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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
19 Nov 1787 Mr William McWhinnie Jean Halliday 1 1 £0.2.6
Provost Lennox Mary Davidson 1 1 £0.2.6
Thomas Forrest Surgeon Isobel Edgar 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr James McCririe Schoolmaster Sarah Gordon 1 1 1 £0.5.0
Mr John Walker Surgeon B [Bachelor] Janet McMicken 1 1 1 £0.5.0
Mr Mathew Buchanan Mary Tait 1 1 1 £0.5.0
Mr James McCourtie Janet Newall 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs McKenzie Mary Sharp 1 1 £0.2.6
8 3 8 £1.7.6
8 3 5 £1.7.6

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KIRKCUDBRIGHT
Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Burgh of
Kirkcudbright from the 5th April 1787 to 5th April 1788 by Anthony Macmillan Surveyor

Proof 3 Batchelors Servts. [Servants] at £0.2.6 is £0.7.6
8 Servants at £0.2.6 is £1.0.0
£1.7.6

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing
several rates & Duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of One pound seven shillings & six pence
Sterling and that upon the fourth day of January One thousand seven hundred &
eighty eight I delivered to Mr John Ewart Collector of the said Duties for the said Burgh an
exact Duplicate of the foregoing which contained my Oath that notices were left with the several
Persons or at ther dwelling places chargeable with the sums hereby certified to be due from
them Anthony Macmillan

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