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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Children under 14 Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
Dec 1790 Watten Parish
8 Dec 1790 Miss Sinclair of Auckingale 1 1 £0.2.6
Collectr [ Collector] Calder 1 1 £0.2.6
2 2 £0.5.0
December Wick Burgh
10 Dec 1790 Robert Corner Merchant 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Anderson Widow 2 2 £0.10.0
James Sandison Mercht [Merchant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Baillie James Miller 1 1 £0.2.6
John Durrand Merchant 1 1 1 £0.5.0
William Keith Taylor 1 1 £0.2.6
Hary Bain Merchant 1 1 £0.2.6
8 1 6 2 £1.7.6
Wick Parish
8 Dec 1790 James Sinclair of Holburnd [Holburnhead] 2 2 £0.10.0
James Sinclair of Harpsdale 1 1 £0.2.6
10 Dec 1790 Mr James McBeath of Hemprigs 1 1 £0.2.6
Benjamin Dunbar of Hemprigs 2 2 £0.10.0
6 2 4 £1.5.0
Parishes Collected
Bower Parish 3 1 3 £0.10.0
Canisbay Parish 5 1 4 £1.2.6
Dunnet Parish 3 3 £0.7.6
Halkirk Parish 6 1 6 £0.17.6
Latheron Parish 4 3 4 £0.17.6
Olrick Parish 4 2 2 £0.15.0
Reay Parish 2 2 £0.5.0
Thurso Burgh 15 1 15 £2.0.0
Thurso Parish 7 2 5 2 £1.7.6
Watten Parish 2 2 £0.5.0
Wick Burgh 8 1 6 2 £1.7.6
Wick Burgh 6 2 4 £1.5.0
65 9 42 14 £11.0.0

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Survey Continued

Proof
9 Servants Bachelors at £0.2.6 each is £1. 2.6
51 Servants at £0.2.6 each is £6 .7.6
14 Servants at £0.5.0 each is £3.10.0
65 £11.0.0

I Andrew Liddell Surveyor Do Certify That the foregoing Rates and Duties do amount in whole to
Eleven pounds and That on 4th January 1791 I delivered to Mr John Davidson Collector of Cess for Caithness
an exact Duplicate of the above Account which contains mt Oath that Requisitions were left with
the several Inhabitants or at their dwelling Houses of the Dates prefixed to their respective Names.
Andrew Liddell Surveyor

Proof
9 Batchelor Servants at £0.5.0 Each is £2.5.0
42 Married Servants at £0.2.6 Each is £5.5.0
14 Servants at £0.5.0 Each is £3.10.0
£11.0.0

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