Old Parker School
Old Parker School
| Address | 36 River St |
| Built | 1953 |
| Demolished | 2013 |
| Other Lot Structures | Parker School (Built 2012) |
The Old Parker School was the elementary school of Billerica Centre from 1953 to 2012: a brick building with 21 classrooms, a cafeteria and an auditorium, on the south side of River Street between Parker Street and Page Court. It was replaced by the new Parker School, built beside it on the same lot, and was demolished after the new building opened in September 2012.
The land was part of the farm on the south side of the road to the Middle Bridge (now River Street) that began as James Kidder's house lot in the 1650s. The Kidders held it until 1791, when the heirs of Capt. Solomon Kidder sold the 54-acre farm "about eighty rods west of the meeting house" to Stephen Parker. After his death in 1830 the homestead was divided among his widow and six children, and his son Gardner Parker bought most of his brothers' and sisters' shares between 1831 and 1848 and held the whole homestead by 1864. In 1884 Gardner's widow Adeline M. Parker deeded the 70-acre homestead farm to their son J. Nelson Parker. After J. Nelson Parker and his widow Charlotte died, their children had the farm surveyed by E. P. Simpson in July 1939 in four parcels. "Parcel A", "about 19 1/2 acres" bounded by River Street, Parker Street and a stone wall on the south, is the school land; the Parker house and its lot to the east (the John Nelson - Stephen Parker House) were surveyed separately.
George N. Parker deeded his half of the farm to his sister Frances P. Farquhar in August 1939, and in September 1941 she sold all four parcels to James Everett and Phyllis Caroline Farmer, who gave her a $7,000 mortgage. The Farmers sold in 1942 to Donald L. and Pauline A. Jacobs, who sold in 1943 to Raymond J. and Doris Blondin of Watertown, and in April 1944 the Blondins conveyed the land to Luther W. and Cornelia Jacobs of Richford, Vermont. Luther W. Jacobs began to sell it as house lots: in April 1946 J. C. and W. T. Monahan laid out twelve lots along River Street, and in November 1947 John Thomas Brown laid out Page Court across the south end with nineteen lots. A 75-foot lot on Parker Street went to Frank F. and Rilla R. Frost in 1946 and Lot 19 on Page Court to Hubert D. and Alice M. Sewell in 1949. In February 1951 Luther and Cornelia Jacobs deeded what remained of the parcel to Donald L. Jacobs.
By the late 1940s the town's schools were badly crowded, and the school superintendent's 1949 long-range plan called for a new 14-room elementary school in the Centre to replace substandard rooms at the Pollard School and the wooden buildings at Pinehurst. A special town meeting on January 8, 1951 appointed a committee to bring in plans and a site; at the annual meeting that year the committee recommended a 21-room school. On November 24, 1951 a special town meeting chose the site, "land off Page's Court, Parker Street and River Street", lots "A, B, C, 6, 18, 19, 'Frost Lot' and 'Orchard Lot'" on a September 1951 plan by James B. Monahan, and voted $13,200 to buy it or take it by eminent domain, 121 to 12. The town bought Lot 19 and the Frost lot from their owners and Lots A, C, 6 and 18 (about 7.4 acres, with the River Street entrance) from the Jacobs family in March 1952, and the 1.6-acre Orchard Lot, the old Parker orchard behind the Parker house, from its owners in June 1952. The deed from the Jacobs family reserved for the town the right to drain the school grounds by a pipe under Parker Street into the brook on the land to the west.
The annual town meeting of March 8, 1952 voted $855,000, unanimously, to build and equip the Billerica Center Elementary School, borrowing $800,000 of it, much of it under the 1948 state school building assistance law, and made the 1951 committee the school building committee with power to sign the contracts. A storm drain was laid across Parker Street the same year. The school opened for classes on September 21, 1953 as the Parker School, for grades one to five, with 21 classrooms, "a large and modern school cafeteria, and an excellent auditorium with a seating capacity of 550", and 741 pupils; Mary E. Gill was its first principal. Its opening let the town close the three-room Old Howe School and relieve the crowded classes at the Ditson School. The town reports do not say why the school was given the name; it stands on the former Parker farm beside Parker Street.
