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12 Winter Street
Built for
Thomas Hovey
Mason
c. 1785
Researched and Written by
Alyssa G. A. Conary
March 2022
Historic Salem, Inc.
9 North Street, Salem, MA 01970
978.745.0799 | HistoricSalem.org
© 2022
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12 Winter Street, 2022. Photo: Ryan Conary.
The house at 12 Winter Street is located in the nationally registered Salem Common
Historic District. According to available evidence, it was built in the 1780s for a Salem mason
named Thomas Hovey. The structure’s front-end, five-by-one-bay portion with stone foundation
was most likely built first, with the rear two-story sloping-roof ell with brick foundation added
sometime later. The building’s rectangular shape, hipped roof, molded corner boards, and
foreshortened third-story windows are indicative of its Federal-era origins. Around 1870,
Italianate decorative features, including a hooded double-door entrance, two-over-two windows,
a second-story bay window, a bracketed cornice, and bracketed window lintels, were added to
the exterior in an effort to modernize the home.1
1
“Salem Common Historic District,” National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form (Washington, DC: U.S.
Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1972); Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System
(MACRIS), SAL.2325 (Boston, MA: Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1998); The Salem Handbook: A
Renovation Guide for Homeowners (Salem: Historic Salem, Inc., 1977), 14-15, 20-21.
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Map of Salem About 1780. James Duncan Phillips and Henry Noyes Otis, 1937.
Benjamin Cheever of Salem, cordwainer, sold the land to Thomas Hovey for thirty
pounds on March 21, 1781. The lot was originally about twice the size it is today, extending all
the way to what is now Oliver Street. The deed does not mention any buildings, and identifies
modern-day Winter Street as “the road leading to Beverly ferry.” According to historian Sidney
Perley, Winter Street is “an ancient road.” It was not known by its current name until 1794, when
the town named a slate of streets and “placed Boards with the names at their respective Corners.”
2
2
Essex County Registry of Deeds (ECRD) Book 146, Page 195; Sidney Perley, “Part of Salem in 1700. No. 15,”
The Essex Antiquarian 8, no. 1 (January 1904): 66; The Diary of William Bentley, D. D. Vol. 2 (Salem: Essex
Institute, 1907), 108-109.
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United States Census, 1790. Image: FamilySearch.org.
Although evidence of the exact date of construction for the house at 12 Winter Street has
not been uncovered, there are clues pointing to the period of time between 1781, when Thomas
Hovey purchased the land, and 1790. In an entry from 1816, Salem diarist Reverend William
Bentley described a conversation with Edmund Needham and Benjamin Cheever Sr. in which the
two men recounted that Cheever’s son sold lots of land off of Salem Common “to Hovey &
Brown who built upon them.” The Hovey family then appears in the nation’s first census in 1790
and, although the document does not specify where in Salem each household was located,
Thomas Hovey’s name is listed amongst men who are known to have owned lots adjacent to
what is now 12 Winter Street: Benjamin Cheever, Thomas Brown, and Daniel Needham. 3
Thomas Hovey was born in Salem on June 14, 1748. In 1773, he married Susanna
Phippen, born in Salem on December 19, 1751. The marriage was performed by Reverend
Thomas Barnard of Salem’s North Church. The couple had eight children: Susannah, born
November 26, 1774; Thomas Jr., born February 14, 1776; John, born in 1778; Elizabeth, born
3
The Diary of William Bentley, D. D. Vol. 4 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1914), 381; United States Census, 1790.
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April 14, 1781; Hannah, born in 1783; Rebeckah, born in 1786; Samuel, born in 1789; and
Benjamin, born in 1792.4
On May 25, 1775, about a month after the first shots were fired at Lexington & Concord,
Thomas Hovey enlisted to fight in the American Revolutionary War. He served under the rank of
private with Captain Nathan Brown’s company, in Colonel John Mansfield’s 19th regiment. His
name appears on a muster roll dated August 1, 1775, a company return dated October 5, 1775,
and an order for a bounty coat dated October 27, 1775.5
(Top) Death Notice of Thomas Hovey Sr. Image: Salem Gazette, July 4, 1809, GenealogyBank.com.
