Person · 1814 - 1906
Moses P. Greenwood
Moses P. Greenwood
| Born | 1814-04-13 Needham, MA |
| Died | 1906-04-01 |
| Overseer of the Poor | |
| In Office | 1898 - 1899 |
| Spouses |
Lucy Jennison |
| Children | George (b. 1851-09-05) |
Moses P. Greenwood was a farmer who for more than half a century owned the old Stearns homestead near the Concord River and the Bedford line, and a deacon of the Congregational church. He was born in Needham on April 13, 1814, and on May 7, 1840 he married Lucy Jennison of Natick. Their first daughter, Harriet Z., was born in Weston in 1841. In January 1844 he bought from Sereno Fiske, then of the Wisconsin Territory, the Fiske Tavern Stand on the Boston road, nine acres with the buildings, for $3,200, and in 1848 he sold it to Lowell F. Jennison.
In April 1850 the heirs of Sewall Stearns sold him for $3,500 the Stearns homestead, about eighty acres with the buildings, running west to the Concord River, with two small lots in Carlisle (Captain John Stearns House, 96 Dudley Road). The census taken that summer lists in his household, besides his family, nearly twenty older or infirm people, several of them marked insane, apparently town paupers in his charge. With his son George he built the place into a dairy farm of about ninety acres. He bought the nine acres of the Ditson Plain from Jennison in 1857 and sold them to Lyman Haynes and Dudley Foster in 1865, and in later years he lent money on mortgages of farms and houses in town, among them Peter Dolan's farm on the Middlesex Turnpike. He served on the appraisals of several estates in the 1860s and sold firewood to the town in the 1880s and 1890s.
In 1889 he paid Mark Lund $2,100 for about two acres on the main street at the Centre (Fitch Tufts House), where the family built the Greenwood Building. At eighty-four he was elected an Overseer of the Poor and served in 1898 and 1899.
The Greenwoods' children were Harriet Z., born in 1841; Ann Augusta, born on July 22, 1843, who married George Bradford of Canterbury, Connecticut, in 1869 and lived in Waltham; Caroline E., born on May 13, 1845; and George P. Greenwood, born on September 5, 1851, who carried on the farm. His grandsons were Laurence J. Greenwood and Oliver P. Greenwood. Deacon Greenwood died on April 1, 1906; the town record gives his age as 90 years, 11 months and 19 days, a year less than his recorded birth date implies.
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| July 13, 1844 | Warranty | Sereno Fiske, formerly of Billerica, now of Southport in the Wisconsin Territory, by Marshall Preston his attorney | Moses P. Greenwood of Billerica, yeoman | Warranty 1844 | Fiske Tavern Stand | 445/401 (South) |
For $3,200, "the following several lots of real estate situate in said Billerica viz. The said Fisk's Tavern stand, so called, containing nine acres and seventy rods more or less, with the buildings thereon," beginning at the northeasterly corner at the Boston road and land of Hervey Crosby, westerly by Crosby to the first cross wall running south, southerly by that wall 34 rods 18 links by Fiske's land to the first stone wall running easterly, easterly by that wall to the Boston road and northerly by the road to the beginning; also the Webb Orchard and Richardson land (17 acres 69 rods) on the Boston road by Samuel A. Rogers, Haslet Mackay, the Isaac Pollard farm and Joseph White; the Stoney pasture and Fuller land (30 acres) by the road from the Great Boston road to the Middlesex Turnpike; and the Crosby pasture (20 acres) by Joseph Blanchard and the Bowers Ross lot. Dated Jan. 16, acknowledged Jan. 18, recorded July 13, 1844. Billerica town book 17, pages 501-502 (Southern Registry Book 445 Page 401). Preston quitclaimed the same lots the same day to release the dower of Fiske's wife (town book 17/503, S. 445/402). Greenwood also gave George Bacon a mortgage of the tavern stand that year (town book 16/457), before selling to Jennison in 1848.
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| 1848 | Warranty | Moses P. Greenwood of Billerica, yeoman, and Lucy Greenwood his wife | Lowell F. Jennison of Billerica, yeoman | Warranty 1848 | Fiske Tavern Stand | 534/91 (South) |
For $1,550, "a certain parcel of land situate in said Billerica with the buildings thereon formerly called the Crosby Tavern Stand containing nine acres and seventy rods more or less," beginning at the northeasterly corner at the Boston road and land of Hervey Crosby, westerly by Crosby to the first cross wall running south, southerly by that wall 34 rods 18 links by land of Josiah B. Gleason, easterly by Gleason to the Boston road and northerly by the road to the beginning. Dated April 1, acknowledged April 8, 1848. Billerica town book 20, page 45 (Southern Registry Book 534 Page 91). Jennison mortgaged the tavern stand to George Bacon for $1,000 the same day (town book 20/43, Southern Registry Book 534 Page 88, a row of its own) and gave a second mortgage to Greenwood in 1854 (town book 20/484). He sold the place to Haslet Mackay by a deed of May 18, 1856 that was never recorded; it is recited in Mackay's 1884 deed to Edward B. Haskell (Middlesex North Book 221 Page 259). The 1853 map shows L. F. Jennison here, the 1875 map H. McKay and the 1889 map A. (Edward B.) Haskell.
