For sugar, wine, tobacco, molasses, etc..

Date: 8 August - 24 November, probaby 1772

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/92

For tea, rum, thread, coffee, fabrics, brandy, spectacles, etc.

Date: 22 September 1772 - 8 January 1774

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/91

Updating his father on local news and regarding his business and farm.

Date: 5 September 1772

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/29

"Captain Peter Prescoat," for tobacco, etc. ending with £1-10-0 due David Easson.

Date: 2 November 1772

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/82

For food, fabrics, farm products, nails, paint, wood and many other items.

Date: 7 March 1773 - 1 April 1777

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

Settling all book accounts and notes of hand with David Easson.

Date: 24 April 1773

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/77

To David Fletcher, Deputy Provost Master, commanding him to take David Easson within ten days and commit him to gaol in Annapolis Royal, until he pays the full sum of £2-13-4 owing to David Hooper of Wilmot. Signed by Henry Munro, Justice of the Peace. On the reverse is a statement, signed by Fletcher 10 August 1773 -- time has been extended, since Easson has offered goods [i.e. instead of money] sufficient to discharge the debt. [Small part missing.]

Date: 5 August 1773

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/83

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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Extensive list of goods purchased, including rum, tea, lumber, etc. and "3 years rent of the store £15-0-0, balance £45-6-4."

Date: 27 October 1773

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/89

For white paint, putty, linseed oil, tobacco and nails, with credit for bushels of oats.

Date: 12 October 1773

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/67

Received by Lewis on board sloop Success five barrels of apples and potatoes to be delivered to Halifax. [Partly torn.]

Date: 16 November, possibly 1773

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/78

Two hundred acres of land known as the 'Labourdoer Plane," north side of the Annapolis River, leased to Barwick for 21 years.

Date: 1774

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/33

For trousers, "Pigetill tobaco," ivory comb, sheep, etc. and "his board from the 10 June 1772 to the 25 June 1773, is 54 weeks," totalling £21-12-0.

Date: 14 September 1774

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/33

For cotton, wool, tobacco, corn, coffee, cart wheels, molasses, etc.

Date: 5 November 1774

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/50