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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


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

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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

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