| Title | Mortgage by lease and release by 1. Joseph Botham of Aston farmer to 2. Jacob Smith of Aston butcher, reciting conveyance of 1775 (T 910-911) and that the premises have by new buildings and alterations been converted into the premises firstly hereafter mentioned and reciting provisions of Jacob Botham's will leaving property at Aston to Joseph his youngest son and mortgaging for £500, 5 cottages with a room now used as a schoolroom with gardens etc. now in the occupation of Charles Gaskin, John Lacey, James Briggs, Robert Whitehead, William Meakin, a close called Moor Dyke containing 3 acres formerly in the occupation of Jacob Botham now of Joseph Botham, and 4 cottages in the tenure of Mary Groves, Frances Kerrey, Joseph Joynes and John Booth, which, or the site thereof, were bought by Jacob Botham from John Wright, all in Aston |