Jones & Foster Store
Jones & Foster Store
| Also Known As | Elwood's Market |
| Address | 14 Old Elm St |
| Built | 1869 |
| Demolished | 1973 |
| Owners | Anthony Jones (1869 - 1882) |
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Elwood's Market (1928 - 1942)
Todd's Market (1943 - 1944) Bob's Trade Market (1969 - 1973) |
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The Jones & Foster Store stood at the southwest corner of Elm Street (now Old Elm Street) and Wilson Street in North Billerica, across Wilson Street from the Mears Tavern. Its land was the western end of the tavern lot. The Middlesex Canal proprietors sold Nathan Mears his half-acre lot near the mills in 1802, and when his homestead was divided after his death, lot 1 with "the Tavern house" ran west across the passage way that later became Wilson Street to the house lots of Isaiah Bussey and the widow Anna Wood, and so to the highway. The guardians of the Mears children sold the lot to Joel Dix in 1832, Dix sold a third to Daniel Wilson in 1834, and in 1863 the administrators of both men sold it to Anthony Jones, Lyman Haynes and Dudley Foster. In 1865 the three partners sold the rear of the lot west of the passage way to the Talbots of the mills, keeping the frontage on Elm Street.
The partners built the store on that frontage in the late 1860s. When Lyman Haynes's heirs sold his third to Jones and Foster in November 1869, the four acres held "a new store & dwelling house & barn, two red houses, Mears Tavern house & hall, Dix House and barn." The store sold groceries and goods to the families of the mill village, and the 1875 map marks the corner "Jones and Foster." After Anthony Jones died, about 1882, Foster and Jones's widow Judith divided the partnership lands. On May 24, 1883 they sold the corner to Herbert Faulkner for $3,500, "with a building occupied as a store and dwelling house and stable thereon," reserving to Hutchins & Co. "the ice house on said land belonging to them, and subject to their lease." Judith Jones kept the tavern and the Dix house across the street.
Faulkner mortgaged the store to Henry M. Hutchins that summer and in December 1883 sold it to Albert W. Hutchins of Chicago, who passed it the same day to Henry M. Hutchins. In 1886 Henry M. Hutchins sold a half to Mary Jane Wilson, wife of Charles H. Wilson, and the two families held the "store block" in common for the next 36 years. Mary Jane Wilson died intestate, and in 1896 her husband released her half to their daughter Carrie A. Wilson. In 1903 Carrie A. Wilson, the Hutchinses and the Talbot Mills agreed on the lines of their lots, and H. W. Sheldon's plan of the land of C. A. Wilson and H. M. Hutchins shows the store block, numbered 14 and 16 Elm Street, at the Wilson Street corner, with tenements and a barn behind it.
In August 1922 Charles H. Elwood bought the whole of the 12,344 square feet, a half from Carrie A. W. Reynolds (formerly Wilson) and the Hutchins half from Henry M. Hutchins's daughter Mary L. Stowers, partly as trustee under her father's will and partly as his devisee. The store became Elwood's Market, which advertised in The Torch in 1928 and 1929 and in the Howe High School yearbook in 1939, and the 1941 and 1942 directories list Charles H. Elwood, provisions, at 14 Elm Street. Elwood mortgaged the property eight times between 1926 and 1939, and in April 1941 the Lowell Co-operative Bank foreclosed and sold it for $4,600 to Emil W. Michalek and Mary T. Menton. The store was Todd's Market in 1943 and 1944. In 1946 Michalek sold it to Francis C. and Ruby T. Langley.
The Langleys divided the land in 1947. Their plan shows the "Store Block," with a piazza on the Elm Street front, on Lot A at the corner, and two tenements and a garage on Lot B on Wilson Street, which they sold. Lot A was replotted with a right of way in 1950, and in 1952 the Langleys sold it to private owners. It changed hands again in 1971. Bob's Trade Market, also printed as Bob's Trade Mart, advertised at 14 Elm Street in the high school yearbooks from 1969 to 1973, the last record of a business in the building, which was taken down about that time.
In 1978 the corner lot was sold for $500 to CRT Development Corporation, the owner of the old Talbot mill, and it stayed with the mill owners for 45 years: CRT Development (1980), Cambridge Tool & Mfg. Co. (1998), and L&P Aluminum Holdings, later Pace Industries (2008). Pace Industries sold Lot A in 2023, a one-family house was built on it that year with the number 16 Old Elm Street, and it was sold to private owners in 2024.
