Record

Ref NoMS 3219/3/3/4/3
Finding NumberMS 3219/3/102
TitleIncoming letters to James Watt of Greenock concerning general business, orders and shipping in North Carolina
LevelFile
Date1746 - 1753
Description61 items. For the ships Clyde, Stewart.
Extent1
FormatFile
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 DescriptionPapers and correspondence
Access StatusOpen
ArrangementThese have not been listed in detail.
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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