| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/7/1/66 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/124/66 |
| Title | Letter. John Cochran, goldsmith (Antigua) to James Watt of Greenock |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 29 June 1754 |
| Description | [Requesting clothes, as listed, to be made and sent. These were to be paid for with £15 bequeathed to John Cochran by John Watt, his uncle, which was payable in 1748. On the reverse is an account of materials and the costs of making clothes for John Cochran in Antigua, 10 January 1755]. |
| Extent | 1 |
| Format | Item |
| 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 |
| 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] |