Structure · Built 1974
East Billerica Fire Station
The East Billerica Fire Station stands on the south side of Salem Road where Baldwin Road comes in from the south, on a lot of 2.90 acres that fills one block of the 1913 Billerica Highlands subdivision. It was built by the town in 1973 and 1974 and opened on September 23, 1974, the fourth station of the Billerica Fire Department after the Center Fire Station, the North Billerica Fire Station and the Pinehurst station. It was designed by the architects and engineers Campbell, Green and Consulo (so spelled in the building committee's report) and built by P & H General Contractors of Revere for a total of $169,995. The town reports have always called it the East Billerica Fire Station.
The land was part of the Baldwin homestead farm, about a hundred acres on both sides of the cross road that became Baldwin Road, bounded north by the old Salem Road and south by the Shawsheen River. John Baldwin conveyed it to Joel Baldwin in 1792 and 1800, and it stayed in the family through Joel Baldwin Jr. to Joel W. Baldwin of Tewksbury (see the John Baldwin House). In May 1913 Joel W. Baldwin put the farm into the Billerica Realty Trust Company, which he held with Henry E. Underhill and William A. Hayre of Lawrence, and in October 1913 R. W. Seamans of Providence drew the plan of "Billerica Highlands", hundreds of small house lots on paper streets named for the family, Joel Avenue, Albert Avenue and Henry Avenue. The station block is Lots 245 to 274, between Salem Road, "Baldwin Street", Joel Avenue and Albert Avenue, about 161,600 square feet.
Few of the lots sold. By March 1915, when the trustee mortgaged the remaining land back to Joel W. Baldwin, lots 245, 246, 247, 251, 252, 253, 261 and 262 of this block had been sold off. Their buyers stopped paying the small taxes on them, and the town bought them in at the collector's sales: Lot 245, assessed to Julius Grosewicz, in December 1918, and Lot 254, assessed to Peter Andrews, and Lots 261 and 262, assessed to Edward A. Connell, in April 1925. In May 1930 the town released these lots to Orland S. Marshall of Billerica for a dollar each. He in turn let the taxes go, and the collector took them again in August 1956 for the taxes of 1953 to 1955, $17.65 for Lot 245 and $10.12 for each of the others. With no bid at the auction of April 1959, the treasurer's deed of May 15, 1959 made the town the owner of them as "land of low value"; this is still the deed the assessor gives for the station lot.
The rest of the block went back to Joel W. Baldwin when he foreclosed his mortgage in January 1921. In April 1923 he sold "that part ... which lies easterly of Baldwin Street so called, containing about ninety acres" to John and Katerine Pichowicz, who sold it with the house lot across the road in May 1934 to Mike and Agnes Raskauskas; they sold both in August 1934 to John and Agota Auglis of Cambridge. The Auglis family kept the land for nearly forty years.
In 1968 a warrant article asked for an East Billerica Fire Station Building Committee, and in 1970 the Selectmen listed "the need for an additional fire station to protect the increased population in the East and West" among the problems of a growing town. The 1971 town meeting had the Moderator appoint a committee of seven, one from each precinct, with the fire chief, to prepare for two new stations, one in West Billerica and one in East Billerica; Donald J. Burbine was its first chairman. In 1972 the town meeting continued it as a building committee and voted, unanimously with 147 in favor, $18,000 to buy about three acres of John Auglis "at the intersection of Baldwin Road and Salem Road". Auglis signed the deed on May 12, 1972, conveying Lots 245 to 274 except the lots he did not own, "The consideration for this deed is $18,000.00", and it was recorded on July 11, 1973. On July 20, 1973 Harrison A. Meeker surveyed the lot for the Fire Station Building Committee as a single parcel of 2.90 acres, walled with field stone on the south and east.
