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Hearth tax transcription

The paroch of Polwart
From Robert Craw my Lords Baillie for seventein hearths
including ovens & furnaces possest be My Lord himself
Conform to List which bears the names of the whole paroch
and hearths possest be them -- 17
Mr George Halywall minr [minister] att Polwart -- 5
James Patersone thr [there] one, William Foord thr [there] one, Georg Halyday
thr [there] one, Patrick Brysen thr [there] one, Georg Mandersone thr [there] one
James Currie elder thr [there] one, Robert Haistie thr [there] one, & William
Jaffrae thr [there] one being in all -- 8
Thomas Martle yor [younger] in Polwart -- 1
William Watt workman in Polwart one Thomas Martle
elder thr [there] one, John Johnstone thr [there] one, Patrick Whythead
thr [there] one Christopher Ridpath thr [there] one David Sheill thr [there] one
Peter Broun thr [there] one, & Alexander Hunter thr [there] one being in all -- 8
James Angus weaver in Polwart -- 1
Alexander McCrackett in Polwart Mains -- 1
Georg Stevensone in Weltour one, William Taylor in Hyndlaw
his coatter one is in all -- 2
Margaret Greive in Polwart -- 1
John Bell thr [there] -- 1
John Blirn in Polwart -- 1
Robert Fairbairn elder & yor [younger] in Woodsyde 3 on a smidie -- 3
Adam Thomsone in Polwart milne -- 2
William Murray in Overwoodsyde -- 1
Patrick Haistie in Polwart -- 1
James Currie yor [younger] thr [there] -- 1
Robert Knox now in Polwart milne -- 1
Robert auld in Polwart mains -- 1
James Dicksone in Polwart one, William Whytlaw thr [there] one
James Jaffrae in Rouistoune one in all -- 3
James Minto in Polwart one John Minto thr [there] one Ninian Jaffra thr [there] on
Hendry Hanna thr [there] one Patrick Moffat thr [there] one & James Wilsone thr [there] one -- 6
Totall -- 65


The paroch of Greenlaw
James Murdoch in Whinkerstones for ane smidie possest
be him in Angelaw -- 1
James Scott coatter in Greenlaw -- 1
[sub total] -- 2

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