HomeMy WebLinkAboutDeed Search 738 Willow Street 10.13.241
October 14, 2024
Yarmouth Historical Commission
Deed Search for 738 Willow Street, South Yarmouth, MA
The house at 738 Willow Street, formerly known as 138 Willow Street, was built
prior to 1822, when Elisha Crocker conveys the property to Capt. Isaac Basset.
The deed states there was a dwelling house on the premises. Capt. Isaac Basset is
a significant figure in early Bass River Village history. He owned the Grist Mill and
Mill Field adjacent to his property. These early deeds found were in the Re -
recorded deed sec�on of the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds. The Barnstable
County Registry of Deeds burned in 1827 destroying all deeds. In that year, the
Selectmen from every town in the County went door to door re-recording any
available deed. These volumes are located in the back row of the Registry by town
name. In our case, Yarmouth 1, 2, 3, & 4. These deeds go back to the early 1790s,
and are quite incomplete. So, we have no grantee deed for Elisha Crocker, and the
dwelling house reported on the 1822 deed is older, but we don’t know how old.
On 11 May 1822, Elisha Crocker of
Brewster in considera�on of $261
paid by Capt. Isaac Basset
conveys property bounded as
follows …East by Rowland Lewis;
Southerly by William Tear;
Westerly by Isaac Basset’s other
land. “with the dwelling House
and out houses on the same.”
(BCRD, Yarmouth Town Deed Bk.
4:43)
On 25 September 1863,
Christopher Crowell of Yarmouth
in considera�on of $8 paid by
Amos Kelley conveys “…all the
right, title and interest that I have
in the estate of my late grandfather Isaac Basset and all privileges there.”
(BCRD, County Deed Bk. 75:457)
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On 9 February 1864, Amos Kelley in considera�on of $225 paid by Lysander Baker,
conveys …a certain piece of land on the road leading from B & F Mathews store
to Polly Bakers, …bounded as follows …on the south by said road; on the west by
the heirs of late Nehemiah Crowell; on the North by the heirs of the late Rowland
Lewis; on the East by Isaiah Shermans land, together with all the Buildings
thereon standing.
(BCRD, Deed Bk. 84:208)
On 15 September 1886, Lysander
Baker in considera�on of $500 paid
by Hebron M. Baker, conveys …a
certain tract of land, bounded as
follows …on the South by the town
road; on the West by land of
Benajah Crowell; on the north by
land of William Eldridge and
Benjamin Bray; on the East by land
of Isaiah Sherman, together with the
Dwelling House and outbuildings
thereon standing.
(BCRD, Deed Bk. 170:202)
On 7 August 1912, Hebron M. Baker
in considera�on of $1 paid by Anna
G. Baker (Niece, daughter of brother
Edward G. Baker) conveys …a tract of land in South Yarmouth Lower Village,
bounded as follows …beginning at the Northwest corner of the premises in the
line of the main road and in the line of Mary H. Baker (widow of Isaac M. Basset);
then runs Easterly by the road about ten rods to line of heirs of Allen Lewis; then
runs Southerly to land of the heirs of Lewis & Isaac Studley to Joseph Chases line;
then runs Westerly by Chases line to the line of Mary H. Baker’s land; then runs
Northerly to first bound.
(BCRD, Deed Bk. 321:334)
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[Lysander Baker died intestate at Bass
River in February 1906, leaving a
surviving widow, Abby K. Baker, who
died intestate in Yarmouth Mary
1922; their four children are: Addie
F.B. Willard, Clara B. Long, Edward G.
Baker, and Hebron M. Baker. Addie
F.B. Willard died March 1912 in
Att leborough, MA, testate, her will in
real estate being; in equal shares to
her mother, Abby K. Baker, to her
niece Grace A Baker, ow of Attleboro
Falls, MA, her brother Hebron M.
Baker, to Hebron in trust for Edward G. Baker, and to Hebron in trust for Clara B.
Long. Said will provided that if either of said beneficiaries of said trust shares
should not be alive at the end of ten years from the date of said will, the trusts
were to end and the trustee was instructed to distribute their shares equally
among the other mentioned beneficiaries. Clara A. Long, alias Clara B. Long, died
August 1919, intestate, leaving no husband or lineal descendants surviving but her
mother, Abby K. Baker and two brothers Hebron M. Baker and Edward G. Baker.
Said Abby K. Baker died intestate May 1922 as stated above, leaving two sons
Hebron & Edward. Said Hebron M. Baker died intestate in June 1931 in Attleboro
Falls, MA, leaving a surviving widow, Edith A. Baker who died intestate in Attleboro
Falls in 1942, and a daughter Grace A. Baker of Attleboro Falls, MA, who was her
only child. Said Edward G. Baker died in Yarmouth in June 1945 intestate, leaving
him surviving his widow, Anna G. Baker, the affiant, but no lineal descendants.]
(BCRD, Deed Bk. 678:487)
On 7 June 1967, Anna G. Baker conveys to Rodney S. Crowell and Mildred L.
Crowell, husband & wife both of 138 Willow Street, Yarmouth (Bass River)
bounded on the South by Willow Street, a town way; on the West by land now or
formerly of Ann Wolfe; on the North by land or formerly of William Eldridge and
by land now or formerly of Charles Henry Davis; on the East by land formerly of
Charles M. Brown.
(BCRD, Deed Bk. 1368:187)
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On 20 May 1993, Mildred L. Crowell in considera�on of $1 paid by Gayle Elizabeth
Tighe, their daughter, conveys …Reserving to the Grantor a life Estate for her own
Exclusive use and enjoyment. Bounded on the South by Willow Street, a town way;
on the West by land now or formerly of Ann Wolfe; on the North by land now or
formerly of William Eldridge and Charles Henry Davis; on the East by land now or
formerly of Charles M. Brown. My husband Rodney S. Crowell, died on April 8,
1993, and at the �me of his death there was no divorce.
(BCRD, Deed Bk. 8595:232)