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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D239/M/E/16696 |
| Title | Malcom 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". |
| Date | 26 Jun 1768 |
| Description | Original withdrawn: for copy, see microfilm M784 |
| Extent | 1 item |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | FitzHerbert family of Tissington |
| Originals | Original withdrawn |
| Copies | Microfilm M784 |