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| April 27, 1850 | Quitclaim | Lucretia Stearns, widow; Obed Stearns; Eckley Stearns; Aaron and Sarah A. Lawrence; Timothy Stearns; heirs of Sewall Stearns | Moses P. Greenwood | Details | Captain John Stearns House 96 Dudley Rd |
579/466 (South) |
Dated Apr. 15, 1850, acknowledged Apr. 22-24 and recorded Apr. 27, 1850. Lucretia Stearns of Billerica, widow, Obed Stearns of Bedford, gentleman, Eckley Stearns of Abington, yeoman, Aaron Lawrence, trader, and Sarah A. Lawrence his wife of Amherst, New Hampshire, and Timothy Stearns of Pickaway County, Ohio, clerk, "heirs at law of the estate of Sewall Stearns Esquire late of said Billerica deceased," for $3,500 quitclaimed to Moses P. Greenwood of Billerica, yeoman, "a certain tract or parcel of land situated in the southwest part of said Billerica and with the buildings thereon containing about eighty acres," beginning at the north-east corner by Jonathan Hill, west by Franklin Stearns to the Concord River, south by the river to John C. Hobbs, east and south by Hobbs to Thomas G. Atkins, east by Atkins and William H. Ropes to Franklin Stearns, and north by Stearns and Hutchinson Rogers, with eight and four acre lots in Carlisle. The wives of Obed, Eckley and Timothy released dower. Billerica town book 21, pages 41-43.
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| May 25, 1857 | Warranty Deed | Lowell F. Jennison of Billerica (Lucy A. Jennison, his wife, releasing dower) | Moses P. Greenwood of Billerica, yeoman | Warranty Deed 1857 | Pinehurst School Old Ditson School |
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Signed May 11, 1857 before Dudley Foster, recorded May 25, 1857 (pages 512-513). For $125, "a certain parcel of land situate in said Billerica containing nine acres & three quarters and twenty Rods more or less known as the Ditson Plain being the premises conveyed to Harvey Crosby by John and Henry Baldwin by deed recorded in Middlesex Registry of Deeds Book 427, page 124, and by said Crosby to John E. Edgerly by deed recorded as aforesaid Book 567, p. 298, and by said Edgerly to me by deed recorded in Middlesex Registry of Deeds Book 618, Page 562."
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| August 14, 1860 | Deed | John C. Hobbs of Billerica, machinist (wife Caroline G. Hobbs releasing dower and homestead) | George S. Mason of Medfield | Deed 1860 | Abner Stearns House | 25/135 |
Dated July 4, 1860. For $2,600, "my homestead farm situate in said Billerica": from the west corner of the mill at the race, by the race or brook to Concord River, north by the river to Moses P. Greenwood, by Greenwood to the road, by the road "to the garden wall" and by the wall to the mill, "fourteen acres more or less with the buildings thereon"; also about 12 acres opposite, from the southeast end of the mill dam by the mill yard and land formerly of Thomas G. Atkins to Greenwood. "Being premises conveyed to me by Jonas Monroe & E. H. Stearns ... Book 405 page 263, and Sewall Stearns deed ... Book 565 page 448." Hobbs reserved the right "to flow said land for the benefit of said Mill privilege or water power", keeping the mill.