(Bottom) Probate Inventory of Thomas Hovey Sr., 1809. Image: AmericanAncestors.org.
4
Vital Records of Salem (VRS) Vol. I (Salem: Essex Institute, 1916), 452-453; Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and
Town Records, 1626-2001, database with images, familysearch.org; Vital Records of Salem (VRS) Vol. II (Salem:
Essex Institute, 1918), 169.
5
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1901), 324.
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Susanna Phippen Hovey passed away in the summer of 1804 at the age of fifty-three, and
was buried on June 22nd of that year. Thomas Hovey’s death followed in the summer of 1809.
He was sixty-one-years-old. The Salem Gazette reported that Thomas passed away “suddenly”
and, as such, died intestate. Thomas Hovey Jr. was appointed the administrator of his father’s
estate, and the family homestead on Winter Street was divided between him and his sisters Susan
(Susannah), Elizabeth, and Hannah. On August 10, 1812, Thomas, Susan, and Elizabeth sold the
southern half of the house and land to Hannah. On the same day, Hannah sold the northern half
of the house and land to Thomas, Susan, and Elizabeth. Seventeen years later, Hannah and her
husband Jacob Town sold the southern half of the property back to Thomas. 6
As of 1830, Thomas Hovey Jr., employed as a bricklayer, owned the entirety of the
southern half of 12 Winter Street as well as one-third share in the northern half, while his sisters
Susan and Elizabeth each owned one-third share in the northern half. They were likely all living
there together. There is no evidence that Thomas, aged fifty-four, or Susan, aged fifty-six, had
ever married. Elizabeth, aged forty-nine, was a widow. She had married Thomas Lefavor in
Salem in 1802, and had five children: Thomas Hovey Lefavor, born February 8, 1808; Francis
Hovey Lefavor, born in 1813; Richard Merrit Lefavor, born in 1815; Elizabeth Jane Lefavor,
baptized August 6, 1820; and Samuel Hovey Lefavor, born in 1823. Thomas Lefavor Sr. died of
consumption in Salem on October 28, 1823 at the age of forty-seven.7
6
Vital Records of Salem (VRS) Vol. V (Salem: Essex Institute, 1925), 344; Salem Gazette, July 4, 1809; Essex
County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881, online database, americanancestors.org, 2014, no. 13997; ECRD
Book 197, Page 265; ECRD Book 229, Page 221; ECRD Book 255, Page 74.
7
ECRD Book 255, Page 74; United States Census, 1830; Vital Records of Salem (VRS) Vol. III (Salem: Essex
Institute, 1924), 521; VRS Vol. I, 519-520; VRS Vol. V, 401.
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(Left) 12 Winter Street labeled as the property of H. B. Smith. Map of the City of Salem, Mass, 1851.
Image: Norman B. Leventhal Map Center. (Right) Advertisement for Henry B. Smith’s lumber business.
Salem Directory, 1850.
By 1846, a lumber dealer named Henry B. Smith lived at 12 Winter Street along with the
Hoveys and Lefavors. Henry had married Elizabeth Jane Lefavor (daughter of Elizabeth Hovey
Lefavor) in Salem on August 29, 1839. The 1850 United States Census lists the inhabitants of the
house in detail in two separate family groups. In one group, there was Henry, aged thirty-three;
his wife Elizabeth Jane, aged twenty-nine; their daughters Mary, aged nine, and Harriet, aged
four; their sons George, aged seven, and Henry, aged one; and a twenty-one-year-old woman
from Nova Scotia named Agnes Kehil who was most likely employed as a domestic worker. The
second group included seventy-four-year-old Thomas Hovey; seventy-five-year-old Susanna
(Susan) Hovey; seventy-year-old Elizabeth Hovey Lefavor; Elizabeth’s thirty-seven-year-old son
Francis H. Lefavor; Elizabeth’s twenty-seven-year-old son Samuel H. Lefavor; and
twenty-one-year-old Lucy S. Lefavor, who was perhaps Samuel’s wife.8
8
Salem Directory, 1846; VRS Vol. III, 602; Salem Directory, 1850; United States Census, 1850.
