Otis Lincoln
Otis Lincoln
Otis Lincoln was a blacksmith who farmed in the northwest part of Billerica from 1837 to about 1845 and built the house on the Rangeway Road now known as the Otis Lincoln House. He then moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he worked as a moulder. He was born between about 1800 and 1810.
In April 1837, as a blacksmith of Chelmsford, he paid Lot Easte $1,500 for a farm of about fifty-five acres on the Rangeway, part of the old "Dowse place": thirty-five acres north of the road "with a dwelling house Barn shed and Blacksmiths shop thereon", and twenty acres on the south side. The census of 1840 counted seven people in his household, two of them working in manufactures and trades. He and his wife Hannah had a son born on July 6, 1843.
In 1842 Lincoln sold the old farmhouse, with seventy-seven square rods of land, to William Cutler for $225, and built a new house at the southwest corner of the farm, against Isaac Brown's wall. By August 1845 he had moved to Manchester. That month he sold Cutler the acre "with my new dwelling house thereon" for $650 and bought from him the eighteen-acre "Winning pasture" on the west side of the Concord River for $250. In April 1848, describing himself as a moulder of Manchester, he and his wife Hannah W. Lincoln sold Cutler the rest of the farm, thirty-three acres with a barn north of the road, the land to the south and the Winning pasture, for $1,800.
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| April 13, 1837 | Warranty Deed | Lott Easte of Billerica, yeoman (wife Mary Easte releasing dower) | Otis Lincoln of Chelmsford, blacksmith | Details | Otis Lincoln House | 361/276 (South) |
For $1,500, "a certain farm situate in the Northwesterly part of said Billerica containing in the whole about fifty five acres": the first tract, 35 acres "with a dwelling house Barn shed and Blacksmiths shop thereon", bounded as in 1833 (heirs of Nathaniel Brown, the wood land, Isaac Brown in the swamp, the Range way road); the second tract, 20 acres on the south side of the road, bounded by Thomas and Jacob Spaulding, Marshall Preston (formerly Col. John Parker), Jonas and Isaac Brown, "the same formerly owned by Samuel Parker"; reserving the right of way to the wood land of Joseph Manning and Ebenezer Cowdry. Signed April 3, 1837 before Marshall Preston (witness Jacob Spaulding); Billerica town book 15, pages 374-376. The blacksmith shop had been added by Easte since 1833.
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| October 21, 1845 | Warranty Deed | Otis Lincoln of Billerica, yeoman (wife Hannah Lincoln releasing dower) | William Cutler of Billerica | Details | Otis Lincoln House | 471/81 (South) |
For $225, "a certain piece of land situated in the north westerly part of said Billerica with the buildings thereon", beginning at a corner of the wall on the range way road "about Twenty rods westerly of the South Easterly corner of the said Lincoln's land", north by the wall 8 rods, west 10 rods, south 6 rods 6 feet to the road and 11 rods 5 feet on the road, "Containing about 77 square rods ... with all the buildings thereon situated", reserving to Lincoln the right of way "as was originally reserved in a Deed given by Lott Easty to the said Lincoln dated April 3d 1837". Acknowledged October 17, 1842 before Caleb Abbott; recorded October 21, 1845. Billerica town book 18, pages 36-38. This is the old house of the farm (the 1853 map's "P. Dowse" house), not the present one.
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| October 21, 1845 | Warranty Deed | William Cutler of Billerica, yeoman | Otis Lincoln of Manchester, New Hampshire, yeoman | Details | Otis Lincoln House | 471/80 (South) |
For $250, the "Winning pasture" of 18 acres 90 rods on the west side of Concord River, bounded by Charles Cutler, Hutchinson Rogers and David Parker, subject to a bridle road. Signed August 9, 1845 before Marshall Preston, the same day Lincoln sold Cutler his new house; Billerica town book 18, pages 35-36. Lincoln conveyed the pasture back to Cutler with the rest of the farm in 1848.
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| October 21, 1845 | Warranty Deed | Otis Lincoln of Manchester, New Hampshire, yeoman (wife Hannah Lincoln releasing dower) | William Cutler of Billerica, yeoman | Details | Otis Lincoln House | 471/82 (South) |
For $650, "a certain parcel of land with my new dwelling house thereon situate in said Billerica on the west side of Concord River containing One acre", from the southerly corner at the Range way and land of Isaac Brown, westerly by Brown 10 1/2 rods to a corner of the wall, northerly "by my land" by a stone wall 20 1/2 rods to a corner of a wall by an apple tree, easterly by my land 10 1/2 rods to the range way road, and southerly by the road 20 rods. Signed August 9, 1845 before Marshall Preston (witness Peter Dows); Billerica town book 18, pages 38-39. The present house: Lincoln built it on the Isaac Brown corner of his farm between selling the old house in 1842 and leaving for Manchester.
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| April 26, 1848 | Warranty Deed | Otis Lincoln of Manchester, New Hampshire, moulder (wife Hannah W. Lincoln releasing dower) | William Cutler of Billerica, yeoman | Details | Otis Lincoln House | 534/381 (South) |
For $1,800, the rest of the farm: "a certain tract of land situated in the northwesterly part of Billerica ... containing thirty three acres more or less with a barn standing thereon", from the southeast corner on the range way road by the heirs of Nathaniel Brown, north to the wood land, west to Isaac Brown in the swamp, south by Brown to land of William Cutler, east and south on Cutler's land past an apple tree, east to the corner of land of Peter Dowse, and to the road; reserving the right of way to the wood land of Joseph Manning and Ebenezer Cowdry; with about 33 acres on the south side of the road and the 18-acre Winning pasture. Signed April 24, 1848 before Reuben Bacon; Billerica town book 20, pages 71-73.
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted.