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2.5.1 1765 1-Jan Statement of Account William Halcro of Coubister Thomas Balfour, merchant Statement of purchases totaling £104.19.5 made by Wm Halcro since March 1763 offset against purchase of kelp from Coubister Estate, leaving a balance due carried forward of £5.17.11¾ p  
2.5.2 1762 30-Aug Contract for the purchase of kelp  Thomas Balfour, merchant William Halcro of Coubister From 1765 burning season for 9 years.  Agreed rate of fourty shillings sterling per ton p  
2.5.3 1760 20-Sep Extract from the registration of a bond Thomas Balfour, merchant William Halcro of Coubister Bond for £100 sterling dated 26 May being the balance of an account with Thos. Balfour of ~£96 rounded up to £100 to be repaid by Martinmas next p  
2.5.4 1760 25-Apr Statement of Account William Halcro of Coubister Thomas Balfour, merchant Statement of expenses totaling £54.-.8¼ for Wm Halcro's a/c since Oct. 1758 offset against purchase of kelp from Coubister Estate, leaving a balance due carried forward of £17.-.10¾ p  
2.5.5 1759   Statement of expenses for making kelp William Halcro of Coubister Thomas Balfour, merchant Expenses totalling £12.1.10 for making & shipping ~11 tons kelp from theToyness & Cava shores p  
2.5.6 1758 6-Oct Statement of Account William Halcro of Coubister Thomas Balfour, merchant Statement of expenses totaling £40.19.5½ for Wm Halcro's a/c since Dec. 1756 offset against purchase of kelp from Coubister Estate, leaving a balance paid of £2.10.1½ p  
2.5.7 1756 31-Jan Contract for the purchase of kelp  Thomas Balfour, merchant in Kirkwall William Halcro of Coubister From 1756 burning season for 9 years.  Agreed rate of either 42 or 30 shillings sterling per ton depending on whether the country is at war with France or Spain p  
2.5.8 1756 29-Dec Statement of Account William Halcro of Coubister Thomas Balfour, merchant Statement of expenses totaling £50.15.8½ for Wm Halcro's a/c since May 1756 offset against purchase of kelp from Coubister Estate, leaving a balance due carried forward of £6.-.8½ p  
2.5.9 1783 22-Jul Bond William Wall Junior & Company, merchants in Kirkwall Cicilia Halcro Bond for £22.10.7 being the residue of the inheritance from her brother, Dr Hugh Halcro p  
2.5.10 Undated   Contract for exploration for minerals John Gorsuch & John Sinclair, mining engineers William Halcro of Coubister Three of four pages, the first date bearing the date is missing. Covers the 'lands, islands & calf' presumably of Coubister p  
2.5.11 1765 8-Jan Receipt for Cess William Halcro of Coubister Will Smith, Tormistoun £91.15.104/5 Scots money for year ending '25 March last' p  
2.5.12 1749 17-Mar Bill, protested & returned Mr James Crafts at the Ship, Wapping, Newstairs, London John Johnston Bill for £60, payable to Mr Robert Laing p  
2.5.13 1763 22-Oct Various Joshua Johnston Robert Mitchison, sailer & David Flett, sailer et al Various scraps of letters, etc. including sigatures for Robert Laing & Marjory Crafts p  
2.5.14 1747 6-Jan Scroll Vendition & Disposition   Capt.Daniel, clerk to Patrick Ewing Part document only.  Refers, inter alia, to rigging & tackle for a ship. p  
2.5.15 1785 18-Apr Statement of Account Mary Halcro, spouse to William Sands Joshua Johnston … tutorial curator nominate to William Halcro Statement of her proportion of taxes due for 'room & lands of Gear' liferented by her totaling £40.1.5 for year 1783 offset by rent & other revenue, leaving a balance due of £22.19.11 p  
2.5.16 1783 6-Feb Receipt Joshua Johnston Cicilia Halcro Received £7.1.5 for a bond.  Also recd £4 Stg from my sister, Mrs Sands p  
2.5.17 1778 23-Jan Receipt Joshua Johnston William Sands Payment from Andrew Cruikshank (?) of £188.13.0 & receipt for payment p  
2.5.18 1778 23-Jan Unaddressed Letter Joshua Johnston Mary Halcro & William Sands Discharge of a debt of 500 marks Scots money due under a disposition 'by my father to my brother' dated 13 March 1758 p  
2.5.19 1776 12-Oct Receipt Joshua Johnston Will Watt £25.4.6 Scots money being balance of stipend due to deceased Mr John Reid, late minister of Orphir p  
2.5.20 1776 5-Oct Letter Joshua Johnston Will Watt Concerning sending a discharge on 'stampt paper' and the cost thereof p  
2.5.21 1773 13-Nov Letter Joshua Johnston Will Watt Received 8 Guineas to account of Mr Reid p  