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| 1863 | Guardianship and License to Sell | Francis O., Addison B. and Emma M. Whitford, minor children of William Whitford, by their guardian Mary Whitford | Mary Whitford of Billerica, their mother, guardian (licensed to sell their shares of the homestead farm) | Guardianship and License to Sell 1863 | Jonathan Hill Barn Jonathan Hill House Concord Road Corporate Center 300 Concord Rd |
Probate #44508 |
On Dec. 16, 1863 Mary Whitford, widow of William Whitford, petitioned to be guardian of Francis Onslow Whitford (born April 21, 1843), Addison Barnard Whitford (born April 29, 1847) and Emma Maria Whitford (born Feb. 3, 1849), all over fourteen, who chose her; appointed at Cambridge on Dec. 22, 1863 by Judge William A. Richardson. The inventory of the minors' estate (appraisers Jona. Hill, Moses P. Greenwood and Constantine Hill) lists "Three seventh parts of the Homestead farm of the late William Whitford, situated in Billerica, subject to the widow's dower," appraised at $1,508. Her petition for license to sell for their maintenance (January 1864) describes "The Homestead farm of said deceased, comprising about One hundred acres, more or less, with the buildings thereon," on both sides of the road from Billerica to Bedford: the lot east of the road bounded north by Susan Fitch, east by Susan Fitch, William Stewart, Nutting's Pond and Josiah Bowers, south by Jonathan Hill and Charles H. Hill, and west by the road; and on the west side about twelve acres, the Orchard Lot of about four acres and the School House Lot of about eight. The heirs George H., J. S., E. L., Mary E., Francis O., Addison B. and Emma M. Whitford assented in December 1863. Francis came of age on April 21, 1864, so the guardian's sale of May 1864 (Book 38 Page 38) conveyed only Addison's and Emma's shares. Middlesex probate case 44508.
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| 1863 | Administration | Estate of Sullivan Presho of Billerica, mason | Mary Presho, widow, administratrix; heirs Solomon A., Charles D., Isaac H., Seth L., Mary Jane and Phineas A. Presho | Administration 1863 | Asa Hill Jr. House | Probate #39782 |
Sullivan Presho died intestate at Billerica 13 September 1863. His widow Mary petitioned 22 September 1863, naming six children, all of age: Solomon A. Presho of La Paz, Lower California; Charles D. Presho of Charlestown; Isaac H. and Seth L. Presho of St. Paul, Minnesota; and Mary Jane and Phineas A. Presho of Billerica. She was appointed administratrix at Concord 6 October 1863 with Rodney Brown and Charles D. Presho as sureties. The appraisers (Rodney Brown, Moses P. Greenwood, Asa Hodgman 2d) valued the real estate at $3,500 and the personal estate at $1,067.75 (inventory filed 10 November 1863).
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| 1863 | Deed | George S. Mason of Billerica, yeoman (wife Ellen B. Mason releasing dower and homestead) | Mary Ellen Richardson, wife of Albert Richardson of Medford, to her sole and separate use | Deed 1863 | Abner Stearns House | 35/91 |
Dated June 3, 1863 (pages 91-93). For $2,500, "my homestead farm situate in said Billerica": the 14 acres "with the buildings thereon" from the west corner of the mill at the race to Concord River, Moses P. Greenwood, the road and the garden wall, and the 12 acres across the road; "being premises conveyed to me by John C. Hobbs deed dated July 4 1860 ... Book 25 Page 135", reserving Hobbs's right to flow the land "for the benefit of said Mill privilege or water power" and Greenwood's right to team hay; also 7 acres of Carlisle woodland bought of Obed Stearns and others in 1861. The Middlesex Institution for Savings released Mason's 1860 mortgage the same month.
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| 1864 | Administration | Estate of Edward Wright of Billerica (died Sept. 11, 1863, intestate) | His son E. Irving Wright of Roxbury, administrator; widow Mary E. Wright; minor children Clara J., Ella F. and Anna E. Wright of Billerica | Administration 1864 | Deacon Edward Wright House 57 Andover Rd Rufus Kitteredge Underhill House 67 Andover Rd Mabel B. King House |
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Petition of March 4, 1864 by "the eldest son of said deceased and only child of age", the widow assenting; administration granted at Cambridge March 8, 1864, estate sworn under $5,000. Inventory by William S. Gleason, Ichabod G. Kimball and Moses P. Greenwood, filed April 26, 1864: "Home Stead" $600; "Land with buildings adjoining homestead" $550; "Land adjoining the above, about twelve acres" $550; personal estate $155.50, room by room (kitchen, parlor, pantry, parlor chamber, west chamber, attic, library, entry, cellar, "tools at barn", a sewing machine). No sale of real estate followed: the land passed to the widow (dower) and the heirs, who divided it in 1901.
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| 1864 | Deed | Stephen B. Wingate of Billerica, yeoman (wife Mary D. Wingate releasing dower and homestead) | Mary E. Turner, wife of William G. Turner of Billerica, to her sole and separate use | Deed 1864 | Abner Stearns House | 38/310 |
Dated Oct. 10, 1864. For $3,000, "my homestead farm situate in said Billerica": the 14 acres "with the buildings thereon" from the west corner of the mill at the race to Concord River, Moses P. Greenwood, the road and the garden wall; the 12 acres across the road from the southeast end of the mill dam at John C. Hobbs's land, reserving Hobbs's right to flow "for the benefit of his mill privilege or water power"; 7 acres of Carlisle woodland. "Being premises conveyed to me by Albert Richardson & Mary E. Richardson his wife, deed dated April 30 A.D. 1864", subject to a $2,000 mortgage which Mary E. Turner assumed as part of the price.
