Strichen Farms & Crofts

FARMS AND CROFTS TO LET.

THE undernoted POSSESSIONS on the Estate of STRICHEN, will be let for such a number of years as may be agreed upon.  Entry at Whitsunday 1815 :-

Possessions                      Possessors                                                 Acres

HILLHEAD,                      John Brebner,                                              about 24

BURNTACK,                    James Henderson,                                       about 30

AUCHNORIE,                  James Calder,                                              about 5

HILLSIDE,                        William Murison,                                          about 5

These small possessions ly within a little distance of the village of Mormond, are in general good land, and very commodious.

For particulars, application may be made to John Anderson, factor at Strichen; and James Horn, ground officer, will shew the premises.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 27th July 1814.

Court cases of William Law, John Brebner & John Henderson

The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here on Wednesday last, by the Right Hon. Lord Gilles.

William Law, sometime residing in Links of Arduthie, in the County of Kincardine, charged with house-breaking and theft, was outlawed for not appearing.

John Brebner, accused of Forging or Counterfeiting Notes of the Bank of Scotland, and of using and uttering the same, knowing them to be forged and counterfeited.  The prisoner denied the forging and counterfeiting, but pleaded guilty to the uttering and vending as libelled; and the Advocate Depute having restricted the libel to an arbitrary punishment, he was sentenced to seven years transportation.

John Henderson, late servant at the Printfield, Woodside, near this city, accused of one act of theft and house-breaking, and two other acts of theft, denied the first charge, and admitted the two last.  The Advocate Depute having also in this case restricted the libel to an arbitrary punishment, and no proof being led, the prisoner was accordingly found guilty upon his own confession, and sentenced to fourteen years transportation.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 29th September 1813.