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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
1788 Town of Forres
Mrs Tulloch Tannachie 1 1 £0.2.6
02 Jul 1788 Mrs Chalmers 1 1 £0.2.6
Dr. [Doctor] Dougal 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Roy 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Urquhart 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Loggan 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Watt 2 2 £0.10.0
Mr Dalnahoy 1 1 £0.2.6
Baillie Watson 1 1 £0.2.6
John Gordon Esquire 2 2 £0.10.0
John Hoyes 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Warrand 1 1 £0.2.6
Provost Forsyth 2 2 £0.10.0
Mrs Spence 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Bell 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr John Mitchel 1 1 £0.2.6
Baillie Thomas Eddie 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs McLannen 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Nutterer 1 1 £0.2.6
James Smith Merchant 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Barnes 1 1 £0.2.6
Alexander Smith Merchant 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Dunbar Springfield 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Grant Orra 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Thomas Eddie Junior 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Usherwood 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Winchester Cooper 1 1 £0.5.0
30 1 23 6 £4.12.6

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FORRES
Survey of the Female Servants Tax arisen in the Town of Forres
from the 5th April 1788 to the 5th April 1789 by Patrick McDonald Surveyor
[Page] 131


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1 Batchelor Servant at £0.2.6 above duty is £0.2.6
24 Servants at £0.2.6 each for one year is £3.0.0
6 Servants at £0.5.0 each for one year is £1.10.0
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£4.12.6
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I Patrick McDonald Surveyor afforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination
of the foregoing rates and duties on Female Servants, find they amount in whole to Four
Pounds and twelve shillings and six pence Sterling, and that I delivered to Thomas Eddie,
Junior Collector of the said duties for the Town of Forres, an exact duplicate of the
above account duly examined and compared, which contained my Oath that the foregoing
Inhabitants were served with requisitions, and that the assessments are made up from
the lists, and answers now in my possession
Sworn before me at Forres the 2nd Jan [January] 1788. Patrick McDonald Survyr. [Surveyor]
Alexander Grant J.P [Justice[ of the Peace]

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