Joseph Jaquith House
Joseph Jaquith House
| Address | 164 Concord Rd |
| MACRIS ID | BIL.170 |
| Built | 1812 |
| Owners | Joseph Jaquith (1804 - 1829) |
The Joseph Jaquith House is a square, two-story Federal house at the corner of Concord Road and the Middlesex Turnpike, across the road from the Abraham Jaquith House and a short way west of the South Burying Ground. It was built by Joseph Jaquith Jr. (1771-1829), a selectman in 1814, on twenty acres he bought in 1804, and for most of the nineteenth century it was the tavern house of his son Franklin Jaquith. It stayed in the Jaquith family and their descendants, the Caseys, until 2003.
Before the Jaquiths, the land belonged to the Hill family. In 1746 Samuel Hill Jr. sold his son Samuel Hill 3d "twenty acres east of the road", bounded west by Peter Hill, east by "the burying place" and north by the road. Samuel Hill 3d died in 1749. His daughter and heir, Abihail (Abiel), born in 1727, married Samuel Kidder that year, and in 1751 she and her husband signed her mother's dower division as the heir. The twenty acres were hers "in her own right". After Samuel Kidder died in 1794, the Kidder daughters released their father's estate to their brother John Kidder, "excepting ... the land in right of our Hon[oure]d Mother", and in 1795 Abihail sold John the "twenty acres more or less bounded northerly on the road leading to Bedford, Westerly on land of Peter Hill ... and Easterly on the burial ground", keeping it for her lifetime. Behind it lay the ten-acre "woods pasture", set off to her as dower.
On Dec. 22, 1804 John Kidder sold the twenty acres to Joseph Jaquith Jr. for $1,000. No buildings were mentioned, and the same day Kidder sold Isaac French the twelve acres next to the burying ground. Joseph Jaquith Jr. already owned half of the old family homestead across the road, the Farley house his grandfather Abraham had taken over in 1728. On the new land he built the square house that local tradition dates to 1812. The Middlesex Turnpike, chartered in 1805, was laid across the lot. From 1818 his mortgages of the land reserve "a turnpike road, which passes through said premises". Joseph borrowed heavily against the farm: he mortgaged it to David Hill of Boston (1818), to Asa Abbot of Andover (1820), to the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company for $1,800 (1824), and to his son Franklin (1825), who took "the Kidder farm, being the same farm whereon I now dwell" as security.
Joseph Jaquith Jr. died without a will in April 1829, leaving debts. His inventory lists "The Homestead, 20 acres with the buildings" ($2,250) separately from "the old farm" across the road. His eldest son Franklin, as administrator, sold the homestead at auction on Mar. 16, 1830 to his brother Merrick for $180, subject to the insurance company's mortgage. That mortgage was paid off on June 30, 1830, the day the deeds were recorded. Merrick then sold the land back to Franklin, who was described as an "innholder", and Franklin's mortgages of 1830 and 1834 describe the twenty acres "with the tavern house and buildings thereon". This supports the old tradition that the house was a tavern on the turnpike. Hazen's History of Billerica (1883) says Franklin "lived in the house east of the Bedford road, where the Middlesex turnpike crosses it", while his brother Merrick lived in "the ancient house, opposite". Franklin paid off the 1834 mortgage in 1872 and died on Dec. 1, 1876.
Franklin's widow Lucy (Walker) Jaquith kept the house. In 1884 she granted the Boston and Lowell Railroad a right of way for its Bedford and Billerica branch across "all my land", on condition that the land would come back if the railroad stopped running. After her death her children (Almira J. Pierce, Abigail Jaquith, Joseph Jaquith, Harriette W. Drew, and Cordelia A. Foster for her late mother Mary) deeded the house lot to their brother Franklin Jaquith (1839-1922). The deed is dated Oct. 1, 1897 and was made with a plan "surveyed for Franklin Jaquith heirs" by James A. Bancroft. That plan shows the 9.43-acre house lot on Bedford Street (Concord Road) east of the old turnpike, with a 3/4-acre piece cut off beyond the railroad. In 1921 Franklin, unmarried, conveyed the house lot and other family land to Ethel Jaquith Casey and Anna Jaquith. Ethel gave her half to Anna in 1931.
