Allan Bottomley
Allan Bottomley
| Died | 1913-01-16 |
| School Committee | |
| In Office | 1898 - 1903 |
| Sinking Fund Commissioner | |
| In Office | 1901 - 1902 |
Allan Bottomley (about 1837 to 1913) was the overseer of finishing at the Talbot Mills, the woolen mill at North Billerica, and a member of the School Committee from 1898 to 1903, when the town decided to build the Talbot School.
On April 14, 1887 he bought from Ann D. Elliott, widow of George P. Elliott, for $6,000, "the George P. Elliott Homestead, containing twenty acres, more or less, with the buildings thereon", at the corner of the road to Tewksbury, now Mt. Pleasant Street, and the road to Lowell, now High Street. The old house there is the Thomas Rogers House. He and his wife Jane soon sold most of the land to their neighbors: a strip on the west side to the Talbot Mills in 1889, and three parcels in 1887, 1890 and 1892, running back to High Street, to Isabella W. Clark, the wife of the mill treasurer Frederic S. Clark, which became part of the grounds of the Frederick S. Clark House.
On the School Committee he was secretary in 1899 and chairman in 1900 and 1903, and he had the particular charge of the Talbot and Union Hall schools in the mill village. He was re-elected in March 1900 with 238 votes to 195 for Edward L. McMahon. At the town meeting of 1901 it was he who moved that the town buy land at North Billerica and build a schoolhouse on the plans of Cooper and Bailey of Boston, that it borrow $25,000 for the purpose, and that it set up a sinking fund to pay off the bonds. He was chosen with John A. Richardson and Joseph F. Talbot as one of the first commissioners of that fund (Sinking Fund Commissioner), and the new Talbot School opened in 1902. In September 1901 he served on the committee that drew up the town's resolutions at its memorial service for President McKinley.
By 1908 he had retired. In September 1911 he had O. M. Snell survey five house lots along High Street north of his house, and sold the first of them, with the old barn, to John E. Rowell. He died on January 16, 1913. His widow Jane kept the house; after her death her executors, Lillie Bottomley, the librarian of the Talbot Mills circulating library, who had lived in the household for many years, and Frederick Bottomley of Haverhill, sold it in 1921 to Forrest W. Todd.
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| April 22, 1887 | Deed | Ann D. Elliott of Billerica, widow | Allan Bottomley of Billerica | Details | Thomas Rogers House Frederick S. Clark House Rogers Barn |
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For $6,000, "A certain tract of land located at North Billerica and known as the George P. Elliott Homestead, containing twenty acres, more or less, with the buildings thereon," bounded from the road from North Billerica to Tewksbury (Mt. Pleasant St) at land of Mrs. F. S. Clark, north by Clark and the heirs of Thomas Talbot to Martin Conway, east by Conway to the road from Billerica to Lowell (High St), and back along both roads. "Being premises conveyed to George P. Elliott by Frank D. Rogers by deed dated April 25th 1866 ... Book 49, Page 109, and devised to me by the said George P. Elliott by his last will." Signed April 14, 1887 before Dudley Foster; recorded April 22, 1887 (Book 187, pages 154-155).
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| September 8, 1887 | Warranty Deed | Allan Bottomley of Billerica and Jane Bottomley his wife | Isabella W. Clark of Billerica | Details | Frederick S. Clark House | 191/290 |
Dated Sept. 5, 1887, acknowledged before Frederic S. Clark JP; recorded Sept. 8, 1887. For $480, "one and one-thirteenth acre" beginning at the road from North Billerica to Tewksbury at land of Isabella W. Clark, north by Clark 471 feet to a stone wall, east by the wall 100 feet, south by Bottomley to the road, and west along the road 100 feet; "being a portion of the premises conveyed to Allan Bottomley by Ann D. Elliott by deed dated April 14th 1887 ... Book 187, Folio 154." A strip added on the east side of the house lot.
