Let this present public instrument be open to see and let it be known that in the 1787th year from the incarnation of the Lord on the 24th day of March and in the 27th year of the reign of our sovereign lord George III by the Grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, in the presence of me, notary public, and the undersigned witnesses on the ground of the lands specified within there appeared Peter Thomson gardener at Hayfield as sheriff in this part of the Sheriffdom of Edinburgh in accordance with the precept of sasine contained in the charter after mentioned and inserted within, specially appointed for the purpose afterwards specified, and in the same place also appeared Charles Clark messenger at Edinburgh as attorney for and in name of James Pittullo Esquire, lately from the East Indies, then of Coats in the Sheriffdom of Fife, whose power of attorney was clearly established to me, notary public, and to the undersigned witnesses, the said attorney having and holding in his hands a charter of resignation under the seal to be kept according to the Treaty of Union and used in Scotland in stead and place of the Great Seal of Scotland, ordered, written and sealed as in the specific precept of sasine inserted within, by which charter our sovereign lord the King aforementioned with the advice and consent of the chief baron and the other barons of his Exchequer in that part of his kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland, has given, granted, disponed and for himself and for his royal successors in perpetuity confirmed to the said James Pittullo Esquire and his heirs or assignees whomsoever in heredity and irredeemably all and whole that quarter or fourth part of the lands of Over Williamstone called Wester Hairburnhead extending to two marklands and one markland all and whole the lands of Easter Hairburnhead and the lands of Middlemuir of Hairburnhead and that other quarter or fourth part of the said lands of Over Williamstone now called Hay Mains adjoining the said lands of Easter Hairburnhead on the eastern side of the same extending in whole to a forty shilling land of old extent as a proportional part.