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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
1787 Sir Alexander McKenzie of Coul Chambermaid
housemaid
2 2 £0.10.0
11 Dec 1787 Baillie Alexander McKenzie housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Capt. [Captain] Kenneth McKenzie housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Wood housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. John Munro housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Houston housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
George Robertson housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
8 6 2 £1.5.0

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FORTROSE
[Page] 123

A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Female Servants arisen in the Burgh of Fortrose
from 5th Aprile 1787 to 5th Aprile 1788. By Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor.

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Prooff
6 Servants @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] each is £0.15.0
2 Servants @ 5/ [£0.5.0] each is £0.10.0
£1.5.0 Total


I Hugh MacFarquhar surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing Rates & Duties, I find they amount in whole to one pound
five shillings, and that upon the fifteenth day of December current, I delivered to Baillie
Alexander McKenzie residing Baillie, there being no Collector appointed, An exact Duplicate
of the above acct. [account] duly examined & compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath
that the above acct. [account] contained the number of servants that were kept or employed by the different
Masters & Mistresses according to the best of my information or knowledge.
Tain 22nd December 1757
Hugh Farquhar Surveyor

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