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| March 19, 1866 | Warranty Deed | Moses P. Greenwood of Billerica, yeoman (Lucy Greenwood, his wife, releasing dower and homestead) | Lyman Haynes and Dudley Foster, both of Billerica | Warranty Deed 1865 | Pinehurst School Old Ditson School |
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Dated and acknowledged Dec. 2, 1865 before Charles H. Parker, recorded March 19, 1866. For $100, "a certain parcel of land situate in said Billerica containing nine acres three quarters and twenty rods more or less known as the Ditson Plain," with the same recital of title from the Baldwins through Harvey Crosby, John S. Edgerly and L. F. Jennison "to me ... Book 9, Page 512."
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| 1867 | Deed | Mary E. Turner of Billerica, with William G. Turner, her husband | Martha S. Wheeler, wife of Levi W. Wheeler, "in her own right" | Deed 1867 | Abner Stearns House | 58/460 |
Dated Sept. 18, 1867. For $5,500, "our homestead farm situate in said Billerica": the 14 acres "with the buildings" from the west corner of the mill at the race to Concord River, Moses P. Greenwood, the road and the garden wall; the 12 acres across the road from the southeast end of the mill dam "at land of John C. Hobbs", reserving Hobbs's right "to flow said land for the benefit of said mill privilege or water power" ("not to flow high enough to flow land now owned by M. P. Greenwood except as a winter privilege"); 7 acres of Carlisle woodland; with "all the crops now on said premises", the farming tools and one cow. "Being the same premises conveyed to me by S. B. Wingate ... Book 38 Page 310." A $2,200 mortgage back to Mary E. Turner (Book 59 Page 106) followed.
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| 1869 | Administration | Estate of Orville (Orvilers) M. Blodgett of Billerica, wheelwright | Samuel F. Thompson of Woburn, administrator; heirs Mary E. Thompson and Joseph E. Blodgett | Administration 1869 | Blodgett Homestead Jennie Blodgett House Graham Building |
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Orville M. Blodgett, wheelwright, died intestate March 13, 1869, leaving his widow Emeline H. Blodgett and two children, Mary E. Thompson of Woburn and Joseph E. Blodgett of Billerica. On March 23, 1869 Mary's husband Samuel F. Thompson was appointed administrator with the assent of all parties (bond $3,000). The appraisers (Daniel Floyd, Moses P. Greenwood, Isaac P. Bacon) valued the real estate at $1,600: a "Lot of land containing about one half of an acre, with the Dwelling House, Wheelwright's Shop, and Barn thereon standing situate in Billerica, on the Northerly side of the road leading from the Centre of Billerica to East Billerica"; the personal estate of $735.26 included the furnishings of a store room, parlor, sitting room and dining room and his wheelwright's tools, lathe, horse power, hubs, spokes and felloes. No division was made in probate; the heirs held the lot in common until 1892.
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| October 12, 1869 | Deed | Levi W. Wheeler of Billerica | Francis A. Wheeler of Billerica | Deed 1869 | Abner Stearns House | 70/177 |
Dated Oct. 11, 1869. For $3,500, "a certain farm situate in said Billerica" with the same bounds: the 14 acres "with the buildings thereon" by the mill race, Concord River, M. P. Greenwood, the road and the garden wall; the 12 acres across the road from the mill dam "at land of John C. Hobbs", subject to Hobbs's flowage right; 7 acres of Carlisle woodland. "Meaning and intending to convey by this deed all the Real estate described in a deed from Mary E. Turner ... dated September 18th A.D. 1867 ... Book 58 Page 461", subject to the $2,200 mortgage to Mary E. Turner of the same date (Book 59 Page 106).
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| December 15, 1869 | Deed | Francis A. Wheeler of Billerica | Henry G. W. Angell of Weston | Deed 1869 | Abner Stearns House | 71/248 |
For $3,400, "a certain farm situated in said Billerica": the 14 acres "with the buildings thereon" from the west corner of the mill at the race to Concord River, M. P. Greenwood, the road and the garden wall, and the 12 acres across the road from the southeast end of the mill dam "at land of John C. Hobbs", subject to Hobbs's flowage right; also 7 acres of Carlisle woodland. "Being the same premises conveyed to me by Levi W. Wheeler and wife by deed dated October 11th A.D. 1869 ... Book 70 Page 177", subject to the mortgage to Mary E. Turner of Sept. 18, 1867 (Book 59 Page 106) "on which there is now due seven hundred" dollars.