The 1973 annual town meeting first heard a motion for $338,000 to build stations in both East and West Billerica; the Finance Committee's amendment struck out West Billerica and the meeting voted $163,925, with $12,000 more transferred from the 1972 land article, for the East station alone. The building committee, now chaired by James J. Galvin with Franklyn J. McCaffrey, Thomas J. Kilday, Francis A. Mandarano, William S. Robbins, Grant H. Whiteway and Fire Chief Harry Martell Jr., put the plans out to bid in October 1973. The bids came in above the amount voted, and "rather than request more money from the Town" the committee revised the plans and bid the job again. A photograph in the 1973 town report shows the contractor's sign in the still-wooded lot and surveyors at work. The contract went to P & H Construction of Revere, and the station was completed on September 23, 1974; more than 2,000 people came to the open house. The total cost was $169,995, within the appropriation, and the town paid the last $79,250.31 of the construction account in 1975. At the 1976 annual town meeting Galvin read the committee's final report on the East Billerica Fire Station, and the committee was discharged and its bond released. The West Billerica station, bid in January 1975, was built next, on land given by the New England Erecting Company at Treble Cove and Nashua Roads.
The station is a one-story brick-veneered building with a flat tar and gravel roof, set back from the corner of Salem and Baldwin Roads. It became one of the places where the town's election and town meeting warrants were posted, and in 1980 the Selectmen proposed building tennis courts "on Salem Road adjacent to East Billerica Fire Station". In 1993 the town meeting let the Selectmen grant New England Telephone a license and an easement for a manhole, an equipment cabinet and cables on the town land behind the station, and in 1996 the Fire Prevention Bureau held an open house there with its "Safe House" fire safety trailer. The station is still in service, and the town still owns the 2.90-acre lot.
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| December 6, 1796 | Deed | John Baldwin of Billerica, yeoman (Elizabeth Baldwin also sealing) | Joel Baldwin of Billerica, yeoman | 1792: John Baldwin conveys half the homestead farm to Joel Baldwin | 123/190 (South) |
For 150 pounds, "one half of my homestead farm lying in Billerica aforesaid containing about one hundred acres", "bounded as in the deed I have of the said lands, or as the same is butted and bounded in Billerica town book of records, with the west end of the dwelling house thereon excepting the chamber over the fore room, with one half of the barn on said premisses"; also half of a 10-acre pasture near Ephraim Crosby's, half of a 20-acre lot in Wilmington southeast of the Shawsheen River and half of 18 acres in Tewksbury by Heath Swamp. Dated January 17, 1792 (witnesses Jonathan Brown Jr., Jonathan Brown, Joseph Kendall, Jonathan Beard); recorded December 6, 1796. Billerica town book 9, pages 248-249. The first record of the Baldwin farmhouse: John Baldwin (b. 1731) gave his son Joel half of the farm and the west end of the house.
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| December 20, 1809 | Deed | John Baldwin of Billerica, yeoman | Joel Baldwin of Billerica, yeoman | 1800: John Baldwin conveys the other half of the farm to Joel | 186/272 (South) |
For $500, "one half my home stead farm lying in Billerica aforesaid containing about one hundred acres be the same more or less, the said half is the other part which I did not deed to the said Joel formerly", bounded as in John's own deed or the Billerica town book, "with all the remaining part of my buildings which I had not deeded to him before"; also half of a 13-acre pasture by Thomas Crage, Joseph Kendall and Thomas Allen, and the other halves of the Wilmington and Tewksbury lots. Dated August 1, 1800 (witnesses John Marshall, Jonathan Brown); recorded December 20, 1809. Billerica town book 10, pages 503-504. John Baldwin died December 4, 1800 (Hazen).
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| 1830 | Will | Estate of Joel Baldwin of Billerica, yeoman (1766-1829) | His wife Mary (one third) and his kinsman Joel Baldwin (the rest) | 1830: will of the elder Joel Baldwin, Billerica farm to his kinsman Joel | Probate #830 |
Will dated August 12, 1828 (witnesses Samuel Whiting, Marshall Preston, Harriet Whiting): "I give to my beloved wife one third part of all my real and personal estate"; his farm in Wilton, New Hampshire to be sold for the heirs of his brothers John, Timothy and Asa Baldwin and of "my sister Marshall"; "I give & devise to Joel Baldwin all my real estate in Billerica, Wilmington & Tewksbury", Joel to be sole executor. Joel Baldwin the elder died December 26, 1829; the will was proved at Charlestown February 16, 1830, with Theophilus Manning and Ebenezer Page, his neighbors, as sureties on the $30,000 bond. The devisee was his nephew Joel (son of Timothy of Lyndeborough, N.H.), who had come to Billerica in 1825.