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| August 2, 1889 | Deed | Allan Bottomley of Billerica; Jane Bottomley his wife releasing dower | The Talbot Mills of Billerica | Details | Thomas Rogers House | 208/155 |
For $420, "a parcel of land situate in that part of Billerica called North Billerica containing seven tenths of an acre," a strip 66 feet wide running north about 462 feet from "the road leading from North Billerica to Tewksbury" (Mt. Pleasant Street) along land of the Talbot Mills to a stone wall: "a portion of the premises conveyed to Allan Bottomley by Ann D. Elliot" in 1887 (Book 187, Page 154). This is the west line of the later house lot (Talbot Mills Lot 1 on the 1952 plan). Signed July 31, 1889; recorded Aug. 2, 1889.
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| April 12, 1890 | Warranty Deed | Allan Bottomley of Billerica and Jane Bottomley his wife | Isabella W. Clark of Billerica | Details | Frederick S. Clark House | 214/266 |
Dated April 10, 1890, acknowledged before Frederic S. Clark JP; recorded April 12, 1890. For $270, a parcel of about one and three tenths acres north of the Clark lot: from the corner of Clark and Bottomley northerly 559 feet "in a straight line with fence now running on easterly side of land of Isabella W. Clark from road to Tewksbury" to a wall at Martin Conway, westerly along the wall to the heirs of Thomas Talbot, southerly by the Talbot heirs and Clark, and easterly by Clark; "being a portion of the premises conveyed to Allan Bottomley by Ann D. Elliot ... Book 187 Folio 154." The 1938 deed gives this page as 26 in error.
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| May 11, 1892 | Warranty Deed | Allan Bottomley of Billerica and Jane Bottomley his wife | Isabella W. Clark of Billerica | Details | Frederick S. Clark House | 233/209 |
Dated March 12, 1892; recorded May 11, 1892. For about $2,177, the rest of the land to the north and east: from the corner of Clark and Bottomley northerly 559 feet by Clark to a stone wall at Martin Conway, easterly 814 feet along the wall by Conway to the road from North Billerica to Lowell (High St), southerly along that road 457 feet to a wall at Bottomley, and westerly along the wall by Bottomley to the beginning; "Being a portion of the premises conveyed to Allan Bottomley by Ann D. Elliot ... Book No. 187 folio 154." With it the Clark estate reached High Street (14.26 acres in 1938). The 1938 deed gives this deed as book 255 in error.
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| November 17, 1911 | Deed | Allan Bottomley of Billerica; Jane Bottomley releasing dower | John E. Rowell of Billerica | Details | Thomas Rogers House Rogers Barn |
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For one dollar and other consideration, "a certain lot of land together with the buildings thereon" on the westerly side of High Street, "being lot No. 1 on a Plan of Land in North Billerica Mass. belonging to Allan Bottomley, Sept. 1911, surveyed by O. M. Snell C.E." (Plan Book 28, Plan 84), 100 by 60 feet, 5,994.60 square feet, "a part of the premises conveyed to me by Ann D. Elliot" in 1887. This lot, north of the house, held the old barn; Lots 2 to 5 along High Street were laid out on the same plan. Signed Oct. 31, 1911; recorded Nov. 17, 1911.
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| September 23, 1921 | Executors' Deed | Lillie Bottomley of Billerica and Frederick Bottomley of Haverhill, executors of the will of Jane Bottomley | Forrest W. Todd of Billerica | deceased husband of Jane Bottomley; title from him | Thomas Rogers House 52 Mt. Pleasant St |
650/1 |
Under a Probate Court license of Sept. 15, 1921, for $5,000, "two certain parcels of land with the buildings thereon" in North Billerica: (1) the corner lot on the north side of Mount Pleasant Street, "formerly called the road from North Billerica to Tewksbury," and the west side of High Street, "formerly called the road from North Billerica to Lowell," running about 235 feet north along the lot Allan Bottomley sold the Talbot Mills in 1889 (Book 208, Page 155) and bounded by lots sold to Mary R. Potter and John E. Rowell (1911, Book 479, Page 338); (2) Lots 2, 3 and 4 (14,986.5 sq. ft.) on the west side of High Street on the 1911 Snell plan of Allan Bottomley's land (Plan Book 28, Plan 84). Title: part of the premises conveyed by Ann D. Elliott to Allan Bottomley, "deceased husband of said Jane Bottomley," April 14, 1887 (Book 187, Page 154). Signed Sept. 17, 1921 (Book 650, pages 1-3).
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted.