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The first Esson living on the hillside is believed to have been John Esson who, in 1847, married Sarah Findlater, daughter of one of the original colonist families, James Findlater and his wife Ann Ross.

This could be Esson’s old house. Three families of the Esson’s settled on the Colony in the mid-1840s, before living at Boghead of Tullos. In 1860, evidence suggests that this ruin was a former Esson house which was divided for two pauper families’…