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Elizabeth Hovey Lefavor died of heart disease in Salem on June 9, 1852 at the age of
seventy-one. Her brother Thomas Hovey died in Salem on December 28, 1858. He was
eighty-three years old and his cause of death was given simply as “age.” Although it doesn’t
appear that Thomas passed away suddenly, he died intestate like his father. Jonathan F. Worcester
of Salem was appointed his administrator. On July 26, 1859, Worcester sold Thomas’s share of
12 Winter Street, the southern half and one-third of the northern half, to James Kimball of Salem.
9
On the same day, Susan Hovey’s legal guardian, her nephew Thomas H. Lefavor, who had been
appointed presumably because his aunt was labeled “an insane person,” sold her one-third share
in the northern half of the estate to James Kimball.10 The heirs of Elizabeth Hovey Lefavor,
including Elizabeth Jane Lefavor Smith and her husband Henry, sold their one-third share in the
northern half of the estate to James Kimball as well. Kimball then sold the entirety of the
Hovey-Lefavor estate at 12 Winter Street to Thomas H. Lefavor for $2,500.00. 11
Thomas Hovey Lefavor, son of Thomas Lefavor and Elizabeth Hovey Lefavor, was born
in Salem on February 8, 1808. He married Mary Brown in 1832 and had eight children between
1834 and 1845, three of whom died before the age of one. Mary appears to have passed away
from complications related to her final birth, that of twins Samuel and Sarah on August 9, 1845.
According to Salem vital records, she died of “palsy” two days later at the age of thirty-eight.
9
Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924, database with images, familysearch.org; Massachusetts Vital
Records, 1841-1910, online database, americanancestors.org; Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881,
online database, americanancestors.org, 2014, no. 42830; ECRD Book 591, Page 290.
10
ECRD Book 591, Page 292; The suggested deficiency of Susan’s mental capacity may explain in part why her
brother Thomas never married or had a family of his own, as it appears he most likely acted as her caretaker until his
death. Susan passed away on February 21, 1861 at the age of eighty-six (Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915,
1921-1924, database with images, familysearch.org).
11
ECRD Book 591, Page 291; ECRD Book 591, Page 294; ECRD Book 591, Page 295.
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Sadly, Sarah’s death followed on August 26, 1845. Thomas was remarried in 1847 to a woman
named Caroline Wallis, with whom he had one son.12
Thomas was fifty-one-years-old when he purchased the entirety of his grandfather
Thomas Hovey Sr.’s estate in 1859. His uncle Thomas Hovey Jr.’s probate documents list his
occupation as “merchant.” Thomas and his family were living in the house at 12 Winter Street by
1864, but did not remain for long. On May 8, 1868, Thomas sold 12 Winter Street to Stephen N.
Monroe and Levi Wiggin, both of Salem, for $3,300.00, ending nearly a century of
Hovey-Lefavor family ownership of the home.13
Advertisement for Wiggin & Munroe provisions. Salem Directory, 1869.
12
VRS Vol. I, 520; VRS Vol. III, 602; Massachusetts Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, database with
images, familysearch.org; VRS Vol. V, 400; Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924, database with images,
familysearch.org.
13
VRS Vol. I, 520; ECRD Book 591, Page 295; Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881, online
database, americanancestors.org, 2014, no. 42830; Salem Directory, 1864; ECRD Book 745, Page 107.
