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1693-03-17 (2)[Selectmen's Meeting March 17, 1693] Beverly. March 17th 1692/3. At a meeting of the selectmen laid out to Nathaniel Stone senr. three quarters of an acre of land in consideration of a town highway running through the said Stone's land, the said land being bounded as followeth, viz. Northerly with the land that is now John Stone's junr., his land, and westerly and southerly with the town's common. At the same meeting of the selectmen, Capt. Paul Thorndike, Lieut. William Dodge and Zachariah Herrick who were chosen a committee to sell a parcel of land to John Stone, as appears by record, bearing date 29 of November 1692, do make return as followeth, sold to John Stone three quarters of an acre of our town's common land for and in consideration of forty shillings in money in hand, paid by the said Stone, the said land being bounded as followeth, viz. Northerly with the land mentioned in the next above record and westerly and southerly with the town's common. At a meeting of the selectmen on the 17 of March 1692/3 the said selectmen taking into consideration the necessity of a town highway from the County Road to Capt. Dodge his sawmill and fulling mill, which are by said Dodge, his house, there being now a way left of by several properties for their own use viz. John Rayment senr., Benjamin Balch senr., Capt. John Dodge, Lieut. Exercise Conant, Deacon Peter Woodberry and Ebenezer Woodbury and William Dodge tertius all the above said properties having given in their right in said way for the use of the town, and so have it for a town highway, the said highway goeth from the County Road, which runneth from Beverly to Wenham, and goeth along by the dwelling house of the above said Peter Woodberry and John Rayment senr. And so to the road of Jonathan Dodge, as it now lyeth, the which way is allowed by the selectmen, to be a town highway and the above -named Capt. John Dodge doth engage to keep the said way in repair from time to time, so far as it goeth in the length of his own land. At a meeting of the selectmen of Beverly on the 17 of March 1692/3, then sold to Thomas Whittridge, a certain piece of our town's common land the which was granted to the said Whittridge by town vote on record bearing date the 12 of February 1691, said land containing about 15 or 20 poles, so by which in said Whittridge's stone wall, as said wall now stands, and so in place and manner as is in the aforementioned record expressed and said Thomas Whittridge have paid ten shillings in money which is in full satisfaction for said land. Beverly. March the 17th, 1692/3. At a meeting of the Selectmen, Nehemiah Grover and Nathaniel Stone senr. who were appointed to lay out to Thomas Gage three acres of land near Bald Hill, granted to the said Gage by town vote, as appears by record on the old town book, bearing date the 11 u, [of the] first month 1683, it did make return as followeth viz.. They being met together on the fifteenth of March 1692/3 and bounded the said land as followeth viz. on the southwest corner with a stone, between Mordecai Larcom senr. and said Thomas Gage, thence northerly on a straight line to a rock which is the said Larcom's bounds, and thence eastwardly on a straight line to a dry birch tree, then southwardly to a stake by Samuel Coming's, his stone wall, and so on a straight line to the first bounds. Beverly the 17 of March 1692/3. At a meeting of the Selectmen, viz. Deacon Jonathan Hill, Capt. Jonathan Dodge, Mr. Roger Hoskins and Nehemiah Grover and Thomas Gage, do make return as followeth viz. that at a meeting of the Selectmen on the 10th of the first month 1692/3 laid out to Nehemiah Grover about two acres of land, being more or less the said land being due to said Grover for a town highway, which goeth from the country highway by the house of Hazadiah Smith and so to our town common, the which land for the above said way was bought by the said Grover of Benjamin Trask, as appears by record bearing date the 19"' of December 1692, the above said two acres of land adjoining to the land of Mordecai Larcom senr., bounded firstly with said Larcom's northwest bound and thence to a red or black oak tree marked with stones about it, and thence to a white oak tree, on a hill, being the said Grover's bounds, formally and so to the said Grover's bounds eastwardly, which is a walnut tree, so bounded eastwardly, with the land of John Trask and Samuel Corning, southwardly with the land of the aforesaid Larcom.