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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:

Ledger containing ‘Accounts of the monies expended & the work executed on the Barony of Strathbrock’, now Uphall, belonging to the Earl of Buchan.

 Item
Identifier: MS.343
Scope and Contents

The accounts were begun ‘by John Millar, Precentor of Uphall and School Master of the Parish, and continued by Ebenezer Faichney, Overseer to the Earl of Buchan'. They relate mainly to the estate of Kirkhill; but they include also some household and personal expenses of the Earl, who passed and signed the accounts, a summary of the enclosures on the estate of Kirkhill, 1780 (folio 26), and a list of the Statute work of the barony (folio 103).

Dates: 1768-1772, 1781-1788.

Ledger kept by a lawyer active in both Aberdeen and Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14195
Scope and Contents

The lawyer can probably be identified as John Gordon of Avochie, Writer to the Signet. His ledger reflects business interests which range over several estates in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire and which include the details of the purchase of a house in West Heriot Row, Edinburgh in 1806.

Dates: 1793-1808.

"Ledger kept with [Walter Scott, 10th of] Harden’s Tennants for their Rents from Whit. 1742 to Whit. 1743. And for Cropt 1742. Continued for their Rents from Whit. 1743 to Whitsunday 1744. And for Cropt 1743."

 Item
Identifier: MS.101
Scope and Contents

Among the tenants is ‘Robert Scott, Sandieknow & Smailholme Craigs’, the grandfather of Sir Walter Scott.

Dates: 1742-1744.