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| January 5, 1871 | Warranty Deed | Laura W. Hill of Billerica, widow (of Jonathan Hill) | Thomas E. Perrin of Andover | Warranty Deed 1871 | Job Hill House Hill Schoolhouse Job Hill Barn Hill Blacksmith Shop Captain John J. Gorham House |
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For $7,000 ($7 in revenue stamps), "a certain parcel of land situate in said Billerica with the buildings thereon", beginning "at the corner of the wall nearly opposite the house of Thos. Lyons on the Billerica and Bedford road", north by Lyons and Susan Hamilton to the Chelmsford and Bedford road, west by that road to Francis Wheeler, then by Wheeler and Henry Desmarzes ("several angles being formed by the walls, ditches, brook and dam, the bounds formed by the dam being its westerly side") back to the Billerica and Bedford road; "Excepting the land occupied by the Blacksmith Shop, School House, Burying ground, and the cross road", and reserving the right of carting hay across the west end of "the meadow, deeded by F. O. Whitford, May 16, 1864". Also the pasture opposite the burying ground (Franklin Stearns, Moses P. Greenwood) and river meadow "a few rods from Hills Bridge". Signed Jan. 2, 1871 before Dudley Foster. No title recital: Mrs. Hill held it under her husband's will (probate 34235), and he under his father Job Hill's will (probate 34231).
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| 1871 | Deed | Henry D. W. Angell of Cranston, R.I. (wife Sarah L. Angell releasing dower and homestead) | George R. Herrick of Boston | Deed 1871 | Abner Stearns House | 88/153 |
Dated Sept. 13, 1871. For $2,546.67, "a certain farm situated in said Billerica": the same 14 acres "with the buildings thereon" from the west corner of the mill at the race to Concord River, Moses P. Greenwood, the road and "the garden wall", and the 12 acres across the road from the southeast end of the mill dam "at land of John C. Hobbs", reserving Hobbs's right "to flow said land, which right is to flow only to the line of said Greenwood's land except in winter"; also 7 acres of woodland in Carlisle. "Being the same premises conveyed to me by Francis Wheeler of Billerica ... dated December 15th 1869 ... Book 71 Page 218", subject to a $700 mortgage from Levi W. Wheeler to Mary E. Turner of Sept. 18, 1867. Herrick (born 1850) married Rosine M. that year and farmed here until about 1915.
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| August 8, 1878 | Mortgage | Peter Dolan of Billerica | Moses P. Greenwood of Billerica | Mortgage 1878 | Charles Stearns House | 130/352 |
Aug 8, 1878. Mortgage for $1,500 at 6 percent on the 40-acre "homestead of the late Charles Stearns, deceased, with the buildings thereon" and the Crosby lot, "Being the same premises conveyed to me by Geo. E. Stearns & others ... and by deed from S. H. Wilson Guard." The buildings were to be insured for at least $800. It refinanced the 1864 savings-bank and 1866 Evans mortgages, both discharged that summer. Discharged by Greenwood Feb 15, 1898.
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| May 20, 1881 | Mortgage | Jasper F. Bruce of Billerica, trader (Cordelia Bruce releasing dower and homestead) | Moses P. Greenwood of Billerica | Mortgage 1881 | James Abbott House T.F. Lyons Post Office Old BATV Building |
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Dated April 21, 1881. For $1,500 in three years at 5 1/2 percent, "a certain parcel of land situated in the centre of said Billerica with a dwelling-house & store connected and a barn upon the same": from the southwest corner at land of Paul Hill on the Boston road, east and north by Hill to Mrs. Mary Casey, west by Casey "and land now or formerly of Albert R. Richardson" (the hotel lot) to the road, and by the road to the first bound, "containing about one acre more or less, being the same premises bequeathed to me by the late Samuel W. Baldwin, in his last will, Probated at Cambridge Middlesex County, March 15th 1881." Discharged in 1896 (Book 278 Page 478).
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| January 15, 1885 | Mortgage | Alfred Brown of Billerica | Moses P. Greenwood of Billerica | Mortgage 1885 | Wendy's Food Basket Monarch Diner William D. Mason House 314 Boston Rd Hayes' Restaurant 303 Boston Rd |
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To secure $1,500 in one year at five and a half percent, "a certain farm in said Billerica consisting of two tracts of land with the buildings thereon," the same bounds, "being the same premises conveyed by Thomas Brennan Sr. to Maria N. Brown deceased, who at the time of her decease was the wife of the said Alfred Brown." The buildings were to be insured for $1,500. Recorded after Alden Pinney's discharge of the 1876 mortgage on the same page. The margin cites a release in Book 435, Page 406 and a discharge in Book 572, Page 652. Maria N. Brown had died by January 1885 and Alfred Brown held the farm until his death.
