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

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

Business and personal matters. (Incomplete)

Date: 25 October 1773

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

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

For cod hooks, nails, cotton, etc.

Date: n.d.

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

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

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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For £8 Halifax currency in favour of David Easson.

Date: 22 September 1774

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

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

Presumably written to John Easson, regarding articles ordered and shipped from Fillis's store: "as I had no Tea, I have sent you some more Coffee than what you wrote for…."

Date: 17 October 1774

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