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Letter, William Saunders, Placentia, to John Easson

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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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


Summons, to John Easson and David Easson

Regarding £27 sterling owing on a promissory note made out to Christopher Prince and signed by John Easson and David Easson. Two draft copies of this document, both signed for the plaintiff by George Thomson.

Date: May 1777

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/101


Receipt, Christopher Prince, Annapolis Royal, to John Easson

For bills of exchange drawn on Richard Forman, Tower of London, for £27 Sterling.

Date: June 1779

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/116


Letter, Joseph Curtis, Roxbury, to John Easson

Personal news and remarks concerning Easson's request for two plows and a pair of cartwheels. Curtis ends with "I think It was the year the Tea was Destroyd that you wintered at my house and you said it would coust Newingland Dear, and I think It has old Ingland Two."

Date: 20 March 1784

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/138

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Letter, John Taylor, London, to David Easson

Concerning compensation to Loyalists and his own appearance before Parliament to make a claim: "I think that Government will pay every Loyalist for his Losses."

Date: 14 November 1785

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/45


Letter, Job Prince, Boston, to David Easson

Concerning a bill drawn by David Adamson in Easson's favour.

Date: 27 April 1786

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/47


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

Describing his pleasure at seeing his brother David and nephew John.

Date: 26 March 1789

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/53


Letter, John Carter, London, to Alexander Easson

Personal news, including the fact that he hasn't as many friends in London as he had in Nova Scotia. He has been unwell. He sends this letter by the captain of same vessel in which he came to England.

Date: 18 March 1828

Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/232

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Indenture, Lewis Bliss, London, England, to Thomas Easson

Conveying 565 acres, Lot No. 3, Annapolis Township, being a part of land previously granted to Thomas Williams and others; for £s;41.

Date: 22 March 1858

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/83


Letter, Lord John Russell, Foreign Office, London, to Jesse Hoyt

Thanking him on behalf of Lord John for sending a duplicate copy of a telegram sent by HM Minister at Washington.

Date: 5 April 1861

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/90


Letter, Duke of Newcastle, London, to the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, the Earl of Mulgrave

Concerning memorials forwarded from Nova Scotia, requesting Imperial Government support for the Atlantic Telegraph Company. (Copy)

Date: 20 May 1862

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/93


Letter, George Saward, Secretary, Atlantic Telegraph Company, London, to Jesse Hoyt

Concerning the Imperial Government's reluctance to invest directly in the proposed Atlantic telegraph cable.

Date: 27 June 1862

Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/94


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