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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
No. 31 Burgh of Aberdn [Aberdeen] bt [brought] over 38 5 30 3 5 £57.0.0
Mrs Thomson James McLeod House Sert [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Dr [Doctor] William Livingstone George Midleton House Sert [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Alexander Anderson Esqr George Wilson House Sert [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Dr [Doctor] Alexander Robertson Thomas Brown House Sert [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
15 Sep 1786 Mr Alexander Simpson Bank Officer Andrew Gibb House Sert [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
16 Sep 1786 Mr Alexander Ganock James Ben House Sert [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Dr [Doctor] George Skene James Reid House Sert [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr James Joapp Mert [Merchant] George Buchan House Sert [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr James Burnett Mert [Merchant] John Davie House Sert [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Alexander Masson Vint [Vintner] John Martine
George More
Waiters 2 2 £2.10.0
Mr Alexander Milne Mert [Merchant] David Masson House Sert [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
29 Sep 1786 Provost William Cruden William Cruden House Sert [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
George Smith Vint [Vintner] late of the New Inn Alexander Blaike
James Wyness
Waiters 2 2 £2.10.0
Peter Wilkie Vint [Vintnet] New Inn William Greig Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr George Auldjoy Mert [Merchant] John Givan House Sert [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
No. 47 Mr Alexander Innes Com Clk [Company Clerk] James Irvine House Sert [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Total Burgh of Aberdeen 56 7 48 3 5 £82.0.0

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7 Batchellers [Batchelors] Servants at £1.5.0 is £8.15.0
48 Servants at £1.5.0 is £60.0.0
3 Servants at £1.10.0 is £4.10.0
5 Servants at £1.15.00 is £8.15.0
Prooff £82.0.0

I Hugh Richmond Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that upon careful Examination of the foregoing Several Rates & Duties
I find they amount in whole to Eighty two pounds And that upon the 13th day of December Current I delivered to James Thomson
Adt [Advocate] Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid an Exact duplicate of the above Account, duly Examined & Compared
with the foregoing which contd [contained] my Oath, that Requisitions were left or made with the whole foregoing Inhabitants
or at their dwelling houses of the Respective dates aforesaid, to Return their Respective Lists as therein Required to
which they are Charged to the Rates & Duties Set Agt [Against] their Several Names.
Hugh Richmond Surveyor

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