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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 Fettercairn Parish
24 Oct 1791 Alexander Burnett of Strachan Esqr at Fasque Joshua Catterick
Emanuel Powton
James Smith
Charles Duncan
Gardener 4 4 £6.0.0 £0.12.0
Sir John Belsches of Fettercairn William Foreteath Gardener 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Totall 5 1 4 £7.5.0 £0.14.6
Fordown Parish
10 Oct 1791 The Right Honble [Honourable] Lord Monboddo David Gray
Charles Douglas
2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Doctr [Doctor] John Stuart of Castletown John Walker of Acquhine Gamekeeper 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Totall 3 3 £3.15.0 £0.7.6
Glenbervie Parish
11 Oct 1791 Henry Ivie Nicolsonn of Glenbervie Esqr James Galspie House Servt [Servant] or Butler
Postillion
Gardener
3 3 £4.10.0 £0.9.0
Marrykirk Parish
26 Oct 1791 The Right Honble [Honourable] The Earl of Kintore John Balflower Gardener Accumulating him with other Six at Kintore he falls to be chd [charged] at the Rate of 5 a [and] 7 1 1 £1.15.0 £0.3.6
Parishes Collected
No 1 Ecclesgreeg 2 1 2 £3.15.0 £0.7.6
2 Benholm 6 2 3 3 £10.15.0 £1.1.6
3 Arbuthnott 5 5 £8.15.0 £0.17.6
4 Dunnottar 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
5 Fetteresso 9 5 4 £12.5.0 £1.4.6
6 Upper Banchory 6 2 4 £8.10.0 £0.17.0
7 Marry Coulter 8 1 7 £11.15.0 £1.3.6
8 Strachan 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
9 Laurencekirk 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
10 Fettercairn 5 1 4 £7.5.0 £0.14.6
1 Fordown 3 3 £3.15.0 £0.7.6
2 Glenbervie 3 3 £4.10.0 £0.9.0
3 Marrykirk 1 1 £1.15.0 £0.3.6
Totall 53 3 22 25 6 £79.5.0 £7.18.6

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Survey of Kingcarden Shire Continued


22 Single Male Servants of 1 & 2 at £1.5.0 £27.10.0 £2.15.0
25 Single Male Servants of 3&4 at £1.10.0 £37.10.0 £3.15.0
6 Single Male Servants of 5&7 at £1.15.0 £10.10.0 £1.1.0
3 Single Male Servants unmarried persons at £1.5.0 £3.15.0 £0.7.6
53 Male Servants Totall £79.5.0 £7.18.6

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull examination of the foregoing duties I [find]
they Amount in whole to Seventy Nine Pounds five Shillings Sterling likewise the Additional duties of 10 P [Per] Cent there
being Seven Pounds, Eighteen Shillings & Sixpence Sterling and that upon the ... day of February 1792 I deliver [ed to]
Alexander Garden Esqr principal Collector of the Said duties for the Shire Aforesaid an exact duplicate of the Above Accou [nt]
as will appear from .... duly examined and compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath [that]
Notices were left with the Several persons before named or at their dwelling houses of the dates Annexed to their res [pective]
names, requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of the Male Servants retained or employed by them from
fifth day of April 1790 to the fifth day of April 1791, And that the Said Account or Survey is made out from the Lists [returned]
to me and from the best information I could procure of the Male Servants of those whose Lists are deficient, neglect [ted] or
refused to give in a List thereof in terms of the Notices left with them as aforesaid William Greig Surveyor


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