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Stephen N. Monroe, born in Massachusetts about 1833, and Levi Wiggin, born in New
Hampshire about 1818, were in the provisions business together when they purchased 12 Winter
Street. Their company Wiggin & Monroe had a storefront at 111 Essex Street. By 1869, both
families were living at 12 Winter Street, and the 1870 United States Census lists the residents of
the home as follows: in one household, Stephen Munroe and his wife Mary Ann Babcock
Munroe, married in Salem in 1864, both in their thirties; and in the second household, Levi
Wiggin and his wife Caroline F. Wiggin, both in their fifties, along with their twenty-year-old
daughter Anna, and sixteen-year-old son John. It was most likely around this time that the
Italianate ornamentation was added to the exterior of the house.14
12 Winter Street labeled as the property of S. N. Monroe, although it was put entirely in Mary Ann
Munroe’s name in 1874. Atlas of Salem, 1874. Illustration: Essex County Registry of Deeds.
14
Gravestone of Stephen N. Munroe, Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts; United States Census, 1870;
Salem Directory, 1866; Salem Directory, 1869; Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915, database with images,
familysearch.org; MACRIS, SAL.2325.
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On October 10, 1872, Stephen transferred his one-half share in 12 Winter Street to his
wife Mary Ann, and Levi transferred his one-half share to his wife Caroline, both through an
intermediary named Robert M. Copeland. About a year and a half later, the Wiggins sold their
share in the property to Mary Ann Munroe, putting it entirely in her name. It appears that the
business relationship between Stephen and Levi may have broken down around this time. The
1874 Salem Directory lists the provisions business at 111 Essex Street as Stephen N. Munroe &
Co., not Wiggin & Munroe. By 1876, the Wiggins had moved back to their former home on
Howard Street.15
WINTER STREET
15
ECRD Book 865, Page 140; ECRD Book 865, Page 141; ECRD Book 865, Page 142; ECRD Book 903, Page 75;
Salem Directory, 1874; Salem Directory, 1876; Salem Directory, 1866.
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(Top) Atlas of Salem, 1897. Illustration: Essex County Registry of Deeds. (Middle) Atlas of Salem, 1911.
Illustration: Essex County Registry of Deeds. (Bottom) Gravestone of Stephen N. Munroe and Mary Ann
Babcock Munroe. Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts. Photo: FindAGrave.com.
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Stephen & Mary Ann Munroe resided at 12 Winter Street for another thirty-seven years,
usually with at least one boarder. Sometime between 1874 and 1897, the Munroes built another
house at 18 Oliver Street on the opposite end of the property, which they rented out to tenants.
The couple’s long ownership of the lot came to an end just after Stephen’s death, which occurred
at home on July 29, 1913. He was eighty-years-old and the cause was given as chronic
myocarditis. Stephen was buried in Salem’s Harmony Grove cemetery two days later. On
December 2, 1913, Mary Ann sold 12 Winter Street and 18 Oliver Street to Mary E. Hines of
Lynn.16
Mary E. Hines was 12 Winter Street’s first absentee landlord, never residing in the home
herself. For most of her nearly twenty-five-year ownership, the house was occupied by the
Anthony-Conrad family. Mrs. Alice J. Anthony appears as a resident of 12 Winter Street in the
1917 Salem Directory. By 1920, Alice, fifty-three-years-old, was living there with her daughter
Amelia Grace Anthony Conrad, thirty-four-years-old, and Amelia’s husband Oliver Wendell
Conrad, twenty-eight-years-old. Oliver was employed as a laborer in the tanning industry. Both
he and his wife had served in the United States Navy during World War I, she as a reserve nurse.
Oliver and Amelia had two children: Elizabeth Anthony Conrad, born on March 27, 1920, and
William Henry Conrad, born on January 6, 1924, both in Salem.17
On January 6, 1933, Mary E. Hines mortgaged the 12 Winter Street half of the property
to Salem Five Cents Savings Bank. The exact reason why is unknown, but judging by the date,
16
All available Salem Directories from 1876 to 1911; Atlas of Salem, 1874; Atlas of Salem, 1897; MACRIS,
SAL.2330 (Boston, MA: Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1997); Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915,
1921-1924, database with images, familysearch.org; ECRD Book 2239, Page 390.
