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Ledgers. Account books.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Volumes of final entry in accounting in which are entered debits, credits, and all other money transactions under each individual account or heading.

Found in 596 Collections and/or Records:

Miscellaneous collection of letter-books, ledgers and other volumes of William Grimond, trader, Dundee, and of other members of his family.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.365
Scope and Contents

The collection also includes a few later, unrelated, items.

Dates: 1797-1850, and undated.

'Miscellaneous Ledger', number 2, dealing with various funds, committees, etc., of the Free Church of Scotland., 1845-1847.

 Item
Identifier: MS.18407
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1845-1847.

Papers concerning estate management in the highlands.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.5639
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. letter book, 1806-1824, concerning the Glenlyon Estate

2. accounts and papers, 1896-1914, concerning Barcaldine

3. ledger, 1848-1854, of Sir Alexander Campbell

4. index, 18th century.

Dates: circa 1700-1914.

Papers concerning Gibraltar and mercantile affairs., 1724-1849.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15404-15416
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates: 1724-1849.

Papers, mostly financial and property records, of and relating to the Carntyne estate, including papers relating to interests of the Gray family in the coal industry., 1518-1945.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.8100/1-111
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...
Dates: 1518-1945.

Papers of and concerning the firm of William Wilson and Son., 1770-1886, undated.

 Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.9662-9678
Scope and Contents

The papers, consisting of correspondence, account-books, and legal papers, form an addendum to the main Wilson collection (MSS.6660-7000).

Dates: 1770-1886, undated.

Papers of John Grant, bookseller.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9751

Pitfour estate business ledger., 1795-1798.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20982
Scope and Contents From the Series:

John Richardson purchased Pitfour near Perth in 1781. Frequent references to the estate are to be found throughout the firm’s office books and especially in MS.20850 where the estate accounts for 1787-1795 are recorded alongside those of the business.

Dates: 1795-1798.