Structure · Built 1837 · Demolished 1986
Jenkins House
Jenkins House
| Address | 17 Andover Rd |
| MACRIS ID | BIL.36 |
| Built | 1837 |
| Demolished | 1986 |
The Jenkins House stood on the south side of Andover Road, the old Salem Road, a short walk east of the meetinghouse in Billerica Centre, at what was later numbered 17 Andover Road. Its lot is now part of O'Connor Plaza at 446 Boston Road.
The land was part of the farm of Capt. Josiah Bowers Jr., who bought the old Sheldon homestead on the Salem road in 1781. After his death in 1824 the probate court divided his real estate among his brothers and sisters. "The lot in front of the house," on the south side of the road, was cut into strips, and the westernmost share, about two acres next to the land "lately belonging to John Wetherbee & George Bruce," went to his eldest brother Benjamin Bowers. Andrew Bowers of Salisbury, New Hampshire, the administrator, later held the whole farm, and after his death his heirs sold it in 1834 to Jonathan Gates, who sold it the same year to Ichabod G. Kimball.
On May 16, 1837 Kimball sold two acres at the north-west corner of his land, at the road and the "Weatherbee Place" of Col. John Baldwin, to Gilman Fletcher, yeoman, for $325. No buildings are mentioned. By February 5, 1842, when Fletcher mortgaged the lot to Marshall Preston, it was the place "where I now live," with "a Dwelling house and Slaughter house thereon." Fletcher therefore built the house between 1837 and 1842. In 1847 he sold it to William G. Alley, a blacksmith, and on April 13, 1850 Alley sold it for $2,300 to Thomas J. Jenkins, a butcher.
Jenkins kept his meat business here for seventeen years; the town paid T. J. Jenkins for meat in the 1860s, and his inventory in 1867 lists two butcher wagons, 27 barrels of pork and 460 pounds of ham besides the "Homestead, containing about 3 acres," appraised at $3,500. He died intestate on April 9, 1867, leaving his widow Mary and a daughter, Sarah E. Jenkins. The Jenkins name is on the house on the 1853 town map.
In 1867 Sarah sold the place to John P. Cleaveland, and in 1870 Julianna C. Cleaveland sold it for $3,000 to Hannah T. Morrison of Lowell, a widow. After her death the trustee under her will sold it in 1885 to Albert C. Lane, who sold it in 1896. It changed hands quickly over the next years: Jeremiah Nelson (1896), Frank Moore (1897), Mabel E. Gleason, wife of Charles A. Gleason (1897), which explains the name "Gleason House" on the 1898 water system map, Clara Bartlett (1901), Guy P. Walton (1903) and Peter B. Kirschner (1903). In each deed it was two and a half acres "with a barn and dwelling house thereon."
Kirschner sold it in 1918 to Erwin W. and Mary H. Scofield, who sold it in 1929 to Ernest C. and Mary Stewart of Chelsea. The Woburn Co-operative Bank foreclosed the Stewarts' mortgage in 1938 and sold the house in 1940 to Stanley J. Bryant, who sold it in 1948 to a couple who kept it for 37 years. In the twentieth century the house held a dentist's office, and the ell, once a barn, was made into an apartment.
They sold the property in 1985 to private owners. In 1986 it passed to Centerpoint Developers, Inc., still "with the buildings thereon," and in 1987 it was combined with the neighboring land into Lot 1 of a compilation plan for a shopping center. The house was taken down and the shopping center now called O'Connor Plaza was built on the site about 1987. Earlier accounts dated the house to about 1853 from the town map, but the deeds show it was standing by 1842.
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- MACRIS BIL.36
- Billerica assessor, 446 Boston Road (parcel 51-86-2), the O Connor Plaza lot that includes the Jenkins House site
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| Date | Type | Grantor | Grantee | Summary | Recorded |
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| 1724 | Will | Deacon John Sheldon of Billerica | Samuel Sheldon, his son (the homestead); the widow Deborah; daughters Mary Hunt and Hannah Sheldon | Sheldon homestead, from which the Bowers farm descended | Probate #20258 |
Will dated Aug. 28, 1723, proved Sept. 22, 1724. The widow Deborah is to have the use of "the West lower Room" and part of the cellar; the daughters Mary Hunt and Hannah Sheldon receive outlying land (113 acres at the Pond and 91 acres west of the Concord River). "My Will is that my son Samuel Sheldon shall have and Possess my homestead and all the lands and Medows In Billerica," valued at 350 pounds, entailed to his male heirs and otherwise to be divided. Samuel and Deborah were executors.
