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Will of Miss Lucy Campbell
Scotland.  Commissariat (Argyll); Register of Confirmations, 1819 - 1875
Probate Records.  Microfilm # 0488457, 1841 to 1855
(SRO 9 - 10) “Misc. 4238 - 39"

Page 81: Register of confirmations, Argyll, 1841 - 1848

The Testament Testamentary and Inventory of the goods and gear and debts of Umquhile Miss Lucy Campbell, lately residing at Dalintobar, near Campbeltown, and afterwards at Gowan Bank, at the time of her death which was when (sic) the twenty third day of January, Eighteen hundred and forty three, faithfully made and given up by John Lorne Stewart, Esquire of Glenbuckie, Lachlan MacNeillCampbell, Esquire of Kintarbert, Nathaniel Harvey, Esquire, Banker in Campbelltown, John Gordon, Esquire, Secretary to the General Assembly, Education Committee, residing in Edinburgh, Lorne Campbell, Esquire, late Chamberlain at Inveraray, now residing at Roseneably (sic) and Dugald Sinclair, Esquire, residing at Kilchamaig, Trustees and Executors nominated and appointed by the said deceased, Miss Lucy Campbell,
in a Trust Disposition and Settlement dated the Twenty ninth day of September, Eighteen hundred and forty one, and recorded in the Books of council and Session, the eighth day of February, Eighteen hundred and forty three, conform to Extract thereof herein after inserted  -

The said Umquhile Miss Lucy Campbell had, pertaining and belonging, addebted, resting and owing to her at the time of her decease, the goods and gear, debts, sums of money and others as follows, which the said Executors give up for confirmation as follows,

Primo Cash in the house
One hundred and eighty six pounds, nine shillings and six pence Sterling  £ 189.  9.  6

Secundo, Principal sum in Deposit Receipt of the Royal Bank of Scotland, dated “Glasgow, 5 October, 1844"
Six thousand, six hundred and fifty pounds                                                 £6,650. ,, . ,,
Interest thereon, from said date to 23d January, 1843
Two hundred and eighty three pounds, 15/5d      £  283.  15.  3        (£ 6933.  15.  3)

Tertio   Principal sum in Deposit Receipt of the Bank of Scotland, dated “Glasgow, 5 October, 1841)
Four thousand pounds Sterling                        £ 4000.  0.
Interest Thereon from said date to 23d January, 1843
One hundred and sixty four pounds, 2/2d       £ 164.   2.   2                     £ 4164.  2.  2
 

Quarto Principal Sum in deposit receipt of the British Linen Co., dated “Glasgow 4th April, 1842"
Four thousand and seventy two pounds, 17/6     £ 4072.  17.  6
Interest thereon from said date to 23rd January 1843
Ninety two pounds nine Shillings and nine pence    £ 92.   9.   9             £ 4165.   7.   3

Quinto Principal sum in Interest Receipt of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, dated “Campbelltown, 6 December 1842"
Eight thousand, five hundred pounds Sterling               £ 8500.
Interest thereon, from said date to 23rd January, 1843
Twenty seven pounds, 18/10        £  27.  18.  10                                   £ 8527.  18.  10

Sexto Principal sum ranked (?) in the Sequestrated estate of the Renfrewshire Banking Company
Nine thousand and four pounds, 15/ 8d, whereon a dividend of  £ 1013.  0.  9d was paid to deceased, and of which no more than 5/9 per £ additional is extracted (sic) hereafter from said Estate, or
Two thousand, five hundred and eighty eight pounds, 17/6                 £2,588.  17.   6

Septimo Value of the deceased’s Household furniture, plate, linen, china, books &etc
Six hundred and ninety five pounds, 16/3                          £ 695.  16.   3

Octavo Value of the deceased wearing apparel,
Twenty five pounds                       £25.   .

Novo Value of the deceased’s watch, gold chain and appendages
Thirteen pounds Sterling    £13.   .   .

Decemo Value of the deceased’s jewels, &etc,
Sixteen pounds, fifteen shillings and six pence   £16.  15.   6

Undecimo Value of the deceased’s Wine and other liquors
Four pounds 3/ £4.   3.