The Parker School was the polling place for the town election and for Precinct One from 1954 until 2012, and town meeting warrants were posted there. Enrollment was still about 750 in 1966. By the 2000s the building needed new boilers, ventilation and other repairs, and in 2008 the annual town meeting voted $400,000 for a feasibility study, with the Massachusetts School Building Authority, of renovating or replacing it. The building committee chose to build a new school beside the old one, which was used until the new building opened in September 2012 and was then taken down; the 2011 report planned the demolition for the summer of 2012, with the new playground, fields and parking laid out on its site afterward.
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- Town report 1951, p. 42: special town meeting of Nov. 24, 1951, Article 29, site for the new Center elementary school (lots A, B, C, 6, 18, 19, Frost Lot, Orchard Lot), $13,200
- Town report 1952, p. 48: annual town meeting of March 8, 1952, Articles 60-62, $855,000 for the Billerica Center Elementary School
- Town report 1953, p. 124: superintendent, the new Parker School opened Sept. 21, 1953, 21 classrooms, 741 pupils
- Town report 2008, town meeting: $400,000 feasibility study for renovating or replacing the Parker School
- Billerica assessor, parcel 60-1-0, 36 River St (Parker School), 8 acres, deed Book 1191 Page 112
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| 1677 | Inventory | Estate of Ensign James Kidder of Billerica (died April 10, 1676) | His widow Anna (Moore) Kidder and children | James Kidder home lot, first owner of the land | Probate #13232 |
The Middlesex file for James Kidder, the first settler of the lot, holds only the index card "James Kidder of Billerica, 1677(?), Record of Inventory, Vol. 5 Page 34"; no will or division survives in the file papers. His thirty-acre house lot, granted in 1656 and occupied in 1659, was bounded "by John Rogers, sen., on the south ... by the West street or highway which leads from long street to the great river on the north; and by the great river on the west" (Hazen, 1883). His house was a garrison in 1675. The lot next appears in 1741 as the homestead of his son Enoch.
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| June 16, 1743 | Gift | Enoch Kidder of Billerica, yeoman (son of James Kidder) | His son Enoch Kidder Jr. of Billerica | Kidder homestead, gift to Enoch Kidder Jr. | 43/458 (South) |
Billerica town book 4, pages 397-399; acknowledged 1741, recorded with the deeds entered June 16, 1743. "For and in consideration of the parental love good will and affection which I have and do bear unto my son Enoch Kidder Junr.," several parcels, first "my Homestead containing about fifty acres more or less bounded Easterly on land of the Revd. Samuel Ruggles bounded Southerly on land of the said Samuel Ruggles and partly on land of Jacob Danforth westerly on Concord river northerly by the land of Oliver Whiting Junr. together with all the building thereon standing," with meadow in Tewksbury, 28 acres on Stoney Hill, 57 acres by Fox Hill and 51 acres west of the river, all valued at 1,000 pounds "towards his part and portion in my estate." The river and Danforth bounds match the farm Enoch Jr. sold to his son Solomon in 1774.
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| 1774 | Deed | Capt. Enoch Kidder of Billerica, gentleman | His son Solomon Kidder of Billerica, gentleman | Kidder homestead to Solomon Kidder | 77/137 (South) |
Billerica town book 7, pages 85-86, dated April 29, 1774. For 333 pounds 6s 8d, "my Homestead Farm, containing about sixty acres," running from a stake and stones "by the Town Way" (now River Street) about 180 poles to the Concord River, 60 poles along the river to Doct. Danforth, then by Danforth and John Parker back to the start, "with all the Buildings thereon standing," except "the West Room & Chamber, back Kitchen & Chamber & convenient Cellar Room in my Dwelling House & a good Garden spot on the Back of said House, & Use of my Well," reserved for "my Daughter Rebecca during her single Life." Also 20 acres west of the river on the Tribble Cove road. The bounds are those of the 1791 deed to Stephen Parker.
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| 1776 | Administration | Estate of Capt. Solomon Kidder of Billerica, gentleman (intestate; died at White Plains, November 20, 1776) | His widow Lydia Kidder, administratrix, and his children Lydia, Samuel Phillips and Dorothy Kidder | Solomon Kidder estate, homestead about 60 acres | Probate #13258 |
Lydia Kidder was appointed administratrix December 30, 1776. The inventory of February 21, 1777 lists "the homestead with the Buildings thereon standing containing about Sixty acres, Bounded North by the highway leading to the River, West by said River, South by Doct. Timothy Danforth, East by Lieut. John Parker," at 600 pounds, with "a piece of land lying on the North side of the homestead about half an acre"; the homestead and a 25-acre lot west of the river were "leased out to the Deceased's Father during his natural life." The estate was represented insolvent in May 1777, but the homestead stayed with the children, who sold it to Stephen Parker in 1791.
