1703-06-2323d June 1703. The following copies delivered unto selectmen by the perambulators, viz. At a town
meeting legally warned held at Salem April the 16th, 1703, voted, that it be left with the Selectmen and
such as they shall appoint to settle the head bounds and ranging bounds upon the line between Salem and
Beverly with such persons as Beverly shall appoint.
vera copia taken out of the town book. Attest Daniel Epes, Town Clerk. Salem May 17, 1703
At the same time June 23d, 1703 receive the following perambulation, Whereas we the subscribers hereof
being appointed by the Selectmen of our respective towns to perambulate and renew the bounds between
Salem and Beverly have accordingly met at the house of Mr. John Trask of Salem living near Ryal Side
and from thence went and renewed the head bounds between said town's viz. a rock at the head of Bass
River which lyeth about south and by west from Capt. John Dodge, his sawmill, about seventy eight feet
from the southern middle part thereof, which rock is also twenty four feet, or thereabouts from a small
creek south southwest, and from said rock nigh north and by west, half a point westerly athwart Capt.
Dodge's dwelling house, six feet to the eastward of his brick chimney, as it now stands and from thence
on the same point of the compass across arable field to a heap of stones and a stake by a rail fence that
parts betwixt said Capt. John Dodge's land and Capt. William Rayment's land and so on a straight line, on
the same course to a heap of stones at the fence be twixt Capt. William Rayment and Mr. John Rayment,
and from thence about a foot or two, to the eastward of a small walnut tree, which stands nigh a great
black or red oak tree, which oak is four feet to the westward of said line and which tree stands nigh the
corner of Mr. Jonathan Rayment's land, and so the other said line, to a great red oak to the eastward side
thereof now marked with S nigh a stone wall in Deacon Peter Woodberry's land, near three quarter of a
mile from the rock first mentioned, from thence to a heap of stones in the country road by Capt. William
Dodge, his fence, and from thence to a heap of stones in Capt. William Dodge, his pasture, which lays to
the southward of the said highway, being a mile from the rock aforesaid, held from thence on the same
course on line to a stake and heap of stones, a mile and three quarters from the rock to a heap of stones
which lies on the northward side of and is adjoining unto a wall about a mile and three quarters from the
aforesaid rock, which heap of stones lyes about twenty six rod to the northward of Samuel Bishop's
dwelling house, from thence to the eastward of a large black birch, betwixt that and a small red oak both
marked, the birch on the eastward side of it and the oak on the westward side, being in Richard Ober's
swamp and so from thence to the pine stump in the swamp, that is nigh Lawrence Leech's meadow, the
before mentioned black birch and red oak being seventeen rod or pole eastward of the two white oaks
formerly supposed ranging bounds which are in John Rayment's land and which birch and oak are two
miles and thirteen pole or thereabouts from the rock first named and have also made and renewed several
ranging bounds betwixt the rock and black birch before mentioned. This done and perambulated the 21st
day of May 1703 and now settled and perfected this 22nd day of June 1703. [Illegible] Whereof we have
hereunto set our hands the day aforesaid respecting on behalf of our respective towns.
For Beverly: Robert Hale, Isaac Woodbury, Samuel Balch, John black. For Salem: Samuel Brown,
Samuel Gardner, Daniel Epes, Stephen Sewall, John Higginson tertius