17
All available Salem Directories from 1914 to 1937; United States Census, 1920; United States Veterans
Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, database, familysearch.org; Massachusetts State Vital Records,
1841-1920, database with images, familysearch.org; Massachusetts Births, 1636-1924, database, familysearch.org.
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it’s possible that financial trouble related to the Great Depression played a role. When Mary
defaulted on her mortgage in 1938, the bank retained ownership of the home. On March 31,
1941, Salem Five sold 12 Winter Street to Richard C. and Ethel M. Mackintire of Salem. Now
separated from 18 Oliver Street, this was the first time the lot was sold in its current dimensions.
18
Advertisement for C. F. Tompkins Co. furniture. Salem Directory, 1946.
The Mackintires also purchased 12 Winter Street solely as an income property, residing at
6 Cheval Avenue in Juniper Point throughout their ownership of the house. Richard was
employed as a credit manager and subsequently a bookkeeper at C. F. Tompkins Co. furniture
store on Washington Street. Just before and during Richard and Ethel’s ownership of the
property, 12 Winter Street was occupied by William Cass, a leather worker, his wife Catherine,
and their children. By 1946, a tenant named Beverly Crowson was also living there, but the
Salem Directory specifies that she resided in a separate unit within the house numbered 12 ½
Winter Street.19
Richard and Ethel Mackintire sold the property to Mary J. Donovan of Salem on June 1,
1946. Mary owned 12 Winter Street for nearly fifty years until her death in the 1990s, when the
18
19
ECRD Book 2941, Page 153; ECRD Book 3155, Page 185; ECRD Book 3250, Page 363.
Salem Directory, 1937; Salem Directory, 1946; United States Census, 1940.
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executor of her will sold it to Paul J. Herrick of Salem. Paul J. Herrick sold the house to Marc L.
Bergeron of Salem in 2000, and Marc and his wife Marcy officially condoized 12 Winter Street
in 2003.20
20
ECRD Book 3462, Page 476; ECRD Book 12976, Page 344; ECRD Book 15814, Page 162; ECRD Book 21820,
Page 424.
�CHAIN OF TITLE, 12 WINTER STREET, SALEM, ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS
Date of
Transaction
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
Grantee(s)
Consideration
March 21, 1781
December 26, 1786
Benjamin Cheever of Salem, Thomas Hovey of Salem,
cordwainer
mason
August 10, 1812
November 14, 1812
Thomas Hovey, Susan
Hovey, and Thomas &
Elisabeth Lefavour
Hannah Town
$1,000.00
August 10, 1812
May 1, 1822
Jacob & Hannah Town of
Salem
Thomas Hovey, Susan
Hovey, and Elizabeth
Lefavour, all of Salem
$1,000.00
May 7, 1829
July 26, 1859
July 26, 1859
thirty pounds
December 1, 1829
Jacob Towne of Boxford,
yeoman, & Hannah Towne,
his wife
August 12, 1859
Jonathan F. Worcester of
Salem, administrator of the
estate of Thomas Hovey,
late of Salem, mason,
deceased intestate
James Kimball of Salem
$1,666.67
August 12, 1859
Edna Jane Le Favor of
Medway, guardian to
Jeannie Le Favor and
Caroline T. Le Favor, minor
children of Richard M. Le
Favor, late of Roxbury,
deceased, intestate
James Kimball of Salem
$104.16
Thomas Hovey of Salem,
bricklayer
Conveyance of
"a piece of land in Salem . . . bounded easterly on the road
leading to Beverly ferry & there measures fifty feet westerly upon
land belonging to Judge Lynde & there measures fifty feet
[southerly] upon other land of [said Benjamin] Cheever & there
measures one hundred feet [northerly] upon land of . . .
Needham & there measures one hundred feet . . . "
"one half of the Real Estate of our late Hon. Father Thomas
Hovey dec. as hereafter described, viz. the Southern half of a
dwelling house with the land under and adjoining situated on
winter Street, and beginning at the front door and throgh the
middle of the Entry as the partition Stand in the back part of the
house from the garret to the cellar, with a small piece of land to
the westward of the house, running in a line westerly with the
Southern end of the house nine feet, then northerly with a line of
the western end of the partition. Also the Southern half of a
garden beginning at the middle of said garden fence and running
[southerly?] twenty 5 feet, then westerly by Brown's land sixty
two feet nine inches, thence northerly by Oliver Street twenty
five feet, then Easterly through said garden sixty feet, the yard,
well, front, door and entry and stairs from the cellar to the garret
to be used in common with both parts of the house."
"one half of the real estate of our late Honored father Thomas
Hovey deceased as hereafter described viz, the northern half of
a dwelling house with the land under and adjoining situated on
Winter street and beginning at the front door and through the
middle of the entry to the garden fence as the partition in the
back part of the house . . . stands from the garret to the cellar
with the northern half of the garden beginning at the middle of
said garden fence then running westerly sixty feet through said
garden to Oliver street then bounds westerly running northerly
by Oliver street twenty five feet then . . . northerly running
easterly by Needhams land fifty eight feet then . . . [southerly?] by
garden fence twenty five feet to first mentioned bound with the
yard well front door, entry and stairs from the garret to the cellar
to be used in common for both parts of the house."
Source
Book / Page
Notes
Essex County
Registry of Deeds 146 / 195
(ECRD)
ECRD
197 / 265
ECRD
229 / 221
$500.00
"the following real estate on Winter street in Salem aforesaid that
is to say the Southern half of a certain dwelling house and land
ECRD
under and adjoining contained within the following lines . . . "
255 / 74
"The southern half, and one undivided third part of the northern
half of Messuage Number 12, Winter Street, in Salem, aforesaid;
the said messuage being bounded easterly by Winter Street;
ECRD
northerly by land of Sanders and Byard; westerly by Oliver Street;
and southerly by land of Osborne and Willis."
591 / 290
"One undivided twelfth part of the northern half of messuage
Number 12, in Winter Street, in said Salem . . . "
591 / 291
ECRD
"being the same premises which
were conveyed by said Thomas and
others to said Hannah" recorded in
ECRD B197 P265; subject to a
$500.00 mortgage by the Townes to
Benjamin Cheever
"The said Southern half being the
same premises that were conveyed
by Thomas Hovey to Hannah Town"
recorded in ECRD B197 P265 and
"the said northern half being the
same premises that were conveyed
by Jacob Town, to Thomas Hovey
and others" recorded in ECRD B229
P221
�CHAIN OF TITLE, 12 WINTER STREET, SALEM, ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS
Date of
Transaction
Date Recorded
Grantor(s)
Grantee(s)
Thomas H. Lefavor of
Salem, guardian to Susan
James Kimball of Salem
Hovey, an insane person, of
Salem, singlewoman
Henry B. & Elizabeth Jane
Smith, Thomas H. Lefavour,
James Kimball of Salem
and Samuel H. Lefavour, all
of Salem
Consideration
ECRD
591 / 292
$312.50
"three undivided twelfth parts of the northern half of messuage
number 12, Winter Street, Salem . . . "
ECRD
591 / 294
ECRD
591 / 295
ECRD
745 / 107
ECRD
865 / 140
ECRD
865 / 141
"one undivided half part of a certain parcel of land situated in
said Salem, and bounded and described as follows . . . "
ECRD
865 / 141
"all that one undivided half part of a certain parcel of land
situated in said Salem and bounded & described as follows . . . "
ECRD
865 / 142
July 26, 1859
August 12, 1859
July 26, 1859
August 12, 1859