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| March 19, 1830 | Quitclaim | Mary Baldwin of Billerica, widow | Joel Baldwin of Billerica, yeoman | 1830: widow Mary Baldwin releases her third of the farm | 295/530 (South) |
For $1,000, quitclaim of all her right in "all the real estate of my late husband, Joel Baldwin deceased, situate in Billerica, Wilmington & Tewksbury in said County, being the undivided third part of the real estate of said deceased as devised to me, in & by the last will & testament of said deceased." Dated February 22, 1830 (witnesses Theophilus Manning, Marshall Preston). Billerica town book 14, page 268. Hazen records the elder Joel as having died unmarried; this deed shows he left a widow, Mary.
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| March 19, 1830 | Mortgage | Joel Baldwin of Billerica, yeoman (wife Mary relinquishing dower) | Mary Baldwin of Billerica, widow | 1830: Joel Baldwin's support mortgage of the farm to Mary | 295/531 (South) |
For $1,000, "with the buildings thereon standing ... The Homestead farm of Joel Baldwin late of said Billerica deceased, situate in said Billerica, containing one hundred acres more or less", bounded northerly by Ebenezer Page, westerly by Asa Holden, John Crosby and Solomon Cutler, southerly by Cutler to the Shawsheen River, easterly by the river and by Joseph Kendall and Cyrus Taylor, northeasterly by Theophilus Manning to the Salem Road. To be void if Joel "shall maintain & support the said Mary during her natural life, both in sickness and in health, provide for her at all times suitable food and clothing, nursing and medical aid, according to her rank and standing in society". A support mortgage given the same day as her release. Billerica town book 14, pages 269-270.
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| September 23, 1850 | Deed | Joel Baldwin of Billerica, yeoman (wife Mary relinquishing dower) | His son Joel Baldwin Jr. of Billerica | 1849: Joel Baldwin to Joel Jr., undivided half of the farm | 594/327 (South) |
For $1,500, "one undivided half of my homestead farm situate in the Easterly part of said Billerica containing one hundred acres more or less", from the northeast corner on the road at Ebenezer Page, by Page to Perkins Holden, westerly by Holden, John Crosby and Rufus Cutler, southerly by Cutler and the Shawsheen river, easterly by Theophilus Manning "till you come to the Salem Road so called thence by said road as the wall now stands" to the beginning. Dated May 29, 1849, before Dudley Foster JP; recorded September 23, 1850. Billerica town book 18, pages 473-474.
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| 1850 | Administration | Estate of Joel Baldwin of Billerica, yeoman (d. April 19, 1850) | John F. Baldwin, his son, administrator | 1850: administration of Joel Baldwin's estate | Probate #26763 |
The widow Mary Baldwin declined and asked that "my son John F. Baldwin" administer; he was appointed June 4, 1850. Inventory of May 17, 1850 (John Baldwin, John Crosby and Lyman Haynes, appraisers): "one undivided half of the homestead so called containing about 130 a." $2,375, a Wilmington wood lot, the Mill meadow lot, a mowing lot near Stephen Parker's, a New Hampshire pasture, "the three corner lot", a pew in the Universalist meeting house; personal estate of oxen, cows, a horse, chaise, carpenter's tools "in the shop", and furniture of the garret, east chamber, northwest chamber, east and west rooms, sink room and wood house chamber.
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| June 8, 1866 | Quitclaim | John F. Baldwin of Billerica (wife Fanny A. releasing dower), and William Manning and Mary Ann Manning his wife in her right, of Chelmsford | Joel Baldwin of Billerica | 1851: heirs' division, homestead farm to Joel Baldwin Jr. | 49/468 |
For $1,600, quitclaim of "what was formerly the homestead farm of Joel Baldwin late of Billerica ... deceased containing about one hundred and twenty acres," beginning at the northeast corner "at land of Theophilus Manning on the old Salem road," westerly on the road to "a cross road leading to the Boston and Lowell road," across it to Ebenezer Page, by Page to Perkins Holden, across the road to John Crosby, south to Rufus Cutler, east to the Shawsheen River and back by Holden and T. Manning. Dated October 15, 1851, the same day as the companion deed to John F. Baldwin, but not recorded until June 8, 1866. The farm surrounding the Gray Place on the south went to the younger Joel Baldwin.
