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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
29 Aug 1787 Auldearn Parish
Miss Brodies of Lethen Female Servants 3 3 £1.10.0
Miss Dunbar of Boath Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Thomas Gordon Minr [Minister] Female Servant 1 1 1 £0.5.0
5 1 2 3 £1.17.6
Ardclach Parish
Mr Donald Mitchel Minr [Minister] Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Nairn Parish
Mrs Dunbar Delnies Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
Hugh Robertson Esqr househill Female Servants 1 1 £0.2.6
2 2 £0.5.0
Croy Parish
Mrs Rose Kilravock Female Servants 2 2 £0.10.0
Calder Parish
John Campbel Esqr of Calder Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs White of Brackla Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
2 2 £0.5.0
Parishes Collected
Auldearn Parish 5 1 2 3 £1.17.6
Ardclach 1 1 £0.2.6
Nairn 2 2 £0.5.0
Croy 2 2 £0.10.0
Calder 2 2 £0.5.0
12 1 7 2 3 £3.0.0
12 1 6 2 3 £3.0.0

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NAIRN
73
A Survey of the [Female Servants Tax] Arisen in the County
of Nairn from the 5th day of Aprile 1787 to the 5th day of Aprile 1788 by Patrick McDonald Surveyor

Prooff
1 Bachelor Servant @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] over & above duty us £0.2.6
7 Servants @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] Ea: [Each] for a year is £0.17.6
2 Servants @ 5/- [£0.5.0] Ea: [Each] for a year is £0.10.0
3 Servants @ 10/- [£0.10.0] Ea: [Each] for a year is £1.10.0
£3.0.0

I Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Careful Exam=
ination of the foregoing several rates and duties on Female Servants I find they amount
in whole to Three Pounds Sterling and that upon the Sixteenth day of November 1787 I deliv=
ered to Duncan Campbel Collector of Said duties for the County of Nairn an Exact Dup-
licate of the Above Account duly Examined & Comapred with the foregoing which -
Contained my oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duly served with requ
isitions of the dates aforesaid and that the assessments are made up from the
lists and Answers now in my Possession.
Patrick McDonald Surveyor

Sworn before me at Forres the 1st Demr [December] 1787
Alexander Grant J. P. [Justice of Peace]

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