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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
31 [...] 1786 329a Mr Peter Rankine unmarried 1 1 1 £0.5.0
Doctr [Doctor] John Ogilvie Hellen Barrie 1 1 £0.2.6
Patrick White Jean White 1 1 £0.2.6
Lady Kinnettles 1 1 £0.2.6
William Hunter 1 1 £0.2.6
Charles Ogilvie 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr John Bruce Margaret Greig &
Jean Henry
2 2 £0.10.0
John Scott 1 1 £0.2.6
Pro: [Professor] John Ure Margaret White 1 1 £0.2.6
David Mann Junr [Junior] 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr William Robertson Marry Henderson 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr George Skeen Agnes Anderson 1 1 £0.2.6
David Mann Senr [Senior] 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr James Webster 1 1 £0.2.6
William Mitchell 1 1 £0.2.6
Total 16 1 13 2 £2.7.6

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FORFAR
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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Female Servants risen in the Burgh of Forfar for one Year comm-
encing the fifth day of April 1786 and ending the fifth day of April 1787 by William Greig Surveyor

Proof
14 Single Female Servants of Married & unmarried persons for one year as above at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each £1.15.0
2 Single Female Servant of one married person for one year as above at 5/0 [£0.5.0] each £0.10.0
1 Single Female Servant of one unmarried person for one year as above £0.2.6
Totall £2.7.6

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing Duties I find they amount to
two pounds Seven Shillings and Sixpence Sterling and that upon the ... day of ... 1787 I delivered to Archibald Thornton Collector
of the Said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above account (as will appear from ...) duly examined
and Compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that Nottices 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 fifth day of April 1785 to the 5th of April 1786, and that the said
Account or Survey is made 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 thereof in terms of the Nottices left with them as aforesaid
William Greig Surveyor

Transcriber's notes

Once again he has used the previous years declaration without altering the dates.

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Nora Edwards, Betsy, GreenflyNZ