Pullar Mortification 1811-1859 Minute Book - Nine Trades of Dundee

Pullar Mortification 1811-1859
Minute Book
1 Minute of Meeting of concerns of James Pullar formerly Baker In Dundee
thereafter residing in Chapleshade of Dundee on 14 October 1811
Page
1
2 Copy of Disposition by James Pullar 3
3 Minute of Meeting of Trustees 11 May 1812 12
4 Inventory of Personal Estate 13
5 Minutes of Meetings on 18 th Novr 1812 & 10 th July 1819 16
6 Account of Charge and Discharge between James Pullar's Trustees & Mrs
Elizabeth Pullar & John Ogilvie & Son
18
7 Minute of Meetings of Minutes 30 Septr 1819
27
Minute of Meetings of Minutes 30 May 1822
28
8 Account of Charge and Discharge betwixt James Pullars Trustees and Mrs Pullars
Trustees 20 January 1825
29
9 Copy Discharge by Mrs Pullars Trustees to James Pullars Trustees for £1000 33
10 Copy Inventory of James Pullars personal Estate
39
Copy residue of Estate of ditto
41
11 Account of Charge & Discharge betwixt Trs of the late James Pullar & John
Ogilvie & Son their factors
42
12 Minute of Mr James Pullars Trustees 22 March 1827 47
13 Account of Charge & Discharge betwixt Mr Pullars Trustees & John Ogilvie & Son 49
14 Advertisement Pullars Mortification 53
15 Minute of Mr Pullars Trs 2d May 1827 55
16 Account of Charge & Discharge betwixt Mr Pullars trustees & John Ogilvie & Son
for the year 1827
59
17 List of New Applicants for admission on the Mortification 31 May 1828 62
18 Minute of Trustees 1 Dec 1828 63
19 Account Charge & discharge bet: the Trustees & John Ogilvie & Son for 1828 63
20 Account Charge & discharge between Trustees & John Ogilvie & Son for 1829 66
21 Minute of Meeting of Trustees 5 th June 1830 67
22 Sederunt of Trustees 7 Decr 1830 70
23 Sederunt of Trustees 23 November 1831 71
24 Account of Charge and Discharge bet, the Trustees and James Ogilvie & Son for
1830
76
26 Do. for 1831 77
27 Do. for 1832 78
28 Minute of Meeting of Trustees 30 th May 1833 79
29 Minute of Meeting of Trustees 30 November 1833 81
30 Minute of Meeting of Trustees 4 December 1833 82
31 Minute of Meeting of Trustees 31 May 1836 83
32 Minute of Meeting of Trustees 21 July 1836 83
33 Account of Charge and Discharge bet Trustees and James Ogilvie & Son for 1833 84
34 Do. for 1834 85
35 Do. for 1835 86
36 Do. for 1836 88
37 Sederunt of Trustees 2 Septr 1836 90
38 Sederunt of Trustees 23 August 1838 92
39 Do. 27 May 1839 94
40 Do 26 February 1840 98
41 Account of Charge and Discharge bet Trustees and James Ogilvie & Son for
1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841 & 1842
99
42 Minute of Meeting of Trustees 17 August 1843 105
43 Minute of Meeting of Trustees 25 Decr 1843 105
44 Sederunt of Trustees 31 May 1845 106
45 Minute of Meeting of Trustees 3 Feby 1846 110
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Dundee the 14 th October 1811
Sederunt of the Concerns of the deceased James Pullar, formerly Baker in
Dundee thereafter residing in Chapleshade of Dundee
Present Patrick Smith Esquire one of the present magistrates of Dundee, James
Pullar and John Pullar, Bakers in Dundee, Henry Pullar, Farmer at West main of Dunnichan ,
Walter Newall, Merchant in Dundee, James Gray, Merchant there & James Ogilvie, Writer
there, Charles Pullar, Farmer at Westmains of Turin & Mrs Pullar.
The Repositories of the said James Pullar having been opened and the Seals
removed which had been affixed on his death by the said Patrick Smith, the following papers
were found therein: -
1 st A Bond by the Dundee Sugar Refining Company to James Pullar deceased for
£1,000.
2 nd Promisory Note by John Berry Esquire of Tayfield and William Berry his son
payable at Martinmas next year for £315.
3 rd Promisory Note by James Pullar and Company to James Pullar due 16/19 May
1809 for £315.
Acknowledgement by John Low, Lochee £4.
4 th Deposit Account with the Dundee New Bank on which there appears a balance
due to Mr Pullar of £809.
5 th Assignation by John Sime, Baker in Dundee to Mr Pullar of one fourth of the Tack
of the Monyfieth Mills.
6 th Disposition and Assignation by John Rollo to Mr Pullar of his property in
Chapleshade & Sasin thereon.
7 th Disposition by said James Gray to Mr Pullar of the third flat from the ground of that
Tenement of Land situate in the Overgate of Dundee and the titles thereto belonging.
8 th Disposition by James Nish to James Pullar of the ground Sten of a tenement
situate at Foot of Barrack Stet Dundee and Tules thereof.
9 th Extract Regd Disposition by Margaret Rollo to James Pullar of a toofall cellar
situate in the Overgate of Dundee and Sasine thereof.
The said James Ogilvie produced a Trust Disposition and Supplement executed by
Mr Pullar whereby he conveyed his whole property under certain exceptions to the said
Walter Newall, James Gray, Andrew Peddie, Junior and James Ogilvie, as Trustees for the
purposes therin mentioned dated the 15 th day of November 1804.
Also a Disposition by Mr Pullar to Mrs Pullar his Spouse in liferent, whom failing to
John Pullar, his Nephew in liferent and to James Pullar, oldest lawful Son of the said James
Pullar in fee of the subjects described in numbers Eight and Nine and the subjects disponed
by Andrew Wilson &c.
These Two sealments were delivered to the saids James Ogilvie to be recorded
along with the other papers except those mentioned under the head of numbers Eight & Nine
and the Tules of the Subjects disponed by Andrew Wilson & Others to Mr Pullar which were
left with Mrs Pullar as not falling under the subject of the Trust.
The Trustees authorise the said James Ogilvy to pay the price of the Share of
the Monifieth Tack belonging to William Clark bought by Mr Pullar before hid death.
Signed by
Elizabeth Crauford [the maiden name of Mrs Pullar]
Walter Newall
James Gray
James Pullar
John Pullar Charles Pullar
Henry Pullar
Jas. Ogilvie
Patrick Smith, Magistrate
Copy Trust Disposition and Deed of Settlement by James Pullar, dated
15 November 1804
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I James Pullar Baker in Dundee with consent of Mrs Elizabeth Craufurd for
myself and we both with mutual advice and consent, do hereby (but under the
conditions, reservations and provisions after inserted) give grant and dispone to and
in favour of James Gray, Walter, Newall and Andrew Peddie Junior, all Merchants in
Dundee and James Ogilvie Writer there and to the survivor or survivors of them the
major part alive and accepting at the time being always a quorum as Trustees for the
uses and purposes after mentioned and to the Assignees or disponies of the said
Trustees All and Sundry Lands and heritages save & except the Subjects disponed
by me to the said Elizabeth Crawfurd in liferent and John Pullar, Baker in Dundee
Son of Alexander Pullar my brother in fee by Disposition of date the Sixteenth day of
January Eighteen hundred and One and all Debts and sums of money heritable and
moveable due by heritable Bonds, adjudications, personal Bonds, Bills or other
vouchers of Debt and all and Sundry personal & moveable effects of every kind and
denomination belonging to me or which shall belong to me at the time of by death
dispensing with generality hereof and declaring the same to be as valid and effectual
as if my said whole Estate Heritable & Moveable real and personal were herein
particularly described and also declaring that any particular right & Disposition to my
said Trustees of my said heritable & real Estate hereby generally disponed which I
shall hereafter make at any time in my life or even on deathbed shall be deemed and
taken as part hereof And that any Inventory which shall be hereafter made and
subscribed by me of my said personal Estate shall be (deemed and taken as part
hereof and that any Inventory which shall be hereafter made and subscribed by me of
my said personal Estate shall be ) also taken as part hereof to exclude the necessity
of confirmation And which whole Subjects heritable and moveable above disponed
are conveyed in Trust always for the uses and purposes and under the conditions
and reservations aftermentioned Vizt. That the said Trustees shall upon my death
recover the several Debts and sums of money which shall be due to me to be by
them employed in manner following. That is to say.
In the first place our said Trustees and their foresaids shall satisfy and pay all
the just and lawful Debts that shall be resting and owing by me the said James Pullar
at the time of my death with my funeral Charges and the Expenses of executing this
Trust; and in the next place they shall lend out the neat balance of the said Debts due
to me when recovered on good security heritable or personal and shall pay over to
the said Elizabeth Crawford during her life in case she shall survive me the whole
Interest arising there from with the whole Dividends and Profits arising from my other
personal Subjects and the whole rents of my heritable Property and at the first term of
Whitsunday or Martinmas after the death of both her and me our Trustees shall make
payment to any person or persons whom the said Elizabeth Crawfurd may point out
by a writing under her hand the sum of One thousand Pounds Sterling with Five
hundred Pounds Sterling of liquidate penalty in case of failure and the legal interest of
the said principal sum from the said term of payment yearly & termly thereafter during
the non payment of the same Declaring that in 10 year as the said sum of One
thousand pounds Sterling shall not be disposed of by the said Elizabeth Crawfurd by
a writing under her hand the same shall not be exigble.
And also declaring that whatever property she may be possessed of arising
from the Interest & Rents of the property hereby conveyed (and including her
household furniture, body clothes and paraphernalia) or otherwise and shall fail to
dispose thereof in manner foresaid the same shall be deemed and considered as part
of the Trust Estate hereby conveyed and be at the disposal of our said Trustees.
Which provisions the said Elizabeth Crawfurd accepts in full satisfaction of
every thing she can claim through her husbands death in case she survive him or that
her Executors or nearest in kin can claim through her predecease. And with respect
to my other moveable means & Estate the same shall be managed and reserved by
the said Trustees during the lifetime of the said Elizabeth Crawfurd with her consent
except the household furniture which is to be at her absolute disposal.
And after her death I appoint the said Trustees to sell and dispose of the
same together with my lands and heritages as soon as convenient to be by them
employed along with the rest of my Estate hereby c onveyed for the purposes after
mentioned Vizt:
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In the third place our said Trustees shall pay the several Legacies following –
To James Pullar, Baker in Dundee Son of John Pullar my Brother and the lawful issue
of his body two hundred pounds Sterling.
To David Pullar also son of the said John Pullar and the Issue of his body
One hundred pounds Sterling;
To Craigie Pullar Son of the deceased Charles Pullar my Brother and the
Issue of his body, One hundred pounds Sterling.
Which Legacies shall be payable at the firs term of Whitsunday or Martinmas
making six months after the death of the longest liver of me and the said Elizabeth
Crawfurd with interest from the said term of payment till paid. Declaring that in case of
the death of any of the aforesaid Legatees without Issue of his body before the death
of me and the said Elizabeth Crawfurd this Legacy shall lapse and not be exigible to
each of my Nephews and Nieces who may be alive at the death of the survivor of me
and the said Elizabeth Crawfurd (excepting the Children of Alexander Pullar my
Brother who are otherwise provided for and my Nephews particularly before
mentioned who are provided for by this deed) the sum of twenty five pounds Sterling
and that at the first term of Whitsunday or Martinmas after the death of the longest
liver of the said Elizabeth Crawfurd & me with the legal interest from the said term of
payment till paid to James Fyffe, Taylor in Dundee and Elizabeth Sellers his Spouse
and longest liver of them, in liferent for their liferent use allenarly and to Mary Fyffe
their Daughter and the lawful Issue of her body in fee the sum of £100 Sterling at the
first term of Whitsunday or Martinmas making six months after the death of the
longest liver of me and the said Elizabeth Crawfurd and failing the said Mary Fyffe by
death without Issue of her body before the foresaid term of payment or before the
death of the longest liver of the said James Fyffe and Elizabeth Sellars the fee of the
said Legacy shall fall and revert to my Trust Estate.