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| August 19, 1812 | Deed | Samuel Phillips Kidder of Haverhill, trader, Lydia Kidder of Haverhill and Dorothy Kidder of Billerica, single women, children of Lt. Solomon Kidder | Their cousin Stephen Parker of Billerica, yeoman | Kidder heirs sell the farm to Stephen Parker | 199/359 (South) |
Billerica town book 11, pages 195-196, dated December 7, 1791 (acknowledged 1793, 1802 and 1809; recorded August 19, 1812). For 285 pounds, "a certain farm in Billerica, with all the buildings thereon standing, about eighty rods west of the meeting house," running from a stake and stones at its northeast corner "by the town way" along that way about 180 poles to the Concord River, about 60 poles on the river to Doct. Danforth, then by Danforth, John Parker, Capt. Parker and Stephen Parker back to the start; "said farm contains fifty four acres." This is the James Kidder home lot; Stephen Parker's mother Abigail was a sister of Solomon Kidder, who died at White Plains in 1776. The deed is dated 1791, not "about 1805" as in the MACRIS form.
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| 1830 | Administration | Estate of Capt. Stephen Parker of Billerica, gentleman (intestate) | His widow Sybil Parker, administratrix | Stephen Parker estate, homestead farm | Probate #16808 |
Sybil Parker, widow, was appointed administratrix April 27, 1830, with a $30,000 bond. The inventory of "Capt. Stephen Parker" lists "The homestead of said deceased consisting of about 97 acres with the buildings thereon" at $3,413, about 42 acres west of the Concord River on the road to Carlisle, "City Farm so called" of about 60 acres, the "Turnpike Pasture" of 18 1/2 acres on the Middlesex Turnpike, and pew no. 1 in the old meetinghouse; total real estate $5,313. The personal estate includes a cider mill and a mill house.
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| 1831 | Dower and Partition | Estate of Stephen Parker of Billerica | Widow Sybil Parker (dower) and the six heirs: Eliza P. Annable, Stephen, Mary P. Dennis, Gardner, Clarissa and Daniel Parker | dower and partition of the Parker homestead | Probate #16808 |
On petition of the son Stephen Parker (November 16, 1830), Joseph Locke, Samuel Whiting and William Bowers set off the widow's dower and divided the rest (return April 21, 1831). The homestead farm was "100 acres more or less with the buildings thereon," lying on both sides of "the road leading from the meeting house to the Middle bridge" (now River Street). Sybil received "The lot of land on which the dwelling house stands including the garden behind the house, about one quarter of an acre ... with the house and all the buildings standing thereon, bounded on the northerly side by the road," plus 4 1/2 acres south of the house with a mill house. Gardner Parker received "about four acres called the old orchard," seven acres between it and the Concord River, and six acres south of the road; the other children shared the barn, orchards and pastures.
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| 1831 | Deed | Eliza Annable of Boston, widow, daughter of Stephen Parker | Her brother Gardner Parker of Billerica, yeoman | Annable share to Gardner Parker | 304/436 (South) |
Billerica town book 14, pages 417-418. For $531.12 she sells her share of "the estate formerly belonging to Capt. Stephen Parker, deceased": three lots west and south of "the lot on which the Cider mill house stands," bounded by Rev. N. Whitman, "the Westerly part of barn ... with the land on which the same stands, and the lane from the barn Westerly to the pasture," and "all my right and title in and to that part of the estate of my deceased father Stephen Parker, which is set off to my Mother in law, Sybil Parker for her dower," that is, her reversion in the house lot. The first of Gardner Parker's purchases that reunited the homestead.