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| October 15, 1886 | Deed | Mary J. Reed, Sarah M. Duren, Lucretia A. Davis, Sally L. Stearns (widow) and John B. Stearns, heirs of Franklin Stearns | William H. Marston of Billerica | Deed 1886 | Lt. John Stearns House Maryknoll Novitiate 77 Dudley Rd |
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Dated and acknowledged Oct. 2, 1886, recorded Oct. 15, 1886. For $500 the widow and children of Franklin Stearns (Mary J. Reed of Elizabeth, N.J., widow, Sarah M. Duren and Lucretia A. Davis of Carlisle, Sally L. Stearns, widow, and John B. Stearns, both of Billerica) convey "a certain tract of land with a house thereon" of about one acre at the corner of the highway leading to Moses P. Greenwood's house and the road to Bedford, bounded otherwise by the grantors' land; husbands Asa Duren and John P. Davis assent. A small out-lot of the Stearns farm; it shows the family holding the farm together in the months after Franklin Stearns's death in 1886. Marston gave back a $525 mortgage to Sally L. Stearns.
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| 1889 | Mortgage | George R. Herrick and Rosine M. Herrick | John B. Stearns | Mortgage 1889 | Abner Stearns House | 203/178 |
Recorded Jan. 30, 1889. For $1,500, the Herricks mortgaged their farm on the Billerica-Bedford road: the 14 acres from the west corner of the mill at the race to Concord River by M. P. Greenwood, and the 12 acres on the opposite side from the southeast end of the mill dam at land of John C. Hobbs, "part of land conveyed to Herrick" in 1871 (Book 88 Page 153). One of several Herrick mortgages of the farm (1887, 1889, 1896, 1904, 1910); the index describes the 1888 mechanics lien on the "Hobbs Place" by George H. Hall.
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| July 16, 1889 | Warranty Deed | Mark Lund of Greenville, N.H. (Adeliza A. R. Lund releasing dower and homestead) | Moses P. Greenwood of Billerica | Warranty Deed 1889 | Fitch Tufts House Greenwood Building |
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For $2,100, about two acres near the centre "with all the buildings thereon standing", from the southwest corner on Main Street at land formerly of David Parker "now of one Cann", east by Cann as the wall stands 534 feet, north by the wall and land formerly of Jefferson Cutter "now of Paul Hill" 158 feet, west by Hill 558 feet to Main Street, south by the street 147 feet. Dated June 26, 1889.
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| 1896 | Warranty Deed | Heirs of Lyman Haynes and Dudley Foster: Cyrus H., Charles R., William H. and John Haynes, Abby Haynes, Caroline H. Jenkins, Adeline H. Hickey, John H. Foster, Frank D. Foster and Mary A. Foster | George W. McFarland of East Boston | Warranty Deed 1896 | Pinehurst School Old Ditson School Josiah Hardwick House |
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Signed Dec. 2, 1896, acknowledged Dec. 3 and (Mary A. Foster) Dec. 12, 1896 (pages 585-586; recorded December 1896, day not read). The heirs of Lyman Haynes and Dudley Foster (Cyrus H., Charles R., William H. and John Haynes of Springfield, Abby Haynes of Boston, Caroline H. Jenkins of New York, Adeline H. Hickey of Boston, John H. Foster of Billerica, Frank D. Foster of North Andover and Mary A. Foster of Pasadena), for $450, "a certain parcel of land situate in said Billerica, containing nine and three quarters acres and twenty rods more or less, known as the Ditson Plain, being all and the same premises conveyed to Lyman Haynes and Dudley Foster by Moses P. Greenwood by deed dated December 2nd A.D. 1865 ... Book 47 Page 337"; also ten acres of meadow and upland bounded westerly by the Shawsheen River, conveyed to Dudley Foster by Lyman Haynes April 21, 1865 (Book 42, Page 307).
