Peter Glenday

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Peter Glenday,  Peter Glenday Letter 1817-12-25

“ Indian corn sells at half a dollar per bushel, wheat at a dollar, rye at 3 quarters of a dollar, oats about the same, butter at about the fifth part of a dollar, cheese the same, beef and pork sell at a dollar per stone, but all our weights are 16 ounces to the pound so I reckon a man can make as much of his land here as in Scotland and the buying of it would not be above what would pay a year’s rent of your land which is not half so good with dung as ours is without it and every man may keep as many beasts here as he likes, they go in the woods and cost him nothing. ”
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Peter Glenday,  Peter Glenday Letter 1817-12-25

“ There are no gentlemen here as in Scotland. Every white person is reckoned as good as another if he behaves himself, be he poor or rich, and a man that has white servants eats and works with them. Almost everyone who farms is laird of his farm himself. Those who rent land generally pay as much rent as the half of what he possesses would sell at. Land here generally produces from 60 to 90 bushels of Indian corn per acer, every six bushels is your cool [of oats or barley] , wheat from 40 to 60, oats and rye about the same. ”
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Peter Glenday,  Certified Copy of Trust Disposition and Settlement by Patrick Glenday

“ All and Whole that lot of ground lying in the Westfields of Rattray and benorth the great road that leads from Rattray to Blairgowrie and on both sides of the New Road that leads northward to the New bridge over the water of Erich at Rochford north to the March of William Thoms property, and east to the top of the first little brae, where a road of six:teen feet broad is proposed to run northward by the top of said brae until it join the said new road to said new bridge. ”
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