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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
5 Aug 1790 Robert Park merchant not mentd [mentioned] 1 1 £0.2.6
William Gardner mercht [merchant] 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss Crawford 1 1 £0.2.6
Ebenezer Paterson Schoolms [Schoolmaster] 1 1 £0.2.6
Provost Mathew Gray 1 1 £0.2.6
Baillie James Burns 1 1 1 £0.5.0
Provost John Mitchell 1 1 1 £0.5.0
7 2 5 £1.2.6

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Survey of FEMALE SERVANTS TAX in the Burgh of Renfrew
from 5th April 1790 to 5th April 1791 by David Hutcheson Surveyor
RENFREW 54 45

Proof
7 @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] £0.17.6
of which
2 Bachelors at 0.5.0
2/6 [£0.2.6] each extra £0.5.0
£1.2.6

I David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination of the foregoing several Rates and duties I find they amount in
whole to one pound two shillings and six pence sterling; and that this day
I delivered to James Stewart, Collector of the said duties for the said Burgh, an
exact Duplicate of the above account; which contained my oath that notices or
requisitions were left with the several Inhabitants or at their dwelling places of the
date aforesaid; that they were to be charged with the sums hereby certified to be
due from them David Hutcheson

Sworn at Glasgow this 20
day of December 1790

Andrew Houstonn J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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