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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
Dunbar
14 Aug 1787 Mrs Wedderburn House Servt [Servant] Ho [House] Servant 1 1 £1.5.0
Mrs Fletcher Ballin shoe Alexander Hemptie
James Fleming
Ho. [House] Servant
Gardner
2 2 £2.10.0
Sir Alexander Douglass Peter Macdonald
John Bolt
Postilion
Ho. [House] Servant
2 2 £2.10.0
Doctor Robert Stewart James Stewart Groom 1 1 £1.5.0
Benjamin Ellit James Falconer Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
Doctor John Willison not married George Brown Groom 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Mr Michael Luke James Stirling Household 1 1 £1.5.0
John Guthrie Esqr William Gray
William Elder
Postillion
Household
2 2 £2.10.0
William Gordon James Mitchell
Peter Campbell
Waiter
Waiter
2 2 £2.10.0
Henry Crawford Esqr William Smith Household 1 1 £1.5.0
Capt [Captain] David Laird Alexander Walker
William Brown
Household
Groom
2 2 £2.10.0
Total 16 1 16 £21.5.0
Proof
15 Male Servants belonging to Married Persons for one year as above at 25/- [£1.5.0] 18.13.0
1 Male Servant unmarried Persons for one year as above at 50/- [£2.10.0] £2.10.0
£21.5.0

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants arisen in the Burgh of Dundee for one Year
commencing the 5th day of April 1787 ending the fifth day of April 1788 by Daniel Ross Surveyor

I Daniel Ross Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the
foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to Twenty One Pounds Five Shillings
Sterling and I do make Oath that notices were left with the Several Inhabitants before named
or at their Dwelling Houses of the respective dates aforesaid requesting then within Fourteen days
to give in a list of the Servants retained or Employed by them from the 5th day of April 1787 to
the 5 day of April 1788 and that the foregoing survey is made out from the lists returned to and
from the best Information also in I could procure of those who of the Male Servants neglected or refused
to return a list thereof in terms of the Nottices left with them aforesaid
Daniel Ross Surveyor

At Dundee the 31st day of October 1787
Sworn before me
John Guild Baillie
James Dick Collr. [Collector]

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