Joseph Jaquith
Joseph Jaquith
| Born | 1842-12-03 Billerica, MA |
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| In Office | 1899 - 1913 |
| Father | Franklin Jaquith |
| Mother | Lucy Walker |
Joseph Jaquith (1842 to about 1913) was a Billerica glue manufacturer who ran the works on Concord Road later known as the Jaquith Glue Factory with his brother Franklin Jaquith for more than forty years, and one of the town's first cemetery commissioners. He was born on December 3, 1842, the younger son of Franklin Jaquith, the innholder of the Joseph Jaquith House, and Lucy Walker, and grew up on the family land between the Bedford road and the Concord River.
In 1867 the two brothers began making glue near the old bridge of the Middlesex Turnpike; by 1883 Hazen put the business at nearly $15,000 a year. After their father died in 1876, their mother sold them in 1877, as tenants in common, for $1,375 the farm north of the Bedford road, five acres in Pond meadow and another lot, and the other heirs released to them twelve acres running to the river; the deeds already mark "the corner of the old field near the glue house". The agricultural census of 1880 lists the farm under both their names. In 1901 the firm of F. and J. Jaquith, "glue manufacturers and dealers in plastering hair", was on the Old Middlesex Turnpike near Concord Road, and Joseph lived on Concord Road near the railroad crossing.
On October 30, 1909 the brothers divided their land. Franklin quitclaimed his share to Joseph, who sold the lot "commonly called the Glue Factory, with the boilers, engines, gearing, drums and shafts", 1.87 acres on a new right of way from Concord Road, to Herbert A. Lamprell, with the right to keep the dam in the brook for water power, and deeded the western part of the land back to Franklin. The factory passed to the H. A. Lamprell Co. and in 1916 to the Billerica Glue Company.
He took a large part in the affairs of the First Parish. In 1880 the surviving parsonage trustees, among them Thomas Talbot, appointed him a trustee, and in 1881 the trustees sold the old parsonage, the Henry Bowers House, and bought the Marshall Preston House from Luther W. Faulkner for $2,825 as the new one. He was still a trustee in 1898, when he and the other survivors named new trustees. In 1893 and 1894 he served with J. Nelson Parker and Frederic S. Clark on the committee whose report led to the new town hall, the Billerica Town Hall (1895).
In 1899 he signed, with Parker and Herbert A. King, "An Appeal for Our Cemeteries" for the town's cemetery committees, and when the town that March adopted the act on public cemeteries and elected three Commissioners of Public Burial Grounds, he was chosen for two years. He was re-elected and remained a cemetery commissioner until 1913. His wife, Annah M., released her dower in his deeds of 1897 and 1909 and died on June 14, 1914, aged 63. He died about 1913: in March 1914 the town elected John A. Richardson to a two-year term on the cemetery commission, a fund of $100 in Joseph Jaquith's name for the care of a lot in the South Cemetery was added to the town's trust funds that year, and the fire reports of 1915 speak of the brush land of the "J. Jaquith estate".
References
- Hazen, History of Billerica (1883), p. 282: the glue factory begun in 1867 by the Jaquith Brothers near the old bridge of the Middlesex Turnpike
- Hazen, History of Billerica (1883), Genealogical Register p. 78, JAQUITH 9 (his parents)
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| December 11, 1877 | Quitclaim (heirs) | Lucy Jaquith, widow of Franklin Jaquith, with the heirs Abigail Jaquith, Albinia J. Peirce, Mary F. Foster and Harriette W. Drew | Franklin Jaquith Jr. and Joseph Jaquith of Billerica, tenants in common | Details | Jaquith Glue Factory | 127/10 |
Dated Apr. 1, recorded Dec. 11, 1877. For one dollar each, "a certain lot or parcel of land ... containing twelve acres more or less," from the northwest corner of the Run at Thomas Elliott's land, by Elliott and other Jaquith land "to the brook, thence by the brook to Concord River," along the river to F. Dickinson, by Dickinson to the side hill lot, then "along said side hill lot to the corner of Hind Pasture so called, near the Glue house," and back by the calf pasture and the Run; "Being a part of the property of which the late Franklin Jaquith died seized."
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| December 11, 1877 | Warranty Deed | Lucy Jaquith, widow of the late Franklin Jaquith (the other heirs releasing) | Franklin Jaquith Jr. and Joseph Jaquith of Billerica, tenants in common | Details | Jaquith Glue Factory | 127/11 |
Dated Apr. 1, recorded Dec. 11, 1877. For $1,375, three parcels "the property of the late Franklin Jaquith of Billerica, who died in 1876": the farm north of the Bedford road from the Great Pasture lot to Thomas McElligott's land, by the thicket lot and the old field "to the corner of the side hill lot, thence northerly to the corner of the old field near the glue house," by F. Dickinson and the Whiting pasture and back; five acres in Pond meadow once set off to Susanna Jaquith for dower; and eight acres west of the river "bequeathed by Abigail Jaquith to Franklin Jaquith."