In the fourth place I appoint my said Trustees after my death to allow the Sect
of Dereans in Dundee to continue in possession of that flat of the tenement of land
situated in the Methodist or Mitchells Close for the free yearly rent to five pounds
Sterling exclusive of cess & Repairs so long as they profess the leading doctrines of
the Bereand which are briefly treated in the Encyclopaedia Perthensis and detailed in
the Works of the late Mr John Barklay
And lastly the remainder of the said Estates heritable and moveable hereby
conveyed shall be allowed to accumulate with the Interest to a Capital Stock of three
thousand pounds Sterling after which period the interest on the amount shall be
applied to discharge the following annuities Vizt:
To the Dundee Infirmary Ten pounds Sterling.
To the poor of the Nine Trades of Dundee Five Pounds Sterling.
To the Kirk Session of Dundee for behoof of the poor thereof five pounds
Sterling.
Which last annuity shall be given at the door of the Old Church on the first
Sunday of every year by the Deacon of the Baker Trade in Dundee and after
answering these annuities the One half of the yearly surplus shall be applied towards
maintaining and educating ten poor boys who must not be admitted under Six years.
And the other half of the Interest to be distributed among ten poor old men of
women not below sixty years of Age such Boys and Paupers of the name of Pullar
and particularly those who can prove their pedigree from John Pullar, Farmer in Mill
of Hauchmoor, my father, to be preferred and further that our said Trustees may be
encouraged to accept of the Trust hereby committed to them we declare that they
shall not by liable for neglect omissions or diligence of any kind or for the insolvency
of any person to whom they may lend the proceeds of this Trust Estate nor shall they
be liable singuli in solidum but each only for his own personal intromissions and they
shall be no farther liable for any factor they may appoint (which they are hereby
authorised to do) than that they shall by habit and repute responsible at the time of
entering upon their office.
As also that the said Trustees shall be at liberty and have full power on all
necessary occasions in the execution of this Trust to bind the heirs of me the said
James Pullar and all others concerned in this Settlement to the extent of their
respective shares thereof (the said Elizabeth Crawfurd alone excepted) in clauses of
absolute warrandice in favour of the Debtors or of purchasers of any part of the Trust
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Estate but which purchasers or Debtors shall be noways concerned with the
application of any sums of money to be paid by them nor with any of the conditions or
provisions herein contained but shall be sufficiently exonerred by the simple
discharge of the said Trustee or Trustees or their foresaids. And further it is hereby
declared that upon the death or non acceptance of any three of the before named
Trustees the whole property hereby conveyed shall rest in the survivor who shall be
obliged to denude of the Trust and account for his Intromissions with the Trust Estate
pay over whatever balance may be then remaining I his hands and at the sametime
redispone the Lands vested and recover whatever grounds of Debt may be then
standing in his person to and in favour of the Minister of the Overgate District in the
parish of Dundee for the time being and his Successors in Office, twenty members of
the Kirk Session of Dundee selected by that body to the Convener and Deacons of
The Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee then in office and to the nine Deacons of
the preceding year and their successors in office as Trustees and Patrons for the
uses and ends and purposes and with the several powers and privileges hereby
conferred on the Trustees above named.
Declaring that twenty of these new Trustees assembled shall constitute a
meeting and the majority of the meeting a sufficient quorum. It being hereby likewise
declared that the Clerk to the Nine Incorporated Trades shall be their Clerk, keep
regular accounts and make the same patent to the inspection of any of the managers.
And further declaring that denuding of the Trust hereby conveyed the
surviving original Trustee shall be entitled to relief of all engagements he may have
come under in the management of the present Trust.
And lastly for carrying these presents more effectually into execution I hereby
nominate and appoint my said Trustees before named quorum or survivor of them as
said is for the uses & purposes presaid to be my sole and only Executors and
Intromitters with my goods & gear with power to them to give up Inventories of my
Effects and to confirm my Testament if needful.
Reserving always to me the said James Pullar my own liferent of the
premises with full power and liberty to me at any time of my life and even on
deathbed, by a writing under my hand to alter, innovate or revoke these presents in
whole or in part and to assign and dispose of the effects hereby conveyed; But in so
far as these presents shall not be altered the same shall be valid and effectual though
found lying by me at the time of my death or in the custody of any other person for my
behoof undelivered declaring that I shall not be at liberty to alter the provisions
conceived in favour of the said Elizabeth Crawfurd before specified, without her own
consent in writing. And having dispensed with the delivery hereof we consent to the
registration of these presents in the Books of Council and Session or other Judges
Books competent therein to remain for preservation and for that purpose we
Constitute our procuration &c.
In Witness whereof these presents written upon this and the five preceding
pages of stamped paper by Thomas Adamson, Clerk to John Ogilvie & Son, Writers
in Dundee are subscribed by us at Dundee the fifteenth day of November Eighteen
hundred and four years before these Witnesses, John Stephart, Apprentice to the
said John Ogilvie & Son and the said Thomas Adamson.
(Signed) Jas. Pullar
Elizabeth Crawfurd
John Stephart, Witness
Thomas Adamson, Witness
Codicil
I the before designed Elizabeth Crawfurd do hereby in exercise of the powers
reserved to me by the foregoing Testament appoint each of my Trustees before named Vizt:
James Gray, Walter Newall, Andrew Peddie Junior and James Ogilvie to retain five guineas
for a mourning ring and as a mark of my respect for them out of the first part of my funds
before conveyed.
In Witness thereof we subscribe this Codicil written annexed to said Settlement by
James Miller, Apprentice to John Ogilvie & Son, Writers in Dundee or Chapelshade Dundee
the twenty eighth day of April Eighteen hundred and ten, before these Witnesses – William
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Anderson, Clerk to the said John Ogilvie & Son and Patrick Smart, Apprentice to the said
John Ogilvie & Son the place, date Witness name and designations being filled up by the said
William Anderson.
(Signed)
Jas. Pullar
Elizabeth Crawfurd
Wm. Anderson, Witness
Pat. Smart, Witness
Dundee 11 May 1812
Sederunt of the Trustees of the late Mr James Pullar
Present: Messers Walter Newall, James Gray, Andrew Peddie and James Ogilvie
The Meeting recommended to John Ogilvie & Son their Agents to get the following
Shares of Stock or Ships disposed of vizt:
Each Share of the “Mary Ann” & “Horn” at £700 Sterling of upset price, being 1/32
Share.
One sixtieth Share of the Estridge Company at £110.
One Share of the Dundee & Perth Shipping company at £40.
One Share of the Hull Shipping Company at £10.
The above to be upset prices payable at three months from the date of the sale, but
the purchasers of the shares in the “Mary Ann” and “Horn” to be allowed three months longer
on allowing Interest for the additional period.
The purchaser to have right to current Dividends and pay the premium incurred.
The meeting requested the Agents to apply to Alexander Anderson for a State of his
Accounts with the Monyfieth Mill & to request Mr Small to convene a Meeting of James Pullar
& Company’s concerns on an early day.
(Signed) Walter Newall
James Gray
Andrew Peddie
Jas. Ogilvie
Inventory of the Personal Estate of the late James Pullar, Baker in Dundee who
died on the tenth day of October Eighteen hundred and Eleven with Interest due on
principal sums at that date.
Imprimis Principal sum in Promissory Note by John Berry
Of Tay field and William Berry W. S. his Son dated 16
November 1810
Interest due at 4½ p cent
2do Principal sum in Promissory Note by James Pullar & Co
dated 16 May 1808
Interest due at 4½ p Cent
3to Principal sum deposited in the Dundee new Bank
Interest due on Do @ 4 P Cent
4to Two Shares (being 2/32) of the Capital Stock of the
Dundee Whale Fishing company sold by Public Roup
payable ¼ September 1812 without Interest
5to One Share (being 1/60) of the Capital Stock of the
Estridge Shipping Co sold by Roup & Payable as above
6to One Share of the Capital Stock of the Dundee & Perth
Shipping Coy sold by Roup & payable as above
7mo One Share of the Dundee Hull Shipping Company
Capital Stock sold by Roup & payable as above
Total
Deduct Expense of Advertisements Sale & Tax
8vo Dividends due on the share of the Estridge Fishing
Company Stock
£300. 0. 0
12. 7. 0
300. 0. 0
45.18.8
809. 0. 0
15. 1. 5
1540. 0. 0
150. 0. 0
49. 0. 0
11.10. 0
1750.10.0
50. 0. 0
45. 0. 0
£312. 7. 0
345.18. 8
824. 1. 5
1700.10. 0
45. 0. 0
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9no Dividend due from the Dundee & Perth Shipping
Company Stock
5. 0. 0 5. 0. 0
10mo Dividend due from the Dundee Hull Shipping Co. Stock 3. 0. 0 3. 0 .0
11mo Dividend due from Shares of the Dundee Whale Fishing
Company Stock
180. 0.0 180. 0. 0
12mo The deceased’s Household furniture bequeathed to his
Widow valued by Dan. Mackay conform to Inventory &
Appraisement
67. 8. 0 67. 0. 0
12mo Stock in trade with James Pullar & Coy. Brewers in
Dundee which is now dissolved but the Affairs not
wound up – supposed
500. 0. 0 500. 0. 0
£3983. 5. 0
Nota: The above funds are subject to the Widows liferent.
(Signed) Jas. Ogilvie. Davd. Brown, Convr.
At Dundee the twelfth day of June Eighteen hundred and twelve years In presence of
David Brown Esquire, one of the present Magistrates of Dundee Commissioner Appointed by
the Commissary of Brechin for taking Oath underwritten appeared James Ogilvie, Writer in
Dundee One of and Factor for the other Trustees and Executors of the deceased James
Pullar, late Baker in Dundee who being solemnly sworn and examined Depones that the said
James Pullar died upon the tenth day of October last and Deponent has entered upon the
possession and management of the deceased’s personal Estate as One of the Trustees and
Executors nominated by him in a General Trust Disposition and Deed of Settlement executed
by him upon the fifteenth day of November Eighteen hundred and four recorded in the Books
of Council and Session (Office N.B.) the sixteenth day of October last and Extract whereof is
now exhibited and signed by the Deponent and the said Commissioner of this date relative
hereto:
That the Deponent does not know of any settlement or Writing relative to the disposal
of the deceased’s personal Estate & Effects or any part of them other than that now exhibited:
That the said Inventory which is signed by the Deponent and the said Commissioner
is a full & complete Inventory of the personal Estate & Effects of the said deceased James
Pullar wheresoever situated and belonging or due to him beneficially at the time of his death
in so far as the same has come to the Deponents knowledge and that the value of the said
Estate situated in Scotland is of the value of Three thousand five hundred pounds Sterling
and under the value of Five thousand pounds Sterling.
All which is truth as the Deponent shall answer to God.
(Signed) Jas. Ogilvie
Davd. Brown, Bailie & Commissioner.
Registered in the Commissary Court Books of Brechin 16 June 1812.
Note by Innes Duffus: The Estate value of £3983.5.0 is the equivalent of £1,552,260.86 in
2002.
There follows extracts from the Minutes of the Trust showing only the items which might be of
interest to the present generation. It does not include Charges & Discharges nor the
beneficiaries, who are listed annually
Dundee 18 Nov 1812
… The Trustees authorise John Ogilvie & son their Agents to lend Oliver Gourlay Esquire of
Craigrothie the sum of two thousand five hundred Pounds Sterling on his heritable Bond over
the Lands of Scotstarvet.
(Signed) James Gray
Andrew Peddie
Walter Newall
Jas Ogilvie.
I approve of the above (signed) Elizabeth Crawford
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10 July 1819
The Agents stated that John Baxter Esquire of Idvies had proposed to borrow Two
thousand five hundred pounds Sterling upon a Transfer to the balance of an Heritable
Security for the Amount affecting Idvies and which belonged to the Trustees of the late Mr
Kerr of Dumbarrow: that as Mr Gourlay’s Bond to the Trustees over Scotstarvet for this
amount was to be paid up the Agents submitted to the consideration of the Trustees whether
this sum should not be lent to Mr Baxter upon the above Transfer. The Trustees approved of
this security and dispensed with any search of the records and as Mr Baxter had the views of
paying up the money soon they agreed to delay infefting on this transfer for a twelve month
hence.