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| March 25, 1904 | Deed | George R. Herrick and Rosine M. Herrick, his wife, in her right, of Billerica | Ellen R. Pickman of Beverly, wife of Dudley L. Pickman | Deed 1902 | Abner Stearns House | 363/397 |
Dated Dec. 18, 1902, recorded March 25, 1904. For $1 and other valuable consideration, about five acres on the south bank of Mill Brook between Moses P. Greenwood's ditch and Dudley Road, "a portion of the premises conveyed to the said Rosine by Frank T. Bemer ... Book 124 Page 43", reserving to the Herricks and their children Harry W. and Florence M. "the exclusive possession and control of the by-pass or canal opening out of said brook easterly of the water wheel" with the small island and the right to keep the water wheel, while they occupied the rest; Mrs. Pickman was to keep the bank sloped and forbid fishing. The first piece of the Herrick holdings to go to the Pickmans after the mill acre in 1888.
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| January 15, 1903 | Mortgage | Charlie L. Burton of Billerica | Moses P. Greenwood of Billerica | Mortgage 1903 | L.T. Eastman Blacksmith Shop Lund T. Eastman House 435 437 Boston Rd |
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For $1,000 in one year at 5%, the same Lot 3 "with the buildings thereon", "Being the same premises to me conveyed by Susan U. Phillips by deed of even date". Dated Jan. 15, 1903. Margin: assigned to Hattie Greenwood and others and discharged (Book 610 Pages 137 and 138).
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| June 19, 1906 | Quitclaim Deed | Edmond R. Fowler and Charlotte E. Fowler, his wife, in her own right, of Chelmsford | John B. Stearns of Billerica | Quitclaim Deed 1906 | Job Hill House | 391/529 |
For $1, "a certain tract or parcel of pasture land" east of the Chelmsford and Billerica Road (south and southwest by Moses P. Greenwood, west, northwest and north by Franklin Stearns deceased), 14 34/100 acres, whose "northeasterly corner ... is nearly opposite the burying ground"; "the second described parcel in a deed given by Dudley Foster to said Charlotte E. Fowler dated May 18, 1891 ... Book 224 Page 312", shown as Lot No. 2 on the April 1906 Snell plan. Signed June 15, 1906. The pasture of the Job Hill farm, sold away from the homestead.
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| January 13, 1911 | Warranty Deed | John B. Stearns of Billerica, unmarried | E. Geraldine Harrison, wife of R. Stanley Harrison of Boston | Warranty Deed 1911 | Lt. John Stearns House 77 Dudley Rd Maryknoll Novitiate |
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Dated and acknowledged Jan. 12, 1911, recorded Jan. 13, 1911. For one dollar and other considerations, "a certain tract of land with the buildings thereon situated in the Town of Billerica ... known as the 'Stearns Farm' as shown on a 'plan of estate of John B. Stearns Billerica Mass. Feb. 1901, Pierce and Barnes Civil Engineers'" (Plan Book 28 Plan 32): from the thread of the Concord River at land of M. P. Greenwood south-east to the "meadow" lot, by Greenwood to a point 202 feet from Chestnut Street, south to Chestnut Street, along the street, and west by Greenwood back to the river, excepting "the Island" sold to Prince Smith in 1906, 65 3/10 acres. "For my title see will of Franklin Stearns duly proved and allowed by the Probate Court for the County of Middlesex." The sale ended the Stearns family's ownership of the farm; John B. Stearns kept the 15.2-acre field east of the road until 1924.
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| June 2, 1924 | Quitclaim Deed | John B. Stearns of Billerica, unmarried | Gabe Rosen of Brookline | Quitclaim Deed 1924 | Lt. John Stearns House Maryknoll Novitiate 77 Dudley Rd |
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Dated and acknowledged May 28, 1924, recorded June 2, 1924. For one dollar and other considerations John B. Stearns quitclaims "a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon" of 15.2 acres shown on the 1901 plan, on the easterly side of Dudley Road, formerly Chestnut Street, from the corner of M. P. Greenwood 817 and 486.1 feet to Marston, 400 feet by Marston to Charlotte Fowler, then 132.2 and 687 feet and 824 feet to the beginning. The field across the road from the house, which Stearns had kept when he sold the farm in 1911; with this deed the two parts were joined again.
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| January 9, 1933 | Deed | The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, a corporation sole (by William H. O'Connell) | Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll) | Deed 1933 | Lt. John Stearns House 77 Dudley Rd Maryknoll Novitiate |
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For one dollar and other considerations, "a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon known as the 'Stearns Farm' shown on plan of estate of John B. Stearns, Billerica, Mass., February, 1901, Pierce and Barnes, Civil Engineers" (Plan Book 28 Plan 32): beginning at the thread of the Concord River at land of M. P. Greenwood, by Greenwood to Chestnut Street, along the street and by Greenwood back to the river, "excepting ... the land known as the 'Island' conveyed by John B. Stearns to Prince Smith" (Book 389 Page 101), 65.3 acres; "also a certain lot or parcel of land with the buildings thereon containing 15.2 acres more or less, situated on said Chestnut Street," bounded by Greenwood, Marston and Joseph Boucher (formerly Charlotte Fowler), "said Chestnut Street is now known as Dudley Road"; and the "Price Lot" of 11 acres 40 poles of wood and meadow in Bedford, subject to a right of way in the deed of Sewall Stearns to John Stearns (Southern Registry Book 310 Page 397). "Being the premises conveyed to it by deed of Edward J. O'Connell, dated September 10, 1924, and recorded Middlesex South District Deeds, Book 4790, Page 175." Dated Jan. 9, 1933, recorded at Cambridge Jan. 23, 1933 (Southern Registry Book 5703 Page 14) and in the Northern District March 31, 1934.
