Jones Town Forest

Signed and acknowledged March 14, 1910, recorded May 1910, for "One Dollar and other valued consideration": "a certain lot of land situated in the southerly part of Billerica ... containing about 77 acres", from the Shawsheen River at land of Perkins Holden, by land of Lynde, John Crosby, Frank Crosby, John Baldwin's heirs and George Carter, and down the centre of a brook at land of Patten and Bowman to the river, "Being lot 21 in deed of partition of estate of Ruel Carter deceased and recorded in Middlesex So. Dist. Deeds Book 1588 Page 561". Jones gave Carter back a $500 mortgage the same day (Book 450, Page 229).

• March 2, 1926 Quitclaim Deed: Nathaniel R. Jones of Billerica and Edith F. Jones to Inhabitants of Billerica (733/497) ("the same premises conveyed to me by Morris Carter ... Book 450, Page 228")

Signed January 14, 1926, recorded March 2, 1926. Accepted by the 1925 town meeting as Billerica Town Forest area No. 5. "For the purposes of public parks, public playgrounds, and a public domain, or any of such purposes, in accordance with Chapter 45 of the General Laws", with quitclaim covenants, "a certain lot of land situated in the southerly part of said Billerica, containing about seventy-seven (77) acres", beginning at the southeasterly corner "on Shawsheen River and at land of Perkins Holden" and following the same bounds as the 1910 deed back down the brook and "by said river to the point of beginning", "Being Lot Twenty-one (21) in deed of partition of estate of Ruel Carter, deceased ... Book 1588, Page 561, and being the same premises conveyed to me by Morris Carter by his deed dated March 14, 1910 ... Book 450, Page 228." Edith F. Jones, his wife, releases dower and homestead.

• 1910 Warranty Deed: Morris Carter of Woburn to Nathaniel R. Jones of Billerica (450/228) ("the same premises conveyed to me by Morris Carter ... Book 450, Page 228")

Recorded June 12, 1930 (known from the grantor index, "Grant of rts. Pl. Bk. 58-11A & Assent"; not read). The 1929 annual town meeting (Article 47) authorized the Selectmen to grant the New England Power Company, for a nominal consideration, "a right of way two hundred and fifty feet wide over and across Nathaniel R. Jones Town Forest holding", provided that Jones waived any claim against the town for it; this is Jones's grant and assent for the power line. The town's own grant was not located.

• March 2, 1926 Quitclaim Deed: Nathaniel R. Jones of Billerica and Edith F. Jones to Inhabitants of Billerica (733/497) (power line right of way across the Jones Town Forest, with the donor's assent)