Jaquith Glue Factory
Jaquith Glue Factory
| Address | 157 Concord Rd |
| Built | 1867 |
| Demolished | 1956 |
| Owners | Joseph Jaquith (1867 - 1909) |
The Jaquith Glue Factory stood north of Concord Road in South Billerica, just east of the old line of the Middlesex Turnpike, on a lot of 1.87 acres reached by a twenty-foot lane from the road. A brook (called Sucker brook in 1934) ran past it to the Concord River; a dam in the brook gave the works water power, and a sewer carried its waste down the brook to the river. Hazen wrote in 1883 of "an extensive glue factory, which was commenced in 1867 by the Jaquith Brothers, near the old bridge of the Middlesex Turnpike," doing a business of nearly $15,000 a year. The site is now part of the Cabot Corporation property at 157 Concord Road.
The land was part of the old Farley homestead, which Ebenezer Farley gave in 1728 to his daughter Hannah and her husband Abraham Jaquith (see the Abraham Jaquith House). Abraham sold half of it, "being the Land of my late Father Farley," to his son Joseph Jaquith in 1775 and confirmed the sale in 1776; Joseph in turn sold half to his own son Joseph in 1794 and left him the rest by will in 1827. When the younger Joseph died in 1829, his widow Susanna was given as dower thirty-one acres of "the Old farm," bounded by the turnpike, the land of her sister-in-law Abigail Jaquith, "the Brook" and the river. At the administrator's sale the farm and the reversion of the widow's dower went to Merrick Jaquith, who in June 1830 sold the whole homestead, running "Northerly in said brook to Concord River," to his brother Franklin Jaquith, innholder, for $2,500. Abigail Jaquith left Franklin her wood lot by the brook in 1844.
Franklin Jaquith (1800-1876) kept the land until his death. His sons Franklin Jr. and Joseph Jaquith began the glue works in 1867, and when their mother Lucy sold them the farm in 1877 the deeds already describe the corner of the old field "near the Glue house." The brothers held the land together until October 30, 1909, when they divided it: Franklin released his share to Joseph, Joseph sold the factory lot to Herbert A. Lamprell, "commonly called the Glue Factory, with the boilers, engines, gearing, drums and shafts therein," with the dam and sewer rights in the brook, and Joseph deeded the western strip by the turnpike back to Franklin. The lot is Lot 1 on the plan of "F. & J. Jaquith" made that month by O. M. Snell.
Lamprell passed the factory the same day to H. A. Lamprell Co., a New York corporation, which sold it in 1914 to Thomas W. Dunn of Brooklyn. In 1916 Dunn sold it to the Billerica Glue Company, a Massachusetts corporation, which in 1934 bought the surrounding 16 acres from Anna Jaquith, together with the right to bring a water pipe from the town main in Concord Road to "the Glue Factory and buildings connected therewith." In 1947 the town rezoned the company's 18 acres for industry. The factory buildings were taken down under a demolition permit in 1956, and in May 1958 the Billerica Glue Company sold its land to Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., which merged into Cabot Corporation in 1960. Cabot has since added the neighbouring Jaquith and Casey land, including the Abraham Jaquith House lot, and built new buildings on the site in the 1990s.
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| Date | Type | Grantor | Grantee | Summary | Recorded |
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| August 24, 1728 | Gift | Ebenezer Farley and Elizabeth Farley | Abraham Jaquith Jr. of Woburn and Hannah Jaquith | Farley gift of the 50 A homestead to Abraham and Hannah Jaquith, 1728 | 27/265 (South) |
Deed of gift for love of "my Daughter Hannah Jaquith the wife of Abraham Jaquith Junr of Woburn": "my homested or house Lott containing about fifty acres" of orchard, pasture, plow land and mowing, as her full portion, bounded southerly by Benjamin Shed and Samuel Hill Jr. and partly by Concord Road, westerly by Samuel Hill and partly by Concord River, northerly by Nathan Shed and partly by Oliver Whiting Sr., easterly by Oliver Whiting, "with all the Buildings and fences thereon standing," but not to be possessed until after Ebenezer's death. Signed April 2, 1728; recorded Aug. 24, 1728. Billerica town book 3, pages 105-106.
