Kirk Session & Heritors' Minutes
These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.
There are 402 records.
| Date | Entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Dec 1716 | Collected for the Highland schools £11 | CH2/160/2 p.70 |
| 21 Jan 1717 | For mending windows of school and schoolmaster's house £2-12-6 | CH2/160/2 p.70 |
| 21 Jan 1717 | To the nurse for nursing the child £12-8-0 [being £8 quarterly]. Considering the smallness of their flock … reduced this payment to £5 quarterly … which the nurse agreed to. | CH2/160/2 p.71 |
| 20 May 1717 | To the schoolmaster as his dues Whitsunday 1716 to Whitsunday 1717, 20 mrks, £13-6-8. To David Duncan for work at the school 8/-. To schoolmaster for poor scholar's quarter payment £2. | CH2/160/2 p.72 |
| 1 Jul 1717 | To James Wishart for buying a cow £12 | CH2/160/2 p.72 |
| 7 Oct 1717 | The minister [Mr Nairn] is to remove to Anstruther Easter parish | CH2/160/2 p.74 |
| 1718 | To horse hire for a minister (twice) £1-16-0 | CH2/160/2 p.76 |
| 1718 | John Moncreiff is session clerk | CH2/160/2 p.79 |
| 20 Aug 1718 | James Russel is minister | CH2/160/2 p.79 |
| 28 Sep 1718 | Mr James Russell now ordained minister. Session - James Stevenson, David Murdoch, Mr Walker senior of Easter St Fort, Patrick Lauson, Thos. Matthewson, Wm. Just, and W. Baylie, elders. | CH2/160/2 p.90 |
| 1718 | To Thos. Dowie, schoolmaster in Logie, for several drogs [drugs] applied by him to Alexr. Laing a late parishoner here £2-14-0 | CH2/160/2 p.80 |
| 1718 | [Collection] on behalf of the distress to Protestants in Lithuania £24-16-0 | CH2/160/2 p.80 |
| 25 Nov 1718 | Thos. Dowie (see above) states that Alexr. Laing is labouring under the lunatick | CH2/160/2 p.90 |
| 18 Jan 1719 | John Campbell swearing in Newport [first mention of the name Newport in session minutes] | CH2/160/2 p.91 |
| 18 Jan 1719 | Testimonials of two women from other parishes | CH2/160/2 p.91 |
| 20 Sep 1719 | Mgt. Reekie servant to James Good in Neathertown of Inverdovat | CH2/160/2 p.92 |
| 19 Jan 1720 | Repairs to loft £72-6-0 | CH2/160/2 p.94 |
| 1720 | To ane tree and 2 dales [planks of wood] to put up a seat of publick repentance £2-7-0. To David Murdoch for nails to put up foresaid seat 15/-. | CH2/160/2 p.86 |
| 3 May 1720 | Necessity of more elders: suggestions - David Sym, Friartown; Wm. Sym, Newtown; Robert Halyburton, Newtown; Henry Smith, Easter St Fort grnd; Wm. Ramsay, Bank of Inverdovat; James Bonton, Kirktown ground. | CH2/160/2 p.95 |
| 12 Jun 1720 | All those previously suggested were ordained as elders. | CH2/160/2 p.96 |
| 12 Jun 1720 | Testimonial from Dundee anent Mgt. Whyte, spouse to Andrew Baxter younger at the Waterside. | CH2/160/2 p.96 |
| 1720 | For the communion tokens £3-8-8 | CH2/160/2 p.88 |
| 1720 | For timber to the tent £2-8-6 ['a moveable wooden pulpit, with steps and a canopy, erected in the open air, esp. at the half-yearly communion services when the congregation is too large for the church to contain' - Dictionary of the Scots Language] | CH2/160/2 p.88 |
| 27 Nov 1720 | What measures may be thought most fit for suppressing the profanation of the Lord's Day by passing and repassing over the water, hiring of horses and running with them, etc. which abounds much in this place especially among those that dwell at the Waterside? And after some deliberation … the minister with two of the elders should go to the boat men and hirers and admonish them thereanent and afterwards to write to the ministers and magistrates of Dundee that they may by their authority stop boats passing unnecessarily on the Sabbath day … and also to get the Presbytrie's advice what may be further necessary in that affair. | CH2/160/2 p.97 |
| 6 Dec 1720 | The fast by appt. of the Commiss. of the General Assembly by reason of the danger this island seems to be exposed to by the pestilence (which is at this time raging in the neighbour kingdom of France) was intimated in this place 20 Nov and offered 24 Nov 1720. | CH2/160/2 p.98 |
