60-62 Wilson St
60-62 Wilson St
| Address | 60-62 Wilson St |
| Built | 1870 |
| Other Lot Structures | Talbot Textile Mills Worker Housing at 60-62 Wilson St (Built 1870) |
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| April 21, 1794 | Deed | Thomas Richardson of Billerica, gentleman (Judith Richardson releasing dower) | Ebenezer Hall of Medford and Samuel Jaques of Wilmington, a committee for the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal | 1794: Thomas Richardson sells his mills and farm to the Middlesex Canal committee | 115/259 (South) |
For 1350 pounds, "about forty acres of Land" bounded easterly by Concord River, westerly by the highway and northerly and southerly by the road; the reversion of half the dower of the widow Hannah Carlton, conveyed to him by Solomon, Moses and Nathan Carlton; five sixths of a small piece at the northeast end of the mill dam, bounded easterly "by Timothy Sprague's Ditch that conveys Water to the Fulling mill"; "together with all the Buildings ... including the Mills Mill priviledges ... commonly known by the name of Richardson's Mills being the same which was formerly granted by the Town of Billerica to Christopher Osgood together with the Mill Dam and Stream", on the conditions of the town's vote of October 4, 1708, a passage for fish, and his 1791 agreement with Timothy Sprague. Dated March 25, 1794; recorded April 21, 1794. Billerica town book 9, pages 81-82. The Canal Mills land from which the proprietors sold their small house lots.
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| September 23, 1820 | Deed | Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, by John L. Sullivan, agent | Nathan Mears of Billerica, yeoman | 1819: the canal proprietors sell Nathan Mears 27 acres of the Richardson farm on the Concord River | 235/64 (South) |
For $813.18, "a certain tract of land ... containing by measure twenty seven acres and seventeen poles being a part of the Richardson farm," from the southeasterly corner at Concord River "north of the ford way," easterly by "the road leading to the Canal mills" to "land of the Proprietors laid out in small lots," then by the Proprietors' land and several short courses to the river "according to the annexed plat," and by the river to the beginning. Signed August 10, 1819; recorded September 23, 1820. Billerica town book 12, pages 172-173. This became the Mears homestead farm around the tavern lot.
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| June 24, 1828 | Administration | Estate of Nathan Mears of Billerica, yeoman | His minor children Edwin, Charles, Nathan, Lucy Ann and Elbert Mears; Marshall Preston, administrator | 1828 estate of Nathan Mears; his homestead was surveyed into lots and sold at auction in 1832 | Probate #14955 |
Nathan Mears died in June 1828 leaving "no widow, nor heirs of twenty one years of age"; at his children's request (and his own before his death) Marshall Preston of Billerica was appointed administrator at Framingham June 24, 1828, bond $30,000. The inventory lists the homestead of about 27 acres with three dwelling houses, the saw mill, "The Woolen Factory, occupied by Francis Faulkner & son", the forge, the old homestead of Thomas Mears, the Patten lot, and "The Zac. Shed Lot, 7 acres" at $210, with no buildings. Real estate $15,245.
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| 1832 | Quitclaim | Joel Dix of Billerica, yeoman (wife Priscilla releasing dower) | Daniel Wilson of Billerica, yeoman | 1832: Dix sells Daniel Wilson half of Mears lot 9, between the lane (Wilson St) and the river | 313/26 (South) |
Billerica town book 16, pages 98-99. For $71, Dix quitclaims "one undivided half of a certain lot of land situated in said Billerica, being lot Number nine, on a plan & survey of the Homestead of Nathan Mears late of said Billerica, deceased", containing "two acres & one hundred and fifty eight rods", bounded "Southeasterly by Concord River", southwesterly by lot 8 sold to Isaiah Bussey, northwesterly by lot 6 sold to Bussey and northerly by lot 10 sold to Gardner Parker, reserving to the owners of the other homestead lots a right to pass on the passage way laid down on the plan. Dix had bought lot 9 at the guardians' auction of March 20, 1832. Signed and acknowledged April 3, 1832 before Marshall Preston. Plan A Lot 13 (56-58 Wilson Street) most probably lies in this lot, between the lane (Wilson Street) and the river.
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| January 12, 1836 | Guardian's Deed | Nathaniel Stearns of Billerica, yeoman, guardian of Edwin and Charles Mears, minor children of Nathan Mears | Joel Dix of Billerica, yeoman | 1832 guardians' auction: Joel Dix buys two fifths of Mears lot 9, which holds Lot 14 | 349/237 (South) |
Licensed by the Supreme Judicial Court and sold at public vendue March 20, 1832, for $3,276.17, two undivided fifth parts of five tracts, first "a part of the homestead of said deceased, situate at the Canal Mills so called, containing three acres and fifty five & a half rods, with the Tavern house, one small house in the rear of said Tavern house, two barns and other out buildings thereon standing," from a corner "in the front yard between said Tavern house & said Dix's dwelling house," by Dix's land and the Garden lot to Concord River, by the river 20 rods to a board fence, and by the passage way on S. Livingston's plan of the homestead, Isaiah Bussey's house lot and "the side house lot" to the road: "lots numbered one & eleven on said plan." Also lot 9, the Patten lot, the Trull pasture and half the Sims place. Recorded January 12, 1836. Billerica town book 15, pages 223-226.
