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Country code |
GB |
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Repository code |
234 |
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Organisation |
NAS |
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Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
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Reference |
GD170/772 |
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Title |
Letter from Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochnell to Barcaldine, his cousin. |
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Dates |
1722-1738 |
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Access status |
Open |
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Description |
Dated at Lochnell.
1722, July 5. "You may assure yourself nothing can give me more uneasines then to have any disputes of marches with any nieghbour much lesse with on I have so great a lyking to ..." He strongly advocates that the status quo should prevail until they can meet to discuss the question fully.
1722, November 30. "Having unexpectedly come this lenth and meeting Archibald Campbell and John McDougall drovars here I gott eightie pound Sterline from [them] to prevent the trouble of my sending hither upon my returne, and being told they had of your effects I hope ye'll be easie for a feu days till my Brother James ... beis come from Ardnamurchin ..."
1728/9, February 27. Wishes access for his party to House of Derribeg as they cannot get bread 'without being oppressed and oppressive to those who furnish them'.
1734, January 3. Asking recipient to act as his agent, to obtain from the Earl of Breadalbane's woods at Ardmaddie six or eight hundred young fir-trees for completing a plantation behind his (the writer's) house |
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Level |
File |
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Extent |
9 letters and an answer |
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