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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
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/13
Regarding Easson's accounts and Ordnance business.
date: 21 January 1743
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/2
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
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/20
Enclosing Easson's current account and a renewed warrant.
date: 22 June 1762
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/18
Enclosing the indenture signed by William Easson, Jamaica.
date: 20 February 1802
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/63
Commenting on Easson's "hard Case with Capt. Adamson and his Owner Mr. Ross, the more so since there is no probability of your recovering a Sixpence from either…."
date: 25 February 1773
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/31
Regarding family matters, and mentioning that his wife "has been in labour for two days and two nights and is not delivered yet."
date: 17 June 1792
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/56
Business and personal matters. (Incomplete)
date: 25 October 1773
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/32
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
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/25
Criticizing his brother David's handling of the timber business; news regarding financial affairs of his own and others in London; and more discussion of the silver chocolate pot.
date: 13 July 1772
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/28
Complaining of business and poor health, and sending her sugar, rum and tamarinds.
date: 6 June 1810
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/66
Partial letter, asking about his father and other family.
date: n.d. but ca.1786
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/108
Expressing concern about whether their father is still alive; he has received no letters from home in two years.
date: 8 August 1786
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/49
Congratulating David on secuirng land on the St. John River for the timber trade, but warning him to be careful in chartering vessels. Comments on the fact that their father has sold his house in town, and that William is doing well in his business.
date: 10 August 1784
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/43
Mentioning the possibility of his father wintering in Jamaica.
date: 16 July 1788
numéro de référence: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/51
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