| Description | List of guards posted in the Burgh of Aberdeen on the night of 4th June 1765.
Transcription of document follows:
James Mackay, Watch Captain
Thomas Taylor, Lieutenant
Ben Cruickshank, Ensign
Will Hector, Mason
Will Reid, Woolcomber
Will Gibson, merchant - his servant
John Blair, Sailor
William Henry, son to James Henry, weaver
James White, woolcomber
Will Spring, Taylor
Alexander Blair, Stocking Washer
John Steven, in place of William Robertson (wounded)
John Stewart for George Bruce (wounded)
James Shaw for George [document damaged, missing] Labourer
John Gordon [document damaged, missing]
James Taws for Andrew Walker Labourer
John Raeburn for John Shinney, woolcomber
Daniel McLean, Wright
James McLean, his son
Robert Durward, wheelwright
William Laing, woolcomber
[BLANK] Burgess for John Burgess, wright
William Robertson, Tailor
Alexander Jamieson, Labourer
James Cruickshank son to James Cruickshank, weaver
William Cruickshank for Thomas Crombie, Taylor
William Annand, Plasterer
Alexander [document damaged, missing]
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