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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Children under 14 Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
Burgh of Stranraer
Messrs. McKie of Stranraer 1 1 £0.2.6
John Ross Esqr. of Challach Stranraer Batchr [Batchelor] 1 1 £0.5.0
Revd [Reverend] Mr William Drysdale Seceding Minr. [Minister] Stranraer 1 1 £0.5.0
Capt. [Captain] Gordon 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss McCaulle 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss Pearson 1 1 £0.2.6
Misses Kennedy 1 1 £0.2.6
7 2 5 £1.2.6

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STRANRAER
Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Burgh of
Stranraer from the 5th of April 1790 to the 5th April 1791 by Anthony Macmillan Surveyor
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2 Batchelors female Servants at 5/. [£0.5.0] £0.10.0
5 Female Servants at 2/6d [£0.2.6] 0.12.6
£1.2.6d

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful
Examination of the foregoing several Rates & duties I find they amount
in whole to the sum of one pound two shillings & sixpence sterling and
that upon the twenty first day of Decr [December] one thousand seven hundred & ninety
years I delivered to Mr Peter Taylor Collector of the said duties for the
Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the foregoing which contained
my oath that reqns [requisitions] or Notices were delivered to or left at the dwelling
Houses of the said several persons of the dates annexed to their
respective Names that they were to be charged with the sums
hereby certified to tbe due from them Anthony Macmillan

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