| Description | This section of the correspondence and papers comprises 13 bundles containing accounts, invoices of goods shipped, bills of lading, costs for the repair of ships, insurance papers, bills of lading, papers re lighthouse duties, papers re whale fishing, commissions, correspondence from foreign agents in Barbados, Boston, Cadiz, Cork, Isle of Man, Madeira etc. and correspondence to Watt from his partners Robert Finlay, Walter Maxwell and David Cation concerning partnership trading between 1748 - 1754 and the subsequent working out of their affairs. The papers refer to the ships 'James and John', 'Grand Turk', 'Betty', 'Glasgow Fisher' and others. |