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| August 24, 1803 | Deed | Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, by James Sullivan, president | Nathan Mears of Billerica, trader | 1802 the Canal proprietors sell Nathan Mears the half-acre lot near the mills where he built the tavern; the store corner was later cut from it | 153/364 (South) |
For $30, "half an acre of land in said Billerica near the mills and on the south westerly side of the highway on the westerly side of Concord river," staked by the Proprietors' committee on December 3: from a stake 17 feet southwesterly of "the small elm tree," 8 rods northerly, extending back southwesterly 10 rods. The strip between the half acre and the highway was to remain "open and uncovered" for Mears's use as an open way, and Mears had leave "to remove his shop on the land sold him from where it now stands within a year." Signed December 6, 1802; recorded August 24, 1803. Billerica town book 10, pages 200-202 (MACRIS misdates it 1812).
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| August 20, 1817 | Deed | Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, by John L. Sullivan, agent | Nathan Mears of Billerica, trader | 1815 strips widening the Mears lot on each side | 223/124 (South) |
For $62.50, "two several pieces or parcels of land adjoining each side the lot conveyed to him by said Proprietors" in December 1802 (the copy reads 1812): 2 rods wide on the west side, extending southward ten rods "from the line of the front of said Mears house," and 3 rods wide on the east side, also ten rods back; "the said two pieces of land widen said Mears lots together five rods," bounded by the Proprietors' land. The first deed to mention Mears's house. Signed and acknowledged August 9, 1815; recorded August 20, 1817. Billerica town book 12, pages 36-37.
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| September 23, 1820 | Deed | Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, by John L. Sullivan, agent | Nathan Mears of Billerica, yeoman | 1819 the Mears homestead farm behind the small lots | 235/64 (South) |
For $813.18, "a certain tract of land ... containing by measure twenty seven acres and seventeen poles being a part of the Richardson farm," from the southeasterly corner at Concord River "north of the ford way," easterly by "the road leading to the Canal mills" to "land of the Proprietors laid out in small lots," then by the Proprietors' land and several short courses to the river "according to the annexed plat," and by the river to the beginning. Signed August 10, 1819; recorded September 23, 1820. Billerica town book 12, pages 172-173. This became the Mears homestead farm around the tavern lot.
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| June 24, 1828 | Administration | Estate of Nathan Mears of Billerica, yeoman | His minor children Edwin, Charles, Nathan, Lucy Ann and Elbert Mears; Marshall Preston, administrator | 1828 estate of Nathan Mears, whose homestead was divided into lots in 1832 | Probate #14955 |
Nathan Mears died in June 1828 leaving "no widow, nor heirs of twenty one years of age"; at his children's request (and his own before his death) Marshall Preston of Billerica was appointed administrator at Framingham June 24, 1828, bond $30,000. The inventory lists the homestead of about 27 acres with three dwelling houses, the saw mill, "The Woolen Factory, occupied by Francis Faulkner & son", the forge, the old homestead of Thomas Mears, the Patten lot, and "The Zac. Shed Lot, 7 acres" at $210, with no buildings. Real estate $15,245.
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| January 12, 1836 | Guardian's Deed | Nathaniel Stearns of Billerica, yeoman, guardian of Edwin and Charles Mears, minor children of Nathan Mears | Joel Dix of Billerica, yeoman | 1832 guardians' sale of the tavern lot (lot 1, which ran west of the passage way to the widow Anna Wood's house lot) to Joel Dix | 349/237 (South) |
Licensed by the Supreme Judicial Court and sold at public vendue March 20, 1832, for $3,276.17, two undivided fifth parts of five tracts, first "a part of the homestead of said deceased, situate at the Canal Mills so called, containing three acres and fifty five & a half rods, with the Tavern house, one small house in the rear of said Tavern house, two barns and other out buildings thereon standing," from a corner "in the front yard between said Tavern house & said Dix's dwelling house," by Dix's land and the Garden lot to Concord River, by the river 20 rods to a board fence, and by the passage way on S. Livingston's plan of the homestead, Isaiah Bussey's house lot and "the side house lot" to the road: "lots numbered one & eleven on said plan." Also lot 9, the Patten lot, the Trull pasture and half the Sims place. Recorded January 12, 1836. Billerica town book 15, pages 223-226.