30 September 1819
..George Heggie Esquire of Pulessie, writer to the signet proposed to borrow from the
Trustees £2,500 say two thousand five hundred pounds Sterling, being the sum contained in
Oliver Gourlay of Craigrothies Bond to the Trustees and which had lately been paid up. There
were two sums effecting Pulessie amounting to Six thousand pounds but as the property was
of such greater value than this the Meeting authorise their Factors to lend Mr Heggie the sum
required upon the Bond and Disposition in Security over Pulessie Provided Mr William Berry
of Tayfield shall join as Collateral Security for regular payment of the Interest & provided also
that the Bond shall contain a Clause of Sale and that no further securities shall appear to be
due from the records than the present One and the two prior Ones for Six thousand pounds.
The Meeting approve of the temporary advance of fourteen hundred Pounds which
their Factors made lately to Mr Heggie to account of this loan and for which Mr Heggie & Mr
Berry granted their joint Note.
Copy Discharge by Mrs Pullar’s Trustees to James Pullar’s Trustees dated the
twentieth and registered in the Sheriff court Books of Forfarshire the thirty first day of
January 1825
We James Gray and Andrew Peddie both merchants in Dundee and James Ogilvie,
Writer there Trustees and Executors nominated and appointed by the deceased Mrs
Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar Relict of the deceased James Pullar sometime Baker in Dundee,
thereafter residing in Chapelshade of Dundee conform to Trust Disposition and Settlement
executed by her in our favour dated the seventh day of February and recorded in the Sheriff
Court Books of Forfarshire the twenty ninth day of May both last: whereby the Majority of us
are declared a quorum Whereas the said deceased James Pullar by his Trust Disposition and
Deed of Settlement dated the fifteenth day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and
(twenty) four and recorded in the Books of Council and Session the sixteenth day of October
in the year eighteen hundred and eleven, did with consent of the said Mrs Elizabeth Crawford
or Pullar under the conditions, reservations and provisions therein inserted, give, grant and
dispone to and in favour of us the said James Gray, Andrew Peddie and James Ogilvie and of
Walter Newall Merchant in Dundee his whole estate heritable and moveable, in manner and
with the exceptions therein mentioned, but in trust for the uses and purposes and under the
conditions and reservations therein specified and inter alia that his said Trustees ,should upon
his death recover the several debts and sums of money which should be due to him to be by
them employed in manner therein mentioned and in particular that the said Trustees should in
the first place satisfy and pay all the just and lawful debts that should be resting and owing by
the said James Pullar at the time of his death, with his funeral charges and the expenses of
executing the Trust and in the next place they should lend out the neat balance of the said
debts when recovered on good security heritable or personal and should pay over to the said
Elizabeth Crawford during her life in case she should survive the said James Pullar the whole
Interest arising therefrom with the whole dividends and profits arising from the said James
Pullar’s other personal subjects and the whole Rents of his heritable property and at the first
term of Whitsunday or Martinmas after the death of both the said James Pullar and Mrs
Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar, they the said Trustees pf the said James Pullar should make
payment to any person or persons, whom the said Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar might point
out by a writing under her hand the sum of One Thousand pounds Sterling with two hundred
Pounds of liquidate penalty in case of failure and the legal interest of the said principal sum
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from the said term of payment yearly and termly thereafter during the non payment of the
same: And whereas the said James Pullar’s Trustees entered upon the (payment)
management of the said estate and appointed John Ogilvie & Son Writers in Dundee their
factors who uplifted the whole interest dividends and other annual profits thereon except the
Rents of the heritable subjects which were possessed by the said Mrs Elizabeth Crawford or
Pullar herself. And whereas from an account of Charge and Discharge between the said
James Pullar’s Trustees and John Ogilvie and Son Writers in Dundee their factors foresaid,
audited and docqueted by these parties and by the said Mrs Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar
upon the thirtieth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen it appears that
there was at that time a balance of the Interest and other annual profits of the said James
Pullar’s estate due to the said Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar of Sixty seven pounds two
shillings and two pence Sterling.
And from an account of Charge and Discharge between the said James Pullar’s
Trustees and us as Trustees of the said Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar consisting of the
Intromissions of the said John Ogilvie & Son as factors foresaid with the interest of the said
James Pullar’s Estate liferented by (the said) Mrs Pullar it appears that the amount of the said
interest received by them after the date of the former account and including the foresaid
balance of Sixty seven pounds four shillings and two pence amounts to Twelve hundred and
nine pounds three shillings and eleven pence. And that the sums paid by the said factors to
Mrs Pullar with the Sums disbursed on her account and the expence of management
amounts to Three hundred and eighty two pounds four shillings and two pence Sterling.
And whereas since the death of the said Elizabeth Crawford of Pullar and upon the
eleventh day of November last, we, as Trustees foresaid have received from the said James
Pullar’s Trustees by the hands of their said factors the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds
Sterling to account of the sums due to her so that the balance to her estate by the said James
Pullar’s Trustees as on the twenty fourth day of December last is Six hundred and seventy six
pounds nineteen shillings and nine pence Sterling as appears from the last mentioned
account of Charge and Discharge which is Signed by the parties of that date as relative to
these presents: and which balance was deposited by the said Trustees with the Dundee
Banking Company bearing interest at three per cent, And now seeing that the Trustees of the
said James Pullar did at the term of Martinmas last make payment to us as Trustees of the
said Mrs Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar, of the foresaid sum of one thousand pounds conform
to our receipt therefor dated the ninth day of November last: And that the Trustees of the said
James Pullar have by the hands of their said factors made payment to us as Trustees of the
said Mrs Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar of the foresaid sum of six hundred and seventy six
pounds Nine shillings and eleven pence Sterling as the interest thereof at the rate of three per
cent from the said twenty fourth day of December last to the date hereof: Of which sums we
do hereby acknowledge the receipt renouncing all exceptions to the contrary.
Therefore we the said James Gray, Andrew Peddie and James Ogilvie as Trustees
and Executors appointed by the said Mrs Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar have executed and
discharged and we do hereby for our respective interests and with mutual consent exoner
acquit and simplicitor discharge the said James Gray, Andrew Peddie, Walter Newall and
James Ogilvie and the said John Ogilvie & Son as their factors and their respective heirs,
executors and Successors of the foresaid provision of one thousand pounds Sterling and of
one hundred and fifty pounds Sterling paid to us as aforesaid and of the foresaid balance of
Six hundred and seventy six pounds nineteen shillings and nine pence Sterling and of the
Interest thereof as aforesaid and of the whole actings transactions (and) Intromissions and
management had by the said Trustees or any of them or their said factors, with the interests
and profits of the said James Pullar’s Estate liferented by the said Elizabeth Crawford or
Pullar as aforesaid and in particular without prejudice to the foresaid generality of the whole
Intromissions as specified and contained in the foresaid account of Charge and Discharge &
all that has followed or is competent to follow upon the same for ever: dispensing with the
generality hereof (for) and declaring these presents to be as valid and sufficient as if every
particular of their Intromissions had been herein specially enumerated.
Which discharge we bind and oblige ourselves as Trustees foresaid our heirs, as
Executors and Successors to warrant to the Trustees of the said James Pullar and their
factors and their foresaids at all hands.
And we consent to the Registration of these presents in the Books of the Council and
Session or other Judges books competent for preservation and that all legal execution
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necessary may pass upon a Decree to be interponed hereto in common form and thereto
constitute.
In witness whereof these presents written upon this and the two preceding pages of
Stamped paper by John Sturrock, Apprentice to the said John Ogilvie & Son are subscribed
by the said James Gray, Andrew Peddie and James Ogilvie as Trustees of the said Mrs
Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar at Dundee the twentieth day of January in the year Eighteen
hundred and twenty five before these Witnesses, James Forgan, Clerk to the said John
Ogilvie & son and the said John Sturrock.
(Signed) James Gray
Jas. Ogilvie
Andrew Peddie
James Forgan, Witness
John Sturrock, Witness
Copy Inventory of James Pullars Estate
Recorded in Commissary Court Books of Brechin 16 June 1872
Imprimis Principal sum in promissory note by John
Berry
of Tayfield and William Berry WS his son
dated 16 Novr 1810
Interest due at 4½ per Cent
Secundo Principal sum in promissory Note by James
Pullar & Coy dated 16 may 1808
Interest due at 4½ per Cent
Teretio Principal sum deposited in the Dundee New
Bank
Interest due on ditto at 4 per Cent
Quarto Two shares being 3/32 of the Capital Stock
of the Dundee Whale Fishing Company sold
by public Roup payable ¼ September 1812
without interest
Quinto One Share being 1/60 of the Capital Stock of
the Etridge Shipping Company sold by Roup
and payable as above
Sexto One Share of the Capital Stock of the
Dundee and Perth Shipping Company sold
by Roup and payable as above
Septimo One Share of the Dundee Hull Shipping
Company’s Capital Stock sold by Roup and
payable as above
Deduct Expense of Advertisements, Sale &
Tax
Octavo Dividends due on the Shares of the Estridge
Fishing Company’s Stock
Nono Dividends due from the Dundee and Perth
Shipping Company’s Stock
Decimo Dividend due from the Dundee Hull Shipping
Company’s Stock
Undecimo Dividend due from the Shares of the Dundee
Whaling Company’s Stock
Duodecimo The Deceased’s household furniture Bed and
Table Lines specially bequeathed to his
Widow valued by Daniel Mackay conform to
Inventory and Appraisement
Tries cimo Stock in Trade with James Pullar & Co
Brewer in Dundee which is now dissolved but
the affairs not wound up – supposed
£300.0.0
12. 7. 0
300. 0. 0
45.18. 8
809. 0. 0
15. 1. 5
1540. 0. 0
150. 0. 0
49. 0. 0
11.10. 0
1750.10. 0
50. 0. 0
£312. 7. 0
345.15. 8
1700.10. 0
45. 0. 0
5. 0. 0
3. 0. 0
180. 0. 0
67. 8. 0
500. 0. 0
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5983. 5. 0
Note by Innes Duffus £5983. 5. 0 equates to £265,004.60 in 2002
Copy Re sidue State of James Pullar’s personal Estate
Receipts
Cash in Bank 824. 1. 3
Household furniture bequeathed to Widow 67. 8. 0
Principal sums in Bonds, Bills etc 600. 0. 0
Interest on ditto to death 98.19. 4
Debts on open Accounts 2. 0. 0
Shares of Companys’ 1760.10. 0
Dividends on Ditto to death 233. 0. 0
Real Estate 1760.10. 0
Rents since death 85. 3. 0
Accrued Interest 108.18. 2
5538.15. 5
Payments
Confirmation and Inventory Stamp 126. 0. 2
Funeral Expenses 40. 2. 4½
Expense of Management 230. 4. 1½
Debts on Accounts 48.17. 4
Debts on Bills 268. 5. 7
Legacies Paid 1546. 0. 0
Furniture specially bequeathed to Widow 67. 8. 0 2326.17. 7
3211.17.10
Duty per £321. 3. 9 Sterling being at the rate of 10 per Cent paid on June 1825
Note by Innes Duffus £2326.17. 7 equates to £142,258.15. 0 in 2002
Sederunt of the Trustees of the late James Pullar, Baker in Dundee
23 November 1831
The Factor laid before the Meeting his Letter Book containing the copy of a letter
which he had written to Mr Peddie on the subject of a loan to Mr John Peter & renewing a
Note by Mr Ducat and others to the Trustees of which the following is a Copy:
Dundee 28 Oct 1831
Dear Sir
I told your friend Provost Brown that I would be glad to have a few minutes
conversation when you came to town.
Mr John Peter at Keithock proposes to borrow £500 or £600 on the securities of
certain houses in Dundee which are rented at £48 per Annum. These were exposed at the
upset price of about £650 and might therefore appear rather little for £600 loan. But Mr John
Ramsay, Merchant in Dundee is to join for the regular payment of the Interest at 4½ per Cent
– The money to be for four or five years certain after Marts. next. Mr John Ramsay I consider
to be in very good circumstances & the bound only for the Interest it is almost the same as if
he were bound for the principal.
There is £650 of Mr Pullar’s money lying in the Bank at three per Cent & I shall be
glad to learn if you are agreeable to lend £500 or £600 of this money to Mr Peter.
