 Besides Abbotshall in Fife, which he made the family seat and took his title from, Ramsay acquired extensive estates in his lifetime, and his son and heir, Sir Andrew Ramsay, married the heiress of Waughton in East Lothian, an ancient seat of the Hepburn family.In 1671 Lord Abbotshall purchased from his son the Bass Rock for £400 sterling and then persuaded the Duke of Lauderdale to get the government to purchase it for the tidy sum of £4000 sterling.Sir George Mackenzie thought this the most brazen piece of corruption on Abbotshall's part, and said in his "Memoirs" of Lauderdale and Abbotshall that "they were kind to one another upon His Majesty's expenses".