Forge Cottage - Conveyance 11 November 1646

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This is a summary of a conveyance held in the Centre for Kentish Studies at Maidstone.

This was the second purchase in Hartley by Thomas Edwards in little more than a month (see conveyance of Hartley Cottage, 10 October 1646). The seller is John Overy, the owner of Fairby Farm.

Thomas passed the house onto his relative John, and they were both parties to the sale of the same in 1658 to Thomas Young of Fairby. Thomas died in 1673 (click here to view will)

Reference: KAO U713/T45

Made between:

(1) John Overy of Hartley, yeoman
(2) Thomas Edwards of East Malling, yeoman

John sells to Thomas for £100: all that one messuage or tenement, one barn, one garden, one orchard and 5 pieces of land containing 9 acres in Hartley, now or late in the occupation of Thomas Oliver.

Bounded by lands now or late of Edward Best and Tristram Bashford (S); to the King's Highway from Ash to Dartford (W); other lands of John Overy (N) and to the lands of Sir John Sedley (E).