| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/6/6 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/121 |
| Title | Letters and papers concerning the Clyde Lock Bill, 1759, and the Glasgow River Bill, 1770 |
| Level | File |
| Date | 1753 - 1770 |
| Description | This bundle includes: list of tonnage and names of ships at Port Glasgow, 1753 - 1755; objections to the Lock Bill; opinions on a lock on the River Clyde; correspondence with James Colquhon, James Donald, Kenneth McKenzie; Provost John Murdoch; John Paton, Michael Stewart, Walter Stewart; a list of subscribers to defend the Glasgow River Bill, 1770. |
| Extent | 27 |
| Format | Items |
| 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 papers 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] |