1 Springs Rd

1 Springs Rd

Address	1 Springs Rd
Built	1920
Other Lot Structures	Rhoda Kemp House (Built 1830)

1 Springs Rd — Land in Billerica, Mass., Boston and Maine Railroad to John and Eileen Beausang (B. & M. R.R. Engineer of Design, June 1952), 1952 (Plan 82/110)

1 Springs Rd — Plan of Land in Billerica, Concord Road and Springs Road (Raymond Engineering Service, Oct. 19, 1988): Lots 1 and 2 at Concord Road and Spring Street, house on Lot 2, 1988 (Plan 167/61)

Deed References

Date	Type	Grantor	Grantee	Summary	Recorded
February 14, 1815	Warranty Deed	Timothy Jaquith of Billerica, yeoman	Elijah Hill of Bedford, "a minor son of Josiah Hill of Bedford"	Jaquith to Elijah Hill, 1815	212/34 (South)
	Dated February 9, 1815 (Billerica town book 11, pages 403-404), for $164.50: "a certain piece of land lying in the southerly part of Billerica ... containing four acres and eighteen poles more or less, bounded northwesterly on the county road leading from Bedford to Billerica, northeasterly on a town road, and southerly on land which I formerly sold to Benjamin Hutchinson and Sampson Spaulding, a crooked line as the wall now stands." No buildings. The county road is Concord Road and the town road is Springs Road. Title from: February 6, 1786 Deed: Abraham Jaquith of Billerica, yeoman (by his mark) to His son Timothy Jaquith of Billerica, husbandman (93/276) (Jaquith title from his father) Title passed to: July 1, 1830 Warranty Deed: Elijah B. Hill of Billerica, yeoman (wife Lucy releasing dower) to Rhoda Kemp of Billerica, singlewoman (299/5) (same four acres)
July 1, 1830	Warranty Deed	Elijah B. Hill of Billerica, yeoman (wife Lucy releasing dower)	Rhoda Kemp of Billerica, singlewoman	Hill to Rhoda Kemp, 1829	299/5 (South)
	Dated April 6, 1829 (Billerica town book 14, pages 328-329), for $164.50, the price Hill had paid in 1815: "a certain piece of land lying in the Southerly part of Billerica ... containing four acres more or less", north-westerly on the county road from Bedford to Billerica, north-easterly on a town road and southerly on land of Sampson Spaulding "a crooked line as the wall now stands". No building is mentioned. Witnesses Rufus E. Kemp and Jonathan Pollard. Title from: February 14, 1815 Warranty Deed: Timothy Jaquith of Billerica, yeoman to Elijah Hill of Bedford, "a minor son of Josiah Hill of Bedford" (212/34) (same four acres) Title passed to: June 22, 1840 Warranty Deed: Rhoda Kemp of Boston, singlewoman to Andrew Carney of Boston, merchant (394/142) (Kemp title from Hill)
June 22, 1840	Warranty Deed	Rhoda Kemp of Boston, singlewoman	Andrew Carney of Boston, merchant	Kemp to Andrew Carney, 1839	394/142 (South)
	Dated and acknowledged in Boston November 15, 1839 (Billerica town book 16, pages 399-400), for $854: the four acres in the southerly part of Billerica on the county road from Bedford and the town road, "together with the buildings thereon and belonging, being the same premises conveyed to me by Elijah B. Hill", excepting the Elbridge Stearns mortgage of 1833. Witness Rufus E. Kemp. Kemp had moved to Boston; the 1853 map still labels the house "R. Kemp". Title from: July 1, 1830 Warranty Deed: Elijah B. Hill of Billerica, yeoman (wife Lucy releasing dower) to Rhoda Kemp of Billerica, singlewoman (299/5) (Kemp title from Hill) Title passed to: October 16, 1857 Quitclaim Deed: Andrew Carney of Boston, gentleman (wife Pamelia joining) to George Bacon of Billerica (12/145) (Carney title from Kemp)
April 15, 1874	Warranty Deed	Caroline Crawford of Billerica, widow	George W. Hill of Billerica	Crawford to George W. Hill, 1874	101/29
	Dated March 23, 1874, acknowledged before Dudley Foster, for $1,500: "a certain parcel of land lying in the southerly part of Billerica ... containing four acres", north-west on the county road leading from Bedford to Billerica, north-east on the town road, south on land of the late Sampson Spalding, "together with the buildings thereon standing. Being the same premises conveyed to me by David Gove, deed dated April 26, 1862 ... Book 30 Page 586." Title from: April 26, 1862 Deed: David Gove to Caroline Crawford, wife of Thomas G. Crawford, of Billerica (30/586) (Caroline Crawford title) Title passed to: July 22, 1879 Deed: George W. Hill of Somerville (wife Annie M. Hill releasing) to John K. Abbott of Cambridge (134/563) (George W. Hill title)
March 24, 1881	Warranty Deed	Anna M. Hill of Lynn, in her own right, and George W. Hill her husband	Charles H. Hill of Billerica	to Charles H. Hill, 1881	144/231