Duodecim Value of the deceased’s carriage and Harness &etc
Sixty five pounds 6/ £65.  6.

Tredecim   Principal sum contained in personal Bond of the late Colonel Mathew MacAlister of Bar, to the deceased dated 8 November 1817
Four thousand pounds Sterling      £4,000.
Interest thereon from 11 November 1841 to 23d January, 1843, at 4 percent
One hundred and ninety one pounds, 18/6        £ 191.  18.   6                £4191.  18.   6
Decimo Quarto Principal sum contained in personal Bond of the late Robert Campbell, Esquire of Ardchattan, to the deceased, dated 26 November 1817
One thousand pounds                                £ 1000.
Interest thereon from 11th November, 1842 to 23rd January, 1843, at 4 per cent
Eight pounds   £8                                     £ 1008.   .

Decimo Sexto Principal sum in Personal bond of George MacNeal, Esquire of Ugadale, to the deceased, dated 16th May, 1831
One thousand pounds  £1,000
Interest thereon from 1 June 1841 to 23rd January 1843 @ 5 per cent
Five pounds and 7 pence        £ 5.   7.                                                          £1005.  7.

Decimo Octavo Value of a cow belonging to the deceased
Eight pounds, eight shilling                                                                              £ 8.   8.
Summa Inventory
Thirty five thousand, six hundred and seventy pounds, eighteen shillings and four pence Sterling

                                                                                    £ 35, 670.   18.  4

(Follows copy Extract Registered Trust, Disposition and settlement above referred to)

At Edinburgh, the eighth day of February in the year One thousand eight hundred and forty three, in the presence of the Lords of Council and Session
Compeared James Moncreiff, Esquire, Advocate, as Procurator for Miss Lucy Campbell afterdesigned and gave in the Trust Disposition and Settlement underwritten desiring that the same might be registered in their Lordships’ Books conform to law, Which desire the said Lords found reasonable, and ordained the same to be done accordingly, whereof the tenor follows.

I, Miss Lucy Campbell, lately residing at Dalintober near Campbeltown, now at Gowan Bank, being resolved to settle my affairs, and having confidence in the persons afternamed, for executing the Trust hereinafter reposed in them
Do therefore hereby Give, Grant, Assign, Dispone, Convey and Make over to, and in favor of,
John Lorne Stewart, Esquire of Glenbuckie
Lachlan MacNeill Campbell, Esquire of Kintarbert
Nathaniel Harvey, Esquire, Banker in Campbeltown/ and failing him by death,
David Colville, Esquire, Writer in Campbeltown/
John Gordon, Esquire, Secretary to the General Assembly, Education Committee,
Lorne Campbell, Esquire, Chamberlain in Inveraray, and
Dugald Sinclair, Esquire, Kilchamaig

and to the Survivors or survivor of them who shall accept, but that always in Trust for the ends, uses and purposes herein after mentioned, and declaring that a majority of my said Trustees accepting and surviving, shall at all times form a quorum for executing the purpose of this Trust, and to the assignees of the said Trustees or Trustee,
All and Sundry lands and heritages, debts, heritable and moveable, and whole goods, gear, sums of money, Bonds, Bills; money in the Public Funds Banks, Receipts, and effects, and in general, my whole means and estate heritable and moveable, of whatever denomination, or wherever situated, presently belonging, or which shall belong to me at the time of my death, with the whole vouchers, instructions and conveyances of the said debts, and the writs and evidents of my said Heritable Estate

