| Description | Volume containing accounts of intromissions of Messrs. John and Anthony Blaikie, Advocates, Aberdeen as factors for parliamentrary trustees under Cairness Estate Act and also of general estate in Scotland and elsewhere, including Georgia plantation in Jamaica for the trustees of the late General Thomas Gordon, crops 1856-1858. Rentals of Cairness, Invernorth, St. Combs and grass parks for crops 1856, 1857 and 1858 are also given as appendices to each year’s accounts.
The volume, measuring 38 x 25.5 cm., is bound in heavy marble boards and half calf and labelled on front board in gold: ‘Cairness Account Book No. 2’. Contains 382 pages plus endpapers and flyleaves. Only 188 pages have been used, the remainder of the volume is blank.
[Originally MS 1160/1-3: Lists and notes in another hand enclosed in above on papers and writs relating to lands of Cairnglass, Cairness, Lonmay (when held by Frasers, Ogilvies and others), inventory of titles relating to lands of Buthlaw and Thunderton, extracts from disposition of Charles Gordon to his aunt and mother in 1776, etc. Undated.] |