Talbot Mill Worker Housing

This two-family house at 31-33 Old Elm Street (31-33 Elm Street until the street was renamed) is one of the company houses that C. P. Talbot and Company built in North Billerica for the workers of its woolen mill. It stands on what was called "the Common," the triangle of land between Elm Street and Lowell Street in front of the mill. Charles H. Kohlrausch, recalling the village, said three company houses were built on the Common in the early 1860s; this is one of them, with its neighbors at 27-29 Old Elm Street and 2-4 Lowell Street. The house appears on the 1875 map. It is a plain side-gabled duplex of the local company type, now covered in aluminum siding, with a later portico.

The land was part of the old Osgood mill grant on the west side of the Concord River. The heirs of the Carleton family sold about forty acres there to Thomas Richardson in 1783, and in 1794 Richardson sold it to the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, who held it until 1851, when the canal company sold its Billerica mill property to the brothers Charles P. and Thomas Talbot. The Common was "parcel G" of that deed. In 1884 the Talbot heirs and partners conveyed the mill and its land, including the Common as part of "the fourth parcel," to the new corporation, Talbot Mills, which rented the houses to its operatives for the next fifty years.

In 1936 the company had its village surveyed into house lots by J. C. and W. T. Monahan ("Plan of a Portion of Property belonging to The Talbot Mills, North Billerica, Mass., showing division into lots," Plan Book 60 Plan 28) and began selling the houses. On September 30, 1936 it sold this one, Lot 55 on Plan "B," "the land in said Billerica with the buildings thereon situated on the northwesterly side of Elm Street," 74 feet on Elm Street and 4,982 square feet, to James F. Delmege and his wife Martha B. Delmege, who already owned the land next door to the southwest. The mill kept the right to its common sewer under the lot. James F. Delmege died on April 12, 1937, and his widow, then living in Stoneham, sold the house on July 1, 1946 to Donald E. and Elizabeth Bolton, noting that "the building on said premises is now numbered 31-33 on said Elm Street."

The Boltons sold to Donald W. and Beatrice H. Page in March 1949. The Pages mortgaged it to the City Institution for Savings of Lowell for $7,100, but within ten months, on January 19, 1950, they deeded the house back to the bank, which sold it the same day to new owners. It has since passed through a series of private owners, each deed reciting the one before: in 1951, 1957, 1973 (within a family), 1978, 1984, 1985 and 1986, and in 2013 to a limited liability company. The owners in 1974 and 1981 are named on the Historical Commission's survey forms. The house is in the North Billerica National Register district (1983) and the local historic district (1992).

References

Deed References

Date	Type	Grantor	Grantee	Summary	Recorded
March 31, 1794	Deed	Solomon, Moses and Nathan Carleton, Jesse Manning, Thomas Todd, Thomas Laws and Thomas Mears, heirs of John Carleton, with their wives	Thomas Richardson of Billerica, gentleman	1783 the Carleton heirs sell the Osgood mill land west of the river to Thomas Richardson	115/271 (South)
	Billerica town book 9, pages 87-91. Dated April 17, 1783, recorded March 31, 1794. For 818 pounds "lawful Silver money", "about forty Acres of Land ... on the West side of Concord River ... Easterly on said River, Westerly on the highway it being about two thirds of the land which was granted by the Town of Billerica unto Capt. Christopher Osgood", two thirds "of the Mills commonly known by the name of Osgoods or Carletons Mills" and two thirds of the dam and stream with the buildings, "as the same was set off by the Committee for the Widows Thirds", "meaning to convey two thirds of the Homested and Mills and Buildings thereon standing and the Shop is wholley conveyed". Richardson takes on two thirds of the 1708 town conditions, the Ruggles agreement and the repair of "the Bridge or Road" below the dam. Richardson later bought the widow's dower interest (S.115/274 and others) and in 1794 sold the whole as Richardson's Mills to the Middlesex Canal. Title from: 1782 Will and Division: Estate of John Carleton of Billerica, yeoman (Hannah Carleton, widow, executrix) to His widow Hannah (thirds) and children Nathan, John, Moses and Solomon Carleton, Elizabeth Todd, Hannah Laws and Lydia Mears (Probate #3943) (heirs of John Carleton) Title passed to: April 21, 1794 Deed: Thomas Richardson of Billerica, gentleman (Judith Richardson releasing dower) to Ebenezer Hall of Medford and Samuel Jaques of Wilmington, a committee for the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal (115/259) (Richardson's Mills, bought from the Carleton heirs)
