1693-02-01 (2)[Selectmen's Meeting February 1, 1693]
Beverly. At a meeting of the selectmen at the house of Mr. Roger Hoskins on the l' of February 1692/3
William Dodge junr., Thomas Woodbury senr. and Nehemiah Grover, who were chosen a committee to
visit a certain piece of our town's common and to make sale of the same to James Taylor of our town
according to record bearing date the 25 day of December 1690, do make return as followeth, viz. They
have according to said vote viewed a certain piece of our town's common land lying at the corner of the
swamp, called Cat Swamp, the said land being about an acre, which now lyeth within the said Taylor's
fence, bounded easterly with the land of said Taylor, southwardly by the town's highway, westwardly with
a piece of land lately granted to the said Taylor, northerly with the land that was formerly Robert Stone's,
and have also for a consideration of two pounds and fifty shillings in money by the said Taylor already
paid, sold to the above said James Taylor the land abovesaid as it lyeth in this record expressed with all
the privileges and appurtenances there unto belonging to him and to his heirs to have and to hold forever.
At the same meeting of the selectmen Capt. Paul Thorndike, Lieut. William Dodge senr., Zachariah
Herrick who were chosen a committee to view a certain parcel of our town's common land, and to make
sale of the same to James Taylor of our town according to record bearing date 29 of November 1692, do
make return as followeth, viz. that they have according to said record, viewed a piece of our town's
common land, being about one hundred and ten poles, be it more or less, and for and in consideration of
one pound and ten shillings, in money by the said Taylor already paid, have sold to the above said Taylor
the land above said, the said land lying near the said Taylor's house, and is bounded as followeth, that is to
say, on the south by the town highway, on the east with his own land, on the north with the land that was
formerly Robert Stone's, on the west with the town's common which lyeth twenty and two feet in breadth
between the above said land and the said Taylor's stone wall which is part of the said Taylor's orchard
fence, and the above said land at the west end, to be three poles from a place in the line of the above said
Robert Stone's land, eastward two and twenty feet from the said Taylor's stone wall above -named and the
said land at the east end to be in breadth as the said Taylor's land next adjoining now is, the said land to
the said Taylor, to him and his heirs with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging to have
and to hold forever.