Hutcheson's Greenock Register, Directory and General Advertiser
GREENOCK PUBLIC LIBRARIES 111 REFERENCE DEPARTMENT Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/hutchesonsgreeno184142uns HUTCHESON'S HREENOCK REGISTER DIRECTORY, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER, FOR 1841-42. GREENOCK : PRINTED BY JOHN MALCOM, 3ROAD CLOSE. 1841. ADDRESS. The design of the present work being to give a succinct and accurate Di= rectory of the bankers, merchants, manufacturers, ship-owners, agents, and principal inhabitants of Greenock, no pains have been spared to render it as correct and complete as possible. A short Historical Sketch has been prefixed, giving a concise view of the rise and progress of the town, with its harbours, commerce and manu- factures, together with the principal causes that have promoted its present maritime importance and manufacturing enterprise. In order to render the work as generally useful as possible, a Register has also been prefixed, forming a complete arrangement of corporate bodies, public institutions, religious associations, liteiary, scientific and other societies, to- gether with copious shipping and other lists connected with the town. In procuring the various details, the Publisher has availed himself of every means of information in his power. To the magistrates, the clergy, merchants, ship-owners^ and office-bearers of public institutions, he offers his respectful thanks for their obliging and valuable assistance. To Weir's History of Greenock, and to the columns of the Greenock Advertiser, he is also indebted, and acknowledges the free use he has made of the informa- tion contained in these publications. In a word, the Register and Directory may be briefly described as a com- pendious digest of the statistical, the moral, the political, and the commercial interests of the town of Greenock CONTENTS.
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