From that marriage he obtained the lands of Quarrelwood and Greschip near Elgin, Moray.
[2] According to James Balfour Paul's The Scots Peerage, Alexander Sutherland succeeded his father Henry in Torboll and his uncle in Duffus before 13 March 1433–34, when he granted twenty-one oxgangs in Strathbrock or Broxburn in West Lothian to Robert Crichton of Sanquhar.
He also held from David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, the lands of Ledbothy in Forfarshire which he sold in 1455 to Richard Lovell of Balumby.
Alexander Sutherland obtained from the earl confirmation of the lands of Torboll in succession to his father and grandfather.
He is referred to as Sir Alexander Sutherland of Duffus in a Crown writ dated 21 July 1541.