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| 1842 | Deed | Rev. Rodney G. Dennis of Somers, Connecticut, clerk, and his wife Mary Dennis in her right | Her brother Gardner Parker of Billerica, yeoman | Dennis share to Gardner Parker | 412/226 (South) |
Billerica town book 17, pages 245-246, dated February 26, 1842. For $800, Mary Dennis's share of her father's farm: 15 3/4 acres north of "the road leading from Billerica Meeting house over the middle Bridge," a two-acre lot "in the rear of the barn with the easterly end of said barn" bounded east by "the widow Sybil Parker's dower," and her "reversionary right title and interest" in the dower, "consisting of the mansion house and garden north of said house and buildings belonging to said house and four and a half acres of land in front of the house. Also the cider Mill house being an undivided sixth part of the reversion of said dower."
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| 1848 | Quitclaim Deed | Daniel Parker of Bedford, yeoman, son of Stephen Parker | His brother Gardner Parker of Billerica, yeoman | Daniel Parker share to Gardner Parker | 545/262 (South) |
Billerica town book 20, pages 158-160. For $350, about 54 acres west of the Concord River from "the westerly end of Middle Bridge so called" to the road from Carlisle, "being that portion of my father's Estate set off to me," and "one undivided sixth part of that portion of my father's Estate set off as my mother's Dower, consisting of about four acres with the building thereon, known as the widow's thirds," excepting a $459 mortgage. With the Annable and Dennis deeds this gave Gardner Parker four of the six shares in the reversion of the house lot.
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| January 7, 1864 | Mortgage | Gardner Parker of Billerica, yeoman (wife Adeline releasing dower) | Dudley Foster of Billerica, yeoman | Gardner Parker homestead farm, 70 acres | 37/44 |
Dated January 1, 1864. For $2,500, "my homestead farm situated in the centre of said Billerica, containing seventy acres more or less, with the buildings thereon," running from a bound on "the road leading to Carlisle" west to the Concord River, south along the river "at low-water mark" to George H. Whitman, and back by A. F. Page, B. J. Gilbert, Charles H. Parker, John Baldwin and Dudley Foster. The margin notes an assignment (Book 92, Page 60, to Anthony Jones) and the 1884 discharge to J. Nelson Parker (Book 168, Page 215). The earliest North District description of the farm.
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| July 29, 1884 | Deed | Adeline M. Parker of Billerica, widow of Gardner Parker | Her son J. Nelson Parker of Billerica | homestead farm to J. Nelson Parker | 168/215 |
Dated June 17, 1884, pages 215-216. For $4,000, "The Homestead Farm of the late Gardner Parker, situated in the centre of said Billerica containing seventy acres more or less with the buildings thereon," running from Mary F. Bryant's corner west along "the road leading to Carlisle" (now River Street) to the Concord River, south along the river at low water to George H. Whitman, then by A. F. Page, B. J. Gilbert, C. H. Parker and land formerly of John Baldwin back to Bryant; with a second tract north of the road, by Page, Joshua Bennett deceased and Clarissa Osborn. Subject to a $500 mortgage that J. Nelson Parker assumed. On the same page Judith Jones, executrix of Anthony Jones, discharged to him Gardner Parker's 1864 mortgage to Dudley Foster (Book 37, Page 44).
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| 1939 | Quitclaim Deed | George N. Parker of Billerica (Muriel S. Parker releasing dower and homestead) | His sister Frances P. Farquhar of Billerica | Parker heirs, the 19 1/2-acre Parcel A (school site) | 933/195 |
Dated and acknowledged Aug. 15, 1939. "My interest, being a one-half undivided interest in common with the grantee, in the land in said Billerica with the buildings thereon": Parcel A, "about 19 1/2 acres", north by River Street 982.20 ft, west by Parker Street 933.44 ft, south by William H. Smith "on a stone wall" 771.60 ft, east by Hubbard, Page, Eames, Gulesian and the house lot of Plan 1; Parcel B (6 1/2 acres west of Parker Street to the railroad), Parcel C (31 acres to the Concord River) and Parcel D (33 1/2 acres north of River Street), on four plans "to be recorded herewith" by E. P. Simpson, July 1939 (Plan Book 62, Plans 31, 34, 37 and 40, filed Aug. 24, 1939). "For my title see deed from Adeline M. Parker to J. Nelson Parker dated June 17, 1884 ... Book 168, Page 215, and deed from Frank W. Parker ... Book 517, Page 152. See estate of J. Nelson Parker, Middlesex Probate #132,030 and estate of Charlotte S. Parker ... #154455." Parcel A is the school site.