The 1973 survey notes that the house was a nursing home run by a Mrs. Lattie for several years before World War II, which is why the corner was zoned for business. In 1945 Anna Jaquith sold the house to Frederick A. and Doris L. Casey, who still lived there in 1973 and were described as descendants of Joseph Jaquith. In 1995 the house was given its own lot of 27,291 square feet at the corner of Concord Road and the Middlesex Turnpike (Plan Book 188, Plan 132). It was sold out of the family in 2003 and has had private owners since.
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- MACRIS BIL.170
- Hazen, History of Billerica (1883), Genealogical Register p. 78, JAQUITH 8 and 9: Joseph Jaquith (1771-1829) and his son Franklin, who "lived in the house east of the Bedford road, where the Middlesex turnpike crosses it"
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| February 13, 1718 | Deed of Gift | Jonathan Hill Sr. of Billerica, yeoman | Samuel Hill, his son | Jonathan Hill Sr. gift to his son Samuel, incl. 20 acres east of the country road | 18/592 (South) |
Dated Mar. 27, 1717, signed with his mark, witness Oliver Whiting; acknowledged Mar. 28, 1717 before Oliver Whiting; recorded Feb. 13, 1717/18 (Billerica town book 2, pages 110-112). "For & in Consideration of ye Good will & affection which I have & bear to my Son Saml Hill ... & Shewing a fatherly Care," several parcels of upland and meadow: twenty acres on the west side of the Concord River; "Twenty acres of upland & medow more or Less bounded Southwardly with Land of Jonathn Hill Junr ye Line to Run Southwest to ye River & then Southwest by ye River & Northwardly with Land of Ebenezer ffarley & Northeast to ye Country Road" (the homestead between the Concord road and the river); fifty acres bounded by John Whitmore, Josiah and Jonathan Bacon and Nathaniel Hudson; twenty acres on the east side of the country road; two acres of meadow by Ebenezer Farley; twenty acres by John Saunders and Nathaniel Patten; fourteen acres in the Great Swamp; a twelve-acre lot to be divided with Capt. John Stearns; and five acres in Pond Meadow by Henry Jefts, "with all that is Standing Growing or Lying upon ye same." The first recorded conveyance of the Samuel Hill homestead; the other half of Jonathan Hill's farm went to Jonathan Hill Jr.
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| March 27, 1749 | Deed | Samuel Hill Jr. of Billerica, husbandman | Samuel Hill 3rd (Tertius), his son, of Billerica, husbandman | Samuel Hill Jr. to son Samuel Hill 3d: the 20 acres by the burying place | 48/111 (South) |
Dated July 21, 1746, signed with his mark, witnesses Peter Hill and Samuel Hill the fourth; acknowledged Feb. 8, 1748 before Benjamin Tompson; recorded Mar. 27, 1749 (Billerica town book 5, pages 205-207). For fifty pounds, several parcels: first "one acre and a quarter" beginning at Abraham Jaquith's south-west corner by the country road, north about four poles, then west "to the northwesterly side of my Barn taking half of said Barn," then south-easterly "thro' the Barn and by the Northeasterly side of my well to the Country road," and by the road back to the start; twenty acres east of the road bounded west by Peter Hill, south by Capt. Samuel Hill and William Needham's meadow, east by the burying place and north by the road; two acres on the north side of the road by Abraham Jaquith and Capt. Benjamin Shed; and four and a half acres by William and Benjamin Needham and Capt. Samuel Hill. The small house lot at the north-east corner of the homestead, on the road beside Jaquith, shared the barn and well of the old house.
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| March 27, 1749 | Administration | Estate of Samuel Hill 3rd of Billerica, intestate | Abigail Hill, widow and administratrix; his heirs (his daughter Abiel, later wife of Samuel Kidder) | Samuel Hill 3d estate: widow Abigail, heir Abihail Kidder | Probate #11508 |
Administration granted Mar. 27, 1749 to his widow Abigail Hill, who signed with her mark, with Samuel Brown, gentleman, and Francis Crosby, shopjoiner, as sureties (witnesses Andrew Bordman and John Jaquith). The inventory of Feb. 28, 1748/9 by Capt. Benjamin Shed, Capt. Enoch Kidder and William French, in old tenor, lists his clothing, a firelock, pistols and sword, beds, linen, a loom, sixteen bushels of corn, thirteen barrels of cider, a horse, two oxen, five cows and nine sheep (731 pounds 8 shillings), and the real estate: "the House lot one acre & quarter with the Buildings," and lots of twenty, two, five and a quarter, four and a half, one and a half and two of two and a half acres. Exhibited on oath by Mrs. Abigail Hill Mar. 27, 1749. His father's 1746 gift is Middlesex South book 48 page 111. Middlesex probate case 11508. On Nov. 19, 1751 the widow had her thirds set off: the west end of the house, part of the barn, and about six acres of plowland and pasture on the southerly side of the highway by Deacon Hill and Peter Hill; the division was signed in approval by the widow, her son in law Samuel Kidder and her daughter Abiel (Abihail) Kidder, the heir, and accepted June 22, 1752. The twenty acres south of the road later became the Joseph Jaquith house lot.
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| 1794 | Administration and Dower | Estate of Samuel Kidder of Billerica, yeoman (d. 1794) | His widow Abihail Kidder (dower); son John Kidder, administrator | Samuel Kidder estate: the woods pasture behind the house lot | Probate #13256 |
Samuel Kidder died intestate early in 1794; at the request of his widow "Abihel" their son John Kidder, gentleman, was appointed administrator Apr. 10, 1794. The real estate (456 pounds) included "about ten acres, partly pasture and partly wood land ... commonly known by the name of the woods pasture", bounded northerly on "land of Abihail Kidder", easterly on Jonathan Bowers, southerly on Abihail and Isaac French, and westerly on Peter Hill. The committee (Joshua Abbot, Oliver Crosby, Jacob Richardson) set off the woods pasture and 26 acres of woodland west of Concord River to the widow for her dower, Sept. 20, 1794 (accepted Apr. 14, 1795), and noted that John had bought out his brothers and sisters. The woods pasture lay behind the road frontage that became the Joseph Jaquith house lot.
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| July 15, 1795 | Quitclaim | Timothy Whiting Jr. and Abigail Whiting, Robert Smith and Alice Smith, and Frances Kidder (heirs of Samuel Kidder) | Their brother John Kidder of Billerica, gentleman | Kidder heirs release their father's estate to John Kidder | 118/149 (South) |
Billerica town book 9, pages 178-181. Dated Apr. 8, 1794. For 510 pounds the other children of Samuel Kidder (Abigail Whiting of Lancaster, Alice Smith of Durham, N.H., and Frances Kidder) release to John "all our right, title which we have by right of Heirship in & unto all the real Estate which our Hon[oure]d Father Samuel Kidder late of said Billerica Yeoman died seized", "excepting always the right which we have or may have in the real estate which he improved in his life and which is now known by land commonly called the land in right of our Hon[oure]d Mother Abihal Kidder" (her own inheritance, which she sold to John separately in 1795), with their shares of the personal estate.
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| July 15, 1795 | Quitclaim | Abihail Kidder of Billerica, widow | Her son John Kidder of Billerica, gentleman | Widow Abihail Kidder releases to John, except her dower and own lands | 118/166 (South) |
Billerica town book 9, pages 182-183. Dated Apr. 8, 1794. For five shillings Abihail releases her rights in the real estate of her husband Samuel Kidder, "excepting ten acres of Land, commonly called the Woods Pasture and twenty four acres & a half acre of Wood land on the West side of the River", her dower, "and also excepting all the lands which are known by lands mine in my own right." The woods pasture lay behind the twenty acres on the Bedford road; with the 1795 deed and his mother's death in 1803 John Kidder held the whole tract that he sold in 1804.
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| July 15, 1795 | Deed | Abihail Kidder of Billerica, widow | Her son John Kidder of Billerica, gentleman | Abihail Kidder sells the 20 acres on the Bedford road to her son John | 118/165 (South) |
Billerica town book 9, pages 181-182. Dated Mar. 28, 1795. For 150 pounds, two parcels: "one piece containing twenty acres more or less bounded northerly on the road leading to Bedford, Westerly on land of Peter Hill, Southerly on land set off for my dower or thirds in part and partly by land of Jonathan Bowers, and Easterly on the burial ground", and about 4 1/2 acres behind it by Bowers and Isaac French, "but not to come into actual possession in his own right till after my decease." This was the land Abihail (born Hill, 1727) held in her own right as heir of her father Samuel Hill 3d. A year earlier her daughters and their husbands had released to John their shares in their father Samuel Kidder's estate "excepting ... the land in right of our Hon[oure]d Mother" (Book 118, Page 149), and Abihail quitclaimed her rights in her husband's estate except her dower (Book 118, Page 166).
