Personal and confidential letter, regarding settlement of Alexander's "accounts against the children" [i.e. of David Easson?]. Saunders has been to see Cutler to get him to "overhaul" the accounts and since Judge Haliburton did not sign them as he should have, this has left the business open to further query -- unless Alexander has a letter of Quietas from Haliburton.

Date: 5 February 1842

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/256

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For making a coat and waistcoat; credit for two loads of wood.

Date: 15 March 1842 - 22 April 1842

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/276

For paper hangings, cloth, tea, rum etc.; credit for wood, veal, eggs and a load of sand.

Date: May 1841 - November 1842

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/244.2

Application by Frederick and Sarah Hardwick, Avis Ritchie and Elizabeth Ritchie for a division of the portion of the Estate of David Easson granted to Elizabeth Easson, widow of David Easson.

Date: 7 September 1842

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/258

They have been appointed a committee to divide that part of David Easson's estate set off to his widow Elizabeth Easson as her dower, and will meet at the Court House in Annapolis, 22 November.

Date: 17 November 1842

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/257

For salt, wharfage, molasses, coffee, etc., with credit for potatoes, wood and a heifer.

Date: 30 December 1842 - 10 November 1843

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/269.6

For rum, almanac, shovel, molasses, tea, broom, etc.

Date: 1 January - 13 November, probably 1843

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/244.3

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

For making dresses and a cloak.

Date: 1843

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/192.4

For boots and shoes made and mended for the family, with credit for skins and leather.

Date: 20 January 1843 - 20 December 1843

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/203.1

For wide variety of goods.

Date: 27 January 1843 - 12 December 1843

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/207.25

For putty, coffee, cotton, castor oil, buttons, plates, etc..

Date: 1 January - 27 July, no year

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/207.26

For coffee, ribbon, candles, tobacco, yarn, etc..

Date: 11 January 1843 - 20 October 1843

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/207.27

Request for payment of account due the late Charles Bailey.

Date: 6 March 1843

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/188.3

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Requesting Easson to pay his portion of the costs for the division of Mrs. Elizabeth Easson's dower, which was divided into eight shares.

Date: 25 March 1843

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/259