E326/5/19/151

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
1792 Collonel Grant Moy 4 4 £6.0.0 £0.12.0
James Brodie Esq 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Robert Urquhart Sanchar 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Major Duff Blervie 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Robert Grant of Elchies 2 2 2 £5.0.0 £0.10.0
Honbl [Honourable] Arthur Duff 2 2 2 £5.0.0 £0.10.0
P. Rose Watson Esq 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
William Brodie Esq 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Sir Archibald Dunbar 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
John Brander Esq 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Mrs King Oldmiln 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Honbl [Honorouble] George Duff 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Alexander Innes Garmouth 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Sir William Gordon 2 2 2 £5.0.0 £0.10.0
Lady Gordon 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Genl. [General] Grant 4 4 4 £11.0.0 £1.2.0
29 13 21 8 £54.10.0 £5.9.0

Transcribe other information

A Survey of MALE SERVANTS TAX. Arising in the County of Elgin
from the 5th April to the 5thApril 1793 By Patrick Mdonald Sury [Surveyor]

Prooff 13 Batchlers Servants @ £1.5.0 each £16.5.0 Duty on Servants £54.10.0
21 Servants @ £1.5.0 each £26.5.0 Ten Per Cent £5.9.0
8 Servants @£1.10.0 each £12.0.0 £59.19.0
£54.10.0
Ten Per Cent on £54.10.0 is £5.9.0
Total Amount £59.19.0


I Patrick Mdonald Sury [Surveyor] do hereby Certified that upon careful ex Amination of the forgoing
Rates and duties I find they Amount in whole to fifty nine pound Ninteen Shillings and
I deliverd to Patrick Duff Collector of said duties an exact duplicate of the Above Acct [Account] examined
and Compaird and that requisitions were left with the Sevral Inhabitants and the assess
Ment Made Up from the lists And Answers in my Possession
Patrick Mdonald sury [surveyor]
Sworn before me at Nairn 24 Nov [November] 1792
John Rose JP [Justice of the Peace]

[Page] 151

  Transcribers who have contributed to this page.

Chr1smac -Moderator, noho