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| November 4, 1771 | Common Recovery (barring entail) | Samuel Sheldon of Billerica, yeoman, tenant in tail (Solomon Pollard, demandant) | Samuel Sheldon and his heirs in fee simple | Sheldon homestead freed of the entail, 1771 | 73/4 (South) |
Indenture of May 3, 1771 between Samuel Sheldon, yeoman, and Solomon Pollard, innholder, with the judgment of the Inferior Court (Pollard v. Sheldon, Samuel Hinds vouchee) of May 21 and the writ of seisin of June 1771; recorded Nov. 4, 1771 (Billerica town book 6, pages 488-495). Sheldon, "seized ... in fee Tail" under his father's will, lets Pollard recover "one Peice or Tract of Land containing about Sixty acres with the Buildings thereon called the Homestead bounded Northerly on the County Road partly and partly on land of James Crosby and Benjamin Baldwin, Northeasterly partly on Land of Capt. Enoch Kidder and partly on Land of William French," easterly by the Frenches and David and Oliver Abbot, and "Southerly and Westerly on said Oliver Abbots Land until it comes to the said County Road," with 15 acres in Broad Meadow and 2 acres in Content Meadow, to the use of Samuel Sheldon and his heirs forever. The recovery ended the entail of 1724 and let Sheldon's daughters inherit.
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| 1778 | Administration | Estate of Samuel Sheldon of Billerica, yeoman, intestate | Simon Blanchard and David Abbot, administrators (his sons-in-law); his five daughters, heirs | Samuel Sheldon estate, 1778 | Probate #20263 |
Administration granted Jan. 27, 1778 to Simon Blanchard and David Abbot, yeomen, with Jonathan Pool of Reading and Isaac Lovejoy of Andover as sureties (all sons-in-law). The inventory of Feb. 4, 1778, sworn July 7, lists "The homestead containing about 83 acres with all the buildings" at 1266 pounds 13s 4d (inflated wartime currency), the Moffit place of 110 acres, the Dutton lot of 86 acres, 5 acres on Fox Hill, 18 acres of wood at Bedford, meadow in Content Meadow, Broad Meadow and Heath Swamp, and "A Pew in the Meeting house." The file has no division: the daughters divided the estate among themselves by deeds of 1778.
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| March 31, 1786 | Warranty | Sarah Center, widow, and John Shelden Center, yeoman, and Phebe his wife, all of Billerica | Josiah Bowers Jr. of Billerica, gentleman | Center homestead to Josiah Bowers Jr., 1781 | 93/390 (South) |
Dated Mar. 19, 1781, acknowledged June 13, 1781, recorded Mar. 31, 1786 (Billerica town book 8, pages 55-57). For 650 pounds in silver, "Two pieces of Land ... being the Homestead of Sarah Center & John Shelden Center aforesaid containing about thirty six acres": the first bounded west by Capt. Solomon Pollard, north by Ebenezer French, east by French and Solomon Manning, and south-east and south by the highway; the second south and west by Oliver Abbot, north and north-west by the highway, and north-east and east by Jonathan Pool; "with all the Buildings," and half a pew in the meeting house "formerly the property of Samuel Sheldon." Witnesses Josiah Bowers and Solomon Manning. Sarah Center was Samuel Sheldon's daughter; John Sheldon Center (married 1778 to Phebe Tay of Woburn) his grandson.
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| 1794 | Will | Josiah Bowers Sr. of Billerica, gentleman | His widow Elizabeth; his children Benjamin, Andrew, Denison and James Bowers, Abigail Muzzy, Hannah and Sarah Bowers | Bowers family will, 1794 (background) | Probate #2298 |
Will dated Aug. 7, 1793, proved Nov. 6, 1794. The widow Elizabeth is to live in his house with cows kept "on my farm"; "my eldest son Josiah Bowers Jun. my large Bible which with what he has already had is his full portion out of my Estate"; the rest, real and personal, equally among the other children. The executor Benjamin Bowers declined, and Andrew Bowers of Salisbury, N.H. was made administrator with the will annexed. Family background to the Bowers farm; it does not describe the Salem road land.
