Digitised copy of Inventory of papers sent by the factor of Tiree, 1765, showing an inventory of papers sent by the factor, Donald Campbell.
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Digitised copy of Receipts for salaries, stipends etc, 1765. Contains receipts for sums paid and received by various individuals including: Ferqd McIlmun (ground officer, Tiree), Donald Campbell (bailie), Mr Thomas Kerr (schoolmaster, Tiree), Archibald Campbell (Heylipol), Hector McLean (minister, Coll), Donald Campbell (factor), Cha[rles] Campbell (minister, Tiree), Hugh McDonald (under officer, Tiree), Walter Nicoll (collector [of] tax), Jo[hn] Campbell (factor for the Synod of Argyll), Donald Campbell (Chamberlain, Tiree), Mr Campbell (Succoch), Murich McVurrich (Tiergan, Ross of Mull). One receipt references window tax for the Duke’s house in Tiree.
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Digitised copy of a Memorial by Donald Campbell, factor in Tiree, 1754. In this memorial proposes to take a nineteen years tack of the two ends of the Isle of Icolmkill [Iona] and of the farm of Ardfinaig [Ardfenaig] in Ross of Mull.
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Digital copy of Memorial by Donald Campbell, factor of Tiree, 1754. Campbell writes of problems with the inhabitants who ‘not having anything to do for a great part of the year spend their time in drinking and caballing’, and informs the Duke that the soil is suitable for the ‘raising of Flax’ and that the only industry the inhabitants show any fondness for is spinning and weaving. Campbell also discusses the possibility of producing ‘oznaburgs’ (plain weave fabric woven in flax) in Tiree.
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Digitised copy of Account of debursements for finishing the Duke of Argyll’s house in Tiree, 1753. Showing the amounts paid to various people by Donald Campbell, the Duke’s factor on Tiree. There is no transcript available for this item.
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Digitised copy of a document regarding the State of the farms on Tiree, and “the two ends of Coll”, by Balineary, 1748-1749. Compiled by the Factor, each entry provides the tenants name, the length of their tenancy, their present rent/tack duty and a comment on their present circumstances and the Factor’s opinions on the tenants’ ability to pay their rent/tack duty.
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Digitised copy of a Memorial by Stonefield concerning Tiree, 1748, recording the ‘State of the rents of Tyree [Tiree] from 1706 [and] Downwards’.
This document records sums paid alongside notes on tacksmen, the appointment of a factor, collection of rent, amounts in arrears, and the activities of Ballimore and Barnacarry (factors on Tiree). The document goes on to make further comments on how to more effectively manage the island, including lowering rent to attract new tenants.
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Digitised copy of a Memorial concerning the Cess of Tiree, 1746-1747. The memorial contains information on the payment of Cess [tax] in Tiree and Coll, including termly and annual rates.
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Digitised copy of a Memorial to the Duke of Argyll concerning Tyrie [Tiree] By Archibald Campbell of Barnacarie his Grace’s Factor thereof, 1747. This memorial contains an account of the ‘miserable condition’ of the island, outlines problems with obtaining rent, and makes comments regarding industry upon the island. Campbell notes that ‘the present class of inhabitants in this island are the least mutinous of any have been there for years past’, and remarks that the inhabitants ‘[al]tho[ugh] very poor are very numerous [and] quite Idle’.
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Digitised copy account of debursements by Archibald Campbell of Barnacarie, factor of Tiree, for raising militia there, 1745.
The document contains two accounts of trips made by Campbell to Tiree in 1745 and 1746. The purpose of the first visit was to raise the militia, and Campbell’s account reveals the opposition he faced: ‘met w[ith] a greater number of men ready to oppose me and told if I wou[l]d not immediatly desist I wou[l]d soon repent it’. The purpose of his second visit in 1746 was to ‘raise the Rents and to reduce such of the Inhabitants of that Island as were in the Rebellion’.
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