| Ref No | MS 3219/3/2/5/2 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/81 |
| Title | Discharged Accounts |
| Level | File |
| Date | 1756 - 1774 |
| Description | 241 items.There is a bundle label with the following in the hand of James Watt jr.: '[M]r Watt's [dischar]ged accts. of various [date]s from [ ]5 to 1774 - 75. Exd. Feby. 1820. J. W.'
In another hand has been written: ' Sundrie letters & accompts paid of various dates.'
The papers had been arranged in chronological order. They concern goods, shipping etc.
Photocopies of the folders in which the accounts were previously stored when the documents were repackaged by Birmingham Reference Library in the ?1970s have been retained, as the names of the persons from whom the bills and receipts were received had been written on them. The earliest account, (1737), and a letter from Lionel Mitchel to John Loudon (1775), which had been placed at the end of the sequence in the 'settlement of accounts' bundle, have now been placed elsewhere, the account at the beginning of this sequence, and the letter after the papers dated 1774. |
| 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] |