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| January 12, 1836 | Guardian's Deed | John Baldwin of Billerica, Esquire, guardian of Lucy Ann, Nathan and Elbert Mears, minor children of Nathan Mears | Joel Dix of Billerica, yeoman | 1832 the other guardian's share of lot 1 to Joel Dix | 349/240 (South) |
At the same vendue of March 20, 1832, for $3,276.17, the other three undivided fifth parts of the same tracts, first "a part of the Homestead of said deceased situate at the Canal Mills so called containing three acres and fifty five & a half rods with the Tavern House one small house in the rear of said Tavern house, two barns and other out buildings thereon standing," bounded as in Stearns's deed. With that deed it gave Joel Dix the whole tavern stand. Acknowledged April 2, 1832; recorded January 12, 1836. Billerica town book 15, pages 226-230.
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| May 24, 1834 | Quitclaim | Joel Dix of Billerica, yeoman; Priscilla Dix, his wife, releasing dower | Daniel Wilson of Billerica, yeoman | 1834 Dix sells Daniel Wilson a third of lot 1, bounded west by Isaiah Bussey and Anna Wood to the highway | 331/519 (South) |
For $668, "one undivided third part of one acre and sixty four and a half rods of land more or less with the buildings thereon standing formerly known as the Mears Tavern stand situate in said Billerica at the Canal Mills so called," from the corner "in the front yard between said Tavern house and said Dix's dwelling house," by Dix's homestead lot and the garden lot to the passage way, by Isaiah Bussey's house lot and "the widow Anna Wood's house lot" to the highway: "lot numbered one on the plan taken by S. Livingston of the homestead of N. Mears deceased March 3d 1832." Signed March 26, 1834; recorded May 24, 1834. Billerica town book 13, pages 559-561.
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| 1859 | Guardianship and Administration | Joel Dix of Billerica, "an insane person"; his estate after his death in December 1860 | Horace N. Wilson of Billerica, guardian; Edwin A. Alger of Lowell, administrator | estate of Joel Dix, two-thirds owner of the tavern lot | Probate #30707 |
On his daughter Mary Dix's petition Joel Dix was found "an insane person" and Horace N. Wilson was appointed his guardian at Groton May 24, 1859. The inventory of June 7, 1859 lists about four acres "known as the Homestead" with buildings ($3,200), the "Tavern Stand," 4 acres ($3,667), and meadow and wood lots. The guardian's license of February 7, 1860 to sell for maintenance covered only meadow and wood lots. After Dix's death the administrator was licensed April 1, 1862 to sell real estate, including the two thirds of the tavern stand.
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| 1861 | Administration | Estate of Daniel Wilson of Billerica, who died November 29, 1861 intestate | Gardner Parker of Billerica, administrator; widow Mary Wilson and eight children | estate of Daniel Wilson, one-third owner of the tavern lot | Probate #44864 |
Gardner Parker, husband of Wilson's daughter Adeline, petitioned December 11, 1861 that Daniel Wilson had died November 29, 1861 intestate, leaving his widow Mary and children Mary J. Wilkins, Adeline M. Parker, Horace N. Wilson, Daniel A. Wilson (at Rattlesnake Bar, California), Israel N. Wilson (a captain then serving in Virginia), Frances A. Faulkner and Charles H. Wilson; he was appointed administrator at Cambridge December 24, 1861. The license of April 7, 1863 led to the sale of Wilson's third of the Mears Tavern stand.
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| March 25, 1863 | Administrator's Deed | Edwin A. Alger of Lowell, administrator of Joel Dix late of Billerica | Anthony Jones, Lyman Haynes and Dudley Foster, all of Billerica | 1863 Dix's two-thirds of the tavern lot to Jones, Haynes and Foster | 34/167 |
Licensed by the Probate Court April 1, 1862, and sold at public auction March 21, 1863, for $1,600: "two undivided third parts of one acre and sixty four and a half rods of land more or less, with the buildings thereon standing, formerly known as the Mears Tavern stand, situate in said Billerica at the Canal Mills," bounded from the front yard "between said Tavern house and said Dix dwelling house" by the late Joel Dix's homestead lot, the garden lot, the passage way, Isaiah Bussey's house lot and "the widow Anna Wood's house lot" to the highway: "lot numbered one on the plan taken by S. Livingston of the homestead of N. Mears, deceased, March 3d A.D. 1832," meaning the two thirds "which vested in Joel Dix at the time of his decease." Recorded March 25, 1863.
