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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
16 Sept.1788 Burgh of Stranraer
Mrs Mckie Helen Gibson 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr William McNish Jean Murchie 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr John Ross Batchr [Batchelor] Betty Maxwell 1 1 £0.5.0
Honble [Honourable] Lady Agnew Jean McGowan 1 1 £0.2.6
Revnd. [Reverend] Mr Drysdale Secedg Minr. [Seceding Minister] Jean McCandlish 1 1 £0.5.0
Capt. [Captain] Gordon Mary McDowall 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Kennedy Mary Agnew 1 1 £0.2.6
Misses Pearsons Eleanor Brown 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Hall Betty McMicken 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Clogstone Susan McCubbin 1 1 £0.2.6
10 2 8 £1.10.0

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Survey of the Female Servants Tax in the Burgh of Stranraer
from the 5th April 1788 to 5th April 1789 By Anthony Macmillan Surveyor
[Page] 127 Stranraer

Proof 2 Bachelor's Servants at £0.5.0 each is
£0.10.0
Proof 8 Servants at £0.2.6. £1. 0. 0
£1.10.0 Grand Total

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the
foregoing Several rates and duties I find the amount in whole to be one pound ten shillings Sterlg [Sterling]
and that upon the Twelfth day of November one thousand and seven hundred & eighty eight years
I delivered to Mr James McDowall Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid
an exact Duplicate of the foregoing which contained my oaths that requisitions were left with or
at the dwelling places of the respective Inhabitants, of the dates annexed to their respective
names to be charged the sums hereby certified to be due from them
Anthony Macmillan

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