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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
17 Sep 1787 Mrs. Fairbairn vintr [vintner] Margaret Kerkes
Tibby McIntosh
2 2 £0.10.0
James Fisher Painter Baby Brodie 1 1 1 £0.5.0
Mrs. Johnston of Huttenhall Annie Stewart Ladies maid
Bell Lawson Cook
2 2 £0.10.0
Mrs. Don two 2 2 £0.10.0
Simon Saweyen Peuterer one 1 1 £0.2.6
Thomas Fleeming Supervisor Margaret Sherp 1 1 £0.2.6
George Cuninghame one 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Veitch mercht. [merchant] Ann Wilson 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. Buchanan Ann Coots 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Cuninghame one 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss Henderson two 2 2 £0.10.0
James Johnston Rector Elizabeth Newlands 1 1 1 £0.5.0
Capt. [Captain] Maitland one 1 1 £0.2.6
Revd [Reverend] Mr. Barclay Tibby Dobson
Jean Nicholson
2 2 £0.10.0
William Pringle tanner Jenny Pringle 1 1 £0.2.6
Alexander Hislop Elizabeth Lauder 1 1 £0.2.6
William Cuninghame one 1 1 1 £0.5.0
James Banks Baby Laurie 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Burton Agnes Oliver 1 1 £0.2.6
James Veitch Ann Lawson 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Gourlay Janet Williamson 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Thomson Catherine Archibald 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Roughhead vintner Jean Sommerville 1 1 £0.2.6
Dr.[Doctor] Dudgeon Alison Whitlaw 1 1 £0.2.6
John Crumbie mercht. [merchant] Mary Wilson 1 1 1 £0.5.0
John Clerk jun [junior] vintr. [vintner] Ann McKenzie & May Fraser 2 2 £0.10.0
William Murray one 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Brown Margaret Nadley 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Gray Mary Cathie 1 1 £0.2.6
Alexander Resbrugh one 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss Dickson one 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. McClaran mercht [merchant] one 1 1 £0.2.6
George Blair one 1 1 1 £0.5.0
James Nicholson baker one 1 1 1 £0.5.0
John Banks tobacconist one 1 1 1 £0.5.0
David Smith Chandler one 1 1 £0.2.6
William Campbell one 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss Halyburton one 1 1 £0.2.6
John Abernethy schoolmaster one 1 1 £0.2.6
John Brown Ironmonger one 1 1 £0.2.6
John Fyfe Mercht. [Merchant] one 1 1 £0.2.6
47 7 35 12 £8.5.0
Exd. [Examined] 47 7 28 12 £8.5.0

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HADDINGTON
[Page] 37

Survey of the Female Servants Tax in the Royalty of
Haddington from 5 April 1787 to 5 April 1788 By William Johnstone Surveyor


Proof
7 Bachelors maids at 2/6 [£0.2.6] is £0.17.6
35 Maids at 2/6 [£0.2.60 is £4.7.6
12 Maids at 5/ [£0.5.0] is £3.0.0
~~~~~~~~~~~ £8.5.0

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the foregoing Duties
amount to the sum of Eight pounds five shillings Sterling and that upon the seventh day of November (1787) I delivered
to John Carfrae Coll. [Collector] for the Royalty of Haddington an exact duplicate of said Accompt duely examined & compared, which
contained my oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duely served with requisitions of the above date and that they were
charged the sums Sett against their respective Names according to their answers to said requisitions or according to my
knowledge & belief that they were liable in said duties.
William Johnstone Surveyor

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