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| August 13, 1863 | Administrator's Deed | Gardner Parker of Billerica, administrator of Daniel Wilson late of Billerica | Dudley Foster, Lyman Haynes and Anthony Jones, all of Billerica | 1863 Wilson's third of the tavern lot to Jones, Haynes and Foster | 35/342 |
Licensed April 7, 1863 and sold at public auction July 13, 1863: all Wilson's interest "in and to one undivided third part of one acre and sixty four & one half rods of land more or less, with the buildings thereon standing, formerly known as the Mears Tavern stand, situate in said Billerica at the Canal Mills," bounded from the front yard "between said Tavern House and the dwelling house now or formerly of Joel Dix," "being lot number one on plan taken by S. Livingston of the homestead of N. Mears deceased March 3 1832 and being the same premises conveyed to said Daniel Wilson by Joel Dix by deed dated March 26, 1834 ... Book 331 Page 519." With the Dix administrator's deed of March 1863 this gave the three buyers the whole tavern. Signed July 13, 1863; recorded August 13, 1863.
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| August 13, 1863 | Release of Dower | Mary Wilson of Billerica, widow of Daniel Wilson | Dudley Foster, Lyman Haynes and Anthony Jones | 1863 the widow Mary Wilson releases dower | 35/344 |
For a small sum the widow released "all my right, title and interest in and to the premises described in the within deed, and all right, title and claim of or to dower in the same," the third of the Mears Tavern stand sold by her husband's administrator. Signed July 13, 1863; recorded August 13, 1863.
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| August 29, 1865 | Deed | Lyman Haynes, Anthony Jones and Dudley Foster, all of Billerica, with their wives | Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica | 1865 the partners sell the Talbots the rear of the lot west of the passage way, which became the store lot's south line | 44/200 |
For $550, a parcel "situate in North Billerica" beginning at its southeast corner "on a passageway at land of Gardner Parker," north on the passage way 100 feet "to a Bound at our own land," west by the grantors' land to land of I. N. Wilson "formerly owned by Daniel Wilson deceased," south by Wilson and Parker to the corner of a wall, and east by Parker to the beginning, "with the Buildings thereon." This cut the rear of the old tavern lot by the passage way off to the Talbots of the Talbot Mills; the three owners kept the tavern house frontage to the north. Signed August 1, 1865; recorded August 29, 1865.
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| December 4, 1869 | Warranty Deed | Caroline Haynes, widow, and the children of Lyman Haynes (Tilly, Theodore L., Cyrus H., Charles R., William H. and John Haynes, and Carrie H. Jenkins), all of Springfield | Anthony Jones and Dudley Foster, both of Billerica | 1869 Haynes heirs' third to Jones and Foster: the four acres held "a new store & dwelling house & barn" | 71/90 |
For $3,300, "an undivided third part of a certain parcel of land situate in that part of said Billerica called North Billerica containing four acres more or less with a new store & dwelling house & barn, two red houses, Mears Tavern house & hall, Dix House and barn and other buildings thereon," from the road from North Billerica to Lowell at land of Wilson, by Wilson and C. P. Talbot & Co. to the passage way, by land formerly of Wilson & Gannon to Concord River, and by Talbot land and "the common land" back to the road, reserving the passage way. Also a third of the Rogers farm and of 52 acres bought of Calvin Rogers in 1858 (Book 17, Page 435). Signed November 22, 1869; recorded December 4, 1869. Lyman Haynes had died in 1869; this put his third of the tavern in Jones and Foster.
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| July 11, 1870 | Quitclaim | Adaline Haynes of Springfield, heir of Lyman Haynes | Anthony Jones and Dudley Foster, both of Billerica | 1870 Adaline Haynes confirms the 1869 deed | 74/354 |
For $1, all her right in "the lands and tenements described in a certain deed of Caroline Haynes and others to said Jones and Foster dated November 22d 1869 and Recorded with Middlesex North District Deeds Book 71 Page 90," the Haynes third of the four acres with the Mears Tavern house and hall. Signed June 13, 1870; recorded July 11, 1870. The one Haynes heir who had not signed the 1869 deed.
