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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
1787 Parishes Collected
Brought over 103 5+2+3 59 16 28 £28.0.0
103 5+2+3 54 14 25 £28.0.0
Prooff
5 Batchelor's Servants @ £0.2.6 ea [each over & above duty is £0.12.6
2 Batchelor's Servants @ £0.5.0 ea. [each] over & above duty is £0.10.0
3 Batchelor's Servants @ £0.10.0 ea. [each] over & above duty is £1.10.0
59 Servants @ £0.2.6 ea. [each] £7.7.6
16 Servants @ £0.5.0 ea. [each] £4.0.0
28 Servants @ £0.10.0 ea. [each] £14.0.0
£28.0.0

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Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX. Continued

I Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing
several rates and Duties on Female Servants I find they amount to Twenty Eight Pounds Sterling
and that upon the Twelth day of November Currt [Current] I delivered to John Reid Collector of said Duties for
County of Banff an exact Duplicate of the above Acc. [Account] duly examined and compared which
contained my Oath that the several foregoing Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions of the
dates annexed to their respective names and that the assessments are made up from the lists [which]
are now in my possession

[Signed] Patrick MacDonald Surveyor
Sworn before me at Forris the 10 Nov [November] 1787 [Signed] Alexander Grant J P [Justice of the Peace]


Female Servants Tax
County of Banff
1789
Exd [Examined]
5/4

Transcriber's notes

Figures of bachelor servants incorrectly entered, but duty correct

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