| Description | Miscellaneous accounts, William and Keith Urquhart, mainly for wages, fodder or victual, disbursements of factor, John Forbes; other categories include: receipt by Allan Ramsay, elder, in March 1753 for part fee for portrait of Urquhart of Meldrum, painted by his son, Allan Ramsay, younger, surgeon, apothecary, tailor, shoemaker, maltman, travelling expenses to Peterhead with Mrs Urquhart, masons, repairs by wrights, etc. in garden and to manse, law books for K. Urquhart, lime, malt, window and chaise duties, ploughing, saddler, a fowling piece, cartwright, weaver, garden seeds, dyke building, bleaching, communion elements, whiskey, blacksmith, plasterers, work at lime quarry, cloth, ewes and lambs for family use, travelling expenses of Miss Babie Forbes from Meldrum to Aberdeen. |