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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
30 Jul 1791 Mr. Robert Chapman Elizabeth McRabbre 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mr. James Siddell Christian Alexander 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mrs. Robert Dick Mary Spence 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Baillie Dalgliesh Hannah Young 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Baillie McAllum Mary Morton 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mr. Charles Arbuckle Mary Struthers 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Baillie Buncle Elizabeth Brown 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Captain Taylor Helen Marshall 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
27 Aug 1791 Robert Wilson 1 Janet Ramsay 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mr. James Hill 1 Marion Kerr 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Captain Martin Senr. [Senior] Margaret Hunter 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mrs. Crawford 3 Not returned 3 2 £0.10.0 £0.1.0
Mr. Munro Ross Katharine Houburgh 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mr. Thomas Welsh Margaret Hunter 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Totall 16 13 2 £226 £43
Proof 15
13 Servants @ £0.2.6 £1.12.6
2 Servants @ £0.5.0 £0.10.0
To the 10 Pct [Per Cent] £0.4.3
Totall £2.6.9

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Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX in the Town of Queensferry 41
from the 5th April 1791 to the 5th April 1792 By James Watsone Surveyor

I James Watsine Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon careful examination
of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of Two pounds
six shillings and nine pence Sterl. [Sterling] And that upon the fourteenth day of October that I
delivered to Mr. Robert Chapman Collector for the said Borough an exact Duplicate
of the Survey which contained my Oath that the several persons before named were
duly Served with Requisitions & Notices whereby they were to be charged with the
several duties hereby certified to be due by them.
James Watsone Surveyor
Linlithgow 2d November 1791

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