| Description | Council meeting, 3 July 1809
[Sederunt given]
The Council elected Provost More as Commissioner and Baillie Shepherd as his Assessor to the Convention of Royal Burghs in Edinburgh in July 1809. (109r)
Following the visit to Aberdeen in May of Mr Thomas Telford, the Council considered it advisable to appoint a committee comprising the Provost, Provost Brebner, Baillie Shepherd, Baillie Galen, the Treasurer Mr Hogarth, the Shoremaster Mr Gibbon and Baillie Tower, or any five of them (the Provost to be Convener) to oversee the operations within the Harbour. (109r - 109v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates the petition from the inhabitants of the loch area requesting the loch be contracted or altered to do away with its disagreeable appearance and noxious effects on the neighbourhood. (109v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates, Dean of Guild, Treasurer and Provost Brebner, or any three of them, consideration of the application from John Saunders, merchant in Aberdeen, to purchase the Executioner's house. (109v - 110r)
The Clerk Depute reported that the Treasurer had on 20 June 1809 borrowed and granted bond for £700 from the Rev George Ross Monro, Minister of Huntly, payable to him and Mrs Agnes Milne, his spouse in conjunct fee and liferent [further terms given]; £290 from Janet Begg, spouse to John Cordiner in Edinbanchory, exclusive of the jus mariti of her husband; £50, the interest payable on 20 June, to Catharine Farquharson, spouse to John Gordon, residing in Aberdeen, for the period of her life, thereafter the principal sum to be divided between her two sons John and Peter, exclusive of the jus mariti of her husband; £400 from Captain Lewis Gellie, Greenock, the interest to Helen Gellie residing in Aberdeen, for the duration of her life, thereafter one half to James Maitland, writer in Aberdeen, and one half to Helen Hyde, widow of Robert Turnbull, shipmaster in Aberdeen, and Elizabeth Hyde, spouse to James Forbes, saddler in Aberdeen, exclusive of his jus mariti.
Bills and for the relevant sums had also been issued to the following persons with 1 year's interest payable on 20 June 1810:
Miss Jean Grant, residing inAberdeen - £700
Dr George French, Aberdeen - £300
John Davidson in Stonehouse of Inverury - £250
Mrs Christian McGregor, Footdee - £200
David Robertson, Bridge of Dee - £210
George Downie in Ord of Strathdon - £100
Patrick Mitchell in Bogheads of New Machar - £130
George Duncan, gardener at Foveran - £70
Alexander Weir at Parkhill - £120
The Kirk Session of Belhelvie - £100
William Dickson in Rynavean of Strathdon - £160
Isaac Grant in Blackmill of Coldstone - £50
Miss Mary Hamilton, Aberdeen - £50
Rev Charles Gordon, Aberdeen - £150
Miss Isabel Leonard, Aberdeen - £100
John Hunter residing in Aberdeen - £200
The Kirk Session of Keithhall - £120
The Treasurer of St Machar's Lodge - £200
William Cruickshank at Mill of Cobairdy - £160
Ann Ross, residing in Aberdeen - £25
Jean Gibbon, residing in Aberdeen - £32
Andrew Fowler in Broadiach - £200
William Cruickshank in Millside - £100
Mrs Ann Reid residing in Aberdeen - £100
Dr Ogilvie, Minister at Midmar - £200
James Brown, merchant in Banff - £400
Thomas Pirie, feuer at Cotton - £50
James Hervie in Kirktown of Kinellar - £30
Helen Abel in Old Aberdeen - £42
George Philp in Buckie of New Machar - £70
Richard McLean, wood sawer - £117
Alexander Martin, flesher at Bridge of Dee - £70
William Milne in Easter Carnie - £200
William Smith in Culter - £50
Robert Ross in Old Aberdeen - £100
William Ronald in Inveramsay - £200
The Wright Friendly Society of Chapel of Garioch, in addition to £70 already due - £25
Alexander Galen for the executors of the late John Burnett, in addition to £300 - £500
Peter Joss in Mill of Lethenty, in addition to £600 - £16
Mr Watson, Minister of Tarland, in addition to £200 - £200
William Middleton in Chapel of Garioch, in addition to £20 - £30
George Ronald in Inveramsay, in addition to £100 - £20
Alexander Ronald in Inveramsay, in addition to £400 - £100
James Rust at Cotton, in addition to £80 - £65
William Rust in Todhill, in addition to £110 - £40
Alexander Allan, fisher in Torrie, in addition to £50 - £10
Isabel Wilson in Aberdeen, in addition to £120 - £20
William Johnston, merchant in Banff, in addition to £600 - £300
John Drummie in addition to £65 - £10
James Mackie at Mill of Potts, in addition to £250 - £80
John Donald, merchant in Aberdeen, in addition to £1000 - £10
John Melvin in Lethenty, in addition to £140 - £10
John Taws in Inverernan, in addition to £100 - £100
James Paterson, Aberdeen - £200
The Clerk Depute also reported that the Shoremaster had on 20 June 1809 borrowed the following monies and granted bonds for the following sums; £1200 from William Cruden Esq, Captain in the First Regiment of Royal Tower Hamlets Militia, son of the late William Cruden Esq, sometime Provost of Aberdeen, interest to be paid half yearly on 1 January and 1 July to Mrs Mary Hadley or Cruden, widow of Thomas Cruden, brother of the said Captain William Cruden, during her life and remaining a widow; £1200 from Mrs Elizabeth Urquhart, widow of the late Adam Urquhart Esq of Byth, interest to be paid on 20 June 1810; £700 from Mr John Baxter residing in Aberdeen, interest to be paid on 20 June 1810.
The Council approved the Treasurer and Shoremaster having borrowed these sums. (110r - 112r) |