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| May 9, 1913 | Guardian's Deed | William Manning of Chelmsford, guardian of William H. Baldwin, minor son of Joel Baldwin | Joel Baldwin Jr. of Billerica | 1851: guardian's deed of William H. Baldwin's share to Joel Jr. | 505/127 |
By license of the Probate Court at Concord, August 12, 1851, after notice three weeks in the Lowell Advertiser, sold at public auction on the premises October 14, 1851, the minor's interest in "the homestead of said Joel Baldwin situate in Billerica containing about one hundred and twenty acres", from Theophilus Manning on the old Salem road westerly "to a cross road leading to the Boston and Lowell road", across it to Ebenezer Page, by Perkins Holden, John Crosby, Rufus Cutter and the Shawsheen river; with the four acres on the Boston and Lowell road, the Mill Meadow lot, 30 acres in Wilmington and the acre opposite on the Salem road; "to Joel Baldwin of Billerica aforesaid for the sum of Sixteen Hundred Dollars, he then and there being the highest bidder." Dated October 15, 1851; recorded only May 9, 1913.
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| May 7, 1891 | Quitclaim | Annah M. Jaquith in her own right and Joseph Jaquith her husband, both of Billerica | Her brother Joel W. Baldwin of Tewksbury | 1891: Annah M. Jaquith to Joel W. Baldwin, a third of the farm | 223/361 |
For $1,500, "one undivided third part of the farm situated in the easterly part of said Billerica, containing one hundred acres", from the northeast corner on the road at Ebenezer Page, by Perkins Holden, John Crosby and Rufus Cutter, the Shawsheen river and Theophilus Manning, "thence by said road as the wall now stands". "Being the same premises described in a deed of Joel Baldwin to Joel Baldwin Junior dated May 29th A.D. 1849 ... Book 594 Page 327." Dated May 7, 1891, before John Davis JP. Joel Baldwin Jr. had died leaving his widow Elizabeth W. Baldwin and two children, Annah and Joel W.
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| May 9, 1913 | Quitclaim | Annah M. Jaquith in her own right and Joseph Jaquith her husband, both of Billerica | Joel W. Baldwin of Billerica | 1913: Jaquith confirmatory deed to Joel W. Baldwin | 505/129 |
For $1 and other valuable considerations, "one undivided sixth part of the farm, situated in the easterly part of said Billerica, containing one hundred acres", same bounds. Recites the 1849 deed (594/327) and the 1851 guardian's deed "to be recorded herewith", "meaning and intending to convey all the right, title and interest that the said Annah M. Jaquith acquired to the foregoing premises as heir-at-law of her father Joel Baldwin, Jr., and Elizabeth W. Baldwin, my said interest being one-half, subject to the dower interest of my mother, Elizabeth W. Baldwin", correcting her 1891 deed (223/361) "in which I conveyed an undivided one third interest when I ought to have conveyed a one-half interest." Dated May 8, 1913.
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| May 24, 1913 | Quitclaim | Joel W. Baldwin of Tewksbury (wife Elizabeth Baldwin releasing dower and homestead) | Helen F. Walker of Lawrence | 1913: Joel W. Baldwin to Helen F. Walker (conduit) | 505/539 |
For $1 and other valuable considerations, "a certain lot of land, with buildings thereon situated in the easterly part of Billerica ... containing one hundred acres, more or less", from the northeast corner on the road at Ebenezer Page, by Perkins Holden, John Crosby, Rufus Cutter, the Shawsheen river and Theophilus Manning to the Salem road, "thence by said road as the wall now stands". "Being the same premises conveyed to me by William Manning guardian of Wm H. Baldwin dated Oct. 15th 1851 ... Also the same premises described in a deed of John F. Baldwin et alii, dated Oct. 15, 1851 ... book 49, page 468." Dated May 14, 1913. A conveyance through a third party to put the farm into the new realty trust.
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| May 24, 1913 | Declaration of Trust | Joel W. Baldwin of Tewksbury, Henry E. Underhill and William A. Hayre of Lawrence | Trustees of the Billerica Realty Trust Company | 1913: declaration of the Billerica Realty Trust Company | 505/540 |
Agreement and declaration of trust dated May 19, 1913 "for the purpose of purchasing and selling real estate", the trustees to hold property as "Trustees of the Billerica Realty Trust Company" for the subscribers: fifty-one hundredths to Joel W. Baldwin of Tewksbury, twenty-five to Henry E. Underhill and twenty-four to William A. Hayre, both of Lawrence. First trustees Baldwin and Underhill; the trust to last no more than twenty years.
