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The Eassons and the Hoyts
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Receipt, Amasa Lewis
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
Receipt, David Easson to Capt. John Collier
For tobacco and two bolts of "oznabrigs" [cheap, unbleached, linen-like fabric] worth £39-9-9.
Date: 26 June 1770
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/63
Receipt, J. Hamilton, Captain 40th Regiment, from Dr. Vanhulst
Payment by Thomas Williams, Annapolis Royal. This was a debt due by John Easson to Mrs. Anna Skene, widow of Dr. William Skene.
Date: 14 August 1765
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/48
Receipt, John Fillis, Halifax
For £10-0-0 from Ephraim Tibeo [Thibeau] on behalf of John Easson.
Date: 9 June 1779
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/21
Receipt, Nathaniel Walker, Boston
From John Easson, £30, by the hand of William Grow.
Date: 28 September 1761
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 B/52
Statement of Indebtedness, John Harris, Annapolis Royal, to John Easson
Harris is indebted to John Easson £150 Halifax currency; document also refers to dispute between Easson and Francis Johannot of Boston, going to arbitration by Archibald Hinchelwood & Francis White, merchants of Halifax; John Harris is attorney for Francis Johannot. Witness: William Nesbitt.
Date: 13 June 1767
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/68
Summons to Elizabeth Easson and others
The suit of Frederick Hardwick and wife Sarah, and Robert Ritchie and wife Avis, against Elizabeth Easson and others, heirs of John Easson. Lengthy and detailed document summoning the heirs to appear before the Supreme Court, Halifax to answer suit of why they deny the partition of John Easson's lands. Thomas Ritchie attorney for the plaintiffs.
Date: 25 January 1814
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/207
Testimonial letter to the Board of Directors of the American Telegraph Company, New York, on behalf of Jesse Hoyt
Testimonial for Jesse Hoyt, manager of the former Nova Scotia Electric Telegraph Company, signed by the Bishop of Nova Scotia and 206 others; recommending Hoyt as superintendent for Nova Scotia, "in preference to a stranger," now that the NS Company has been absorbed by the American Telegraph Company.
Date: 8 May 1860
Reference: Easson-Hoyt Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 2166 H/87
Timber Licence, David Easson
To cut timber for export, on ungranted lands in Annapolis County.
Date: 22 December 1780
Reference: Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/120