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Letter from Elizabeth Hume-Campbell (Lady Marchmont) to son Alexander Hume-Campbell, Lord Polwarth. The Eccles folk [John and Anne Paterson] came last Sunday and stayed till Thursday. Left daughter Annie, who they are collecting today. The Mertoun family [Walter & Diana Scott] came on Tuesday.

14 Aug 1768

From: 1768 To: 1768

Describes celebrations for the foundation of the Greenlaw market cross. 'There was a bowl of punch and ale from every public house in the town set round the cross, and every man, woman and child in the town drank your health .... there was also a fiddler and a piper. The drinking continued all day, and Mr Young was resolved to do all the honour to you he could.' Lists those who attended dinner after the event. Mr Ramsey is to remove very soon from the Broomlands, and has bought a house near Edinburgh. Mr Brehan's business continues and he is now famous for having the best horses on the road. Andrew St.Clair's wife has been brough to bed of a son - it is their first child and the family are extremely happy.

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Hume-Campbell, Elizabeth,
Crompton, Elizabeth,
Marchmont,
Hume-Campbell, Alexander (1st Baron Hume of Berwick),
Scott, Diana,
Scott, Walter,
Paterson, Anne,
Paterson, John,
Ramsey,
Brehan,
St.Clair, Andrew,
Young

family correspondence, CORRESPONDENCE, ale, health, Public House, dinners, market crosses, horses, Greenlaw, Edinburgh, Scotland