| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/7/1/82 - 105 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/124/82 - 105 |
| Title | Miscellaneous receipts |
| Level | File |
| Date | 1743 - 1773 |
| Description | 82. Receipt. 'John Alexander's receipt for £1.16.8 for Mrs Bells funds.' 1743. (1 item)
83 - 89. Receipts for payment of rents for Ingleston Park by James Watt of Greenock to John Alexander, John Paton and Michael Stewart. 1751-1761 (7 items).
90. Receipt for payment of sundry accounts of Sir John Shaw, owner of Ingleston, 1744-1752. (1 item)
91 - 95. Receipts for rents paid by James Watt of Greenock to Sir Michael Stewart for Pond Park. 1758-1769. (5 items)
96 - 104. Receipts for various rent payments by James Watt of Greenock, mostly to Michael Stewart, father of John Shaw Stewart, for houses, harbour rents, feu duties, etc. 1752-1773 (9 items)
105. Receipt for payment of interest on a loan obtained by James Watt of Greenock from Lord Cathcart by John Alexander, factor. 05 October 1756. (1 item) |
| Extent | 23 |
| 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] |