From the Kentish Gazette, Saturday 25 September, 1779.

To be sold by private contract, at the house of Robert Nicholas, at "Kings Ferry," in the Isle of Sheppey, on Wednesday the 29th day of September, exactly at six o'clock in the evening.

All that large and convenient messuage or tenement, with the stable, and exceeding garden, they're onto joining belonging comma, situate, lying and being, in Eastchurch Street, in the said Isle of Sheppey, late in the occupation of John Jenkins, and now of Thomas Hodges.

And also, all those two smaller brick messuages or tenements, situate near the above-mentioned premises, and now in the occupation of _____ Martin and John Turner; together also with a piece of land thereto adjoining, containing about half an acre, with the several outhouses and buildings thereon, and their used by Henry Grainer for a carpenter's yard and workshops.

Further particulars may be known by applying to Mr. Hinde, Attorney at Law, at Milton.