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| 1822 | Guardianship | Josiah Bowers of Billerica, gentleman, non compos mentis | Andrew Bowers of Salisbury, N.H., his brother, guardian | Guardianship of Capt. Josiah Bowers, 1822 | Probate #2300 |
On Feb. 27, 1822 Joseph Bowers of Billerica, "a nephew, and also a creditor to a large amount of Josiah Bowers of said Billerica Gentleman," complained that Josiah "by reason of age and infirmity has become non compos mentis, & altogether incapable to take care of himself." The court ordered an inquisition by the selectmen and in April 1822 appointed a guardian of Salisbury in the State of New Hampshire (Andrew Bowers); letter in vol. 257, p. 163. The guardian's account of $488.32 was charged against the estate after Josiah's death.
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| 1824 | Administration | Estate of Capt. Josiah Bowers of Billerica, gentleman, intestate | Andrew Bowers of Salisbury, N.H., administrator; his brothers and sisters, heirs | Bowers estate and 1826 partition: Benjamin Bowers share is this lot | Probate #2301 |
Josiah Bowers died intestate on Nov. 17, 1824, leaving no widow. His heirs (James Bowers, Luther French, Amos Muzzy, Jacob Norton by his attorney Joseph Locke, and others) asked that "Andrew Bowers Esq. of Salisbury" be administrator, and he was appointed Nov. 23, 1824. The personal estate was auctioned Feb. 16-17, 1825; the account allowed Apr. 25, 1826 shows personal estate of $310.42 and "proceeds of sale of Real Estate sold by order of the Judge" of $1220, with the guardian's account of $488.32 among the debts.
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| 1833 | Quitclaim | Benjamin Bowers of Billerica | Joseph Richardson of Hingham, clerk | Benjamin Bowers heir share to Joseph Richardson, 1833 | 320/292 (South) |
Dated and acknowledged Feb. 5, 1833, recorded 1835 (Billerica town book 16, pages 182-183). For $700, all his right, title and interest in "a certain farm situate in said Billerica called the Josiah Bowers farm containing forty one acres more or less," bounded west by Ichabod Everett, John and Henry Baldwin and Fitch Tufts, south by Tufts, east by the Nahum Baldwin pasture and north by the Luther French farm, with the Nahum Baldwin pasture of 8 acres and a 6-acre wood lot on Fox Hill, "being the same of which my Brother Andrew Bowers, Esquire, died seized and possessed." Benjamin had received the westernmost share of the lot south of the road (this lot) in the 1826 partition; this deed sold his heir's share of Andrew's estate.
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| May 31, 1834 | Heirs Quitclaim | Heirs of Andrew Bowers late of Salisbury, N.H., Esquire: Jacob and Hannah Norton; James Bowers of Fulton, Ohio (by Norton, attorney); William and Anna Muzzy of Lexington; Joseph and Ann B. Richardson of Hingham; Abraham and Frances B. True of Salem; Edward | Jonathan Gates of Lowell, machinist | Andrew Bowers heirs to Gates, incl. the 30 acres south of the road | 331/506 (South) |
Dated Apr. 2, 1834, recorded May 31, 1834 (Billerica town book 13, pages 552-555). For $2,500, a quitclaim of the lands "of which Andrew Bowers ... died seized": "the homestead of Capt. Josiah Bowers" of about eleven acres "with the buildings thereon" on the north side of the Salem road and Sheldon's lane, its south-west corner at the lane and Theophilus Manning, north by Manning and Ichabod Everett to the former Luther French farm, east by the French farm and the Nahum Baldwin lot; about 30 acres on the east side of the road opposite (John and Henry Baldwin, Fitch Tufts, the Nahum Baldwin pasture); a quarter of the Baldwin pasture; and six acres of wood on Fox Hill by the old Fox Hill road. Andrew Bowers died in New Hampshire, where his estate was settled.
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| September 22, 1836 | Warranty | Jonathan Gates of Billerica, machinist | Ichabod G. Kimball of Billerica, yeoman | Gates to Ichabod G. Kimball, 1834 | 354/457 (South) |
Dated June 30, 1834, recorded Sept. 22, 1836 (Billerica town book 15, pages 287-289). For $2,500, "formerly the homestead of Capt. Josiah Bowers deceased with the buildings thereon lying on the northerly side of the Salem road or Sheldon's lane so called containing about eleven acres," with 30 acres on the east side of the road opposite, 1 1/2 acres on the north side adjoining the first lot (north-east by the Luther French farm), and six acres of wood on Fox Hill, "being the same premises" quitclaimed to Gates by Jacob Norton and others on Apr. 2, 1834.