2.5.22 1796 4-Feb Statement of Account Cicilia Halcro William Young, writer Stromness Statement of expenses totaling £21.4.11 for Cicilia Halcro's a/c since Oct. 1792, offset against two payments of £20 awarded by Court of Session, leaving a balance due of £18.15.1. p  
2.5.23 1796 4-Feb Receipt Cicilia Halcro William Young, writer Stromness £2.18.11 'as the balance of an account due'. p  
2.5.24 1773 11-Nov Receipt Joshua Johnston Will Watt £6.6.- Stg 'to the a/c of a debt due by Wm Halcro of Coubister to Mr Reid, Minister of Orphir p  
2.5.25 1772 27-Jan Discharged receipt Andrew Cruikshank Joshua Johnston  £4.4.- Stg for a/c of Coubister for payment to Dr Robert Groat, also one guinea to Wm Burrick (?) p  
2.5.26 1794 24-Sep Statement of Payments Cicilia Halcro   Payments totalling £150 as her one third share of Coubister Estate p  
2.5.27 1763 4-Apr Statement of Account William Halcro of Coubister Thomas Balfour, merchant Statement of purchases totaling £59.5.8¾ made by Wm Halcro since Dec. 1761 offset against purchase of kelp from Coubister Estate, leaving a balance due carried forward of £28.9.7½ p  
2.5.28 1761 31-Dec Statement of Account William Halcro of Coubister Thomas Balfour, merchant Statement of purchases totaling £68.2.2½ made by Wm Halcro since April 1760 offset against purchase of kelp from Coubister Estate, leaving a balance due carried forward of £16.16.1 p  
2.5.29 1767 28-May Statement of Account William Halcro of Coubister Thomas Balfour, merchant Statement of purchase of sundries by Wm Halcro totaling £16.12.6 made in Aug. 1762 & May 1767.  p  
2.5.30 1767 26-May Statement of Account William Halcro of Coubister Thomas Balfour, merchant Statement of purchases totaling £135.13.9 made by Wm Halcro since Jan. 1765 offset against purchase of kelp from Coubister Estate, leaving a balance due carried forward of £96.5.10½ p  
2.5.31 1767 10-Aug Statement of Account William Halcro of Coubister Thomas Balfour, merchant Statement of cash payments totaling £7.18.- made by Wm Halcro since Aug. 1766 offset against various purchase of yarn totaling £4.7.3¼, leaving a balance due carried forward of £3.10.8¾ p  
2.5.32 1767 6-May Contract for the making of kelp  Thomas Balfour, merchant William Halcro of Coubister From the 1 Jan. 1774 for 9 years for ten pounds sterling per year.  Additional kelp over 30 tons per 3 years to be paid at rate of 12/6d sterling per ton p  
2.5.33 1770 16-Jun Statement of Account William Halcro of Coubister Thomas Balfour, merchant Statement of expenses for making kelp from Coubister Estate for 3 years from May 1767 offset against payments for kelp, leaving a balance due carried forward of £78.12.7 p  
2.5.34 1774 16-Apr Letter Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour Concerning the contracts negotiated with William Halcro for burning of kelp on Coubister Estate p  
2.5.35 1774 21-Mar Letter Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour Referring to account of 16 June 1770 & requesting payment of balance due at 1 Nov. last of £56.18.0½ . p  
2.5.36 1774 30-Apr Letter Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour Agreed to resubmit account with 'docqueting' & pleading lack of money ! p  
2.5.37 1775 6-May Letter Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour Enclosing duplicate of current account & explaining why 'other account you mention' can not be submitted before Martinmas 1776.  p  
2.5.38 1777 17-May Letter Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour Agreeing to pay £1.17.6 for excess 3 tons of kelp above 30 tons in seasons 1774, 1775 & 1776. p  
2.5.39 1778 27-Jun Letter Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour Agreeing to make out account 'with Coubister's executors agreeable to the contracts' but 'long absence has given me so much to do ….' p  
2.5.40 1779 20-Feb Letter Joshua Johnston John Urquhart junr for Mr Thomas Balfour Balfour laid up with the gout but 'expects to see you in Kirkwall ….. so you may settle for the rockrent for the kelp burnt on Coubister Estate'. p  
2.5.41 1782 27-Dec Letter Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour Sending abstract of current account with balance due of £45.19.4 which paid to Mr Lindsay in part payment of Superior duty due of £55 for year 1781 & preceeding.  Also sendind 'docqueting on said account' for approval. p  
2.5.42 1782 2-Nov Letter Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour Agreeing to prepare accounts, 'the balance to be paid to Mr Lindsay as you desire'. p  
