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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
1790 Provost Andrew Robertson Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
26 Jun 1790 Mr Petter May Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Murdoch McKenzie Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Doctor Bitten Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Daniel Rose Minr. [Minister] Batchelor Housemaid 1 1 £0.5.0
5 1 4 £0.15.0

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DINGWALL
A Survey of the Rates & Duties on Female Servants, Arisen in the Burgh of
Dingwall from 5th Aprile 1790 to 5th Aprile 1791. By John Barclay Assistant Surveyor

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5 Servants
1 Batchelors @ £0.5.0
4 Servants @2/6 [£0.2.6] £0.10.0
£0.15.0 Total

I John Barclay Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify, That upon carefull examination of
the foregoing Duties, I find they Amount to fifteen Shillings, and that upon the Seventh
day of December current I delivered to Baillie Alexander Kemp residing majistrate in said Burgh
there being no Collector Appointed an exact Duplicate of the Above Acct. [Account] duly examined &
compared, which contained my Oath that the Above Acct. [Account] contained the number of Servants
returned to me or were kept by the different Masters or Mistress's According to the best of my
knowledge or information.
John Barclay
Tain 8th Decr [December] 1790

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