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Promissory note, John Saunders and David Easson in favour of Edward F. Hall
For $16 with interest, due in six months.
Date: 1 April 1869
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/347
Letter, W. Bogdani, Tower of London, to John Easson
Regarding Easson's accounts and Ordnance business.
Date: 21 January 1743
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/2
Letter, Thomas Lane, London, to John Easson
A lengthy letter regarding Easson's charge against Joshua Mauger for failing to take out £400 insurance on the sloop Wren and its cargo, as Easson had requested.
Date: 15 May 1754
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/10
Letter, Thomas Lane, London, to John Easson
Further concerning the charge against Mauger.
Date: 10 July 1754
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/11
Letter, Thomas Lane, London, to John Easson
Sending a small box of seeds directed to Samuel Austin in Boston, and enclosing a letter for Easson.
Date: 20 March 1755
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/12
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
Letter, Thomas Lane, London, to John Easson
Regarding Easson's accounts and Ordnance business, and informing Easson that he [Lane] is now in partnership with Benjamin Booth.
Date: 26 May 1756
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/14
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
Letter, Lane & Booth, London, to John Easson
Business and personal matters.
Date: 17 May 1757
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/16
Letter, Lane & Booth, London to John Easson
Concerning the widow of the late Lieutenant Bontien.
Date: 24 February 1761
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/17
Letter, W. Bogdani, Tower of London, to John Easson
Enclosing Easson's current account and a renewed warrant.
Date: 22 June 1762
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/18
Letter, Lane & Booth, London, to John Easson
Ordnance business and mercantile affairs.
Date: 15 February 1764
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/19
Letter, W. Bogdani, Tower of London, to John Easson
Announcing his [Bogdani's] retirement from the Board of Ordnance, on account of his poor health, and making arrangements for a successor to work with Easson.
Date: 15 March 1764
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/20
Letter, John Easson, Annapolis Royal, to Henry Monrow
Demanding payment on an overdue promissory note.
Date: 6 August 1767
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/23
Letter, William Easson, London, to his father, John Easson
Family and business news; William is in London but not faring well; he has had to borrow money from a cousin. His father is in Boston and has been forced to remain there for the winter. William has heard that his father has purchased an expensive silver chocolate pot as a present for his [William's] brother, David Easson, and is upset: "as you are situated at this time Eleven pounds in money would be of more material use to you than a Silver Chocolate Pot in my Brother’s House where there is furniture enough & not much use for such as that…"
Date: 18 January 1772
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/25