Indentures. Legal Instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Legally binding agreements between two or more parties in two or more originals or copies. Also, contracts binding one person to work for another for a given period of time. (AAT) Index all examples under this heading. (NLS) .
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Apprenticeship indentures and accounts of George Allan, printer, and Alexander Robertson, coachmaker.
File
Identifier: Acc.10014
Dates:
1811, 1825 and undated.
Documents of Walter Ferguson, candle-maker, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.4547-4548
Dates:
1772, 1783.
Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15348-15377
Scope and Contents
These documents relate to Professor Traill`s family the Traills of Tirlot in Orkney, his daughter`s family, the Omonds, and the Grahams of Breckness and Gorthie.
Dates:
1645-1897, undated.
Formal documents from the Seton and Bremner papers.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15248-15257
Dates:
1764-1877.
Indenture and discharge concerning Alexander Gray, Brechin.
File
Identifier: Acc.10192
Dates:
1849-1852.
Indenture between the tenants and the tutors of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch, concerning claims for damages by the former.
Item
Identifier: Ch.8499
Scope and Contents
With a schedule of the tenants and monies involved.
Dates:
1825.
Indenture between William Hyslope, blacksmith in Channelkirk, and James Claperton, son of Alexander Claperton, weaver in Stow, whereby Claperton is bound apprentice for three years.
Item
Identifier: Ch.5801
Dates:
1776.
Indenture for the Camden Estate, Trinidad, between William Lushington, and John Stewart and Alexander Fraser.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14555
Scope and Contents
Document is an indenture of release between Lushington, and Stewart and Fraser of Inchcoulter. The indenture provides a legal description of the plantation and outlines the ownership rights of both the physical plantation and the enslaved workers.There are four schedules providing details on the names, ages, employment, sex, colour, stature, country, marks [distinguishing features] and relations of the enslaved workers. The Scottish connection is clear as...
Dates:
1807-1819.
Indenture of aprrenticeship of William Horton to George Northall Bates.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7850
Dates:
1845.
Instrument of sasine concerning property in St Andrews, with two indentures.
File
Identifier: Acc.3638
Dates:
1694, 1775, 1814.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Letter, 1889, of W E Gladstone.
File
Identifier: Acc.6237
Scope and Contents
With apprenticeship indenture, 1816, of Peter Bell.
Dates:
1816, 1889.
Papers of and concerning the Holden family of Baldovie; with a document concerning Thomas Greig, and with genealogical notes on the Guthries of Guthrie.
File
Identifier: MS.50266
Scope and Contents
Documents, 1753, concerning the clandestine marriage of Abraham Holden and Elizabeth Barclay (folios 1-4).Letters and documents, 1759-1776, of and to John Holden concerning Richard Holden's death, the sale of Scottish goods in West Africa, instructions for a survery and a bond (folios 6-13).Letters of Richard Holden (fl 1747-circa 1761), 1747-1758, of Richard Holden to his father and brothers concerning slaving voyages and the sale of enslaved people (folios...
Dates:
1717-1822.
Papers of the Boyd family, connected with the publishing firm of Oliver and Boyd.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9544
Dates:
1752-1950.
Papers of the family of Holden of Baldovie.
...
Identifier: Acc.11272-is now MS.50266
Dates:
1717-1822.
Photocopy of indentures of Archibald Campbell as apprentice baker, Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11847
Dates:
1764.
Photographs of 26 letters of and concerning James Mason.
File
Identifier: Acc.3608
Scope and Contents
With photograph of indenture concerning his son, George.
Dates:
1795-1807.
Three letters, 1844, of and concerning Quentin Dalrymple, shipwrecked near Antigua.
File
Identifier: Acc.8795
Scope and Contents
With Dalrymple`s apprenticeship indenture, 1826.
Dates:
1826-1844.
Two documents between George Inglis, attorney, Edinburgh, and Henry Mackenzie, author of `The Man of Feeling`.
Series
Identifier: Ch.A.243-244
Dates:
1761, 1773.