Invoice for various goods worth £20 Sterling; settled by bill of exchange.

Date: 23 August 1773

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/85

Bill for various goods purchased from Webb, total of £5-0-0.

Date: 25 August 1773

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/86

Saunders, apparently a military friend, writes, "it would be the greatest cruelty to think of ordering you to this place. I have Mr. Pringle Wilson to be here to mark out a Battery. You may depend I shall speak to him about you." At the end, "I have sent you a quintal of our Best fish to the care of my Mother at Boston to find you the first opportunity."

Date: 11 September 1773

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/87

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Asking Easson to help his brother find a good farm for £100 and wondering if "Mr. Butler at Halifax would be a safe place to lodge the money."

Date: 21 September 1773

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/88

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Saunders arrived on 2 May after only 18 days and a fine passage. Letter sent to "John Easson at Boston" by way of the David, going to New York for a cargo of bread flour. Saunders suggests Easson get a doctor's certificate that he is not well and send it to Mr. Grossard, so Easson can get his leave.

Date: June 1774

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/90

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Letter signed by Gage, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief over His Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay, and Vice Admiral of the same, authorizing the sloop Jenny, George Mitchell, master, to take on barrels, rum, and sugar for Annapolis Royal and St. Mary's Bay, and to return with stock and fuel for the use of the garrison at Boston.

Date: 27 September 1775

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/97

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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

For making a coat and waistcoat.

Date: 16 April 1774

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/12

For grain, hay, shoes and dry goods.

Date: n.d.

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/24

For cod hooks, nails, cotton, etc.

Date: n.d.

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/25

August 1762 to May 1765, various items, including Lovett getting a pair of wheels made in Boston for Easson.

Date: May 1765

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/30

Acknowledging receipt of 6 guineas or 7 pounds, and promising to deliver it to Mr. Winter Calf [Calef] at Boston, "the Danger of the Seas Except."

Date: 21 February 1784

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/35

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For £18 received from John Esome [Easson] for Henry Bass.

Date: 14 October 1772

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/44

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By the hand of Alexander Magors [?] from John Easson, the sum of £30, for the use of Mr. Skene.

Date: 6 March 1760

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/51

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By the hand of Alexander Magors [?], from John Easson, a copper pan and two boxes "with the Within contents in full."

Date: 10 March 1760

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/51.1

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