204 Moffat and Upper Annandale. 



One of the lots with 20 soums on the Common had seven 

 persons as joint-tenants, at a rent of £22. 



The Cow Gang, containing- about 40 acres, consisted of 

 several different numbers or part of numbers on the plan, 

 viz., 46, 47, 54a, 55a, 56, 57, 60, 61, and 62. The boundaries 

 were : — " From the timber bridge on the Mill Burn, along the 

 west end of John Graham's park and of the Horse park, and 

 the foot of the Hammerlands Parks to Dawn's Dargs, then 

 up the north side of it to the Thatch Holes, along the dyke 

 at the foot of the Middle meadow park, and up the south side 

 of it to the runner, and down that runner by the east side of 

 Wamphray's Dargs till it joins the Frenchland march, and 

 down it to Annan Water, then up Annan Water to the east 

 march of the Glebe, and along it and the east end of Hammer- 

 lands and Vicarlands yards to the high road leading to the 

 timber bridge, where these boundaries began. Not to plough 

 above eight acres of the whole, and that of such ground only 

 as was broke out of the lea this crop, 1759; and to pasture 

 all the remainder, and to mow no part of it, except that part 

 of Dawn's Dargs which cannot be pastured and the Goose 

 meadow. All set at a rental of £2^ los stg. jointly to John 

 Graham, James Duncan, James Johnstone, and James Tod, 

 feuars in Moffat; John Johnstone, sen., merchant; Adam 

 Little (horsekeeper), Nicol Moffat (well-water carrier), and 

 Robert Corrie, tenant." From the boundaries given it will be 

 observed that the Cow Gang embraced all the ground from 

 and including the Lady Knowe, the ground outside the present 

 nursery parks extending on each side of the River Annan 

 down to Nethermill march. John Graham's park is Warri- 

 ston cricket field ; the Horse park, the first of the nursery 

 fields on the Millburn. The Goose park is the ground now 

 occupied by Altrive and Solway Places and part of the Gas- 

 works. Dawn's Dargs must have been some very marshy 

 place near where the Moffat Sewage Works are ; while the 

 Thatch holes were further down, and owe their name to the 

 fact that they produced so strong and coarse a grass that it 

 was of no use for making hay, but made first-class thatch, 

 for which purpose it was used. Nearly opposite the Thatch 

 holes, but on the other side of Annan Water, was the Lint 



