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Deeds, maps and business papers of G Smith, Estate
Agent, Boughton Monchelsea 1609-1965
Presented 23 April 1969
Catalogued by Jacqueline A V Rose November 1970
Introduction
The title deeds in this collection are mostly for the Jordan
family, auctioneers and estate agents at Milton. George
Smith was the nephew and executor of Alfred Jordan and
acted as estate agent for his aunt, Emma English.
Because of their nature, all records relating to family
matters have been catalogued as business papers.
111
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TITLE DEEDS
Milton Re is (Milton-next-Sittingbourne)
T1
Tenement in Tubwell Street; messuage near the Market
Place (off the High Street); 3 butcher's stalls [one
called The Weighthouseirmerly
; 2 fish the
stalls;
workhouse]
large building
[including
n. of The Weighthouse fo
probate of Thomas Peirce, 17471 (2 bdls.)
21
1609-1770
T2
Orchard and farM called 'Golds' [Goulds] (2a.i with .
messuage and garden in High Street (see above
[including abstract of title from 1797; probate
of William Jordan, 1837; probate of John Jordan,
1868; agreements for the use of hop cast, 1760, 1801]
16
1743-1870
25
Backs Hill; Backs Hill Marsh and part of Lawyers Field
(37aft
.); Gra
Marsh (la.); land containing hops and
fruit trees (6a:); pasture (4a.) in Lawyers Field with
use of the cart 'road
5
1784-1810
T4
Bobbing Rodmersham and Rainham
2
1753-1766
30
1775-1667
Messuage (58a.) in Key Street, Bobbing; messuage,
'Coldherbour'wi!thlend planted with cherry trees
(10a.); messuaga in Rawling Street, Rodmershem with
land (40a.?; 3 pieces Chesnut Wood, Bobbing; messuage
with land 40a.1, Rainham
Bobbing ' T5
Gravel Pit Field off Key Street [leased on condition that
a corn windmill should be built and all wheat should be
ground within a 5 mile radius at 4d. a bushel, 1755-88];
corn windmill and two mcsuages,
s
c.1800; newly built
messuage erected by Elias Jarrett, 1855, called 'Rose
Villa', 1867; [including malements
rriage sett
of,Samuel
Chambers and Barbara Roper, 1766; John Toley and Emily
Chamber, 1794; abstract of title 1846-60]
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TITLE DEEDS
Dymchurch
Newly erected messuage and marshland (ia.)1
1793
Bilsington
.
T7
Messuage called :'BourneTap' with waste land
with part of Aldington Frith in the manor of
Inferior [Court iodge] and a piece of arable
photographs of lease and release and copy of
1824-27]
adjoining
Bilsington
land [negative
court roll,
9
1827-1882
Chilham
T8
Messuage called 'Middlefield'and land in Shottenton (ia.)
1
1679
T9
Consent of sale of estate to Mr. Pym given by William
Jordan
2
1823
1
1693
1
1640
Leeds Abbey Farm [Inventory including equipment and contents 1
of the unfurnished house]
1827
Chilham and Godmersham
T10
Messuage called ''PilcherdField' and land (5a4;'Neathbyn'
and land (5a.)
Cobham
Tll
Recovery of messUage and land (142a.)
Leeds
T12
Faversham
T13
Messuage in Court Street [Probate of Robert Lukyn with
administrationof Edward Jones Hilton enclosed]
2
1845-1862
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TITLE DEEDS
Testamentar [Family)
T14
Probate of Emma English
T15
Correspondencerelating to the legacies of Emma English
and A.E. Jordan (1 bdl.)
T16
Probate of Elizabeth Bremmer
1908
1911-1912
1899
Testamentar [BuSiness]
T17
Discharge of legacies of George Lawrence
1789
T18*
William Jordan released as trustee' of John Peckham
1852
T19
Probate of Esias Goldfinch
1841
T20
Probate of SarallRedsall
1851
T21
Burial certificaltesof Iercy Hawker and John Barnwele Curzon
*original bundle,
111
1756, 1787
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BUSINESS PAPERS
Horsham Farm Estate U church
31*
Correspondence [relating to repair of sea wall, cottages and
rents] and receipts [rent charge for All Souls College,
Oxford; fee farm rent for Newington Manor] and general ,-administrativepaPers
1888-1895
32*
Ditto [including list of ttenants,1898; inventory of
certain tenants effects; valuation report describing
house and land, 18861
1886-1908
33
Ditto [includingmarriage certificate of Emma Jordan and
William English; schedule of farm land]
1870-1889
34
Ditto
1890-1899
B5
Ditto (2 bdls.)
1900-1909
36
Ditto [including duties on land values forma and 3 plans
of the farm)
1910-1918
B7*
Letters from WainWright and Baillie, solicitors
1886-1668
38*
Receipts
1886-1888
Eastchurch Tithe
39.
