Melvill of Easter Greenside
- Reference:GB 252 B59/39/2
- Dates of Creation:1642-1857
- Language of Material:English
Scope and Content
Papers relating to Melvill family of Easter Greenside: Legal and other documents including dispositions, assignations and tacks, 1673-1801, marriage contracts and testaments, 1675-1748, services and sasines, 1712-1775; Accounts, 1712-1775; Papers of David Melvill, 1699-1721, Charles Melvill, 1726-1787, and Charles Melvill junior, 1779-1816; Family correspondence, 1725-1815; Papers relative to the compulsory purchase of Wester Greenside, 1767-1771; Cash book for David Melvill, 1767-1791; Papers relating to the estates of various members of the Melvill family, 1776-1794; Memorandum books, rentals, accounts and letters relating to the lands of Easter Greenside, Abernethy, 1767-1820; Papers relating to David Melvill, Perth, 1785-1792, and Helen Melvill, daughter of Charles Melvill senior, 1785-1816; Papers relating to the administration of the Melvill Trust, including rental of Greenside, 1822; Other family papers, 1642-1857.Papers relating to Abernethy: Lists of bailies and councillors, rolls of heritors and burgesses, division of the Common Hill of Abernethy, and division of commonty of Carpow, 1772-1820Papers relating to the Gardiner family of Easthaugh and the Tais family: Discharges, accounts and miscellaneous legal documents, 1695-1779; Letters on legal matters from members of the family and others to Charles Tais and Charles Melvill, 1698-1744; Legal and other documents concerning Janet Gardiner, 1711-1762; Material relating to the Tais family especially to Charles Tais, 1703-1741. Papers relating to the Faichney family of Perth: Dispositions, assignations and tacks, 1726-1790; Marriage contracts, 1727-1728; Accounts and discharges, 1741-1791; Letters and other papers, 1726-1819; Roup roll of the effects of the late Rev John Faichney, minister of Collace, 1773.Plans of the roads Abernethy to Aberargie, Culfargie and Carie Boat, 1767-1768; List of heritors, elders and heads of families in Scone parish, 1747.
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