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Ref NoMS 3219/4/10/5/7/4
Finding NumberMS 3219/4/290/4
TitleMiscellaneous receipts and charges.
LevelFile
Date1806 - 1817
DescriptionThese comprise:

Allocations of 2 seats in Handsworth parish church, 1806. (2 items) The receipts were folded in a paper on which was written: 'Church Seats Sep[tembe]r 1806. Sundry Bill Receipts.'

Account from Weston for preparing will for James Watt.1805. (1 item)Docket by James Watt jr.: Mr Weston's charge for preparing Will in 1805 and Deed of Settlement (not completed) in 1808. Jas. Watt esq[uir]e. £37.13.6. P[ai]d 16 July 1810.

Account from Weston & Teesdale for preparing a new will for James Watt.1811. ( 1 item) Docket reads: Making a Will Jas. Watt Esq[ui]re. Docket by James Watt reads: Weston & Teesdale. June 1811. p[ai]d £21 by order on Mr Mosley.

Bill fromWeston & Teesdale for alterations to James Watt's will, 1815, with a letter from James Weston to James Watt acknowledging payment, 1816. (2 items).

Receipt from William Glen, Treasurer, to Professor George Jardine (Glasgow) for a donation from an anonymous person to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 22 February 1814. (1 item)

Receipt from G.J. Weir (Greenock) to James Watt (--), for payment of property charges, 1804-1813. 1814. (1 item)

Letter. Professor Mylne (Glasgow College) to James Watt ( Glasgow). 25 September [1815]. (1 item) Docket by James Watt reads: With extract from the books of the astronomical institution. [Includes a transcript of an extract from the minutes of the Glasgow Society for promoting of Astronomical Science, recording a donation by James Watt and admitting him as an honorary member, 1813].

Receipt from the Glasgow Society for Promoting Astronomical Science to James Watt for a donation of £50. 1815. (1 item)

Letter. Dr. R. Cleghorn (Glasgow) to James Watt (Galsgow). 18 September 1815. Docket by James Watt: receipt donation of £22 to Lunatic asylum.
[Captain Fullerton's inventions].

Receipt from Henry Raeburn (Edinburgh) to James Watt (--). 02 November 1815. (1 item)
Docket by James Watt: Receipt for pay[men]t of Picture £31.10.

Letter. Henry Raeburn (--) to James Watt (--). 04 November 1815. (1 item)
Docket by James Watt: has p[ai]d Noble for frame & case. £6.4.0.

Receipts from Glasgow Botanic Garden to James Watt for subscriptions. 1817. (2 items)
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LanguageEnglish
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