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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
1790 Bannff
George Robinson Esq 2 2 £2.10.0
Sir George Abercrombie 2 2 £2.10.0
James Ross vintner 1 1 £1.5.0
Mrs Admiral Gordon 1 1 £1.5.0
William Leslie Esq 2 2 2 £5.0.0
James Duff Esq 2 2 £2.10.0
Capt. [Captain] Adam Urquhart 1 1 £1.5.0
Doctor Abernethy 1 1 £1.5.0
Lady Findlater 4 4 £6.0.0
Capt [Captain] Hay 1 1 £1.5.0
James Urquhart Esq 1 1 £1.5.0
Capt [Captain] Bartlet 1 1 £1.5.0
19 2 15 4 £27.5.0

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A Survey of MALE SERVANTS TAX. Arrising in the Town of
Banff from the 5th April 1790 to the 5th April 1791 By Patrick Mdonald Survyr [Surveyor]


Prooff 2 Batchelors Servant @ 25/- [£1.5.0] each......£2.10.0
..........15 Servants...............@ 25/- [£1.5.0] each.... £18.15.0
...........4 Servants................@ 30/- [£1.10.0] each.... £6.0.0
...................................................................................£27.5.0


I Patrick Mdonald Surveyor aforsaid do hereby Certify that Upon carful examination of the forgoing Rates and
duties on Male Servants I find they Amount in whole to twenty seven pound five Shillings Sterl. [Sterling] And that
Upon the 2nd Dcemb. [December] I transmited James Anderson Collector of Said duties in the Town of Banff an
exact duplicate of the above Acct. [Account] examined and Compared with the forgoing which contained my Oath
that the Several Inhabitants were Served with Requisitions and the Assessment Made Up
from the lists and Answers in my possession .. Patrick McDonald Survr. [Surveyor]
Sworn before me John Grant J.P [Justice of the Peace]

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