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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
1789 Burgh Aberdeen
28 Oct 1789 Mr Arthur Dingwall Fordyce John Robb Houe Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Foot dee Qarr [Quarter] Mrs Leys George Smith Driver 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr Eneas Smith Donald McPherson House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mrs Dr [Doctor] Morgan Thomas Morgan House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Doctor Bannerman William Leith House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr Alexander Young Mt [Merchant] Robert Innes House Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Mr Thomas Bannerman Mt [Merchant] Alexander Deans House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Alexander Allardyce Esqr 3 3 £4.10.0
Green Quarter Professor Ross John Davie House Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
10 Nov 1789 Mr John Adams Vintner James Morgan Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr Robieson of Blackchalmies? George Smith House Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Mr John Henderson Thomas Henderson House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Dr [Doctor] Charles Irvine John Forbes House Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Crooked Quarter Mr Alexander Duthie Advt [Advocate] John Holm House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
13 Nov 1789 Mr John Durno Arthur Simpson House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr Robieson 1 1 £1.5.0
Mrs More Scotstown Alexander Grant House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
John Irvine Thomas Sney House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr Gilbert Moir John Wilson House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr George Moir 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr James Thomson James McLeod House Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Doctor Livingston George Middleton House Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Doctor Robieson Thomas Brown House Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr Alexander Simpson Bank [Banker] Andrew Gibb House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Baillie Auldjo Jack Sangster House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Even Quarter John Dingwall junr [junior] Mt [Merchant] 1 1 £1.5.0
06 Nov 1789 Baillie John Dingwall Driver 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr Alexander Garrioch Mt [Merchant] James Bean House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Professor Copland 1 1 £1.5.0
Provost Jopp George Buchan House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr Stephen of Broadland 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr Alexander Masson Vintner John Martin
George More
Waiter
Waiter
2 2 £2.10.0
Provost Cruden William Cruden House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr Peter Wilkie George Ross
Thomas White
Waiter
Waiter
2 2 £2.10.0
Mr Alexander Innes Commry [Commissary] Clerk james Irvine House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Major Mercer 1 1 £1.5.0
Total Burgh Aberdeen 40 6 37 3 £58.5.0

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A Survey of the Rates & duties Arisen within the Burgh of Aberdeen from the 5th Aprile 1789 to the
5th of Aprile 1790 next on MALE SERVANTS TAX. by Neil McInnes Surveyor

6 Batchelors at £1.5.0 each is £7.10.0
37 Servts [Servants] at £1.5.0 each is £46.5.0
3 Servts [Servants] at £1.10.0 each is £4.10.0 £58.5.0 Prooff

I Neil McInnes Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing rate &
duties they amount in whole to Fifty Eight pound five Shillings Sterling And I do make oath that requisitions
were left or made with the whole foregoing Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the respective dates
aforesaid to return their respective lists as therein required And which they are Charged to the rates
and duties set against their several names Neil McInnes Surveyor
Sworn at Aberdeen 4 January 1790 [04 Jan 1790]
Before George Auldjo J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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The quarters are Foot dee, Green, Crooked, and Even

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