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| May 20, 1837 | Warranty Deed | Ichabod G. Kimball of Billerica, yeoman, and Joanna P. Kimball (dower) | Gilman Fletcher of Billerica, yeoman | Kimball to Gilman Fletcher, the house lot as bare land, 1837 | 362/343 (South) |
Dated May 16, 1837, recorded May 20, 1837 (Billerica town book 15, pages 359-361). For $325, "a certain piece or parcel of land situate in said Billerica near the centre of the town containing two acres more or less," beginning at the north-west corner on the Salem road and land of Col. John Baldwin "called the Weatherbee Place," south by the Weatherbee Place and Fitch Tufts to a cross wall, east by Tufts 162 feet, "thence northerly by my own land" to the Salem road, and west by the road. No buildings are mentioned: the house lot was bare land.
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| 1842 | Mortgage | Gilman Fletcher of Billerica, yeoman | Marshall Preston of Billerica, Esquire | First record of the house, 1842 mortgage | 413/387 (South) |
Dated Feb. 5, 1842 (Billerica town book 17, pages 266-268). To secure $500 payable in three years at six per cent, "a certain tract of land situate in said Billerica, where I now live, containing three acres more or less, with a Dwelling house and Slaughter house thereon," from the north-west corner at the Salem road and Col. John Baldwin, by Baldwin and Fitch Tufts, by Tufts to Ichabod Kimball, and by Kimball to the road, "being the same I purchased of said Kimball." The first record of the house, built by Fletcher after 1837.
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| 1847 | Warranty Deed | Gilman Fletcher of Billerica, yeoman | William G. Alley of Billerica, blacksmith | Fletcher to William G. Alley, 1847 | 506/33 (South) |
Dated April 10, 1847 (Billerica town book 18, pages 321-322). For $1,637.50, the parcel "near the centre of the town containing two acres more or less," with the same bounds (Weatherbee Place of Col. John Baldwin, Fitch Tufts, the cross wall of 162 feet, Ichabod G. Kimball, Ambrose F. Page), subject to Fletcher's mortgages to Marshall Preston ($500, 1842), Ichabod Everett ($400) and Dean Holt ($600, 1843), "all which mortgages the said Alley is to pay."
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| June 5, 1850 | Warranty Deed | William G. Alley of Billerica, blacksmith, and Mary H. Alley (dower) | Thomas J. Jenkins of Billerica, butcher | Alley to Thomas J. Jenkins, 1850 | 587/171 (South) |
Dated April 13, 1850, recorded June 5, 1850 (Billerica town book 21, pages 78-79). For $2,300, "a certain parcel of land situate in said Billerica near the centre of the town containing two acres more or less," on the Salem road, bounded by the "Weatherbee Place" of Col. John Baldwin, Fitch Tufts, Ichabod G. Kimball and Ambrose F. Page, "being the same premises which were conveyed to me by Gilman Fletcher's deed of April 10, 1847," subject to Fletcher's mortgages to Marshall Preston and Ichabod Everett.
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| 1867 | Administration | Estate of Thomas J. Jenkins of Billerica, intestate | Mary Jenkins, widow, administratrix; Sarah E. Jenkins, his daughter and only heir | Thomas J. Jenkins estate, 1867 | Probate #35242 |
Mary Jenkins petitioned April 13, 1867: Thomas J. Jenkins died April 9, 1867 intestate, leaving his widow and "Sarah E. Jenkins of said Billerica a daughter." Administration granted April 23, 1867. The inventory returned April 27, 1867 lists real estate of $3,500, the "Homestead, containing about 3 acres," and personal estate of $3,827.96, including two butcher wagons, 27 barrels of pork, 460 pounds of ham and "2 Horse Sheds, near the Church."
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| November 11, 1867 | Warranty Deed | Sarah E. Jenkins of Billerica, single woman | John P. Cleaveland of Billerica, clerk | Sarah E. Jenkins to Cleaveland, 1867 | 59/104 |
Dated July 15, 1867, recorded Nov. 11, 1867. For $2,000, land near the centre of the town "with the buildings thereon containing two and a half acres," from the north-west corner on the Salem road and the "Weatherbee Place" of Col. John Baldwin, by Fitch Tufts, the cross wall of 162 feet, J. G. Kimball and A. F. Page, "being the same premises which were conveyed to Thomas J. Jenkins by Wm. G. Alley, deed dated April 13, 1850."
