9 Nashua Rd

For 60 pounds lawful money, "Two certain Parcels of Land situate lying and being in Billerica ... on the West side of Concord River": the first of 44 acres 64 poles, bounded northwest by Chelmsford line about 49 poles, northeast by "the Land that was laid out to Thomas Baldwin", southwest by land laid out to Ephraim Kidder and southeast "by the range way" about 49 poles; the second of 46 1/2 acres "in the first Range of Lots", northwest by Chelmsford line about 51 poles, northeast by land laid out to John Sheldon, southwest by land laid out to Nathaniel Bacon and southeast by the Range Way about 52 poles, the corners marked by black oaks lettered SK and KS. Signed May 13, 1760, witnessed by Thomas Kidder and Asa Spaulding (the later buyer); recorded April 11, 1761. Billerica town book 5, pages 518-520.

• January 15, 1793 Deed: William Bonner of Billerica, husbandman (Margaret Bonner releasing dower) to Asa Spaulding of Billerica, gentleman (110/109) (the two range lots on the Chelmsford line Bonner bought from Patten)

For 130 pounds lawful money, "A certain tract of land lying in said Billerica containing by Estimation Ninety two Acres with a Dwelling House standing thereon", bounded northwest on Chelmsford line about one hundred rods, northeast by land of said Asa Spaulding and John Parker about 146 rods, southeast "by the range way about one hundred rods", and southwest by land of Ebenezer Dowse and said Spaulding about 146 poles. Signed Dec. 27, 1783, "in the eighth Year of American Independence", witnessed by Oliver Stearns and Joseph Nickless; acknowledged March 14, 1786; recorded Jan. 15, 1793. The two Patten lots of 1760, now with a house. Billerica town book 8, pages 377-378.

• April 11, 1761 Deed: William Patten of Billerica, cooper to William Bonner of Billerica, husbandman (58/336) (the two range lots on the Chelmsford line Bonner bought from Patten)

• 1815 Will: Estate of Asa Spaulding of Billerica, gentleman (will dated Sept. 26, 1808) to His son Thomas Spaulding (the land north of the Rangeway) (Probate #20920) (the Bonner farm lies on the northerly side of the Rangeway)

Asa Spaulding's will, proved in 1815 (executor Ephraim Robbins declined April 4, 1815), gives his wife Anna the westerly bedroom of his dwelling house and yearly provisions; his son Asa the 48-acre Miller place and other land in Carlisle; his son Benoni about 100 acres "with the buildings" south of the rangeway toward the Chelmsford line; and "to my son Thomas Spaulding and to his heirs and assigns forever all my land lying on the northerly side of the Rangeway not herein before disposed of except the Keyes place so called", Thomas to supply his mother. Daughters Anna Barron, Sibbel Robbins and Rachel Warren received $200 each. Witnessed by Asa Parker, Malachi Allen and Benjamin Russell.

• January 15, 1793 Deed: William Bonner of Billerica, husbandman (Margaret Bonner releasing dower) to Asa Spaulding of Billerica, gentleman (110/109) (the Bonner farm lies on the northerly side of the Rangeway)

• October 8, 1839 Quitclaim: Benoni Spaulding (Jr.) of Billerica, yeoman (wife Rebeccah releasing dower) to Jacob Spaulding of Billerica, yeoman (388/110) ("by virtue of the last will and testament of the late Asa Spaulding")
• 1839 Quitclaim: Heirs of Benoni Spaulding: Asa Spaulding, Jonas and Lydia Brown, John and Anna Duren, Edward and Olive Spaulding, Annaniah and Abby Bohonon, Abram Spaulding of Pelham N.H., Benjamin Searles Jr. and Sarah of Nashua N.H. to Jacob Spaulding of Billerica, yeoman (390/67) (the heirs who took the remainder under Asa Spaulding's will)
• 1849 Administration: Estate of Capt. Thomas Spaulding of Billerica (died 1849), William Chandler of Lexington administrator to His children Thomas Spaulding, Edward Spaulding, Rebecca Simonds and Sibel Duren (Probate #42081) (Thomas held the land north of the Rangeway from his father's will until 1849)

For $393.40, "a certain tract of land situate in said Billerica on the easterly side of the Rangeway containing two acres be it more or less with all the buildings thereon", bounded by the Rangeway, walls and a ditch and "bounded on all sides by land of Josiah Crosby Esqr. except the rangeway"; and "one other tract of land situate near Chelmsford line containing twenty nine acres", by land of Jonathan Parker about 128 rods, Ephraim Warren, Thomas Spaulding, Joseph Cowdry and Benoni Spaulding, "crossing the new road". Signed April 15, 1828, witnessed by Samuel Whiting and Thomas Spaulding Jr.; recorded April 23, 1828. The two-acre house lot was Edward's home four years after his marriage; it is not the Spaulding homestead. Billerica town book 14, pages 94-95.

