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Description: | It is entitled "Westmoreland April 10th 1754. Mr Richard Beckford's Instruction to Messrs John Cope, Richard Lewing and Robert Mason". Detailed accounts of his instructions to them on the handing over of his plantations to their supervision. Instructions on seven main points:
1. Care of white servants and slaves
2. Care of mules and cattle
3. Care of buildings
4. The culture of the soil
5. The making of sugar
6. The distilling of sugar
7. The carriage of the sugar, either to market on the island or sending to the ships for England. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | 1754 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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