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From the Aberdeen Press and Journal, Tuesday 7 March 1749.
Tuesday night James Flood, James Price, and Alexander Colby, were taken
at an Alehouse at Dartford in Kent, all three notorious
Footpads; they are all charged with the murder and robbery of Mrs. Marsh
at Erith on Shooter's Hill. They were carried under a
strong guard to Rochester gaol, to take their Trials of the next Assizes
there.
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Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal 21 June 1799.
On Saturday died at Dartford.
Lintott, formerly shoemaker and innkeeper in that town, but from
misfortunes, etc. reduced to a beadle of that place.
(Is a lay official of a church or synagogue.) He was going into
the poor-house in the year 1792, when getting a sixteenth share of a
prize of £30,000. in that Lottery, he paid all his debts, put his family
into respectable lines of business, and lived comfortably on the
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PIGOT'S Directory 1828 (Dartford and area)
COOPER & REEDER, Brewers and Malsters.
FLEET Chas. Hussey & William, Brewers and Malsters.
PITTOCK William, Brewer.
TASKER John & William, Brewers and Malsters.
PIGOT'S Directory 1832.
BARNES William, Spital Street, Retailer of Beer.
DAVEY Thomas, Lowfield Street, Retailer of Beer.
EDWARDS William, Lowfield Street, Retailer of Beer.
FLEET Charles Hussey & William, Lowfield Street, Brewers.
MARTIN William, Short Hill, Retailers of Beer.
MISKIN, Waterside Brewery, Brewers.
PITTOCK William, Crown Brewery, Brewers.
READER Thomas William, Waterside, Retailer of Beer.
TASKER John & William, Brewers.
CENSUS 1841
WELLINGATE Mary, High Street, age 65.
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Kentish Gazette, 12 October 1852.
Dartford. Incendiarieyism.
George Jackson and John Birch tramps, were had before Sir P. H.
Dyke, and other magistrates, on Saturday, charged with
having, on the 1st October instant, maliciously set fire to a stack
of outs, situate near the Brent, the property of Messrs. Pigou
and Wilks.
George Lynds, of Dartford, beer-shop keeper, deposed:— Yesterday
morning, the 1st inst., at about a quarter to eight
o'clock, I was in front of my own house, adjoining the
turnpike-road, near the Brent. I saw smoke from a stack of oats,
being
one of three belonging to Messrs. Pigou and Wilks, in a field about
forty rods from my house. I went to the spot and found
the stack on fire. I saw no person near it. I gave an alarm to Mr.
Wilks's servants. The stack was a good sized one. I should
think I was there about ten minutes after it was set on fire.
Christopher Brandon, superintending-constable, deposed:—Yesterday
morning I received information that one of Mr. Wilks's
stacks was on fire. I immediately rode up to the Brent, and from
inquiries I made I rode dawn to the Gore road, and had
gone about half-way down the road, when I came up to the two
prisoners. They were sitting on a bank on the road side,
about half a mile from the fire. I rode past before I saw them. I
turned back, got off my horse, and interrogated them. They
said they had come through Dartford. I asked them what business they
had to come through the fields. I told them I
suspected they were the parties who had caused the fire. The
prisoner Jackson said it was an accident; that they went to light
their pipes, and the stack caught fire; that they tried to put it
out, but they could not, and they then ran away. I cautioned
them as to what they were saying, and then asked them whether they
gave any alarm. Both said "No." I commenced
searching them, and they said they had thrown the Lucifer away. On
Jackson I found a Lucifer match and some rag. On Birch
I found the pipe. On taking them to the station, the prisoner
Jackson said "No more smoking for a while, I suppose." The
prisoner Birch said, "Seven years at the least." Jackson said "Don't
be a fool, hold your tongue." They admitted coming
through Dartford at seven o'clock, that morning. On searching
Jackson at the lock-up I found some more Lucifer matches.
The prisoners were remanded, in order to obtain further evidence.
There is no doubt that the fire was wilfully occasioned, as
it was fired in the direction of the wind, and as this in the second
act of incendiaryism in Dartford within a month, it is hoped
the offenders will meet with the punishment they deserve. The fire
continued to burn for fourteen hours, and it was reported
that an engine had come from London in the evening thinking there
was a large fire in the town.
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Southeastern Gazette, 28 June 1853.
Petty Sessions, Saturday. (Before Sir P. H. Dyke, Bart., F. Dashwood,
T. H. Fleet, and H. Johnston, Esqrs.)
Mary Blackman, a beer-shop keeper at Dartford, was charged with
keeping her house open after eleven o’clock at night on Thursday,
the 9th June.
Police-constable White proved the case.
Fined 12s. and expenses.
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From the Maidstone Telegraph, Rochester and Chatham Gazette, 2 November 1861.
William Sharpe, beer-shop keeper, Overy Street, Dartford, was summoned
for having his house open during prohibited hours.
The case was dismissed.
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Kentish Mercury, Saturday 1 November 1862.
John Sharp, beershop keeper, Heath Lane, Dartford, was charged with
having his house open for the sale of beer at a quarter before 4 o'clock
in the afternoon on Sunday, October, 12th.
The charge was proved by Luxford, 37 K.C.C. This being the second
conviction, the bench fined him £1 and 7s. expenses.
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CENSUS 1901.
THOEBALD Thomas B, 103 Lowfield Street, age 33, Hotel Proprietor.
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Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Tuesday 7 October 1890.
DARTFORD POLICE COURT. LICENSING.
On the application of Mr. Ridley, the off-license for the sale of beers, wines, and
spirits, held for some years by Mr. A. T. Penny, grocer, High Street,
Dartford, was transferred to himself, his son, and son-in-law, whom he
has taken into partnership.
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Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Tuesday 7 October 1890.
On the application of Mr. Bailey, the license for beers, wines and spirits, held by Mr. E. Horrell,
chemist, High Street, Dartford, was transferred to himself and his
partner, Mr. Goff. |
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