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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
28 Sep 1787 Town of Forres
Mrs Tulloh Tanachie Ann Rose 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Chalmers Jean Stewart 1 1 £0.2.6
Doctor Dougal Isobell Kilgouer 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Roy Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Urquhart Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Logan Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Watt Minister Female Servant 2 2 £0.10.0
Bailie Alexander Watson Ann Watson 1 1 £0.2.6
John Gordon Esqr Female Servants 2 2 £0.10.0
John Hoyes Mercht [Merchant] Female Servants 1 1 ££0.2.6
Mrs Warran Female Servants 1 1 £0.2.6
Alexander Forsyth Esqr Female Servants 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Spence Female Servants 2 2 £0.10.0
Mr Bell Kennar Female Servants 1 1 £0.2.6
John Mitchell Vintner Female Servants 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Tulloh Bougtown Female Servants 1 1 £0.2.6
Thomas Eddie Mercht [Merchant] Female Servants 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs MacLennan Female Servans 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr William Dunbar Writer Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
George Cumming Mercht [Merchant] Female Servants 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Mutterer Mercht [Merchant] Female Servants 1 1 £0.2.6
James Smith Mercht [Merchant] Margrate Gordon 1 1 £0.2.6
Captn [Captain] Stanghan Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Barnes Vintner Female Servant 1 1 £0.2.6
27 21 6 £4.2.6

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FORRES
[Page] 119

Survey of the Female Servants Tax Arising within the
Town of Forres from the 5th Aprile 1787 to the 5th Aprile 1788 by Patrick MacDonald Surveyor.


Proof
21 Servants @ £0.2.6 each is £2.12.6
6 Servants @ £0.5.0 each is £1.10.0
= £4.2.6

I Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby certify that upon careful examination of
the foregoing Several rates and duties on Female Servants I find they amount in whole to the
Sum of £4.2.6 Sterling and that upon the eight day of November 1787 I delivered to
Humphrey Grant Collector of the said duties for the Town of Forres aforesaid an exact
duplicate of the above acct [account] duly examined and compared which contained my Oath that the
foregoing inhabitants were duly served with requisitions of the dates aforesaid and that the
assessments are made up from the lists and answers now in my possession.
Pat McDonald Surveyor

Sworn before me at Forres 13th December 1787. Alexander Grant J. P. [Justice of the Peace]

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