Potter Field
Potter Field is the ball field of Potters Playground on the east side of High Street in North Billerica, south of Burnham Road. It lies on the three-acre lot that the town bought in 1939 at a sale for taxes assessed to Margaret Clinton and that the 1968 annual town meeting transferred to the Park Department for a playground. The town listed it as "Potters Field" among the fields it sprayed for mosquitoes in 2011. Its history is told under Potters Playground.
Deed References
| Date | Type | Grantor | Grantee | Summary | Recorded |
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| September 12, 1939 | Collector's Deed | Patrick J. Mahoney, Collector of Taxes for the Town of Billerica (taxes assessed to Mrs. Margaret Clinton) | Town of Billerica | 1939 tax sale of the three-acre Clinton lot on High Street to the town | 935/203 |
Signed August 21, 1939. The assessors had assessed "Mrs. Margaret Clinton as owner or occupant" $62.72 in taxes for 1937; a demand was made on October 27, 1938, and the land was advertised in the Billerica News and posted at the Town Hall and the North Billerica Post Office for sale at public auction at the Town Hall on August 18, 1939, adjourned to August 21. No one bid the amount due, so the collector "did, purchase on behalf of the said Town of Billerica said land for the sum of seventy three dollars and twenty cents", conveying "Three (3) acres of land more or less with buildings thereon situated on the easterly side of High Street. For further description see deed recorded in Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds. Book 435 Page 498", subject to the right of redemption. The collector's notice and affidavit was recorded the same day (Book 932 Page 540, grantor index 1926-1940). Margin: "See Notice B 974 P 96" and "See Notice B 1158 P 168". Book 935, Pages 203-205.
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted.