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GB 249 T-LA/78 · Item · 10 April 1862
Part of Hugh Lang papers

Corn meal supplies; custom of giving pork, flour and cherry brandy to labourers at end of crop; petition to reduce export duties on sugar; employment of Mr. Dawson to purchase supplies in America; effects of the dry weather; encloses statistics for crops produced in 1861, numbers of labourers, stock and cultivation [not extant].

Peebles, William, fl. 1860s, plantation manager
GB 249 T-LA/74 · Item · 12 February 1862
Part of Hugh Lang papers

Recommends Lang purchases supplies direct in America; effects of emancipation on sugar production; the difference between prices of supplies in St. Croix and in America; increasing shortage of labour in St. Croix; tradesmen's wages.

McFarlane, James, fl. 1860s, plantation manager
GB 249 T-LA/73 · Item · 11 February 1862
Part of Hugh Lang papers

Her ill health and the sea voyage she needs to take for her health; the lack of anyone else to look after her children; requests Lang's help; she has received a good report about her son, Hugh, from Mr. Melchior in Copenhagen, by whom Hugh is employed.

Beckett, Ann Eliza, b. c. 1821, of St. Croix