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| November 11, 1867 | Release of Dower | Mary Jenkins of Billerica, widow | John P. Cleaveland of Billerica | Widow Mary Jenkins releases dower, 1867 | 59/105 |
Dated July 15, 1867, recorded Nov. 11, 1867. For "Eleven Hundred Dollars," the widow of Thomas J. Jenkins releases and quitclaims her right, title and interest and "all my right of or to dower or homestead" in the premises conveyed by her daughter the same day.
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| July 23, 1870 | Warranty Deed | Julianna C. Cleaveland of Billerica, in her own right, and John P. Cleaveland, her husband | Hannah T. Morrison of Lowell, widow | Cleavelands to Hannah T. Morrison, 1870 | 74/546 |
Dated July 11, 1870, recorded July 23, 1870. For $3,000, land near the centre "with a dwelling house and barn thereon containing two and a half acres," from the Salem road and the "Weatherbee place" of Col. John Baldwin, south by land formerly of Fitch Tufts "now owned by Jefferson Cutter," the cross wall of 162 feet, J. G. Kimball and A. T. Page, "being the same premises which were conveyed to John P. Cleaveland by Sarah E. Jenkins and Mary Jenkins."
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| March 30, 1885 | Trustee's Deed | William N. Burnham of Ayer, trustee under the will of Hannah T. Morrison of Billerica | Albert C. Lane of Billerica | Morrison trustee to Albert C. Lane, 1885 | 172/559 |
Dated March 17, 1885, recorded March 30, 1885. By the power in the will of Hannah T. Morrison (proved March 23, 1880), for $2,100, land near the centre "with a dwelling house and barn thereon" of 2 1/2 acres, with the same bounds on the Salem Road, "being the same premises described in a deed of Juliana C. Cleveland and another to Hannah T. Morrison, dated July 11th A.D. 1870." A discharge of her mortgage by Dudley Foster is recorded on the same page.
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| June 8, 1896 | Warranty Deed | Albert C. Lane of West Medford, and Estella J. Lane (release) | Jeremiah Nelson of Boston | Lane to Jeremiah Nelson, 1896 | 275/322 |
Dated June 4, 1896, recorded June 8, 1896. For "One Dollar and other valuable considerations," land near the centre "with a dwelling house and barn thereon" of 2 1/2 acres, bounded by the Salem road, the Wetherbee place of Col. John Baldwin, Fitch Tufts, the cross wall of 162 feet, J. G. Kimball and A. T. Page, "being the same premises described in a deed given to me by William M. Burnham Trustee under the will of Hannah T. Morrison."
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| June 8, 1896 | Mortgage | Jeremiah Nelson of Boston | Harlow H. Rogers and Bradlee Rogers of Brookline | Nelson mortgage, 1896 | 275/323 |
June 1896. Mortgage for $3,000 on the same land and buildings; margin "See Discharge Book 279 Page 400."
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| February 13, 1897 | Warranty Deed | Jeremiah Nelson of Boston, and Nancy Nelson (release) | Frank Moore of Somerville | Nelson to Frank Moore, 1897 | 281/574 |
Dated Feb. 1, 1897, recorded Feb. 13, 1897 (the grantee is written "Moon," corrected in the margin to "Moore"). For "one dollar and other valuable considerations," land near the centre of Billerica "with a dwelling house and barn thereon," 2 1/2 acres with the same bounds, "being the same premises described in deed of Albert [C. Lane] to me dated June 4th 1896" (recited as Book 274 Page 322, a slip for 275/322), subject to a $2,000 mortgage.
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| 1897 | Warranty Deed | Frank Moore of Somerville, and his wife (release) | Mabel E. Gleason, in her own right, wife of Charles A. Gleason, of Everett | Moore to Mabel E. Gleason (the Gleason House), 1897 | 284/592 |
Dated March 4, 1897, recorded about April 30, 1897. For "one dollar and other valuable considerations," the same 2 1/2 acres "with a barn and dwelling house thereon" near the center, "Being the same premises described in deed of Jeremiah Nelson to me dated February 1st 1897," subject to a recorded mortgage of $2,000. The "Gleason House" of the 1898 water system map.