Eastchurch Station Estate (formerly White House Farm).
Correspondencerelating to the tithe [including altered
apportionments,1910-12, 1915; plan of the estate with
plots numbered; letter with decorated heading from
The Land Company, pmapside, 1915]
1910-1923
310
Eastchurch Cliff Estate (formerly Swanley Farm).
Correspondencerelating to the tithe [including letter
on passes needed fpr Sheppey, 1915; letter opened by the'
censors, 1916; letter with pictorial back depicting Minsteron-Sea; lists of owners and apportionments1910, 1911, 1915]
1911-1917
*original bundle
411
BUSINESS PAPERS
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Eastchurch Tithe (contd.)
Bll
Plans of Eastchurch Cliff Estate (2)
undated
U church and Halton
B12
Plan of 9 plots for sale
1865
U church and Rainham
B13
Sale catalogue for the residence of Mr. Cobb, Orchard
meadow and 4 cottages, Rainham; Otterham Farm and
brickworka on Otterham Creek, Upchurch with plan
1877
Bobbin and Milton Re is
B14
Correspondencerelating to the lease of 'Rose Place'
Bobbing
,
1884
315
Correspondencerelating to proposed sale of 'Rosemount'
Bobbing and 88 High Street, Milton Regis by Effield
Dickson
1
1
Valuation for legacy duty on estate of Esias Goldfinch,
2
Milton Regis
,
,
Account book of the executors of Esias Goldfinch 1821-22
[in back memorandum of the plate sold]; account of executors
of personal estate and estate sold; bundle of receipts
of legacy, 1834;:indentureof apprenticeshipof John
Cooper, 1838; extract of baptism of John Cooper, 1840
(1 bdl.)
1919
316
B17*
1822
1821-1843
Accounts of Jordan Famil
318
Pass Book of Alfi,edJordan (1 emall vol.)
*original bundle
1669-1877
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BUSINESS PAPERS
Accounts of Jordan Famil
319
Pass.,Bookof Alfred Jordan (1 small vol.)
1869-1875
320
Ditto [his executors]
1875-1879
32].
Ditto
1679-1882
B22
Carriers accounts [inclUding those for wheat, oats and
maize; potatoes to Covent Garden, 1878; fruit to
Borough Market, London, 1878; at back number of sheep
on the land] (1 small vol.)
1874-1861
323
Account Book [including carriers and quarry accounts;
putting flints in barge, 1882; thatching cottage, 1884;
income tax, tithe, repairs to Fox Grove; rent of Bex
Hill; wharf tax at Milton, 1889; moulding, crowding and
loading, passim;lat back accounts for flints and
callow, 1863-4, 1879-1881 (1 small vol.)
1679-1893
324
Wood Sales, Stede Hill, Harrietsham [including situation
of wood, purchaser and price] (1 small vol.)
1866-1880
325
Securities on the estate of William Jordan by Daniel and
Charles Jordan
1
Receipts and letters concerning loans by William to Charles
Jordan
1798-1801
326*
1798
General
327Tithe
328Ditto
addresses for Boughton Monchelsea, Eastchurch,
Harrietsham, Thupnham [in back copy of award made by
Lord Romney to Alfred May, 1907] (1 small vol.)
[plus Bearsted]
*original bundle
c.1910
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BUSINESS PAPERS
General (contd.)
B29
Claims on the Royal Insurance Co. by the following farms
[Stone Cross Farm, Chatham; Hunton Court, Hale Farm, Horsemonden; Bounds End Farm, Staplehurts; Goldwell Farm,
Aldington, Castle Farm, Tonbridge; Wickens Farm, Charing;
Shepway Court, Maidstone; Mackinder Farm, Marden; Little
Maplesden Farm, Benenden; Pear Tree Farm, Biddenham;
Mates Farm, Southfleet; Parish Farm, East Mailing; Gilden
Hill, Swanley with full list of farm machinery; Allington
Farm, Maidstone; Rectory Farm, Langley; Wintersell Farm,
Edenbridge; Manor,Farm, Cliffe; Parsonage Farm, Cobham
Hemsted Park, Benenden; Canon Court, Wateringbury;
Sharnal St. Farm, Hoo; Water Farm, Brabourne, Brenley
Pam, Whitehill; Street.Farm, Preston; The Mall,
Faversham; Rocks Farm, Staplehurst; Coldharbour Farm,
Wye; Willington Place Farm, Maidstone; Scords Farm,
Brasted; Shepway Court, Maidstone, New Cross Farm,
ChiddingstonejIdenGrange, Staplehurst;Gallants Farm,
East Farleigh; Mill Farm, Spalding; Little Kensham
Farm, Rolvenden, Dux Farm, Plaxtol; Hope Farm,
Hadlow; newspaper'-cutting
on mystery fire at Paddock
Wood, 1925]
1925-1927
B50
Ditto [Sweetlands'
Farm, Staplehurst; Iden Green,
Goudhurst; Upper Hockenden Farm, St. Mary Cray; Sherenden
Farm, Capel; Settingham Farm, Chatham; Parsonage Farm,
Yalding; Brook Farm, Capel; Reed Court, Marden; Hermitage
Farm, Harming; Buston Manor, Hunton; The Moors, Marden;
Tolehurst Farm, Frittenden; Delmonden Farm, Hawkhurst
Mexden Farm, Rolvenden; Ham Hill, Snodland; list of
charges for Charing Fire Brigade]
1928-1930
BUSINESS PAPERS
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General (contd.)
