Structure · Built 1832
57 Andover Rd
57 Andover Rd
| Address | 57 Andover Rd |
| Built | 1832 |
| Other Lot Structures | Deacon Edward Wright House (Built 1840) |
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| April 16, 1799 | Deed | Benjamin Baldwin of Billerica, yeoman, and Elizabeth Baldwin his wife (her mark, releasing dower) | John Jefts of Billerica, cordwainer | Benjamin Baldwin sells the half acre to John Jefts, cordwainer | 132/214 (South) |
For $30, "a certain parcel of land situate in said Billerica near the dwelling house of Luther French containing one half acre", beginning "on the high way at a stake and stones", running on the highway "eight rods or thereabout", south about ten rods, west about eight rods and north about ten rods to the start. Signed and acknowledged April 13, 1799 before Edward Farmer; witnesses Jesse French, William Hakel and Edward Farmer. Billerica town book 9, pages 438-439. The same half acre "near the house of Luther French" that the town sold in 1824; MACRIS BIL.18 and the Historical Commission chart date this deed 1790.
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| August 31, 1799 | Mortgage | John Jefts of Billerica, cordwainer, and Mary Jefts his wife (releasing dower) | Josiah Crosby of Billerica, yeoman | John Jefts mortgages half the lot, now with buildings, to Josiah Crosby | 133/195 (South) |
For $120, "one undivided moiety of a certain tract of land with the buildings thereon situate in said Billerica containing one half an acre bounded Northwardly on the Salem road Eastwardly on land of Benjamin Baldwin Southwardly on land Nahum Baldwins westwardly on land of Solomon Pollard", void if Jefts repaid the $120 and interest within a year. Signed Aug. 24, 1799, acknowledged Aug. 26, 1799 before Edward Farmer. Billerica town book 9, pages 456-457. Four months after buying the bare half acre, Jefts had "buildings" on it: this is the earliest mention of the house that became the poorhouse.
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| July 28, 1800 | Deed | John Jefts of Billerica, cordwainer, and Mary Jefts his wife (releasing dower) | Oliver Crosby of Billerica, gentleman | John Jefts sells the house and half acre to Oliver Crosby | 137/149 (South) |
For $500, "a certain piece of land with the buildings standing thereon", beginning at the northwest corner, running on land of Capt. Solomon Pollard to land of Nahum Baldwin, on Nahum's land to land of Benjamin Baldwin, on Benjamin's land to the public highway and on the highway back to the start, "the same is more fully described in a deed of the same from the said Benjamin to the said John". Signed July 7, 1800, acknowledged July 8, 1800 before Isaac Stearns. Billerica town book 10, pages 12-13. The price, $500 against $30 for the bare lot in 1799, shows that Jefts had built a house worth several hundred dollars.
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| April 23, 1827 | Agent's Deed | Josiah Crosby of Billerica, Esquire, agent of the Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica | Josiah B. French of Billerica, trader | The town sells the old poorhouse at auction to Josiah B. French | 273/393 (South) |
By vote of a legal town meeting on June 21, 1824, Crosby was "duly licensed and empowered as agent of said town to sell and pass deeds to convey the house recently occupied by the Town as a poor house together with land attached to the same", and the same day sold it "at public auction" to French, "he being the highest bidder therefor", for $309. Bounded west by Col. John Baldwin, south by land formerly of Nahum Baldwin deceased, east by said Baldwin, and north "by the public highway situate in said Billerica near the house of Luther French and on the Salem road so called, containing one half of an acre more or less", "hereby reserving to the inhabitants of said Billerica the powder House standing on said premises and the land under the same" with a right of way to it. Signed June 21, 1824, acknowledged July 15, 1824. Billerica town book 12, pages 537-538.
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| August 13, 1839 | Mortgage | Edward Wright of Billerica, gentleman | Josiah B. French of Lowell, gentleman | Edward Wright mortgages the lot back to French (paid off 1843) | 386/173 (South) |
For $325, the same lot "with the building thereon, meaning and intending to convey the same premises this day conveyed to me by said French, making the same reservations as are contained in his deed to me", referring to "the deed from Josiah Crosby as Agent to said French recorded B 273 Page 393", to secure three notes of $125, $100 and $100 payable in one, two and three years. Signed Aug. 12, 1839. French acknowledged "full satisfaction" Jan. 7, 1843 (discharge recorded April 10, 1843). Billerica town book 14, pages 558-560.