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| May 24, 1913 | Quitclaim | Helen F. Walker of Lawrence, unmarried | Joel W. Baldwin and Henry E. Underhill, trustees of the Billerica Realty Trust Company | 1913: Walker to the trustees; Billerica Highlands laid out (Plan 31/67) | 505/543 |
For $1 and other valuable considerations, "a certain lot of land with all the buildings thereon, situated in the easterly part of Billerica ... containing about one hundred acres", same bounds. "Being the same premises conveyed to me by Joel W. Baldwin by his deed dated May 14th A.D. 1913, to be recorded herewith." Dated May 23, 1913. The farm was then laid out by R. W. Seamans in October 1913 as Billerica Highlands (Plan Book 31, Plan 67), with the Baldwin house and barn on a large corner lot west of Baldwin Street.
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| March 13, 1915 | Mortgage | Henry E. Underhill of Belmont, sole trustee of the Billerica Realty Trust Company | Joel W. Baldwin of Tewksbury | 1915: trust mortgage to Joel W. Baldwin, excepting lots already sold (245-247, 251-253, 261, 262) | 534/478 |
To secure $7,000 in five years at 5 1/2 percent, "the land in easterly part of Billerica ... with all the buildings thereon, containing about one hundred acres", same bounds, "Being the premises conveyed to Joel W. Baldwin and Henry E. Underhill, Trustees, by deed of Helen F. Walker, dated May 23, 1913", excepting lots already sold on the Billerica Highlands plan, and subject to a mortgage to the City Institution for Savings of Lowell. Dated March 2, 1915. Three weeks later, on March 24, 1915, "House and barn and 75 acres of woodland on the Joel Baldwin place" burned in a grass fire, damage $3,900 (Billerica fire department report).
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| January 24, 1919 | Collector's Deed | Thomas F. McElligott, Collector of Taxes for the Town of Billerica (Julius Grosewicz, assessed owner) | Town of Billerica | 1918: Lot 245 (Julius Grosewicz) bought in by the town for unpaid taxes | 597/214 |
The assessors' list for 1915 "duly assessed Julius Grosewicz as owner" of the land, $1.50 in taxes; demand July 1, 1918; advertised in the Lowell Courier-Citizen and posted at the Town Hall and the two post offices; offered at auction Dec. 26, 1918, adjourned to Dec. 27, when no one bid and the collector bought it for the town for $7.80. Conveys "Five thousand seven hundred twenty-five (5725) square feet of land, more or less, and being lot two hundred forty-five (245) on a plan of land entitled 'Billerica Highlands'", Plan Book 31, Plan 67, subject to redemption. Handwritten copy, pages 214-217; margin: see affidavit Book 788 Page 21 and release Book 789 Page 535.
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| February 7, 1921 | Foreclosure Deed | Joel W. Baldwin, mortgagee under the 1915 mortgage of the Billerica Realty Trust Company | Joel W. Baldwin of Tewksbury | 1921: Joel W. Baldwin forecloses the unsold land | 639/291 |
After default and published notice, by power of sale, for $1,000 paid by himself, "the land in the easterly part of Billerica ... with all the buildings thereon, containing about one hundred acres", same bounds, "Being the premises conveyed to Joel W. Baldwin and Henry E. Underhill, Trustees, by deed of Helen F. Walker, dated May 23, 1913 ... Book 505, Page 543", excepting the many Billerica Highlands lots sold or released since 1913. Dated January 31, 1921. Baldwin took the unsold remainder, including the old house lot, back from the trust.
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| April 24, 1923 | Quitclaim | Joel W. Baldwin of Tewksbury (wife Elizabeth releasing dower and homestead) | John Pichowicz and Katerine Pichowicz, husband and wife, of Billerica | 1923: the 90 acres east of Baldwin Street to John and Katerine Pichowicz | 679/230 |
For consideration paid (US stamps $2), "all that part of the premises conveyed by Baldwin to Baldwin by deed dated January 31, 1921 ... book 639, page 291, which lies easterly of Baldwin Street so called, containing about ninety acres". Dated April 21, 1923; mortgage back the same day for $1,300 (679/231). The farm east of the road; the old house lot west of the road followed in 1927.