There was £500 of the Trust funds lent to Mr William Ducat upon a Promissory Note
by him. Messers John Gray & William Gray, Merchants in Dundee, Mr Thomas Smith, Farmer
at Haughs of Kinnaird, Mr Thomas Gray, Merchant in Montrose and the late Mr John Steele,
Merchant in Forfar. In consequence of Mr Steele’s death his family wish to get up his name
from the pro Note and Mrs Ducat proposes to renew it by all the other parties.
I should consider the money would be safe enough but I will require the Trustees
sanction to the change.
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I hope to hear from you in the course of a few days.
Meantime I remain &c
(Signed) Jas. Ogilvie
Mr Ogilvie also laid before the Meeting Mr Peddie’s answer of which the following is a
Copy:
Bankhead 11 th Nov 1831
Dear Sir
I received yours of the 28h Ulto. and 8 th instant: in regard to Mr Pullars Trust, if the
other Trustees are satisfied as to the security I am of opinion it is quite satisfactory.
I have to apologise for not answering your letter earlier.
And I am &c
(Signed) A. Peddie.
The Meeting having considered the foregoing correspondence they agree to lend Mr
Peter six hundred pounds on the proposed security for five years from Marts. last.
They approved a search of the Register of Sasines from the time that Mr Peter
acquired the right to the property from his brother James, which was in 1816, but in
consequence of Mr John Peter & Mrs Ramsay’s circumstances they consider ant other
search unnecessary.
They also agree to renew Mr Ducat’s Note as proposed being satisfied with him & the
other obligants without Mr Steele.
Dundee 26 February 1840
…Mr Ogilvie stated that Mr Ducats Note along with others to the Trustees for Five
hundred pounds Stg. was to be paid up on Friday next.
That the Dundee Sugar Refining Company had intimated that were to pay up their
Note to the Trustees ay Whitsunday next per One thousand Pounds & they offered to pay it
sooner if convenient for the Trustees.
Mr Ogilvie proposed to lend both sums per £1,500 to the Dundee & Arbroath Railway
Co. on a Statutory assignment at the rate of four & a half per Cent Interest.
The meeting having considered the proposal agreed thereto & authorised the Factors
to lend the money accordingly as soon as the assignment could be got ready.
Dundee 14 October 1845
The Kirk Session met &c. &c.
The Session unanimously nominated and appointed the following Members to be Trustees on
Pullar’s Mortification on the part of the Session and that for one year from this date Viz:
Revd. James Thomson
Do I. J. Adamson
Do John Tulloch
Messers John Bell, Stamp Office
John William Thomson, Writer
Thomas Bell, Merchant
John McKay Junr., Merchant
Peter Thoms, Merchant
John Hodgson Anderson, Merchant
Thomas Smith, Merchant
William Reid, Writer
William Young, Key Street
John Jack, Harbour Master
William Morris, High Street
Henry Smith, Manufacturer
William Thoms, Manufacturer
John Young, High Street
John Symers, Baxter
William Beharrie, Manufacturer
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Alexr. Keay, Session Clerk
Extracted per
(Signed) Alexr. Keay, J.Clk.
And that he had sent Circulars calling the present meeting to each of these Gentlemen, as
well as to the Convener of the Nine Trades of Dundee, the Nine Deacons as at present in
Office and the nine former Deacons, all Trustees appointed under the foresaid Deed of
Settlement for the purpose of declaring their Acceptance of the Trust, and making
arrangements for its future management. – thereafter the Trust Deed of the Intater having
been read to the Meeting the parties present declared their acceptance of Office, and before
proceeding farther appointed the following Gentlemen as a Committee viz:
The Revd. Jas. Thomson
The Revd. Dr Adie
Messers J. W. Thomson, Writer
William Reid, Writer
Wm. Morris, Police Treasurer
Jas. Spankie, Deacon of the Bonnetmakers
For the purpose of examining the Books and Documents of the Trust & to report thereon to
another General Meeting.
22 nd October 1845
The Committee having considered the terms of the Trust Deed gave it as their opinion that
the designation Deacons of the preceding year must be held to apply strictly, and that where
the Deacon if an Incorporation for the present year, had also been Deacon of the preceding
year he must be held to represent his incorporation in both Capacities.
Copy Assignation by James Ogilvie, Writer in Dundee in favour of the Kirk Session of
Dundee and General fund of the Nine Trades, thereto for behoof of the Trustees on
Pullars Mortifications
Of
Bond by William Sime & Others in favour of the said Trustees
I, James Ogilvie, Writer in Dundee sole surviving original Trustee nominate &
appointed by the deceased James Pullar formerly Baker in Dundee conform to Trust,
disposition and Deed of Settlement executed by the said James Pullar with consent of Mrs
Elizabeth Crawfurd or Pullar his Spouse dated the fifteenth day of November Eighteen
hundred and four and recorded in the Books of Council and Session the sixteenth day of
October Eighteen hundred and Eleven. Considering that the said decs. James Pullar 1
did by
his said Trust Disposition and Deed of Settlement Made and Granted as aforesaid but under
the Conditions , Reservations and Provisions therein inserted give and grant and dispone to
and in favour of James Gray, Walter Newall and Andrew Peddie Junior all then Merchants in
Dundee now deceased and to me the said James Ogilvie and to the Survivors or Survivor as
Trustees for the uses and purposes therein mentioned and to the assignees or disponees of
the said Trustees his whole Estate heritable and moveable of every description in Trust
always for the uses and purposes and under the conditions and reservations therein
mentioned as the said Trust Disposition & Deed of Settlement made and granted by the said
deceased James Pullar, it was inter alia declared, that upon the death or non acceptance of
any of the before named Trustees, the whole property thereby conveyed should rest in the
survivor who should be obliged to denude of the Trust and account for his intromissions with
the Trust Estate, pay over whatever balance may be then remaining in his hands, and at the
same time redispone the lands vested and recover whatever grounds of debt may be then
standing in the person to and in favour of the minister of the Overgate District in the Parish of
Dundee for the time being and his successors in Office, Twenty members of the Kirk Session
of Dundee elected by that Body, the Convener and Deacons of the Nine Incorporated Trades
of Dundee then in Office and to nine Deacons of the preceding year, and their successors in
Office as Trustees & Patrons for the uses ends and purposes and with the several powers
and privileges thereby conferred on the Trustees therein named. Declaring that twenty of the
said new Trustees assembled should Constitute a Meeting, and the Majority of the Meeting a
1 “A”
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sufficient Quorum it being thereby Chaired declared that the Clerk to the Nine Incorporated
Trades should be their Clerk, keep regular accounts and make the same patent to the
Inspection of any of the Managers.
And farther Declaring that before the denuding of the Trust thereby Conveyed the
surviving original Trustee should be Entitled to relief of all the engagements he may have
come under in the management of the said Trust.
And seeing that in consequence of the death of the said Walter Newall on the
Seventeenth day of August last, the other two Trustees having formerly predeceased him the
foresaid Trust Estate has now become vested solely in my person in terms of the said Trust
Disposition and Deed of Settlement aforesaid and that it has become necessary to denude
myself of the said Trust in terms thereof to and in favour of the following persons videlict The
Revd. Charles Adie, Doctor of Divinity, Minister of the Overgate District of Dundee, the Revd.
James Thomson, the Revd. John Lindsay Adamson, the Revd. John Tulloch, three of the
Ministers of Dundee, John Bell of the Stamp Office Dundee, John William Thomson, Writer
there, Thomas Bell, Merchant there, John McKay junior, Merchant there, Peter Thomas,
Merchant there John Hodgson Anderson, Corn Merchant there, Thomas Smith, Merchant
there, William Reid, Writer there, William Young, Ship Owner there, John Jack, Harbour
Master there, William Morris Treasurer of Police there, Henry Smith, manufacturer there,
William Thoms, late Dean of Guild Dundee, John Symers, Banker there, William Beharrie
Manufacturer there, Alexander Keay Session Clerk there, George Marshall Steele Merchant
there, being twenty members of the Kirk Session of Dundee selected by the said Session in
terms of the said Trust Disposition and Deed of Settlement upon the fourteenth and twenty
eighth days of October Eighteen hundred and forty six Conform to Minutes of Meeting of said
Kirk Session of these dates and of John Mitchell Flax Spinner in Dundee, present Convener
of the Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee and the following present Deacons of the said
Nine Incorporated Trades videlict David Munro Baker in Dundee of the Baker Trade, John
Fenton Shoemaker in Dundee of the Cordiner Trade, Peter Stewart Balharrie, Laird, James
Park Dundee of the Glover Trade, John Young, Tailor in Dundee of the Tailor Trade, James
Spankie, Manufacturer in Dundee of the Bonnetmaker Trade, Thomas Dick, Flesher in
Dundee of the Flesher Trade, George Hall Nicoll, Ironmonger in Dundee of the Hammerman
Trade, William Gibson, Manufacturer Dundee of the Weaver Trade, and John Stevenson Dyer
Dundee of the Waulker Trade and also of the following Deacons of the said Trades for the
preceding year, videlict, the said David Munro of the Baker Trade, the said John Fenton of the
Cordiner Trade, the said Peter Stewart of the Glover Trade, the said John Young of the Tailor
Trade, John Lamb, Manufacturer in Dundee of the Bonnetmaker Trade, the said Thomas Dick
of the Flesher Trade, John Justice, Blacksmith in Dundee of the Hammerman Trade , the said
William Gibson of the Weaver Trade and Robert Chapman, Dyer in Dundee of the Waulker
Trade
Whereas the said parties before named as trustees and patrons of the funds Mortified
by the said James Pullar or at least in quorum of them have upon the Twenty sixth day of
November Eighteen hundred and forty six Granted and Discharge in my favour and in favour
of the said other Trustees under the said Mortification or our actings and Intromission with the
funds of the said Estate under the said Trust Disposition and Deed of Settlement: And
Whereas the before mentioned new Trustees or Patrons consist of a number of persons who
may be selected for that Office Annually and were present to take the feudal title to the Bond
and Disposition under Revision of Termination in their name and have been requested
therefore to assign & depone the same in the names of the Kirk Session of Dundee, and of
the General fund of the said Nine Incorporated Trades respectively for behoof of the before
mentioned Trustees and Patrons and their successors if Office And for the purpose of the
said Trust.
2 “B”
Therefore 2
, I do hereby assign dispone and convey to and in favour of the Revd.
Doctor Archibald McLauchlan, Doctor Charles Adie, James Thomson, John Lindsay
Adamson, and John Tulloch, all Ministers and Members of the Kirk Session of Dundee, and to
Alexander Keay, Session Clerk, Dundee and William Morris, Kirk Treasurer there, also
members of the said Kirk Session for themselves and remanent members of the said Kirk
Session and of the said John Mitchell present Convener of the said Nine Incorporated Trades
and Peter Thomson, Manufacturer in Dundee present Boxmaster of the said Nine
Incorporated Trades for behoof of the General Fund thereof and their successors in Office of
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the said several parties respectively and their Assignees and disponees but in Trust as
aftermentioned a Bond and Disposition under Severain dated the twelfth day of February
Eighteen hundred and forty six for the sum of Fifteen hundred pounds Sterling granted by
William Sime, bookseller in Dundee, Alexander Hean and Peter Hean Wrights and Builders
there and Robert Adamson, Merchant there as Trustees for behoof of themselves and their
respective heirs and successors and also personally to and in favour of the said Walter
Stewart and me the only surviving Trustees before mentioned and the survivors of him and
me with interest from the term of Whitsunday last Eighteen hundred and forty six: And Also All
and Whole the following subjects Videlicet:
First. All and whole Lot tenth lying on the west side of Reform Street of Dundee,
being the Corner lot on the north side of the Street leading from Reform Street to the
Westward and called Bank Street as delineated on a plan thereof subscribed in manner
mentioned in the feu contract in favour of the said Trustees. And which Lot tenth is bounded
on the south by Bank Street, - on the North partly by Lot Eleventh, of the original ground plan
of Reform Street and partly by the property of the Town of Dundee, on the west by the portion
of the Lot or stance for building after described and on the east by the line of Reform Street,
the length of the said lot along that St. from the north line of Bank St. to the Centre of the
mutual gable, on the north being forty seven feet, six inches.
