1696-06-29[Selectmen's Meeting June 29, 1696]
At a meeting of the selectmen on the 29 of June 1696 the return entered as followeth viz. Be it known
unto all men by these presents, that we John Dodge senr. Thomas Woodbury senr. Edmund Dodge and
Ebenezer Woodbury, all of us of the town of Beverly, in the County of Essex in His Majesty's Province of
the Massachusetts Bay in New England, being a committee appointed and empowered by our said town
of Beverly for and in consideration of the just and full sum of 5 pounds and 10 shillings of current money
of New England in hand paid and received to be paid unto the selectmen of our said town for the use of
the town, have sold and in behalf of our said town of Beverly, do by these presents, do bargain, sell, set
over and forever confirm unto John Trask of the same town and county, husbandman, a certain parcel of
or island of our town's common land, said island of land being encompassed round with fresh meadow,
and is butted and bounded as followeth viz. southwesterly by the meadow of the above said John Trask,
and southerly and westerly by the meadow of John Stone, and eastwardly by the meadow of Mrs.
Woodbury and Mary Lovett, widows, all the said town's rate of common land within the bounds above
said, to the above said John Trask, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, with all the rights,
titles, privileges and appurtenances and anywise thereunto belonging to have and to hold forever from the
day of the date hereof, as also a small piece of common land now being within the fence of the said John
Trask, which fence said Trask made to fence in his meadow above said that is to say all of common land
within said fence, as it now standards, in witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands, this 27th day
of September, one thousand six hundred ninety and five and in the seventh year of the reign of our
sovereign Lord, William 3d of England, King.
John Dodge senr., Thomas Woodbury, Edward Dodge, Ebenezer Woodbury