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| November 21, 1776 | Deed | Abraham Jaquith of Billerica, yeoman | His son Joseph Jaquith of Billerica, yeoman | Abraham Jaquith to his son Joseph, half the homestead, 1775 | 77/228 (South) |
Billerica town book 7, pages 120-121. For 266 pounds 13 shillings 4 pence, "one full half part of my Homestead with one half of the Buildings thereon standing both in Quantity and Quality being the Land of my late Father Farley deceas'd," about fifty acres, bounded south by Benjamin Shed's land and partly by the road, west by Ebenezer French and partly by Concord River, north by Josiah Brown and Lt. John Parker, east by Solomon Pollard, "including the seven acres and a half which I bought of Oliver Whiting & two acres which I bought of Saml. Kidder." Dated Oct. 2, 1775, acknowledged Oct. 8, 1776, recorded Nov. 21, 1776.
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| December 16, 1785 | Deed | Abraham Jaquith of Billerica, yeoman | His son Joseph Jaquith of Billerica, yeoman | the same half re-executed with Pond meadow, 1776 | 92/56 (South) |
Billerica town book 7, pages 551-552. The same grant re-executed Oct. 2, 1776, "in the first year of American Independance": for the same price, "one full half part of my Homestead with one half of the Buildings," about fifty acres, "being the land of my late Father Farley," with the same bounds, and seven acres in Pond meadow by Lt. Jacob Richardson, Deacon Hill and the Needhams. Witnessed by Joshua Abbot and Jonathan Gray, acknowledged before Edward Farmer, recorded Dec. 16, 1785.
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| March 1, 1799 | Deed | Joseph Jaquith of Billerica, yeoman | His son Joseph Jaquith Jr. of Billerica | Joseph Jaquith to Joseph Jr., half the homestead, 1794 | 131/279 (South) |
Billerica town book 9, pages 403-404. For 250 pounds, "one moiety or half part both in quantity & quality of my lands and buildings lying in said Billerica called my homestead containing about fifty acres," from the road from Billerica to Bedford "near the burying place" by land of Jesse French, westerly by the road to Lt. John Kidder, northerly by Kidder and Concord river to Lt. Jacob Richardson, easterly by him and Lt. John Parker, and back by Jesse French; with seven acres of Pond meadow; each owner of the house to share the cellar, chamber and garret stairs, the well and the door yard. Dated May 8, 1794, recorded Mar. 1, 1799.
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| 1827 | Will | Joseph Jaquith of Billerica, yeoman (d. Mar. 7, 1827) | His son Joseph Jaquith, executor and devisee | will of Joseph Jaquith, the lands to Joseph Jr., 1827 | Probate #12503 |
Will of June 16, 1818 with a codicil of May 1, 1824, approved June 1827. His wife to have the improvement of "my half of the homestead" for life; $260 each to his daughters Elizabeth French and Judith Abbott; to his daughter Abigail, "in addition to what I have given her by deed," cellar and barn room, firewood and half his pew; and to his son Joseph, sole executor, "all my lands wherever situated with my part of all the buildings." With the half bought in 1794 this gave Joseph Jr. the whole homestead.
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| 1830 | Administration, Dower and Sale | Estate of Joseph Jaquith Jr. of Billerica, yeoman (d. Apr. 1829), Franklin Jaquith administrator | Susanna Jaquith, widow (dower); Merrick Jaquith and others (buyers) | Joseph Jaquith Jr. estate: dower in the old farm by the brook and river; sales, 1829-30 | Probate #12504 |
Joseph Jaquith died intestate in April 1829; his eldest son Franklin was appointed administrator Apr. 14, 1829. The inventory lists "The Homestead, 20 acres with the buildings" and "The old farm with the buildings thereunto belonging." On Apr. 26, 1830 the committee set off to the widow Susanna "A part of the Old Farm containing by estimation thirty one Acres more or less in sundry lots with all the Buildings thereon," from the Middlesex Turnpike by Abigail Jaquith's land "to a Stake and Stones at the Brook, thence Northerly by said Brook to Concord River," along the river to Francis Richardson, by the side hill and the Whiting and Stony pastures to the road to Bedford "in front of the House." Under a license to sell, the homestead and "the right of equity of widows dower" were sold to Merrick Jaquith in 1830.
