To cut timber for export, on ungranted lands in Annapolis County.

Date: 22 December 1780

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/120

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From 1770 to 1779 for total of £114-0-3 1/2. Debits include a charge of £5 owed for "Your first Church Subscription."

Date: 23 December 1780

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/121

Regarding Easson's licence to cut wood and their agreement for lumber. A copy of licence is written into the letter.

Date: 10 January 1781

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/122

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Concerning difficulties over payment for the lumber ("you may depend upon it that you will be carried to Prison if the order is not paid"); he cannot pay Easson unless Mr. Williams provides a certificate for the boards. The Acadians have asked for Easson to travel to "St. Johns" [presumably Ile Saint-Jean, i.e. Prince Edward Island]. Francklin offers to increase Easson's pay to £5 a month "if you can't fall into some Partnership with the Accadians more Profitable."

Date: 31 January 1781

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/123

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Timber tallies in small booklet form. On last page is "Account of the whole Timber contained in the Ship," with names "LeBlanc, Melancon, Como, Dowsett, Beliveau, Seaben, Thurber" and "Drift" [i.e. driftwood].

Date: Probably October 1781

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/124

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

Transactions from 9 June 1779 to 26 September 1781, including "3 Tin Porreingers, 24 Squares Glass," etc.

Date: 12 November 1781

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/126

List of boards, probably produced at Easson's saw mill.

Date: 1782

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/127

Requesting delivery of the oxen he has bought from Easson, to be taken to Jacob Witt's by Henry Evan's "boy." Addendum by Henry Evans, requesting that Easson show the boy how the oxen were yoked and let him take them away yoked; the yoke to be returned the next day.

Date: 28 August 1782

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/128

To answer a suit of John Prince, trader, regarding an unpaid promissory note.

Date: 19 September 1782

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/129

Certifying that Stephen Goldsmith has had a fever for three months, and recommending "a sea voyage to a warmer atmosphere."

Date: 13 March 1783

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/130

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Personal letter to his father, asking for a response; he has been in Jamaica for nearly nine years but has never heard from his father.

Date: 13 June 1783

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/131

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Sale of Easson's saw mill for £12 plus all the slabs made for one year to 14 July 1784. [Document torn.]

Date: 14 July 1783

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/132

Totten is about to depart for New York and may be absent several months; asks Easson to take care of two properties -- one Totten has recently purchased from David's father and is in the possession of Mr. Ritchie; the other wa spurchased from Mrs. Mary How, who remains in residence until "the deeds are executed."

Date: 2 August 1783

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/133

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Including "Instructions for serving the above notice," signed by Richard Uniacke.

Date: 12 August 1783

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/134

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