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Year |
Date |
Document |
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Content: |
Scanned |
Transcript |
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1.7.1 |
1763 |
20-Jul |
Copy of Legal Document |
Cecilia Wood, spouse to Jas Sanderson |
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Concerning land holdings |
p |
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1.7.2 |
1760 |
9-Aug |
Draft of Legal Document |
Margt Gunn,
now spouse to Jas Sanderson of Air |
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Concerning land holdings |
p |
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1.7.3 |
undated |
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Draft or copy of Bond |
Thos Louttit,
merchant in Kirkwall |
Mr Robert Sands, Minister of the United Parishes of Hoy & Graemsay |
Amount not stated in the draft |
p |
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1.7.4 |
1738 |
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Demand for Payment |
Against Jas
Sandison of Air |
by 'Pursuer', Mr John Leith (?) |
In the sum of £ 108.10.- Scots |
p |
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1.7.5 |
1780 |
?-Dec |
Statement |
John Falconer (?), Minister of the United Parishes of Sandwick &
Stromness |
Robt Grahame
(?) |
Probably drafted by Joshua Johnston |
p |
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1.7.6 |
1759 |
23-Feb |
Statement |
Unclear |
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p |
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1.7.7 |
1768 |
10-Oct |
Statement |
Jean Leith, wife of deceased William Leith, farmer at Culston in
Stenness |
Nicol Robertson, on behalf of John, Thomas & James Leith, his sons |
Claim for a share of 'his whole subjects' now in Jean Leith's custody.
Statement drawn up by Joshua Johnston. |
p |
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1.7.8 |
undated |
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Draft of what might appear to be a contract of employment for the Hudson
Bay Co, unsigned |
p |
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1.7.9 |
undated |
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Deed of Sale |
George Mowat, farmer in Pow in Husgar in Sandwick |
Thomas Linklater, heir to the deceased David Linklater, farmer in Husgar
in Sandwick |
Lands called Brecksland & a quoy of land called Imoy Creya - £205 Scots |
p |
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1.7.10 |
undated |
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draft Will |
Bess Ross, now resident in the island of Stroma, lawl
daur of
the deceased Malcolm Ross, farmer |
Jas. & Hugh (?) Ross, half brothers, & Isobella Ross, sister, spouse to
Wm Gray, farmer |
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p |
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1.7.11 |
undated |
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draft deed |
Margt Loutit,
daughter of Tom Loutit, Stromness |
Robt Grahame
of Redland |
"has advanced & payed to us a sum of money for the purchase of supr
duty …" |
p |
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1.7.12 |
1786 |
28-Jun |
draft deed of transfer |
Margt & Isobel
Cromarty (?) |
Their deceased parents (?) |
various properties around Stromness |
p |
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1.7.13 |
undated |
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draft deed of transfer |
Robt
Malcolmson, sailor in Stromness, & heir to ?? Malcolmson, farmer in Toab
(?) |
Henry Wilson, farmer in Toab, & Isobel Mowat, his spouse |
For the sum of £60 Scots money, various lands & properties |
p |
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1.7.14 |
undated |
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draft Answers to a Petition of Complaint (4 pages in manuscript) |
Robert Grahame of Redland, one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for the County of Orkney |
Robert Hutchison sailor in Stromness |
See 1.6.5.above |
p |
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1.7.15 |
1758 |
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draft Bond |
Andrew Young, Surveyor of HM Customs in Orkney and Alexander McKay, his
deputy |
Alexander Grahame, merchant in Stromness |
To make payment and satisfaction of two hundred merks Scots money and
also one hundred pounds money of damages and expenses |
p |
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1.7.16 |
1752 |
3-Jul |
draft bequest ? (4 pages in manuscript) |
His lawful spouse, dependants & others (Margery Flett, my present wife
?) |
Nicol Spence of Kirbister |
Sum of £50, various bonds (?) & properties (on island of Stronsay ?) |
p |
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1.7.17 |
1758 |
22-Sep |
draft deed of transfer |
James Smith, wright in Stromness |
Mags Gray,
shipmr
in Stromness |
Land defined by neighbouring properties, and sold 2 Apr. 1674 by Thos
Taylor, skipper (?) in Stromness |
p |
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1.7.18 |
1773 |
2-Feb |
draft Representation |
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Oliver Johnston, master of the briggn
called 'Beggars Reccesor' (?) of Stromness |
Sailed from Leith with a cargo of salt & other goods and explaining the
loss of his cargo in a 'hard gale of wind' |
p |
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1.7.19 |
undated |
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Statement |
Thos Flett,
tenant in Howina (?) in Sabiston in Birsay |
Hary Grahame of ?? |
Owing in whole the sum of £96.10.9d Scots money. |
p |
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1.7.20 |
undated |
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draft deed of transfer |
Unclear - Eupham (?) Grahame - late officer of excise in Stromness - my
deceased father - shipmaster in Stromness |
Hary J Grahame (?), of St Kitts (?), late mercht
of St Zuflour (?) in the West Indies |
for the sum of £38 Scots money advance & paid - piece of waste ground
lying at the shoreside in the village of Stromness |
p |
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1.7.21 |
undated |
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Statement |
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John ?? of the briggantyne the Ja & K of Stromness |
Built at Leith for the sum of £384 Olipher Melville & Peter Brass, both
sailers in Stromness |
p |
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1.7.22 |
undated |
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draft Answers to Petition |
Thos Balfour,
mercht
in Kirkl |
Andw
Crookshank, mercht
in Stromness |
Concerning voyages with cargoes undertaken by Robt
Crookshank, his son |
p |
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1.7.23 |
undated |
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draft deed of transfer |
John & Jas Spencer |
T S Wrightment (?) |
'end of the quoy called Stanksquoy' (?) |
p |
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1.7.24 |
undated |
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draft deed (torn & missing the main introduction) |
Andrew Crookshank, merchant in Stromness |
Alexander Grahame, mercht
in Stromness, and Cicilia Honyman, spouse to the said Alexander Grahame |
To pay the sum of seventy pounds sterling money for our granting him the
security after mentioned |
p |
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1.7.25 |
1753 |
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draft deed of transfer |
Thos Watt (?) |
Robt Grahame
of Breckness |
for the Breckness Estate (?) |
p |
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1.7.26 |
undated |
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draft power of attorney (?) |
John Sutherland of Burnside in South Ronaldshay |
Mags
Cromarty,eldest lawl
son & heir to the deceased Mags
Cromarty, farmer in Grimness (?) |
'whereas I am obliged to be frequently abroad and cannot attend my
affairs at home, and am yrfore resolved to intrust the managemt
of my affairs in my absence to ….' |
p |
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1.7.27 |
undated |
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draft deed of transfer |
Cicilia Cromarty, my beloved spouse |
Mags Gray,
shipmr
in Stromness |
property (unclear) presently occupied by Thos
Spence, carpenter in Stromness |
p |
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