• 1815 Will: Estate of Asa Spaulding of Billerica, gentleman (will dated Sept. 26, 1808) to His son Thomas Spaulding (the land north of the Rangeway) (Probate #20920) (Thomas gives his son part of the land he inherited)

For $128, "a certain tract of land situate in the southeasterly part of said Chelmsford containing twenty one acres & fifty five poles", from a heap of stones at the cow yard by land set to the widow R. Davis as dower, by Benjamin Adams to Mill Brook, by Joseph Adams and James and Abel Spaulding, then "through the middle of the dwelling house", "through the middle of the well & through the middle of the barn" and the cow yard, "with the west part of the house & barn". Signed April 15, 1828, the same day as his father's deed, witnessed by Samuel Whiting and Thomas Spaulding; recorded April 23, 1828. Land just over the Chelmsford line by Mill Brook, which bounds the later Spaulding farm. Chelmsford town book 12, pages 152-153.

• April 23, 1828 Deed: Thomas Spaulding of Billerica, gentleman (Prudence Spaulding releasing dower) to His son Edward Spaulding of Billerica, yeoman (281/314) (bought the same day as the gift from his father)

The heirs Thomas Spaulding, Edward Spaulding, Rebecca Simonds and Samuel R. Duren asked on Aug. 4, 1849 that William Chandler of Lexington administer the estate, and he was appointed Aug. 21, 1849. The inventory of Aug. 17, 1849 (John Baldwin, David P. Winning and Jacob Spaulding) lists the "Homestead containing 55a 2r 19p" ($1,999), the Turnpike lot, Meadow lot (19 acres), Great pasture (25 acres), Miller lot, Dowse lot (17 acres), Claypit lot and the Parker field, $3,463 in real estate, with livestock, half the hay in the barn and furniture in the east lower room, west room, north room and two chambers; $7,711.50 in all. A plan of the estate was drawn by Cyrus Thompson in August 1849.

• February 19, 1800 Deed: Asa Spaulding of Billerica, gentleman to His son Thomas Spaulding of Carlisle, yeoman (135/117) (Thomas held the farm from 1799 until his death in 1849)
• 1815 Will: Estate of Asa Spaulding of Billerica, gentleman (will dated Sept. 26, 1808) to His son Thomas Spaulding (the land north of the Rangeway) (Probate #20920) (Thomas held the land north of the Rangeway from his father's will until 1849)

• 1849 Quitclaim: Thomas Spaulding of Billerica, yeoman (Harriett Spaulding releasing dower) to His brother Edward Spaulding of Nashua, N.H., yeoman (569/59) (a son releases his share of his father's 150 acres)
• November 21, 1849 Quitclaim: Samuel R. Duren and Sybel Duren of Woburn, Rebecca Simonds of Billerica, and the Dudley and Hartshorn heirs to Edward Spaulding of Nashua, N.H., yeoman (574/73) (the other heirs release lots of their father's estate)
• November 21, 1849 Quitclaim: Edward Spaulding of Nashua, N.H., Samuel R. and Sybel Duren of Woburn, the Dudley and Hartshorn heirs, and Rebecca Simonds of Billerica, widow (heirs of Capt. Thomas Spaulding) to Thomas Simonds of Billerica, yeoman (574/71) (the heirs of Capt. Thomas Spaulding convey his 55-acre homestead)

For $842.60, "all my right title and interest in and to all the real estate of which my father Thomas Spaulding late of Billerica died seized & possessed of wherever the same may be containing one hundred and fifty acres more or less, reference being had to a plan of the same ... drawn by Cyrus Thompson August 25th 1849". Signed Aug. 31, 1849, witnessed by William Chandler (the administrator) and Stephen Nickles. Edward was then living in Nashua; this deed and the other heirs' release of October brought the homestead to him. The grantor died within months (will Dec. 18, 1849, probate 42082). Billerica town book 19, page 9.

• 1849 Administration: Estate of Capt. Thomas Spaulding of Billerica (died 1849), William Chandler of Lexington administrator to His children Thomas Spaulding, Edward Spaulding, Rebecca Simonds and Sibel Duren (Probate #42081) (a son releases his share of his father's 150 acres)

• June 9, 1859 Warranty Deed: Horace N. Wilson of Billerica, yeoman, and Sybel Wilson his wife to His father Daniel Wilson of Billerica, yeoman (19/298) (the Spaulding land west of the county road, held by Edward Spauldings son-in-law Horace N. Wilson by 1853 (no recorded deed to him))
• November 14, 1888 Deed: Olive Nickles, widow; Sybel Wilson and Horace N. Wilson of Carlisle; Mary Spaulding; Martha and Thomas Simonds; Thomas Spaulding to Daniel Lane of Billerica (201/289) (all the land owned by the late Edward Spaulding)

For $689, the heirs released the Miller lot (4 a 2 r 2 p, on the road from Carlisle to the Canal Mills), the Dowse lot (17 a 3 r 32 p, bounded on land of E. Spaulding and Mrs. Warren), the Turnpike lot (6 a 1 r 5 p) and, in Carlisle, the Clay pit lot and the Parker field: "The above described lots are a part of the estate of Thomas Spaulding late of Billerica, decd.", with reference to Cyrus Thompson's plan of Aug. 15, 1849. Signed Oct. 22, 1849 before William Chandler; recorded Nov. 21, 1849. Billerica town book 21, pages 166-168.

