38 Old Elm St

The Canal Proprietors sell Wilson about two and three quarter acres "on the southerly side of the road" from Oliver Farmer's house to the mills owned by the Canal, bounded by land sold to John Mixer and land of the late Nathan Mears, being lots 4 to 12 on Samuel Whiting's plan of the Canal's mill land of May 27, 1816. This is the land on the south side of Elm Street at the corner of the later Colson Street where Wilson built his house in 1848 (MACRIS cites it as the purchase of the house lot). Signed October 24, 1831; recorded April 21, 1832. Billerica town book 16, pages 91-92.

• April 21, 1794 Deed: Thomas Richardson of Billerica, gentleman (Judith Richardson releasing dower) to Ebenezer Hall of Medford and Samuel Jaques of Wilmington, a committee for the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal (115/259) (canal mill land)

• 1861 Administration: Estate of Daniel Wilson of Billerica, who died November 29, 1861 intestate to Gardner Parker of Billerica, administrator; widow Mary Wilson and eight children (Probate #44864) (Wilson owned the lot at his death)

Under a license of the Probate Court at Lowell of April 7, 1863, after three weeks' notice in the Lowell Daily Courier, the administrator sold at public auction on December 7, 1863, to James Faulkner, the highest bidder, for $4,000, all Wilson's right at his death in "a certain piece or parcel of land situate in said Billerica, containing about twenty-eight acres being the homestead farm of the late Daniel Wilson", bounded west by the road from Billerica to North Billerica, north by that road and lands of Easty, I. N. Wilson, Foster, Lane and C. P. Talbot & Co., east by Easty, Foster, Lane and the Concord River, and south by the Concord River and the Common. Dated December 7, 1863; acknowledged April 5, 1864; recorded April 6, 1864.

• 1861 Administration: Estate of Daniel Wilson of Billerica, who died November 29, 1861 intestate to Gardner Parker of Billerica, administrator; widow Mary Wilson and eight children (Probate #44864) (sold under the administrator's license of April 7, 1863)

• April 6, 1864 Quitclaim: James Faulkner of Billerica (Fanny A. Faulkner releasing dower and homestead) to Gardner Parker of Billerica (37/358) (same 28 acres)

For $7,000, "a certain parcel of land situate in North Billerica containing about fourteen acres more or less with all the buildings thereon, being a part of the Homestead farm of the late Daniel Wilson of said Billerica deceased", bounded west by the old road from Billerica to North Billerica, north by that road, and east and south by lands of C. P. Talbot & Co., the School House lot and Wilson Street, per the Osgood & Snell plan; "Said premises were conveyed to me by Gardner Parker the eighth day of July A.D. 1882 by deed recorded ... Book 154 Page 208". In October 1884 the Talbots conveyed their North Billerica property to the new Talbot Mills corporation (Book 169 Pages 468 and 472). Dated and acknowledged August 1, 1883; recorded August 10, 1883.

• July 28, 1882 Warranty Deed: Gardner Parker of Billerica (Adeline M. Parker releasing dower and homestead) to J. M. G. Parker of Lowell (154/208) (Book 154 Page 208 recited)

• October 16, 1884 Deed: Thomas Talbot et al. to The Talbot Mills, Billerica (169/472) (Talbot property to the new corporation)
• October 16, 1884 Guardian's Deed: Harriet Talbot et al., by their guardian to The Talbot Mills, Billerica (169/468) (Talbot property to the new corporation)
• March 23, 1901 Warranty Deed: Talbot Mills (Solomon Lincoln, President; Frederick S. Clark, Treasurer) to Charles H. Kohlrausch Jr. of North Billerica (328/90) (Talbot title, through Talbot Mills (1884))

• March 24, 1873 Deed: Gardner Parker of Billerica (Adeline M. Parker releasing dower and homestead) to Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica (92/151) (bounded by the School House lot)

For $1 and other valuable consideration, "a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon, consisting principally of a dwelling house and barn connected at the corner of Elm and Colson streets in said North Billerica": from a stone bound on the south line of Elm Street at other land of the grantor, southeasterly 148 feet, southwesterly 161.80 feet by other land of the grantor, then by land of the heirs of Charles H. Kohlrausch 181.5 feet to Colson Street, then by Colson and Elm Streets to the beginning, "containing one and twenty-eight one-hundredths acres", as shown on a plan recorded herewith (Plan Book 17 Plan 13, R. A. Hale, Plan No. 3, June 1881), with the right to a sink and cellar drain in the grantor's other land. Grantee "sometimes known as the younger of the name". Dated March 23, 1901.

• August 10, 1883 Quitclaim: John M. G. Parker of Lowell (D. Maria Parker releasing dower and homestead) to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (162/3) (Talbot title, through Talbot Mills (1884))
• October 16, 1884 Deed: Thomas Talbot et al. to The Talbot Mills, Billerica (169/472) (Talbot Mills title)

• January 24, 1917 Quitclaim: Lillian V. Kohlrausch of Billerica, widow of Charles H. Kohlrausch Jr. to Neil R. Mahoney of Billerica (567/412) (Book 328 recited, and her husband's will)

Lot 1 on Plan Book 51 Plan 30, same bounds; "Being the same premises conveyed to us by Edward J. Kelley et ux by deed dated August 25, 1953", Book 1232 Page 459. The church gave the Central Savings Bank of Lowell a $9,300 mortgage the same day (Book 1234 Page 438) and used the house as its parish house. Dated September 15, 1953; recorded September 16, 1953.

• August 25, 1953 Quitclaim: Edward J. Kelley and Irene Kelley of North Billerica to Private owners (1232/459) (recited)

• April 30, 2021 Deed: North Billerica Baptist Church to B&N General Construction LLC (35696/143) (recited)

For $415,000, "the land ... with the buildings thereon, situated on the Southerly side of Elm Street", Lot 1 on the 1925 Cousins plan of the Mahoney land (Plan Book 51 Plan 30), 120.5 feet on Elm Street, subject to the Talbot Mills sewer right; "Being the same premises conveyed to the Grantor by deed dated September 15, 1953", Book 1234 Page 437. In September 2021 the company resold the house to a private owner for $800,000 (Book 36322 Page 24).

• September 16, 1953 Quitclaim: Private owners to North Billerica Baptist Church, a Massachusetts corporation (1234/437) (recited)