Text Box: 54 Lowell Road, Westford, Massachusetts Home of Captain Pelatiah Fletcher who served in the Revolutionary War Text Box: Lowell Road House Title Research, Partial 7/23/07 With the help of Dick Howe, Register of Deeds, in the Lowell Courthouse, I find myself in the basement catacombs surrounded by thousands of old record books. They are divided into three categories: Grantor (Seller) and Grantee (Buyer) indexes, and the source documents for these indexes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOLD TO TREAT 1966 The house is owned today by Norma Treat who bought the house from my mother Mary “Marni” D. Agnew on June 17, 1966. My mother sold the house to Robert H. and Norma C. Treat, husband and wife. Book 1770, Pgs152-153. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOLD TO AGNEW 1955 My father, Arthur M. Agnew, bought the house from Luanna B. Decatur on June 4, 1955, (See Lowell Registry Book 1299 Pg. 213-215. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOLD TO LUANNA DECATUR 1955 Margaret S. DeCatur sold the house to Luanna on June 4, 1955, the same day. Book 1299, Pgs 212-215. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SWEENEY SOLD SOME LAND TO LUANNA DECATUR 1939 On January 24, 1939, Joseph J Sweeney and Catherine V. Sweeney, husband and wife, sold “some” land to Luanna. Plan Book 59, Plan 84. Book 929, Page111 (This appears to be the land across the street, but I don’t recognize the shape. I might very well be wrong about this though.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FRANK DREW TO LUANNA DECATUR 1936 Frank C. Drew sold the house to Luanna B. Decatur on August 18, 1936, Book 886, Pages 450-451. Note: There is also reference to Joshua DeCatur on those pages. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— JENNIE DREW TO FRANK DREW 1934 Jennie B. Drew sold the house to Frank Drew, husband, (by two deeds?) on May 7, 1934, Book 844, Page 136-137 ————————————————————————————————————————————————————- FISHER TO DREW 1889 Alvan and Amanda Fisher sold the land to Jennie B. Drew on May 17, 1889, Book 206, Pgs 24-26. This is where it gets complicated because many people are mentioned along with Alvan and Amanda: Samuel A. Hamblin ( a misspelling I think…should be Hamlin as in other documents) and his wife Adeline Burbeck, Francis L. and Helen Fletcher, Paul F.S. and Ann T. Clark, Noah and Francis A. Prescott, Charles and Emma F Pickering, James and Mary Smith. Jennie Drew paid $3,200.00. There is a reference towards the end Page 24 that mentions that one of the boundaries “passing the homestead of one Holsworth, deceased”. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————- HAMLIN TO FISHER 1888 In Book 202, Page 21 (Of Pages 20-23) there is a note in the column referring to the above document Book 206, Page 23. This Book 202, Page 21 is dated December 1, 1888, and discusses one Abbie Hamlin, wife of Samuel A. Hamlin of Westford (different spelling, see above) who may have sold the property to Fisher. Note: This area was known as the Eli Tower Farm and was probably bordered by Stony Brook to the north and Stony Brook Rd to the East and the Adams property to the West and Lowell Road to the south, but at this time it is just my conjecture. Note: In Book 202, Page 21, the property is defined as: “…the Tower Farm, so called, situated in the easterly part of said Westford containing about one hundred and twenty five acres and bounded and described as follow. Beginning at the northwesterly corner thereof at Stony Brook and by land of one Buckminster: thence running easterly by said brook to land formerly of Joshua Decatur, deceased; thence southerly by said Decatur land to the highway from said Westford to Lowell and known as the Stony Brook road: thence crossing said road southerly. Westerly and southerly by land formerly of said Decatur to land formerly of one Snow land westerly and southerly to land of Marcellus A. (?) Fletcher land to the highway passing the homestead formerly of one Holsworth, deceased, thence by said last named highway northerly to land formerly of said Holsworth: thence in a broken line northerly. Easterly and northerly by various courses on said Holsworth land. land of one Cummings and land of one Boynton to said first named highway: thence crossing said highway southerly by said Buckminster land to the point of beginning being all of said Tower farm. SOLD TO PELETIAH FLETCHER of Westford, Grantors Book 7 (Eliot through Flinn) 1639 to 1855 Sold to PELATIAH FLETCHER of Groton or Westford Grantors Book 3, Pages 364-365, has references to Stony Brook Refers to: Book 7, Page 173 has reference to Homestead, Old Orchard, Cummings, Stony Brook 5-339. April 13, 1802, Received and Entered Feb 15, 1804 Note: Pelatiah Fletcher was born May 3, 1727, Died Feb 23, 1807 Note: Pelatiah of Westford is selling to Pelatiah Fletcher of GROTON Note: Pelatiah specifically refers to this sale as being: “…my homestead where I now live…”, Page 173 Note: Many pieces of property listed here. Pelatiah Fletcher died Feb 23, 1807 and probably sold the property to his son or a relative with the same last name. Note: Many of the boundaries are described as trees with rocks around them or stumps, or roads between orchards….