	Dated March 23, 1881, acknowledged before Dudley Foster, for $920: "a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon situated in said Billerica ... in the southerly part, and containing five acres", north-west on the county road leading from Bedford to Billerica, north-east on the town road, south on land late of Sampson Spalding, "meaning to convey the same premises conveyed to me by John K. Abbott ... Book 134, Page 564", excepting "two mortgages running to said Hill, which are a part of said consideration". The mortgagee took the place in settlement. Title from: July 22, 1879 Quitclaim Deed: John K. Abbott of Cambridge (wife Isabella J. releasing) to Anna M. Hill, wife of George W. Hill, of Somerville (134/564) (Anna M. Hill title) Title passed to: May 2, 1885 Right of Way: Charles H. Hill of Billerica (his wife releasing dower and homestead) to The Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation (173/409) (right of way over the Hill five acres) November 6, 1884 Right of Way: Charles H. Hill of Billerica (Sophia C. Hill releasing dower and homestead) to The Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation (170/330) (right of way over the Hill five acres) July 22, 1885 Warranty Deed: C. H. [Charles H.] Hill of Billerica (his wife releasing dower and homestead) to The Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation (175/509) (Hill sold the station lot out of the five acres he bought in 1881) June 3, 1892 Warranty Deed: Charles H. Hill of Billerica (wife releasing dower and homestead) to A. W. Albert Lakemann of Boston and Anna M. Miller Lakemann, his wife, tenants by the entirety (233/407) (Charles H. Hill title) Related: March 29, 1877 Mortgage: George W. Hill of Billerica to Charles H. Hill of Billerica (122/547) (mortgagee takes the title)
June 3, 1892	Warranty Deed	Charles H. Hill of Billerica (wife releasing dower and homestead)	A. W. Albert Lakemann of Boston and Anna M. Miller Lakemann, his wife, tenants by the entirety	Hill to the Lakemanns, 1892	233/407
	Dated May 19, 1892, for $1,700: "a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon situated in said Billerica in the southerly part thereof", north-west on the County Road leading from Bedford to Billerica, north-east on the town road, south on land late of Sampson Spaulding "by a crooked line as the wall now stands, containing five acres", subject to rights of way Hill had granted the Boston and Lowell Railroad in 1884 for its Bedford branch. The grantees paid the 1892 taxes. Title from: March 24, 1881 Warranty Deed: Anna M. Hill of Lynn, in her own right, and George W. Hill her husband to Charles H. Hill of Billerica (144/231) (Charles H. Hill title) Title passed to: December 19, 1951 Quitclaim Deed: The heir of A. W. Albert and Anna M. Lakemann (Middlesex Probate dockets 236044 and 211670) to A private couple of Boston (1185/149) (Lakemann title through probate) Related: July 22, 1885 Warranty Deed: C. H. [Charles H.] Hill of Billerica (his wife releasing dower and homestead) to The Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation (175/509) (the 1892 deed excepts the railroad lot)
December 19, 1951	Quitclaim Deed	The heir of A. W. Albert and Anna M. Lakemann (Middlesex Probate dockets 236044 and 211670)	A private couple of Boston	Lakemann estate sale, 1951	1185/149
	December 1951: three parcels "with the buildings thereon", the first the five acres "Being the same premises to A. W. Albert Lakemann and Anna M. Miller Lakemann conveyed by deed of Charles H. Hill dated May 19, 1892 ... Book 233 Page 407", subject to the Boston and Lowell Railroad rights of way and excepting the railroad's land and the 1915 County taking; the second four acres east of the railroad on Spring Street. Title through the estates of Albert W. Lakeman and Anna M. Lakeman. Title from: June 3, 1892 Warranty Deed: Charles H. Hill of Billerica (wife releasing dower and homestead) to A. W. Albert Lakemann of Boston and Anna M. Miller Lakemann, his wife, tenants by the entirety (233/407) (Lakemann title through probate) Title passed to: December 31, 1954 Quitclaim Deed: A private couple of Boston to William Mikulsky of Billerica (1276/351) (title from the Lakemann heir)
December 31, 1954	Quitclaim Deed	A private couple of Boston	William Mikulsky of Billerica	to William Mikulsky, 1954	1276/351
	Dated November 4, 1954: the same three parcels "with the buildings thereon", the five-acre house lot reciting the 1892 Hill deed, plus a 14,731-square-foot strip of former Boston and Maine Railroad land on Plan Book 82, Plan 110A. Mikulsky (d. by 1987; Suffolk Probate 489322) held the house until his heir sold Parcel 1, "five (5) acres more or less" with the buildings, in 1987 for $162,000. The new owners had it surveyed in 1988 (Plan Book 167, Plan 61) and divided; the house stands on Lot 2 (0.93 acre) of that plan. Later sales 1989 and a 2012 family transfer. Title from: December 19, 1951 Quitclaim Deed: The heir of A. W. Albert and Anna M. Lakemann (Middlesex Probate dockets 236044 and 211670) to A private couple of Boston (1185/149) (title from the Lakemann heir) December 31, 1952 Deed: Boston and Maine Railroad (by R. M. Tedgar, Vice President) to A private couple of Boston, as tenants by the entirety (1214/65) (Parcel 3 of the 1954 deed recites the 1952 railroad deed) Title passed to: August 17, 1967 Quitclaim Deed: A private couple of Billerica (owners on Plan 105-30) to Thomas Waters, Trustee of Countryside Construction Trust (declaration of November 24, 1965, Book 1809, Page 160) (1809/162) (through the 1966 and April 1967 private deeds (N. 1776/333, Book 1790))

Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted.