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Financial, letters, and ship manifests.
Correspondence, 1735-1844. Legal and financial records mainly relating to lands in Whalsay and Scalloway, 1741-1840. Miscellaneous records including passports, 1819, 1820, life insurance receipt, 1832, list of sloops, 1832-1833, and scroll last will and testament of Andrew Hay of Singapore, 1836.
Title deeds to lands in Fetlar, Unst, Sandsting and Aithsting, Burra, Dunrossness, Tingwall, Whiteness and Weisdale, Scalloway, Gulberwick and Lerwick, 1598-1962; Legal and related papers, 1706-1951; Miscellaneous papers including correspondence, financial records, printed material, diaries, and records relating to Acts of Parliament, valuations, road construction, herring stations, Commissioners of Supply, Lord Lieutenancy, and First and Second World Wars, 1716-1978; Business and trust accounts and executry papers, 1879-1957; Correspondence, 1733-1961; Plans, 1873-1890; Genealogical papers, 1775-1963. Includes six boxes of uncatalogued invoices, receipts and finance related correspondence (transferred from Museum July 2008).