| Description | States that several entries were copied from an old memorandum book. The book mainly covers the first half of the 19th century and has an index.
Topics covered include family history, sun dials, astronomical data, agriculture, observations on nature and the local weather, the inhabitants of Seaton Ross and the local neighbourhood, mottoes and trivia.
Entries include:-
'My brother Robert Watson who started off for America on 11th day of Jun 1817'
'I began to sow oats on the Common farm at Seaton on the 19th May 1812 and finished on the 26th May of May. Being the first year that it was inclosed.'
List of 'Women servants who lived at the house of my father John Watson senr. at Seaton Ross' 1790-1836
'The Relations of William Watson of Seaton Ross, Dial Hall, written Lady Day 1838 by Himself' |