James Townson Letters

Duplicate Jamaica Kingston 1 January 1833 Thomas Mayhew esq Dear Sir, Your favour with respect to the purchase of Chiswick Lane is with W Forsyth who undertook to reply to it and furhish the articles you wish to be sent. My commercial connexion with that Gentleman terminated on the 31 [unclear] but

Jamaica Jam:a _[] Kingston FebruaryFeb. 2. 1833 Dear Sir I feel great pleasure in saying that our Seasons are [] and the [] of the sugar crop such as to give every reasonable hope for a fair return -[] are plentiful and our people enjoying the blessing of abundance.

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I am Kingston Jan 1. 1835 Dearsin In answer to your esteemed favour of the 14th of October concerning the interest of the Cheswick Estate have to [] you that the Machinery required is to enable the property to make more Sugar within a given time - thereby facilitating the manufactory of the crop in the short space allowed for Labor by the Abolition Act - at present the canes are expressed by the Laborious operation at a Cattle Mill which with difficulty is brought to produce