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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Children under 14 Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
1789 Royal Burgh of Ayr brot. [brought] over 26 3 19 4 £4.2.6
Aug 1789 Mr Robert Montgomerie 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Craig Shipmaster Elizabeth White 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Lockhart Isobel McFarlane 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Miller Grizel McInch 1 1 £0.2.6
15 Aug 1789 Mr McGown Jean Kirkland 1 1 £0.2.6
Collector Thomson's Widow Janet Guthrie 1 1 £0.2.6
Doctor Oliphant Mary Crichton 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss Boyd Jean Howston 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss McCredie Janet King 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Paterson Isobel Niccol 1 1 £0.2.6
Capt. [Captain] Archibald Cunningham 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr William Stewart Jean Boyd 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Bryce Ann Porter 1 1 £0.2.6
Samuel Gemmil Mercht. [Merchant] Ann Findlay 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Francis Jean Porteous 1 1 £0.2.6
17 Aug 1789 Mr Hugh Galt Mary Gardner 1 1 £0.2.6
Capt. [Captain] John Peebles Margaret and Jean Findlay 2 2 £0.10.0
Total 44 3 35 6 £6.12.6

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Survey Continued

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3 at 5/ [£0.5.0] each is £0.15.0
35 at 2/6d [£0.2.6] is £4.7.6
6 at 5/ is [£0.5.0] £1.10.0
Total £6.12.6

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify
that upon careful Examination of the foregoing Rates and
Duties I find they amount in whole to Six pounds
twelve shillings and six pence sterling And that upon
the seventeenth day of March current I delivered to Mr
John Watt principal Collector of said duties for said
Burgh, an exact duplicate of, and duly examined & compared
with the foregoing Account which contained my Oath that
notifications were delivered or left of the dates foresaid
and that the rates charged in said Acct. [account] were just and
true to the best of my skill and knowledge, and to the
best of my belief no person liable to be charged was
omitted.
Rob Aiken Surveyor

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