From an unidentified employee in Easson's mill, for days worked plus sundry other debits and credits, 1776 and 1777, billing himself at 5 shillings a day and "Nathan" at 3/6 a day -- "Mr Easson will remember how much tobacco I had both years."

Date: 1777

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/106

For one plough, worth 30 shillings.

Date: 19 April 1816

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/201

For making and carting hay, keeping Easson's four cows, etc.

Date: 22 January 1768

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/56

Debits include other names such as Phillip Barto and Richard Blanch; credits are mostly for furs - beaver, otter, fisher, martin, fox, mink, and muskrat.

Date: 12 April 1751

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/9

Request for payment for work done, 2 shillings.

Date: 3 October 1787

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/29.1

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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Whitman accepts 20 barrels of potatoes from Easson, and agrees to sell them on his behalf in the West Indies, paying him on return, less 8 shillings per barrel.

Date: 20 December 1817

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/214

Inglis Johnstone married Clara Hoyt at Trinity Parish, New-York; both were stated to be residents of New Glasgow, NS; witnesses were Benjamin F. Hoyt and Theodore E. Studley, both of New York City. [Clara was the widow of Jesse Hoyt, who died 30 April 1881.]

Date: 27 April 1885

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/104

Easson to load vessel with pine and spruce not less than 10 inches square and 20 feet long, as soon as the vessel arrives at Sabing's [Sabean's?] Cove, Sissiboo, NS.

Date: 20 August 1771

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/78

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Asking for information about the sloop Dove which is feared lost after four days at anchor off Green Point. Dyson and Easson are concered about insurance on the vessel, for which Hallowell was responsible.

Date: 15 February 1756

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/47

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Concerning Easson's unsettled account and the deaths of Major Phillips and Daniel Dyson. Account was sent to Halifax for attornies to settle. Easson offers £100 in full settlement.

Date: 8 July 1766

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/66

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Sale of about seven acres of cleared upland on the road to Mayor's Hill, eight acres of marshland "under the Blockhouse" at Allen's Creek, and a one-hundred acre woodlot at the Cape, all for £23-6-8.

Date: 14 April 1777

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/105

To pay 7/6 to John Easson.

Date: 14 June 1769

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/55.1

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To pay 15 shillings; likely Saint John, New Brunswick.

Date: November 1785

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/20

For 10 shillings.

Date: 1766

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/14