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| September 12, 1941 | Quitclaim Deed | Frances P. Farquhar of Billerica (Frederick G. Farquhar releasing curtesy) | James Everett Farmer and Phyllis Caroline Farmer, husband and wife, of Billerica | Parker farm sold to Farmer | 967/367 |
Dated Sept. 10, 1941, revenue stamps $8.25. "The land in said Billerica with the buildings thereon", the same Parcels A to D (A being "about 19 1/2 acres" between River and Parker Streets, Plan 2 of the group of four, Plan Book 62 Plan 34). "For my title see deed from George N. Parker to me dated August 15, 1939 ... Book 933, Page 195." The buyers gave back a $7,000 mortgage the same day (page 368). The Parker family ownership of the farm ended here.
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| September 12, 1941 | Mortgage | James Everett Farmer and Phyllis Caroline Farmer, husband and wife, of Billerica | Frances P. Farquhar of Billerica | purchase-money mortgage | 967/368 |
Dated Sept. 10, 1941. Purchase-money mortgage "to secure the payment of seven thousand (7,000.00) Dollars in one year with 4 1/2% per cent interest per annum, payable semi-annually", on Parcels A to D, the same bounds. Assumed by the Jacobses in 1942 and discharged April 12, 1944 (Book 1006, Page 588).
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| June 8, 1942 | Quitclaim Deed | James Everett Farmer and Phyllis Caroline Farmer, husband and wife, of Billerica | Donald Leonard Jacobs and Pauline Angeline Jacobs, husband and wife, of Billerica | to Donald L. and Pauline A. Jacobs | 978/150 |
Dated May 27, 1942 (acknowledged in Suffolk County), pages 150-152, revenue stamps 55 cents. "The land in said Billerica with the building thereon", Parcels A to D with the 1941 bounds, Plan Book 62 Plans 31, 34, 37 and 40. "For our title see deed from Frances Farquhar to us dated September 10, 1941 ... Book 967, Page 367." Subject to the Farquhar mortgage, "on which the sum of $7000.00, with interest thereon from the 10th day of March, 1942, is now due", which the grantees assume.
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| October 5, 1943 | Quitclaim Deed | Donald Leonard Jacobs and Pauline Angeline Jacobs, husband and wife, of Billerica | Raymond J. Blondin and Doris Blondin, husband and wife, of Watertown | to Blondin | 998/263 |
Dated Sept. 25, 1943 (date from the 1944 deed), pages 263-264, revenue stamps 55 cents. "The land in said Billerica with the buildings thereon", Parcels A to D, the same bounds and the four 1939 plans.
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| May 23, 1944 | Warranty Deed | Raymond J. Blondin and Doris Blondin, husband and wife, of Billerica | Luther W. Jacobs and Cornelia Jacobs, husband and wife, of Richford, Vermont | to Luther W. and Cornelia Jacobs | 1006/587 |
Dated April 26, 1944, acknowledged May 16, recorded May 23, 1944, revenue stamps $7.70, with warranty covenants. "The land in said Billerica with the buildings thereon": Parcel A, "about 19 1/2 acres" between River Street and Parker Street (Plan Book 62 Plan 34), and Parcels B, C and D. "For our title see deed to us dated September 25, 1943 from Donald L. Jacobs and Pauline A. Jacobs ... Book 998, Page 263." Luther W. Jacobs divided the River Street front into house lots in 1946 (Plan Book 68 Plan 76) and laid out Page Court across the south end in 1947 (Plan Book 72 Plan 16).
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| 1944 | Discharge | Frances P. Farquhar of Billerica | James Everett Farmer and Phyllis Caroline Farmer (and their successors in title) | mortgage discharged | 1006/588 |
Dated April 12, 1944 (acknowledged at Boston). Frances P. Farquhar, "holder of a mortgage from James Everett Farmer and Phyllis Caroline Farmer ... dated September 10, 1941 recorded with Middlesex North District Deeds Book 967, Page 368, acknowledge satisfaction of the same." Recorded on the page after the Blondin-Jacobs deed.