| 6 Dec 1720 | The minister had written to Dundee about the Sabbath breach; also that there is to be an act of the presbytrie to that effect read from the pulpit … which if contravened the delinquents will be delated to the civil magistrates. | CH2/160/2 p.98 |
| 8 Jan 1721 | Letter from Dundee informing of Sabbath breach by David Shepherd and William Shepherd by their passing over the water on 25 Dec 1720; and by James Clerk and David Oven on 1 Jan 1721. | CH2/160/2 p.99 |
| 15 Jan 1721 | David and William Shepherd [say they only took over] a maid of Robt. Aiken's whose mother was lying sick [and deny any other passengers or that they do it regularly]. Admonished and dismissed. [Clerk and Oven didn't appear.] This day there was read from the pulpit an act of the Presbytrie of St Andrews prohibiting all manner of Sabbath breach especially by passing over the water. | CH2/160/2 p.99 |
| Jan 1721 | Clerk and Oven rebuked and admonished. | CH2/160/2 p.100 |
| 22 Jan 1721 | Collected £18-13-4 to be given for the relief of Robt. Carmichael, a young man born in Largo parish who is now in bondage with the Turks at Algier. | CH2/160/2 p.100 |
| 26 Feb 1721 | To the session clerk for transcribing the minutes contained in the old book into this £3 | CH2/160/2 p.101 |
| 26 Mar 1721 | David Webster - hiring his horse on a Sunday | CH2/160/2 p.102 |
| 17 Sep 1721 | To some blue gowns 3/- | CH2/160/2 p.105 |
| 21 Jan 1722 | Wm. Baxter and James Clerk - Sabbath breach - passing over the water | CH2/160/2 p.108 |
| May 1722 | To one Duncan McDougall who had his left arm hurt at Preston 6/- | CH2/160/2 p.112 |
| 8 Jul 1722 | To a chapman lad who was robbed 6/- | CH2/160/2 p.113 |
| 6 Nov 1722 | Session meeting - except Wm. Ramsay who was mortally sick | CH2/160/2 p.116 |
| Dec 1722 | To a distressed seaman who had been taken by the Turks 12/- | CH2/160/2 p.115 |
| 12 Feb 1723 | Sabbath breach [not specified] - Patrick Whytton, Wm. Gilcrest younger, Alexr. Mackie, Thos. Jack, John Mackfarland | CH2/160/2 p.117 |
| 31 Mar 1723 | One crown to be given for the building of ane meeting house in Belfast in Ireland. | CH2/160/2 p.118 |
| 25 Apr 1723 | Thanksgiving day for the nation's delivery from the pestilence. | CH2/160/2 p.118 |
| 25 Apr 1723 | The session considering how much the Lord's Day is profaned in this place by passing over the water thought fit that the minister write to Mr Wedderburn of Blackness to see what assistance they can have from him for suppressing the like view in time coming. | CH2/160/2 p.119 |
| Jun 1723 | To Woodrow's History in 2 volumes, binding included £28-4-0 [this was subsequently hired out] | CH2/160/2 p.120 |
| Oct 1723 | For materials to build the minister's seat, the workmanship being payed by himself £4-18-0 | CH2/160/2 p.122 |
| Dec 1723 | For mounting to the pulpit and a new tow to the bell £6-4-0 | CH2/160/2 p.123 |
| 26 Jan 1724 | To John Melvil in Burnside of Kirktown ane firlot of meals pryce £1-18-0 | CH2/160/2 p.124 |
| 23 Feb 1724 | Sabbath breach [no reasons] - James Macky, Peter Wood, David Adam, Wm. Shepherd | CH2/160/2 p.125 |
| 5 May 1724 | Robt. Aitkines family destitute of a seat in the kirk … session having power to let the seats in the loft … let the fore seat to him and his family for fourty shilling Scots yearly. | CH2/160/2 p.128 |
| 12 Sep 1725 | Session … informed that some boatmen on this side both at the east and west water had passed over the water on the fourth Sabbath of August appointed Thos. Matthewson and David Murdoch with the minister to enquire into the matter, who … reported that the boatmen upon the east water went over with a gentleman that Sabbath morning and also returned back and came to the church; and on the west water two of them went over with ane officer and heard sermon the whole day in Dundee. | CH2/160/2 p.139 |
| Nov 1725 | To Eupham Gardiner spouse to James Mackie for nursing James Simpson's child its mother being dead £8 | CH2/160/2 p.140 |
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