| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/7/1/141 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/124/141 |
| Title | Summons to James Watt of Greenock |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 30 December 1780 |
| Description | [Summons to appear before the Lords of Council, in the case of Sir John Shaw Stewart versus the inhabitants of Greenock, concerning a voluntary division of the Old or West kirk of Greenock. The printed summons contains a list of some of the merchants and tradesmen of Greenock]. |
| Extent | 1 |
| Format | Item |
| 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] |