be it more or less, and have for and in consideration of six pounds of
silver, to us in hand paid by said Clark, have made sale of the land above said to the above said John
Clark the said land being bounded as followeth, viz. southwardly and westwardly with our town's
common, southwardly with the land of William Cleaves and William Clark, eastwardly with the land of
the above said William Clark and the said John Clark, his own land, the said land beginning at a little
brook or watercourse, which runneth into the land of said William Cleaves at the southwest corner of said
land, and so round by the edge of the swamp, till it comes to the north end of said swamp and so to the
southwest corner bounds of Clark's other land, all the above said land, with all the appurtenances and
privileges, in any wise thereunto belonging to the above said John Clark, his heirs, executors,
administrators and assigns to have and to hold forever. It is also agreed that the said John Clark hath
liberty to set fence on the upland by the edge or side of said swamp for the fencing in of said land.