April 21, 1794	Deed	Thomas Richardson of Billerica, gentleman (Judith Richardson releasing dower)	Ebenezer Hall of Medford and Samuel Jaques of Wilmington, a committee for the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal	1794 Richardson sells about forty acres at the mills to the Middlesex Canal	115/259 (South)
	For 1350 pounds, "about forty acres of Land" bounded easterly by Concord River, westerly by the highway and northerly and southerly by the road; the reversion of half the dower of the widow Hannah Carlton, conveyed to him by Solomon, Moses and Nathan Carlton; five sixths of a small piece at the northeast end of the mill dam, bounded easterly "by Timothy Sprague's Ditch that conveys Water to the Fulling mill"; "together with all the Buildings ... including the Mills Mill priviledges ... commonly known by the name of Richardson's Mills being the same which was formerly granted by the Town of Billerica to Christopher Osgood together with the Mill Dam and Stream", on the conditions of the town's vote of October 4, 1708, a passage for fish, and his 1791 agreement with Timothy Sprague. Dated March 25, 1794; recorded April 21, 1794. Billerica town book 9, pages 81-82. The Canal Mills land from which the proprietors sold their small house lots. Title from: March 31, 1794 Deed: Solomon, Moses and Nathan Carleton, Jesse Manning, Thomas Todd, Thomas Laws and Thomas Mears, heirs of John Carleton, with their wives to Thomas Richardson of Billerica, gentleman (115/271) (Richardson's Mills, bought from the Carleton heirs) Title passed to: September 23, 1820 Deed: Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, by John L. Sullivan, agent to Nathan Mears of Billerica, yeoman (235/64) (the Canal resold part of the Richardson farm to Mears) March 20, 1826 Deed: Benjamin Guild of Boston, President of the Board of Directors of the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal to John Mixer of Billerica (265/208) (Canal land at the mills, the old Richardson farm) April 21, 1832 Deed: Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal (Peter O. Thacher, president) to Daniel Wilson of Billerica (313/21) (canal mill land) March 23, 1835 Warranty Deed: The Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, by Peter O. Thacher of Boston, President to Israel Coulson (Colson) of Billerica, carpenter (339/55) (canal land at the mills) October 23, 1851 Deed: The Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, by Ebenezer Chadwick, President to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica, manufacturers and copartners (618/97) (the Richardson farm and mills bought by the canal in 1794) April 8, 1857 Warranty Deed: Israel A. Colson of Billerica (Rachel Colson releasing dower) to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica, manufacturers (9/145) (canal house lots 17-18, sold to Colson in 1833) Related: March 31, 1794 Quitclaim: Solomon Carlton of Fitchburg, yeoman, heir of John Carlton to Thomas Richardson of Billerica, gentleman (115/274) (the reversion of half the widow Carlton's dower)
October 23, 1851	Deed	The Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, by Ebenezer Chadwick, President	Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica, manufacturers and copartners	1851 the Canal sells its Billerica land to C. P. and Thomas Talbot; parcel G is the Common, where the house stands	618/97 (South)
	Billerica town book 19, pages 136-147. Dated September 22, 1851. For $20,000 the canal corporation releases "eleven pieces or parcels of land lying in the town of Billerica", each lettered on a plan by R. H. Eddy dated September 12, 1850 "hereto annexed and herewith to be recorded": the mill land at the falls, the wharf, the canal lands on both sides of the county road at Billerica Mills, and the Pollard and Rogers purchases of 1795 and 1799. Parcel C runs from the bridge over Concord River near the milldam past the sawmill and "the Dye-house and Canal waste-way", "crossing the Canal and partly by land of John Mixer" to "the County road leading to the Mills" and east along the road 270 feet to the canal bridge, 98,436 square feet "with all the buildings thereon standing"; this is where the Canal Block stood. The deed also releases the water rights of Thomas Richardson's 1794 deed (subject to the earlier grants to Francis Faulkner and Nathan Mears), reserves the canal for navigation until discontinued, and binds the Talbots to keep the flashboards on the stone dam and, after the canal closes, to keep up the two canal bridges or fill the canal into a roadway. Directors Ebenezer Chadwick, William Appleton and William Sturgis. Title from: April 21, 1794 Deed: Thomas Richardson of Billerica, gentleman (Judith Richardson releasing dower) to Ebenezer Hall of Medford and Samuel Jaques of Wilmington, a committee for the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal (115/259) (the Richardson farm and mills bought by the canal in 1794) Title passed to: October 16, 1884 Deed: Thomas Talbot et al. to The Talbot Mills, Billerica (169/472) (the Talbots convey the Common to The Talbot Mills) October 16, 1884 Guardian's Deed: Harriet Talbot et al., by their guardian to The Talbot Mills, Billerica (169/468) (the Talbots convey the Common to The Talbot Mills)
