William Patten House
William Patten House
| Also Known As | Patten Place |
| Address | 309 Boston Rd |
| Built | 1693 |
| Demolished | 1955 |
| Owners |
William Patten
(1690 - 1730)
Thomas Patten (1731 - 1747) Jeremiah Patten (1801 - 1815) Josiah Crosby II (1819 - 1826) Josiah Stevens (1819 - 1840) |
The William Patten House, long called the "Patten Place," was an early farmhouse on the west side of Boston Road north of the town center, on a farm that ran back from the road to the Concord River. The Patten family held it for well over a century. The house was taken down about 1955, and a commercial building now stands on the lot.
The Pattens were among the first families of Billerica. When Thomas Patten made his will in January 1690 he directed that "my sons William and Kendall shall have their portions out of my homestead." William Patten (1671-1730) married about 1693, was a deacon and the town's representative, "lived near the corner," and died of smallpox at Cambridge in 1730 while the General Court was sitting there. He left no will; in 1731 his brother William, his sisters and their husbands quitclaimed all his Billerica real estate to his son Thomas, who also bought out the widow's dower. When this Thomas Patten, a cooper, died in 1747, his inventory began with "the Home Stead ... with the Buildings thereon standing bounded East & North by the high way west by Concord River," and his administrators paid for new glass, window frames, boards and clapboards "all used about ye house." In 1754 the homestead of about forty-one acres "together with all the buildings" was settled on his eldest son, William Patten (1732-1801), whose will left the residue of his estate, the homestead with it, to his son Deacon Jeremiah Patten.
Jeremiah Patten died without a will in 1815, leaving his widow Hannah and three small daughters; his inventory lists "The Homestead ... containing about 26 Acres with the Buildings thereon." In April 1819 the girls' guardian, Josiah Crosby Jr., sold their father's place at auction: "thirty acres of land ... bounded easterly on Boston road southerly on the widow Hannah Pattens dower westerly on Concord river ... with a dwelling house and barn thereon." One undivided half went to Josiah Stevens, who had kept the Tavern at the Corner, and the other half to the firm of Porter, Stone and Co., which sold its half the same spring to the guardian himself. Stevens mortgaged the place back to the guardian, and in 1826 Crosby assigned him the other half, so that from then on Stevens owned the whole "Patten Place."
Stevens died in 1840, and his administrator sold his interest to George Holden, who sold the "Patten Place" the same spring to George Rice of Boston: two tracts of twenty-eight acres "with all the buildings," already cut in two by "the new public highway," the new line of Boston Road. Rice sold in 1842 to William D. Mason, who built his own William D. Mason House across the new road, and in 1847 Mason sold the old house with five acres on the south-west side of the Boston and Lowell road to Luther W. Faulkner of Faulkner Mills, agreeing that the old road "in front of the house on said premises" would stay open. The 1853 map shows "L. Faulkner" here. Faulkner sold in 1853 to Sewall Worthley, who sold to Rufus K. Underhill in 1861. Underhill sold in 1873 to Seth H. Kendall of Boston ("Dr. S. Kendell" on the 1875 map), taking back a mortgage. When Kendall defaulted, Underhill sold the place at auction on the premises in August 1888: "a certain parcel of real estate with the buildings thereon ... containing five acres." The buyer, for $1,710, was Leonard Blood; the 1918 map still marks the house "Leonard Blood."
Blood died in 1921 and left the place by will to Prescott L. Pasho, who in 1926 put it in his own and his wife Ida's names. Ida F. Pasho sold it in 1928 to Edward H. and Maud McDermott, who sold in 1945 to James W. Quinn; it passed the same year to Estelle M. Barber and in 1947 to Alfred C. and Ruth E. Woodward, each deed still describing the old five acres "with the buildings thereon." In 1949 the Woodwards divided the lot and sold the road end, Lot A of a new plan, and in 1958 Lot A was bought by Litchfield Realty Company. The old house is said to have been taken down about 1955. In 1958 a lot of 25,054 square feet on the south-west side of Boston Road, bounded by a brook, was laid out on a new plan; the building now at 309 Boston Road dates from about 1960, and the lot has since been sold several times to private owners and trusts, most recently in 2024 to J M A Properties LLC.