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| May 28, 1883 | Warranty Deed | Dudley Foster of Billerica, unmarried, and Judith Jones of Billerica, widow of Anthony Jones | Herbert Faulkner of Billerica | 1883 Foster and Judith Jones sell Herbert Faulkner the corner lot "with a building occupied as a store and dwelling house and stable" | 160/242 |
For $3,500, "a certain tract of land situate in that part of Billerica known as North Billerica with a building occupied as a store and dwelling house and stable thereon": from a bound at the corner of Wilson Street and Lowell Street (Elm Street), west on Lowell Street to land of Alma A. Wilson, south by Wilson's land to a corner at land of C. P. Talbot & Co., east by Talbot's land to Wilson Street, and north by Wilson Street to the beginning, "Reserving to Hutchins & Co. the ice house on said land belonging to them, and subject to their lease." Signed May 24, 1883 before Frederic A. Morey JP. The store Jones and Foster had built about 1869 on the part of the old Mears tavern lot west of the passage way; one of the deeds of 1883 dividing the Jones and Foster partnership lands after Anthony Jones's death.
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| August 28, 1883 | Mortgage | Herbert Faulkner of Billerica (Ella L. Faulkner releasing dower and homestead) | Henry M. Hutchins of Westford | 1883 Herbert Faulkner mortgages the store lot to Henry M. Hutchins | 162/373 |
For $2,000, payable in one year at six percent, the same corner tract "with a building occupied as a store and dwelling house and a stable thereon," bounded by Wilson and Lowell Streets, Alma A. Wilson and C. P. Talbot & Co., "Being the same premises conveyed to me by deed of Dudley Foster and Judith Jones dated May 24th 1883." Acknowledged Aug. 14, 1883 before Wm. F. Courtney JP. Henry M. Hutchins, of Hutchins & Co., whose ice house stood on the lot, bought the whole lot later in 1883.
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| December 5, 1883 | Warranty Deed | Herbert Faulkner of Lowell (Ella L. Faulkner releasing dower and homestead) | Albert W. Hutchins of Chicago, Illinois | 1883 Faulkner sells the store lot to Albert W. Hutchins of Chicago | 164/46 |
For $1 and other valuable considerations, "a certain tract of land with the buildings thereon situated in that part of Billerica known as North Billerica": from a bound at the corner of Wilson and Lowell Streets, west on Lowell Street to land of Alma A. Wilson, south by her land to C. P. Talbot & Co., east by Talbot's land to Wilson Street and north on Wilson Street to the beginning, "Being the same premises conveyed to me by Dudley Foster and another by deed dated May 1883," free of encumbrances "except a certain mortgage of $2000 given to Henry M. Hutchins dated August 1883." Signed and acknowledged at Lowell Dec. 3, 1883 before William F. Courtney JP.
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| March 22, 1886 | Quitclaim | Albert W. Hutchins of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois (Nancy Annette Hutchins releasing dower and homestead) | Henry M. Hutchins of Westford | 1883 Albert W. Hutchins passes the store lot to Henry M. Hutchins (recorded 1886) | 180/29 |
For $1,500, "a certain tract of land with the buildings thereon situated in that part of Billerica known as North Billerica," from the corner of Wilson and Elm Streets west on Elm Street to land of Alma A. Wilson, south to C. P. Talbot & Co., east by Talbot's land to Wilson Street and north to the beginning, "Being the same premises conveyed to me by Herbert Faulkner by deed dated December 3rd A.D. 1883 and to be recorded herewith." Signed and acknowledged Dec. 3, 1883 before Joseph P. Thompson JP, the same day as the Faulkner deed, but recorded only March 22, 1886.
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| March 22, 1886 | Warranty Deed | Henry M. Hutchins of Billerica (Marietta C. Hutchins releasing dower and homestead) | Mary Jane Wilson, wife of Charles H. Wilson of Billerica | 1886 Henry M. Hutchins sells a half of the store lot to Mary Jane Wilson | 180/30 |
For $2,000, "one undivided half of a certain piece or parcel of land with the buildings thereon, situated in said Billerica": from a stone post on Elm Street south to a stone post, west to the corner of the shed "as it now stands," on the shed to land of Talbot, south and east by Talbot land to Wilson Street, north on Wilson Street to Elm Street and west on Elm Street to the beginning. Signed March 1, 1886 before Joseph P. Thompson JP. From this time the store block was owned in halves by the Wilson and Hutchins families as tenants in common.
