Structure · Built 1925

Charles W. H. Ingles House

Charles W. H. Ingles House
Address 811 Boston Rd
Built 1925
Tenants
Pinehurst Ice Company (1950 - 1957)


811 Boston Road in Pinehurst stands on a small lot cut in 1924 from the old "Barn Lot" of the Carter farm, the 29 acres on the west side of the road to Boston that ran back to the Shawsheen River, bounded on the south by Ditson's brook. The house was built in 1924-1925 by Charles W. H. Ingles, and from about 1950 it was the home and yard of Richard H. Jollymore's Pinehurst Ice Company.

The land first appears in the records as part of the farm of Isaac Beard, yeoman, who died intestate late in 1810 leaving young children. His administrator, Benjamin Beard, sold the farm at auction "at the late dwelling house of said deceased" in February 1812 to Joshua Wyman of Medford: 200 acres east of the county road to Burlington and 29 acres "with the buildings thereon" on the west side, between the Bowers land, the Shawsheen and Ditson's brook. Wyman mortgaged it to Peter C. Brooks of Boston and gave it up to him in 1816. In 1817 Brooks sold the farm to Reuel Carter and John Parker of Wilmington for $3,000; Parker sold his half to Francis Carter in 1818, and in 1824 Reuel Carter, then living on the place, quitclaimed his half to Francis, "being the same farm the said Reuel and Francis owned together".

Francis Carter farmed there until his death on May 7, 1867. His inventory lists "two hundred acres of land with the buildings thereon situated on the easterly side of the street" and "twenty nine acres with the buildings thereon situated on the west side of the street called the Barn Lot", worth $1,000. His widow Harriet and his daughters Harriet E. Alley, Martha Higgins and Fanny M. Marion kept the farm until 1889, when they sold "the Francis Carter place" to Henry Sheldon, James T. Eames and Kimball M. McLaughlin. Sheldon and Eames had it surveyed in 1893 (Plan 10/27) and sold it to Hezekiah H. Bryant of Somerville; the west-side parcel was then 30 1/2 acres "with barn thereon". After a straw conveyance through Charles N. Jackson of New Hampshire to Bryant's wife Martha, the Bryants sold the west-side parcel in 1896 to Frederic H. Mixon, who passed it to his son Frederic A. R. Mixon, who in turn deeded it in 1903 to Eliza B. Mixon, "with the buildings thereon".

On Dec. 15, 1924, Eliza B. Mixon sold Charles W. H. Ingles a lot 75 feet on the road and 150 feet deep, about 11,000 square feet; the deed names no buildings. By July 1925 the lot had been surveyed by E. P. Sellew (Plan 47/11, which shows the "Church Lot" of the Pinehurst Community Congregational Church a little to the north) and the plan draws a house and a smaller outbuilding on it; a confirmatory deed fixed the bounds, and on July 22, 1925 Ingles mortgaged the lot "with the buildings thereon" to the Woburn Co-operative Bank for $1,000. In September 1936 Charles and his wife Alice A. Ingles put the house in both their names through a straw deed to William B. Victorino; Charles died a few weeks later, and the house passed to Alice. After her death, Lester C. Ingles and Phyllis E. Bryson released their shares in 1946 to Edith Ingles Jollymore, citing Alice's estate.

Edith and her husband Richard H. Jollymore (the name is also spelled Jollimore) bought a further 5,072 square foot strip on the south side from the Community Congregational Church in 1948, part of the Mixon land the church had received from Frederick A. R. Mixon's heir in 1940. Richard Jollymore had run the Pinehurst Ice Company, an ice, wood and fuel oil business, from his father's corner at Pinehurst Avenue since 1941; by 1951 the company was listed on Boston Road, and the 1957 directory gives "Pinehurst Ice & Oil Co (Richd H Jollymore) 811 Boston rd". The Jollymores kept the property for nearly fifty years. In 1996 Richard, then living in Florida, conveyed the south strip to a family member, keeping the right to use it for life, and after the deaths of Richard and Edith the house lot passed from their estates to the same family member in 1998. The property was sold to a private owner later that day, and has changed hands several times since. The assessor's figure of about 1905 for the house is too early: the deeds show the lot was bare in December 1924 and built on by July 1925.



Charles W. H. Ingles House
Plan of Land in Billerica surveyed for Sheldon and Eames, James A. Bancroft, Oct. 23, 1893, 1893 (Plan 10/27)
Charles W. H. Ingles House
Plan of Land at Pinehurst, Billerica, Mass. (Charles W. H. Ingles, 11,070 sq ft, from Eliza B. Mixon), E. P. Sellew, July 15, 1925, 1925 (Plan 47/11)


References

  1. Billerica assessor, 811 Boston Rd (parcel 99-164-1): 0.337 acres in two parcels of 11,070 and 5,072 sq ft, "part Mixon land", sales since 1948


