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The Eassons and the Hoyts

Two Hundred Years of Family and Community Life in Nova Scotia

"A Map of the Island of Jamaica"

"Divided into Counties and Parishes for the History of the British West Indies by Bryan Edwards, Esqr. 1794." John Easson's son William went to Jamaica ca. 1774 and from time to time wrote his father and brother in Annapolis. In 1789 David and William's nephew John visited him. William and his wife, Mary Moffat Easson, lived near Rio Bueno, in the Parish of Trelawny.

Date: 1794

Artist: Bryan Edwards

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Library: AK/ F210/ Ed9 vol. 1

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