October 16, 1884	Guardian's Deed	Harriet Talbot et al., by their guardian	The Talbot Mills, Billerica	1884 Talbot heirs (by guardian) to The Talbot Mills, the fourth parcel, which included Lot 55	169/468
	Known from the grantee index 1881-1900 (Talbot Mills-Billerica, index page 82): received October 16, 1884, "N Billerica. Several parcels, water rts, mill privileges &c, see record", recorded with the deed of Thomas Talbot et al. (Book 169 Page 472). Book 169 images are unavailable at the registry; not read. Title from: 1850 Warranty Deed: Joseph J. Salter of Billerica (Hannah L. Salter releasing dower) to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (589/521) (the minor heirs' share) October 23, 1851 Deed: The Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, by Ebenezer Chadwick, President to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica, manufacturers and copartners (618/97) (the Talbots convey the Common to The Talbot Mills) June 28, 1855 Quitclaim: Andrew Mason of Lowell, yeoman, and Mary Ann Mason his wife (formerly Mary Ann Frame), in her own right to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica, gentlemen (715/206) (the Talbots held the lot until the 1884 deeds to The Talbot Mills) April 8, 1857 Warranty Deed: Israel A. Colson of Billerica (Rachel Colson releasing dower) to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica, manufacturers (9/145) (the Talbots convey the lots to The Talbot Mills) August 29, 1865 Deed: Lyman Haynes, Anthony Jones and Dudley Foster, all of Billerica, with their wives to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (44/200) (the Talbots' 1865 purchase on the passage way, now Wilson Street) February 4, 1869 Quitclaim: Gardner Parker of Billerica (Adeline M. Parker releasing dower and homestead) to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (65/441) (the 1869 Wilson homestead tract) August 10, 1883 Quitclaim: John M. G. Parker of Lowell (D. Maria Parker releasing dower and homestead) to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (162/3) (Talbot property to the new corporation) Title passed to: January 11, 1890 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Solomon Lincoln, President, and Frederic S. Clark, Treasurer to Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society of North Billerica (212/73) (part of the Common, company land since 1884) October 6, 1936 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to John G. Gunther and Annie M. Gunther, husband and wife, of Billerica (888/500) (part of the fourth parcel) October 5, 1936 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to George F. Hurst and Edith E. Hurst, husband and wife, of Billerica (888/515) (part of the fifth parcel) October 2, 1936 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Marie I. Nolin of Billerica (888/65) (part of the fourth parcel) December 16, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Charles J. Gibbons and M. Theresa Gibbons of Billerica, husband and wife (892/81) (part of the first parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 1, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Margaret Fairbrother and Joseph S. Fairbrother, both of Billerica, joint tenants (883/479) (part of the first parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 15, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Marion A. MacDonald of Arlington (888/573) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 2, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Cornelius Heffron and Angelina Heffron of Lowell, husband and wife, tenants by the entirety (888/62) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 3, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to John Mackey of Billerica (888/511) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) December 21, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to George W. Chambers and Hazel R. Pelletier, both of Billerica (892/306) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 1, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Katie Fairbrother of Billerica (883/478) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) December 23, 1936 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Mary J. Taylor of Billerica (891/384) (part of the fifth parcel) December 21, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Louis G. Moss and Flora T. Moss, husband and wife, of Billerica, tenants by the entirety (892/312) (recites Book 169 Pages 468 and 472) January 14, 1937 Warranty Deed: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Rose A. Poirier of Billerica (895/85) (part of the fifth parcel) October 2, 1936 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to James F. Delmege and Martha B. Delmege, husband and wife, of Billerica (888/67) (part of the fourth parcel) June 28, 1937 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Alfred Christianson and Marie M. Christianson, husband and wife, of Lowell (900/141) (part of the fifth parcel) April 30, 1937 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Annie L. Langley and Eliza St. Johns of Billerica, joint tenants (898/158) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) January 13, 1937 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Herbert J. Tivey of Billerica (895/177) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) June 5, 1937 Deed: The Talbot Mills of Billerica, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Margaret McGrath of Billerica (899/261) ("a part of the third parcel" of the 1884 deeds (169/468)) May 17, 1937 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to George F. Hurst and Edith E. Hurst, husband and wife, of Billerica (899/402) (part of the fifth parcel) February 1, 1937 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to William P. Ring and Louise M. Ring, husband and wife, of Billerica (895/583) (part of the fifth parcel) October 20, 1939 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Joseph Sidorovich and Fannie Sidorovich, husband and wife, of Maynard (936/47) (title of Talbot Mills) October 23, 1939 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Newell A. Hoyt and Ethel Hoyt, husband and wife, of Lowell (934/172) (part of the fourth parcel) October 25, 1939 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Mark Hughes of Rochdale, Worcester County (936/229) ("a part of the third parcel" of the 1884 deeds (169/468)) October 20, 1939 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills to John J. Nuttall and Amy I. Nuttall (936/46) (part of the first parcel in the 1884 deeds) November 7, 1939 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Frank Gagnon and Blanche R. Gagnon, husband and wife, of Billerica, tenants by the entirety (935/567) (part of the first parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 9, 1939 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Lillian Gustafson of Chelmsford (934/190) (first parcel of the 1884 deeds) October 17, 1939 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to William J. Norris and Eliza J. Norris, husband and wife, tenants by the entirety (936/45) (part of the first parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 31, 1939 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society (936/135) (part of the fourth parcel) December 30, 1940 Quitclaim Deed: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, its treasurer to Inhabitants of Billerica (955/441) (the 1940 deed has no title clause; the Talbot Mills held the village land under the 1884 deeds from the Talbot heirs) Related: October 16, 1884 Deed: Thomas Talbot et al. to The Talbot Mills, Billerica (169/472) (the two 1884 deeds to the Talbot Mills, recorded together) March 30, 1876 Deed: Gardner Parker of Billerica (Adeline M. Parker releasing dower and homestead) to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (116/432) (Talbot land to the corporation) 1881 Quitclaim: Frank P. Putnam and Eliza J. Putnam his wife, in her right, both of Lowell to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (149/516) (Talbot property passed to the corporation)
October 16, 1884	Deed	Thomas Talbot et al.	The Talbot Mills, Billerica	1884 Thomas Talbot and others to The Talbot Mills, the fourth parcel, which included Lot 55	169/472
