File contains the obituary of Erle Denyes, County Clerk, who died suddenly in 1962, and a newspaper clipping about a memorial plaque for Mr. Denyes who was known as “Mr. Hastings” to be hung in the new administration building.
File contains a portion of the 1860-61 Hungerford Directory list and the Thomasburgh Directory. There is also a portion of the Hungerford Directory list from 1889.
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 a typescript extract from the Hastings County Court Registry Office concerning the ownership of a piece of land in Madoc Township, granted to C. Gordon Hannah in 1861. The lot is not identified, but information from the land index maintained by the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre suggest that it is lot 24 in the seventh concession of Madoc Township.
File contains a typescript letter from Olive Delaney, Belleville Public Library to Mary Plumpton, Hastings County Historical Society, dated 28 February 1969 inquiring for information regarding Dr. James Merritt, a physician who testified at the trial of the alleged assassins of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, and who was a probable resident of Sidney Township in his youth.
File contains research compiled about the Henderson family, including an extract from a book “The Centennial of the Settlement of Upper Canada by the United Empire Loyalists 1784-1884”.
File contains a program from the funeral service for Charles P. Holton (b. 1849 d. 1908) in Belleville and a copy of City Directory mentions of E.W. Holton regarding his house and businesses.
File contains letters to Gerry Boyce from 1964 requesting information on the Henderson family. There are also photocopies of the Henderson family history from the Hastings County Museum.
File contains newspaper article about the death of Albert Jackson, 19 years old, after a brick wall at Glass Works factory in Deseronto fell. Albert Jackson played for the Belleville Junior O.H.A. team.