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| May 21, 1901 | Warranty Deed | Charles A. Gleason and Mabel E. Gleason, in her own right, of Billerica | Clara Bartlett, in her own right, wife of Edward M. Bartlett, of Billerica | Gleasons to Clara Bartlett, 1901 | 330/506 |
Dated May 17, 1901, recorded May 21, 1901. For "one dollar and other valuable considerations," the same 2 1/2 acres "with a barn and dwelling house thereon" near the center, "Being the same premises conveyed to me by deed of Frank Moore, dated March 4, 1897," subject to a $2,000 mortgage, the grantors reserving the right to occupy free until June 18, 1901.
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| May 21, 1901 | Mortgage | Edward M. Bartlett and Clara Bartlett of Billerica | Mabel E. Gleason | Bartlett mortgage to Mabel E. Gleason, 1901 | 330/507 |
May 1901. Mortgage back to the seller for $1,500 on the same land and buildings; margin "Discharged Book 358 P.297."
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| July 14, 1903 | Warranty Deed | Edward M. Bartlett and Clara Bartlett, in her own right, of Billerica | Guy P. Walton of Everett | Bartletts to Guy P. Walton, 1903 | 355/82 |
Dated May 19, 1903, recorded July 14, 1903. For "one dollar and other valuable considerations," the same 2 1/2 acres "with a barn and dwelling-house thereon" near the centre, bounded by the Salem road, the "Wetherbee Place" of Col. John Baldwin, Fitch Tufts and J. G. Kimball, subject to a $2,000 mortgage to the Middlesex Institution for Savings and "a second mortgage of Fifteen hundred dollars to Mabel E. Gleason." No title recital.
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| July 28, 1903 | Warranty Deed | Guy P. Walton of Everett, unmarried | Peter B. Kirschner of Lowell | Walton to Peter B. Kirschner, 1903 | 355/157 |
Dated July 14, 1903, recorded July 28, 1903. For "One Dollar and other valuable considerations," land "near the centre of said Billerica with a barn and dwelling house thereon containing two and one half acres," with the same bounds, subject to the $2,000 mortgage to the Middlesex Institution for Savings and the $1,500 mortgage to Mabel E. Gleason.
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| July 28, 1903 | Mortgage | Peter B. Kirschner of Lowell | Charles A. Gleason of Winchester | Kirschner mortgage, 1903 | 355/159 |
July 1903. Mortgage for $700 for one year at 5 per cent on the same 2 1/2 acres "with a barn and dwelling house thereon," "being the same premises this day conveyed to me by deed of Guy P. Walton"; margin "Discharged B.381 P.18."
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| December 2, 1918 | Warranty Deed | Peter B. Kirschner of Billerica, and his wife (release) | Erwin W. Scofield and Mary H. Scofield | Kirschner to the Scofields, 1918 | 595/523 |
Dated Nov. 29, 1918, recorded Dec. 2, 1918. "Land in Billerica with buildings thereon," with the same bounds, "part of the premises to me conveyed by Guy P. Walton" (the date and book of the recital are hard to read in the record). Five dollars in revenue stamps.
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| December 2, 1918 | Mortgage | Erwin W. Scofield and Mary H. Scofield | Middlesex Co-operative Bank of Lowell | Scofield mortgage, 1918 | 595/524 |
Nov. 29, 1918. Mortgage for $2,000 on the same land and buildings; margin "See Discharge."
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| June 7, 1929 | Quitclaim | Erwin W. Scofield and Mary H. Scofield of Billerica | Ernest C. Stewart and Mary Stewart of Chelsea | Scofields to the Stewarts, 1929 | 777/178 |
Dated June 6, 1929, recorded June 7, 1929. Quitclaim of the same land and buildings, title recited as the deed of "Peter B. Kirschner ... Nov 29, 1918 ... Book 595 Page 525" (the deed is at page 523).
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| June 7, 1929 | Mortgage | Ernest C. Stewart and Mary Stewart of Chelsea | Woburn Co-operative Bank | Stewart mortgage, foreclosed 1938 | 777/179 |
June 6, 1929. Mortgage for $5,600 on the same land and buildings, foreclosed in 1938.
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| July 6, 1938 | Foreclosure Deed | Woburn Co-operative Bank, mortgagee of Ernest C. and Mary Stewart | Woburn Co-operative Bank | Woburn Co-operative Bank foreclosure, 1938 | 914/336 |
Dated June 23, 1938, recorded July 6, 1938, with the certificate of entry of June 20, 1938 and the affidavit of sale. Under the power of sale in the Stewarts' mortgage of June 6, 1929 (Book 777, Page 179), the bank sold the premises "with the buildings" to itself for $4,000.
