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Account, Estate of William Cowley with Daniel Dyson & Company

Debits include purchases of chocolate, coffee, brown sugar, six yards of ribbon, two silk handkerchiefs, etc. After all settlements, the estate still owed 53-2-4, "Ballance due Dyson & Company".

Date: 17 December 1754

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/39


Account, Estate of William Cowley with John Easson

Debits include cords of wood and boards, totalling £33-2; "Ballance due John Easson" is £23-12.

Date: 19 December 1754

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/38


Account, William Cowley with Joseph Winniett

Charges include corn, sugar, wood, etc. and a credit for bills drawn on Mr. Bogdani. Winniett was another merchant operating in Annapolis Royal.

Date: 15 September 1755

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/46


"Division, Easson and Bunells Boards"

Document appears to list miscellaneous accounts, mostly tallies of lumber and shipments of boards sold by Bunell; names include Lt. Moncreif, Dan Long, W. Kennada, Old Pewter, Col. Delancey, Capt. Craig, Slocum and Capt. Parker.

Date: 27 September 1751 to 9 December 1751

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/10


Letter, Thomas Lane, London

Regarding company's change in name; and about acting for Mrs. Cowley's interests in London and Minorca. Letter is unsigned and incomplete.

Date: 26 May 1756

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/49

Transcript available


Letter, W. Bogdani, London, to Mrs. Cowley

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

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/13

Transcript available


Letter, William Easson, London, to his father, John Easson

Business and personal matters. (Incomplete)

Date: 25 October 1773

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/32


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


Power of Attorney, Susannah Cowley, Annapolis Royal, to Mr. Lane, London

Widow and executrix for the estate of late William Cowley, Engineer, appointing Lane to collect from Thomas Dixon of Minorca and any other account due her late husband.

Date: April 1756

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/48


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