Bennett Public Library

Dated September 8, 1880, for one dollar: the library lot cut from the front of the Bowers Homestead, beginning at the southeast corner on Main Street at land of the First Parish, westerly on the parish land 137 feet to "my other land", northerly 70 feet to a bound, easterly 136 feet to Main Street and southerly 50 feet on Main Street, "with the provision that if a Library building is not built and a public library sustained upon said tract to the exclusion of all buildings for other purposes, said tract of land is to revert back to original owner, his heirs and assigns". Virginia R. Osborn releases dower and homestead. Witnesses Henry F. Osborn and William C. Osborn.

• June 13, 1871 Quitclaim Deed: The Members of the First Baptist Church and Society of Billerica, by Edward Spaulding and George C. Gilman, committee to William H. Osborn of New York City (80/250) (cut from the homestead Osborn bought in 1871)
• June 13, 1871 Quitclaim Deed: The Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica, by Dudley Foster, Israel A. Colson and David L. Mason, committee to William H. Osborn of New York City (80/253) (cut from the homestead Osborn bought in 1871)

Indenture of May 4, 1881: the parish leases to the library association "the following tract of land adjoining the land belonging to said Library, commencing at a bound at the street and said Library land, thence southerly on said street twenty three feet to a bound at land of said Parish, thence westerly by said Parish land to land of Wm. H. Osborn and said Library land, thence easterly by said Library land to the point of beginning. Being a triangular lot of land." The term is ninety-nine years, on condition that the association maintain the library and lay "an edge stone" along the parish line; "the use and the valuable consideration this Library is to said Parish" is the only rent, and the land reverts to the parish if the library is given up. Authorized at a parish meeting of May 2, 1881; acknowledged before Dudley Foster; recorded June 30, 1883. The triangle was excepted from the 1930 release.