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Reference | Title | Date |
NRAS2314 | Leslie Family, of Warthill, Rayne, Aberdeenshire | 1482-1866 |
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Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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800001
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Repository
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Private
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Reference
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NRAS2314/Bundle 14
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Title
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Miscellaneous papers concerning purchase of stock, grain prices, weight of turnips produced, sheep dipping, farm management, and other farming, estate and local matters
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Dates
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1758-1879
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Access Status
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Restricted
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Access Conditions
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These records are held privately. All enquiries should be addressed to:
The Registrar National Register of Archives for Scotland HM General Register House Edinburgh EH1 3YY
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Description
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Including:
Memorial by the farmers of Garioch to a county meeting representing the difficulties to which they are subjected due to the existing corn and distillation laws and the low price of grain, 9 February 1758.
Printed address to the mothers of families on the Warthill estate respecting the opening of a female school at Braeside, 1 December 1862.
Specifications for making new roads on the lands of Warthill, February 1850.
Printed report on the `Management of a Home Farm' by James Porter, land steward at Monymusk, 1858.
Conditions and specifications for Littlefolla trenching, 12 March 1849.
Specimen specifications for building dwelling houses and steadings of offices on farms of the Warthill estate, 1866.
Estate correspondence of William Leslie of Drumrossie respecting the Bishops Moss, a claim by tenants to the use of a moss at Blackford, and other matters, 1854.
Names of members of a committee of the Highland and Agricultural Society for conducting a cattle-show at Aberdeen, 1840.
Specifications of a water-wheel and machinery for saw and threshing mills to be constructed for William Leslie of Warthill, 1875.
Letter by Thomas Hill to William Leslie enclosing a spare plan of a horizontal high-pressure steam engine (by John Cochrane, engineer, Barrhead), and giving instructions on its operation. Crichie, 10 March 1858.
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