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

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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