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Friday, 4 July 2025

Saracen`s Head, South Street 1766 - 1794

Licensees

Phineas Jacobs 1766 1767
Martha Jacobs 1767 1773 (Mathew Jacobs listed in 1772 Sessions Book)
Joseph Jacobs 1773 1792 (John Jacobs listed in 1778 Sessions Book)
John Hall 1792 1794


Kentish Weekly Post 2-10-1770

Advertisement: To be sold by auction to the highest bidder, on Monday, the 15th of October, 1770, between the hours of two and six in the afternoon, at the Saracen`s Head, in Folkestone, the hull of a new vessel, or shallop, now lying upon Folkestone beach, burthen about forty tons. For further particulars enquire of Phineas Jacobs, shipwright, in Folkestone.

Kentish Gazette 11-8-1773

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To be sold publicly to the highest bidder, on Saturday the 14th instant, between the hours of four and six o`clock in the afternoon, at the Saracen`s Head, in Folkestone, a cutter, about fifty six tons or thereabouts, with all her materials, between fiv and six years old.

For further particulars enquire of Mr. Joseph Sladden, at Folkestone


Kentish Gazette 25-10-1775

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To be sold by Auction, at the Saracen`s Head, Folkestone, on Thursday, the 26th instant, between the hours of five and seven in the evening: A Cutter, of seventy six tons burthen. Has been built for three or four years; is fit for immediate service.
 

Kentish Gazette 13-1-1779

Advertisement: To be sold by auction at the Saracen`s Head in Folkestone on Thursday, the 21st of this instant, between the hours of two and eight in the evening: all that good cutter privateer called the Surprize, of Folkestone, Thomas Fagg, late commander, burthen 70 ton, fitted with eight Carriage and eight Swivel guns, and small-arms &c., &c., agreeable thereto. The above cutter is a prime sailer, and only ten months old. 

For further particulars enquire of Mr. Phineas Jacob, Shipwright, at Folkestone.

Kentish Gazette 16-5-1781 

Advertisement: To be sold by public auction, at the Saracen`s Head in Folkestone, on Saturday the 26th day of May instant, at two o`clock in the afternoon, a shallop, about fifty tons, with all her materials, arms, ammunition and stores.

For further particulars enquire of Mr. Thomas Tapley, of Folkestone, or Mr. Richard Norwood, of Dover.

Kentish Gazette 17-7-1784 

For sale by public auction at the Saracen`s Head, in Folkestone, on Saturday, the 31st of July, at six o`clock in the evening, the Active cutter, about two hundred tons.

Kentish Gazette 25-8-1786

To be sold by auction, by the assignees of Phineas Jacob, a bankrupt, at the sign of the Saracen`s Head, in Folkestone, on Tuesday, the 29th day of August instant, at three o`clock in the afternoon; a parcel of land, now used as a shipwright`s shop, with two workshops and buildings to the same adjoining, situate, lying and being under the cliff in Folkestone aforesaid. Also a cutter, as it is now building in the yard.

Particulars may be known by applying to Mr. Reynolds, Folkestone.

 

 
 

City Of London, Site Unknown 1741 - 1771

Licensees
Thomas Hall Listed 1741
Thomas Mullen c1765 1771

Kentish Weekly Post 20-3-1770 

We hear from Folkestone that as soon as the news arrived there of Sir Thomas Pym Hales being duly elected for Dover, several gentlemen met at the sign of the City of London, where an elegant supper was provided, to testify their joy on that occasion; the house was illuminated, guns were fired, the healths of the King, Queen, and Royal family, Sir Thomas Pym Hales, Lady Hales, &c., &c., were drank, and the evening concluded with the utmost mirth and decorum.