File contains a manuscript marriage license dated 24 August 1797 of Mungo Ponton and Grace Nisbet, issued in Edinburgh Scotland in 1798. Also present is a manuscript dinner invitation issued to Captain and Mrs. Ponton by Dr. and Mrs. Burrows, 21 February 1860.

File contains a manuscript marriage certificate of Joseph R. Ostrom and Sarah Ann Duke, Belleville, 9 January 1862, Also present is a silk printed ribbon commemorating a Canadian Order of Foresters picnic in August 1894.

File contains a manuscript letter from Sheila {Burrows] Chapline, registrar and lecturer at the New York School of Interior Design to Mrs. Dorothy Sargent, the curator of the Hastings County Museum thanking the latter for a gift. Ms. Chapline was a descendant of the Phillips family, the original owners of Glanmore in Belleville.

File contains a manuscript list of bequests related to the estate of Capt. John McIntosh, Belleville.

File contains a printed death notice dated 9 September 1889 for Mary Ann McIntosh, widow of Capt. Thomas McIntosh of Belleville.

File contains a completed printed registration of the last will and testament of Wellington B. Murney, Belleville, registered on 17 May 1858 before Her Majesty's Surrogate Court, County of Hastings. Also present are the manuscript bequests completed by W.B. Murney.

File contains manuscript marriage and militia enlistment certificates from London [Ont.] and Middlesex County, Ontario involving members of the Merry Family. Also contains two newspaper articles concerning Miss Neil Merry, a former teacher in Saskatchewan, and at Belleville Collegiate Institute.

File contains a manuscript genealogy of the Lingham family, descended from William Lingham, Belleville. Also contains a manuscript explanatory letter from Carol McPherson, Lingham family member, June 2, 1969 including reference to connections to the Canniff family.

File contains miscellaneous manuscript and printed items including claims to lands, correspondence, printed memorials and newspaper articles relating to history and genealogy of the Lister family of Belleville. The Lister Family descended from Major James Lister, who served as Surgeon to the Hastings Militia from 1862, including deployment in the Riel Rebellion. Also contains a printed certificate of completion of instruction issued to James Lister, Jr. by the School of Military Instruction, Kingston, Ontario in 1866.

File contains a typescript letter from Robert E. Lord, Johnsonville, New York to the Hastings County Museum regarding the Michael LaValle family genealogy ca. 1875.

File contains a newspaper article discussing what William Lyon MacKenzie King wrote about his father, who once lived in Belleville.

File contains the family history and biography of William Ketchison (b. 1760, d. 1848).

File contains the family history of William and Mary Ketcheson (nee Rull), married 1779, formerly of Sidney and latterly of Belleville.

File contains a funeral notice for Thomas Kelso (b. 1835, d. 1890) of Belleville.

File contains a letter, to Gerry Boyce, requesting information about the Kelleher (Keleher) or Schriber family, who lived in Belleville in the 1830s.

File contains a published family history of pioneers Nathan and Jane Clement Jones.

File contains a funeral notice for Nathan Jones (b. 1815 d. 1892).

File contains letters requesting genealogical information about William McMasters who in the Belleville/Trenton area in the mid-1800s. There is also the family history of Elizabeth Finkle, wife of William McMasters.

File contains an invitation to the 25th Wedding Anniversary celebrations for Belleville couple Mr. and Mrs. Jamieson.