Title References

Date Type Grantor Grantee Summary Recorded
1811 Administration Estate of Isaac Beard of Billerica, yeoman, deceased intestate Benjamin Beard of Billerica, housewright, administrator Probate #1442
April 22, 1812 Administrator's Deed Benjamin Beard of Billerica, administrator of the estate of Isaac Beard Joshua Wyman of Medford, yeoman 199/104 (South)
April 22, 1812 Mortgage Joshua Wyman of Medford, yeoman Peter C. Brooks of Boston, Esquire 199/105 (South)
1816 Quitclaim Joshua Wyman of Billerica, yeoman (Susanna Wyman, his wife, releasing dower) Peter C. Brooks of Boston, Esquire 218/201 (South)
November 4, 1824 Deed Peter C. Brooks of Boston, Esquire (Ann Brooks, his wife, relinquishing dower) Ruel Carter and John Parker, both of Wilmington 256/481 (South)
November 4, 1824 Deed John Parker of Wilmington, yeoman, and his wife Rachel Francis Carter of Wilmington, yeoman 256/482 (South)
April 2, 1825 Quitclaim Ruel Carter of Billerica, yeoman, and his wife Mary Francis Carter of Wilmington, yeoman 259/191 (South)
1867 Administration Estate of Francis Carter of Billerica His widow Harriet Carter and daughters Harriet E. Alley, Martha Higgins and Fanny M. Marion Probate #28894
December 4, 1889 Warranty Deed Richard J. and Harriet E. Alley of Burlington, Martha C. Higgins of Somerville, Henry S. and Fanny M. Marion of Burlington, heirs of Francis Carter Henry Sheldon of Wilmington, James T. Eames of North Reading and Kimball M. McLaughlin of Salem, N.H. 211/154
January 4, 1893 Quitclaim Kimball M. McLaughlin of Salem, N.H. Henry Sheldon of Wilmington and James T. Eames of North Reading 240/252
November 7, 1893 Warranty Deed Henry Sheldon of Wilmington and James T. Eames of North Reading (Sarah G. Sheldon and Betsey Eames releasing dower and homestead) Hezekiah H. Bryant of Somerville 249/314
June 11, 1895 Warranty Deed Hezekiah H. Bryant of Somerville (Martha J. Bryant, his wife, releasing dower and homestead) Charles N. Jackson of Centre Harbor, Belknap County, New Hampshire 264/225
March 24, 1896 Warranty Deed Charles N. Jackson of Centre Harbor, New Hampshire, bachelor Mrs. Martha J. Bryant of Somerville 272/384
April 15, 1896 Warranty Deed Hezekiah H. Bryant and Martha J. Bryant, his wife, in her own right, of Somerville Frederic H. Mixon of Cambridge 274/76
June 4, 1903 Warranty Deed Frederic H. Mixon of Billerica (Eliza B. Mixon releasing dower and homestead) Frederic A. R. Mixon of Billerica 354/323
June 4, 1903 Warranty Deed Frederic H. Mixon of Billerica (Eliza B. Mixon, his wife, releasing dower and homestead) Frederic A. R. Mixon of Billerica 354/321
June 4, 1903 Warranty Deed Frederic A. R. Mixon of Billerica, unmarried Eliza B. Mixon of Billerica 354/324
December 22, 1924 Warranty Deed Eliza B. Mixon of Billerica, unmarried Charles W. H. Ingles 716/595
July 23, 1925 Confirmatory Deed Eliza B. Mixon of Billerica, unmarried Charles W. H. Ingles 726/52
July 23, 1925 Mortgage Charles W. H. Ingles of Billerica Woburn Co-operative Bank 726/53
October 20, 1936 Warranty Deed Charles W. H. Ingles of Billerica (Alice A. Ingles, his wife, releasing dower) William B. Victorino of Chesterfield Avenue, Billerica 889/510
October 20, 1936 Quitclaim William B. Victorino of Billerica, unmarried Alice A. Ingles and Charles W. H. Ingles, wife and husband, tenants by the entirety 889/511
April 26, 1940 Quitclaim Deed John K. Oldmixon of Medford (Ida M. Oldmixon releasing dower and homestead) The Community Congregational Church, a corporate body of Billerica 944/39
April 26, 1940 Tax Redemption Town of Billerica, by Lawrence E. Desmond, Treasurer The Community Congregational Church of Billerica 944/40
December 18, 1946 Quitclaim Lester C. Ingles of Billerica, unmarried Edith Ingles Jollymore of Billerica 1058/470
December 18, 1946 Quitclaim Phyllis E. Bryson of Boston, married (James K. Bryson releasing) Edith Ingles Jollymore of Billerica 1058/471
October 20, 1948 Quitclaim The Community Congregational Church, Billerica (trustees Ulric E. Carson, Beth L. Johansen, Edward T. Morrison) Richard Howard Jollimore and Edith Lillian Jollimore, husband and wife, of Pinehurst 1103/54
July 8, 1996 Quitclaim Richard Howard Jollymore, also known as Richard Howard Jollimore, of Holly Hill, Florida A family member 8112/297
February 27, 1998 Deed Heirs of Richard H. Jollymore and Edith L. Jollymore (Middlesex Probate 98P0549 and 98P0548) A family member 9093/202

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.