And in particular,
All and whole, my right and Interest during the whole years yet to run in a Tack dated the twenty ninth day of November, Eighteen hundred and twenty eight, and tenth and seventeenth days of February, Eighteen hundred and twenty nine, and registered in the Books of Session, the ninth of March, same year, entered into betwixt his Grace, George William, Duke of Argyll, Proprietor of the ground after described, with consent of Charles Selkrig, Esquire, Accountant in Edinburgh, his Trustee on the one part,.
By which the said Duke, with consent foresaid,
Let to me, my heirs and assignees on the other part, for the space for payment of the Tack Duty, and under the conditions therein specified
All and Whole that Lot or piece of ground situated
on the East side of the Burgh of Campbeltown, consisting of Three Thousand one hundred and fifty five yards one foot, or thereby marked on the plan of the said Duke’s Building ground number five,  and bounded as follows, vizt.,
On the east , of the road leading along the shore from Campbeltown to Kilkerran,
on the North, by Lot Number Six of the said Building ground possessed by the said Nathaniel Harvey
on the West, by the proposed continuation of Argyll Street, and on
the South, by Lot number Four, of the said Building ground then still unoccupied
all lying in the Burgh and Parish of Campbeltown and Shire of Argyll,
together with the Dwelling house and whole other Buildings on the said piece of ground
with power to do every other thing under the said Tack which I might have done myself.

Farther all and Whole, the sum of Six thousand Pounds Sterling being the Balance remaining due to me, of the sum of Eight thousand pounds, contained in a Bond and Disposition in security, dated the twenty eighth day of July, Eighteen hundred and thirty two, made and executed in my favor by John Lorne Stewart, Esquire of Knockrioch and Glenbuckie, and all interest that may be due thereon at the time of my death and that shall fall due thereafter liquidate penalties and termly failures, as specified in the Said Bond.  As Also, the Lands conveyed by the Said Bond and Disposition to me in Security of the said sums, vizt., All and whole, the Three merkland of Knockriochby, now called Buainmore, and which lands comprehend the lands of High Knockrioch and Tomaig and Laigh, or Low Knockrioch and Park all lying in the Parish of Kilkerran, Lordship of Campbeltown and Shire of Argyll,  and that in rent security, and for payment to the said Trustees, and their foresaids of the foresaid(sic?) Sum of  Six thousand pounds, being the balance remaining due of the said Bond Interest due, and to become due therein liquidate penalty and termly failures corresponding thereto if incurred together with the said Bond and Disposition in security itself whole clauses and powers therein contained and Instrument of Sasine following therein in my favor dated thirtieth of July, and recorded in the General Register of Sasines, the fourth of August, Eighteen hundred and thirty two, and all that has followed, or is competent to follow on the same forever

And I do hereby nominate and appoint my said Trustees, the said
John Lorn Stewart, Lauchlan MacNeill Campbell, Nathaniel Harvey (whom failing, the said David Colville), John Gordon, Lorne Campbell and Dugald Sinclair, and the survivors or survivor of them,  who shall accept to be my Executors and sole intromitters, with my personal Estate and effects, with all the usual powers, hereby including all others from the said office

But declaring always that these presents are grants in trust, with the instructions and for the uses, ends and purposes following, vizt.,

First, it is my wish to be buried at Gartnagrenoch, Parish of Kilcalmonell, in the Tomb of my Uncle in law, the late Reverend Archibald MacNeill, Minister of that Parish,
and that my said Trustees shall as soon as possible after my decease, pay all my just and lawful debts, deathbed and funeral Expenses.

Second, my Trustees shall out of my means and estate, pay the whole expence of carrying these presents into full effect.

Third, I direct my said Trustees to dispone, assign and make over to Colonel Thomas Campbell, son of the late Patrick Campbell, Esquire of Ardchattan, the forsaid Tack and House, Garden and Building, on the said piece of ground, with my Household furniture, Plate, China, Bed and Table Linen and plenishing thereon, and  failing the said Thomas Campbell, to Robert Clark, Esquire of Comrie and his heirs.

