| Ref No | MS 3219/3/2/5/1 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/80 |
| Title | Accounts with George Anderson for the ship 'Mennie' |
| Level | File |
| Date | 1744 - 1748 |
| Description | There is an original bundle wrapper on which has been written, perhaps by James Watt jr. 'George Anderson & Snow Manie's Accounts & papers. 1747 - 1762. Ex[amine]d Feb[ruar]y 1820. Jas. & George Anderson the Manies accounts.'
There are 135 items. The documents had not been numbered. They have been arranged in chronological order. The earliest item is, in fact, from 1744. There are letters and accounts with Captain Ninian Stewart, who was commissioned in 1747, to build a ship (a snow, called the Manie or Menie), in Virginia, with the advice of Messrs. Buchanan & Hill, merchants in Norfolk, Virginia, on behalf of Anderson and Watt.
A letter from Anderson, dated 02 January 1755, describes the death of Mr Muirhead at Glasford. |
| Extent | 1 |
| Format | File |
| 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 have not been listed in detail. |
| CreatorName | James Watt of Greenock |
| 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] |