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| December 11, 1877 | Mortgage | Franklin Jaquith Jr. and Joseph Jaquith of Billerica | Lucy Jaquith, widow of Franklin Jaquith | Purchase-money mortgage to his mother Lucy Jaquith | Jaquith Glue Factory | 127/13 |
Purchase-money mortgage of the same three parcels to secure $1,375, recorded with the deed Dec. 11, 1877; the first parcel again runs "northerly to the corner of the Old field near the Glue house." Discharged in the margin "having received full payment and satisfaction."
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| May 5, 1880 | Appointment of Trustee | Thomas Talbot, John O. Richardson, Leander Crosby and Geo. P. Elliot, surviving parsonage trustees | Joseph Jaquith of Billerica, trustee | Appointed a parsonage trustee of the First Parish | Henry Bowers House | 139/294 |
Dated March 30, 1880. "A majority of the survivors" of the trustees under Eliza Bowers's deed of May 14, 1867 (Book 58 Page 246) and the declaration of trust (Book 58 Page 248), Calvin Rogers having died, appoint Joseph Jaquith trustee in his place and convey the deceased trustee's estate to him on the same trusts; Jaquith sworn before Dudley Foster JP.
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| August 27, 1881 | Trustees' Deed | Thomas Talbot, George P. Elliot, John O. Richardson, Leander Crosby and Joseph Jaquith of Billerica, parsonage trustees | Rufus K. Underhill of Billerica | Details | Henry Bowers House | 147/479 |
Dated Aug. 15, 1881. The trustees under the declaration of trust of May 14, 1867 and four later instruments (Book 88 Page 574, Book 114 Page 40, Book 123 Page 8, Book 139 Page 294), for $2,500, "a certain lot of land with the buildings thereon": from the northeast corner on "the Boston Road" at land formerly of Arza Page, west 304 feet to land formerly of Paul Holt, south 130 feet to "land formerly of said grantors", east 325 feet to the road, and north on the road 111 1/2 feet; "being the larger part of premises conveyed to Faulkner, Baldwin, Talbot et al. Trustees by Eliza A. Bowers ... Book 58 Page 246." The Parish reinvested the money in the Marshall Preston house as its new parsonage (declaration Book 150 Page 390).
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| February 3, 1882 | Declaration of Trust | Thomas Talbot, John O. Richardson, George P. Elliott, Leander Crosby and Joseph Jaquith, trustees | Contributors to the First Parish parsonage fund | Details | Marshall Preston House | 150/390 |
Dated August 19, 1881. Recites the 1867 parsonage bought from Eliza A. Bowers for $2,800 (Book 58 Page 246, trust Book 58 Page 248), paid in $25 "parts" by James R. Faulkner, Thomas Talbot, William Gray, Charles Faulkner and others; the trustees "have sold said real estate" and, the money not being enough, $3,125 more was given (Mrs. Eleanor Bennett and Thomas Talbot 40 parts each). Luther W. Faulkner has conveyed the new lot, but "the buildings standing on the said land ... are not in suitable and proper condition for a parsonage, and a large sum of money must be expended upon the same." The trustees will repair it, invest the rest for upkeep, and divide the fund among the contributors if the parish dissolves.
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| February 3, 1882 | Warranty Deed | Luther W. Faulkner of Billerica (wife Martha M. Faulkner releasing dower and homestead) | Thomas Talbot, John O. Richardson, George P. Elliott, Leander Crosby and Joseph Jaquith, parsonage trustees of the First Parish Church in Billerica | Details | Marshall Preston House 404 Boston Rd |
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Dated August 19, 1881. For $2,825 paid by the trustees "of the Contributors of said sum for the purchase of the premises hereinafter described as a parsonage for the First Parish in said Billerica": "A certain lot of land with the buildings thereon, containing near two acres", beginning at the Boston Road "at land of the grantor" (Faulkner kept the Andover Road corner), east 187 feet to the wall of the heirs of O. M. Blodgett, then by land formerly of John Baldwin, A. F. Page, Abel Spalding and John O. Richardson, and 168 1/2 feet on the road. Warranty, no title recital. This is the 1881 parsonage purchase in Hazen: "one door north of Andover Street".
