Record

Ref NoMS 3219/3/1/4
TitleAccount books for North Carolina business of James Watt of Greenock
LevelSub Series
Date1741 - 1744
DescriptionThere is one volume in this series. It covers the Debit side of transactions only. The volume is comprised of two separate portions, the second starting in June 1743. It appears to be a record of items purchased on a day by day basis, by various named persons, from an unidentified person, perhaps with a warehouse, which may have been at Edenton, North Carolina, as there are a couple of references 'To bills at Edentoun' on a loose page, dated June 1744. The goods sold include mainly textiles and clothing; buttons and buckles; food (corn, meat, sugar, rum); and some knives, tools, gunpowder etc.
Related MaterialA 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 DescriptionVolumes
Access StatusOpen
CreatorName James Watt of Greenock
LanguageEnglish
PublisherThree 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]
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