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Accounts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents in which monies or goods received and paid or given out are recorded in order to permit periodic totaling. This term was not used in the published volumes of the 'Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925'. Such records were indexed under the subject terms Housekeeping or Prices.

Found in 3038 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts of Henry M Davidson, factor of Saltoun estate., 1829-1879.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17390-17438
Scope and Contents Up to 1832 accounts for Monkrig, Upper Keith, and Gilchriston follow those for Saltoun. From crop 1834 payments for labour on the estate, the home farm, the gardens, and the brick works were made by Lady Charlotte Fletcher, and the factor made only collective entries in his account; however the vouchers (but not the account books) were given to him and are placed after the numbered series of vouchers for each year (not all categories are present for every year). The vouchers after crop 1850,...
Dates: 1829-1879.

Accounts of Ilay Burns., 1805-1835.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14250-14252
Scope and Contents

The accounts are largely of a personal and family nature up to 1812, after which they chiefly concern Ilay Burns' business.

Dates: 1805-1835.

Accounts of James White, forester at Longnewton, for crop years 1872-1875., 1872-1876.

 File
Identifier: MS.8076
Scope and Contents

The accounts include items such as the upkeep of fences and repair of certain buildings in Longnewton village.

The crop year usually begins on 22 November.

Dates: 1872-1876.

Accounts of John Aitkin, 1780-1792.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6548
Scope and Contents

With two farm account books, 1781-1795, 1793-1826, for farms near Brechin.

Dates: 1780-1826.

Accounts of labourers, and ministers' and schoolmasters' receipts., 1789-1801.

 File
Identifier: MS.14696
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Accounts, 1789-1793, of labourers employed in planting, cutting and sawing timber (folio 1);

(ii) Accounts, 1792-1801, of labourers employed in the garden and policy of Yester (folio 28);

(iii) Ministers’ and schoolmasters’ receipts, 1793-1801 (folio 114).

Dates: 1789-1801.

Accounts of Lady Meade and of her son, Thomas Meade., 1764-1779, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.12947
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Apothecaries’ bills, 1764-1779 (folio 1); (ii) Letter, 1772, of Francis Paynter to Thomas Meade, enclosing a rental of Thomas Meade's estates at Mitchell in Cornwall (folio 46); (iii) Extract copy of Lady Meade's will, 1772 (folio 48); (iv) Miscellaneous Meade family accounts, 1718-1779, undated chiefly of Thomas Meade at Bath (folio 50).

Dates: 1764-1779, undated.