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| May 7, 1805 | Warranty Deed | John Kidder Jr. of Billerica, gentleman (wife Mary releasing dower) | Joseph Jaquith Jr. of Billerica, gentleman | John Kidder sells Joseph Jaquith Jr. the 20 acre house lot | 161/497 (South) |
Billerica town book 10, pages 328-329. Dated Dec. 22, 1804. For $1,000, "a certain tract or parcel of land ... said tract of land contains twenty acres", beginning at the northeast corner by land of Isaac French "at the highway" (the road to Bedford), around by walls along French and Jonathan Bowers Esq. to "land belonging Lieut. Peter Hill", northerly by Hill to the highway and easterly by the highway to the start. No buildings are named: Joseph Jaquith Jr. bought bare land across the road from the old Jaquith homestead and built his square house on it, by tradition in 1812. The same day Kidder sold Isaac French 12 acres to the east by the burying ground (Book 161, Page 512).
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| April 13, 1818 | Mortgage | Joseph Jaquith Jr. of Billerica, gentleman | David Hill of Boston, merchant | Joseph Jaquith Jr. mortgages the 20 acres crossed by the turnpike | 224/399 (South) |
Billerica town book 12, pages 61-62. Dated Apr. 3, 1818. For $500, "a certain tract of land, lying in Billerica, & contains twenty acres ... being the same estate which John Kidder conveyed to me by deed recorded in Middlesex Registry of Deeds Book 161 Page 497", with the 1804 bounds by Isaac French, Jonathan Bowers and Lieut. Peter Hill, "excepting and reserving a turnpike road, which passes through said premises" (the Middlesex Turnpike, opened across the lot after 1804). Void if $500 and interest were paid in a year. Released by David Hill Jan. 5, 1824 for $552.67 (Book 251, Page 402).
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| February 22, 1820 | Mortgage | Joseph Jaquith Jr. of Billerica, gentleman | Asa Abbot of Andover, yeoman | Joseph Jaquith Jr. mortgages the 20 acres to Asa Abbot | 232/246 (South) |
Billerica town book 13, pages 58-60. Dated Feb. 22, 1820. For $1,000, "a certain tract or parcel of land ... containing twenty acres more or less being the same lot of land that I bought of John Kidder by deed dated the 22d December 1804" (Book 161, Page 497), with the same bounds, as security to Abbot, who had signed notes "jointly with me for my proper debt": $200 to Jonathan Bowers, $500 to Samuel Farrar as treasurer of the Theological Institution at Andover, and $320 to Josiah Crosby. The house, finished by about 1812, was mortgaged repeatedly in the 1810s and 1820s.
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| January 8, 1824 | Mortgage | Joseph Jaquith Jr. of Billerica, gentleman (wife Susanna releasing dower) | Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company | Mortgage to the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Co., 1824-1830 | 251/374 (South) |
Billerica town book 13, pages 240-243. Dated Jan. 3, 1824, the same week David Hill's mortgage was released. For $1,800, "with all the buildings on the same standing": half of the old seventy-acre Jaquith homestead north of the road, and "another parcel of land containing about twenty acres ... on the southerly side of the road leading from Billerica to Bedford by which it is separated from the first parcel", bounded by Samuel Whiting, the heirs of Isaac French, Jonathan Bowers, Joseph Parker and Elizabeth Hill (formerly Peter Hill), "the same premises which were conveyed to me by the deed of John Kidder dated December 22 1804", "excepting ... the Middlesex Turnpike, which passes through the same." Discharged on the record June 30, 1830 by N. Bowditch, actuary, when Franklin Jaquith bought the farm.
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| January 8, 1824 | Release | David Hill of Boston, merchant | Joseph Jaquith Jr. of Billerica | Release of the 1818 mortgage | 251/402 (South) |
Billerica town book 15, page 433. Dated Jan. 5, 1824. For $552.67 paid by Joseph Jaquith Junior, David Hill, "the mortgagee named in the within deed", releases all his right in the premises of the 1818 mortgage (Book 224, Page 399): the twenty-acre Kidder farm on the Bedford road.
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| March 22, 1826 | Mortgage | Joseph Jaquith Jr. of Billerica, yeoman | His son Franklin Jaquith (1800-1876) of Billerica, yeoman | Mortgage naming the Kidder farm "whereon I now dwell" | 264/531 (South) |
Billerica town book 13, pages 366-368. Dated Dec. 9, 1825. For $500, his half of the old Jaquith homestead (deed of May 8, 1794), and "another peice or plot of land ... together with the buildings thereon known by the name of the Kidder farm, being the same farm whereon I now dwell, and the same parcel of land which John Kidder conveyed to me by a deed dated the twenty second day of December ... eighteen hundred and four" (Book 161, Page 497), plus the William Manning lot of 1792; void if Joseph saves Franklin harmless on notes of 1824 and 1825 that Franklin had signed with or for him. The deed identifies the house lot as the Kidder farm, Joseph Jaquith Jr.'s home.
