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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brought over | 26 | 1 | 23 | 2 | £2.14.4½ | |||
| Robert Deans wrieght [wright] | Barbara Bruce | 1 | 1 | £0.1.10½ | ||||
| Mrs Grierson | Ursula Smith | 1 | 1 | £0.1.10½ | ||||
| John Mouat Sur. [Surveyor] of Customs | Margaret Sandison Philadelfia Bairnson |
2 | 2 | £0.7.6 | ||||
| 30 | 1 | 25 | 4 | £3.5.7½ | ||||
| Island of Bressay | ||||||||
| 14 Dec 1785 | James Henderson of Gardie | Agnus Irvine | 1 | 1 | £0.1.10½ | |||
| Mrs Bolt of Cruester | 1 | 1 | £0.1.10½ | |||||
| 2 | 2 | £0.3.9 | ||||||
| Sandsting Parish | ||||||||
| 15 Dec 1785 | Mrs Cumin of Gartherhouse | 1 | 1 | £0.1.10½ | ||||
| Mr Peter Barclay Minister | 1 | 1 | £0.1.10½ | |||||
| 2 | 2 | £0.3.9 | ||||||
| Parishes & Islands Collected | ||||||||
| Parish of Tingwall | 5 | 1 | 4 | £0.11.3 | ||||
| [Parish of] Walls | 2 | 1 | 1 | £0.5.7½ | ||||
| [Parish of] Delting | 4 | 2 | 2 | £0.11.3 | ||||
| [Parish of] Northmavine | 5 | 5 | £0.9.4½ | |||||
| Island of Yell | 14 | 14 | £1.6.3 | |||||
| [Island of] Fetlar | 2 | 1 | 1 | £0.5.7½ | ||||
| [Island of] Unst | 6 | 6 | £0.11.3 | |||||
| Parish of Lunisting | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | £1.13.9 | |||
| [Parish of] Dunrossness | 2 | 2 | £0.3.9 | |||||
| Town of Lerwick | 30 | 1 | 25 | 4 | £3.5.7½ | |||
| Island of Bressay | 2 | 2 | £0.3.9 | |||||
| Parish of Sandsting | 2 | 2 | £0.3.9 | |||||
| 81 | 4 | 66 | 8 | 3 | £9.11.3 |
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4 Servants Bachelors duty at 5 Sh each p [per] year for three quarters of a Year is £0.15.0
66 Servants at 2 Sh 6d each p [per] year for three quarters of a Year is £6.3.9
8 Servants at 5 Sh each p [per] year for three quarters of a Year is £1.10.0
3 Servants at 10 Sh each p [per] year for three quarters of a Year is £1.2.6
81 Total £9.11.3
I John Henderson Surveyor do hereby Certify that upon Careful Examination for the
foregoing Tax I find they amount in whole to Nine Pounds Eleven Shillings and
three pence Sterling and that upon the Twenty ninth day of May JajvijC and eighty
six years [1786] I left for Mr Henry Ross Collector of the said Tax for the Lordship of
Zetland at his office In Lerwick an exact duplicate of the above account duly
Examined and Compared with the foregoing which Contained my Oath that Notices
were Left with the Several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling Houses of the dates an-
nexed to their Respective names. John Henderson Surveyor
Lerwick in Shetland 29h May 1786
Sworn Before John Bruce V: A: [Vice Admiral] Dept [Depute]
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