And second, all and whole, that piece or portion of a lot or piece of ground or stance
for building being part of the subjects which belonged formerly to David Stewart, Builder
Dundee afterwards to the town and Community of Dundee situated immediately to the
westward of the said lot both and on the north side of Bank Street. Which lot of ground
consists of the space marked “M” and coloured pink on a plan prepared by William Scott
Architect Dundee, and which said piece or portion of the said Lot is the east portion thereof &
lies immediately on the west of said Lot tenth of Reform Street and extends ten feet west from
the west boundary of said Lot tenth – bounded the said portion on the tenth by Bank Street on
the north by the Old Burying Ground Wall on the west by the property belonging to the Town
of Dundee, and on the east by the said Lot tenth with the houses or building lately erected on
the said subjects first and second above disponed and whole parts privileges & pertinents of
the same together with all right title and interest which as trustee foresaid have or can claim
thereto but excepting always therefrom the subjects aftermentioned videlicet:
First All and whole the second flat above the shop storey or third flat from the ground
of the westmost tenement of Land built by the said granters of the north side of Bank Street
and being immediately above the flats of said tenement occupied by Messers Shiell and
Small Writers Dundee part of the forsaid subjects, which second flat was disponed by the said
Granters to William Hen writer in Dundee conform to Disposition by the said grantor in his
favour dated Second Augt Eighteen hundred and forty five with the privileges & under the
declaration therein mentioned, but always under a real & preferable burden of a ground
Annual Viz. ten pounds Stg liquidate penalty and termly failure therein inserted payable at the
times and under the penalties therein contd.
Second All and Whole the first flat or storey above the shops of that tenement of land
built by the said Grantors in part of let tenth first above described together with that Small
cellar in the ninth Area of the said tenement beneath the Common stair and pertinents thereto
belonging. All as disponed by them to David Miln Banker in Dundee and others as Trustees
for the Partners of the East of Scotland Life Assurance Company conform to Contract entered
into betwixt them on the one part and the said David Miln and others the Ordinary directors of
the said East of Scotland Life Assurance Company and Ebenezer Erskine Scott residing in
Dundee as Manager of the said Co. on the other part dated the Eighth, tenth, eleventh and
twelfth day of July Eighteen hundred and forty five but always with and under the real and
preferable burden of a ground Annual or yearly payment of ten pounds Stg. int. and penalty at
the term and under the penalties therein contained.
Third All and Whole the first and second flats from the ground and the north half of
the Cellar under the first flat of the westmost tenement of land built by the said Trustees on
the north side of Bank Street before described which had been sold but not then disponed by
them to John Shiell & David Small both Writers in Dundee for themselves and as Trustees for
the Company of Shiell & Small W riters Dundee with the same privileges and under the same
restrictions as are applicable to the subjects disponed by them to William Hen Writer Dundee,
but always with and under the real and preferable burden of a ground Annual or yearly
payment of twenty pounds sterling payable half yearly at the terms of Whitsunday and
Martinmas by equal portions with a fifth part more of liquidate penalty for each time failure and
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the legal interest of the said ground Annual from and after the respective terms of payment of
the same during the non payment.
And further I do hereby as only Surviving Trustee foresaid Alienate and dispone to my
said disponees and their foresaids in trust as aforesaid heritably but with and under the
Conditions aftermentioned the foresaid several Ground Annuals of ten pounds payable by the
said William Hen out of the subjects deponed to him as aforesaid, the like sum of ten pounds
payable by the Directors of the said East of Scotland Life Assurance Company out of the
subjects disponed to the trustees for the said Company as aforesaid. And the sum of twenty
pounds which was to be made payable out of the said subjects sold to the said John Shiell
and David Small as trustees foresaid with the Dispos. of the said subjects or Contracts
relating thereto in so far as regards the said ground Annuals hereby disponed.
The Declaring that the foresaid Subjects are hereby disponed with and under the
conditions, provisions and declarations contained in a Contract and Disposition entered into
between the Magistrates and Town Council of Dundee, with consent of the trustees therein
mentioned proprietors of the foresaid pieces of Ground on the one part and the Granters of
the said Bond on the Other Part of dates thirty first May, and Eleventh, fourteenth and
Seventeenth days of June, Eighteen hundred and forty five And recorded in the Burgh Court
Books of Dundee, on the 26 day of July in year last mentioned upon which the Granters of the
said Bond were duly infeft conform to Instrument of Sasine in their favour dated the Eighth
recorded in the Register of Sasines in the Burgh of Dundee the sixteenth day of July Eighteen
hundred and forty five And special reference is here made to the said Contract and
Disposition of the said Infeftment thereon of the dates and recorded aforesaid, as containing
the said Conditions provisions & Declaration which are declared to subsist and be obligatory
upon the heirs singular successors and assignees of the said Granters and all others
concerned particularly declaring that the said Contract was granted always under the real
preferable burden of forty pounds Stg. of Ground Annual, or yearly payment out of said Lot
both house therein and privileges and pertinants thereof, And of four pounds Stg. of ground
Annual or yearly payment our of the said portion or Lot, in Bank Street houses therein and
privileges and pertinants thereof together with Interest and penalty as therein And
aftermentioned which the said Granters of the said Bond by the said Contract bound
themselves to pay in manner therein and herein after mentd. to the therein named and
disponed trustees acting under a Disposition in Security granted by the Magistrates and Town
Council of Dundee for behoof of the Creditors of said Burgh & to the survivors and survivor of
them and to each person or persons as might be assumed into the said Trust or their factor or
assignees and these in their names having right to receive the same of the foresaid sum of
Forty pounds and five pounds Stg. in name of Ground Annuals or yearly payments for said
several subjects and that at the terms of Whity and Martinmas in such year by equal
Instalments in all time coming with a fifth part more of such terms payment of such Ground
Annuals of liquidate penalty for each term failure in the punctual payment thereof and the
legal interest of the said ground Annual from and after the term of payment thereof during the
non-payment of the same & Declaring that if at any time two full years ground Annual of said
subjects shall be fully resting and unpaid then the said Contracts and Infeftment therein
should in the option of the said Magistrates and Town council and their foresaids become void
shall in like manner as if the said contract had never entered into without the necessity of any
Declarator or process of Law to that effect, And the said Magistrates and Town Council and
their presents as said Trustees should instantly be at liberty to remove the granters of the said
Bond and their foresaids from the subjects the ground Annuals of which shall have so fallen in
arrears and it should not be competent to place the initiancy at the Bar in any Process of
Removing which the said Magistrates and Council and foresaids might bring agt. them and
their foresaids but notwithstanding the said irritancy it should be lawful to the said Magistrates
and Council and their foresaids or said trustees in case of not punctual payment of such
Ground Annuals at the stipulated terms of payment thereof to remain effectual their hypothe
thereof as accords of Law and to found and distrain as much of the residues of goods and
effects for the time being on said subjects for payment of said Ground Annuals as they should
fail. And all bygones thereof and of the Annual rent & penalty incurred their failure as
aforesaid to otherwise to pursue therefor according to Law; which respective Annual
payments or Ground Annuals of forty pounds and five pounds payable out of the said several
Subjects interest thereof and liquidate penalty And the Declaration relative thereto therein and
herein above invested thereby expressly declared to form real and preferable burdens on and
affecting the said subjects houses built therein and privileges pertinants thereby disponed:
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And which ground Annuals interest and penalties and said declaration relative thereto are
accordingly appointed to be specially ingrossed therein and in all the future Infeftments and
investitures of said subjects & privileges and pertinants thereof or any part thereof under the
pain of nullity ipso facto all as specified and described in the said Bonds And Dispn. under
Reversion and Instrument of Sasine therein dated the twelfth day of February Eighteen
hundred and forty six and recorded in the Regt. of Sasines &c for the Burgh of Dundee, the
seventeenth day of the said Month and year Declaring always as it is hereby provided and
declared that notwithstanding of the assignation aforesaid to and in favour if the said Kirk
Session of Dundee and of the said Convener and Boxmaster of the said Nine Incorporated
Trades in name of the General fund thereof of the foresaid Bond and Dispn. under reversion
that the same is not on that acct. to be held by these bodies for their own use respectively but
for the use and behoof of the before mentioned new Trustees and Patrons now Empowered
to Act under the said deceased James Pullar’s Trust Dispn. and Deed of Settlement aforesaid
and their successors in Office and shall be under the entire management and administration
of them as Trustees and Patrons foresaid and their successors and the same contained in the
said Deed and Disposition under reversion together with the other funds of the said Trust
shall be administered and applied by the said new bodies, and Patrons and their foresaids in
terms of the said James Pullar’s Trust and Settlement for the uses and purposes following,
that is to say, for payment of the following Annuities Vizt:
To the Dundee Infirmary ten pounds Stg. to the Poor of the Nine Trades in Dundee
Five pounds Stg. to the Kirk Session Dundee for behoof of the Poor there of five pounds Stg.
which last Annuity shall be give at the door of the Old Church on the first Sunday of each year
by the deacon of the Baker Trade in Dundee and after answer by these Annuities the one half
of the yearly surplus shall be applied in towards maintaining and Educating ten poor boys who
must not be admitted under six years of age nor continue longer in the fund than six years
and the other half of the Interest to be distributed among ten poor old men and women not
below sixty years if age - such boys and Paupers of the name of Pullar and particularly those
who can have their pedigree from John Pullar, farmer in the Miln of Haughmuir, father of the
said trustee to be preferred All and Declaring further that the said Kirk Session and the said
Convener and Boxmaster of the General fund of the Nine Trades for behoof thereof my
assignees as aforesaid shall be Council and obliged as by acceptation hereof they bind and
oblige themselves and their successors if Office to Divide and Divest themselves of the
foresaid Bond and thereafter under reservation before applied when reqd to do so by the said
new Trustees & Patrons before mentioned and their successors in Office And to Grant
assignations thereof in favour of such party or parties as they may nominate for that purpose
or to grant discharges thereof they being always freed of any defence of any such assignation
or discharge.
In Witness whereof I have subscribed these presents written upon this & the nine
preceding pages on stamped paper together with the marginal note on page 4 th .
William Black, Clerk to Thomas Lovell Hammond Writer in Dundee at Dundee the 15 th
day of Decr in the year 1846 before these Witnesses
George Robertson Wilson & Alex Robertson, both Appces to James and John Ogilvie
Writers in Dundee
(Signed) Jas. Ogilvie
G. R. Wilson Witness
Alexr. Robertson Witness
Copy a ssignation by James Ogilvie Writer Dundee In favour of the Kirk Session
of Dundee and General fund of the nine trades there for behoof of the Trustees on
Pullars Mortification
of
Bond by John Peter Esqr in favour of the said Trustees.
James Ogilvie Writer in Dundee sole surviving original Trustee nominated and
Appointed by the deceased James Pullar former Baker in Dundee conform to Trust
Disposition and Deed of Settlement executed by the said James Pullar with consent of Mrs
Elizabeth Crawfurd or Pullar his Spouse dated the fifteenth day of November Eighteen
hundred and four and recorded in the Books of Council and Session the sixteenth day of
October Eighteen hundred and eleven. Considering (here the same narrative was inserted as
in the preceding Copy Assignations from “A” to “B”)
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Therefore I do hereby Assign dispone and convey to and in favour of the Revd.
Doctor Archibald McLaughlin, Doctor Charles Adie, James Thomson, John Lindsay Adamson
and John Tulloch all Ministers and Members of the Kirk Session of Dundee and to Alexander
Keay Session Clerk Dundee and William Morris Kirk Treasurer there also Members of the
said Kirk Session for themselves and remnant members of the said Kirk Session and of John
Mitchell present Convener of the said Nine Incorporated Trades and Peter Thomson
Manufacturer in Dundee present Boxmaster of the said nine incorporated Trades for behoof
of the General fund thereof and the successors in Office of the said several parties
respectively and their Assignees and disponees but in Trust as after mentioned; A Bond and
Disposition under Reversion dated the twenty fifth day of November Eighteen hundred and
thirty one for the sum of Six hundred pounds sterling granted by John Peter residing at
Keithock in favour of the said Walter Newall, Andrew Peddie and myself the then surviving
Trustees aforesaid and the survivors or survivor of them and me with interest from the term of
Whitsunday last Eighteen hundred and forty six, the said Bond and Disposition under
Revision containing as collateral obligations by John Ramsay., Merchant in Dundee for
payment of the Interest on the said Bond. Together also with the sum of thirty pounds
deposited by the said John Peter with James and John Ogilvie Writers in Dundee as Agents
for the said James Pullar’s Trustees upon the twenty eighth day of October eighteen hundred
and forty three in security of the said Bond which sum of Thirty pounds was lodged by the
said James and John Ogilvie in their name as Agents foresaid in the Bank of Scotland’s
Branch at Dundee of the date last mentioned together with the whole Interest accrued
thereon.
