| Description | There are eight surviving ledgers. The ledgers were identified with a letter from A to L, although four would appear to be missing from the sequence, that is, A, B, D and F. The existing volumes cover the dates 1747 to 1776 with gaps from 1750 to 1752 and 1758 to 1760. The ledger with the letter B, covering dates 1753 - 1754, appears to follow ledger C.
The 1753 - 1754 ledger has no index and no page numbers. 'Ledger No. B. 1753' is written on a right hand page halfway through the volume and the entries previous to that are headed 'No. 1 Greenock Anno 1753' and after that are headed, 'No. 2 .1753'. In the third section, the heading is 'L[edge]r No. C. Greenock Anno 1754'.
Entries are numbered and headed by personal name or titles like 'Profit and Loss', 'Accepted Bills', 'Voyages', 'Household expenses', 'Wine', 'Flax', 'Linen', 'Cash' etc.
Ledger H has an index at the front of persons and ships' names. Most entries are for ships' chandlery, carpentry, salt. This volume also has entries for Ingleston houses; Gourock coal works; Greenock town. It ends with four folios of small debts brought over from 1764 - 1767. |