As the widow of David Easson, with a dower right to one-third of her late husband's property, she leases this land to her son, John Easson, Bridgetown, and sons-in-law Sidney Saunders and Tarbell Wheelock, for £3-15 a year.

Date: 1840

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/253

Has been to "Lawyer Morse"; now requests a copy of the will, wants clarification concerning his shares in the estate.

Date: January 1842

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/255

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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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For cotton, tobacco, molasses.

Date: 1 January 1859

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/333

For cotton, tobacco, molasses.

Date: 4 December 1861

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/333.1

For hauling boards, sand, shingles, bricks, wood, etc.

Date: 8 March 1852 - 1853

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/336

Letter of recommendation as Hoyt prepares to leave Bridetown, extolling his personal character and his abilities as a "telegraphic operator." Twenty-eight signatures.

Date: 2 June 1853

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/80