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| August 22, 1896 | Quitclaim | Charles H. Wilson of Billerica, widower of Mary J. Wilson | Carrie A. Wilson of Billerica | 1896 Charles H. Wilson releases to his daughter Carrie A. Wilson the half of the store block her mother had owned | 277/523 |
For $1 and other consideration, all his interest in land on Billerica Avenue bought by "my late wife Mary J. Wilson deceased" in 1893, and in "another lot of land with the buildings thereon situated in said North Billerica Village and being the same premises conveyed to said Mary J. Wilson by Henry M. Hutchins by his deed dated March 1st A.D. 1886 ... Book 180 Page 30." Signed Aug. 21, 1896 before Joseph F. Talbot JP. Mary Jane Wilson died intestate and her half of the store block passed to her daughter Carrie as heir at law (recited in the 1922 deed).
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| May 21, 1903 | Boundary Agreement | Henry M. Hutchins and Marietta C. Hutchins of Billerica; Carrie A. Wilson of Billerica, single woman | The Talbot Mills, a corporation at Billerica (and each other) | 1903 boundary agreement and plan: the store block (Nos. 14 and 16) on the land of Carrie A. Wilson and Henry M. Hutchins | 355/65 |
The parties owned "certain lots of land, with the buildings thereon, situated in said Billerica on the southerly side of Elm Street, so called, and the westerly side of Wilson Street", whose dividing lines were uncertain, and agreed on H. W. Sheldon's survey, "Plan of land and buildings in North Billerica, Mass. Belonging to C. A. Wilson and H. M. Hutchins ... Surveyed April 25th 1903", with stone bounds set and holes drilled in the curbing by direction of the Selectmen (Plan Book 20 Plan 2). The line with the Talbot Mills runs west from Wilson Street "through the centre of a well" 84.83 feet and then north 47.45, 63.28, 10.05 and 30.40 feet "through an old stone bound to a new stone bound" at Marietta C. Hutchins's corner on Elm Street. The line between Marietta's land and the land of Carrie A. Wilson and Henry M. Hutchins as tenants in common runs south from a drill hole in the Elm Street curbing 71.71 feet east of her corner, 93.55 feet, then 36.82 and 23.50 feet to the Talbot Mills. Mutual releases on each side of the lines; signed May 11, 1903 (Talbot Mills by Frederic S. Clark, treasurer); recorded May 21, 1903. Marietta's lot is the present 18-20 Old Elm Street.
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| August 2, 1922 | Quitclaim Deed | Carrie A. W. Reynolds (formerly Carrie A. Wilson) of Somerville, unmarried | Charles H. Elwood of Billerica | 1922 Carrie A. W. Reynolds sells her half of the store block to Charles H. Elwood | 665/483 |
For consideration paid ($5 in stamps), "one undivided half of the land in said Billerica, in that part thereof known as North Billerica, with the buildings thereon, situated on the southerly side of Elm Street and on the westerly side of Wilson Street": from a stone bound on Elm Street at land formerly of Marietta C. Hutchins, 54.35 feet on Elm Street, 6.70 feet around the corner, 44.05 and 133.30 feet on Wilson Street, 84.83 feet by the Talbot Mills "by the fence, through the centre of a well," 47.45 feet by the mills and 23.50, 36.82 and 93.55 feet by the Hutchins land, 12,344 square feet on Plan Book 20, Plan 2. "Being the same premises conveyed to Mary Jane Wilson by Henry M. Hutchins," Carrie holding as "Heir at Law of her mother ... deceased intestate." Signed Aug. 2, 1922; the same day Mary L. Stowers discharged Carrie's 1907 mortgage to her (Book 412, Page 401).
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| August 2, 1922 | Trustee's Deed | Mary L. Stowers of Billerica, trustee under the will of Henry M. Hutchins | Charles H. Elwood of Billerica | 1922 Henry M. Hutchins's trustee sells Elwood a quarter of the store block | 665/485 |
By power of a Probate Court decree of June 29, 1922, for $2,500, "one undivided fourth" of the same 12,344 square feet "with the buildings thereon" on the south side of Elm Street and the west side of Wilson Street, Plan Book 20, Plan 2, Henry M. Hutchins's title being Albert W. Hutchins's deed of Dec. 3, 1883 and the 1903 agreement. Reserves an eight-foot right of way "over the driveway now existing south of the store block as shown on said plan" from Wilson Street to her land next west. Signed Aug. 2, 1922 before John J. Harvey JP. Henry M. Hutchins died testate; his will was proved after 1871 and is not in the online file papers.