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| June 8, 1945 | Quitclaim Deed | George N. Parker and Frances P. Farquhar of Billerica (with spouses Muriel S. Parker and Frederick G. Farquhar) | John D. Cooke and Margaret R. Cooke of Wilmington | Parker house lot sold; the Orchard Lot behind it | 1024/251 |
Dated June 4, 1945, pages 251-252. The children of J. Nelson Parker sell "the land with the buildings thereon" on River Street, 4.88 acres by the 1939 Simpson plan (Plan Book 62, Plan 31), with the same bounds as the later deeds; revenue stamps $9.35. "For our title see Probate of the estates of J. Nelson Parker and Charlotte S. Parker," Middlesex probate nos. 132030 and 154455. The spouses release curtesy, dower and homestead. This ended the Kidder and Parker family ownership of the James Kidder home lot, held since about 1659.
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| March 13, 1946 | Quitclaim Deed | John D. Cooke and Margaret R. Cooke of Wilmington | Matthew J. Brown and Claudia M. Brown of Brookline | house lot with the Orchard Lot to the Browns | 1038/270 |
Dated March 12, 1946 (begins in the margin of page 270, text on page 271). "The land with the buildings thereon" on the south side of River Street, 4.88 acres with 425 feet on the street, bounded by Beatrice L. Dole, the Thomas Talbot Lodge A.F. & A.M., the heirs of Dr. M. A. Buck, Mary R. Eames, Okuro, Gulesian and Jacobs, as on Plan Book 62, Plan 31 (E. P. Simpson, July 1939), with any right of way over the Dole entrance drive. Revenue stamps $12.10. "For our title see deed to us dated June 4, 1945 from George N. Parker and Frances P. Farquhar," Book 1024, Page 251.
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| February 25, 1947 | Quitclaim Deed | Luther W. Jacobs and Cornelia Jacobs, husband and wife, of Richford, Vermont | Frank F. Frost and Rilla R. Frost, husband and wife, of Billerica | the Frost lot on Parker Street | 1062/459 |
Dated and acknowledged in Vermont Oct. 25, 1946, recorded Feb. 25, 1947, revenue stamps 65 cents. A lot "on the Easterly side of Parker Street" on the plan "Subdivision of a portion of land in Billerica Mass. surveyed April 1946 by J. C. & W. T. Monahan", starting 232.60 feet along Parker Street from River Street, 100 feet east, 75 feet south, 100 feet west to Parker Street and 75 feet along the street; "Being part of Parcel A of the premises conveyed to us by deed of Raymond J. Blondin and Doris Blondin ... Book 1006 Page 587." This is the "Frost lot" of the 1951 school site.
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| May 10, 1949 | Quitclaim Deed | Luther W. Jacobs and Cornelia Jacobs, husband and wife, of Richford, Vermont | Hubert D. Sewell and Alice M. Sewell, husband and wife, of Billerica | Lot 19 on Page Court | 1114/481 |
Dated April 27, 1949, acknowledged in Vermont April 28, revenue stamps 55 cents. "Lot numbered nineteen (19) on a plan of land known as Plan of Land in Billerica, Massachusetts, belonging to Luther W. Jacobs, November 12, 1947, John Thomas Brown, Surveyor" (Plan Book 72, Plan 16): south by Page Court 94.37 ft, west by Lot 18 100 ft, north by land of Smith 95.04 ft, east by Chester Page 100.01 ft, 9,470 square feet; "Being a part of Parcel A described in a deed to these grantors from Raymond J. Blondin and Doris Blondin ... Book 1006, Page 587."
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| 1951 | Deed | Luther W. Jacobs and Cornelia Jacobs, husband and wife | Donald L. Jacobs (with Pauline A. Jacobs) | rest of Parcel A to Donald L. Jacobs | 1162/351 |
Dated Feb. 3, 1951 (date from the 1952 deed to the town). The 1951-1960 grantor index enters it as "River & Parker Sts. Pl. Bk. 62-34. With exceptions": the rest of Parcel A after the house lots already sold. The registry has no online image of Book 1162, so the text is known only from the index and from the recital in Book 1191, Page 112, which calls Lots A, C, 18 and 6 "a portion of the premises conveyed to the grantors by Luther W. Jacobs and Cornelia Jacobs". The assessor dates the sale Feb. 21, 1950.
