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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Oct 1790 | Doctor John Gilchrist | John Fraser | Postilion | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
| Mrs Walter Riddell | James Marshal Thomas Brown |
Coachman footman |
2 | 2 | £2.10.0 | ||||||
| Comisary Thomas Goldie | Francis Gracie | footman | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
| Capt [Captain] Hamilton | Robert McDowall John Proudfoot |
Coachman footman |
2 | 2 | £2.10.0 | ||||||
| Mr William Lauson | Thomas Grieve | Gamekeeper | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
| Robert Riddell of Carfield | no Servts [Servants] last year | ||||||||||
| Mr Francis Short | James McWhirter | Livery Boy | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
| George Johnston Coffee house | James Glendinning | Waiter | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
| Thomas Clynt Vintr [Vintner] | William Graham Primus Stevenson |
Waiter Waiter |
2 | 2 | £2.10.0 | ||||||
| David Haig Esqr | James MCace | Footman | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
| Mrs Lothian | William Underwood Robert Creichton Alexander Finlayson |
Sert [Servant] & Gamekeeper Coachman Gardner |
3 | 3 | £4.10.0 | ||||||
| Mrs McVity Vintr [Vintner] | Luke Newlands William Marriner |
Waiter Waiter |
2 | 2 | £2.10.0 | ||||||
| Lady Carnwath | William Paterson | Sert [Servant] | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
| Trustees of Alexander Mitchelson | rept [report] no Serts [Servants] last Year | ||||||||||
| £23.5.0 | |||||||||||
| Capt [Captain] Paul Mouncie 24 Regt [Regiment] | John Johnston | Footman | 1 | 1 | 1 | £2.10.0 | |||||
| 19 | 1 | 16 | 3 | £25.15.0 |
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Report of the MALE SERVANTS TAX in the Burgh of Dumfriesfor the Year ending the 5th of April 1791 by William Currie Surveyor
Proof 1 servant at £2.10.0 each £2.10.0
15 Servants at £1.5.0 £18.15.0
3 Servants at £1.10.0 £4.10.0
£25.15.0
I William Currie Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the
foregoing duties Amount to the sum of Twenty five pounds fifteen shillings St[Sterling] and that upon the
11th day of Decembr. [December ] 1790 I delivered to Mr Francis Maxwell Collr [Collector] of said duties an exact Duplicate
of which Accompts duly examined and compared which contained my Oath that the preceeding
Inhabitants were duly served with requisitions And that they were charged in Conformity to their
Several returns & according to my knowledge and belief that they were Liable in said
Duties
William Currie Surveyor
Joseph Johnston JP [Justice of Peace]
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Aberdeenshire County, Angus County, Ayrshire County, Banffshire County, Buteshire County, Dumfriesshire County, Dunbartonshire County, East Lothian County, Fife County, Lanarkshire County, Midlothian County, Morayshire County, Orkney County, Peeblesshire County, Perthshire County, Ross And Cromarty County, Roxburghshire County, Stirlingshire County, West Lothian County, Wigtownshire County