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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 Island of Walls
18 Jul 1786 James Moodie of Melseter William Henderson Footman 1 1 £2.10.0
Parish of Holm
22 Sep 1786 Patrick Graeme of Grameshall James Laughton Footman 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Island of Burray
23 Sep 1786 Captain James Sutherland James McKay Footman 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Abstract
Island of Walls 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Parish of Holm 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Island of Burray 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Totall 3 3 3 £7.10.0

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Survey Male Servants Tax within the Country of Orkney
from 5 April 1786 to 5 April 1787 By Alexander Fraser Surveyor



I Alexander Fraser Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That the amount of the foregoing Survey of Male Servants Tax within the Country of
Orkney is Seven pound Ten Shillings and I make Oath that this day I delivered to Alexander Fraser Collector of Cess and of the said
Tax for the Country aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above account examined and compared with the foregoing.
Alexander Fraser Surveyor

At Kirkwall the 28 November 1786
Sworn before John Wier J: P. [Justice of the Peace]

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