	Known from the grantee index 1881-1900 (Talbot Mills-Billerica, index page 82): received October 16, 1884, "N Billerica. Several parcels, water rts, mill privileges &c, see record." Later Talbot Mills deeds cite it with Book 169 Page 468 as the deeds "from the Talbot heirs" to the new corporation (one recites a deed of Thomas Talbot et als. dated Oct. 15, 1884). The registry shows "Image is Unavailable" for Book 169, so the deed itself was not read; that it covered the land of the future Oval, part of the C. P. Talbot and Company property west of Wilson Street on the 1881 plan, is inferred. Title from: 1850 Warranty Deed: Joseph J. Salter of Billerica (Hannah L. Salter releasing dower) to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (589/521) (the Talbot heirs convey the Wilson Street land to The Talbot Mills) October 23, 1851 Deed: The Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, by Ebenezer Chadwick, President to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica, manufacturers and copartners (618/97) (the Talbots convey the Common to The Talbot Mills) June 28, 1855 Quitclaim: Andrew Mason of Lowell, yeoman, and Mary Ann Mason his wife (formerly Mary Ann Frame), in her own right to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica, gentlemen (715/206) (the Talbots held the lot until the 1884 deeds to The Talbot Mills) April 8, 1857 Warranty Deed: Israel A. Colson of Billerica (Rachel Colson releasing dower) to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica, manufacturers (9/145) (the Talbots convey the lots to The Talbot Mills) August 29, 1865 Deed: Lyman Haynes, Anthony Jones and Dudley Foster, all of Billerica, with their wives to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (44/200) (the Talbots' 1865 purchase on the passage way, now Wilson Street) February 4, 1869 Quitclaim: Gardner Parker of Billerica (Adeline M. Parker releasing dower and homestead) to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (65/441) (the 1869 Wilson homestead tract) August 10, 1883 Quitclaim: John M. G. Parker of Lowell (D. Maria Parker releasing dower and homestead) to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (162/3) (Talbot property to the new corporation) Title passed to: January 11, 1890 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Solomon Lincoln, President, and Frederic S. Clark, Treasurer to Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society of North Billerica (212/73) (part of the Common, company land since 1884) March 23, 1901 Warranty Deed: Talbot Mills (Solomon Lincoln, President; Frederick S. Clark, Treasurer) to Charles H. Kohlrausch Jr. of North Billerica (328/90) (Talbot Mills title) October 6, 1936 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to John G. Gunther and Annie M. Gunther, husband and wife, of Billerica (888/500) (part of the fourth parcel) October 5, 1936 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to George F. Hurst and Edith E. Hurst, husband and wife, of Billerica (888/515) (part of the fifth parcel) October 2, 1936 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Marie I. Nolin of Billerica (888/65) (part of the fourth parcel) December 16, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Charles J. Gibbons and M. Theresa Gibbons of Billerica, husband and wife (892/81) (part of the first parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 1, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Margaret Fairbrother and Joseph S. Fairbrother, both of Billerica, joint tenants (883/479) (part of the first parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 15, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Marion A. MacDonald of Arlington (888/573) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 2, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Cornelius Heffron and Angelina Heffron of Lowell, husband and wife, tenants by the entirety (888/62) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 3, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to John Mackey of Billerica (888/511) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) December 21, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to George W. Chambers and Hazel R. Pelletier, both of Billerica (892/306) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 1, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Katie Fairbrother of Billerica (883/478) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) December 23, 1936 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Mary J. Taylor of Billerica (891/384) (part of the fifth parcel) December 21, 1936 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Louis G. Moss and Flora T. Moss, husband and wife, of Billerica, tenants by the entirety (892/312) (recites Book 169 Pages 468 and 472) January 14, 1937 Warranty Deed: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Rose A. Poirier of Billerica (895/85) (part of the fifth parcel) October 2, 1936 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to James F. Delmege and Martha B. Delmege, husband and wife, of Billerica (888/67) (part of the fourth parcel) June 28, 1937 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Alfred Christianson and Marie M. Christianson, husband and wife, of Lowell (900/141) (part of the fifth parcel) April 30, 1937 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Annie L. Langley and Eliza St. Johns of Billerica, joint tenants (898/158) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) January 13, 1937 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, treasurer to Herbert J. Tivey of Billerica (895/177) (part of the third parcel in the 1884 deeds) June 5, 1937 Deed: The Talbot Mills of Billerica, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Margaret McGrath of Billerica (899/261) ("a part of the third parcel" of the 1884 deeds (169/472)) May 17, 1937 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to George F. Hurst and Edith E. Hurst, husband and wife, of Billerica (899/402) (part of the fifth parcel) February 1, 1937 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to William P. Ring and Louise M. Ring, husband and wife, of Billerica (895/583) (part of the fifth parcel) October 20, 1939 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Joseph Sidorovich and Fannie Sidorovich, husband and wife, of Maynard (936/47) (title of Talbot Mills) October 23, 1939 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Newell A. Hoyt and Ethel Hoyt, husband and wife, of Lowell (934/172) (part of the fourth parcel) October 25, 1939 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Mark Hughes of Rochdale, Worcester County (936/229) ("a part of the third parcel" of the 1884 deeds (169/472)) October 20, 1939 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills to John J. Nuttall and Amy I. Nuttall (936/46) (part of the first parcel in the 1884 deeds) November 7, 1939 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Frank Gagnon and Blanche R. Gagnon, husband and wife, of Billerica, tenants by the entirety (935/567) (part of the first parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 9, 1939 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Lillian Gustafson of Chelmsford (934/190) (first parcel of the 1884 deeds) October 17, 1939 Quitclaim: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to William J. Norris and Eliza J. Norris, husband and wife, tenants by the entirety (936/45) (part of the first parcel in the 1884 deeds) October 31, 1939 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society (936/135) (part of the fourth parcel) December 30, 1940 Quitclaim Deed: The Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, its treasurer to Inhabitants of Billerica (955/441) (the 1940 deed has no title clause; the Talbot Mills held the village land under the 1884 deeds from the Talbot heirs) September 30, 1944 Deed: The Talbot Mills, a Massachusetts corporation of Billerica to Talbot Mills, Inc., Billerica (1013/89) (Lots 70 and 71 came to The Talbot Mills in 1884) Related: July 3, 1869 Quitclaim: Oren Sheldon of Billerica (Agnes Sheldon releasing dower and homestead) to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (68/379) (Talbot land to the corporation) March 30, 1876 Deed: Gardner Parker of Billerica (Adeline M. Parker releasing dower and homestead) to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (116/432) (the 1876 half acre adjoins Lot 32 on the west) 1881 Quitclaim: Frank P. Putnam and Eliza J. Putnam his wife, in her right, both of Lowell to Charles P. Talbot of Lowell and Thomas Talbot of Billerica (149/516) (Talbot property passed to the corporation)
October 2, 1936	Quitclaim	Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer	James F. Delmege and Martha B. Delmege, husband and wife, of Billerica	1936 The Talbot Mills sells the house as Lot 55 to James F. and Martha B. Delmege	888/67
	Dated Sept. 30, 1936 ($1.50 in stamps). "The land in said Billerica with the buildings thereon situated on the northwesterly side of Elm Street": SE by Elm Street 74 feet, NE by Lot 56 67.65 feet, NW by Lot 57 73.17 feet, SW by "land now or formerly of James F. Delmege" 67.65 feet, 4,982 square feet, Lot 55 on Plan "B" of "Plan of a Portion of Property belonging to The Talbot Mills, North Billerica, Mass., showing division into lots" (J. C. and W. T. Monahan, 1926-27-36, Plan Book 60 Plan 28). "Being a part of the fourth parcel of land described in two deeds to the grantor" of Oct. 15, 1884 (Book 169 Pages 468 and 472). The mill kept the common sewer. Title from: October 16, 1884 Deed: Thomas Talbot et al. to The Talbot Mills, Billerica (169/472) (part of the fourth parcel) October 16, 1884 Guardian's Deed: Harriet Talbot et al., by their guardian to The Talbot Mills, Billerica (169/468) (part of the fourth parcel) Title passed to: July 2, 1946 Quitclaim: Martha B. Delmege of Stoneham, widow to Donald E. Bolton and Elizabeth Bolton, husband and wife, of Billerica (1047/417) (Delmege title; James F. Delmege died 1937, survivorship)