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| January 12, 1836 | Guardian's Deed | John Baldwin of Billerica, Esquire, guardian of Lucy Ann, Nathan and Elbert Mears, minor children of Nathan Mears | Joel Dix of Billerica, yeoman | 1832 guardians' auction: Joel Dix buys three fifths of Mears lot 9 | 349/240 (South) |
At the same vendue of March 20, 1832, for $3,276.17, the other three undivided fifth parts of the same tracts, first "a part of the Homestead of said deceased situate at the Canal Mills so called containing three acres and fifty five & a half rods with the Tavern House one small house in the rear of said Tavern house, two barns and other out buildings thereon standing," bounded as in Stearns's deed. With that deed it gave Joel Dix the whole tavern stand. Acknowledged April 2, 1832; recorded January 12, 1836. Billerica town book 15, pages 226-230.
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| 1848 | Deed | Joel Dix of Billerica, yeoman (wife Priscilla releasing dower) | Daniel Wilson of Billerica, yeoman | 1848: Dix sells Wilson the other half of Mears lot 9 | 545/198 (South) |
Billerica town book 20, pages 157-158. For $150, "the undivided one half of a certain tract of land situate in the northerly part of said Billerica, containing about three acres more or less, Being a part of the Mears homestead being No 9 on a Plan of said homestead taken by Sprague Livingstone, and the lot that said Wilson owns the other undivided one half": from the southwest corner at Wilson's land and "the lane that runs through said homestead", northeasterly by Wilson's land to "a lot formerly owned by Nathl Stearns called the lumber yard", easterly to Concord River, southerly by the river and westerly by Wilson's land, reserving the homestead owners' right to pass in the lane "as now travelled". Dix is not answerable for encumbrances before March 20, 1832. Dated February 20, 1848. With the 1832 deed this gave Wilson the whole of lot 9, next south of the lumber-yard acre that became Plan A Lot 10.
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| 1861 | Administration | Estate of Daniel Wilson of Billerica, who died November 29, 1861 intestate | Gardner Parker of Billerica, administrator; widow Mary Wilson and eight children | 1861 estate of Daniel Wilson (administrator Gardner Parker) | Probate #44864 |
Gardner Parker, husband of Wilson's daughter Adeline, petitioned December 11, 1861 that Daniel Wilson had died November 29, 1861 intestate, leaving his widow Mary and children Mary J. Wilkins, Adeline M. Parker, Horace N. Wilson, Daniel A. Wilson (at Rattlesnake Bar, California), Israel N. Wilson (a captain then serving in Virginia), Frances A. Faulkner and Charles H. Wilson; he was appointed administrator at Cambridge December 24, 1861. The license of April 7, 1863 led to the sale of Wilson's third of the Mears Tavern stand.
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| April 6, 1864 | Administrator's Deed | Gardner Parker of Billerica, administrator of the estate of Daniel Wilson | James Faulkner of Billerica | 1863: administrator's sale of the Wilson homestead farm to James Faulkner | 37/357 |
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.
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| April 6, 1864 | Quitclaim | James Faulkner of Billerica (Fanny A. Faulkner releasing dower and homestead) | Gardner Parker of Billerica | 1864: Faulkner deeds the Wilson farm to Gardner Parker | 37/358 |
For $4,000, the same twenty-eight acres "being the homestead farm of the late Daniel Wilson of said Billerica deceased", same bounds, "subject to a right of way over a portion of said premises, and to the dower of Mary Wilson, widow". Faulkner (husband of Wilson's daughter Frances) passed the farm to the administrator Parker (husband of his daughter Adeline) the day after the sale deed was acknowledged. Dated April 5, 1864; recorded April 6, 1864.
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| February 4, 1869 | Quitclaim | Gardner Parker of Billerica (Adeline M. Parker releasing dower and homestead) | Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica | 1869: Parker sells C. P. and Thomas Talbot the 10-acre river end of the Wilson homestead | 65/441 |
A tract "containing ten acres and thirty nine rods" in North Billerica from a bound at the Concord River by a wall and an open passage way, by walls to "the wall at the lane", then to the center of the Concord River and up the river, "being a part of the homestead of the late Daniel Wilson deceased", subject to a mortgage held by James R. Faulkner and a right of way. The river end of the Wilson farm, behind the house lot. Followed on the same page by the widow Mary Wilson's release of dower to the Talbots. Dated January 19, 1869; recorded February 4, 1869.
