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Date Masters & mistresses names & designations Servants names Quality of servants Number of servants Bachelor servants One and two servants Three and four servants Five to seven servants Eight to ten servants Eleven or more servants Duty
1785 Laurancekirk Parish
28 Sep 1785 George Murdoch in Laurancekirk David Tevendall Waiter 1 1 £ 0.18.9
Marykirk Parish
23 Sep 1785 The Right Honble [Honourable]the Earl of Kintore John Balfower Gardener 1 1 £0.18.9
12 Oct 1785 The Honble [Honourable]John Arbuthnott of Haltown Chaise driver 1 1 £0.18.9
2 2 £1.17.6
Glenbervie Parish
9 Sep 1785 Mrs Garroch of Mergay John Smart Gardener 1 1 £0.18.9
Parishes Collected
No 1 Ecclesgreeg 1 1 £1.17.6
2 Benholm 4 2 2 £5.12.6
3 Arbuthnott 5 5 £6.11.3
4 Dunnottar 6 2 4 £6.7.6
5 Fetteresso 6 2 4 £6.7.6
6 Marry Coulter 5 7 3 1 3 £10.10.0
7 Upper Banchory 5 1 4 £5.8.9
8 Strachan 1 1 £1.17.6
9 Fettercairn 6 6 £7.17.6
10 Laurancekirk 1 1 £0.18.9
11 Marrykirk 2 2 £1.17.6
12 Glenbervie 1 1 £0.18.9
45 7 12 15 11 £56.5.0
NB Total 45 7 16 18 11 £56.5.0

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4 Male Single Servants of unmarried persons & above the age of 21 Years for 3 Quarters of One year at £1.17.6 each is -- £7.10.0
3 Male Servants of an unmarried persons & above the age of 21 Years for 3 Quarters of One year at £2.1.3 each is -- £6.3.9
12 Male Servants Single of married persons & above the age of 21 Years for 3 Quarters of One year at £0.18.9 each is -- £11.5.0
15 Male Servants Single of married persons & above the age of 21 Years for 3 Quarters of One year at £1.2.6 each is -- £16.17.6
11 Male Servants Single of married persons & above the age of 21 Years for 3 Quarters of One year at £1.6.3 each is -- £14.8.9
Totall £56.5.0

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing dutes I find they amount in whole to Fiftie Six
pounds five shillings Sterling, and that upon the -- day of May 1786 I delivered Alexander Gorden Esq Collector of the Cess and of the said duties
f[or] the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account (as will Appear from ---- ) duly examined and Compared with
the foregoing which contained my Oath that nottices were left with the Several persons before named or at their dwelling houses of the dates
Annexed to their respective names requiring them with 14 ds [days] to give in a list of their Servants retained or employed by them, from the fifth day of [July] 1784 to the fifth day of April 1785, and that the said Account or Survey was made out from the lists returned to me and from the best information I could procure of the Servants of those who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the Nottices left with them
William Greig Surveyor

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