File contains a newspaper clipping regarding a document about a June 1839 court martial trial held in Consecon, Ontario, of thirty-five members of the Prince Edward Militia charged with various offences.
File contains a book from 1890-1892, “Declaration of Incorporation and By-Laws of the County of Hastings Law Library Association”, and a letter to B.C. Donnan, President of County of Hastings Law Association, from 1934.
Court filings regarding William Kerr v. Hugh Mcguinnes, containing a summons document signed by John A. Macdonald, asking for Hugh Mcguinnes to be brought to a Toronto court, as well as a manuscript by J. Dunbar Moodie, sheriff of Victoria District, stating that he served Mcguinnes his summons.
File contains a manuscript letter from Capt. P.D. Downes, Commander at Chippawa, December 5, 1839 to D.B. Stevenson, J.P., Picton concerning orders to apprehend and hold Pte. Ezekiel Grooms, a deserter.
File contains manuscript transcript of notes from Capt. James A. Fraser's Orderly Book concerning the court martial at Kingston of Corporal Francis McEvoy's for violent conduct toward an officer, Capt. O'Reilly, while in the service of the 2nd Hastings Militia Regiment in 1839.
File contains a photocopied manuscript statement sworn before and witnessed by Captain John Meyers, J.P., on June 14, 1797. Also contains a photocopy of the title page of a book entitled The Justice of the Peace and the Parish Officer, 1782, which bears the signature of Capt. Meyers.
File contains a photocopied manuscript deposition of Captain John W. Meyers, deposed by James McNabb at Kingston, concerning an assault on Capt and Mrs. Meyers on April 4, 1814.
File contains several printed and manuscript writs of summons and subpoenas filed by and on behalf of John A. Macdonald in Victoria District during his early legal career.
File contains miscellaneous legal papers including manuscript writs of execution against goods and lands, writs of summons and copies of manuscript and typescript correspondence to the Sheriff of Lennox and Addington County from Belleville barristers and solicitors.
File contains an affidavit from 1857 stating that the township of Hungerford has not organized a Council or held an election for a Reeve and Deputy Reeve.
File contains a printed letter of administration regarding the estate of Joseph Hutton, 1859. Also contains a manuscript letter from [G.L?] Bell concerning claims against the estate of Joseph Hutton in 1863.