File contains photocopied manuscript lists of persons nominated for township and parish officers in Sidney Township, 1790-1819. Also contains a newspaper article regarding the establishment of the Sidney Township Council and highlights of its proceedings to the 1930s. Also present is photocopied typescript outline of the history of Sidney Township and Trenton from ca. 1787-1819.

Map showing townships by the waterfront of the Bay of Quinte and the Mohawk Territory. This area encompasses townships in both Prince Edward and Hastings Counties. Text on map says "District of Nassau." Dated 1790. Map copied from the Archives of Ontario.

File contains manuscript notes by Mary Plumpton including lists of Thurlow Town Clerks, 1798-1846; transcripts of pages from an unidentified diary 1870-1872, and notes on individuals appearing in Plumpton's work, The Rambling River. Also present is a photocopied printed excerpt from the 1879 Hastings County Directory with entries for Canifton[sic] listing residents by name and occupation.

File contains a photocopied printed and manuscript discharge certificate from military duty for Sergeant Robert Warren, Marmora who served from 1812 to 1819 in the Seventy Sixty regiment. Also present is a photocopied manuscript list of standing committees of the Hastings County Council, 1857.

File contains information from the Hastings Land Registry Office about confusion over transactions conducted during the registrarship of Smith and McLean, from 1833 to 1844.

File contains 1835-1836 communications regarding the construction of a Registry Building for the County Clerk Office and a letter from 1857 discussing the leaky roof of Shire Hall.

File contains copies of a memento placed in the cornerstone of the Belleville Court House in 1838.

File contains a newspaper clipping announcing the appointment of Sir George Arthur K.C.H. Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and Major General in 1838; and a newspaper clipping printed in 1931 about the history of the Frankford Fair dating back to 1838.

Records of the Township of Madoc, Hastings County, Ontario, including minute books, by-laws, assessment rolls, collector rolls, financial records, school censuses, vital statistics, road reports and voters' lists.

File contains manuscript commissions of office issued by the Province of Canada for Justices of the Peace in the County of Hastings, 1840, 1853 and 1857.

File contains written affidavits of individuals being sworn into office in Belleville and Sidney, in the 1840s.

File contains excerpts from Hastings County Council meeting minutes in 1842.

File contains an 1845 customs commission for the Port of Belleville.

Records of Tyendinaga Township, including Council Minutes, 1847-2010, By-laws, 1850-1958; Assessment and Collectors Rolls, 1855-2015; Board of Health Minutes, 1923-1966; and Clerk-Treasurer's Records, 1919-2002.

File contains two manuscript signed and witnessed oaths of tax collectors Henry Smith, James Sine and Charles [Baryur], for the Township of Rawdon, District of Victoria, 14 August 1847.

Records of Stirling-Rawdon.

File contains petitions for assistance, including: Michael Goggins for aid with insane daughter, and Richard Sullivan for aid with injury and inability to work.

File contains 15 sanitation petitions from citizens of the City of Belleville, c.1849-51.

File contains 15 petitions for surveys and roads in the City of Belleville, c.1849-51.