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Offers updates on Perrin’s estates, and speaks in favour of Otaheite cane, insisting that the method of cultivation with soon be refined and yield quality sugar. Manuscript.

Offers updates on Perrin’s estates, and describes the foiling of an insurrection among slaves in Kingston. Manuscript.

Offers updates on Perrin’s estates and recommends the purchase of forty additional slaves.

Discusses the negotiations around the purchase of slaves and land from Dr Affleck, expresses concern over the effects of dry weather, gives account of the planned construction of a cattle mill at Blue Mountain, describes efforts to improve the efficiency of that estate’s stillhouse, and offers general updates on Perrin’s estates. Manuscript.

Offers updates on Perrin’s estates in the aftermath of a gale. Manuscript.

Describes the differences in climate in the north and south of Jamaica, advises against Perrin’s disposing of his land in America at this time, explains why ploughs are a bad idea in Jamaican agriculture, offers updates on Perrin’s estates, and looks forward to a new bull being sent out to replace the one that suffered such ‘bad luck’. Manuscript.

Offers updates on Perrin’s estates, and mentions that the bull did not arrive with the last fleet. Manuscript.

Offers updates on Perrin’s estates, and describes the likely falling through of a purchase of land from Dr Affleck. Manuscript.

Duplicate. Offers updates on Perrin’s estates, and discusses the state of martial law. Manuscript.

Describes receiving possession of Dr Affleck’s land and slaves, alleging that the latter ‘were highly pleased & well satisfied at being purchased for you’. Encloses two newspaper cuttings: one describes Otaheite canes, which Sutherland notes are now thriving at Blue Mountain; the other describes the Banghan plant, which Sutherland notes has been planted at Blue Mountain and Grange. Manuscript and typescript.