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KING'S BURN King's Burn
King's Burn
King's Burn
Mr James Patterson Knowhead
Mr George Davidson Kingshills
Mr William Kennedy Newseat
036 A stream rising in a small tract of Moss in the parish of Fyvie about 25 chains north west of the croft of Broombrae in this parish and flowing in a south easterly direction for a considerable distance, it joins the Lochter Burn a little below Fingask House.
CAMP (Remains of) [King's Ford] Camp Remain's of
Camp Remain's of
Camp Remain's of
Mr James Patterson Knowhead
Mr George Davidson, Kingshills
Mr William Kennedy Newseat
036 Applies to a native Camp situated near to the Kings Ford & said to have been occupied by King Robert Bruce, the ditches attached to the Camp are still very entire & are about 12 inches in depth & the artificial banks are still visible.
From Collections of the Shires of Aberdeen & Banff p [page] 580. "Of Ancient fields there was none fought here; only King Robert Bruce kept a camp here, at a straight place Called the Kings Foord lying on the north of the Church one and a half miles, from which the Kings Burn takes its name because it runs exactly by the same."
NEWSEAT Newseat
Newseat
Newseat
David Seton Esqr Portobello
Mr William Kennedy occupier
Mr James Patterson Knowhead
036 Applies to a croft situated near ½ Mile South of a number of Crofts called Whitemyres in the occupation of Mr William Kennedy and property of David Seton Esqr of Portobello.

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