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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 10% per 31 George III
Brought Over 127 8-2 95 22 £22.7.6 £2.0.9
29 Jun 1791 Mrs Captain Ewart Peggy Graham 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mrs. Lawson of Girthhead Joan Irving 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mrs. Edgar of Elshishields Margaret Scott 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
John Wilson of Bogra Jean Aitken 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mrs. William Clark Margaret Burgess 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
George Chrystie Baker Jean Wateret 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Thomas White Mathematician Hannah Brown 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Provost William Clark Janet Martin 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mrs. McKie Jenny Johnston 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Bailie John Lawson Mary Byars 1 1 £0.5.0 £0.0.6
Miss Dickson Mary Edgar 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Miss Lauries of Maxwelton Janet Shedan 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mrs. Watson Agnes Welsh 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
Mr. George Gordon Barbara Brown 1 1 £0.2.6 £0.0.3
141 9-2 108 22 £22.5.0 £2.4.6
Proof
9 Bachelor Servants @ 5/ [£0.5.0] £2.5.0
2 Bachelor Servants @ 10/ [£0.10.0] £1.0.0
108 Servants @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] £13.10.0
22 Servants @ 5/ [£0.5.0] £5.10.0
141 Servants £22.5.0
10 pr [per] cent £2.4.6
Total £24.9.6

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[Page] 4th Survey Continued

I William Currie Surveyor on aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination
I find the foregoing duties Amount to the sum of Twenty four Pounds Nine shillings
and six pence. and that upon the twenty fourth day of a Nov Seventeen Hundred
and Ninety one Years I delivered to Mr. Francis Maxwell Collr. [Collector] of said duties an
exact duplicate of Which Accts. [Accounts] duly examined and Compared which contained
my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly Served with requisitions And
that they were Charged in Conformity to their several returns according
to my knowledge and belief that they were liable in said duties.
by William Currie Surveyor
Joseph Johnston J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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