Richard Johnson shopkeeper sold the Bateman's estate in March 1773 to the Salehurst shopkeeper John Freeland (1732-1811) of Hurst Green for £950; the property was then described as 'a house and land (80 acres) called Bateman's, Lanebridge, Merihams and Highland formerly occupied by Rogers, then John Langridge and now Elizabeth Langridge'. In 1785, John Freeland is recorded as owner/occupier of Bateman's with a Land Tax value of £23. Two years later, in March 1787, he conveyed the estate (upon which he had built a house occupied by Sutton) to Robert Pattenden (1754-1821), yeoman for £1,050 borrowed from his step-father, John Freeland. Robert Pattenden had married John Freeland's stepdaughter Mary Blundell (1757-1789) in 1785 and already occupied a windmill which he had built on the land.
Robert Pattenden and family lived at Batemans until his death in June 1821. He married four times - Mary his first wife died in 1789 and bore four children two of whom died in infancy; his second wife, Frances Squiers he married in 1791 but she died two years later along with their only son John; and his third wife, the widowed Margaret Johnson, he married in 1794 and she bore him four children before she died in 1804; and finally his fourth wife, the widowed Ann Blackford he married in 1806 but there were no children and she outlived him and died in 1829. Robert and his first three wives and two of the children from the first marriage are buried at St. Bartholomews Church in Burwash.
After Robert's death the estate was conveyed in March 1824 to Richard Smith Appleyard of Great St. James Street, Bedford Row, London. Windmill Field was sold for £530 and Bateman's with the remaining 40 acres of land for £1,270.Robert Pattenden's son John continued to farm at Bateman's as a tenant. He married Mary Glyde Reeves in 1824 and she, now widowed, and children are on the 1841 census as the farmer at Bateman's Farm
ref: East Sussex Record Office - AMS5982/1
| John Freeland | m: 10th Jun 1727 St. Giles Church, Dallington, Sussex | Mary Prior | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| b: 1728 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 14th Jul 1728 St. Mary the Virgin Church | b: 1730 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 19th Apr 1730 St. Mary the Virgin Church | b: 1732 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 23rd Apr 1732 St. Mary the Virgin Church d: Sep 1811 Salehurst, Sussex bur: 24th Sep 1811 St. Mary the Virgin Church, Salehurst, Sussex | b: 1733 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 7th Jun 1733 St. Mary the Virgin Church | b: 1735 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 9th Mar 1735 St. Mary the Virgin Church | b: 1736 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 12th Dec 1736 St. Mary the Virgin Church | b: 1741 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 22nd Mar 1741 St. Mary the Virgin Church | b: 1743 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 25th Jan 1743 St. Mary the Virgin Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John Freeland shopkeeper | m: 21st May 1772 St. Mary the Virgin Church, Salehurst, Sussex | Elizabeth Blundell | 2nd marriage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1732 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 23rd Apr 1732 St. Mary the Virgin Church d: Sep 1811 Salehurst, Sussex bur: 24th Sep 1811 St. Mary the Virgin Church, Salehurst, Sussex | b: c 1732 d: May 1802 Salehurst, Sussex bur: 17th May 1802 St. Mary the Virgin Church, Salehurst, Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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