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Timber Licence, David Easson
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
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, Michael Francklin, Windsor, to David Easson
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
Letter, William J. Almon, Surgeon to the Royal Artillery, Halifax
Certifying that Stephen Goldsmith has had a fever for three months, and recommending "a sea voyage to a warmer atmosphere."
Date: 13 March 1783
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/130
Letter, William Easson, Jamaica, to John Easson
Personal letter to his father, asking for a response; he has been in Jamaica for nearly nine years but has never heard from his father.
Date: 13 June 1783
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/131
Letter, Joseph Totten to David Easson
Totten is about to depart for New York and may be absent several months; asks Easson to take care of two properties -- one Totten has recently purchased from David's father and is in the possession of Mr. Ritchie; the other wa spurchased from Mrs. Mary How, who remains in residence until "the deeds are executed."
Date: 2 August 1783
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/133
Notice of eviction, John Easson to Joseph Teboe [Thibault]
Including "Instructions for serving the above notice," signed by Richard Uniacke.
Date: 12 August 1783
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/134
Letter, Katharine Curtis, Roxbury, to John Easson
Personal letter, writing of news in Massachusetts during the late war; there were 100 soldiers encamped in her house for a year. Asks Easson to send "Six good Sable Skins."
Date: 20 March 1784
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/137
Letter, Joseph Curtis, Roxbury, to John Easson
Personal news and remarks concerning Easson's request for two plows and a pair of cartwheels. Curtis ends with "I think It was the year the Tea was Destroyd that you wintered at my house and you said it would coust Newingland Dear, and I think It has old Ingland Two."
Date: 20 March 1784
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/138
Letter, John Althouse, "Fisherie Point," to Mr. Easson
Althouse has bought the share in the saw mill belonging to "Mr. Marcure"; if Easson wishes to be involved, he should let Althouse know immediately. Other business news; Stephen Goldsmith sends his compliments. [Location may be in New Brunswick.]
Date: 22 July 1786
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/157
Letter, Edward Winslow, Fredericton, to David Easson
Mr. Wylly has asked him to settle the disagreement between Easson and Major Murray [presumably regarding outstanding debt], which he will endeavour to do. Winslow also wants Easson to act as his intermediary in purchasing property from James Cartey, whose lot adjoins his [Winslow's] in Annapolis.
Date: 22 July 1786
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/158
Letter, John Taylor, Digby, to John Easson
Informing him that he has left £10 for him in the hands of David Seabury.
Date: 4 October 1786
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/159
"Easson Account"
Memorandum by Thomas Ritchie, concerning the estates of John Easson and David Easson, proposing steps to take in settling them; the accounts for both are so complicated that they are difficult to understand.
Date: n.d. but probably 1813
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/205
Letter, John Carter, Saint John, NB, to Alexander Easson
Personal news concerning his arrival in New Brunswick and the opportunities for a doctor there. Writes of his fondness for the people he met in Annapolis.
Date: 10 June 1826
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/223
Letter, John Carter to Alexander Easson
Personal news; Carter is about to sail for Halifax and will continue looking there for two suitable dogs for Easson.
Date: 3 August 1826
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/224