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| August 2, 1922 | Quitclaim Deed | Mary L. Stowers, formerly Mary L. Hutchins, of Billerica (George A. Stowers releasing curtesy) | Charles H. Elwood of Billerica | 1922 Mary L. Stowers completes Elwood's purchase of the store block, later Elwood's Market | 665/487 |
For consideration paid, with quitclaim covenants, the same 12,344 square feet with the buildings on Plan Book 20, Plan 2, "the same premises conveyed to Henry M. Hutchins by Albert W. Hutchins," she deriving title "as devisee under the will of her father the said Henry M. Hutchins late of said Billerica deceased testate, whose said will was duly proved and allowed." Grants the right to use the sewer through her land to the west, and reserves the right of way over the driveway south of the store block and the use and removal of "the summer house on the granted premises." Signed Aug. 2, 1922. With the two deeds before it, this made Charles H. Elwood sole owner of the store block, which became Elwood's Market.
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| April 29, 1941 | Foreclosure Deed | Lowell Co-operative Bank, mortgagee of Charles H. Elwood (by Charles C. Drew, treasurer) | Emil W. Michalek and Mary T. Menton, both of Billerica, joint tenants | 1941 the Lowell Co-operative Bank forecloses Charles H. Elwood's mortgage and sells the store block | 959/355 |
Under the power of sale in Elwood's mortgage of Oct. 19, 1939 (Book 936, Page 305), for $4,600, "the land, with the buildings thereon, in that part of said Billerica known as North Billerica, situated on the southerly side of Elm Street and the westerly side of Wilson Street," the 12,344 square feet on Plan Book 20, Plan 2, "For my title see three deeds recorded in said Registry, Book 665, Pages 483, 485, and 487." Signed April 21, 1941, with the treasurer's affidavit of the default and the published notice; the bank had entered for possession in March 1941. Elwood had mortgaged the store to the Lowell Co-operative Bank and the Hub Finance Co. eight times from 1926 to 1939.
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| April 10, 1946 | Quitclaim Deed | Emil W. Michalek of Billerica, unmarried | Francis C. Langley and Ruby T. Langley, husband and wife, of Billerica | 1946 Emil W. Michalek sells the store block to Francis C. and Ruby T. Langley | 1041/23 |
For consideration paid ($6.05 in stamps), "the land, with the buildings thereon," on the south side of Elm Street and the west side of Wilson Street, the same 12,344 square feet on Plan Book 20, Plan 2, "Being the same premises conveyed to said Emil W. Michalek and Mary T. Menton, as joint tenants, by deed of Lowell Co-operative Bank, Mortgagee of Charles H. Elwood." "The said Mary T. Menton died in said Billerica on October third, 1941, see Middlesex Probate Records No. 240778." Signed April 10, 1946. The Langleys gave a $5,500 mortgage to the Lowell Co-operative Bank the same day. The store was Todd's Market in 1943 and 1944.
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| December 19, 1947 | Quitclaim Deed | Francis C. Langley and Ruby T. Langley of Billerica | Robert D. Peverill and Beatrice M. Peverill, husband and wife, of Tewksbury | 1947 the Langleys divide the lot and sell Lot B (the rear tenements); they keep Lot A with the store block | 1084/22 |
For consideration paid ($4.40 in stamps), "the land in said Billerica, with the buildings thereon, situated on the westerly side of Wilson Street": 73.30 feet on Wilson Street, 84.83 and 47.40 feet by the Talbot Mills, 23.50 and 36.82 feet by Marietta C. Hutchins and 51.56 feet by Lot A, 6,000 square feet, Lot B on the "Plan of Land in Billerica, Mass. belonging to Francis C. and Ruby T. Langley," surveyed Nov. 5, 1947 by John Thomas Brown (Plan Book 71, Plan 97), "a part of the premises conveyed to us by Emil W. Michalek." The plan shows the "Store Block" with its piazza on Lot A (5,850 square feet) at the corner and two tenements and a garage on Lot B. The Langleys kept Lot A, the store.
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| October 5, 1978 | Quitclaim Deed | Two private owners of Burlington (husband and wife) | CRT Development Corporation, Faulkner Street, North Billerica | 1978 Lot A, the store corner, sold for $500 to CRT Development Corporation, owner of the mill | 2329/667 |
For $500, "The land in Billerica with the buildings thereon, situated on the southerly side of Elm Street and the westerly side of Wilson Street": 54.35 feet on Elm Street, 6.70 feet around the corner, 44.05 and 60 feet on Wilson Street, 51.56 feet by Lot B and 93.55 feet on the west, Lot A on the "Right of Way Location, North Billerica, Massachusetts, Surveyed for Francis C. Langley, Surveyed June, 1950" by James B. Monahan (Plan Book 78, Plan 56A), "subject to real estate taxes and municipal liens," title by a deed of Dec. 17, 1971 (Book 1992, Page 20). The Langleys sold Lot A to private owners in May 1952 (Book 1195, Page 54), whose successors sold it in 1971 to the grantors; Bob's Trade Market advertised from the store at 14 Elm Street from 1969 to 1973. The $500 price suggests the building was gone by 1978; CRT Development owned the old Talbot mill.
