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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
Brought over 26 1 23 2 £2.14.4½
Robert Deans wrieght [wright] Barbara Bruce 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs Grierson Ursula Smith 1 1 £0.1.10½
John Mouat Sur. [Surveyor] of Customs Margaret Sandison
Philadelfia Bairnson
2 2 £0.7.6
30 1 25 4 £3.5.7½
Island of Bressay
14 Dec 1785 James Henderson of Gardie Agnus Irvine 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs Bolt of Cruester 1 1 £0.1.10½
2 2 £0.3.9
Sandsting Parish
15 Dec 1785 Mrs Cumin of Gartherhouse 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mr Peter Barclay Minister 1 1 £0.1.10½
2 2 £0.3.9
Parishes & Islands Collected
Parish of Tingwall 5 1 4 £0.11.3
[Parish of] Walls 2 1 1 £0.5.7½
[Parish of] Delting 4 2 2 £0.11.3
[Parish of] Northmavine 5 5 £0.9.4½
Island of Yell 14 14 £1.6.3
[Island of] Fetlar 2 1 1 £0.5.7½
[Island of] Unst 6 6 £0.11.3
Parish of Lunisting 7 2 2 3 £1.13.9
[Parish of] Dunrossness 2 2 £0.3.9
Town of Lerwick 30 1 25 4 £3.5.7½
Island of Bressay 2 2 £0.3.9
Parish of Sandsting 2 2 £0.3.9
81 4 66 8 3 £9.11.3

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4 Servants Bachelors duty at 5 Sh each p [per] year for three quarters of a Year is £0.15.0
66 Servants at 2 Sh 6d each p [per] year for three quarters of a Year is £6.3.9
8 Servants at 5 Sh each p [per] year for three quarters of a Year is £1.10.0
3 Servants at 10 Sh each p [per] year for three quarters of a Year is £1.2.6
81 Total £9.11.3

I John Henderson Surveyor do hereby Certify that upon Careful Examination for the
foregoing Tax I find they amount in whole to Nine Pounds Eleven Shillings and
three pence Sterling and that upon the Twenty ninth day of May JajvijC and eighty
six years [1786] I left for Mr Henry Ross Collector of the said Tax for the Lordship of
Zetland at his office In Lerwick an exact duplicate of the above account duly
Examined and Compared with the foregoing which Contained my Oath that Notices
were Left with the Several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling Houses of the dates an-
nexed to their Respective names. John Henderson Surveyor
Lerwick in Shetland 29h May 1786
Sworn Before John Bruce V: A: [Vice Admiral] Dept [Depute]

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