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Tax records. Records (documents).

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Collections of documents associated with the assessment and payment of taxes, including tax returns, tax bills, and warrant books.

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1776-1812.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11177-11178
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates: 1776-1812.

Papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly concerning the payment of taxes., 1792-1812.

 File
Identifier: MS.11177
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Papers, chiefly receipts and forms, concerning the payment of assessed and property taxes in the parishes of St James, Westminister, and Roehampton, and in Scotland, 1792-1793, 1797-1798, 1803-1804, 1811-1812 (folio 1); (ii) Receipts for the payment of the property tax by the 1st Earl of Minto's tenants in Roxburghshire, 1810-1812 (folio 55).

Dates: 1792-1812.

Small collections of letters and papers., 1647-1862, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.2207
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous papers, 1647-1781, consisting chiefly of letters and orders addressed to William Farquharson of Inverey by Middleton and others, in connection with the Royalist campaign in Scotland, 1647-1656. 'Archaeologia Scotia', volume v, appendix, page 57. (Folio 1.)(ii) Orders of General Monck relating to Sir Robert Campbell of Glenorchy and the McNabs, 1654-1655, with modern transcripts, and a chaplain's commission given to...
Dates: 1647-1862, undated.

Tax papers, containing assessment slips, balance and return sheets and company accounts of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd., 1886-1942.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9416/42-43
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Associated companies and other organisations represented in the records include: The Carfraemill Hotel Co, Ltd; The Barnton Hotel Ltd; Barclay Perkins and Co, and Messrs Cockburn and Murray; The Littlemill Distillery Co; and the Scottish Wholesale Wine Distributors' Association.

Dates: 1886-1942.

Various miscellaneous papers of Ruthven Todd., 1944-1977, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26886
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Autobiographical notes and papers, circa 1955-1975 (folio 1); (ii) Typescript of a radio interview given by Ruthven Todd, 1974 (folio 8); (iii) Miscellaneous notes and papers, 1944-1977, undated (folio 36).

Dates: 1944-1977, undated.