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| 1690 | Will | Thomas Patten of Billerica | His widow Sarah (half the dwelling house for her widowhood); sons William and Kendall (their portions out of the homestead); eldest son Thomas and son Nathaniel (other lands) | Thomas Patten wills portions of his homestead to William and Kendall | Probate #17030 |
Will dated Jan. 14, 1689/90, inventory Mar. 10, 1689/90, exhibited Apr. 15, 1690. Thomas Patten gives his wife Sarah half his dwelling house and barn with the orchard for her widowhood, and directs that "my sons William and Kendall shall have their portions out of my homestead with suitable meadow to it," William to stay with his mother until he is twenty-one; his eldest son Thomas takes the second-division lot and meadows, Nathaniel the land at Loes Plain. The inventory begins "the house barn & orchard, about one acre of land," with seven acres behind Samuel Frosts house, and lists a quarter part of a saw mill. Hazen places Thomas Pattens house west of Long Street and his son Deacon William "near the corner"; that Williams homestead grew out of this portion is the most likely reading but is not stated in any deed. Papers read, pages 1-4.
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| 1730 | Administration | Estate of Deacon William Patten of Billerica, intestate (died at Cambridge, 1730) | Thomas Patten, administrator; the widow Elizabeth and the children | Estate of Deacon William Patten | Probate #17041 |
Deacon William Patten, the towns representative, died of smallpox at Cambridge in April 1730 while the General Court sat there. His son Thomas Patten administered; the personal inventory was taken Dec. 25, 1730. The account of 1731-32 charges "the improvement of the Real Estate one year" and a payment to "Eliz. Patten, the widow of ye deced for quitclaiming her Right of Dower in said Estate it being an agreement made between ye widow & the heirs being all of age," 106 pounds. Papers read, pages 2-9.
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| December 13, 1731 | Heirs Quitclaim | William Patten, Mary Patten, Jacob and Rebecca Danforth, Mehetabel Patten, of Billerica, and Jacob and Sarah Taylor and Joseph and Elizabeth Taylor, of Concord (heirs of Deacon William Patten) | Thomas Patten of Billerica, their brother | Heirs quitclaim the Patten homestead to Thomas Patten | 32/181 (South) |
Dated Dec. 8, acknowledged Dec. 10, recorded Dec. 13, 1731. For 130 pounds to each, the brothers and sisters quitclaim to "our Brother Thomas Patten of Billerica" all their right in "the Estate Real both of Lands and Tenements of Deacon William Patten late of Billerica Decd which he died seized of lying ... within the Limits of the Town of said Billerica." Witnesses Rebekah Farley and Thomas Kidder. With the widows dower bought out the same year (Middlesex South 32/439), Thomas held the whole Patten homestead. Billerica town book 3, pages 298-299.
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| 1747 | Administration and Division | Estate of Thomas Patten of Billerica, cooper, intestate | William Patten, eldest son (the homestead); Thomas Patten, second son (18 acres); the widow Hannah (later Hannah Stickney) and the other children | Thomas Patten estate: homestead with buildings to son William, 1754 | Probate #17031 |
Thomas Patten died in 1747; Jeremiah Abbot, then the widow Hannah, administered. The inventory of Oct. 28, 1747 begins with "the Home Stead About Twenty Seven acres & three quarters with the Buildings thereon standing bounded East & North by the high way west by Concord River & South by the land of Oliver Farmer," 1,100 pounds old tenor, with 18 acres near it by Ensign Sheds land, also running to the river. The accounts of 1749 pay for 132 squares of glass, window frames, boards and clapboards "all used about ye house." The real estate inventory of Feb. 4, 1754 describes "the Homestead Containing about forty one acres Bounded East and north on the Road that leads from Billerica to Chelmsford, west on Concord River, South on the Land of Oliver Farmer ... Together with all the buildings," and the committee settled it on William, the eldest son, the 18 acres north of "the Bridge Lane" going to the second son Thomas. Papers read, pages 2-17.
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| 1801 | Will | William Patten of Billerica, yeoman | Jeremiah Patten, his son (the residue, including the homestead), executor; the widow Rebecca (dower) | William Patten wills the homestead to Jeremiah | Probate #17043 |
Will dated Apr. 3, 1800, proved in 1801 with the assent of the widow Rebecca and the heirs (Aug. 4, 1801). After legacies to his sons William, Josiah, Jonathan, Thomas and David and his daughters, William Patten gives "all the rest of my estate, both real and personal" to his son Jeremiah, sole executor, and his desk as well. Witnesses Henry Cumings, Edward Farmer and Timothy Foster. Papers read, pages 2-5.
