| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/4 |
| Title | Incoming letters to James Watt of Greenock concerning general business, orders and shipping in North Carolina |
| Level | Sub Series |
| Date | 1735 - 1753 |
| Description | The three bundles in this series comprise masters' and merchants' accounts, invoices, bills, correspondence from watt's shipmasters or factors in carolina, bills of lading, legal documents about insurance etc.
The ship Thomas was sunk in August 1743 en route for North Carolina. The ship Jean was severely damaged on the return voyage to Greenock in November 1744. |
| Extent | 3 |
| Format | Files |
| 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 greater detail. |
| 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] |