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| June 13, 1963 | Quitclaim Deed | Oliver P. (Oliver Parker) Greenwood and Laurence J. (Laurence Jennison) Greenwood of Billerica | Middlesex County National Bank of Everett | Quitclaim Deed 1963 | John H. Parker Store 464 Boston Rd Fitch Tufts House Greenwood Building 460 Boston Rd |
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For consideration paid, "A certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon" on the easterly side of Boston Road, 2.96 acres, on a June 1963 plan by Emmons and Flemming, 237.83 feet on Boston Road, "the same premises described in two deeds, one from Mark Lund to Moses P. Greenwood dated June 26, 1889 ... Book 207, Page 322, and the other from Joseph Norris et ux to George P. Greenwood dated August 14, 1899 ... Book 311, Page 47", with title through the estates of George P. Greenwood (probate 134588; his widow Alice H. Greenwood held a life estate until her death on June 21, 1945) and of Moses P. Greenwood and his family (probate 67897, 153282, 180033, 180532, 264012, 324738). The bank built its branch on the store lot in 1965 and sold the north part that year; the bank, through later mergers, is still the owner of record.
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| June 23, 1966 | Trustees and Executrices Deed | Laurence J. Greenwood, surviving trustee under the will of George P. Greenwood; Alice B. Sandberg and Lois E. Fayton, co-executrices of the will of Oliver P. Greenwood | Laurence J. Greenwood of Billerica | Trustees and Executrices Deed 1966 | Captain John Stearns House | 1756/273 |
Dated June 22, 1966, recorded June 23, 1966. The Greenwood family trust and Oliver P. Greenwoods estate convey to Laurence J. Greenwood "a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon situated in the southerly part of said Billerica," the eighty acres from Jonathan Hills corner west by Franklin Stearns "to the Concord River," south by the river to John C. Hobbs and back by Atkins, Ropes, Stearns and Hutchinson Rogers, "being the parcel first described in a certain deed from Lucretia Stearns et al to Moses P. Greenwood ... dated April 15, 1850 ... Book 579, Page 466," with eighteen acres on the road from Chelmsford to Bedford, excepting about six acres between the "Harrison Farm" and "Greenwood Grove" given by Article Fourth of George P. Greenwoods will. "For our respective rights, titles and interests see Estate of George P. Greenwood ... #134588." Subject to a Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank mortgage.
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| February 9, 1967 | Quitclaim | Laurence J. Greenwood | Laurence J. Greenwood and Mildred B. Greenwood | Quitclaim 1967 | Captain John Stearns House 96 Dudley Rd |
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Laurence J. Greenwood of Billerica conveyed to himself and his wife Mildred, as tenants by the entirety, "a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon situated in the southerly part of said Billerica," from Jonathan Hill's land west by Franklin Stearns "to the Concord River," south by the river to John C. Hobbs, and back by Atkins, Ropes, Stearns and Hutchinson Rogers, "containing about 80 acres and being the parcel first described in a certain deed from Lucretia Stearns et al to Moses P. Greenwood ... dated April 15, 1850," with an 18 acre lot on the road from Chelmsford to Bedford, excepting about 6 acres between the "Harrison Farm" and "Greenwood Grove" left by Article Fourth of the will of George P. Greenwood; being the premises conveyed to him by himself as surviving trustee under the will of George P. Greenwood and by the executrices of Oliver P. Greenwood in 1966 (Book 1756 Page 273). After Mildred Greenwood's death her estate sold the house, "a certain parcel of land, with the buildings thereon," 11.30 acres on Dudley Road shown on a September 1978 subdivision plan (Plan Book 127 Plan 72), to private owners for $55,000 (Book 2330 Page 391), keeping the right to draw water "from the well next to the garage." The rest of the farm was divided among the Greenwood heirs. The house lot has remained in private hands (Book 7235 Page 26, 1994; Book 17815 Page 171, 2004).
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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.