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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
Parish of Skipnage & Carradill
2 Mar 1787 John MacAlester of Caur Mary Beaton 1 1 £0.2.6
2 Mar 1787 Dugald Campbell of Carradell Nelly Reid
Mary Brown
2 £0.5.0
Parish of Campbelltown
6 Mar 1787 William Mitchell Landw [Landwaiter] Eliza McKinven 1 1 £0.2.6
6 Mar 1787 Dugald Campbell Esqr Limecraigs Effie McNeill
Peggy Buchanan
2 2 £0.5.0
Parish of Killean
Col [Colonel] Charles Campbell of Barbreck Catharine Galbraith- Housekeeper.
Sarah Gabreath - Chambermaid.
Margaret McCallum- Kitchenmaid
3 3 £1.10.0

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Survey of FEMALE SERVANTSTAX. in the Several
parishes after mentioned in Argyll Shire for the year from 5 April
1786 to 5 April 1787 By Hugh McKay Assistant Surveyor.

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2 Rates @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] each £0.5.0
4 Rates @ 5/- [£0.5.0] each £1.0.0
3 Rates @10/- [£0.10.0 each £1.10.0
£2.15.0

I Hugh McKay Assistant Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull
Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and duties I find the Amount in whole
to the sum of Two Pounds fifteen Shillings Sterling And I do make Oath
that intimations were given to the whole foregoing persons on left at
their dwelling Houses of the respective dates aforesaid And that the foregoing
Survey or Assessment was made up from the Returns made to me in
Consequence thereof And from the best Information I could otherwise obtain.
Campbeltown 21 March 1787
[signed] Hugh MacKay
Sworn before Ian Maxwell JP [Justice of the Peace]

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