Dutile Park
Deed References
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| January 9, 1901 | Warranty Deed | Edwin Manning of Taunton (Carrie H. Manning releasing dower and homestead) | Sarah S. Saunders of Lowell | 1901: Edwin Manning sells his 65-acre homestead farm in West Billerica to Sarah S. Saunders | 327/7 |
Pages 7-8. Dated Jan. 7, 1901, acknowledged before Herbert A. King JP; recorded Jan. 9, 1901; $3.00 in stamps. For $3,000, "my Homestead Farm situated in Billerica Mass. with all the buildings thereon", bounded west by land of E. R. Fowler, south by land formerly of Charles Cutler, south and east by land formerly of John Winning and Josiah B. Richardson, east by land formerly of Noah Harrod, and north by the heirs of Timothy Foster and of William Frost, "containing sixty five acres", "the same premises as conveyed to me by deed of Jesse Manning ... Book 165 Page 559". Saunders gave back a $2,500 mortgage the same day (page 8).
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| August 21, 1905 | Warranty Deed | Sarah S. Saunders of Lowell, widow | Laura M. Rogers of Lowell, wife of Alonzo D. Rogers | 1905: Sarah S. Saunders sells the farm to Laura M. Rogers | 381/213 |
Pages 213-214. Dated Aug. 19, 1905, acknowledged before Chas. H. McIntire JP; recorded Aug. 21, 1905. For one dollar and other valuable consideration, "a certain farm situated in Billerica ... with the buildings thereon", the same bounds (Fowler, Cutler, Winning and Richardson, Harrod, Foster and Frost heirs), "containing sixty-five acres", "the same premises to me conveyed by Edwin Manning by deed dated January 7th 1901 ... Book 327 Page 7", subject to the taxes for 1905.
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| December 4, 1928 | Quitclaim Deed | Erik J. Froom and Marie Froom of Billerica, husband and wife | John Thomas and Annie Thomas of Boston, husband and wife | 1928: the Frooms sell the 66.5-acre farm off Treble Cove Road to John and Annie Thomas | 771/358 |
Pages 358-360. Dated and acknowledged Dec. 4, 1928; recorded the same day. A parcel "with the buildings thereon situated in the westerly part of said Billerica on a lane or road leading southerly from Treble Cove Road so-called", by the lane, Hutchins, Wilson, Rollins, "Warren Shedd", Dudley Foster, Anthony J. Bemis, Farmer and Hamstead, "Containing sixty-six and 5/10 (66.5) acres", shown on "Plan of Land in Billerica, Mass., belonging to Laura M. Rogers, June 1911, O. M. Snell, C. E." (Plan Book 29 Plan 46), "the same premises to said Laura M. Rogers conveyed by Sarah S. Saunders ... Book 381, Page 213", subject to a 1911 mortgage to the Central Savings Bank; "Being the same premises conveyed to us by Laura M. Rogers by deed dated May 6, 1915 ... Book 537, Page 376."
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| January 30, 1930 | Quitclaim Deed | John Thomas and Annie Thomas of Billerica, husband and wife | Kazimer Baniulis of Boston | 1930: the Thomases sell the farm to Kazimer Baniulis | 786/277 |
Pages 277-279. Dated and acknowledged Jan. 30, 1930 (Suffolk); recorded the same day. The same 66.5 acres "with the buildings thereon" on the lane south of Treble Cove Road, by the same bounds and the 1911 Rogers plan, subject to the Central Savings Bank mortgage and a second mortgage of $1,700, "Being the same premises conveyed to us by Erik J. Froom and Marie Froom ... Book 771, Page 358." Baniulis gave a $4,000 mortgage to Peter Banlis the same day.
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| November 12, 1953 | Quitclaim Deed | Kazimer Baniulis of Billerica (Anna Baniulis releasing dower) | George W. Jones, Walter Arakelian and Morris Arakelian of Billerica, tenants in common | 1953: Baniulis sells 15.8 acres east of the farm (the later park) to George W. Jones and the Arakelians | 1240/192 |
Pages 192-193. Dated, acknowledged and recorded Nov. 12, 1953. Two parcels of "woodland and borrow pits" off the old road south of Treble Cove Road: about 16.5 acres, and 15.8 acres to the south shown on "Plan of Land in Billerica, Surveyed for George W. Jones, dated November, 1953, by James B. Monahan" (Plan Book 83 Plan 111), bounded by Rollins, Shedd, Riverpines Units 6, 1 and 5 and other land of Baniulis, with a 40-foot right of way between them. "Being a portion of the premises conveyed to this grantor by deed of John Thomas and Annie Thomas dated January 30, 1930 ... Book 786, Page 277", and of the 1911 Rogers plan (Plan Book 29 Plan 46).
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| January 27, 1956 | Quitclaim Deed | George W. Jones, Walter Arakelian and Morris Arakelian, all of Billerica | J. Everett Farmer of Billerica | 1956: Jones and the Arakelians sell the land to J. Everett Farmer | 1324/486 |
Pages 486-487. Recorded Jan. 27, 1956. "For consideration paid", the same two parcels on the east side of the old road leading south from Treble Cove Road: Parcel 1 of about 16.5 acres and Parcel 2 of 15.8 acres on the 1953 Jones plan, "woodland and borrow pits", with the right of way over Baniulis land. "Being the same premises to us conveyed by Kazimer Baniulis and Anna Baniulis ... Book 1240, Page 192."