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| April 24, 1923 | Mortgage | John Pichowicz and Katerine Pichowicz of Billerica | Joel W. Baldwin of Tewksbury | 1923: Pichowicz mortgage back to Joel W. Baldwin | 679/231 |
To secure $1,300 at $100 every six months and 4 percent, the same 90 acres east of Baldwin Street, "all that part of the premises conveyed by Baldwin to Baldwin by deed dated January 31, 1921 ... which lies easterly of Baldwin Street so called". Dated April 21, 1923; discharged November 1929 (784/266).
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| May 1, 1925 | Collector's Deed | John J. Ritchie, Collector of Taxes for the Town of Billerica (Peter Andrews, assessed owner) | Town of Billerica | 1925: Lot 254 (Peter Andrews) taken by the town for 1923 taxes | 721/545 |
The assessors' list for 1923 "duly assessed Peter Andrews as owner or occupant" of the land, $3.10 in taxes; demand June 30, 1924; advertised in the Lowell Courier Citizen and offered at public auction at the Town Hall Apr. 4, 1925 at two in the afternoon; the town became the purchaser. Lot 254, 2,500 square feet, on the Billerica Highlands plan, Plan Book 31, Plan 67 (the lot and the date are confirmed by the 1930 release, Book 789 Page 530). Margin: see affidavit Book 788 Page 21, release Book 789 Page 530.
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| May 1, 1925 | Collector's Deed | John J. Ritchie, Collector of Taxes for the Town of Billerica (Edward A. Connell, assessed owner) | Town of Billerica | 1925: Lots 261-262 (Edward A. Connell) taken by the town for 1923 taxes | 721/584 |
The assessors' list for 1923 assessed "Edward A. Connell as owner or occupant", $2.33 in taxes; demand July 18, 1924; auction at the Town Hall Apr. 4, 1925, where the land "was struck off to Harry P. Chadwick of Roxbury" for $8.03, but he failed to pay within twenty days, the sale became void "and the said Town of Billerica thereby became the purchaser". Conveys "Five thousand (5,000) square feet of land more or less being lots numbered two hundred sixty one (261) and two hundred sixty two (262)" on the Billerica Highlands plan, Plan Book 31, Plan 67. Pages 584-586.
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| May 22, 1930 | Release | Town of Billerica, by Patrick J. Mahoney, Collector of Taxes | Orland S. Marshall of Billerica | 1930: the town sells its tax title to Lot 254 to Orland S. Marshall | 789/530 |
Under the affidavit of Henry F. Long, Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation, dated Apr. 15, 1930 (Book 788 Page 21) and chapter 241 of the Acts of 1925, for one dollar the town releases all its title acquired by the taking made by John J. Ritchie, Collector, Apr. 4, 1925 (Book 721 Page 545) in "2,500 square feet of land more or less being lot #254 on a plan of land entitled Billerica Highlands", Plan Book 31, Plan 67. Dated May 3, 1930, acknowledged May 5 before Roland G. Wright; recorded May 22, 1930 at 10:00.
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| May 22, 1930 | Release | Town of Billerica, by Patrick J. Mahoney, Collector of Taxes | Orland S. Marshall of Billerica | 1930: the town sells its tax title to Lot 245 to Orland S. Marshall | 789/535 |
Same form: for one dollar the town releases its title under the taking by Thomas F. McElligott, Collector, dated Dec. 27, 1918 (Book 597 Page 214) in "5725 square feet of land, more or less, and being lot #245 on a plan of land entitled Billerica Highlands", Plan Book 31, Plan 67. Dated May 3, 1930, acknowledged May 5; recorded May 22, 1930 at 10:05 (pages 535-536). One of a series of releases of Highlands lots to Marshall that day, among them Lots 316-320.
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| May 22, 1930 | Release | Town of Billerica, by Patrick J. Mahoney, Collector of Taxes | Orland S. Marshall of Billerica | 1930: the town sells its tax title to Lots 261-262 to Orland S. Marshall | 789/536 |
Same form: for one dollar the town releases its title under the taking by John J. Ritchie, Collector, Apr. 4, 1925 (Book 721 Page 584) in "5,000 square feet of land more or less being lots #261 and #262 on a plan of land entitled Billerica Highlands", Plan Book 31, Plan 67. Dated May 3, 1930; recorded May 22, 1930 at 10:06 (pages 536-537).