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| February 4, 1869 | Release of Dower | Mary Wilson of Billerica, widow of Daniel Wilson | Charles P. Talbot and Thomas Talbot | 1869: the widow Mary Wilson releases her dower in the 10 acres | 65/442 |
For $1, Mary Wilson releases to the Talbots "all my right title and interest in and to the premises within described and all my right of or to dower in said premises", the ten acres of the Wilson homestead sold by Gardner Parker (Book 65 Page 441). Recorded February 4, 1869.
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| October 16, 1884 | Guardian's Deed | Harriet Talbot et al., by their guardian | The Talbot Mills, Billerica | 1884: Talbot heirs (by guardian) to The Talbot Mills; Lot 14 is part of the "first parcel" | 169/468 |
Known from the grantee index 1881-1900 (Talbot Mills-Billerica, index page 82): received October 16, 1884, "N Billerica. Several parcels, water rts, mill privileges &c, see record", recorded with the deed of Thomas Talbot et al. (Book 169 Page 472). Book 169 images are unavailable at the registry; not read.
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| October 16, 1884 | Deed | Thomas Talbot et al. | The Talbot Mills, Billerica | 1884: Thomas Talbot et al. to The Talbot Mills; Lot 14 is part of the "first parcel" | 169/472 |
Known from the grantee index 1881-1900 (Talbot Mills-Billerica, index page 82): received October 16, 1884, "N Billerica. Several parcels, water rts, mill privileges &c, see record." Later Talbot Mills deeds cite it with Book 169 Page 468 as the deeds "from the Talbot heirs" to the new corporation (one recites a deed of Thomas Talbot et als. dated Oct. 15, 1884). The registry shows "Image is Unavailable" for Book 169, so the deed itself was not read; that it covered the land of the future Oval, part of the C. P. Talbot and Company property west of Wilson Street on the 1881 plan, is inferred.
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| October 20, 1939 | Quitclaim | The Talbot Mills | John J. Nuttall and Amy I. Nuttall | 1939: The Talbot Mills sells Lot 14 with the double house to John J. and Amy I. Nuttall | 936/46 |
One of the 1939 sales of the mill houses on Wilson Street, made in the same week as the sale of Lot 10 (Book 936 Page 45, October 17, 1939). Lot 14 on Plan "A" of the Talbot Mills village (Plan Book 60 Plan 25), on the southeasterly side of Wilson Street, 91.09 feet on Wilson Street, bounded northeasterly by Lot 13, 16,141 square feet. "Being a part of the first parcel" conveyed to the grantor in 1884 (Book 169 Page 468 and Book 169 Page 472), with the right of way from Wilson Street through Lots 9 to 17 kept open. Lot 14 is now 60-62 Wilson Street; Lot 13, the northeast abutter, is 56-58 Wilson Street.
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| 1955 | Quitclaim | John J. Nuttall and Amy I. Nuttall of Billerica, husband and wife | Private owners, members of the Nuttall family, husband and wife, of Billerica | 1955 family transfer; later private sales 1958, 1963, 1975 and 2024 | 1285/439 |
Signed and acknowledged February 26, 1955 and recorded at the end of February 1955 (the deed runs onto page 440). "The land in said Billerica with the buildings thereon situated on the southeasterly side of Wilson Street", Lot 14 on Plan "A" (Plan Book 60 Plan 25), 16,141 square feet, with the same bounds, "Being the same premises to us conveyed by said Talbot Mills by its deed dated Oct. 20, 1939", and subject to its easements. Later owners were private: a 1958 sale (Book 1413 Page 70), a 1963 sale (Book 1621 Page 249), a 1975 sale for $35,000 (Book 2175 Page 450) to the couple named as owners in the 1983 National Register nomination, and, after the death of one of them in 2021, a 2024 sale for $690,000 to the present owners (Book 38631 Page 38). Each deed repeats the Lot 14 bounds and the 1939 easements.
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| August 2, 2024 | Taking | Town of Billerica, by its Select Board | Town of Billerica (public way easements) | 2024: Wilson Street taken as a public way, with a drainage easement between Lots 14 and 15 | 38664/219 |
Under G.L. c. 79 and the vote of the May 16, 2024 Town Meeting (Article 30) accepting Bancroft, Clinton, Dillworth, Exeter Place, North Rexhame, Rexhame, Shannon, Tirone Path and Wilson Street as public ways, the Select Board took "a permanent easement for all purposes for which public ways are used" over the accepted ways, with a drainage easement between Lots 14 and 15 of the Talbot Mills plan (Plan Book 60, Plan 25). No damages were awarded. Wilson Street, the old passage way along the west side of the tavern lot, thus became a public way. Recorded August 2, 2024 (38 pages).
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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.