James R. Faulkner House

"Memorandum of Agreement made this eighth day of February 1859": Pearson agrees "to erect on a foundation which the said Faulkner shall cause to be laid in the Town of Billerica a dwelling house and shed according to plans and specifications drawn and written by John W. Phillips", furnishing all materials and labor for $2,774, paid $700 when the house is "up and boarded", $700 when the outside is finished, $700 when plastered and $674 when finished, the house and shed "to be finished about the first day of September 1859". This is the house now called the James R. Faulkner House (1 Faulkner Street); its building is why the older house on the lot was moved back.

• November 9, 1859 Quitclaim Deed: James R. Faulkner of Billerica and Charles Faulkner of Boston (wives Catherine and Anne S. releasing dower) to James Faulkner of Billerica (21/569) (building contract for the house on this lot)

Dated October 7, 1859. For $500, "a certain tract of land situate in North Billerica, containing one acre, more or less, with the buildings thereon standing": from the northwest corner at land of J. R. and Charles Faulkner, east by their land 151 ft "to land of J. R. & Wm. E. Faulkner", south on that land 347 ft to the road, west on the road 160 ft and north 280 ft. The lot of the James R. Faulkner House (lot 5, "Estate of J. Faulkner", on the 1880 Faulkner Manufacturing Company plan); the older house that stood here is believed to be the one moved back onto the mill land, now 3 Mason Avenue.

• February 14, 1854 Quitclaim Deed: The other heirs at law of Francis Faulkner (Dwight F., George, Winthrop, Luther W., Lois R., Lydia H. and William E. Faulkner, Calvin and Ann F. Rogers, and the Keene heirs) to James R. Faulkner of Billerica, manufacturer (two thirds), and Charles Faulkner of Boston, merchant (one third) (668/424) (the Faulkner land behind the mill, held by J. R. (2/3) and Charles (1/3))