July 2, 1946	Quitclaim	Martha B. Delmege of Stoneham, widow	Donald E. Bolton and Elizabeth Bolton, husband and wife, of Billerica	1946 the widow Martha B. Delmege sells to Donald E. and Elizabeth Bolton	1047/417
	Dated July 1, 1946 ($3.85 in stamps). Lot 55 on Plan "B" (Plan Book 60 Plan 28), "the land with the buildings thereon situated in said Billerica on the northwesterly side of Elm Street", 74 feet on Elm Street, 4,982 square feet. "Being all and the same premises conveyed to me and my late husband, James F. Delmege, by The Talbot Mills, Inc., by deed dated September 30, 1936" (Book 888 Page 67). "My said husband deceased April 12, 1937." "The building on said premises is now numbered 31-33 on said Elm Street." The Boltons gave a purchase mortgage to the Middlesex Co-operative Bank (1047/418), discharged in 1949. Title from: October 2, 1936 Quitclaim: Talbot Mills, by Thomas T. Clark, Treasurer to James F. Delmege and Martha B. Delmege, husband and wife, of Billerica (888/67) (Delmege title; James F. Delmege died 1937, survivorship) Title passed to: March 11, 1949 Quitclaim: Donald E. Bolton and Elizabeth Bolton, husband and wife, of Billerica to Donald W. Page and Beatrice H. Page, husband and wife (1111/229) (Bolton title)
March 11, 1949	Quitclaim	Donald E. Bolton and Elizabeth Bolton, husband and wife, of Billerica	Donald W. Page and Beatrice H. Page, husband and wife	1949 the Boltons sell to Donald W. and Beatrice H. Page	1111/229
	Dated March 11, 1949 ($8.25 in stamps). Lot 55 on Plan "B", "the land with the buildings thereon situated in said Billerica on the northwesterly side of Elm Street", with the 1936 bounds, 4,982 square feet. "Being all and the same premises conveyed to us by Martha B. Delmege by deed dated July 1, 1946" (Book 1047 Page 417), subject to the reservations in the Talbot Mills deed. "The building on said premises is now numbered 31-33 on said Elm Street." The Pages mortgaged it the same day to the City Institution for Savings, Lowell, for $7,100 (1111/230). Title from: July 2, 1946 Quitclaim: Martha B. Delmege of Stoneham, widow to Donald E. Bolton and Elizabeth Bolton, husband and wife, of Billerica (1047/417) (Bolton title) Title passed to: January 24, 1950 Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure: Donald W. Page and Beatrice H. Page, husband and wife to City Institution for Savings, Lowell (1132/550) (Page title)
January 24, 1950	Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure	Donald W. Page and Beatrice H. Page, husband and wife	City Institution for Savings, Lowell	1950 the Pages deed the house back to their mortgagee, the City Institution for Savings	1132/550
	Dated January 19, 1950 (date from the vote of the bank at 1133/213). The Pages convey Lot 55 on Plan "B", "with the buildings thereon, situated on the northwesterly side of Elm Street", 4,982 square feet, back to the bank that held their 1949 mortgage, ten months after buying it: "Being all and the same premises conveyed to us by deed of Donald E. Bolton et ux., dated March 11, 1949" (Book 1111 Page 229). "The said premises are now numbered 31-33 on said Elm Street." Title from: March 11, 1949 Quitclaim: Donald E. Bolton and Elizabeth Bolton, husband and wife, of Billerica to Donald W. Page and Beatrice H. Page, husband and wife (1111/229) (Page title) Title passed to: February 1, 1950 Quitclaim: City Institution for Savings, Lowell to Private buyers, husband and wife (1133/213) (bank title)
February 1, 1950	Quitclaim	City Institution for Savings, Lowell	Private buyers, husband and wife	1950 the bank sells to private owners; later private sales 1951-2013 summarized	1133/213
	Recorded with the vote of the Board of Investment of the bank of January 19, 1950 to sell "the premises in Billerica, situated on the northwesterly side of Elm Street, containing 4982 square feet ... the same premises conveyed to the Bank by Donald W. Page and Beatrice H. Page by deed dated January 19, 1950." Lot 55 on Plan "B", 1936 bounds. Later private conveyances, each reciting the one before: 1951 (1185/254), 1957 (1360/550), 1973 within a family (2095/212), 1978 (2329/459, $36,300), 1984 (2693/472, $65,000), 1985 (3295/133), 1986 (3794/138, $147,000) and 2013 to a limited liability company (27573/37, $255,000). Title from: January 24, 1950 Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure: Donald W. Page and Beatrice H. Page, husband and wife to City Institution for Savings, Lowell (1132/550) (bank title)

Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted.

Address	31-33 Old Elm St
MACRIS ID	BIL.97
Built	1860

Talbot Mill Worker Housing

Talbot Mill Worker Housing

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