Fourth, I do hereby direct my said Trustees to make payment and delivery of the legacies and Bequests hereinafter specified, and of all other which I may direct, by any writing under my hand, vizt

I leave to my said Trustees who shall accept of this trust, the sum of Four hundred pounds each

I leave to Colonel Alexander Campbell of Ardchattan, the contents of his sons’ Bond to me for Five thousand pounds and all interest due thereon at my decease, and failing him, to his heirs;
 

I leave to Lilly Clark, daughter of the late Andrew Clark, Esquire of Comrie, and Grand daughter of the late Patrick Campbell, Esquire of Ardchattan, and to her heirs, the sum of Eight hundred pounds;
To Catharine Clark, Daughter of the said Andrew Clark, and to her heirs, the like sum of Eight hundred pounds;

To Emma Campbell, daughter of the late Laurence Campbell, Esquire, and Grand daughter of the said Patrick Campbell, the sum of Five hundred pounds, which sum I direct to be laid out in the purchase of an annuity for her by the Trustees left by her late Uncle, Robert Campbell, Esquire of Ardchattan, whose discharge for this Legacy to my said Trustees shall be sufficient;

To Hannah Clark, Daughter of the late Captain Colin Clark, and great grand Daughter of the said Patrick Campbell, and to her heirs, Four Hundred pounds;

To Mrs. Margaret Lucy Simpson, Widow of the late Hector Simpson, Merchant in Islay, and Daughter of Major Donald Campbell, the sum of Two hundred pounds
And to each of her daughters, the sum of One hundred Pounds the survivors, or survivor succeeding to the sum left to any of these persons who may predecease me.

To Miss Jane (?) Campbell, Daughter of the late Major Donald Campbell, and to her heirs, the sum of Two hundred pounds;

To Ann Lang, Widow of the late James Lang, Argyll Militia, whom failing, to her daughter, Ann Lucy, and her heirs, One hundred and fifty pounds;

To Donald Campbell, son of the late Coll Campbell, Tacksman, Tanag (?) Islay, One hundred pounds; and
To Elizabeth, Sarah, Isabella, and Marion or Meunie, his  sisters, the sum of One hundred and fifty pounds each

And in case of any of the said Donald Campbell or of his said Sisters predeceasing me without leaving lawful heirs of their body, the said sum left to such person deceasing shall be divided equally among the said sisters who may survive;

To Mrs. Ann McKenzie, Daughter of the late Dr. Samuel Crawford, Islay, and her heirs, excluding all right of her husband, and her own receipt to be sufficient, Two hundred pounds;
 

to Flora MacKay, daughter of the late Hugh MacKay, Tacksman of Leggnoch, and Granddaughter of Mr. Campbell of Ormaig, and her heirs, Two hundred pounds;
 

to Lucy Campbell Brasnell, Daughter of the late William Brasnell (?) Esquire, my Attorney in Tobago, and failing her and the heirs of her body, to her  sisters equally among them and their heirs, Five hundred pounds;

to Ann Sinclair, who has lived with me upwards of twenty years, daughter of the late Alexander Sinclair, Tacksman of Kilhamaig, and her heirs, One thousand pounds and In also leave to the said Ann Sinclair, my Gold Watch chain and appendages.

To Mrs. Jess MacLean, wife of Donald MacLean, late residing in Bowmore, Islay, now in America, and to her Sister, Mrs. Pattison, Islay, both grand daughters of the late James Campbell, Esquire of Balinabeg, One hundred and fifty pounds each, failing them the sum left to each is to be paid to their respective daughters and their heirs.

To ..X.. Livingston and ..X.. Livingston, daughters of the late ..X.. Livingston, Merchant in Greenock, and grandaughters of the deceased James Stewart of Stewart Hall or Kilhinloch, Bute,  Two hundred pounds each, failing one, the other to succeed her, and failing both, the said sums to be paid to their heirs;
To Mrs. Jess MacLeod, daughter of the said James Stewart of Stewart Hall, and her heirs, One hundred pounds;

To Mary Campbell, Daughter of the late Charles Campbell, and Grand daughter of the late Alexander Campbell, residing in Daill, Ardchattan, due hundred pounds, which sum shall be laid out as the said Lorne Campbell may think best for behoof of the said Mary Campbell;

To Mrs. Annabella Grant, Widow of Alexander Grant, Eastfield   (?)    Two hundred pounds, and to each of her three daughters, One hundred and fifty pounds, and failing any of the said Annabella Grant or her daughters, the sum left to each to be divided among the survivors of them and their heirs;

To Mary Sinclair, daughter of the said Alexander Sinclair, Killimaig, and her heirs, One hundred pounds;
To Lucy Sinclair, also his daughter, One hundred pounds to be laid out by her Sister Ann in the purchase of an annuity for the said Lucy Sinclair, and failing her, by predeceasing me, the said sum of One hundred pounds to be paid to her Sister, the said Mrs. Annabella Grant, and failing her, to her daughter, and their heirs.

