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Account, Estate of William Cowley with Daniel Dyson & Company
Debits include purchases of chocolate, coffee, brown sugar, six yards of ribbon, two silk handkerchiefs, etc. After all settlements, the estate still owed 53-2-4, "Ballance due Dyson & Company".
Date: 17 December 1754
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/39
Account, Estate of William Cowley with John Easson
Debits include cords of wood and boards, totalling £33-2; "Ballance due John Easson" is £23-12.
Date: 19 December 1754
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/38
Account, William Cowley with Joseph Winniett
Charges include corn, sugar, wood, etc. and a credit for bills drawn on Mr. Bogdani. Winniett was another merchant operating in Annapolis Royal.
Date: 15 September 1755
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/46
"Division, Easson and Bunells Boards"
Document appears to list miscellaneous accounts, mostly tallies of lumber and shipments of boards sold by Bunell; names include Lt. Moncreif, Dan Long, W. Kennada, Old Pewter, Col. Delancey, Capt. Craig, Slocum and Capt. Parker.
Date: 27 September 1751 to 9 December 1751
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/10
Letter, Thomas Lane, London
Regarding company's change in name; and about acting for Mrs. Cowley's interests in London and Minorca. Letter is unsigned and incomplete.
Date: 26 May 1756
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/49
Letter, W. Bogdani, London, to Mrs. Cowley
Concerning her late husband's accounts and her situation as a widow: "I am very sorry to say it, but I find by all accounts that he died in Debt greatly…nor is there any precendent for a pension to an Engineer's Widow."
Date: 4 May 1755
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/13
Letter, William Easson, London, to his father, John Easson
Business and personal matters. (Incomplete)
Date: 25 October 1773
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/32
Miscellaneous Account
For rum, tobacco, other items, and with names Mrs. Nichols, Major Philipps, Dyson, Ambrose Melanson, Whitchurch, Cowley, etc.
Date: N.d.
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/9
Power of Attorney, Susannah Cowley, Annapolis Royal, to Mr. Lane, London
Widow and executrix for the estate of late William Cowley, Engineer, appointing Lane to collect from Thomas Dixon of Minorca and any other account due her late husband.
Date: April 1756
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/48