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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 543 Collections and/or Records:

Ledger of house accounts of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 1755-1758.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17096
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: 1755-1758.

Ledger of Ilay Burns., 1814-1835.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14252
Scope and Contents

Some household expenditure is recorded in the volume.

Dates: 1814-1835.

Ledger of John Richardson and Company concerning fishing., 1799-1816.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20863-20879
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The early volumes are general account books, but from 1800 the financial side was divided into three branches. The ledgers, journals, and waste books concerning shipping are distinguished by a letter, those for fish curing by a number, and those for fishing by neither.

Dates: 1799-1816.