| Description | Papers concerning Culter House, water engines, maps, legal and estate matters, parliamentary decrees, memorandums, bonds, deeds, , and appeals, with accounts, bills and vouchers of Sir Alexander Cumming of Culter.
Includes a petition in french from Jean Theophile Desaguliers, Daniel Niblet and Guillaume Vreem regarding water raising engine
Includes drawings of wind engine and engine to raise water, with notes and plans of gardens, list of tenants, and list of books held
Correspondents include Alexander Jaffrey, Peter Sinclair, Jean Theophile Desaguliers, Thomas Player, Robert Sandorsin, Thomas Freeman, Johana Hamilton, John Collins, James Cheyne, Alexander Gordon, John Ogilvie, Alexander Irvine, Alexander Campbell, George White, Major George Skene, James Graham, George Gordon, William Lewis, Francis Gillendon, James Cuming, Edward Culloch, William Johnston, Thomas Edwards, William Hayward, Arthur Biggs, George Lockhart.
Bundle 1:
Advertisements, accounts, lists of tenants, petitions to House of Peers
Bundle 2:
asbtract of a meeting of the Council of Rotterdam to discuss establishing a company of insurance, July 1720 with paper listing conditions of the said company (in Dutch); account book, 1729
Bundle 3:
Rentals, memorial for John Hutton, master of the Concord (1713); Major General George Hamilton's Petition to House of Commons (1710); letter to Alexander Cumming from Barbados Secretary's Office complaining of treatment under Governor Lowther (1713); letter from George Lockart re convention of royal burghs, (1713)
Bundle 4:
accounts and letters from Alexander Jaffray, Kingswells (1720); bonds and assignations of Sir Alexander Cumming (1706 - 1707)
Bundle 5:
Letters patent, acts and queries concerning raising water by fire (1719)
Bundle 6:
Official papers including a petition and reply to Robert Panton, merchant in Rotterdam, concerning stocks in the East India Company and money owed by Alexander Cuming; a memorial for Mr. James Fergusson of Pitfour (1724);
Information for the Viscount of Arbuthnot against John Arbuthnot of Forden and Thomas Arbuthnot, merchant in Edinburgh, a petition of Alexander Cuming to James Fergusson concerning the acquisition of South Sea stocks, a proposal for erecting a society and raising stock to be employed in purchasing and improving estates, estimate of the poor's rate in Great Britain |