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                  <text>49 Essex Street
William P. Goodhue
Merchant
And His Wife Alice Very
Built c. 1841

Researched and written by Connie Barlow
March 2024

Historic Salem Inc.
The Bowditch House
9 North Street
(978) 745-0799 / Historicsalem.org
©2024

�Date Recorded

Grantor(s)

Grantee(s)

Consideration

Conveyance of

Source

Docu
ment
Deed

Book: Page

August
29,1840

Ephriam Emmerton,
merchant &amp; his wife
Mary Ann, of Salem

$800

William P. Goodhue of
Salem

February 28,
1887

Salem 5 Cent Bank

Caroline M. Gage,
wife of Andrew
Gage, Jr. of Salem

$6,000

November 7,
1906

Alice R. Meeks of Salem,
Arthur B. Spaulding &amp;
Carrie Spaulding of
Peabody

Thomas Cronan of
Salem

“$1 and other valuable
consideration”

“a parcel of land with a
barn thereon . . .situate in
Salem on the corner of
Essex and Bentley Streets “
“a parcel of land with the
buildings
thereon…bounded
northerly on Essex Street,
easterly on Bentley
Street…”
“a parcel of land in
…Salem…situated…on the
corner of Essex and
Bentley streets”
“a parcel of land with the
buildings there
on…bounded to the north
by Essex Street…easterly
by Bentley street”

Essex Co.
Registry of
Deeds

June 27, 1873

William P.
Goodhue,
merchant, of
Salem
First National Bank
of Salem

Essex Co.
Registry of
Deeds

Deed

883:147,148

Default on loan included
3 other properties in
Salem. 1873 is the year of
the first Great Depression
or “Financial Paanic”

Essex Co.
Registry of
Deeds

Deed

1191:279

“…being the same land
conveyed to William
Goodhue”

Essex Co.
Registry of
Deeds

Deed

1849:228

The Grantors are the
grandchildren of Caroline
Meeks Gage

April 12,1924

Cronan et al Exors: Sara
A. Cronan, Thomas Leo
Cronan &amp; Francis P.
Cronan, of Salem,
Executors of the will of
Thomas F. Cronan late
of Salem

Felix Kibiersza and
Helena Kibiersza,
husband &amp; wife,
tenants by the
entirety

$7,800

“buildings
thereon…Northerly by
Essex Street, easterly by
Bentley Street”

Essex Co.
Registry of
Deeds

Deed

2593:232

“Power conferred by a
decree of Essex County
Probate Court dated April
10, 1924

November 23,
1945

Kibiersza et ux:
Felix and Helen
Kibiersza,husband &amp;
wife, of Salem

February 27,
1970

Mildred C Pszenny of
Salem

Mildred C.
Pszenny and
Maryanna
Wesolowska of
Salem as Joint
tenants
Edward M.
Pszenny, Jr. of
Salem

“for consideration
paid”

“land in Salem with the
buildings
thereon…northerly by
Essex Street…Easterly by
Bentley Street

Essex Co.
Registry of
Deeds

Deed

3430:459,460

Mortgage held by Roger
Conant Cooperative Bank
for $4,000

$5,500

“land situated in said
Salem with buildings
thereon…on Essex Street”

Essex Co.
Registry of
Deeds

Deed

5669:130

$139,000

“land in Salem with

Essex Co.
Registry of
Deeds

Deed

13992;245

land conveyed to M.
Pszenny and M.
Wesolowska as joint
tenants; the latter now
deceased

February 27,
1997

Edward M. Pszenny, Jr.
of Salem

Linda Locke,
Pickering St.,
Salem

Default on loan
$10,600

buildings thereon…Essex
Street…by Bentley Street”

Notes

232:201

�October 18,
2011

Victor Claudio, Trustee

October 28,
2011

Linda Locke of Salem

May 9, 2022

Joseph Locke and
Priscilla Legault,
Trustees of J.
Christopher Trust

Declaration of
Trust: J.
Christopher Trust
Victor Claudio,
Trustee, J.
ChristopherTrust

$10,000 held in trust

Eric G. Duhaime
and Janice
Duhaime, husband
&amp; wife of …Salem

$$860,000

$10,000

“land in Salem…with
buildings…described…Nort
herly by Essex…Easterly by
Bentley”
“with quitclaim
covenants…land in said
Salem…with
buildings…bounded…by
Essex Street…ad
by…Bentley Street

Essex Co,
Registry of
Deeds
Essex Co.
Registry of
Deeds

Deed

30781:62

Deed

30781:68

Essex Co.
Registry of
Deeds

Deed

40924:34

�Figure 1-1851 MacIntyre Map of Salem (Detail)

’

�Exposition on Chart of Deeds for 49 Essex Street, Essex County, Salem, Massachusetts
The earliest deed found for the property now known as 49 Essex Street was from 1840 when
Ephriam Emmerton and his wife Mary Ann Emmerton sold a “parcel of land with a barn
thereon” to William P. Goodhue for $800. The property is described in that deed, and in all
subsequent deeds, as follows: “on the corner of Essex and Bentley Streets, bound northerly on
Essex Street, seventy-five feet more or less; easterly on Bentley Street, one hundred and one
feet more or less; southerly on land of Ebenezer Slocum, seventy-eight feet more or less; and
westerly on land of the heirs of Samuel Silsbee, deceased.”
In searching for documentation of how Ephriam Emmerton and his wife acquired the property,
it was found that Mary Ann Emmerton, nee Sage, married Ephriam in 1826. Marriage records
indicate that Mary Ann Sage was the daughter of Daniel Sage and Deborah Silsbee. Although
unable to determine the exact relationship of Deborah Silsbee to Samuel Silsbee whose
property abutted the deeded parcel on the west, it is known that Samuel Silsbee, described in
the deed as “deceased,” died in 1839. The westerly boundary is further described as “land of
the heirs of Samuel Silsbee.” It is plausible that Deborah Silsbee Sage’s daughter, Mary Ann
Sage Emmerton, was one of Samuel’s heirs.
The rest of the Chart of Deeds proceeds from that purchase by William Goodhue in 1840.
Goodhue is most likely the one who built a house on that parcel c.1841.

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