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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 10% per 31 George III
1791 Parishes Collected
No 1 Ecclesgreeg 4 1 2 2 £0.17.6 £0.1.9
2 Benholm 6 2 1 2 3 £2.12.6 £0.5.3
3 Arbuthnott 2 1 2 £0.7.6 £0.0.9
4 Kinneeff 3 1 2 £0.12.6 £0.1.3
5 Dunnottar 10 2 8 2 £1.15.0 £0.3.6
6 Fetteresso 9 4 2 3 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
7 MarryCoulter 11 4 7 £4.10.0 £0.9.0
8 Banchory 4 2 2 £0.15.0 £0.1.6
9 Nigg 1 1 1 £0.5.0 £0.0.6
10 Durris 2 1 2 £0.7.6 £0.0.9
1 Upper Banchory 6 2 4 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
2 Strachan 3 1 2 £0.12.6 £0.1.3
3 Fettercairn 2 2 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
4 Fordown 7 3 4 £2.7.6 £0.4.9
5 Glenbervie 3 1 2 £0.12.6 £0.1.3
6 Laurencekirk 3 1 1 2 £0.15.0 £0.1.6
7 Marrykirk 3 3 £0.7.6 £0.0.9
8 Garvock 1 1 1 £0.5.0 £0.0.6
Totall 80 8-2- 35 28 17 £21.7.6 £2.2.9
80 8-2- 27 26 17 £21.7.6 £2.2.9

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Survey of Kingcardine Shire continued
FEMALE SERVANTS TAX

80 Viz {35 Single Female Servants of Ones at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each -- £4.7.6 -- £0.8.9
..........{28 Single Female Servants of twos at 5/s [£0.5.0] each -- £7.0.0 -- £0.14.0
.........{17 Single Female Servants of threes at 10/s [£0.10.0] each -- £8.10.0 -- £0.17.0
.............8 Single Servants (ones) of unmarried persons at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each -- £1.0.0 -- £0.2.0
.............2 Single Servants (twos) of unmarried persons at 5/s [£0.5.0] each -- £0.10.0 -- £0.1.0
..............................................................................................................Totall -- £21.7.6 -- £2.2.9

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination of the fore
=going Duties I find they Amount in whole to Twenty one Pound Seven Shillings Six pence Ster: [Sterling] Likewise
the Additional Duty of ten pr cto. [per cent] Theron bieng two Pound two Shillings Nine pence Ster: [Sterling] and that
upon the _ day of February 1792 I dilivered to Alexander Garden Esqr. Principall Collector of the said
Duties for the Shire afore said an exact Duplicate of the Above Account or Survey (as will Appear from
______) 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 or employed by them from the 5 day of April 1790 to the 5 day of April
1791 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 who Neglected or Refused to
give in a List in Terms of the Notices left with them as afore said
[Signed] William Greig Surveyor

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