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| March 14, 1952 | Quitclaim Deed | Hubert D. Sewell and Alice M. Sewell, husband and wife, of Billerica | The Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica | Lot 19 to the Town for the school | 1191/110 |
Dated and acknowledged in March 1952, recorded March 14, 1952 (no. 492), "for consideration paid". "Lot 19 on a plan of land entitled: Plan of Land in Billerica, surveyed for the Town of Billerica, Scale 1 inch = 80 feet, Sept. 1951, James B. Monahan, Reg. Land Surveyor", bounded east by Page 100.01 ft, north by Donald L. and Pauline A. Jacobs 95 ft, west by Lot 18 100 ft and south by Page Court 94.37 ft, 9,470 square feet; "the same premises to us conveyed by Luther W. and Cornelia Jacobs ... April 27, 1949 ... Book 1114 Page 481." Bought under the 1951 town meeting vote for the new elementary school; now assessor parcel 60-10-0, part of the Parker School yard.
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| March 14, 1952 | Quitclaim Deed | Frank F. Frost and Rilla R. Frost, husband and wife, of Billerica | The Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica | Frost lot to the Town for the school | 1191/111 |
Dated and acknowledged in March 1952, recorded March 14, 1952 (no. 493), "for consideration paid". The "Frost" lot on the Monahan plan of September 1951: west by Parker Street 75 feet, north, east and south by land of Jacobs, 7,500 square feet; "the same premises described in a deed to the grantors from Luther W. Jacobs and Cornelia Jacobs, dated October 25, 1946 ... Book 1062 Page 459."
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| March 14, 1952 | Quitclaim Deed | Donald L. Jacobs and Pauline A. Jacobs, husband and wife, of Billerica | The Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica | Lots A, C, 6 and 18 to the Town for the school | 1191/112 |
Dated and acknowledged March 7, 1952, recorded March 14, 1952, pages 112-114, "for consideration paid" (the assessor records $1). (1) "A certain lot of land containing 7.4 acres, more or less", Lots A and C on the Monahan plan of September 1951 "which plan is to be recorded herewith" (it never was), running from the corner of Lot 19 by other land of the grantors, the Frost lot, 44.58 feet on Parker Street, Conrad, Turner, Forsley and Brown back by Grantz, Brown and Page; (2) Lot 18 on Page Court, 7,500 square feet; (3) Lot 6, 9,050 square feet with 78.22 feet on River Street (the school drive, assessor parcel 50-48-0). Each "a portion of the premises conveyed to the grantors by Luther W. Jacobs and Cornelia Jacobs by their deed dated February 3, 1951 ... Book 1162 Page 351." With an easement to drain the surface water of "Lots A, B, 6, 18, 19, Frost lot, and Orchard Lot" by pipe under Parker Street into the brook on the grantors' land to the west. The core of the Parker School site (assessor parcel 60-1-0).
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| May 6, 1952 | Quitclaim Deed | Thomas Forsley and Ella A. Forsley, husband and wife, of Billerica | The Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica | Lot B of the school site, given by the Forsleys in exchange for Lot C, 1952 | 1194/428 |
Dated and acknowledged at Billerica March 14, 1952, recorded May 6, 1952 (no. 248), pages 428-429, "for consideration paid". "A certain triangular shaped parcel of land," Lot "B" on the plan "surveyed for the Town of Billerica, Scale 1 inch = 80 feet, Sept. 1951, James B. Monahan, Reg. Land Surveyor" (never recorded): northwest by Donald L. and Pauline A. Jacobs (Lot A) 200 feet, northeast by other land of the grantors 193.67 feet, southeast by Lot A 49.91 feet, "4833 square feet more or less," part of the land from Luther W. and Cornelia Jacobs, Book 1048, Page 210. Given under Article 31 of the Nov. 1951 special town meeting in exchange for Lot C; Lot B became part of the Parker School site.
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| December 31, 1952 | Quitclaim Deed | Matthew J. Brown and Claudia M. Brown of Billerica | Inhabitants of the Town of Billerica | Orchard Lot, part of the school site | 1200/3 |
Dated June 27, 1952 (date from the 1976 deed). The "Orchard Lot," 1.6 acres at the back (south) of the Parker place, on a 1951 plan by James B. Monahan surveyed for the Town, bounded by the Billerica Masonic Association, Lot "C," Grantz, Rowlandson, Colby and land of the Town; "a portion of the premises described in a deed to the grantors from John D. Cooke et al," Book 1038, Page 270. The house and its River Street frontage stayed with the Browns until 1976.
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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.