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| 1815 | Administration | Estate of Deacon Jeremiah Patten of Billerica, intestate | Joseph Locke, administrator; Hannah Patten, widow (dower); daughters Abigail, Julia Ann and Hannah | Jeremiah Patten estate: homestead of 26 acres with buildings | Probate #17001 |
Jeremiah Patten died intestate early in 1815; his widow Hannah declined and Joseph Locke was appointed administrator Feb. 28, 1815. The inventory of Apr. 13, 1815 begins with "The Homestead of said deceased situated in said Billerica containing about 26 Acres with the Buildings thereon," $1,850, followed by the Whiting place with buildings, the Foster, Spaulding and Pollard lots, Gilson Hill and shares of the Rogers lot, Dean field and Barrot field; the widow petitioned for her dower in October 1815. Papers read, pages 2-9 and 12-15.
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| June 14, 1819 | Guardian's Deed | Josiah Crosby Jr., guardian of Abigail, Julia Ann and Hannah Patten, minor heirs of Jeremiah Patten | Josiah Stevens (one half); Joseph S. Porter, John P. Stone and Samuel S. Reynolds, Porter, Stone and Co. (one half) | Patten place, 30 acres with dwelling house and barn, sold by the guardian of Jeremiah Patten's daughters | 229/393 (South) |
Josiah Crosby Jr. of Billerica, Esquire, "guardian of Abigail Patten Julia Ann Patten and Hannah Patten minor heirs of Jeremiah Patten late of said Billerica yeoman deceased intestate," licensed by the Supreme Judicial Court at Concord in March 1819, sold at public vendue on April 24, 1819 "one undivided half of the following tract of land being part of the real estate of said deceased to Josiah Stevens of said Billerica gentleman and the other undivided half to Joseph S. Porter John P. Stone and Samuel S. Reynolds copartners in business under the firm of Porter Stone and Co.," for $1,400: "thirty acres of land be the same more or less situated in said Billerica bounded easterly on Boston road southerly on the widow Hannah Pattens dower westerly on Concord river and northerly on land of Samuel Bowers in part and partly on land of Rebecca Wier with a dwelling house and barn thereon." Dated April 25, 1819. Billerica town book 12, pages 155-157.
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| 1819 | Warranty | Joseph S. Porter, John P. Stone and Samuel S. Reynolds (Porter, Stone and Co.) | Josiah Crosby Jr. | Porter, Stone and Co. resell their half to Josiah Crosby Jr. | 229/405 (South) |
Porter, Stone and Co. sold to Josiah Crosby Jr. of Billerica, Esquire, for $700 "one undivided half of thirty acres of land situated in said Billerica," bounded easterly on Boston road, southerly on the widow Hannah Patten's dower, westerly on Concord river and northerly by Samuel Bowers and Rebecca Wier, "with a dwelling house and barn thereon," the half they had just bought at the guardian's auction. Billerica town book 12, page 157 and following.
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| October 8, 1819 | Mortgage | Josiah Stevens of Billerica, gentleman | Josiah Crosby Jr. of Billerica, Esquire, guardian | Josiah Stevens mortgages the Patten place | 231/94 (South) |
Dated Apr. 25, 1819, acknowledged Aug. 23, recorded Oct. 8, 1819. To secure $630 in five yearly payments of $126, Stevens mortgages the whole "thirty acres ... bounded easterly on Boston road southerly on the widow Hannah Pattens dower westerly on Concord river and northerly on land of Samuel Bowers in part and partly on land of Rebecca Wier with a dwelling house and barn thereon." The margin notes its assignment to Hannah Patten and its release by her executor (Middlesex South 305/299). Billerica town book 13, pages 122-123.
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| June 24, 1831 | Assignments of Mortgage | Josiah Crosby, Esquire (and in 1829 Joseph Locke, executor of Hannah Patten) | Josiah Stevens of Billerica, gentleman (and Hannah Patten, widow) | Stevens gets the other half; mortgage released | 305/299 (South) |
Two instruments recorded together on June 24, 1831. On Mar. 10, 1826 Josiah Crosby, for $700, assigned to Josiah Stevens "all my right title and interest ... in and unto the within deed of mortgage & all interest in the premises within to me conveyed," that is, the undivided half he had bought from Porter, Stone and Co. in 1819; the same day he assigned Stevenss own 1819 mortgage to the widow Hannah Patten for $600, and on Mar. 21, 1829 her executor Joseph Locke released and discharged it to Stevens for $120.83. From 1826 Josiah Stevens held the whole thirty acre Patten place. Billerica town book 14, pages 418-419.
