An authentic original manuscript Lease for a Year (part of a lease and release conveyancing set) executed on a single sheet of red-ruled vellum, dated 16th January 1812 (52nd year of King George III).
​This document records the transfer of real estate in Linton, Cambridgeshire. It is made between John Dickinson of Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, farmer (executor of Elizabeth Livermore, late of Balsham, spinster), of the one part, and William Seaman of Linton, cordwainer, of the other part.
​It conveys a messuage or tenement with outhouses, yards, gardens, and a croft/close of pasture adjoining near the Green in Linton, abutting the road leading toward Cambridge. The document recites a web of prior occupants and neighboring landholders including Thomas Willows, Elizabeth Livermore, Isaac Hammond, and Widow Dent. It also outlines an intended larger Release involving Thomas Brand of Linton (baker), William Iron of Little Abington (blacksmith), and Thomas Mott of Cambridge (esquire).
​Key Features & Attributes:
​Date: 16th January 1812
​Locations: Linton, Great Wilbraham, Balsham, Little Abington, and Cambridge.
​Parties & Signatures: Signed by John Dickinson with an intact red wax seal.
​Stamps & Stationery: Features a large blue embossed £1 10s revenue stamp with silver foil insert.
​Preserved in very clean, crisp condition on red-ruled vellum with standard historical folds. A fantastic piece of early 19th-century Cambridgeshire village history and tradesman genealogy (farmer, cordwainer, baker, blacksmith).