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| July 25, 1980 | Quitclaim Deed | CRT Development Corporation, Faulkner Street, North Billerica | William Martin of Arlington, William S. Ricci of Dorchester and Dieter Morlock of Lexington, tenants in common | 1980 CRT Development Corporation dissolves and passes Lot A to its three stockholders | 2429/706 |
For $1, Lot A on Plan Book 78, Plan 56A "with the buildings thereon," on the south side of Elm Street and the west side of Wilson Street, "in accordance with a Plan of Liquidation and Dissolution of CRT Development Corporation ... with assets being distributed to the stockholders." "For title see deed of Frank J. Sullivan, et ux dated September 26, 1978 ... Book 2329, Page 667." Dated July 2, 1980. The same day the corporation passed the mill and its other lots to the three stockholders.
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| July 25, 1980 | Quitclaim Deed | William Martin, William S. Ricci and Dieter Morlock, tenants in common | CRT Development, a limited partnership (the same three general partners), Faulkner Street, North Billerica | 1980 the three partners put Lot A into CRT Development, the limited partnership | 2429/708 |
For $1, Lot A on Plan Book 78, Plan 56A, "the land in Billerica with the buildings thereon, situated on the southerly side of Elm Street and the westerly side of Wilson Street," a "tax-free exchange for interest in a limited partnership," "Being the same premises conveyed to the Grantor by deed of CRT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION dated July 2, 1980 ... recorded ... simultaneously herewith." Signed and acknowledged July 2, 1980.
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| August 20, 1998 | Quitclaim Deed | CRT Development, a Massachusetts limited partnership, 67 Faulkner Street, Billerica | Cambridge Tool & Mfg. Co., Inc. (c/o Leggett & Platt, Carthage, Missouri) | 1998 CRT Development to Cambridge Tool & Mfg. Co., the mill owner | 9500/82 |
For $1, "the land, with buildings and improvements thereon," on the south side of Elm Street and the west side of Wilson Street, Lot A on Plan Book 78, Plan 56A, "Being the same premises conveyed to the grantor herein by deed of William Martin dated July 9, 1980 ... Book 2429, Page 708." Recorded Aug. 20, 1998, six months after CRT Development sold Cambridge Tool the tavern lot across Wilson Street.
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| April 4, 2008 | Warranty Deed | Leggett & Platt, Incorporated, a Missouri corporation, successor in interest to Cambridge Tool & Mfg. Co., Inc. | L&P Aluminum Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (c/o Pace Industries, Fayetteville, Arkansas) | 2008 Leggett & Platt to L&P Aluminum Holdings: Lot A on Plan 78/56A is its Parcel Eleventh | 22079/41 |
Dated March 27, 2008, consideration $0: the same parcels, including the FIFTH PARCEL, Lots 70 and 71 on Plan Book 60, Plan 28 (17,391 square feet). Recorded April 4, 2008. The site of the Mixer house is part of assessor parcel 9-94-0, 1 Old Elm Street (9.3 acres, the old Talbot mill), owned to date by L&P Aluminum Holdings LLC.
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| July 6, 2023 | Deed | Pace Industries LLC, formerly L&P Aluminum Holdings, LLC | The trustee of Sasha Realty Trust | 2023 the mill company sells the empty corner, where 16 Old Elm St was built that year | 37932/13 |
For $200,000, "A certain parcel of land with all the buildings and improvements thereon," Lot A on Plan Book 78, Plan 56A, on the south side of Elm Street and the west side of Wilson Street (property address 16 Old Elm Street), "that portion of the premises referred to as Parcel Eleventh in deed of Leggett & Platt, Incorporated, to Pace Industries LLC, f/k/a L&P Aluminum Holdings, LLC ... March 27, 2008 ... Book 22079, Page 41." A one-family house was built on the lot in 2023 and numbered 16 Old Elm Street; it was sold in April 2024 to private owners (Book 38408, Page 193), who own it to date.
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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.