And also All and Whole the following subjects after described Vizt:
Primo all and Whole that flat now or formerly occupied by James Goodlett being the
first above the shops or second from the ground on the southern half or division of that
tenement of land lying on the Westside of Peter Street of Dundee (sometime ago built by the
now deceased John Peter of Dundee) sometime ago built by the now deceased John Peter
late Builder in Dundee with the cellar under the staircase of said Tenement being part of that
property purchased by the said deceased John Peter from Patrick Alexander, and Thomas
Williamson’s and bounded the said southern half or division of said Tenement on the north by
the northern half or division of the said Tenement, on the west by the property disponed by
the said John Peter to the Dundee Union Bank on the south by the property belonging to
James Scott Jr or of the Trustees for his Creditors, and on the east by the said Street called
Peter Street.
Secundo All and Whole the tenement of lands lying on the northside of the
Murraygate of Dundee and bounded by the common close or passage now called Pullars
Close leading from the Murraygate of Dundee to the Meadows on the West by a toofall
belonging to James Pullar Baker on the north by the subjects belonging to the said James
Pullar and others – on the East and by a tenement of land formerly belonging to Alexander
Smith Clockmaker in Dundee and fronting the Murraygate on the southparts.
Tertio. All and Whole that tenement of land consisting of three stories lying at the
north end of that street leading from the Turnpike road to the Infirmary commonly called the
Infirmary entry which tenememt of land is bounded by the ground belonging to the said
Infirmary, On the north by a common close on the east by a tenement of land still belonging to
James Peter residing at Kirkland on the south and by the said street called Infirmary entry on
the west parts.
As also All And Whole that small tenement of land or toofall consisting of two stories
with the exception of the northern half of the ground storey thereof which has been disponed
to Widow Ferguson, which small tenement of land lies on the east side of the common close
which forms the eastern boundary of the tenement of lands immediately above disponed and
is bounded by the said common close on the west partly by the ground belonging to the
Infirmary and partly by the garden belonging to on the north by the said garden on the east
and by the small tenememt of land still belonging to the said James Peters on the south parts
which two tenements of land last above disponed were erected by the said decd John Peters
upon part of the subjects purchased by him from George & Lynes Fyfe which subjects
formerly belonged to the said deceased John Peter thereafter to the said James Peters as
heir cognosed and infeft therein to him and were disponed by the said James Peter to the
said John Peter the granter of the said Bond, together with the free ish and entry to the whole
subjects thereby disponed with the whole privileges and pertinants of the said subjects and all
right title and interest which I as Trustee foresaid had have or can claim or pretend to the said
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several subjects or any part thereof, all as specified and described in the said Bond and
disposition under reversion and Instrument of Sasine thereon dated the twenty ninth and
Registered in the Register of Sasines &c kept for the Burgh of Dundee the thirtieth day of
November Eighteen hundred and thirty one
Declaring (Here the same Declaration of Trust was inserted as in the preceding copy
Assignation from “A to “B”)
In Witness Whereof I have subscribed these presents written upon this and the five
preceding pages of Stamped paper by William Black Clerk to Thos. Lovell Hammond Writer in
Dundee.
At Dundee the 13 th day of Decr in the year 1846 before these Witnesses George
Robertson Wilson and Alexander Robertson both Apprentices to James and John Ogivlie
Writers Dundee.
(Signed) Jas. Ogilvie
G. Wilson Wtiness
Alexr. Robertson, Witness.
Copy Assignation by James Ogilvie Writer Dundee In favour of the Kirk Session of
Dundee and General fund of the nine Trades there for behoof of the Trustees on
Pullars Mortification
of
A Bond by Alexander McDonald in favour of the said Trustees.
I James Ogilvie W riter in Dundee sole surviving original Trustee nominated and
Appointed by the deceased James Pullar formerly Baker in Dundee conform to Trust
disposition and Deed f Settlement executed by the said James Pullar with consent of Mrs
Elizabeth Crawfurd or Pullar his spouse dated the 13 th day of November 1804 and recorded in
the Books of the Council &Session the 16 th day of October 1811
Considering (here the same narrative was inserted in the preceding Copt Assignation
of Bond by William Sime and others from “A” to “B”)
Therefore I of hereby Assign Dispone and convey to and in favour of the Revd.
Doctor Archibald MacLauchlan, Doctor Charles Adie, James Thomson, John Lindsay
Adamson and John Tulloch all ministers and members of the Kirk Session of Dundee And to
Alexander Keay Session clerk Dundee and William Morris Kirk Treasurer there also members
of the said Kirk Session for themselves and remnant members of the said Kirk session and of
the said John Mitchell present convener of the said nine incorporated trades and Peter
Thomson Manufacturer in Dundee present Boxmaster of the said nine incorporated trades for
behoof of the General fund thereof and their successors in office of the said several parties
respectively and their Assignees and disponees nut in trust as after mentioned a Bond or
Disposition under Reversion dated the 22 nd day of November 1830 for the sum of six hundred
pounds granted by Alexander McDonald Printer in Dundee in favour of me and Walter Newalll
and Andrew Peddie before designed the then surviving Trustees aforesaid and the survivors
or survivor of them and me with interest from the term of Whitsunday last 1846 Together also
with the sum of Twenty pounds seven shillings and two pence being expenses incurred on
the said Bond and also All and Whole the subjects following vizt.
Primo all and Whole that piece of ground with the tenement of land lately built by the
deceased James Bennet Wright in Dundee upon part thereof upon which there was formerly
a dwelling house and afterwards a Warehouse and Wright Shop lying on the northside of the
Seagate of Dundee and was disponed to the said James Bennet by Roderick Ormond
Merchant in Dundee and bounded by the Malthouse and other subjects belonging to the heirs
and successors of the said Roderick Ormond on the north by the mutual gavel wall which
divides the said piece of ground from the tenement belonging to Francis Drummond on the
east, By the subjects disponed by the said Roderick Ormond to John Peter in the west and by
the Seagate on the south parts with free ish and entry to the said subjects as at present.
Together with all title and interest which his Trustees foresaid had have or can
pretend to the said subjects.
Secundo all and Whole that piece of ground consisting of nineteen falls and 11 ells
Scots measure Measure or 24 Polls and 10 yards Imperial Measure or thereby being lot
number 13 on a Plan by David Neave Architect in Dundee of these portions of the lands of
Logie acquired by Robert Milne Writer in Dundee from Mrs Elizabeth Read of Anderson now
called Milnbank bounded as follows Viz:
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By lot number 12 of said grounds feued to Aikman Miller on the east, by lot number
14 feued to Charles Henderson on the west, by the lands of Blackness from which the same
are separated by a small rivulet on the south and by a road or street of 30 feet in breadth on
the north parts.
Declaring that one half of the breadth of the said road so far as it bounds the said
piece of grounds is included in the measurement thereof.
Together with these and privilege of the wells erected by the said Tobert Miln near to
the centre of the foresaid lands and free access thereto.
Together also with the teinds and other pertinents of said piece of ground all lying
within the Lordship of Scone formerly in the United parishes of Liff Logie and Invergowrie now
in the Parish of Dundee and shire of Forfar.
But always with and under the declarations contained in and referred to in the Feu
Disposition of the said subjects last above disponed granted by the said Robert Miln I favour
of the said Alexander McDonald date the 17 th day of July 1830.
All as specified ad describes in the said Bond and Disposition under reversion and
Instrument of Sasine thereon n o far as regards the Burgage property first above described
date the 24 th day of November 1830 and Registered in the Register of Sasines &c kept for the
Burgh of Dundee the same day and also Instrument of Sasine thereon in so far as regards the
landivard property second above described dated the said 24 th day of November 1830. and
Registered in the particular Register of Sasines &c kept at Dundee of Forfarshire the same
day together with a letter of obligation in our favour as Trustees foresaid made and granted by
James Sydgate Blacksmith in Dundee & George Robertson Plasterer there Trustees for the
Creditors for the said Alexander McDonald dated the 7 th day of March 1837 for payment of eh
interest on the said Bond and Disposition under reversion.
In Witness hereof I have subscribed these presents written upon this and the five
preceding pages of Stamped paper together with the marginal additions on pages first and
sixth by William Black clerk to Thomas Lovell Hammond Writer in Dundee.
At Dundee the 15 th day of Decr in the year 1846 before these Witnesses George
Robertson Wilson and Alexander Robertson both apprentices to James and John Ogilvie
Writers in Dundee
(Signed) Jas. Ogilvie
R.R. Wilson witness
Alexr Robertson Witness.
Copy Discharge by the new Trustee s of Pullar’s Mortification in favour of the
Original Trustee s
Of the three preceding Assignations
Whereas by Trust disposition and Settlement dated the 15 th day of December 1804
and codicil thereto annexed dated the 28 th day of April 1810 and Recorded in the Books of
Council and Session the 16 October 1811, made and granted by James Pullar late Baker in
Dundee with consent of Mrs Elizabeth Crawford otherwise Pullar the said James Pullar with
consent foresaid and the said Mrs Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar for herself and they both with
mutual advice and consent did under the conditions reservations and provisions therein after
inserted.
Give Grant and Dispone in favour of James Gray, Walter Newall and Andrew Peddie
all then Merchants in Dundee and James Ogilvie Writer there and to the survivors or survivor
of them the major part alive and accepting at the time being always a quorum as Trustees for
the uses and purposes therein aftermentioned and to the assignees or disponees of the said
Trustees All and Sundry lands and heritages (save and excepting the subjects disponed by
the said James Pullar to the said Elizabeth Crawford in liferent and John Pullar Baker in
Dundee in fee by Disposition of date 16 th January 1800) and all debts and sums of money
heritable and moveable due by Heritable Bonds Adjudications, Personal Bonds, Bills or other
vouchers of debt and all sundry personal and moveable effects of every kind and
denomination belonging to the said James Pullar or which shall belong to him at the time of
his death dispensing with the generality thereof and declaring the same to be as valid and
effectual as if his said whole estate Heritable and Moveable real and personal were therein
particularly described and which whole subjects heritable and moveable thereby disponed
were conveyed in Trust always for the uses and purposes and under the conditions and
reservations therein after mentioned vizt:
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That the said Trustees should upon the death of the said James Pullar recover the
several debts and sums of money due to him to be by them employed in manner following.
That is to say in the first place the said Trustees should satisfy and pay all the just
and lawful debts that should be resting and owing by the said James Pullar at the time of his
death and in the next place they should lend out the neat Balance of the said debts due to
him when recovered in good security heritable or personal and should pay over to the said
Elizabeth Crawford during her life in case she should survive him the whole interest arising
therefrom with the whole dividends and profits arising from his other personal subjects and
the whole rents of his heritable property and at the first term of Whitsunday or Martinmas after
the death of both her and him the said Trustees should make payment to any person or
persons whom the said Elizabeth Crawford might point out by a writing under her hand the
sum of One Thousand pounds Sterling with Two Hundred pounds Sterling of liquidate penalty
in case of failure and the legal interest of the said principal sum from the said term of payment
yearly and termly thereafter during the non payment of the same. Declaring that in so far as
the said Sum of One thousand pounds should not be disposed of by the said Elizabeth
Crawford by a writing under her hand the same should be exigible and also Declaring that
whatever property she might be possessed of arising from the interest of rents of the property
thereby conveyed and including her Household furniture, body clothes, paraphernalia or
otherwise and shall fail to dispose thereof in manner foresaid the same should be deemed
and considered as part of the Trust Estate thereby conveyed and be at the disposal of the
said Trustees. Which provision the said Elizabeth Crawford accepted in full satisfaction of
every thing she could claim through her husbands death in case she survived him or that her
Exers or nihgest in kin could claim through her predecease; And with respect to his other
moveable means and Estate the same should be managed and preserved by the said
Trustees during the lifetime of the said Elizabeth Crawford with her consent except the
household furniture which was to be at her absolute disposal and after her death he
appointed the said Trustees to sell and dispose of the same together with his lands and
heritages as soon as convenient to be by them employed along with the rest of his Estate
thereby conveyed for the purposes after mentioned namely,
In the third place the said Trs. should pay the Several Legacies therein specified.
