George R. Herrick

Dated Sept. 13, 1871. For $2,546.67, "a certain farm situated in said Billerica": the same 14 acres "with the buildings thereon" from the west corner of the mill at the race to Concord River, Moses P. Greenwood, the road and "the garden wall", and the 12 acres across the road from the southeast end of the mill dam "at land of John C. Hobbs", reserving Hobbs's right "to flow said land, which right is to flow only to the line of said Greenwood's land except in winter"; also 7 acres of woodland in Carlisle. "Being the same premises conveyed to me by Francis Wheeler of Billerica ... dated December 15th 1869 ... Book 71 Page 218", subject to a $700 mortgage from Levi W. Wheeler to Mary E. Turner of Sept. 18, 1867. Herrick (born 1850) married Rosine M. that year and farmed here until about 1915.

• December 15, 1869 Deed: Francis A. Wheeler of Billerica to Henry G. W. Angell of Weston (71/248) (recites the Wheeler deed (as Book 71 Page 218))

• 1889 Mortgage: George R. Herrick and Rosine M. Herrick to John B. Stearns (203/178) (mortgage of the land bought 1871)

Recorded Jan. 30, 1889. For $1,500, the Herricks mortgaged their farm on the Billerica-Bedford road: the 14 acres from the west corner of the mill at the race to Concord River by M. P. Greenwood, and the 12 acres on the opposite side from the southeast end of the mill dam at land of John C. Hobbs, "part of land conveyed to Herrick" in 1871 (Book 88 Page 153). One of several Herrick mortgages of the farm (1887, 1889, 1896, 1904, 1910); the index describes the 1888 mechanics lien on the "Hobbs Place" by George H. Hall.

• 1871 Deed: Henry D. W. Angell of Cranston, R.I. (wife Sarah L. Angell releasing dower and homestead) to George R. Herrick of Boston (88/153) (mortgage of the land bought 1871)

Dated Dec. 18, 1902, recorded March 25, 1904. For $1 and other valuable consideration, about five acres on the south bank of Mill Brook between Moses P. Greenwood's ditch and Dudley Road, "a portion of the premises conveyed to the said Rosine by Frank T. Bemer ... Book 124 Page 43", reserving to the Herricks and their children Harry W. and Florence M. "the exclusive possession and control of the by-pass or canal opening out of said brook easterly of the water wheel" with the small island and the right to keep the water wheel, while they occupied the rest; Mrs. Pickman was to keep the bank sloped and forbid fishing. The first piece of the Herrick holdings to go to the Pickmans after the mill acre in 1888.

Dated July 26, 1911 (pages 351-353). For $1 and other valuable considerations, "a certain farm situated in said Billerica": the 14 acres "with the buildings thereon" from the west corner of the mill at the race to Concord River, Greenwood, the road and the garden wall, and the 12 acres across the road from the mill dam at John C. Hobbs's land, with Hobbs's flowage right "only to the line of said Greenwood's land, except in winter"; "Excepting ... a lot containing five acres, more or less, conveyed by the grantors to Ellen R. Pickman by deed ... dated December 18, 1902 ... Book 363, Page 397"; "subject to a certain mortgage for $6500.00". A family conveyance made so that the son could pass the title to Mrs. Pickman.

• January 20, 1912 Quitclaim: Harry W. Herrick of Billerica (wife Ethel A. Herrick releasing dower and homestead) to Ellen R. Pickman, wife of Dudley L. Pickman, of Beverly (481/353) ("For my title see deed of George R. Herrick and Rosine M. Herrick to me")

• 1871 Deed: Henry D. W. Angell of Cranston, R.I. (wife Sarah L. Angell releasing dower and homestead) to George R. Herrick of Boston (88/153) (Herrick farm bought 1871)
• March 25, 1904 Deed: George R. Herrick and Rosine M. Herrick, his wife, in her right, of Billerica to Ellen R. Pickman of Beverly, wife of Dudley L. Pickman (363/397) (excepts the five acres, Book 363 Page 397)