New Spalding Club > Records of Invercauld MDXLVII - MDCCCXXVIII [1547- 1828]

52 RECORDS OF INVERCAULD.
led against Henry Forbes of Boundlie affecting the Barony of Kinaldie,
&c. ; and it appears from the Scroll of a Bond for part of the Price of
Kinaldie that Henry Forbes had afterwards disposed of these lands to
John Farquharson of Invercauld by a Disposition, dated 19th May
1694."
These complications gave rise to much litigation, as appears from
the correspondence on the subject. However, on John Farquharson of
Invercauld being served heir to his late brother, William, in 1694, there
follows an
" Instrument of Resignation in favour of John Farquharson of
Invercauld as heir to his brother, William, of All and Whole the Lands of
Kinaldie, Supperiority of the Groddies and Patronage of Coldstone."
Ultimately the lands of Coldstone and Melgum, proceeding on the
Dispositions from the said Henry Forbes and Henry Elphinstone, dated
19th July 1695, were assigned to the said John Farquharson of
Invercauld.
Following on this, a Charter under the Great Seal is passed in
favour of the said John Farquharson, dated 26th July 1695, and Sasine
follows thereon. Thus the lands of the two Baronies, as they are
called, of Kinaldie and Melgum, passed of right into the hands of
William Farquharson of Invercauld in 1694, in which year he died, and
was succeeded by his famous brother, John, who had a considerable
struggle in maintaining his rights to these lands in Cromar.
Among the papers in the case there is a Decreet of Annexation
and provision of the parishes of Coldstone and Logie, dated 17th July
1618, and registered nth June 1707, which fixes the date of the union
of those parishes. About this time (1696) an estimate of the lands of
Invercauld was taken with a view to executing a Deed of Entail, which,
however, was not carried through.
The properties, the superiorities of which were acquired by purchase
from James Erskine of Grange and David Erskine of Dun, as successors
to the attainted Earl of Mar, by John Farquharson of Invercauld in
173 1, were the following : —
Invercauld, Crathie,
Breachan, Lawsee,