| Description | The 1712 valuation dates from an Act of Council of 9 April 1712 which ordered a valuation of properties, mills and fishings within the burgh in accordance with the 1712 Land Tax Act. The resulting stent roll lists proprietors of taxable land within each Quarter, the crofts and roods, fishings, Footie and the Freedom Lands, along with their occupations and the contribution to Aberdeen's Land Tax payable from each property.
A transcription of it has added to this catalogue. It gives the names and occupations of individuals, however, the whereabouts of properties are not indicated beyond their location in one of the four Quarters of the Burgh: the Footdee, Green, Crooked and Even Quarters.
While forenames and occupations have been modernised and their spellings standardised, all surnames and place-names have been rendered as they
appear in the original document. |