Nova Scotia Archives
The Eassons and the Hoyts
Two Hundred Years of Family and Community Life in Nova Scotia
Letter from A. Castaing, Louisbourg
Written presumably to John Easson; refers to an unnamed schooner "Sold by the Indians before the Governor or I could have time to get her"; also requests [although trade is prohibited] that a vessel be loaded and sent to Louisbourg with ten or twelve horses, boards, moose skins, hand barrows, shovels, etc. "because the Kings works are to be Set on mmediately." 19 May 1754. 2 pages : 30 x 49 cm. Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/27
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were Cheap There I would Trade Yearly for 40 or 50 horses with yu. They Must Not Exceed five Years Old, if in Case it Should be in My power To Serve yu, I Shall be always be willing and ready to Doe it Soe that I Need Not trouble Any Body Else
I am Gentlemen yr
Most Hblr Servt
A Castaing
PS
I sent ye a Duplicate
of this an other way
for fear of a miscarriage
