| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/6/1 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/116 |
| Title | Letters and Papers concerning Ingleston Park |
| Level | File |
| Date | 1733 - 1760 |
| Description | The original bundle wrapper reads: 'Ingleston Papers with Tho[mas] Shearer. Ex[amine]d Feb[ruar]y 1820. JW.' James Watt of Greenock was 'Tacksman' for lands in Ingleston Park. The bundle includes rent receipts, notices of inspection of houses, improvements of lands, and a list of vegetables and seeds for planting on Ingleston farms in 1747. |
| Extent | 46 |
| Format | Items |
| Related Material | A single receipt from 1744 was discovered at Doldowlod in 2002 and donated to the City Archives. It is listed in the ‘Later additions to the papers of James Watt and Family’ part of the MS 3219 catalogue.
The Watt and Muirhead papers were microfilmed by Adam Matthew Publications as part of Industrial Revolution: A Documentary History. ‘Muirhead I’ was published in Series One: part 2 in 1993; ‘Muirhead II-IV’ in Series One: parts 6 and 8, in 1997; and the ‘James Watt Papers’ in Series Three, in 1999. All the microfilms are available in Birmingham City Archives. |
| Physical Description | Papers and correspondence |
| Access Status | Open |
| Arrangement | These papers have not been listed in greater detail. |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Three Generations of Watts. Extracts from the Doldowlod Papers, by Julian Gibson-Watt (1995), has a section on the trading correspondence of James Watt of Greenock and on the Finlay & Cation papers. [B&W Pamphlets G/7] |