Criticizing David's handling of the timber biusiness.

Date: 26 January 1772

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/26

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Criticizing his brother David's handling of the timber business; news regarding financial affairs of his own and others in London; and more discussion of the silver chocolate pot.

Date: 13 July 1772

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/28

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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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Life in Placentia [British military station, southeast coast of Newfoundland], and giving him advice not to run into debt.

Date: November 1772

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/30

Purchase of goods (blankets, rum, ribbon, glass beads, etc.) worth £200 "old tener"; settled by bill of exchange for £200.

Date: 11 August 1773

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/84

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

For brimstone, butter, and cheese.

Date: 25 August 1773 - 20 April 1774

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/53

For butter, cheese, and hatchets.

Date: 25 August 1773 - 13 December 1773

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/53.1

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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Business and personal matters. (Incomplete)

Date: 25 October 1773

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

For cod hooks, nails, cotton, etc.

Date: n.d.

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

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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