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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
Brot [Brought] forward 46 4 34 12 £7.15.0
Mr. James Mill Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Brander Pitgaveny Female Servt [Servant] 2 2 £0.10.0
Mrs. Gordon Auchenreath Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss Allan Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Robert Petrie Mercht [Merchant] Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Messrs. Craigs Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Alexander Cuthbert Anne Peterkin 1 1 £0.2.6
Sir George Abercromby Bart. [Baronet] Female Servts [Servants] 2 2 £0.10.0
Mrs. Innes Leuchars Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Bailie James Simpson Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Forteath Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Urquhart Margaret Falconar 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. John Stronach Taylor Jean Duncan 1 1 £0.2.6
William Innes Isobell Anderson 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. Callum Supervisor Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
William Williamson Sen [Senior] Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Thomas Trig Ale Seller Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
James MacKay Mercht [Merchant] Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
George Fenton Esquire Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
John Reid Mercht [Merchant] Anne Frazer 1 1 £0.2.6
James Reid Merchant Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Captain Chalmers Female Servt [Servant] 2 2 £0.10.0
Mr. Gordon Minister Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. Peterkin MInister Female Servt [Servant] 1 1 £0.2.6
73 4 55 18 £11.17.6
Prooff 73 4 51 18

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Town of Elgin Continued


Prooff
4 Batchelor Servants over and above duty at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each for a year is £0.10.0
18 Servants @ 5/ [£0.5.0] each for a year is £4.10.0
55 Servants @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] each for a year is £6.17.6
£11.17.6

I Patrick MacDonald Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful
examination of the foregoing several rates, and duties on Female Servants, I find they
ammount in whole to Eleven pounds, Seventeen Shillings, and Six pence Sterling
and that upon the Twentieth day of November 1787, I delivered to James Young Collector
of said duties for the Town of Elgin, an exact duplicate of the above account duly
examined and compared with the foregoing , which contained my Oath that the
foregoing Inhabitants, were duly served with requisitions of the Dates aforesaid
that the assessments are made up from the Lists, and answers now in my Possession.
Patrick MacDonald Surveyor

Sworn before me at Forres 10th November 1787
Alexander Grant JP. [Justice of the Peace]

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