Annals of Lower Deeside: Being a Topographical, Proprietary, Ecclesiastical ...
Annals of Lower Deeside: Being a Topographical, Proprietary, Ecclesiastical ...
John A. Henderson
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. togidder with vij dosand of pultrie."^ Up to the beginning of the present century the farms extended across the whole breadth of the parish, by which means every tenant had a portion of all the different soils. ^ There were then twenty eight ploughgates of land reclaimed, and the rent varied from ten to twenty shillings per acre. In 1783 there were forty to fifty carts, thirty six ploughs, one wagon, and one coach in the 1, Antiquities, Aberdeen and Banff ^ III., p. 596. 2. Old Statistical Ac...count of Scotland, VI., p. 80. Digitized by Google Maryculter. 165 parish. In the end of last century females from seven years of age and upwards were employed mostly in spinning and the knitting of stockings, for which combed wool was given out by the hosiers of Aberdeen, in different parts of the parish on certain days, called factory days^ on which also the wrought stockings were received.^ Each pair cost for spinning and knitting from one shilling to three shillings and sixpence, the cheaper being considered the more profitable.
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