2.5.43 1784 14-Feb Statement of Account Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour For shipment of 3 tons 11 cwt of kelp to Newcastle on board the sloop Two Brothers, Hary Cruikshank master, sold to James King & Co. @ £5 per ton, realising £14.17.5 after £3.4.11½ expenses. p  
2.5.44 1783 12-Apr Letter Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour Sending duplicate witnessed copies of the current account for countersignature & return. p  
2.5.45 1783 8-Mar Letter Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour Sending extract of Coubister's bond, copy of 'docquetting' on our account & duplicates of current account.  Also kelp instruments delivered by Nicol Sclater & Andrew Robertson, price £1.1.5. p  
2.5.46 1783 3-Jan Letter Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour Describing the history of Balfour's financial dealings with Coubister with regard to harvesting kelp.  Also sending copy of Coubister's original bond for annulment. p  
2.5.47 1785 5-Apr Statement of Account Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour Appears to be an account relating to shipment of kelp, but difficult to decipher. p  
2.5.48 1786 20-Jul Letter Joshua Johnston Thomas Balfour Enquiring whether Johnston will have kelp this season & offering to provide ships to transport it to market. p  
2.5.49 1783 mid-Jan. draft or copy of letter Thomas Balfour Joshua Johnston Questioning various matters concerning the current account & returning the account and docquet. p  
2.5.50 1809 15-Jan Copy of letter Hary Davidson, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh John Johnston, Stromness Concerning his & his mother's powers over the Estate of Coubister and questioning whether the division of the Estate that lately took place might be set aside. p  
2.5.51 1776 14-May Attested Copy of Disposition dated 13 Mar. 1758 Hugh Halcro, surgeon, my only lawful son William Halcro of Coubister Original catalogues the lands & properties comprising the Coubister Estate & itemises an heritable bond for £268 Sterling provided by William Honeyman of Graemsay. Witnesses to copy include Wm Halcro of Bea & John Johnston age 16 p  
2.5.52 1775 31-Aug Statement of Account Joshua Johnston William Lindsay of Caldale Account current showing a debt of £43.18.- payable by Coubister in Feb. 1767, with various amounts of interest, settled by cash payments in 1769 & 1772 leaving a balance carried forward of £15.19.2  p  
2.5.53 1778 14-Dec Statement of Account Joshua Johnston William Lindsay of Caldale Extention of above account current leaving a balance carried forward of £17.4.3 p  
2.5.54 1785 15-Nov Statement of Account Joshua Johnston William Lindsay of Caldale Extention of above account current offset by payments in cash & kind but without totals p  
2.5.55 1778 14-Dec Invoice & Receipts Joshua Johnston William Lindsay of Caldale Receipts in kind from Mary Hay & from Wm Halcro in Swanbuster for Joshua Johnston p  
2.5.56 1786 24-Mar Letter & Statement of Account Joshua Johnston William Lindsay of Caldale Probably an updated account to that in 2.5.54 but with a total of £23.4.10, leaving a balance carried forward of £8.9.4. p  
2.5.57 1785 8-Mar Receipts Joshua Johnston William Lindsay of Caldale 3 receipts in kind from Wm Halcro & John Clouston, both of Swanbuster, & Andrew Robertson, Orphir, all for Joshua Johnston. p  
2.5.58 1782 21-Oct Statement of Account Joshua Johnston William Lindsay of Caldale Extention of above accounts, probably an interim statement to that in 2.5.56.  Balance due at 6 Mar. 1781 £16.8.2. p  
2.5.59 1790 2-Feb Statement of Account Joshua Johnston William Lindsay of Caldale Another version of account current leaving a balance due of £5.10.10½. p  
2.5.60 1783 15-Jul Receipts Joshua Johnston William Lindsay of Caldale Receipts in kind from Peter Garroch, George Halcro & others for Joshua Johnston p  
2.5.61 1781 5-Apr Receipts Joshua Johnston William Lindsay of Caldale Receipts in kind from Magnus Flett, Robt Wishart, Magnus Lennie & others for Joshua Johnston p  
2.5.62 ~1781 undated Deed Andrew Cruikshank Joshua Johnston, Margaret Halcro & others Purpose uncertain but probably security for £350 heritable bond granted to Coubister Estate by Andrew Cruikshank.  Contains detailed listing of Coubister Estate properties, tenants & rentals.       NB A total of 54 pages but even then appears to be incomplete. (See p12 for indication of date). p  

 

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