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"A Plan of the Piece of Meadow"
"...being the Westerly Corner of Ronsetforshoe Middow [Meadow] taken June 23rd, 1747 by C.M."
Date: 23 June 1747
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/285
"Plan of Lands at Annapolis"
A Plan of Lands Lying on the South Side of Annapolis River belonging to Henry Newton Esq. and other Gentlemen"; Cape Blockhouse and Easson's Mills are shown, as well as "Part of Mount Ann's Bay" and "Mr. Easson's Boundary."
Date: ca. 1765
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/286
"Plan of Mr. Easson's Marsh Lott No. 80 in Granville"
Eight acres, as surveyed by Josiah Dodge.
Date: 18 January 1768
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/287
"Plan of Estate of the late Elizabeth Easson"
Tracing by Stuart Easson Nicoll (a great-great grandson of John Easson) ca.1960, including his handwritten notations of owners' names; original survey plan thought to be ca.1814, with additions to ca.1843.
Date: ca.1960
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/288
Miscellaneous List of Three Names
Unidentified and undated [very early] scrap of paper containing names Lieut. Dodd, Commander of the Diligent, Mr. Harris, Purser of the Albany, and Mr. Sugar, Purser of the Vulture.
Date: n.d.
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/1
Miscellaneous Account
Sales to various customers, including Captain Rudyard, Pol Melanson, Hibbard Newton, etc. Document torn and incomplete.
Date: November 1751
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/2.1
Miscellaneous Account
Listing goods purchased (mostly foodstuffs) and some payments; many names, including Abraham Wheelock, William Winniett, Edward Calnek, etc.
Date: N.d.
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/2.2
"Invoice of Sundries Shipt by Benjamin Hallowell"
Pork, sugar and molasses, shipped on the schooner Lawrence "on Account and Risque" of John Easson, Annapolis Royal.
Date: 19 November 1754
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/3
Account, John Easson with Silas Balcom
For shingles, yokes, grain.
Date: 1789
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/4
Account, John Easson with Silas Balcom
For shingles, yokes, grain, 1776 and 1781.
Date: 1781
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/4
Receipt from Francis Hutchenson, Halifax
Acknowledging payment of 13 guineas by John Easson, partial payment for land belonging to Hutchenson at Annapolis Royal.
Date: 16 November 1759
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/5
Promissory note, John Easson, in favour of Paul Dudley Woodbridge
Promising payment of forty dollars, with interest; receipt on reverse acknowledging full payment, with interest, via Mr. Williams, totalling forty-three dollars.
Date: 14 September 1763
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/6
Receipt for Import Duty
Duties on 116 gallons of rum imported by John Easson from Jamaica on the schooner Peggy, Peter Dousett [Doucet], master; £3-19-10.5 by order of Andrew Ritchie and Stephen Jones, Deputy Collector of Import & Excise, District of Sissiboo.
Date: 28 June 1770
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/7
Account, John Easson with John Troy
Bill for mill irons and mill work by John Troy, 1770 and 1787.
Date: 1787
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/8
Miscellaneous Account
For rum, tobacco, other items, and with names Mrs. Nichols, Major Philipps, Dyson, Ambrose Melanson, Whitchurch, Cowley, etc.
Date: N.d.
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/9
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