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Date Masters & mistresses names & designations Servants names Quality of servants Number of servants Bachelor servants One and two servants Three and four servants Five to seven servants Eight to ten servants Eleven or more servants Duty
1786 The Royal Burgh of Irvine
1 Mar 1786 The Honble [Honourable] Patrick Boyle John Crawford House Servant 1 1 £0.18.9
Capt [Captain] John Peebles A Negro called Ned House Servant 1 1 £0.18.9
Baille James Shaw Vintner Robert Bankhead Waiter 1 1 £0.18.9
Total 3 3 Total £2.16.3

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MALE SERVANTS TAX From 5th July 1785 to 5th April 1786 by Robert Aiken Surveyor

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon Careful Examination
of the foregoing Rates and duties I find they Amount to Two pounds Sixteen
Shillings and three pence Sterling And that upon the fourth of April I delivered
to Baillie Alexander McMillan Collector of said duties An Exact Duplicate
of and duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing Account which
Contained my Oath that Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants
Or at their dwelling houses And that the Rates and Duties Annexed
to their respective Names Are just and true charges against them
to the best of my skill and knowledge
Robert Aiken Surveyor

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