Otis Lincoln House
This house is a little gem, with a fine doorway and interior woodwork and fireplaces largely preserved. We have too few small older houses still preserved from the time period, and this one is among the best.
Lot Easte sold a 55-acre farm to Otis Lincoln, a blacksmith, in 1837. The 35 acres north of the road was part of an older farm site, and some of the buildings may have been part of it. Not much is known of Otis. There is one child recorded in Billerica in 1843 to Otis and Hannah.
In 1842, Otis sold 77 square rods with buildings to William Cutler. In 1845, he sold him another acre with "my new dwelling house". In 1848, he sold the remainder of his holdings to Cutler.
In 1853, William Cutler is shown in the newer house and Peter Dowse in the older. The sequence of events looks as if Otis Lincoln had built the new house at the time he sold the old one to Cutler and then Cutler took the new one when Lincoln left for good. The older house is gone, and this house is the newer one.
William Cutler moved on to Amherst, NH. By the 1875 map, the house was shown as J. Harrington, with M. Harrington in the older house. The Harrington family maintained the home for many years and several generations after.