James Kimball of Salem
Thomas H. Lefavour of
Salem
$2,500.00
May 8, 1868
May 9, 1868
Thomas H. Lefavour of
Salem
Stephen N. Monroe and Levi
Wiggin of Salem
$3,300.00
October 10, 1872
October 15, 1872
Stephen N. Munroe of
Salem
Robert M. Copeland of
Salem
$1.00
October 10, 1872
October 15, 1872
Levi Wiggin of Salem
Robert M. Copeland of
Salem
$1.00
October 10, 1872
October 15, 1872
Robert M. Copeland of
Salem
Caroline Wiggin, wife of Levi
Wiggin of Salem
$1.00
October 10, 1872
October 15, 1872
Robert M. Copeland of
Salem
Mary A. Munroe, wife of
Stephen N. Munroe of Salem
$1.00
April 23, 1874
April 29, 1874
Levi & Caroline F. Wiggin of
Salem
Mary Ann Munroe, wife of
Stephen N. Munroe of Salem
$4,000.00
December 2, 1913
December 3, 1913
Mary A. Munroe of Salem
Mary E. Hines of Lynn
August 22, 1938
August 23, 1938
Mary E. Hines of Lynn
Salem Five Cents Savings
Bank, holder of a mortgage
from Mary E. Hines of Lynn
Salem Five Cents Savings
Bank
Salem Five Cents Savings
Bank
Book / Page
"One undivided third part of the northern half of Messuage No.
12, Winter Street in said Salem . . . "
August 12, 1859
January 6, 1933
Source
$416.66
July 26, 1859
January 6, 1933
Conveyance of
"One Dollar and
other valuable
considerations"
"a certain piece of land, situate in said Salem, and bounded as
follows, to wit; easterly on Winter Street, fifty feet, southerly on
land of Osborne and Willis, one hundred feet, westerly on Oliver
Street, fifty feet, and northerly on land of Sanders and Byard, one
hundred feet, with all the buildings thereon."
"a certain parcel of land situated in said Salem bounded as
follows: Easterly on Winter Street, fifty feet, more or less;
Southerly on land now or formerly of Osborne, and land now or
formerly of Willis, one hundred feet more or less; Westerly on
Oliver Street, fifty feet, more or less; and Northerly on land now
or formerly of Sanders, and land now or formerly of Byard, one
hundred feet more or less . . . with the dwelling house and all
other buildings thereon . . ."
"one undivided half part of a certain parcel of land situated in
Salem and bounded as follows – easterly on Winter street;
southerly on land now or formerly of Osborne and of Willis;
westerly on Oliver street; and northerly on land now or formerly
of Saunders and of Byard . . . "
"one undivided half part of a certain parcel of land situated in
said Salem and bounded and described as follows . . . "
"one undivided half part of the following described premises to
ECRD
wit . . . "
"a certain parcel of land with the dwelling houses and other
buildings thereon, situated in said Salem, and bounded and
described as follows: Easterly on Winter Street fifty feet, more or
less; Southerly by land now or formerly of Osborne and by land
ECRD
now or formerly of Willis, one hundred feet, more or less;
Westerly on Oliver Street fifty feet, more or less, and Northerly on
land now or formerly of Sanders and land now or formerly of
Byard, one hundred feet, more or less . . . "
"the land in said SALEM with the buildings thereon bounded and
described as follows: Easterly by Winter Street about fifty (50)
feet, southerly by land now or formerly of Osborne about fifty five
"consideration paid" (55) feet nine (9) inches, westerly by land now or formerly of
ECRD
Murphy about fifty (50) feet ten (10) inches and northerly by land
now or formerly of Cole about fifty seven (57) feet four (4)
inches."
$4,100.00
"the premises conveyed by said mortgage."
ECRD
903 / 75
Notes
"The said estate being the same that
was conveyed to me, in different
portions, by Deeds of even date with
this . . . "
"being the same premises in part" as
described in ECRD B745 P107
"being the same premises in part" as
described in ECRD B745 P107
"being the same premises this day
conveyed to me by deed of Levi
Wiggin . . . "
"being the same premises this day
conveyed to me by deed of Stephen
N. Munroe . . . "
"being the same premises" recorded
in ECRD B745 P107
2239 / 390
2941 / 153
3155 / 185
"Being a portion of the premises
conveyed to me by deed of Mary A.
