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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
12 Dec 1785 Mrs Fletcher of Ballinshoe James Gillespie
James Fleeming
House Servant
Gardner
2 2 £1.17.6
Capt. [Captain] Hamilton Brown of Glassell James Patterson Groom 1 1 1 £1.17.6
Sir Alexander Douglas David Car
David mckenzie
Postillion
Footman
2 2 £1.17.6
Major William Butler David Wishart 1 1 £0.18.9
Lady Ramsay John Sydie 1 1 £0.18.9
Captn [Captain] David Land William Clark
John James
Coachman
Footman
2 2 £1.17.6
14 Dec 1785 Mr Charles Guthrie William [Patten] Gardener 1 1 £0.18.9
16 Dec 1785 Doctr [Doctor] Robert Stewart James Duncan Groom & Household 1 1 £0.18.9
20 Dec 1785 Robert Graham of Fintry Esq. Danniel Campbell
Andrew Hume
House Servant
Groom
2 2 £1.17.6
20 Dec 1785 Doctr [Doctor] John Welison unmarried Thomas Musgrave Groom 1 1 1 £1.17.6
21 Mr Michaell Luke John Bowman Household 1 1 £0.18.9
24 Dec 1785 Mr Thomas Reid Thomas Tinker Household 1 1 £0.18.9
John Rankine Esqr. Archibald Sinclair Household 1 1 £0.18.9
27 Dec 1785 Benjamin Ellett Frederick Rimmers Waiter 1 1 £0.18.9
28 Dec 1785 William Gordon Samuel Mitchell Household 1 1 £0.18.9
29 Dec 1785 Mr William Stewart unmarried George Gilbert Groom & He [House] hold 1 1 1 £1.17.9
Coll: [Colonel] James Weems of the 63rd Regmt [Regiment] Findlay Campbell Footman 1 1 £0.18.9
Captn [Captain] John Mckennon of the 63rd Regmt [Regiment] unmaried Thomas Weeb Groom 1 1 1 £1.17.6
Totall 22 4 22 £24.7.6
Proof
4 Single Servants of unmarried persons for three quarters of a year as above at £1.17.6 each is £7.10.0
18 Servants of Married persons for three quarters of a year as above at £0.18.9 each is £16.17.6
Totall £24.7.6

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants in the Burgh of Dundee for three Quarters of one Year
commencing the fifth of July 1784, and ending the 5th day of April 1785 by William Greig Surveyor

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[Note in Margin] 138
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I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do here by Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties I find they amount in
whole to twenty four pounds Seven Shillings and Sixpence Sterling and that upon the -- day of -- 1786 I delivered Mr James
Dick collector of the Cess and of the said duties for the Burgh 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 within
fourteen days to give in a list of their Servants retained or employed by them, from the fifth day of July 1784 to the 5th 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 return a list in terms of the nottices left with them as aforesaid

William Greig Surveyor

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