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| June 30, 1830 | Quitclaim | Merrick Jaquith of Bedford, yeoman (wife Pamelia releasing dower) | His brother Franklin Jaquith of Billerica, innholder | Merrick Jaquith to Franklin Jaquith, the homestead to the river, 1830 | 298/378 (South) |
Billerica town book 14, pages 324-326. For $2,500, the twenty-acre farm with the buildings east of the Bedford road, crossed by the Middlesex Turnpike, and "one other parcel of land called the homestead," from the swamp by the road from Concord to Billerica "opposite the Graveyard," along the road and across the turnpike to Dorcas Bridge and Joseph Hill, by Abigail Jaquith's land, "Easterly of said Abagail's wood Lot to the brook, thence Northerly in said brook to Concord River, thence Easterly on said river to land of Asa Richardson," by the old field and the Whiting pasture to Col. John Parker and back to the road, "reserving the right which said Abagail Jaquith has in the buildings"; with five acres of Pond meadow and half pew 23. Dated June 28, recorded June 30, 1830.
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| 1844 | Will | Abigail Jaquith of Billerica (d. Oct. 8, 1844) | Her nephew Franklin Jaquith and others | will of Abigail Jaquith, the wood lot by the brook to Franklin, 1844 | Probate #35187 |
Will of Abigail Jaquith, daughter of Joseph Jaquith (1745-1827): to Franklin Jaquith "a piece of woodland lying about a mile and a quarter from the orthodox Meeting House in Billerica, the boundaries of which are specified in the deed," her wood lot beside the brook and the old farm, and a piece of river meadow of about eight acres; the notes she held against him to be given up; small legacies to Caroline J. Parker, Louisa Jaquith and the orthodox Congregational society.
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| December 11, 1877 | Quitclaim (heirs) | Lucy Jaquith, widow of Franklin Jaquith, with the heirs Abigail Jaquith, Albinia J. Peirce, Mary F. Foster and Harriette W. Drew | Franklin Jaquith Jr. and Joseph Jaquith of Billerica, tenants in common | heirs of Franklin Jaquith release 12 A "near the Glue house" to Franklin Jr. and Joseph, 1877 | 127/10 |
Dated Apr. 1, recorded Dec. 11, 1877. For one dollar each, "a certain lot or parcel of land ... containing twelve acres more or less," from the northwest corner of the Run at Thomas Elliott's land, by Elliott and other Jaquith land "to the brook, thence by the brook to Concord River," along the river to F. Dickinson, by Dickinson to the side hill lot, then "along said side hill lot to the corner of Hind Pasture so called, near the Glue house," and back by the calf pasture and the Run; "Being a part of the property of which the late Franklin Jaquith died seized."
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| December 11, 1877 | Warranty Deed | Lucy Jaquith, widow of the late Franklin Jaquith (the other heirs releasing) | Franklin Jaquith Jr. and Joseph Jaquith of Billerica, tenants in common | widow Lucy Jaquith sells the farm to Franklin Jr. and Joseph, 1877 | 127/11 |
Dated Apr. 1, recorded Dec. 11, 1877. For $1,375, three parcels "the property of the late Franklin Jaquith of Billerica, who died in 1876": the farm north of the Bedford road from the Great Pasture lot to Thomas McElligott's land, by the thicket lot and the old field "to the corner of the side hill lot, thence northerly to the corner of the old field near the glue house," by F. Dickinson and the Whiting pasture and back; five acres in Pond meadow once set off to Susanna Jaquith for dower; and eight acres west of the river "bequeathed by Abigail Jaquith to Franklin Jaquith."
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| December 11, 1877 | Mortgage | Franklin Jaquith Jr. and Joseph Jaquith of Billerica | Lucy Jaquith, widow of Franklin Jaquith | mortgage back to Lucy Jaquith, 1877 | 127/13 |
Purchase-money mortgage of the same three parcels to secure $1,375, recorded with the deed Dec. 11, 1877; the first parcel again runs "northerly to the corner of the Old field near the Glue house." Discharged in the margin "having received full payment and satisfaction."
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| October 30, 1909 | Quitclaim | Franklin Jaquith of Billerica (wife Susan H. P. Jaquith releasing) | His brother Joseph Jaquith of Billerica | Franklin releases the common land to Joseph, 1909 | 441/126 |
Dated and recorded Oct. 30, 1909, the first of four deeds recorded together that day. For one dollar, all his right in the premises "with the buildings thereon" on the northerly side of Concord road, from the southeast corner of Thomas McElligott's land northerly by walls to the Concord river, easterly along the river to land "supposed to belong to one Edward F. Dickinson," by Dickinson's walls by various courses, then along other land of Joseph Jaquith back to the road: the brothers' common land north of the road.
