E326/6/13/113

Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
1788 Collection of Parishes Brought forward 59 4-2-3 28 16 15 £17.10.0
No 13 Fordown 5 3 2 £0.17.6
4 Glenbervie 2 2 £0.5.0
5 Garvock 1 1 1 £0.5.0
6 Laurencekirk 3 1 1 2 £0.15.0
7 Marrykirk 2 2 £0.5.0
8 Durris 2 1 2 £0.7.6
Totall 74 7-2-3 37 18 12 £20.5.0

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[Page] 113

FEMALE SERVANTS TAX of Kingcardine Shire continued

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I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to twenty pounds five shillings Sterling, and that upon the ___ day of ___ 1789 I delivered Alexander Garden Esqr Collector of the said duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account or Survey (as will appear from ___ hereunto fixed)
duly examined and compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath that notices were left with the Several persons before
named or at their dwelling-houses of the dates annexed to their respective names requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list
of their Female Servants retained and employed by them from the fifth Day of April 1787 to the fifth day of April 1788 and that the said Account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me and from the best information I could procure of the Female Servants of those whose lists are deficient, also of others who neglected or refused to return a list thereof in terms of the notices left with them as aforesaid. [Signed] William Greig Surveyor


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39 Single Female Servants of Married and unmarried persons at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each £4.17.6
20 Single Female Servants (twos) of Married and unmarried persons at 5/ [£0.5.0] each £5.0.0
15 Single Female Servants threes of Married and unmarried persons at 10/ [£0.10.0] each £7.10.0
7 Single Female Servants (ones) of unmarried persons Additionall dutie at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each £0.17.6
2 Single Female Servants (twos) of unmarried persons Additionall dutie at 5/ [£0.5.0] each £0.10.0
3 Single Female Servants (three) of unmarried persons Additionall dutie at 10/ [£0.10.0] each £1.10.0
..........................................................................................................................................Totall £20.5.0

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