To William Henry Watts, son of Captain John Watts, lately gone to Australia, whom failing, to his sister, equally among them, One hundred Pounds;

To Elizabeth Campbell, Sister of the late John Campbell, Tacksman of Lochhead and her heirs, one hundred pounds, and the sum of Four Hundred pounds to be equally divided among the unmarried daughters of the said John Campbell, the survivors or survivor of them succeeding to the share of such of as shall predecease me;
 

To Catharine MacMurchy, wife of Donald Fleming, Toronto, Upper Canada, and long my servant, excluding all right of her husband, and her own receipt to be sufficient, Two hundred pounds, and failing her, the said Sum to be paid to her Daughter, Lucy MacNeill Fleming, whom failing to her brother and sister, Donald and Flora Fleming, equally betwixt them, and to the survivor;

To Margaret Reid and Isabella MacCallum, long my servants, and their respective heirs, Two hundred pounds each
To Annabella Reid, for a longer period my servant, and her heirs, Three hundred pounds;

I further leave to the said Margaret Reid, Isabella MacCallum and Annabella Reid, my body clothes equally among them and to each of them I direct my Trustees to give suitable mournings upon my decease

I leave to the Ministers and Kirk Session of the Parish of Campbeltown, for behoof of Catharine Gillies, the blind girl whom I have sent to the Blind Asylum, Glasgow, Two hundred pounds, the Interest to be paid her at two terms yearly, and I hope the Ministers of Kirk Session will be kind enough to take an interest in the poor girl;
And failing Catharine Gillies and after her decease, the said two hundred pounds to be added to the sum herein after bequeathed for behoof of Sabbath Schools in the Parish of Campbeltown, under the Superintendance of the Established Church;

To the Trustees of the School erected by me at Dalintober in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty nine, I leave, provided I have not otherwise endowed it during my life, the sum of Two thousand, three hundred pounds, to be applied in the payment of Teacher’s Salary and a free house for him for upholding and insuring Schoolhouse and dwelling house; to provide Books, and also five pounds of prizes yearly, and for other purposes connected with the said school, for which one half of the upper flat rented at Seven pounds, is already app0ropriated; Which sum of Two thousand three hundred pounds shall be lodged in the Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, or other sure Bank, till it be lent out upon   (?) security or invested in the public funds, and the yearly Interest thereof shall be applied to the purposes foresaid;

to the said Trustees also appointed by me Trustees of the Female School of Industry at present building by me adjoining the foresaid Schoolhouse,  provided I have not endowed the same during my life, the sum of Two thousand, three hundred pounds, to be invested in manner above directed, and the Interest thereof to be applied in payment of Teacher’s salary and for insuring and keeping up said School, and for other purposes connected with the same.

Both which Schools last mentioned shall be under the Inspection of the Presbytery of Kintyre.
 
 

To the Ministers and Kirk Session of the Parish of Campbeltown for behoof of the Female School of Industry, Campbeltown, Six hundred pounds, the money to be invested as above directed, and the yearly interest to be paid to the President and Committee of said School for the time being;

To the Ministers of Kirk Session of the Parish of Campbeltown for the purpose of supporting a Missionary of the Established Church in Campbeltown, Three hundred pounds, to be invested in manner above directed, and the Yearly Interest to be paid to said Missionary.