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| 1840 | Administration | Estate of Josiah Stevens of Billerica, intestate | Marshall Preston, administrator; Abigail Stevens, widow, and the children | Estate of Josiah Stevens | Probate #42319 |
Josiah Stevens died intestate about January 1840; his widow Abigail and children John and Judith F. declined, and Marshall Preston was appointed administrator Feb. 11, 1840, and licensed in April 1840 to sell real estate to pay $7,338.16 of debts. Papers read, pages 2-5.
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| June 2, 1840 | Administrators Deed (equity of redemption) | Marshall Preston, administrator of Josiah Stevens | George Holden of Billerica, gentleman | Administrator sells the Patten Place to George Holden | 394/25 (South) |
Sold at auction May 18, 1840, acknowledged May 26 and recorded June 2, 1840. For $5, "the right in equity to redeem" two mortgaged parcels of the Stevens estate: "The Parker Place so called and the Patten Place so called adjoining both containing thirty nine acres," beginning at the south-east corner of the Patten Place at the great Boston road and land of Benjamin Spaulding, west by Spaulding to the Concord River, north-east by the river to the deceaseds Mann Place, north by the Mann Place to the road from the Corner Bridge to Salem, and back by Forbush, Davis, the Wier Place and the Boston road, excepting the public highway through it; with the Farmer Place and Whites lot, 60 acres. Billerica town book 16, pages 377-379.
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| June 3, 1840 | Warranty | George Holden of Billerica, gentleman | George Rice of Boston, grocer | Holden sells the Patten Place to George Rice | 394/54 (South) |
Dated May 18, acknowledged in Suffolk and recorded June 3, 1840. For $1,700, "a certain farm situate in said Billerica late the property of Josiah Stevens decd called his Patten Place consisting of two several tracts of land": the first from the great Boston road at Benjamin Spauldings corner west by Spaulding to the Concord River, north-east by the river to Stevenss "Parker Place," east to "the new public highway" and south by it to the start; the second east of the new highway, from "the fork of the roads" to the Parker Place and the Weir Place; "with all the buildings on the above premises standing, both tracts containing twenty eight acres." The new line of the Boston road had already cut the place in two, and the house stood on the river side. Rice mortgaged it back for $1,700 the same day (discharged 1847). Billerica town book 16, pages 384-387.
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| 1842 | Quitclaim | George Rice of Boston, merchant | William D. Mason of Newton, machinist | Rice sells the Patten Place to William D. Mason | 414/316 (South) |
For $1,725, "a certain farm situated in Billerica ... late the property of Josiah Stevens deceased called his Patten Place consisting of two several tracts of land," bounded as in the 1840 deed from the great Boston road at Benjamin Spauldings land to the Concord River and on both sides of the new highway. Billerica town book 17, pages 273-274.
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| November 29, 1848 | Warranty | William D. Mason of Billerica, yeoman, and Mary Ann Mason (dower) | Luther W. Faulkner of Billerica, manufacturer | Mason sells the house and five acres to Luther W. Faulkner | 547/357 (South) |
Dated May 14, 1847, recorded Nov. 29, 1848. For $1,500, "a certain parcel of real estate with a dwelling house thereon situate in said Billerica containing five acres," beginning at the north-west corner "at the Boston and Lowell road at a stake and stones," south 22 degrees east by the road 15 rods 13 1/2 links, south 2 2/3 degrees east 8 rods 8 links, south 8 1/3 degrees east 6 rods 10 links to Benjamin Spaulding, north 82 degrees west 51 rods 16 links, then by Masons own land north 8 degrees east 2 rods 5 links and north 65 degrees east 49 rods 3 links to the start. Mason agrees that "the piece of common road now open and unobstructed in front of the house on said premises" shall remain open forever. This five acre lot with the old house, cut from the west side of the Patten Place, is the lot of every later deed. Billerica town book 20, pages 188-189.
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| May 2, 1855 | Warranty | Luther W. Faulkner of Billerica, manufacturer, and Martha M. Faulkner (dower) | Sewall Worthley | Faulkner sells to Sewall Worthley | 708/89 (South) |
Dated and acknowledged May 10, 1853 before Amos Spalding, recorded May 2, 1855. For $1,800, "a certain parcel of Real Estate with a dwelling house and barn thereon, situate in said Billerica containing five acres," with the same courses from the Boston and Lowell road to Benjamin Spaldings land and back by William D. Masons. Witnesses Amos Spalding and William D. Mason. Billerica town book 20, pages 601-602.