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| August 14, 1839 | Deed | Josiah B. French of Lowell, gentleman, and Mary Ann French his wife (releasing dower) | Edward Wright of Billerica, gentleman | Josiah B. French sells the poorhouse lot to Edward Wright | 386/196 (South) |
For $325, "a certain piece of land situated in the town of Billerica aforesaid with the buildings thereon, except the small building in the rear of said lot used as a powder house", beginning at the northwest corner "at the road leading from Billerica meeting house to Andover and on land of John and Henry Baldwin", south, east and north on the Baldwins' land back to the road, "meaning and intending hereby to convey all my interest and title to the above described premises which I obtained to the same by virtue of a deed from Josiah Crosby Esq. as Agent of the Town of Billerica dated some time in June 1824 recorded in the Middlesex Registry of Deeds Book 273 P 393". Signed and acknowledged Aug. 12, 1839. Billerica town book 14, pages 560-561.
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| 1864 | Administration | Estate of Edward Wright of Billerica (died Sept. 11, 1863, intestate) | His son E. Irving Wright of Roxbury, administrator; widow Mary E. Wright; minor children Clara J., Ella F. and Anna E. Wright of Billerica | Edward Wright dies 1863; inventory lists the homestead and a second house adjoining | Probate #45207 |
Petition of March 4, 1864 by "the eldest son of said deceased and only child of age", the widow assenting; administration granted at Cambridge March 8, 1864, estate sworn under $5,000. Inventory by William S. Gleason, Ichabod G. Kimball and Moses P. Greenwood, filed April 26, 1864: "Home Stead" $600; "Land with buildings adjoining homestead" $550; "Land adjoining the above, about twelve acres" $550; personal estate $155.50, room by room (kitchen, parlor, pantry, parlor chamber, west chamber, attic, library, entry, cellar, "tools at barn", a sewing machine). No sale of real estate followed: the land passed to the widow (dower) and the heirs, who divided it in 1901.
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| September 24, 1901 | Release of Dower | Mary E. Wright of Billerica, widow of Edward Wright | Edward B. Wright, William Wright, Clara Arch, Anna Elizabeth Richardson, Edith Burridge, Mabel King, Mary E. Kinney and Grace N. Kinney, grandchildren and heirs of Edward Wright | Widow Mary E. Wright releases her dower to the eight grandchildren | 335/587 |
For one dollar and other consideration "paid by Grace N. Kinney of Boston", the widow releases to the grandchildren, "heirs-at-law, owners of the reversion", all her right "of dower, homestead, exemption or otherwise, in and to that parcel of land with the buildings thereon, situated in said Billerica and being the same premises described in a deed from Josiah B. French to said Edward Wright dated August 12th 1839, and recorded with Middlesex Deeds, Book 386, Page 196", to hold "in the proportions to which they are entitled to the reversion". Signed Sept. 17, 1901 (witness Amanda King), acknowledged Sept. 20, 1901 before Herbert A. King. Edward Wright had died in 1863 (Hazen); the widow had kept the homestead for 38 years.
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| January 30, 1920 | Partition | Middlesex Probate Court, case 56525 (commissioners John E. Bull, Herbert A. King and Clarence Bowman) | The heirs of Edward Wright: Mary E. and Grace N. Kinney; Edward B. Wright, William J. Wright and Clara Arch; Anna Elizabeth Richardson, Edith Burridge and Mabel King | The Wright heirs divide the estate in three; the house on Lot 1 "destroyed by fire" | 621/4 |
Warrant of Dec. 10, 1901 to divide among three sets of grandchildren, each holding a third, "a parcel of land bounded northerly on Andover Street 360 ft., easterly on the Underhill estate 320 7/10 ft., southerly on land now or formerly of Parker 303 1/10 ft. and westerly on land now or formerly of Dimock 208 8/10 ft., and being the same premises conveyed to Edward Wright by deed recorded with Middlesex Deeds Book 386 Page 196". The commissioners appraised the whole at $1,100 and on Dec. 20, 1901 set off Lot 1, the westerly 160 feet from "a stone bound on Andover Street by land of one Turner", to the Kinneys at $366.67, "shown on a plan by J. H. Saxton, surveyor ... but the building shown on said plan has since been destroyed by fire". The annexed "Survey of Edward Wright Estate" shows three lots, a large house with an ell on Lot 1 and a small building on Lot 3 by the Underhill estate. Decree confirming the partition Jan. 20, 1902; the copy was recorded only Jan. 30, 1920 (pages 4-7).
