Aberdeen Council Register: volume 71 - extract dated 19 December 1822 COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 25v - 27r Council meeting, 19 December 1822 [Sederunt given] The Council allocated aid from the Poor's Fund to the following applicants: John Chrystal, merchant - £8 John McHattie, merchant - £6 per warrant, to be paid to his son Alexander Clark, merchant - £5, to be paid to his wife James Bishop, carver and gilder - £5 James Harthill, merchant - £5 per warrant James McConachie, mason - £5 Alexander Stewart, merchant - £4 David Farquhar, Burgess - £4 Mary Murdoch, grand-daughter of John Pittendrigh, Burgess - £4 bursary Jean Forsyth, widow of William Cruickshank, hosier - £6 Mary Shepherd, grand-daughter of Alexander Davidson, Burgess - £3 per warrant Barbara Smith, daughter of Alexander Smith, Burgess - £5 Mary Wilson, widow of Alexander Black, Burgess - £3 Margaret Watson, widow of William Smith, merchant - two bursaries of £3 each for her children Mary Smith, daughter of George Smith, merchant - the benefit of the revenue arising from Mr Walter Cochrane's mortification, that is £3, being a relation of the mortifier The two grand-children of the late Mr James Cromar, sometime Rector of the Grammar School - £4 bursary Elizabeth Black, daughter of William Black, stocking-manufacturer - £3 per warrant Isobel and Jean Nairn, daughters of Captain William Nairn, Burgess - two bursaries of £3 each William Nicol, merchant, Aberdeen - £4 per warrant Mary Emslie, widow of George Cruickshank, Burgess and late stabler - £4 Margaret Watson, daughter of William Watson, Burgess - £4 bursary The following pensioners were granted additional sums to their existing pensions from the Poor's Fund: William Selbie, merchant - £2 Margaret Garden, widow of John Garden, merchant - £3 Mary Mitchell, widow of George Mitchell, druggist - £2 Isobel Smith, widow of John Jamieson - £5 Baillie William Shepherd - £4 Alexander Chivas, Burgess - £1 Robert Spark, merchant - £3 Elspet Coutts, widow of James Maitland, candlemaker - £2 Margaret Chessar, daughter of James Chessar, sometime Burgess - £1 John Gill, shipbuilder - £4 The Council directed all other pensions from the Town's Funds to be continued unaltered. (25v - 26v) The Master of Mortifications, in relation to Jean Guild's mortification to poor orphans in 1773 and subsequent conveyances of tenements on the north side of the Schoolhill, was authorised to assign a surplus feu duty of £5 3 shillings 4 pence affecting one of the said properties, belonging to the late Gilbert More, now to the Misses Thomson, in favour of the trustees of George More, merchant in Aberdeen. (26v - 27r) 1822