In the fourth place he appointed his said Trustees after his death to allow the sect of
Bereans in Dundee to continue in possession of that flat of the tenement of land situated in
the Methodist or Mitchells Close for the five yearly rent of £5 Sterling exclusive of cess and
repairs so long as they possessed the leading doctrines of the Beareans which were briefly
stated in the Encyclopaedia Perenthsis and detailed in the works of the late John Barclay and,
Lastly the remainder of the said Estate heritable and moveable thereby conveyed
should be allowed to accumulate with the interest to a Capital Stock of £3,000 Stg. after which
period the interest of the amount should be applied to discharge the following annuities vizt:
To the Dundee Infirmary £10 Sterling. To the Poor of the Trades of Dundee five
pounds Sterling. To the Kirk Session of Dundee for behoof of the Poor thereof Five pounds
Sterling which last annuity should be given at the door of the Old Church on the first Sunday
of every Year by the Deacon of the Baker Trade in Dundee; and after answering these
annuities the one half of the yearly surplus should be applied towards maintaining and
educating Ten poor Boys who should not be admitted under six years of age nor continue
longer on the fund than six years. And the other half of the interest to be distributed among
ten poor old men and women not below sixty years of age such boys and paupers of the
name of Pullar and particularly those who could prove their pedigree from John Pullar farmer
in Mill of Haughmuir, the father of the Testator should be preferred. And further it was thereby
declared that upon the death or non acceptance of any three of the before named Trustees
the whole property thereby conveyed should rest in the survivors who should be obliged to
denude of the Trust and account for his Intromissions with the Trust Estate, pay over
whatever Balance may be then remaining in is hand and at the same time redispone the land
described and reconvey whatever Grounds of Debt might be then standing in his person to
and in favour of the Minister of the Overgate District in the Parish of Dundee for the time
being and his successors in office, twenty members of the Kirk Session of Dundee selected
by that Body, to the Convener and Deacons of the Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee then
if Office and to the Nine Deacons of the preceding year and their successors in Office as
Trustees and Patrons for the uses ends and purposes and with the several powers and
privileges conferred by the said Settlement on the Trustees therein named.
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Declaring that twenty of these new Trustees assembled should constitute a meeting
and the majority of the meeting a sufficient quorum. It being thereby likewise declared that the
Clerk to the Nine Incorporated Trades should be their Clerk, keep regular accounts and make
the same patent to the Inspection of any of the Managers; and further declaring that before
denuding of the Trust thereby conveyed the surviving original Trustee should be entitled to
relief of all the engagements he may have come under in the management of the said Trust;
And Lastly, for carrying the said Trust Settlement more effectually into execution the
said James Pullar thereby nominated and appointed the said Trustee before named (blank )
or Survivor of them as said is for the uses and purposes foresaid to be his sole and only
Excrs. and Intromitters with his goods and gear with power to them to give up Inventories of
his Estate and to confirm his Testament if needful as the said Trust Disposition and
Settlement containing sundry other clauses in itself more fully bears.
And Whereas the said James Pullar died on the tenth day of October Eighteen
hundred and eleven and that the said James Gray, Walter Newall, Andrew Peddie Junior and
James Ogilvie survived him and accepted of the Office of Trustees and Executors conferred
on them by the said Trust Disposition and Settlement and entered upon the possession and
management of the Trust Estate.
And Whereas the said Mrs Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar survived the said James
Pullar her Husband but died on or about the month of May Eighteen hundred and twenty four
leaving a Trust Disposition and Settlement dated seventh February and Recorded in the
Sheriff Court Books of Forfarshire the twenty ninth day of May Eighteen hundred and twenty
four whereby she Gave, Granted, Assigned and Disponed to and in favor of the said James
Gray, Andrew Peddie and James Ogilvie as Trustees for the uses and purposes therein
mentioned her whole Estate heritable and moveable in particular without prejudice to the
generality the foresaid sum of One Thousand pounds Sterling payable to her and contained in
the said Trust Disposition and Settlement executed by the said James Pullar her Husband
and all and sundry other personal and moveable effects of every kind and denomination
belonging to her or which should belong to her at the time of her death.
And Wheras the said Trustees of the said James Pullar accounted for and paid over
to the said Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar or her Trustees of the rents Interests and profits
arising from the said James Pullar’s Trust Estate during her life and also made payment to
her Trustees of the foresaid sum of One Thousand pounds and have also made payment of
the whole other Legacies specified in the said Trust Disposition and Settlement and Codicil
executed by the said James Pullar and also the Testators debts and funeral Expenses and
that the said Trustees after the death of the said Elizabeth Crawford or Pullar sold and
disponed of the Trust properties which were liferented by her the premises of which
occupation was allowed to the Sect of Berians having been sold under that burden.
And Whereas from the state of the Trust funds of the said James Pullar which was
submitted to a Meeting of the Trustees upon the twenty second day of March Eighteen
hundred and twenty seven it appeared that the Trust Funds had the accumulated to three
Thousand Pounds of principal; the Trustees resolved to pay the annuities commencing in the
year Eighteen hundred and twenty seven and apply the surplus interest towards the
maintenance and Education of the persons pointed out in the Trust Deed and that the annual
payments to each Individual should be made by two equal instalments upon the first day of
June and the first day of December yearly beginning the first payment on the first day of June
Eighteen hundred and twenty seven for the half year following that date and so on half yearly
thereafter, and that the said Trustees have accordingly since that time regularly paid the said
annuities and applied the surplus Interest of the Trust funds for the purposes of the said
Mortification down to and including the payment which fell due first June last.
And whereas the said James Gray and Andrew Peddie Junior died several years ago
and the said Walter Newall died on the seventeenth day of August eighteen hundred and forty
six by which last event the whole Trust funds have been vested in the said James Ogilvie as
only surviving Trustee of the said James Pullar, and the said James Ogilvie as surviving
Trustee foresaid had become bound to denude of the Trust in favour of the parties pointed out
by the said Settlement;
And Whereas the Kirk Session of Dundee at a meeting held by them upon the
fourteenth day of October Eighteen hundred and forty six nominated and selected the
following individuals all of them members of that body to be twenty of the Trustees and
Patrons of the said Mortification in terms of the foresaid Trust disposition and settlement
executed by the said James Pullar vizt: the Revd. James Thomson, The Revd. John Lindsay
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Adamson, The Revd. John Tulloch, three of the Ministers of Dundee, John Bell of the Stamp
Office Dundee, John William Thomson, Writer there, Thomas Bell, Merchant there, John
McKay, Junior Merchant there, Peter Thoms Merchant there, John Hodgson Anderson Corn
Merchant there, Thomas Smith Merchant there, William Reid Writer there, William Young
Ship Owner there , John Jack Harbour Master there, William Morris Treasurer of Police there,
Henry Smith Manufacturer there, William Thoms late Dean of Guild Dundee, John Young
Tailor there, John Symers Banker there William Beharrie Manufacturer there, and Alexander
Keay Session Clerk there, and the said John Young having thereafter resigned his said
Appointment, the said Kirk Session at a Meeting held by them upon the twenty eighth day of
the said month of October nominated and appointed George Marshall Steel Merchant in
Dundee in his room;
And Whereas the said James Ogilvie as surviving original Trustee foresaid has
accounted to the Trustees and Patrons appointed to succeed him for the whole Intromissions
of himself and his Co-Trustees with the Trust funds of the said James Pullar which are
contained in fifteen accounts of Charge and Discharge between the said Trustees and their
Factors extending from the death of the said James Pullar, to the death of the said Walter
Newall and which are all engrossed in the Sederunt Book kept by the said Trustees, and the
last of which accounts shews a Balance in the hands of the Factors of One pound ten
shillings and two pence halfpenny;
And Whereas from a state of the funds of the said Walter Newall also Engrossed in
the Sederunt Book it appears that at the death of the said Walter Newall the funds of the Trust
now rested in the said James Ogilvie as surviving Trustee foresaid consist of as follows:
1 st The principal sum of Six hundred pounds contained in a Bond and Assignation
under Reversion granted by Alexander McDonald Printer in Dundee with interest thereof from
the term of Whitsunday last, and the sum of Twenty pounds seven shillings ad two pence
being expense incurred on the said Bond.
2 nd Principal sum of Six hundred pounds contained in Bond and Disposition in
security granted by John Peter merchant in Dundee with interest thereon from the term of
Whitsunday last, in security of which the said John Peter deposited with James and John
Ogilvie Writers Dundee as Agents for the said James Pullar’s Trustees the sum of Thirty
pounds upon the twenty eighth day of October Eighteen hundred and forty three.
3 rd The Principal sum of fifteen Hundred pounds contained in a Bond and Disposition
under Reversion by Robert Adamson Merchant in Dundee and others with Interest thereon
from Whitsunday last.
4 th Principal sum of Two hundred and fifty five pounds seventeen contained in a
deposit receipt of the Western Bank of Scotland in name of James and John Ogilvie Writers in
Dundee as Factors for the said Trustees with Interest thereon from nineteenth June last being
the date of receipt.
5 th the foresaid Balance of One pound ten shillings and two pence half penny in the
hands of the said James and john Ogilvie as Trustees foresaid and
6 th The sum of One pound three shillings and four pence being property tax due by
certain of the annuitants and which can be retained from their future annuities amounting in all
to the sum of Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy eight Pounds seventeen shillings
and eight pence halfpenny besides current interest.
And Now Seeing that the said James Ogilvie as surviving original Trustee has paid
over to the Trustees and Patrons appointed to succeed him in the Management of the said
Trust the foresaid Two hundred and fifty five pounds seventeen shillings and Interest due
thereon and also he foresaid sum of Thirty pounds deposited by the said John Peter in
security as aforesaid and whole interest accrued thereon and one pound ten shillings and two
pence halfpenny and had also at the request of the said new Trustees and Patrons executed
and delivered formal Assignations in favour of the Kirk Session of Dundee and the Nine
Incorporated Trades of Dundee in Trust for the purposes of the said James Pullar’s
Settlement of the three Bonds, and Dispositions in security or under Reversion above
mentioned in which Assignations it is specially provided and declared that notwithstanding of
the feudal Title to the said Bonds being taken in favour of the said Incorporations yet the
entire management and administration of the Trust should be vested in the Trustees and
Patrons pointed out by the said Trust Disposition and Settlement – And that the said James
Ogilvie has delivered up to the said new Trustees and Patrons the Titles of the said Securities
– the Titles of the properties over which the securities extend in so far as in his possession, -
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the Sederunt Book kept by the said original Trustees and the whole other papers and
documents relative to the said Trust.