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| May 11, 1934 | Quitclaim | John Pichowicz, sometimes called John Pechowicz, and Katerine Pichowicz, husband and wife, of Billerica | Mike Raskauskas and Agnes Raskauskas, husband and wife, of Boston | 1934: Pichowicz to Mike and Agnes Raskauskas | 843/525 |
"Two certain parcels or tracts of land with the buildings thereon": First Parcel, about 46,188 square feet "together with the buildings thereon situated on the westerly side of Baldwin Street", lot "4" on the Billerica Highlands plan, "Being a portion of the premises conveyed to us by Joel W. Baldwin by deed dated October 14, 1927 ... Book 755, Page 339"; Second Parcel, about 90 acres with buildings on the east side of Baldwin Street from Salem Road to Stephen D. Poland's land and the Shawsheen River (title by the 1923 Baldwin deed and a 1917 deed of Henry E. Underhill, trustee). Subject to the Woburn Co-operative Bank mortgage of 1929 on lot "4". Dated May 11, 1934.
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| August 9, 1934 | Quitclaim | Mike Raskauskas and Agnes Raskauskas, husband and wife, of Billerica | John Auglis and Agota Auglis, husband and wife, of Cambridge | 1934: Raskauskas to John and Agota Auglis | 848/572 |
For consideration paid (stamps $2.50), "Two certain parcels or tracts of land with the buildings thereon in the easterly part of Billerica": lot "4", 46,188 square feet "together with the buildings thereon situated on the westerly side of Baldwin Street", and the 90 acres east of Baldwin Street. "Being all and the same premises conveyed to us by John Pichowicz, alias, et ux. by deed dated May 11, 1934", subject to the Woburn Co-operative Bank mortgage (balance $1,516.48). Dated August 9, 1934. The Auglis family kept the house about fifty years: Agota Auglis died May 17, 1968 and John Auglis left his remainder by will; heirs conveyed the house lot within the family in 1980, and after Alphonse Auglis died December 14, 1983 it was sold to a private owner in 1984 ($65,000), and again in 2003 ($327,000).
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| October 30, 1956 | Tax Taking | John F. Monahan, Collector of Taxes for the Town of Billerica (Orland S. Marshall, assessed owner) | Town of Billerica | 1956: Lot 245 taken from Orland S. Marshall for 1953-1955 taxes | 1354/18 |
Instrument of taking under General Laws chapter 60, sections 53 and 54, of "Lots 245 on a plan of land entitled 'Billerica Highlands'", Plan Book 31, Plan 67, "For further description see Deed in said Registry Book 789 Page 535", for the 1953-1955 taxes assessed to Orland S. Marshall and demanded Mar. 18, 1956: $10.58 in taxes, $.72 interest and $6.35 costs, $17.65 in all. Dated Aug. 31, 1956, acknowledged Oct. 30, 1956 before Thomas F. Murphy; recorded Oct. 30, 1956. Margin: see affidavit Book 1434 Page 1 and Book 1438 Page 561.
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| October 30, 1956 | Tax Taking | John F. Monahan, Collector of Taxes for the Town of Billerica (Orland S. Marshall, assessed owner) | Town of Billerica | 1956: Lot 254 taken from Orland S. Marshall for 1953-1955 taxes | 1354/19 |
Instrument of taking of "Lots 254 on a plan of land entitled 'Billerica Highlands'", Plan Book 31, Plan 67, "For further description see Deed in said Registry Book 789 Page 530", for the 1953-1955 taxes of Orland S. Marshall: $3.53, interest $.24, costs $6.35, $10.12 in all. Dated Aug. 31, 1956; recorded Oct. 30, 1956.
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| October 30, 1956 | Tax Taking | John F. Monahan, Collector of Taxes for the Town of Billerica (Orland S. Marshall, assessed owner) | Town of Billerica | 1956: Lots 261-262 taken from Orland S. Marshall for 1953-1955 taxes | 1354/20 |
Instrument of taking of "Lots 261-262 on a plan of land entitled 'Billerica Highlands'", Plan Book 31, Plan 67, "For further description see Deed in Registry Book 789 Page 536", for the 1953-1955 taxes of Orland S. Marshall: $3.53, interest $.24, costs $6.35, $10.12 in all. Dated Aug. 31, 1956; recorded Oct. 30, 1956.
