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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D239/M/E/16696
TitleMalcom Laing to William Philp Perrin: has hired a white mason to train up some negroes; a good boiling house has been erected at Grange Hill; has put some of Perrin's young creoles to learning carpentry; suggests repairs at Blue Mountain - "it is too much the custom of this country to run into great expence of building sumptuous works when works of a less expence answers the purpose...". Repairs of buildings at Grange Hill have been completed; there is an excellent boiler there now and a good, careful planter; Blue Mountain should produce 200 large hogsheads; Vere, 120 hogshead of very good quality; has been careful for the welfare of the negroes thereby avoiding the trouble which hits other estates; "I have given orders to the doctors of the different estates to prepare such of them for inoculation for the smalpox as have not had them".
Date26 Jun 1768
DescriptionOriginal withdrawn: for copy, see microfilm M784
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorFitzHerbert family of Tissington
OriginalsOriginal withdrawn
CopiesMicrofilm M784
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