| Description | This bundle includes: printed Act for levying duty on beer, 1750; plan and elevation of the town cellars, 1751; a list of items in Mr Marr’s school, with navigation instruments etc. 1754; letters written for the town's business, 1759-60; accounts of building the quays; application from a teacher, 1759; letter about a new quarry, 1759; list of owners of horses in Greenock, 1760; drawing and measurements of a silver cup sent to Edinburgh, 1761; plans for a new road, 1762; new streets and cellars; repairs required by the fire engine, 1769 and 1774; papers about the charter and management of the town; weights and measures; references for the teacher John MacAdam; list of tradesmen and other inhabitants who refused to pay their part of £25 to be given to David Turner as a gratuity, 1747; disputes between magistrates and townspeople, 1760. |
| AdminHistory | There are two original bundle wrappers, although these had been removed from the bundles at some time in the past so that it is no longer possible to be certain which papers were in which bundle. Both wrappers are titled 'Town of Greenock's papers. 1751-1775. Ex[amine]d Feb[ruar]y 1820. J[ames] W[att].' One wrapper also has the following: ' Letters & other papers relating to towns affairs — schemes of piers ..irths etc' |