• 1849 Administration: Estate of Capt. Thomas Spaulding of Billerica (died 1849), William Chandler of Lexington administrator to His children Thomas Spaulding, Edward Spaulding, Rebecca Simonds and Sibel Duren (Probate #42081) (the other heirs release lots of their father's estate)

• 1849 Quitclaim: Thomas Spaulding of Billerica, yeoman (Harriett Spaulding releasing dower) to His brother Edward Spaulding of Nashua, N.H., yeoman (569/59) (completes Edward's purchase of his father's estate)

For $2,700, "a certain tract of land with the buildings thereon situate in the west part of said Billerica containing one hundred twenty three acres more or less", from the town bound between Billerica and Chelmsford by land of Thomas Spaulding, A. Bartlett, S. Stevens, Mill Brook, the Benjamin Adams land, Spaulding Brothers, T. B. Cowdrey's heirs, the Carlisle road and D. Duren to the Bedford and Chelmsford road, and by that road 78 rods 17 links to the first bound, "Intending to convey all the land owned by the late Edward Spaulding"; the 15-acre Warren land inside the bounds was excepted. Also 17 acres on the east side of the Chelmsford and Bedford road, with a right of way to the Bartlett meadow reserved. Signed Oct. 30, 1888 before Dudley Foster; recorded Nov. 14, 1888.

• 1849 Quitclaim: Thomas Spaulding of Billerica, yeoman (Harriett Spaulding releasing dower) to His brother Edward Spaulding of Nashua, N.H., yeoman (569/59) (all the land owned by the late Edward Spaulding)

• 1914 Quitclaim: Daniel Lane of Billerica to John H. Lane of Lowell (518/388) (the same premises conveyed by Olive Nickles et als)

• April 23, 1828 Deed: Thomas Spaulding of Billerica, gentleman (Prudence Spaulding releasing dower) to His son Edward Spaulding of Billerica, yeoman (281/314) (Edward's own 1828 lots near the Chelmsford line)
• November 21, 1849 Quitclaim: Samuel R. Duren and Sybel Duren of Woburn, Rebecca Simonds of Billerica, and the Dudley and Hartshorn heirs to Edward Spaulding of Nashua, N.H., yeoman (574/73) (the 1888 farm includes lots of the Thomas Spaulding estate)

For $1, "a certain tract of land with the buildings thereon situate in the west part of said Billerica, containing one hundred twenty-three acres more or less", same bounds (Thomas Spaulding, A. Bartlett, Mill Brook, Spaulding Brothers, the Carlisle road, the Bedford and Chelmsford road), and the 17 acres east of the Chelmsford and Bedford road, "Both being the same premises conveyed to me by Olive Nickles et als by their deed dated October 30, 1888 ... Book 201, Page 289". Dated March 24, 1914.

• November 14, 1888 Deed: Olive Nickles, widow; Sybel Wilson and Horace N. Wilson of Carlisle; Mary Spaulding; Martha and Thomas Simonds; Thomas Spaulding to Daniel Lane of Billerica (201/289) (the same premises conveyed by Olive Nickles et als)

• November 22, 1955 Quitclaim: John H. Lane of Billerica to John H. Lane and his wife, as joint tenants (1317/233) (the same premises conveyed by Daniel Lane in 1914)

For consideration paid, "A certain tract of land, with the buildings thereon, situate in the west part of said Billerica and containing 123 acres of land, more or less. Portions of said tract are also situate in said Chelmsford and Carlisle", and 17 acres on the easterly side of the Chelmsford and Bedford Road, "Hereby conveying all and the same premises to me conveyed by deed of Daniel Lane dated March 24, 1914 ... Book 518, Page 388. For another instrument in the chain of title, see deed of Olive Nickles et als to Daniel Lane ... Book 201, Page 289", excepting a piece of the 17 acres deeded the same day to another member of the family. John H. Lane died April 13, 1958; his widow then put the farm in joint names with a son (Book 1413, Page 94, recorded Sept. 5, 1958, the assessor's current deed), and it passed within the family through a 1984 estate. The family still owned it as a farm (88 acres) in 1974.

• 1914 Quitclaim: Daniel Lane of Billerica to John H. Lane of Lowell (518/388) (the same premises conveyed by Daniel Lane in 1914)