Old travel Blog photograph of Cherrytrees House near Yetholm, Scottish Borders, Scotland. In 1605, a William Tait of Cherrytrees was involved in a criminal trial at his instance against James Tait of Kelso, for the murder of his son on the green at Cherrytrees. He alleged that the said James Tait with his accomplices, armed with swords, steel bonnets, lances and pistols, came to the green at Cherrytrees, where the deceased was, and slew him. The jury, made up of local neighbours, found James Tait to be " cleane innocent and acquit of airt and pairt of the said slauchter. " In 1684, Ker, laird of Cherrytrees, along with the lairds of Brodie and Grant, Craufurd of Ardmillan, Elliot of Stobs, and others, were accused of conspiring against the succession of the Duke of York. In 1672, part of the estate was granted to Wauchope of Niddrie. At the end of the 1700's it belonged to the Murray family.
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