B31
Claims on the Royal Insurance Co. by the following farms
[Hope Farm, Hadlow; Fens Farm, Swanley; Tinbridge Farm,
Faversham; Home Farm, Linton Park; Darland House, Chatham;
Pimps Court, East Farleigh; Bridgehurst Farm, Marden;
Lone Barn Farm, Charing; Arnold Farm, Leeds; Tompsettb
Farm, Horsemonden; Moat Farm, Chart Sutton]
1931-1933
Miscellaneous
B32
List of Children apprenticed to Mr. Baldwin in Milton,
Tonge and Harrietsham, 1795-1833 with calculations of
rent due
undated
B33
Charity Commission scheme for Sir William Stede Charity
1902
B34
Account of George Smith (1 doc.)
1911
B35
Note of pieces of timber from Sunny Hill Farm, Borden,
sold to Mr. Goldfinch
1798
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OFFICIAL PAPERS
Bou hton Monchelsea
01
Tithe map
1843
dr
02
Tithe award
1842
03
Extraordinary tithe; award and map
1886
04
Copy of altered apportionmentreferring to no. 81
1922
[See P39/27/1-4]
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MAPS AND PLANS
PltHarrietsham
Estate by William Peckham [including Court
Lodge, Polehill Farm, Clarks Farm, Bell Farm, Deans
Mill (Tassels Farm), Upper Ham Farm; Minis, Frinsted;
Stonacre Farm, Otham; Frid Farm, Bethersden; Lovelace
Farm, Bethersden; Tanners Farm, Capel; Fishers Street
Farm, Sheldwich;;estatesand land in Selling, Sheldwich,
Boxley, Bearsted; Maidstone, Shinglewell, Sandhurst,
West Melling, Ryarsh, Marden and Upchurch; Hartland,
Bethersden; Harley Farm, Harrietsham] (1 aataad vol.)
,
1821
P2t
Mil ate Estate
pg/i
Bearsted
P2/2
Hollingbourne
PV3
Leeds
Pg/4
Otham
P2/5
Thurnham
P3
Plan of alteratiOn to Leeds Lane, Bearsted; vestry
and highway district board notices to the effect,
1875; plan of oast house for John Dowson [Milgate Estate]
1876
P4t
Hampson Estate 14 Thurnham [with book of reference]
1883
P5t
Barming Glebe belonging to the rectory of East Malling
1870
P6
Tracing of Wateringbury tithe; 2 other tracings; tracing
ofland to be used by S.E. Railway in Wateringbury
P7
Copy of Harrietsham tithe map [award missing]
1840
P8
Tracing of Harrietsham altered apportionment
'1\887
1842
19th c.
s
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MAPS AND PLANS
P9
Sale Tlan 'ofWoodcut Farm and plan of new oast kiln at
'Snagsbrook'Hollingbourne; proposed alterations to
Cobham farmhouse by J.H. Warman
P10
Tracings of OthaM Hole [with tithe award numbers]
Pll
Tracing of Walnut Tree Farm, Trottiscliffe
P12
Tracing of Pimps'Court,East Farleigh
Plan of Wateringbury [ink-stained]and Ringlestone Farm
[on back]
411P13
P14
Plan and sectioniof Maidstone to Tonbridge railway by W.A.
Provis
P15
Plan showing land required at Teapot Hard, Chattenden for
railway and pier,
Ordnance Surve Ma s
1877-1878
1836
•
P16
Trottiscliffe parish (251T)
P17
One Inch
P17/1
Sheerness to S.E: Essex
P17/2
Godstone to Sittingbourne
1852
P17/3
Sittingbourne to:Dover
1852
P17/4
Siddenham to Swanscomb; Stratford to Romford, Essex
1852
P17/5
Romford to Ingatestone,Essex
1851
P17/6
Ingatestone to Chelmsford, Essex
1851
3
1688
c.1850
MAPS AND PLANS
P17One
Inch (contd.)
P17/7Gravesend
P18
_
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to Isle of Grain; Tilbury to Southend, Essex
Map of Sussex by Figg and Baxter (after Greenwood]
c.1850
1861