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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 10% per 31 George III
1791 Killmure-easter Parish
7 Jul 1791 Capt. [Captain] Kenneth McKenzie of Cromarty James Wedsworth Postillion 1 1 £1.10.0 £0.3.0
John Wheeler footman 1 1 £1.10.0 £0.3.0
Charles Hull Gardener 1 1 £1.10.0 £0.3.0
3 3 £4.10.0 £0.9.0
10 Jul 1791 Cullicudden Parish
George Gunn Munro Pointsfield William Burn Postillion 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Alexander Finlay Gardener 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
David Urquhart Braelangwell James Pringle Postillion 1 1 £1.10.0 £0.3.0
Collin McIntosh hous servt. [servant] 1 1 £1.10.0 £0.3.0
Gardener 1 1 £1.10.0 £0.3.0
5 2 3 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Cromarty Town & Parish
15 Jul 1791 Capt. [Captain] John McKenzie George Logan Postillion 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Alexander Fraser House Servt. [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Parishes Collected
Killmure-easter Parish 3 3 £4.10.0 £0.9.0
Cullicudden Parish 5 2 3 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Cromarty Town or Parish 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
10 4 6 £14.0.0 £1.8.0
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A Survey of the Rates & Duties on Male Servants, arisen in the Shire of Cromarty
from 5th Aprile 1791 to 5th Aprile 1792. By David Ross Assistant Surveyor.


Prooff.
10 Servts. [servants]
4 @ 25/ [£0.25.0] each is £5.0.0
6 @ 25/ [£0.30.0] each is £9.0.0
£14.0.0
10 Pr Ct [Per Cent] in Duty £1.8.0
£15.8.0 Total


I David Ross Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby certify, That upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates
& Duties, I find they amount in whole to Fifteen Pounds eight shillings, And that upon the Twenty-Ninth
day of October last I delivered to Sir William Ross Collector of said duties for the Shire aforesaid, an exact
Duplicate of the above Acct. [Account] duly examined & compared, which contained my Oath that the above Acct. [Account]
contained the number of servants returned to me & were kept or employed by the different Masters -
According to the best of my knowledge or information
Tain 3rd Novr 1791
David Ross Assistant Surveyor

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