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

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As executor of will of John Parsons he is collecting payment money owed the estate of £25 sterling.

Date: 6 July 1779

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/37

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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

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J.B. Gidney claims to have routinely mailed Easson issues of the Examiner (newspaper), April to November 1862. The subscription was paid in full up to the first of April; subsequently the newspaper was never stopped or returned by Easson. On behalf of Gidney, Wheelock now seeks recovery for a debt of $2.75 plus costs, from Easson.

Date: 26 August 1866

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/323

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Requesting Easson to give Thomas Lecain 600 feet of boards and charge them to Winniett's account.

Date: 13 August 1786

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/97.1

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Regarding the loss of the sloop Wren and the appointment of arbitrators in Boston. Partial letter.

Date: 1 April 1754

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/24

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Regarding mill stones to be shipped from Portsmouth to Boston by Captain George Janvering [Janverin], care of John West, for shipment to Annapolis; and bill for £172-14-0.

Date: 9 October 1749

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/5

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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

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"I am sorry to find you have been so much harassed by the French this last Winter and that you are so great a sufferer by their depredations. However we Flatter our Selves you'l be Releived on the Arrival of Lord Loudon…". Partial letter, undated but ca.1753-54.

Date: ca.1753-54

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/22

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Concerning the widow of the late Lieutenant Bontien.

Date: 24 February 1761

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/17

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Ordnance business and mercantile affairs.

Date: 15 February 1764

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/19

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Business and personal matters.

Date: 17 May 1757

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/16

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Regarding Capt. Mauger's failure to obtain insurance on the sloop Wren, and agreeing to accept £150 as a settlement from him. John Easson and Daniel Dyson signed their approval.

Date: 26 November 1754

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/37

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Advising that Israel [?] Little is coming to Annapolis with some chains for the masting business and may want some back freight. Also refers to previous letter about an order to a man at Cornwallis.

Date: 8 January 1781

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/71

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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

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