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Folio 13. Affidavit of William Horn and Alixr [Alexander] Adam, both from Kirktown,...

Catalogue reference: SP 36/88/2/13

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This record is about the Folio 13. Affidavit of William Horn and Alixr [Alexander] Adam, both from Kirktown,... dating from 1746 Oct 13 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 36/88/2/13
Date
1746 Oct 13
Description

Folio 13. Affidavit of William Horn and Alixr [Alexander] Adam, both from Kirktown, Inverness-shire. Concerning James Paterson a curier [courier?] from Banff [Banffshire]. Both attest that around 20 December 1745, Patterson stopped at Adam's house in Kirktown. While there he told them that the Laird of Grant was marching his clan home. To prove this he produced two letters from Grant to the Lairds of McLeod and Culcairn. He showed both deponents the directions on the backs of the letters, in the presence of Alxr [Alexander] Chruckshank. Witnessed by Alixr [?Alexander] Duff, Justice of the Peace for the county of Aberdeen. Dated at Hatton in Aberdeen [Aberdeenshire].

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Former department reference
Folio 247
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