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| October 30, 1909 | Warranty Deed | Joseph Jaquith of Billerica (wife Annah M. Jaquith releasing) | Herbert A. Lamprell of Billerica | Joseph Jaquith sells "the Glue Factory" to Herbert A. Lamprell, 1909 | 441/128 |
Dated and recorded Oct. 30, 1909. For one dollar and other consideration, "a certain lot or parcel of land in said Billerica, with the buildings thereon, commonly called the Glue Factory, with the boilers, engines, gearing, drums and shafts therein belonging, with all the fixtures in and about the said factory," on the southeasterly side of a 20-foot right of way from the north side of Concord road, 1.87 acres, Lot 1 on "Plan of Land in Billerica, Mass. belonging to F. & J. Jaquith, October, 1909, O. M. Snell, C.E." (Plan Book 27, Plan 27); with the right to keep the dam "in the brook on premises belonging to me easterly," to flow the water back and repair the pipes, and "to lay down and construct a sewer along said brook from the factory to the Concord River"; the way begins on Concord road "twenty-three feet distant from the stone wall which is along the easterly line of the old Middlesex turnpike."
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| October 30, 1909 | Quitclaim | Joseph Jaquith of Billerica | His brother Franklin Jaquith of Billerica | Joseph returns the strip by the turnpike to Franklin, 1909 | 441/130 |
Dated and recorded Oct. 30, 1909. The western part of the brothers' land: from a stone bound on the north line of Concord road 224.6 feet east of the easterly line of the Old Middlesex turnpike, northerly by courses to the centre of the right of way and N 25 W 568.3 feet to the Concord river, westerly by the river to Thomas McElligott and back to the road, "Being part of the premises described in deed of said Franklin Jaquith to me of even date," subject to the right of way in "my deed to Herbert A. Lamprell of even date"; with 14,568 square feet on the south side of the river at Edward F. Dickinson's corner and his interest in Pond Meadow.
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| October 30, 1909 | Warranty Deed | Herbert A. Lamprell of Billerica | H. A. Lamprell Co., a New York corporation with a place of business in Billerica | Lamprell to H. A. Lamprell Co., 1909 | 441/132 |
Recorded Oct. 30, 1909, after Joseph Jaquith's deed to him. For one dollar and other consideration, the lot "commonly called the Glue Factory, with the boilers, engines, gearing, drums and shafts therein belonging," Lot No. 1 on the F. & J. Jaquith plan of October 1909, 1.87 acres, with all his rights under the Jaquith deed of even date "on the right of way in and along the brook therein described for water power and sewerage purposes."
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| February 16, 1914 | Deed | H. A. Lamprell Co., a New York corporation of 247 Front Street, Manhattan | Thomas W. Dunn of Brooklyn, New York | H. A. Lamprell Co. to Thomas W. Dunn, 1914 | 517/431 |
Recorded in February 1914, with a corporate resolution on page 435. For one dollar and other consideration, the lot "commonly called the Glue Factory, with the boilers, engines, gearing, drums and shafts," on the southeasterly side of the 20-foot way from Concord road, 1.87 acres, Lot 1 on Plan Book 27, Plan 27, with "the right and privilege, acquired by mesne conveyances from Joseph Jaquith, to maintain the dam in the place and to the height now constructed in the brook," and the water, pipe, sewer and way rights.
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| August 30, 1916 | Warranty Deed | Thomas W. Dunn of New York City (wife Alice A. Dunn releasing) | Billerica Glue Company, a Massachusetts corporation | Dunn to the Billerica Glue Company, 1916 | 558/85 |
Dated Aug. 22, recorded Aug. 30, 1916. For one dollar and other valuable considerations, "all that certain lot or parcel of land situated at Billerica ... with the buildings thereon, commonly called the Glue Factory, with the boilers, engines, gearing, drums and shafts therein belonging, with all the fixtures in and about the said factory," 1.87 acres, Lot 1 on Plan Book 27, Plan 27, with the dam, flowage, pipe and sewer rights and the 20-foot way (Lot 2), "The above rights being particularly set forth in the deed of Joseph Jaquith to Herbert A. Lamprell dated Oct. 30, 1909 ... book 441, page 128." The index adds "with personal property."