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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: "the Homestead 20 acres with the buildings" sold to Merrick Jaquith | 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 | Administrator's Deed | Franklin Jaquith of Billerica, administrator of Joseph Jaquith Jr. (d. 1829) | His brother Merrick Jaquith of Billerica | Administrator sells the house and 20 acres to Merrick Jaquith at auction | 298/377 (South) |
Billerica town book 14, pages 321-323. Dated June 10, 1830. Licensed by the Probate Court on Nov. 17, 1829 to sell enough of the estate to raise $4,439.33 for debts, the administrator sold at public vendue on Mar. 16, 1830 to Merrick Jaquith, "the highest bidder", for $180, "a tract of land situated in said Billerica containing twenty acres more or less", bounded by Samuel Whiting Esq., the heirs of Cyrus French, the heirs of Jonathan Bowers, the widow French and Benjamin L. Judkins and by the highway, "with the buildings thereon, reserving the right which the Middlesex Turnpike Corporation have to use a part of said land for a turnpike road passing through the same." The low price reflects the $1,800 mortgage to the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Co., discharged June 30, the day this deed and Merrick's resale to Franklin were recorded.
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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, innholder: the 20 acre tavern farm | 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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| June 30, 1830 | Mortgage | Franklin Jaquith of Billerica, innholder | Elijah Stearns of Bedford, executor of the will of William Porter | Franklin Jaquith mortgages the "tavern house" farm | 298/380 (South) |
Billerica town book 14, pages 326-327. Dated June 28, 1830, the day Franklin bought out his brother Merrick. To secure $1,000 Franklin mortgages the twenty-acre tract "with the tavern house and buildings" east of the Bedford road, crossed by the Middlesex Turnpike. The deed is the first record to call Joseph Jaquith Jr.'s house a tavern; Franklin Jaquith (1800-1876) kept it as an innholder.
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| 1834 | Mortgage | Franklin Jaquith of Billerica, innholder (wife Lucy releasing dower) | George Bacon of Billerica, yeoman | Franklin Jaquith mortgages "the tavern-house" to George Bacon | 334/390 (South) |
Billerica town book 15, pages 3-5. Dated Aug. 20, 1834. For $1,000, "a certain tract of land ... containing twenty acres more or less", with the bounds of 1830 (Samuel Whiting, the heirs of Cyrus French and of Jonathan Bowers, the widow French, Benjamin L. Judkins and the highway), "with the tavern-house and buildings thereon reserving the right which the Middlesex Turnpike corporation have to use a certain part of said land for a turnpike road passing through the same." Franklin was still described as an innholder.
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| December 17, 1872 | Discharge | George Bacon, mortgagee | Franklin Jaquith of Billerica | Discharge of the 1834 Bacon mortgage | 90/388 |
George Bacon acknowledges that he has "received from Franklin Jaquith mortgagor ... full payment and satisfaction" and discharges the 1834 mortgage of the twenty-acre tavern-house farm ("See Cambridge Records Book 334 Page 390"), releasing the premises to Franklin and his heirs. Acknowledged Dec. 16, 1872 before Dudley Foster; recorded Dec. 17, 1872, four years before Franklin Jaquith died.
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| May 2, 1885 | Right of Way | Mrs. Lucy Jaquith, widow, of Billerica | Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation | Widow Lucy Jaquith grants the railroad right of way across the lot | 173/411 |
Dated and acknowledged Oct. 13, 1884. For $1 and other consideration, "the right of way across all my land in said town of Billerica which is included within the location of the Bedford and Billerica branch of the Boston & Lowell Railroad Company", as shown on the "Location Plan of the Bedford and Billerica branch" of Oct. 1, 1884, two rods wide, on condition that a standard gauge railroad be built and run within a year, and "should the operation of this railroad ever be discontinued the land shall revert to myself, heirs or assigns." The branch cut across the Jaquith house lot east of the old turnpike, leaving a 3/4 acre piece on the far side; the Jaquiths kept the fee in the location into the 1940s.