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| March 19, 1959 | Quitclaim Deed | J. Everett Farmer of Billerica (Phyllis C. Farmer releasing dower and homestead) | The Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica | 1959: J. Everett Farmer deeds ten acres to the town for the River Pines Playground ($1, Art. 31 of 1958) | 1432/179 |
Pages 179-180. Recorded March 19, 1959 with the town clerk's certificate of the vote. "For consideration paid" (the town meeting set it at $1.00), land "in the River Pines Section" on the 1953 Jones plan, from the southeast corner northwest along River Pines Unit 1 314 feet, then 300.5 feet, northeast 771.31 feet to a ditch, along land of Baniulis 1,371 feet to an iron pipe, by Rollins 180 feet and east 600 feet along land of Farmer to the beginning, "Being Lot B and the northeasterly portion of Lot A", "a portion of Parcel No. 2 conveyed to me by George W. Jones, et al ... Book 1324, Page 486", "Containing ten acres more or less". Farmer reserved a 40-foot right of way along the whole southerly line to his adjoining land. Accepted under Article 31 of the annual town meeting of March 8, 1958, submitted by the River Pines Improvement Association, which voted $1.00 "and that this land be put under the direction of the River Pines Playground Committee".
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| January 30, 1963 | Order of Taking | James Farmer (supposed owner), by eminent domain | The Town of Billerica, by its Board of Selectmen, for school building purposes | 1963: taking of Farmer land south of the playground for the school (Dutile School) | 1589/185 |
Pages 185-186. Adopted Jan. 28, 1963 under a vote of the special town meeting of Jan. 7, 1963 ($3,000), recorded Jan. 30, 1963. The fee in about four acres "southerly and southwesterly of land now used for playground purposes by the Town of Billerica", running along "the southerly side of a right of way running along land now owned by the Town of Billerica and used for playground purposes" to land of Biagiotti, part of the 15.8-acre plot of the 1953 Jones plan (misprinted Plan Book 62). Damages awarded one dollar; the town paid James Farmer $13,659.62 on a court judgment in 1966. This and the next taking are the site of the Dutile School, opened 1965.
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| March 5, 1963 | Order of Taking | Roger Biagiotti, or Roger and Eva Biagiotti (supposed owners), by eminent domain | The Town of Billerica, by its Board of Selectmen, for school building purposes | 1963: taking of Biagiotti land west of the playground for the school | 1592/358 |
Pages 358-359. Adopted Feb. 18, 1963 under the same Jan. 7, 1963 vote, recorded March 5, 1963. About 7.4 acres "in the River Pines section ... westerly and northerly of the premises of one James Farmer", from Farmer's land "and at Shedd Road" along a stone wall 834.32 feet, then by other Biagiotti land 555.59 feet "to land of the Town of Billerica" and back along the town and Farmer lines, shown on a February 1963 plan by Emmons & Fleming. Damages one dollar; Eva Biagiotti received $12,105.55 on a court judgment in 1966.
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| August 27, 2026 | Vote | Town of Billerica, special town meeting of May 19, 2026 | Select Board (authority to grant an easement) | 2026: town meeting vote for an electric easement across the school and park land | 40310/93 |
Certified copy of Article 4 of the special town meeting of May 19, 2026 (voted 162 to 8): an electric distribution easement to National Grid over part of 10 Biagiotti Way (assessor's parcels 39-91-0, 49-380-0 and 39-92-0), declared no longer needed by the School Committee, for not less than $5,832.20, and over land off Baniulis Road (39-7-1).
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| August 27, 2026 | Easement | Town of Billerica, by its Select Board | Massachusetts Electric Company and Verizon New England, Inc. | 2026: pole-line easement to Massachusetts Electric and Verizon across the Dutile land | 40310/96 |
For one dollar, a perpetual easement for an overhead pole line (four new poles and three existing) across "0 Briarwood Avenue and 10 Biagiotti Way", the town land between Biagiotti Way and Briarwood Avenue shown on Plan Book 98 Plan 23 and Plan Book 83 Plan 111, to feed a new customer at Treble Cove Road. "For Grantor's title see Order of Taking dated January 28, 1963 ... Book 1589, Page 185 and Order of Taking dated February 18, 1963 ... Book 1592, Page 358."
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted.
References
- Town of Billerica, Dutile Park brochure (2025): soccer field, baseball field, playground, walking path; parking at the end of Ridgeway Road
- Town reports 1951-1954: 1952 Art. 42, $500 for the playground in the River Pines section and a committee of three
- Town reports 1955-1959: River Pines Playground Committee (Granfield, Dutile, Cavanaugh); 1958 Art. 31
- Town reports 1960-1964: field house 1962, naming the Frederick J. Dutile Memorial Playground, school site, backstops