As executor of will of John Parsons he is collecting payment money owed the estate of £25 sterling.

Date: 6 July 1779

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/37

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For boarding Mrs. Ritchie and Thomas, for nursing Mrs. Ritchie at the birth of Maria, for keeping a calf, etc.

Date: 1 July 1779 - 15 April 1779

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/122.3

For mending chain, nails, laying tar, mending saw, sharpening bars, etc.

Date: 14 September 1779

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/79

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

From 1 June 1767 to May 1770, total £2-5-9.

Date: 17 November 1780

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/118

David Easson, millwright, to supply Francklin with up to 20,000 board feet of hemlock, pine and spruce boards and planks, delivered to the King's Wharf at Annapolis Royal by 30 June 1781. Witnessed by James Kavanagh.

Date: 27 November 1780

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/119

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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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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

For shingles, yokes, grain, 1776 and 1781.

Date: 1781

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/4

Advising that Israel [?] Little is coming to Annapolis with some chains for the masting business and may want some back freight. Also refers to previous letter about an order to a man at Cornwallis.

Date: 8 January 1781

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/71

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For wood, hire of a horse, moose meat, eggs, fabrics, etc.

Date: undated

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/164.1

For a "load of wood when you lived in the fort," and for moose meat, eggs, fabrics, etc.

Date: 12 May 1781 - 31 May 1795

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/164