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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:

General correspondence relating to Jamaica, and miscellaneous accounts and legal papers relating to Ardoch Penn., 1775-1834.

 File
Identifier: MS.10925
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) General correspondence, 1781-1789, 1810-1834 (folio 1);

(ii) Miscellaneous accounts and legal papers, 1775, 1811, 1815-1818, 1826-1827, (including a slave list of 1816) relating to Ardoch Penn (folio 71).

Dates: 1775-1834.

General, personal, and household accounts of the 3rd Duke of Argyll., 1724-1761, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17614-17630
Scope and Contents Under each year the accounts are arranged in groups: general (stated accounts with Lord Milton, transfer of money, and in the 1730's receipts for pensions by Scottish peers), personal, household and furnishing (relating to all the Duke's Scottish residences), travel and freight (mostly between Edinburgh, Rosneath, and Inveraray; including in the early 1750's those relating to the Duke's yacht Princess Augusta), and tradesmen (mostly working at the Duke's lodging in Holyrood; those elsewhere...
Dates: 1724-1761, undated.