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| February 13, 1934 | Quitclaim | Anna Jaquith of Billerica, unmarried | Billerica Glue Company | Anna Jaquith to the Billerica Glue Company, Lot B and water pipe, 1934 | 839/257 |
Dated Feb. 10, recorded Feb. 13, 1934 with a release from the Flemings trustees. "The land in said Billerica with the buildings thereon situated on the southeasterly side of the Concord River and northerly but not adjoining the Concord Road containing sixteen and 19/100 (16.19) acres," Lot B on "Plan of Land in Billerica, Mass., Surveyed for the Billerica Glue Company, January 1934" by Brooks, Jordan and Graves (Plan Book 58, Plan 28), around Lot A, the factory lot "now owned by said Billerica Glue Company under deed from Thomas W. Dunn dated 22 August 1916," and to the river "crossing the mouth of Sucker brook"; with the river bank and bed to the middle of the stream, the 20-foot way, and an easement for a water pipe from the town main in Concord Road for Lot B, Lot A "and the Glue Factory and buildings connected therewith." Anna held this land under deeds of 1914, 1921 (from Franklin Jaquith) and 1931.
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| October 8, 1946 | Quitclaim | Anna Jaquith | Joseph Jaquith Casey and Grace Amelia Casey | Anna Jaquith to the Caseys, bounded by "Billerica Glue Co. (formerly Lamprell)", 1946 | 1055/217 |
After about 220 years in the Jaquith family by inheritance, Anna Jaquith conveys a parcel "with the buildings thereon" on the northerly side of Concord Road, bounded by the Boston and Maine Railroad, the driveway to "the large barn," stone walls along her Pasture Lot, and Billerica Glue Co. (formerly Lamprell), keeping a right of way to her remaining land on the south; also about 8 acres on the west side of Concord River. Signed Oct. 4, 1946; recorded Oct. 8, 1946. Grace A. Casey later deeded her interest to Joseph (Book 1275 Page 285, 1954).
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| May 19, 1958 | Quitclaim | Billerica Glue Company, a Massachusetts corporation | Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., Boston | Billerica Glue Company to Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., 1958 | 1402/226 |
Recorded May 19, 1958 with a corporate resolution and a waiver of tax lien. "Four contiguous parcels": Lots 1 and 2 on a plan belonging to Edward F. Dickinson, May 1927 (Plan Book 50, Plan 49), and Lots A and B on the Billerica Glue Company plan of January 1934 (Plan Book 58, Plan 28), bounded by the Boston and Maine Railroad, land conveyed to the grantee by Joseph Jaquith Casey in February 1958, land of Anna Jaquith, the Concord River and the house lots of the Bloods, Reid, Smith, Sexton, Randell, O'Green and Orr, "Together with all improvements," the water-pipe right of 1934 and the rights of 1958. The factory buildings had been taken down in 1956.
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| October 25, 1979 | Certificate of Merger | Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., Cabot Carbon Company, Cabot Shops, Inc. and Cabot Gasoline Corporation | Cabot Corporation (Delaware) | Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc. merged into Cabot Corporation, 1960 | 2391/520 |
Certificate of the Delaware Secretary of State, recorded Oct. 25, 1979, that the agreement of merger of the Massachusetts corporations Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., Cabot Carbon Company, Cabot Shops, Inc. and Cabot Gasoline Corporation into Cabot Corporation was filed Sept. 30, 1960. Cabot Corporation still holds the former glue company land at 157 Concord Road.
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| September 20, 1963 | Quitclaim | Joseph Jaquith Casey, unmarried | Cabot Corporation, Boston | Cabot buys the Casey land west of the factory site, 1963 | 1618/355 |
Recorded Sept. 20, 1963, with a release of Anna Jaquith's interest (page 354). 11.1 acres on the northwesterly side of Concord Road on a plan "Surveyed For Cabot Corporation ... Aug. 1963, Emmons & Fleming," bounded west by Imperial Development Corp., north by the Concord River for 230 feet, and east "by land of Cabot Corporation," the former glue company land, with a triangular piece of 4,760 square feet and the 40-foot right of way; part of the land conveyed to Casey by Anna Jaquith et al. in 1946 and 1959.
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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.