To the Minister and the Kirk Session of the Parish of Campbeltown, for behoof of Sabbath Schools, under the charge or superintendence of the Established Church in that Parish, Three hundred pounds, to be invested as above directed, and the yearly interest to be paid for behoof of the said Schools;

To the Ministers and Kirk Session of the Parish of Campbeltown, for behoof of the Poor of said Parish, Five hundred pounds, to be invested in manner above directed, and the yearly interest to be applied for behoof of the said Poor;

To the Ministers and Kirk Session of the Parish of Campbeltown, for behoof of the Female Benevolent Society of Campbeltown, Six hundred pounds, to be invested in manner above directed, and the yearly Interest to be paid to the President and Committee of said society, for the time being;

To the Minister and Kirk Session of the Parish of Ardchattan, for behoof of the Poor of said Parish, Three hundred pounds, to be invested in manner above directed, and ther yearly interest to be paid to the Poor of said Parish;

to the Minister and Kirk Session of the Parish of Kilcalmonell and Kilberry, for behoof of the Poor of said Parish, Three hundred pounds, to be invested in manner above directed, and the yearly Interest to be paid to the Poor of said Parish;

I leave to the Orphan Hospital of Edinburgh, One thousand pounds;
To the Glasgow Deaf and Dumb Institution, Fifteen hundred pounds;
To the Glasgow Asylum for the Blind, Two thousand pounds;
To the Glasgow Eye Infirmary, Five hundred pounds;
To the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum, One thousand pounds;
To the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, One thousand pounds;
To the Glasgow Groydaline (?) Asylum, One thousand pounds,

Which Seven last mentioned sums, I which my said Trustees to pay to these Institutions in such a manner, and on such conditions as to secure to the said Ministers and Kirk Session of the Parish of Campbeltown, when they may find occasion, or may think proper, the presentation, or recommendation, of one or more Scholars, Patients, or inmates into each of the said Instituions agreeable to the Rules thereof ;

I give and bequeath the sum of Two thousand pounds to the Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, for promoting Education and Religious Instruction in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and the Receipt of the Convenor of said Committee shall be a sufficient discharge to my said Trustees;

To the said General Assembly’s Church Extension Committee for Church Extension in the Highlands of Scotland, the sum of Two thousand pounds, declaring that the Receipt of the Treasurer of the said Committee for the time being shall be a sufficient discharge to my said Trustees;

To the Committee of the General Assembly for Promoting the religious interests of the Scottish Presbyterians in the British Colonies, the sum of One thousand pounds, the  receipt of the Convenor or Treasurer of said Committee shall be a sufficient discharge of the same;

To the Committee of the General Assembly for the Propagation of the Gospel in India, three hundred pounds;
To the Committee of the General Assembly for Propagating Christianity among the (?);
And to the Scottish Bible Society, Four hundred pounds;

The receipt of the Treasurer and Committee and Society being a sufficient discharge
All which Legacies I declare to be left in Sterling money

And I direct said Trustees to pay and deliver the whole Legacies and Bequests before specified, in full, at the expiry of six months after my death, with interest thereafter to be paid

and I further direct and declare that the same shall be delivered free of Legacy Duty or of any expence that may be incurred by my said Trustees in obtaining proper discharge thereof, which Legacy Duties and Expences I hereby direct my said Trustees to pay out of my general means, and estate.

Lastly, the rest and residue of my means and estate heritable and moveable, after excouting (sic) the above ends and purposes,

I hereby direct my Trustees to pay over and divide among the Trustees for the School, Schools of Industry, Missionary, Sabbath Schools, Poor of the different Parishes, Benevolent society, Hospital Institution, Asylums, Infirmaries, Committee of the General Assembly, Bible Society, all  herein before enumerated, and that in shares in proportions of the sums already specially left to them respectively by these presents
my Trustees, in paying the balance of the residue to the seven Institutions above referred to securing the presentation as herein before directed
 
 

And I do hereby give full power to my said Trustees to uplift, discharge, renounce, assign or convey, all debts, heritable and moveable, which may be owing to me at the time of my death.

