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Letter from A. Castaing, Louisbourg
Written presumably to John Easson; refers to an unnamed schooner "Sold by the Indians before the Governor or I could have time to get her"; also requests [although trade is prohibited] that a vessel be loaded and sent to Louisbourg with ten or twelve horses, boards, moose skins, hand barrows, shovels, etc. "because the Kings works are to be Set on mmediately."
Date: 19 May 1754
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/27
Letter of Permission, General Sir Thomas Gage, Boston
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
Letter, Katharine Curtis, Roxbury, to John Easson
Personal letter, writing of news in Massachusetts during the late war; there were 100 soldiers encamped in her house for a year. Asks Easson to send "Six good Sable Skins."
Date: 20 March 1784
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/137
"Complimentary, No. 543. The Western Union Telegraph Co."
"Will Transmit Free on its Lines messages signed by Jesse Hoyt Esq. ... Between all points in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & New England & to New York, Pittsburgh & Wash'n."
Date: 31 December 1869
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/110.4
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