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Application for Partition, Probate Court, Annapolis County
Application by Frederick and Sarah Hardwick, Avis Ritchie and Elizabeth Ritchie for a division of the portion of the Estate of David Easson granted to Elizabeth Easson, widow of David Easson.
Date: 7 September 1842
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/258
Deed of Conveyance, Thomas Williams, Esq., to David Easson, Gentleman, both of Annapolis Royal
Sale of woodland, Lot Number Two, containing 85 acres in the Cape Grant, for the sum of £20. Ann Williams also a signatory. Witnessed by Joseph Winniett Jr. and Thomas Williams Jr., recorded by Joseph Winniett, Deputy Registrar.
Date: 19 September 1785
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/148
Deed, Ann Cosby, Annapolis Royal, to John Easson
Conveying Lot Number One containing 85 acres in the division of Woodland in the Cape Grant for twenty pounds. Witnessed by David Easson and Matthew Winniett.
Date: 1 May 1788
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/164
"Account of the Expenditure of fifteen pounds Granted by the Legislature for the repair of the Shelburne Road from the Generals Bridge to E. Godfreys"
David Easson, Road Commissioner, handwritten form to assist in accounting for the expenditure of provincial money granted for road work.
Date: 15 July 1851
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/332
Grant of 550 acres of land to John Easson
by Charles Lawrence, Captain General and Governor in Chief over His Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia by his present Majesty King George the Second. "Beginning easterly at the lands of Jonathan Hoar and terminated northerly by Allen's Creek and to proceed up the Creek till it comes within forty rods of the Mills, and thence to run easterly twenty chains, thence south six degrees east one hundred chains, thence west six degrees south til it meets with the farm lots of Cott Hoar and is bounded by the Hoar Farms til it comes to the boundaries first mentioned containing five Hundred acres." In a different hand is added "Also a piece of marsh land purchased by him of the French Inhabitants containing about seven acres." The grant is also signed by Buckeley and registered 29 July 1765 by J. Pottier, Books of Record, Lib. 8, page 268. No image available for this item.
Date: 30 September 1759
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/53
Indenture, David Easson, Cordwainer, Annapolis, and Ann his wife, to Alexander Easson, Annapolis, Yeoman
Deed of Conveyance, sale of 32-acre wood lot, number two in the Cape Grant, for £40; printed form.
Date: 8 October 1819
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/218
Indenture, Lewis Bliss, London, England, to Thomas Easson
Conveying 565 acres, Lot No. 3, Annapolis Township, being a part of land previously granted to Thomas Williams and others; for £s;41.
Date: 22 March 1858
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/83
Indenture, William Prince, Annapolis Royal, to Thomas Easson
Conveying three acres in Lot No.6 of the "Cape Grant."
Date: 5 February 1822
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/70
Indenture, William Prince, Annapolis Royal, to Thomas Easson
Conveying three acres in Lot No.6 of the "Cape Grant." [Duplicate?]
Date: 5 February 1822
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/71
Letter of Direction to the Overseers of the Poor, Annapolis Township
Ordering grant of relief to Thomas Ritchie, "according to your judgement, as he complains that what is Allowed him is Not Sufficient….'" Signed by Justices of the Peace, George Robinson and Anthony Bassano [?].
Date: 31 August 1838
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/250
Letter, H.H. Cogswell, Halifax, to John Lunn
Requesting Lunn to secure payment from David Easson on a promissory note for £17 issued by David Easson and John T. Fisher to Mr. Grant.
Date: 20 February 1803
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/187
Letter, John Easson, Annapolis Royal, to David Easson
Writing his 21-year-old son with fatherly advice and concerning business matters.
Date: 12 January 1769
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/69
Letter, Michael Francklin, Windsor, to David Easson
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
Letter, W. Bogdani, London, to John Easson
Concerning leave of absence for Easson, which he had requested be deferred, since he [Easson] "did not think it prudent to leave Annapolis at present there having been such an Aleration in Publick affairs since [his] leave was greanted."
Date: 21 August 1756
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/15
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