Munroe" recorded in ECRD B2239
P390;
This document is a mortgage "to
secure the payment of Four
Thousand Dollars in one year with
five and one-half per cent interest."
The bank retained ownership of the
property when Mary defaulted on her
mortgage.
�CHAIN OF TITLE, 12 WINTER STREET, SALEM, ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS
Date of
Transaction
March 31, 1941
June 1, 1946
April 4, 1995
August 10, 1995
October 20, 1997
October 20, 1997
December 30, 1998
July 16, 1999
August 2, 2000
Date Recorded
April 1, 1941
Grantor(s)
Salem Five Cents Savings
Bank
Grantee(s)
Richard C. & Ethel M.
Mackintire of Salem
Richard C. & Ethel M.
Mary J. Donovan of Salem
Mackintire of Salem
Ellen Cash of Lynn, executor
under the will of Mary J.
April 5, 1995
Paul J. Herrick of Salem
Donovan, late of Peabody
Paul J. Herrick, Trustee of
August 10, 1995
Paul J. Herrick of Salem
HRX Salem Realty Trust
Paul J. Herrick, Trustee of
October 20, 1997
Paul J. Herrick of Salem
HRX Salem Realty Trust
Paul J. Herrick, Trustee of
October 20, 1997 Paul J. Herrick of Salem
HRX Salem Realty Trust
Paul J. Herrick, Trustee of
December 30, 1998
Paul J. Herrick of Salem
HRX Salem Realty Trust
June 1, 1946
July 16, 1999
August 2, 2000
Paul J. Herrick of Salem
Marc L. Bergeron of Salem
Marc L. Bergeron of Salem
Marc L. & Marcy F. Bergeron
of Salem
Consideration
Conveyance of
Source
"the land in said SALEM with the buildings thereon bounded and
described as follows: Easterly by Winter Street about fifty (50)
feet, southerly by land now or formerly of Osborne about fifty five
"consideration paid" (55) feet nine (9) inches, westerly by land now or formerly of
ECRD
Murphy about fifty (50) feet ten (10) inches and northerly by land
now or formerly of Cole about fifty seven (57) feet four (4)
inches."
"the land in said SALEM together with the buildings thereon
"consideration paid"
ECRD
bounded and described as follows . . . "
$85,000.00
"nominal
consideration"
"nominal
consideration"
"nominal
consideration"
"nominal
consideration"
$319,900.00
"Nominal"
"The land in Salem . . . together with the buildings thereon,
bounded and described as follows . . . "
"The land in Salem . . . together with the buildings thereon,
bounded and described as follows . . . "
"The land in Salem . . . together with the buildings thereon,
bounded and described as follows . . . "
"The land in Salem . . . together with the buildings thereon,
bounded and described as follows . . . "
"The land in Salem . . . together with the buildings thereon,
bounded and described as follows . . . "
"The land in Salem . . . together with the buildings thereon,
bounded and described as follows . . . "
"The land in Salem . . . together with the buildings thereon,
bounded and described as follows . . . "
Book / Page
Notes
3250 / 363
3462 / 476
ECRD
12976 / 344
ECRD
13141 / 350
ECRD
14377 / 563
ECRD
14377 / 570
ECRD
15369 / 554
ECRD
15814 / 162
ECRD
16487 / 299
The Bergerons officially condoized 12
Winter Street in 2003.
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12 Winter Street, Salem, MA, 01970
Subject
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House History
Description
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Built for
Thomas Hovey
Mason
c. 1785
Creator
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
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Historic Salem, Inc.
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Built circa 1785
House history completed 2022
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Alyssa G. A. Conary
Language
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English
12 Winter Street
1785
2022
Hovey
mason
Massachusetts
Salem