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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
4 Apr 1790 Mr. Robert Chapman Elizabeth McRabbie 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. James Siddele Christian Alexander 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. William Allan Ann Grahame 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. Robert Dick Not Returned 1 1 £0.2.6
Baillie Dalgliesh Not Returned 1 1 £0.2.6
Baillie McAllum Not Returned 1 1 £0.2.6
Baillie Buncle Not Returned 1 1 £0.2.6
Charles Arbuckle Mary Struthers 1 1 £0.2.6
Capitain Taylor Isobele Rosburgh 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Wilson 1 Not Returned 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Samson Not Returned 1 1 £0.2.6
Capitain Martin Senr [Sentior] Margaret Hunter 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Douglas Not Returned 1 1 £0.2.6
7 Apr 1790 Mrs. Crawford 3 Margaret Allasten
Isobele Purvis
Jacobina Dunday
3 1 2 £0.10.0
Totall 15 13 2 £2.2.6

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Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Borough of
Queensferry, from the 5th April 1790, to the 5th April 1791. James Watsone Surveyor
QUEENSFERRY 53 44

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13 servants at 2/6.d [£0.2.6] £1.12.6
2 Servants at 5/. [£0.5.0] £0.10.0
£2.2.6

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to
the sum of Two pounds two shillings & six pence Strl [Sterling] and that upon the eighteenth
of November current I delivered to Mr Robert Chapman Collecter of the said
Borough an exact Duplicate of the forgoing Survey which contained my oath
that the severale persons beforenamed were duly Served with Requisitions
and notices whereby they were to be charged with the several Duties hereby
certified to be due by them. James Watsone Surveyor

Linlithgow 30th November 1790

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