| Description | Papers relating to the efforts of the gentlemen of the county of Aberdeen to keep public order and deal with disorder in Highland districts, including correspondence between Presbytery of Kincardine O'Neil and Lord Albemarle assuring them of action by troops to disarm Highlanders and offering troops if adequate quarters can be found for them, December 1746;
Proposals from Lieutenant General Blakney commanding forces in North Britain to gentlemen of Aberdeen and northern counties of arrangements for provision of troops, October 1747;
Letters from Farquharson of Invercauld, Ham. Bland referring to proposals to repair Braemar castle to lodge troops, road from Aberdeen to Braemar, disarming of potential trouble-makers etc., with memorials concerning depredations on county by Highlanders stealing horses and cattle, pillaging houses, advocating raising of law-keeping forces among law-abiding Highlanders and to disarm named local highlanders first, 1748. |