Excerpt from The History of Paisley, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Roman Period Down to 1884
In the latter half of the eighteenth century, the period embraced in this chapter, the Town of Paisley made more rapid and striking progress than in any previous period of its history. This statement applies not only to the increase of population and erection of dwelling-houses, and places of worship, and other public buildings, but also to the starting and rapid extension of new industries, and the enlargement of those that had been commenced in earlier periods. This will appear, while we proceed with our record of events, as they occurred, and as we give an account of the progress of Paisley as a manufacturing town.
Of the properties sold by the Town Council, one was the meetinghouse in Moss Row, already frequently referred to. It was bought by Thomas Kerr, postmaster, for ?102 stg., under a burden of 2s. of annual feu-duty; and the Council reserved a piece of ground at the south end of the building, extending to about nine feet in breadth, "for a road or passage, or any other use they shall think proper" (Council Records, 25th January, 1751). On 31st March, 1791, the Council agreed to sell the Bark Mill and ground attached thereto, at the Saucel Bridge, belonging to the community. On 6th September, 1792, they sold to "John Gibb, vintner, in Paisley, for ?200, Woodneuk and Sergeants Acre," adjoining the lands of Ferguslie. On 3rd September, 1794, they authorised the Magistrates to offer the town"s old houses at West Steeple to Robert Speir, merchant, at ?300.
A purchase effected by the Council was the superiority of the lands of Carriagehill, for ?63 11s. 8d. stg., from the Earl of Dundonald. On 2nd October, 1779, they agreed to purchase from William Stewart, merchant, his houses near the West Steeple, for ?220 stg. And on 22nd August, 1781, they bought from "John Snodgrass, Sheriff-Clerk, and James Renfrew, smith, sometime in Chappell of Blackhall, now in Mains of Blackstone," for ?300, the tenement in Moss Row, adjoining the Tollbooth.
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