Declaring that the receiver of these conveyances, Discharges or other Deeds, shall have no concern whatever with the application of the one therein contained and uplifted, assigned or discharged by my said Trustees

With power to my said Trustees to submit and refer, or compound and transact as they shall think adviseable all questions and differences that may arise, either in regard to my real or personal estate and generally, do every thing to the provisions  that I could myself if in life

In which lands and others above disponed as aforesaid in security

I Bind and Oblige myself duly and validly to uplift and seize the said
John Lorne Stewart, Lachlan MacNeill Campbell, Nathaniel Harvey (and failing him, David Colville), John Gordon, Lorne Campbell, and Dugald Sinclair, and the survivors or survivor of these who shall accept as Trustees foresaid, and that a ma vel de me in usual form, the one without prejudice of the other

Declaring always that my said Trustees and Executors shall not be liable for omissions or neglect of management and that they shall not be liable singuli in solidum, but each for their own acual intromissions only, and

I do hereby revoke all Dispositions, Settlements and Wills executed by me prior to the date of these presents, and I reserve not only my own use and enjoyment of the premises during all the days of my life, but also full power and liberty to myself at any time of my life, to alter and innovate these presents in whole or in part, and to revoke, cancel and annul the same as I shall think proper,

And I declare these presents so far as not hereafter revoked or altered by me shall be a valid, effectual Deed, although found lying in my Repositories, or in the custody of any person to whom I may entrust the same undelivered at the time of my death, with the delivery whereof I have dispensed and hereby dispense for ever

And I consent to the registration hereof in the Books of Council and Session, or others competent therein to remain for preservation and for that purpose, constitute James Moncreiff, Esquire, Advocate, my Procurator
 

Moreover, in order that my said Trustees may be infeft and seized in the Lands and others before written, I hereby desire and require you            X             And each of you jointly and severally, my Baillies that  part hereby specially constituted that on sight hereof ye pass to the ground of the said Lands of Knockriochbeg and others and there give and deliver to the said John Lorne Stewart, Lauchlan MacNeill Campbell, Nathanial Harvey (and failing him, the said David Colville), John Gordon, Lorne Campbell, and Dugald Sinclair, and to the survivors or survivor of them who shall accept as Trustees for the uses, ends and purposes, and with the powers herein before mentioned, and to their foresaids heritable state and sasine, real, actual, and corporal possession of all and whole the said Lands and others with the whole, parts, pendicles, and pertinents thereof, all lying bounnded and described in manner particularly before written and

here held as repeated brevitatis causa in real security, and for payment to them and their foresaids of the before mentioned principal sum of six thousand pounds Sterling, Interest thereof liquidate penalty and termly failures before specified if incurred, all contained in and due by Bond and disposition in security before specified, and that by delivery to the said Trustees or their foresaids, or to their certain attorney or attornies in their name,

bearers hereof of hearth and stone of and upon the ground of the said lands and others, and all other symbols usual and necessary  And this ye in no ways leave undone which to do,
I commit to you and each of you my said baillies, full power by this my Precept of Sasine, directed to you for that effect

In Witness whereof, these presents written upon this and the thirteen preceding pages of stamped paper, by Andrew Clason, Writer to the Signet with the marginal note on page ninth, and the marginal note on page Tenth also, both written by the said Andrew Clason, are subscribed by me

with this further instruction
that I wish my clothes divided among my servants above named and Miss Ann Sinclair, or by themselves at Edinburgh, the twenty ninth day of September, Eighteen hundred and forty one years, before these Witnesses, the said Andrew Clason and Andrew Edmond, his clerk, the testing clause hereof after the word “Signed” and the declaration therein contained being written by the said Andrew Edmond

(Signed) Lucy Campbell

Andrew Clason, Witness, A Edmond, Witness
 

Extracted furth of the Books of Council and Session in Scotland, upon this and the thirty three preceding pages of paper by me, Alexander MacDonald, Principal Keeper of the Record of Deeds &etc, Conform to Act of Parliament,
Signed, A. MacDonald
 
 
 

Confirmatio,
I, John Maclaurin, Esquire, Commissary Depute of the Commissariat of Argyll, having power of Confirmation of Testaments within the bounds of my Jurisdiction by these presents
Ratify Approve and confirm the nomination of the Executors contained in the foresaid Trust Disposition and Settlement and Inventory of the debts and sums of money before written

and I give and commit the intromission therewith to the said Executors with full power them to uplift and receive the same grant, discharges thereof, if needful, to pursue therefor, and generally every other thing thereanent to do that to the office

(Signed) J MacLaurin, Com Dep



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