Therefore I The Reverend Charles Adie Doctor of Divinity present Minister of the
Overgate district in the Parish of Dundee, We the said Reverends James Thomson, John
Lindsay Adamson and John Tulloch Ministers of the Gospel aforesaid, John Bell, John
William Thomson, Thomas Bell, John McKay Junior, Peter Thoms, John Hodgson Anderson,
Thomas Smith, William Reid, William Young, John Jack, William Morris, Henry Smith, William
Thoms, John Symers, William Beharrie, Alexander Keay and George Marshall Stele all before
designed being the twenty Members of the Kirk Session of Dundee selected by that Body as
aforesaid. I John Mitchell flax Spinner in Dundee present Convener of the Nine Incorporated
Trades of Dundee. We present Deacons of the said Trades, Mr David Hume Baker in Dundee
of the Baker Trade, John Fenton Shoe maker in Dundee of the Cordiner Trade, Peter Stewart
Balharrie’s Land, James Park Dundee of the Glover Trade, John Young Tailor in Dundee of
the Tailor Trade, James Spankie Manufacturer in Dundee of the Bonnet maker Trade,
Thomas Dick Flesher in Dundee of the Flesher Trade, George Hall Nicoll Ironmonger in
Dundee of the Hammerman Trade, William Gibson Manufacturer in Dundee of the Weaver
Trade and John Stevenson Dyer in Dundee of the Waulker Trade and We the Deacons of the
said respective Trades for the preceding year Vizt: I The Said David Hume of the said Baker
Trade, the said John Fenton of the Cordiner Trade, the said Peter Stewart of the Glover
Trade, the said John Young of the Tailor Trade, John Lamb Manufacturer in Dundee of the
Bonnet maker Trade, the said Thomas Dick of the Flesher Trade, John Justice Blacksmith in
Dundee of the Hammerman Trade, the said William Gibson of the Weaver Trade and Robert
Chapman Dyer in Dundee of the Waulker Trade as Trustees and Patrons of the Funds
Mortified by the said James Pullar and now entitled to act as such in consequence of the
death of thereof the said original Trustees or at least a quorum of us in meeting assembled
have exonered and discharged and do hereby with mutual consent exoner acquit and
Simpliciter discharge the said James Ogilvie as surviving original Trustee foresaid and his
heirs and executors and the representatives whosomever of the said deceases James Gray,
Andrew Peddie Junior and Walter Newall of his and their whole actings, transactions and
Intromissions with the Trust Estate and effect of the said deceased James Pullar under and
by virtue of his said Trust Disposition and Settlement itself and whole clauses tenor and
contents thereof and of all that has followed or that is competent to follow thereon; dispensing
with the generality these presents to be equally valid and effectual as if the whole actings and
Intromissions of the said original Trustees were herein specially enumerated and we oblige
the Trust Estate upon which we are Trustees and Patrons foresaid to warrant this discharge
to the said James Ogilvie and his foresaids and the Representatives of the said James Gray,
Andrew Peddie Junior and Walter Newall at all hands.
And in respect there is not sufficient space for all of us to subscribe each page of
these presents and the marginal (blank ) we do hereby with mutual consent specially authorise
the said (blank) or any of them to subscribe such of the eight preceding pages of these
presents, Declaring that these presents so subscribed shall be equally valid and effectual as if
each page had been subscribed by all of us any law or practice to the contrary
notwithstanding.
And We Consent to the Registration hereof in the Books of Council and Session or
others competent for preservation and that all execution necessary may pass hereon in form
as effeirs and thereto Constitute.
Our Procurators &c
In Witness Whereof these presents consisting of this and the nine preceding pages of
stamped paper all written by William McCaul, Clerk to James and John Ogilvie Writers in
Dundee are subscribed as follows vizt:
This and the ninth page by a majority and quorum of us in meeting assembled and
each of the eight pages preceding the ninth are also subscribed by the said Charles Adie and
John Mitchell as authorised in manner foresaid all at Dundee and in said Meeting assembled
the twenty sixth day of November Eighteen hundred and forty six years before these
witnesses Thomas Lovell Hammond Writer in Dundee and George Robertson Neilson
apprentice to the said James and John Ogilvie.
At a Meeting of the Committee of Trustee s held within the Office of the Clerk on
Wednesday the 16 th day of December 1846 at one o’clock afternoon
Dr Adie in the chair
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There was laid before the Trustees a letter from Mr John Peter offering his son as a
collateral security for payment of the Interest ii place of the late John Ramsay of which a Copy
follows:
Dundee 3 December 1846
To the Trustees of the late Mr Pullar
Gentlemen
The late Mr John Ramsay was co-lateral security for payment of the Interest on my
Bond over certain subjects for £600, to the Trustees of Mr Pullar’s Mortification. – As that
Gentleman’s Trustees have now almost completed their Trust, they have now called upon me
to relieve them from that obligation. I have therefore to request the favour of you to accept of
a missive from my Son John Peter Junior binding himself in Mr Ramsay’s place as Collateral
security for the Interest. – and as he is a Partner in an extensive Business in the Flax
Spinning at Rouen in France under a contract for 15 years with a sixth share in the Concern
and free House, Fire and Light his security may be considered good. The Company have a
Capital of £250,000 employed in the Business and his name is in the firm of I. Le Bandy.
I, Peter and Coy as acting Partners.
Your acceptance will oblige as I wish to acid all Expence of further papers till the
Bond is ultimately discharged. – And this is not the time to sell such property.
I am &c
(Signed) Jon Peter, Sen.
The Meeting resolved that they propose that Mr Peter should pay £200 to account of
the Bond, and they would allow he rest to remain on his own Security…
At a General Meeting of the Trustees in the late John Pullar’s Mortification
called by Circular and held within Mrs Hoods Hall St Clements Lane on Thursday the
11 th day of May 1848 at One o’clock of forenoon
Revd. James Thomson in the chair
A Letter from Mr John Peter wishing the Trustees to relieve The Trustees of the late
Mr John Ramsay as collateral Securities on his Bond was read to and laid before the meeting
of which the following is a Copy:
Dundee 2 nd May 1848
To the Trustees of the late Mr Pullar
Gentlemen
It was my intention agreeable to the offer of the Trustees sometime ago to have paid
you £200 of the Bond of £600 over my Property, but from the losses I have sustained since
that period it has been out of my power to do his and the Trustees of Mr Ramsay are
threatening legal process against me to compel it immediately as they intend throwing the
Convener of the Trust into the Court of Session, this would bring on heavy legal expenses
against me which I must by all means in my power endeavour to avoid.
Would you accept my son David as Collateral Security for the Interest on the place of
Mr Ramsay and your agent to collect the rent should the Interest not be paid regularly at the
term, but since I have heard this morning that the Interest had never lain over unpaid for a
day and was paid even without calling for it. Besides my intention still is to pay up the £200 as
soon as I recover myself a little to enable me to do so.
I will also allow your Agent to collect the rents or Mr Batchelor will do it and (blank)
them to (blank) in the Bank to (blank) payment of the Bond aver paying the Interest.
Your compliance will much oblige.
Your most obedt Servant
(Signed) John Peter Senr.
P.S. since writing the above I have received a very threatening letter from Mr D.
McLachlan to lay an attachment on all my Heritable Property wherever situated in Scotland &
by that I will be rendered powerless, this is a very harsh measure for so small a matter.
With a little assistance from a Friend I will be able to make up £100 on part payment
of the Bond at present and to allow the Rents commencing at Martinmas next to go towards
payment of the Bond to such an amount as the Trustees shall consider safe to remain on the
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Security of the Property to enable me to be relieved from Ramsay’s Trustees at this time and
prevent the necessity of further legal proceedings on the part of Mr R’s Trustees.
(Signed) John Peter Senr.
On considering which the Meeting unanimously resolved to adhere to their former
resolution come to a Meeting held on 16 th December 1846 with the addition of Mr David Peter
his son as collateral security.
At Dundee the 18 th day of May 1848
At a Meeting of the General Committee held within Mr Rollo’s office at ½ past
seven o’clock in the evening
Convener Spankie in the Chair
The Convener stated to the Meeting that Mr John Peter had expressed verbally to
him his readiness to pay two hundred pounds towards liquidation of his Bond and to grant the
security of his son David as a Collateral Security, as arranged at last General Meeting; And
the Committee unanimously agreed to recommend such be accepted and that Mr David Peter
grant Bill for the Four hundred pounds payable one day after date, a Back Letter to be given
to him restricting the same as a security for the Balance of Principal in the Bond, and Interest
to arise thereon and on Mr Peter granting a Letter stating his readiness to pay and grant said
Security, the Meeting authorised the Clerk to send the requisite Papers to Ramsay’s Agents
to prepare the Discharge, and after being revised and adjusted, the same to be laid before a
General Meeting for approval and signature.
At Dundee the Ninth day of August Eighteen hundred and forty eight at a
Meeting of the Standing committee held this evening within Mr Rollo’s Office at Seven
o’clock
Convener Spankie in the chair
The Clerk stated that having received a Letter from Mr John Peter in terms of last
Minute he sent the requisite Papers to Messers Shaw, Reid & Mr McLauchlan Agents for
Ramsay’s Trustees in order to prepare the Discharge which was afterwards revised and now
returned on the Requisite stamp for signature and which was laid before the meeting; he
farther stated that he had given in the Assignation of Peters Bond by Mr Ogilvie to the
Trustees to be recoded in the Burgh Register of Sasines which was absolutely necessary to
complete the Trustees Title to the Bond or to enable them to Discharge the same and he
recommended that the Assignations to the other Bonds should likewise be recorded as there
was no real vested right to them till such was done.
The Clerk farther laid before the Meeting a Draft of the Bill or Promissory Note to be
taken from Mr David Peter and the relative Back Letter to be granted by him which being
considered by the Meeting were approved of; But as the discharge proceeds on the Narrative
that the parties in right of the Bond have been requested to grant the same by the Trustees
the Meeting resolved to call a General Meeting of the Trustees to lay the whole matter before
them and get their sanction to call upon the parties in right of the Bond to execute the
Discharge – and the Clerk was instructed to call a General Meeting for Monday first at one
o’clock.
At Dundee the Seventeenth day of August Eighteen hundred and forty eight at
a General Meeting of the Trustees on the late Mr James Pullar’s Mortification held this
evening within Mrs Hoods Hall St Clements Lane at one o’clock
Revd. James Thomson in the chair
The Minutes of last General Meeting being read also the Back Letter to be granted to
Mr David Peter and the Promissory Note to be taken from Him – were approved of.
The meeting unanimously agreed to call upon the Parties in right of the Bond and
Disposition by Mr John Peter to sign the Discharge to Mr John Ramsay’s Trustees – which
was read to the Meeting and approved of and the Clerk instructed accordingly and
empowered to grant the said letter and the meeting farther instruct the Clerk to get a valuation
of the Properties over which the Bonds held for behoof of the Trust extends – by Messers
James Samson & William Robertson Masons.
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Sir
Copy Letter referred to in the foregoing Minute
Dundee 29 th august 1848
David Peter Esq, Merchant Dundee
At a General Meeting of the Trustees on the late Mr John Pullar’s Mortification held
on the seventeenth August I was appointed in name & on behalf of the said Trustees to
intimate to you that altho’ you have granted your promissory Note per £400 payable to James
Spankie Esq. Convener of the Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee & Alexander Keay
Session Clerk there for Behoof of the Trustees on said Mortification of Date the 29 th Instant
and payable one day after date the same is held as a Collateral Security only for the sum of
£400 & corresponding Interest penalties & expenses if incurred being the Balance due on a
Bond & Disposition under reversion granted by Mr John Peter your Father and the now
deceased John Ramsay late Merchant in Dundee to the Trustees of said Mortification of Date
the 25 th November 1831 or for any deficiency that may arise in the event of a Sale by said
Trustees of the Property thereby convened (the said Promissory note having been accepted
as an equivalent for et obligation come under by the said John Ramsay in said Bond &
Disposition his Trustees having been Discharged in Consequence of the same & £200 paid to
account of the Principal in the Bond) and the said Trustees shall not be at liberty to negotiate
said Bill to proceed with Diligence thereon until said Balance is ascertained by a sale as
aforesaid.
(Signed) D. W. Rollo
Clerk to Pullar's Mortification
Minute of Committee omitted to be engrossed from the Scroll Minute Book
At Dundee the Twelfth day of December Eighteen hundred and fifty five
At a Meeting of the members of Committee of Management on Pullar’s
Mortification held this evening within Mr Rollo’s Office at Seven o’clock
Mr Christie was chosen Chairman
…Mr Rollo reported that Mr McDonald’s properties were offered for sale on the 15 th
November last, the Seagate property at the upset price of £330 and Milnbank property at
£230 in terms of Minute of 8 th October last.
The Seagate property was purchased by Mr Thomas Walker at £377 and there were
no offers for the Milnbank property and that he had not yet received the Draft of the
Disposition from Mr Walker although he had applied for it. The Meeting Resolved to
recommend that the property at Milnbank should be re-exposed for sale at a reduced upset
price about the end of February next…
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