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| July 28, 1898 | Appointment of Trustees | John O. Richardson and Joseph Jaquith, surviving parsonage trustees | Frederic S. Clark, J. Nelson Parker and Albert R. Richardson | Details | Marshall Preston House | 299/177 |
Dated June 6, 1887, recorded 1898. Recites the 1881 deed and declaration of trust and that part of the contributions "was expended in the repair of the dwelling house" bought of Luther W. Faulkner; Thomas Talbot, George P. Elliott and Leander Crosby having died, the survivors appoint three new trustees to hold the parsonage jointly with them.
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| February 8, 1898 | Warranty Deed | Almira J. Pierce, Abigail Jaquith, Cordelia A. Foster, Joseph Jaquith (wife Annah M. releasing), Harriette W. and Charles A. Drew | Their brother Franklin Jaquith of Billerica | One of the heirs of Lucy Jaquith | Joseph Jaquith House 164 Concord Rd |
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Dated Oct. 1, 1897. For $1 and other consideration the heirs convey to Franklin Jaquith "the two following parcels of land, being part of the Jaquith Farm so called", shown on the plan "surveyed for Franklin Jaquith heirs, James A. Bancroft, C.E. Nov. 27, 1897" (Plan Book 13, Plan 41): the 9.43 acre area westerly by "the old turnpike road", northerly by Bedford street, "together with the buildings thereon", with the 3/4 acre piece across the Boston and Maine Railroad and the fee in the railroad location; and 9.20 acres west of the turnpike by the estate of Edward J. Hill. "The premises herein described being owned by Lucy Jaquith at the time of her decease", the grantors and grantee "being all the children and heirs of said Lucy who died intestate and of Franklin Jaquith Esq."; Mary F. Foster had died before her mother, leaving her daughter Cordelia.
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| January 8, 1906 | Appointment of Trustees | Joseph Jaquith, Frederic S. Clark and J. Nelson Parker, surviving parsonage trustees | Joshua B. Holden of Boston and John A. Richardson of Billerica | Details | Marshall Preston House | 386/236 |
Dated July 28, 1898, acknowledged 1899, recorded 1906. John O. Richardson and Albert R. Richardson having died, the surviving trustees of the First Parish parsonage appoint Joshua B. Holden and John A. Richardson in their places, to hold the 1881 Faulkner purchase on the same trusts.
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| October 30, 1909 | Quitclaim | Franklin Jaquith of Billerica (wife Susan H. P. Jaquith releasing) | His brother Joseph Jaquith of Billerica | Details | Jaquith Glue Factory | 441/126 |
Dated and recorded Oct. 30, 1909, the first of four deeds recorded together that day. For one dollar, all his right in the premises "with the buildings thereon" on the northerly side of Concord road, from the southeast corner of Thomas McElligott's land northerly by walls to the Concord river, easterly along the river to land "supposed to belong to one Edward F. Dickinson," by Dickinson's walls by various courses, then along other land of Joseph Jaquith back to the road: the brothers' common land north of the road.
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| October 30, 1909 | Warranty Deed | Joseph Jaquith of Billerica (wife Annah M. Jaquith releasing) | Herbert A. Lamprell of Billerica | Details | Jaquith Glue Factory | 441/128 |
Dated and recorded Oct. 30, 1909. For one dollar and other consideration, "a certain lot or parcel of land in said Billerica, with the buildings thereon, commonly called the Glue Factory, with the boilers, engines, gearing, drums and shafts therein belonging, with all the fixtures in and about the said factory," on the southeasterly side of a 20-foot right of way from the north side of Concord road, 1.87 acres, Lot 1 on "Plan of Land in Billerica, Mass. belonging to F. & J. Jaquith, October, 1909, O. M. Snell, C.E." (Plan Book 27, Plan 27); with the right to keep the dam "in the brook on premises belonging to me easterly," to flow the water back and repair the pipes, and "to lay down and construct a sewer along said brook from the factory to the Concord River"; the way begins on Concord road "twenty-three feet distant from the stone wall which is along the easterly line of the old Middlesex turnpike."
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| October 30, 1909 | Quitclaim | Joseph Jaquith of Billerica | His brother Franklin Jaquith of Billerica | Details | Jaquith Glue Factory | 441/130 |
Dated and recorded Oct. 30, 1909. The western part of the brothers' land: from a stone bound on the north line of Concord road 224.6 feet east of the easterly line of the Old Middlesex turnpike, northerly by courses to the centre of the right of way and N 25 W 568.3 feet to the Concord river, westerly by the river to Thomas McElligott and back to the road, "Being part of the premises described in deed of said Franklin Jaquith to me of even date," subject to the right of way in "my deed to Herbert A. Lamprell of even date"; with 14,568 square feet on the south side of the river at Edward F. Dickinson's corner and his interest in Pond Meadow.
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted.