File contains newspaper clipping about various Belleville residents and their hobbies/collections: Percy Gelsthorpe builds steam engine train models, Charles Morton took up whittling during retirement, and Wayne Hustins has a collection showing the rise and fall of the Nazis Empire.
File contains a print copy of Ontario Historical Society Records, Volume L Number 3. This issue includes information about Samuel Bealy Harrison, a political reformer; the Midewiwin, Ontario's first Medical Society; History of Froomefield, Moore Township; The War of 1812; Horse Thieves, Pirates and Witches; and minutes from the annual meeting.
File contains manuscript probate documents relating to the estate of Henry Le Vesiconte [Levisconte], Captain in the Royal Navy and later gentleman farmer, and a manuscript last will and testament of Sarah Le Vesiconte, widow of Henry Le Vesiconte, 1856. Also contains a typescript excerpts from the Diary of Captain Le Visconte recounting his voyage to Belleville from England and describing conditions in Belleville upon his arrival in 1835.
File contains an offprint of an article entitled “Capt. John Walden Meyers, Loyalist Pioneer,” published in the Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records, Vol XXX1 (1936): 11-55
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 a photocopied printed extract entitled "Pensioners of the War of 1812," listing soldiers of the Prince Edward Militia killed in action or deceased through illness in the War of 1812, and their heirs and survivors.
File contains typescript and manuscript muster roll and pay list of officers and militia members of the 1st Hastings Regiment, at Point Henry, March 25-April 24, 1814.
File contains two copies of a reproduction of an affidavit by James Whiteman regarding his service as a volunteer in the militia during 1837-8. He volunteered in Shannonville, attempted to search for Hayden, arrested Joseph Canniff, and marched as far as Napanee on his way to Prescott before being discharged. He was 76 when he made the declaration. The original document was owned by Clarence Whiteman of Albert Street inn Belleville, James' great nephew.
File contains a manuscript account of the experiences of John O'Carroll, a Roman Catholic citizen of Belleville, who was unjustly accused of encouraging people to join the 1837 Rebellion.
File contains original printed and manuscript military commissions of office of Daniel G. Bowen, who served in the the Hastings Militia in various capacities from lieutenant to major in the period 1838-1857.
File contains a manuscript letter of discharge of Patrick Hughes, who served as a volunteer from November, 1838 to April, 1839 in the 2nd Hastings Regiment Militia.
File contains a newspaper review of a documentary history of Kingston in the period from 1760-1812. Also contains a review of a documentary history of Fort Frontenac (later Kingston) in the period 1673-1758.
File contains a photocopied printed excerpt from “Belleville History” listing the members of the Royal Regiment of New York, the majority of whose survivors relocated to the Bay of Quinte district.
File contains manuscript notes by Fred Bradley on the militia called out by Lt Col Bonnycastle in Hastings totaling 1668 men and 108 officers divided into the Mohawks 1 st Hastings Light Dragoons, 2nd and 3rd Prince Edward (Infantry), Belleville Rifles (Infantry), and the 2nd Hastings.
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.