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| June 3, 1861 | Warranty | Sewall Worthley of Billerica, yeoman | Rufus K. Underhill of Billerica | Worthley sells to Rufus K. Underhill | 28/17 |
Dated and acknowledged June 1, 1861 before E. A. Alger, recorded June 3, 1861. For $1,775, "a certain parcel of real estate with the buildings thereon, situate in said Billerica, containing five acres," the same courses from the Boston and Lowell road, with the agreement for the common land "in front of the house on said premises" as set out in Masons deed of May 14, 1847 (Book 547 Page 357). Underhill mortgaged it back to Worthley for $775 the same day. Middlesex North book 28, pages 17-18.
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| May 22, 1873 | Warranty | Rufus K. Underhill of Billerica and Eluthera D. Underhill (dower and homestead) | Seth H. Kendall of Boston | Underhill sells to Seth H. Kendall | 93/391 |
Dated and acknowledged May 11, 1873 before Dudley Foster, recorded May 22, 1873. For $3,500, "a certain parcel of real estate, with the buildings thereon, situate in said Billerica, containing five acres," the same courses to "land formerly of Benj. Spalding" and back by "land formerly of Wm. D. Mason," "Being premises conveyed to me by Sewall Worthley, deed dated June 1st 1861 ... Book 28 Page 17." Kendall mortgaged the place back to Underhill for $2,500 the same day (Book 93 Page 392), the mortgage foreclosed in 1888. Middlesex North book 93, pages 391-392.
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| August 28, 1888 | Mortgagee's Deed | Rufus K. Underhill, mortgagee of Seth H. Kendall | Leonard Blood of Boston | Five acres with buildings to Leonard Blood at the mortgagee's sale | 199/368 |
Seth H. Kendall of Boston had mortgaged the place to Rufus K. Underhill on May 11, 1873 (Book 93 Page 392). On his default Underhill advertised it in the Lowell Weekly Journal and sold it at auction on the premises on Aug. 25, 1888, conveying to Leonard Blood of Boston for $1,710 "a certain parcel of real estate with the buildings thereon situated in Billerica ... containing five acres," beginning "at the southwesterly corner of the premises at the Boston and Lowell road at a stake and stones," running by the road, then to "land formerly of Benj. Spalding," north-west about 51 rods, and back by "land formerly of Wm. D. Mason" to the beginning. Blood, a Civil War veteran who had been at Gettysburg, gave Underhill a new mortgage the same day. Dated Aug. 28, 1888.
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| August 5, 1926 | Quitclaim | Prescott L. Pasho and Ida F. Pasho | Leon R. Pasho | Blood place held by Prescott L. Pasho under Blood's will | 739/361 |
Prescott L. Pasho of Billerica conveyed to Leon R. Pasho "all the property in said Billerica more particularly described in a deed from Rufus K. Underhill to Leonard Blood under power in Power-of-Sale Mortgage dated ... August 28, 1888" (Book 199 Pages 368-369), with land Blood had bought from William H. Sexton in 1897 (Book 285 Page 190) and from Albert H. Jones in 1903 (Book 361 Page 300), "being the same premises which came to me under the will of said Leonard Blood duly allowed on November eighth nineteen hundred twenty-one," and a lot bought from Jones in 1923 (Book 706 Page 347). The same day Leon R. Pasho reconveyed the whole to Prescott L. and Ida F. Pasho as tenants by the entirety (Book 739 Page 362).
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| July 21, 1928 | Quitclaim | Ida F. Pasho of Billerica, widow | Edward H. McDermott and Maud McDermott of Billerica, husband and wife | Ida F. Pasho sells to the McDermotts | 765/404 |
Dated July 19, recorded July 21, 1928. Four parcels, the first "The land in said Billerica with the buildings thereon," beginning "at a stake and stones on the southwesterly side of the Boston and Lowell Road," with the old five acre courses to "land formerly of Benjamin Spaulding" and back by "land formerly of William D. Mason," "being the same premises conveyed to Leonard Blood by Rufus K. Underhill by deed under power in power of sale mortgage dated August 28, 1888 ... Book 199, Page 368"; the others were Leonard Bloods lots on the old Salem Road by the burying ground. Middlesex North book 765, pages 404-405.
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| April 27, 1945 | Quitclaim | Edward H. McDermott and Maud McDermott of Billerica | James W. Quinn of Arlington | McDermotts sell to James W. Quinn | 1022/79 |
Dated and recorded Apr. 27, 1945. The same four parcels, the first "The land in said Billerica with the buildings thereon" on the south-west side of the Boston and Lowell Road, five acres, "Intending hereby to convey ... all the same premises conveyed to us by Ida F. Pasho by her Deed dated July 19, 1928 ... Book 765, Page 404." Middlesex North book 1022, pages 79-80.
