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Deeds. Legal documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A formal written instrument setting forth the terms of an agreement, contract, or obligation, whether in relation to persons or things, including the voluntary constitution, transmission, or discharge of rights or obligations relating to either movable or heritable property. Source: Bell, William. 'Dictionary and digest of the law of Scotland'.

Found in 454 Collections and/or Records:

Draft deed of mutual release by John Balfour, Bath (late of Tobago) to John Campbell., 1806.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12692
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 1806.

Draft trust deed by William Campbell and Susanna Bernard his wife to Temple Lawes, Jamaica, and Simon Luttrell, London., 19 November 1741.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15195
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.

Dates: 19 November 1741.

Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., 1800-1841, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16780-16782
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: 1800-1841, undated.

Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., 1800-1806.

 File
Identifier: MS.16780
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: 1800-1806.

Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., 1807-1819.

 File
Identifier: MS.16781
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: 1807-1819.

Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., [1820]-1841, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.16782
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: [1820]-1841, undated.

Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., [1820]-1836.

 File
Identifier: MS.16782 (part 1)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: [1820]-1836.

Drafts and copies of deeds, opinions, and other papers concerning General Fletcher's settlements and death and the affairs of the Trust., 1836-1841, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.16782 (part 2)
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

When General John Fletcher died in 1806, his legitimate children Andrew and Henry were infants. He had previously appointed curators for them and trustees for his affairs. In this section are the papers acquired and generated by these curators and trustees over the succeeding half-century, mostly through their clerks, John Home, Writer to the Signet and William Home, Writer to the Signet.

Dates: 1836-1841, undated.

Duncanlaw and Foresterseat., 1619.

 File
Identifier: Ch.11589-11590

Duplicate conveyance by Edward Ellice and William C H Armstrong to Samuel S Millar., 23 December 1857.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12738
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 23 December 1857.

Duplicate deed of indemnity of Edward Ellice and Russell Ellice to William Hornby., 5 May 1860.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.12744
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 5 May 1860.

‘Epistolæ Regum Scotorum’., 1505-1545, 1576-1626.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.9D
Scope and Contents

Added at the end (page 199) are a few letters or deeds, 1576-1626, of a public nature.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.184) includes the reference: A.2.15

Dates: 1505-1545, 1576-1626.

‘Epistolæ Regum Scotorum’, a register of correspondence of State, including contemporary copies of royal letters.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.9
Scope and Contents

The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. I. State Papers, part I (F.R.184)

Dates: 1505-1545, 1576-1626.

Estate and personal accounts, 1893-1933, possibly of Perthshire provenance.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7392
Scope and Contents

With draft deeds drawn up by Russell and Dunlop, "Drafts 1917 A-E".

Dates: 1893-1933.

Estates and local affairs., 1426-1753.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.11498-12539
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Dates: 1426-1753.

Excerpts from the diary of John Smith., 1812-1854.

 File
Identifier: MS.8499
Scope and Contents

The extracted entries, which were made by a grandchild of John Smith, are always brief. They mainly record a fairly eventful social life, but his professional activities are also mentioned in passing.

A pedigree of the Smiths is also included, along with transcripts of two deeds relating to the family.

Dates: 1812-1854.