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Letter, William G. Bailey to Alexander Easson
Bailey has named Surveyor Harris to act for Easson, and the others have nominated Millidge to try to settle the dispute.
Date: 13 June 1814
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/209
Letter, William G. Bailey to Elizabeth Easson
Advising that the Court of Inquiry into Bath's [?] suit has been put off; he will consult with Mr. Haliburton when the latter arrives.
Date: 8 June 1816
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/99
Letter, William Robertson to Elizabeth Easson
Requesting a discount for the bearer, A[u]gustus Grevoy.
Date: 3 September 1794
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/126
Letter, William Saunders, Placentia, to John Easson
Saunders, apparently a military friend, writes, "it would be the greatest cruelty to think of ordering you to this place. I have Mr. Pringle Wilson to be here to mark out a Battery. You may depend I shall speak to him about you." At the end, "I have sent you a quintal of our Best fish to the care of my Mother at Boston to find you the first opportunity."
Date: 11 September 1773
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/87
Letter, William Saunders, Placentia, to John Easson
Asking Easson to help his brother find a good farm for £100 and wondering if "Mr. Butler at Halifax would be a safe place to lodge the money."
Date: 21 September 1773
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/88
Letters of Administration, Estate of David Easson, Yeoman
Zeruviah Easson, widow, and Benjamin Fairn appointed to administer the estate of the late David Easson, intestate. Issued by William Winniett, Judge of the Probate Court.
Date: 9 February 1813
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/197
Letters of Guardianship for the late David Easson's Three Minor Children
Granted to Easson's widow, Zeruiah Easson, for Elizabeth, aged six years nine months; Mary Fisher, aged three years ten months; and for John, aged two years two months. The children to be educated in the Protestant religion until each reaches the age of twenty-one years. Signed by Governor Sir John Coape Sherbrooke.
Date: 10 March 1813
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/203
List of items sold to Major Philips and others
Including items to George Cotner "on account of the Anson's Port Bill", totalling £9-6-8; also "I pair stockings" to Felix Doucett.
Date: 26 February 1752
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/12
List of names
Undated four-page list of names and amounts after each one.
Date: n.d.
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/175
Lumber List
Undated page recording pine and oak planks and square timbers, thicknesses and costs; probably produced at the Easson saw mill.
Date: ca.1781
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/125
"A Map of 15 Lots of Land near the Cape in Township of Annapolis ... "
" ... surveyed and divided for Colonel Barclay and Others" by Thomas Millidge. (Original and copy)
Date: April 1797
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives F/230 - ca.1797 M/3
Memorandum of Agreement between Jonathan Leonard, Granville, and John Easson, Abednego Ricketson, and John Persons, all of Annapolis Royal
Detailed agreement outlining terms by which marsh dykes and an aboiteau over Easson's Creek ("so called") will be built by Leonard, with subsequent payment from the others.
Date: 6 June 1775
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/94
"Memorandum of My time and Expenses"
Probably written by John Easson, including charge for time "in search of masts at Annapolys."
Date: 17 April 1780
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/117
Memorial, Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, in favour of Jesse Hoyt
Recommending that Jesse Hoyt remain as superintendent of Nova Scotia operations, now that the Nova Scotia Electric Telegraph Company has been absorbed by the American Telegraph Company; signed by Stewart Campbell, Speaker and 46 others.
Date: 8 May 1860
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/89
Memorial, Legislative Council of Nova Scotia, in favour of Jesse Hoyt
Recommending that Jesse Hoyt remain as superintendent for Nova Scotia, now that the Nova Scotia Electric Telegraph Company has been absorbed by the American Telegraph Company; signed by Edward Kenny and 16 others.
Date: 8 May 1860
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/88
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