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| August 1, 1945 | Quitclaim | James W. Quinn of Arlington (May E. Quinn releasing dower and homestead) | Estelle M. Barber of Lexington | Quinn sells to Estelle M. Barber | 1027/142 |
Dated July 31, recorded Aug. 1, 1945. "The land in Billerica ... with the buildings thereon," the five acres on the south-west side of the Boston and Lowell Road, "Being part of the premises conveyed to me by deed of Edward H. McDermott, et ux., dated April 27, 1945 ... Book 1022, Page 79." Middlesex North book 1027, pages 142-143.
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| September 9, 1947 | Quitclaim | Estelle M. Barber of Lexington (Raymond J. Barber releasing curtesy) | Alfred C. Woodward Jr. and Ruth E. Woodward of Arlington, husband and wife | Barber sells to the Woodwards | 1076/529 |
Dated Aug. 21, acknowledged Sept. 8, recorded Sept. 9, 1947. "The land with the buildings thereon in Billerica," the same five acres, "Being the same premises conveyed to me by James W. Quinn by deed dated July 31, 1945 ... Book 1027, Page 142," subject to the county highway takings recorded in Book 597 Page 197 and Book 623 Page 99. The Woodwards mortgaged it to the Lexington Co-operative Bank the same day. Middlesex North book 1076, pages 529-530.
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| June 7, 1949 | Quitclaim | Alfred C. Woodward Jr. and Ruth E. Woodward of Billerica | Anthony A. Leonardo of Boston | Lot A (road end of the five acres) sold | 1116/182 |
Dated, acknowledged and recorded June 7, 1949. "The land with the buildings thereon," shown as Lot A on "Plan of Land in Billerica, Mass." dated Mar. 19, 1949 by Albert A. Miller and Wilbur C. Nylander (Plan Book 75, Plan 54): easterly by Boston Road 191.60 and 56.53 feet, southerly by the middle of a brook as shown on the plan by two lines of 222.11 and 575.91 feet, north-westerly by land now or formerly of Mason 787 feet, about 2.4 acres, "Being part of the premises conveyed to us by Estelle M. Barber by deed dated August 27, 1947 ... Book 1076, Page 529." The rest of the five acres became Lot B. Middlesex North book 1116, pages 182-183.
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| December 31, 1958 | Warranty | Private owners (the 1949 buyer of Lot A and his wife) | Leon J. Litchfield and Marion E. Litchfield, trustees of Litchfield Realty Company | Lot A to Litchfield Realty Company | 1402/324 |
Recorded 1958. "A certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon situated in Billerica ... on Boston Road," Lot A on the 1949 plan (Plan Book 75, Plan 54), 2.4 acres, north-easterly by Boston Road 56.53 and 191.60 feet, north-westerly by land of Mason 787 feet and southerly by Lot B, subject to the county takings in Book 597 Page 197 and Book 623 Page 99, "Being the same premises conveyed ... by deed of Alfred C. Woodward Jr. et ux dated June 7, 1949 ... Book 1116 Page 182." The old Patten house is said to have been taken down about 1955; in May 1958 Litchfield Realty had the south-east part of the lot, 25,054 square feet on the brook, laid out on a new plan (Plan Book 90, Plan 25). Middlesex North book 1402, page 324.
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| May 31, 2024 | Quitclaim | Private owners (a family realty trust) | J M A Properties LLC | Lot of the 1958 plan, site given for the old house | 38520/247 |
For $975,000, "a certain parcel of land, with the buildings thereon ... situated on the Southwesterly side of Boston Road," shown on "Plan of Land in Billerica, Mass. May 14, 1958, Albert A. Miller, Wilbur C. Nylander" (Plan Book 90 Plan 25), bounded by Boston Road in two courses (56.53 and 124.34 feet), by "land now or formerly of Litchfield Realty Co." on two sides, and "Southeasterly by the middle line of a brook," 25,054 square feet. The lot passed from Leon J. Litchfield to private owners in 1973 (Book 2092 Page 695), to a family trust in 1977 (Book 2238 Page 689), to a realty trust in 1979 for $150,000 (Book 2393 Page 372) and to another realty trust in 1984 for $225,000 (Book 2699 Page 362), which sold it to J M A Properties LLC in 2024.
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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.