| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/7/1/106 - 126 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/124/106 - 126 |
| Title | Accounts of James Watt of Greenock with Bailie John Campbell |
| Level | File |
| Date | 1759 - 1775 |
| Description | 106 - 108. Receipts for payments of rent by James Watt of Greenock to John Campbell for a piece of land above Bryce's house in Greenock. 1759 -1762. (3 items)
109. Account for money owed by James Watt of Greenock to Bailie Colin Campbell for timber, ropes etc., part owing to John Watt Settled 10 January 1761. (1 item)
110. Receipt for payments of rent on Ingleston and Pond Parks by James Watt of Greenock to John Campbell, factor to Lord Cathcart. [There is a pencil drawing of a face on the other side of the paper]. 05 [docket reads 15] June 1762. (1 item)
111. Receipt for payment of rent to John Campbell for ground once feued to John McKellar by James Watt of Greenock. 31 October 1763. (1 item)
112. Account for sums owed by James Watt of Greenock to John Campbell for the sale of ground, feu duties, rents, legal business etc. 1764 - 1765, with a note of discharge, 19 December 1766. (1 item)
113 - 120. Receipts for payments of feu duties by James Watt of Greenock to John Campbell. 1767 - 1775 (8 items)
121. Receipt for interest paid on a bond by James Watt of Greenock to John Campbell, for Lord Cathcart. 8 February 1768. (1 item)
122 - 124. Receipts for interest paid on a debt owed by James Watt of Greenock to Captain John Cousins [Casings/Cussings], deceased, paid to John Campbell. 1769-1773. (3 items)
125. Account for sundries owed by Bailie John Campbell to James Watt of Greenock, most furnished for the sloop Glaincairn. 1769 - 1775. (1 item)
126. Bill for pump boxes, leather, nails etc.supplied to Bailie John Campbell by James Watt of Greenock. 1772. (1 item) |
| Extent | 21 |
| 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 |
| 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] |