| Description | John Bownas and Company were successors to Matthew Boulton and Button Company and John Murdock and William Vickers Toney proposed taking on the Steel Trade.
Bownas
The papers were at some point divided into several packets:
Lists of Names, Rents and Shops
Lists of Shops and Rents, 1777 - 1810
Original Documents: Rent Statements, 1791 - 1809
Original Documents: Agreement and duplicate. Remarks of J. Bownas, 1809 - 1810
Original Documents: Debts and Balances transferred and collected by Bownas with Interest calculations, 1809 - 1819
Original Documents: Correspondence from J. Bownas, 1820
Original Documents: Correspondence with Messrs. Scales. Miscellaneous Jottings, 1810 - 1820
Documents for Settlement - Copies of Agreement. Statements of Accounts etc., 1820 - 1827
Murdock and Toney, 1832 - 1834 (14 docs.) See also MS 3782/13/154 for Murdock and Toney Memoranda, 1841 - 1842. |