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| February 17, 1902 | Quitclaim | George E. S. Kinney (tenant for life), Mary E. Kinney and Grace N. Kinney, all of Boston | Mabel B. King, wife of Harry K. King, of Billerica | The Kinney heirs quitclaim their partition lot to Mabel B. King | 339/194 |
For one dollar and other consideration, a parcel beginning "at a stone bound on Andover street by land of one Turner", easterly on Andover Street 160 feet, southerly 241.4 feet "by land of Edward B. Wright and others" to a stone wall, westerly 95 feet by land of one Parker, and northerly 208.6 feet by land of Dimock and Turner, "being the same premises set off to us in Partition among tenants in common, Case number 56525 in the Probate Court for said County of Middlesex, and shown on a plan on file in said case". Signed Jan. 29, 1902. This was the Kinney third of the Wright land, the lot west of the share kept by Edward B. Wright and the other heirs.
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| July 18, 1905 | Quitclaim | E. Urania Wright, widow, with Edward B. Wright, William J. Wright and Clara Arch of Fitchburg; S. Sherburne Mathews, Anna Elizabeth Richardson and Edith L. Beveridge (heirs of Edward J. Wright Jr. and of Anna E. Mathews) | Mabel B. King, wife of Harry K. King, of Billerica | The other Wright heirs quitclaim the middle partition lot, the house lot, to Mabel B. King | 379/90 |
For one dollar and other consideration, a parcel "Northerly by Andover Street, sixty-seven and 75/100 feet", easterly by "land conveyed to Herbert H. King" 274 feet, southerly by land of Parker 78.65 feet, and westerly by Mabel B. King's own lot (N.339/194) 241.7 feet, "being part of the premises set off to us in common in partition, Case No. 56525 in the Probate Court of Middlesex County and shown on a plan on file in said Court". Signed Oct. 11, 1904 at Fitchburg (Anna Elizabeth Richardson acknowledged at Danielson Oct. 13, 1904), recorded July 18, 1905. The middle partition lot: its 67.75 feet of frontage and roughly 17,500 square feet match the 18,500-square-foot, 53-foot-frontage house lot of the 1974 survey, so this is the lot of the present house.
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| June 19, 1913 | Mortgage | Mabel B. King of Billerica | B. F. Butler Co-operative Bank of Lowell | Mabel B. King mortgages both Andover Street lots, $2,600 | 506/571 |
For $2,600, both of her Andover Street lots: the 67.75-foot lot "conveyed by deed of Eurania Wright et als., dated Oct. 11, 1904" (N.379/90), and the 160-foot lot from the Kinneys (N.339/194). The same day the bank discharged her earlier mortgage of Nov. 5, 1909 (N.443/386). Margin notes: partial release N.525/354 (1914, Lot 1 on Plan Book 31 Plan 69) and discharge N.607/340.
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| July 27, 1914 | Quitclaim | Mabel B. King of Fitchburg (Harry K. King, her husband, releasing curtesy and homestead) | James A. Sansom of Billerica | Mabel B. King sells Lot 1, the house lot, to James A. Sansom | 525/355 |
For consideration paid, "a certain piece or parcel of land, with the buildings thereon", being "lot #1 on a Plan of Land belonging to Mabel Babcock King, Andover street, Billerica, Mass., Fred W. Stowers, Engineer July 1914" (Plan Book 31 Plan 69): from "a stone bound on Andover street by land of one Turner" easterly 83 feet on the street, southerly 231 feet by lot 2 to a stone wall, westerly 87.80 feet by land of Parker to the wall corner at Dimock, and northerly 209 feet by Dimock and Turner, "containing 18000 square feet more or less", subject to the B. F. Butler Co-operative Bank mortgage and the 1914 taxes, which the grantee assumes. Signed July 24, 1914. The bank's partial release of Lot 1 is the deed just before (N.525/354). This is the present 57 Andover Road, the west end of the old poorhouse half acre; the plan shows the house with its ell near the Turner corner, where the 1901 survey had drawn the burned house.
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| June 18, 1976 | Quitclaim | The three heirs of the Sansom family, as tenants in common | A Billerica couple, as tenants by the entirety | The Sansom heirs sell the house; later sales 1989, 2002, 2025 | 2199/207 |
For $15,000, "a certain piece or parcel of land, with buildings thereon", Lot 1 on the 1914 Mabel Babcock King plan (Plan Book 31 Plan 69), the same 83-foot, 18,000-square-foot lot, "for our title see deed dated July 24, 1914 ... Book 525, page 355. See also Middlesex Probate Dockets" 293045, 301630 and 491020 (the Sansom estates; MACRIS listed the owner in 1974 as the estate of Julia Sansom). Signed March 19, 1976. The same lot, always described by the 1914 plan, was sold for $136,500 in 1989 (N.4907/58), passed between owners in 2002 (N.13683/113) and was put into the owner's family trust in 2025 (N.39709/157), "57 Andover Road".
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted; Probate # is a Middlesex probate case, Ctf a Land Court certificate of title.