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Farm account book, 1729-1770, dealing largely with crops and wages on the farms of Congaiton Mains and Carperstane in East Lothian, by various members of the Begbie family, with a few entries added by a later generation in the 1790s.
Farm account book of John Douglas, advocate, 11th of Tilquhillie (1708-1791) for Mains of Inchmarlo, in the parish of Banchory-Teman.
The book contains accounts of labourers’ and servants' wages; details of crop sowing and reaping; notes on purchase and sale of sheep and cattle; weather conditions and harvests; detailed accounts for building of an addition to the house (folios10 verso-12).
Financial records and correspondence relating to the administration of the estate of the Maxwells of Monreith.
Five cash books from Selkirk.
Four minute-books and two cash-books of the Edinburgh branch of the National Printing and Kindred Trades Federation.
Further estate and family papers of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, 1651-1960, including titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.
Further papers of George Anderson and family.
Photographic negatives and ledger book of George Anderson, Scottish emigrant and sheep farmer.
Grocer`s account book detailing sales in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Haberdashery account book of Mrs Colonel Grant of Grant.
Household and personal account book of Charles Maule and his family, living near Edinburgh.
Household ledger of the Trotter family for Dreghorn House.
Journal and account book of Mrs Burton-Sayers` work party.
Journals and notebooks of Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen.
Lawyer`s account book.
Recording income and expenditure, mainly personal and domestic.
Ledger containing ‘Accounts of the monies expended & the work executed on the Barony of Strathbrock’, now Uphall, belonging to the Earl of Buchan.
The accounts were begun ‘by John Millar, Precentor of Uphall and School Master of the Parish, and continued by Ebenezer Faichney, Overseer to the Earl of Buchan'. They relate mainly to the estate of Kirkhill; but they include also some household and personal expenses of the Earl, who passed and signed the accounts, a summary of the enclosures on the estate of Kirkhill, 1780 (folio 26), and a list of the Statute work of the barony (folio 103).
Ledger kept by a lawyer active in both Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
The lawyer can probably be identified as John Gordon of Avochie, Writer to the Signet. His ledger reflects business interests which range over several estates in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire and which include the details of the purchase of a house in West Heriot Row, Edinburgh in 1806.
"Ledger kept with [Walter Scott, 10th of] Harden’s Tennants for their Rents from Whit. 1742 to Whit. 1743. And for Cropt 1742. Continued for their Rents from Whit. 1743 to Whitsunday 1744. And for Cropt 1743."
Among the tenants is ‘Robert Scott, Sandieknow & Smailholme Craigs’, the grandfather of Sir Walter Scott.
Ledger of Sanderson and Paterson.
With index.