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| December 3, 1940 | Quitclaim | Woburn Co-operative Bank | Stanley J. Bryant of Billerica | Bank to Stanley J. Bryant, 1940 | 954/449 |
Dated Nov. 19, 1940, recorded Dec. 3, 1940. Quitclaim of the same land on the Salem road, $3.85 in stamps, title by the bank's foreclosure deed of June 23, 1938 (Book 914, Page 336); the directors' vote of Nov. 15, 1940 follows.
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| December 3, 1940 | Mortgage | Stanley J. Bryant of Billerica | Woburn Co-operative Bank | Bryant mortgage, 1940 | 954/450 |
1940. Mortgage for $3,200 for sixteen years on the same land "with the buildings thereon."
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| June 17, 1948 | Quitclaim | Stanley J. Bryant of Billerica, and Yvonne Bryant (release) | Robert A. Dunstan and Edna B. Dunstan, husband and wife | Bryant to the Dunstans, 1948 | 1093/445 |
Dated and recorded June 17, 1948. Quitclaim, $9.90 in stamps, of land "with the buildings thereon" on the south side of Andover Road "formerly Salem Road," from land formerly of A. T. Page, by land formerly of I. G. Kimball to a wall, the wall 162 feet to land formerly of Fitch Tufts, by Herbert F. Jacobs, and by the road, 2 acres, "being the same premises conveyed to me by Woburn Co-operative Bank by deed dated November 19, 1940."
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| June 17, 1948 | Mortgage | Robert A. Dunstan and Edna B. Dunstan | Merrimack River Savings Bank of Lowell | Dunstan mortgage, 1948 | 1093/446 |
June 17, 1948. Mortgage for $3,500 on the same 2 acres.
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| June 10, 1986 | Quitclaim | The four private owners who bought the property in 1985 | Centerpoint Developers, Inc. | To Centerpoint Developers, 1986 (house still standing) | 3522/145 |
Acknowledged June 9, 1986, recorded June 10, 1986. For $450,000, "A certain parcel of land, with the buildings thereon," on the south side of Andover Road "formerly known as Salem Road": east by the Town of Billerica 595.39 feet, by Robert Bull at a wall 162 feet, by Bull and Houghton 401.46 feet, by H. F. Jacobs, and by the road 108.60 feet, 1.98 acres. The grantors had bought it from the 1948 owners by deed of Sept. 30, 1985 (Book 3199, Page 10; $150,000), which described it as 17 Andover Road "with the buildings thereon."
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| May 18, 1987 | Quitclaim | Centerpoint Developers, Inc. | Frank P. Crivello of Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Lot 1 of Plan 159/105, site of O Connor Plaza, 1987 | 4058/210 |
Lot 1, 10.3 acres, on "Compilation Plan," March 18, 1987, Boston Road, Howe Surveying Associates (Plan Book 159), "a portion of the premises conveyed to the Grantor by Robert W. Bull" (Book 3199 Page 15), with land from Carl W. Berger et al. (Book 3522 Page 145). Signed May 15, 1987. That year The Walnuts was moved about a mile north to its present site behind Collins Bowladrome, and the Central Block was demolished; Crivello built the "Billerica Commons" plaza (Historical Commission reports 1987-88).
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| June 11, 1992 | Foreclosure Deed | Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company, mortgagee of Frank P. Crivello | Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company | Foreclosure of the plaza, 1992 | 5973/267 |
Foreclosure of Crivello's 1989 mortgages (Book 5027 Page 80 and Book 5028 Page 205) on 446 Boston Road and Andover Road, two parcels; consideration $7,650,000.
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| November 26, 2001 | Quitclaim | Jeremiah J. O'Connor | O'Connor Partners LLC | O'Connor Partners LLC, current owner of the site | 12392/286 |
446 Boston Road: Lot 1 on the 1987 Compilation Plan (Plan Book 159), bounded by Boston Road, Davidson, Middlesex Bank, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, the Town of Billerica and Andover Road, "being the same premises conveyed to Frank P. Crivello" (Book 4058 Page 210); and Parcel B near the easterly side of Boston Road (Plan Book 98, Plan 137, 1963), beside "Billerica Commons." Consideration $1,000. O'Connor Partners LLC still owns O'Connor Plaza.
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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.