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| February 8, 1898 | Warranty Deed | Almira J. Pierce, Abigail Jaquith, Cordelia A. Foster, Joseph Jaquith (wife Annah M. releasing), Harriette W. and Charles A. Drew | Their brother Franklin Jaquith of Billerica | Heirs of Lucy Jaquith to Franklin Jaquith (1897 plan) | 294/238 |
Dated Oct. 1, 1897. For $1 and other consideration the heirs convey to Franklin Jaquith "the two following parcels of land, being part of the Jaquith Farm so called", shown on the plan "surveyed for Franklin Jaquith heirs, James A. Bancroft, C.E. Nov. 27, 1897" (Plan Book 13, Plan 41): the 9.43 acre area westerly by "the old turnpike road", northerly by Bedford street, "together with the buildings thereon", with the 3/4 acre piece across the Boston and Maine Railroad and the fee in the railroad location; and 9.20 acres west of the turnpike by the estate of Edward J. Hill. "The premises herein described being owned by Lucy Jaquith at the time of her decease", the grantors and grantee "being all the children and heirs of said Lucy who died intestate and of Franklin Jaquith Esq."; Mary F. Foster had died before her mother, leaving her daughter Cordelia.
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| June 24, 1921 | Quitclaim | Franklin Jaquith of Billerica, unmarried | Ethel Jaquith Casey and Anna Jaquith, both of Billerica | Franklin Jaquith to Ethel J. Casey and Anna Jaquith | 646/163 |
$12 in revenue stamps. Franklin Jaquith (1839-1922) passes the family lands to two younger members of the family: the homestead lot on the northerly side of Concord Road by the old Middlesex Turnpike, river and meadow lots, and "two parcels of land, being part of the Jaquith Farm, so-called" on the plan for "Franklin Jaquith Heirs, James A. Bancroft, C.E., Nov. 27, 1897": the 9.43 acre area bounded westerly by "the old turnpike" (675, 26 and 690 ft), southeasterly and easterly by Lane, McElligott and Franklin Jaquith, and northerly by "Bedford street" (348 and 113 ft), "together with the buildings thereon" and a 3/4 acre piece across the Boston and Maine Railroad; and 9.20 acres west of the turnpike by the estate of Edward J. Hill. "Being the same premises conveyed to me by Almira J. Pierce et al by deed dated October 1, 1897 ... Book 294, Page 238."
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| February 20, 1932 | Deed | Ethel J. Casey of Billerica (husband Frank A. Casey releasing) | Anna Jaquith of Billerica | Ethel J. Casey releases her half to Anna Jaquith | 811/42 |
Dated Nov. 5, 1931. Ethel J. Casey conveys "one undivided half interest" in the Jaquith lands, among them "two parcels of land being part of the Jaquith Farm so called" on the 1897 Bancroft plan for Franklin Jaquith heirs, the first the 9.43 acre area west by "the old Turnpike Road", north by Bedford Street, "together with the buildings thereon", with the 3/4 acre piece and the fee in the railroad location; "Being the same premises to me conveyed by deed of Franklin Jaquith dated June 16, 1921 ... Book 646, Page 163." Anna Jaquith thus held the whole of the house lot.
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| September 26, 1945 | Quitclaim | Anna Jaquith of Billerica, unmarried | Frederick A. Casey and Doris L. Casey, husband and wife | Anna Jaquith to Frederick A. and Doris L. Casey | 1030/134 |
Stamps $7.15. "A certain parcel of land being part of the Jaquith Farm so called", the 9.43 acre area on the 1897 plan for "Franklin Jaquith heirs" by James A. Bancroft (Plan Book 13, Plan 41), bounded westerly by "the old Turnpike Road" (675, 26 and 690 ft), southeasterly and easterly by Lane, McElliott and Franklin Jaquith, and northerly by Bedford Street (348 and 113 ft), "together with the buildings thereon", with a 3/4 acre piece across the Boston and Maine Railroad; also a small lot bounded by the road to Concord. "Being part of the same premises to me conveyed by deed of Ethel J. Casey, dated Nov. 5, 1931 ... Book 811, Page 42." In 1995 the house was given its own lot, Lot 1 of 27,291 square feet at the corner of Concord Road and the Middlesex Turnpike (Plan Book 188, Plan 132); it went into a family trust in 1997 (Book 8635, Page 101, which recites this deed as the title), was sold out of the family in 2003 for $460,000, and was resold in 2025 to private owners.
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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.