Articles of roup, tacks, letters, obligations, reports and other miscellaneous papers connected with the town of Perth’s wood and woodyards, 1784-1799

• Reference:GB 252 PE/46/13/Bundle1
• Dates of Creation:1784-1799

• Scope and Content

  Includes:

  Articles and conditions of roup and sale of “several quantities of growing oak wood in the Burrow Muir” belonging to the town of Perth; 1784.

  Valuation of oak wood to be cut and sold in the Burrow Muir; 1784.

  Valuation of the oak wood in the Burrow Muir by John Scott and John MacRitchie, “previous to the sale”; 1787.

  Articles of roup of oak wood in the Burrow Muir; 1787.

  Articles of roup of oak wood in the Burrow Muir; 1788.

  Valuation of four lots of oak wood in the town’s wood; 1790.

  Articles of roup and decreet of preference of several quantities of oakwood belonging to the town of Perth in the Burrow Muir; 1790.

  Obligations to be seized by the possessors of the wood yard in the Mount; 1790.

  Letter from George Sandeman, Perth to Patrick Miller, chamberlain of Perth informing him that Mr James Balmain has marked out ten roods of ground on the South Inch on his behalf and promising to pay 2/- for each rood yearly for at least three years; 30 October 1790.

  Tack between the town of Perth and John Campbell and Andrew Davidson for part of the mount “consisting of 67 roods” divided from the other lots of ground there for the purpose of wood yards; 1790.

  List of offers made at a roup of a sett of the wood yards; 1793.

  Plan of the wood yards in the Mount by Andrew Buist; 1793.

  Articles of roup and decreet of preferences of oak wood belonging to the town of Perth in the Burrow Muir; 1793.

  Articles of roup and decreet of preference of a sett and tack for three years of the wood yards in the Mount; 1793-1796.

  Articles and conditions of roup and sale of a quantity of fir, ash, elm and other wood in the Burrow Muir belonging to the town; 1798.

  Roup roll of oak sold; 1799.

  Report relative to the town’s wood; 1799.

  Articles of roup of a sett for three years of the wood yard in the Mount; 1799.

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