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| May 20, 1959 | Treasurer's Deed | Robert H. Fowler, Treasurer of the Town of Billerica | Town of Billerica | 1959: treasurer's deed completes the town's title to Lots 245, 254, 261 and 262 | 1438/561 |
Treasurer's deed to municipality, land of low value, under General Laws chapter 60, sections 79 and 80, granting to the town the parcels held under the scheduled instruments of taking, among them "Orland S. Marshall, Lot 245, Billerica Highlands" (Book 1354 Page 18), Lot 254 (1354/19) and Lots 261-262 (1354/20), with other lots in Billerica Acres, Billerica Highlands, Central Park and Fordway Park. The land was in the Commissioner's affidavit recorded Apr. 6, 1959 (Book 1434 Page 1), offered at public auction Apr. 23, 1959 after notice posted in the Billerica Town Hall; "No bid" was made and the town became the purchaser at the adjournment on Apr. 26, 1959. Executed May 15, 1959, acknowledged before Mildred Agnes Westhaver; recorded May 20, 1959 at 1:15 (pages 561-562). The assessor gives this deed as the current Legal Reference of the fire station parcel 44-1-0.
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| July 11, 1973 | Quitclaim | John Auglis of Billerica, unmarried (by his mark) | Town of Billerica, a municipal corporation | 1972: John Auglis sells the block (Lots 245-274, less the lots sold earlier) to the town for $18,000 for the fire station | 2074/604 |
Under Article 42 of the 1972 annual town meeting ($18,000 voted for about three acres of John Auglis at Baldwin Road and Salem Road, part of Parcel 2, Plate 44). Quitclaims land beginning on the easterly side of Baldwin Road, formerly Baldwin Street, at the northwesterly corner of Lot 245 on "Billerica Highlands", October 1913, R. W. Seamans, Engineers, Plan Book 31, Plan 67: westerly by Baldwin Street 345 feet, southerly by Joel Avenue 392.90 feet, easterly by Albert Avenue 387.65 feet, northerly by Salem Road "extending in an arc to said Baldwin Street" 428.70 feet, "161,592 sq. ft. of land and being shown as Lots 245 to 274 inc.", excluding the street lines of Joel and Albert Avenues and "Lots 245, 246, 247, 251, 252, 253, 254, 261, 262". "The consideration for this deed is $18,000.00." "Being a portion of the premises conveyed by deed of Mike Raskauskas et ux, dated August 9, 1934 ... Book 848, Page 572." Dated and acknowledged May 12, 1972 before Edward J. Owens; excise $41.04; recorded July 11, 1973 at 3:25 (no. 12944). The site of the East Billerica Fire Station, built 1973-1974.
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| September 13, 1993 | License Agreement | Board of Selectmen of the Town of Billerica | New England Telephone and Telegraph Company | 1993: Selectmen license New England Telephone equipment on the station lot | 6668/312 |
Revocable license, under Article 8 of the 1993 town meeting, to lay and maintain lines "for the transmission of intelligence and the transmission of electricity", including manhole MH418B, a supportive pad with an apparatus cabinet and electrical power pedestal, and a controlled environment manhole with above-ground hatch, "upon, over, across, adjacent, or in the vicinity of certain roads or ways known as SALEM ROAD and BALDWIN ROAD", the equipment to be on the town's land shown on an easement sketch by JCD Incorporated of Methuen (Aug. 1993) and on the "Plan of Land in Billerica, Owner: Town of Billerica Fire Station Bldg. Committee, July 20, 1973" (Plan Book 117, Plan 63). A copy to be filed with the Town Clerk.
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| December 27, 1993 | Easement | Town of Billerica | New England Telephone and Telegraph Company | 1993: easement to New England Telephone on the town land behind the station | 6868/327 |
Easement deed, for one dollar, of "the exclusive right and easement" to lay, construct, operate, maintain, replace and remove lines for the transmission of intelligence and electricity, including manhole MH418B, a supportive pad with an apparatus cabinet and power pedestal and a controlled environment manhole, within a 20-foot easement on a portion of the town's land on the southerly side of Salem Road (the fire station lot, Plan Book 117, Plan 63), with the right to trim trees and an indemnity from the company; 3 pages. Granted under Article 8 of the 1993 town meeting, which Town Administrator Mercier explained was "in back of the East Billerica Fire Station on Baldwin Road".
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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.