File contains a manuscript letter from Lt. Col. Simon Mackenzie, Hastings Regiment, October 1, 1860 concerning a controversy surrounding the proposed division of the battalion into two. Also present is a letter from Lt. Col. Mackenzie to Major Bowen dated June 19, 1860 regarding voluntary instruction of officers.
File contains a manuscript resolution of the Municipal Council of the County of Hastings approving a financial contribution toward the erection of a monument honouring Tecumseh, Shawnee war hero of the War of 1812. Also contains a printed subscription list of the Tecumseh Memorial Fund Committee.
File contains a newspaper clipping printed in 1961 titles “50 Years Ago”, discussing events that occurred on November 14th, 1911; including: a fire at the Victoria Hotel in Belleville, census results for Hastings County, and Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Stewart turning over command of the 15th Regiment to Major Lorne W. Marsh.
File contains the draft copy of an invitation to a ball at the Belleville Armouries held by the Publicity Committee of the County of Hastings Development Association on 2 May 1919. There are also newspaper clippings about a Peace Assembly at the Armouries and an article about German objections of Peace Treaty. There is also 1961 census data for Hastings South.
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 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 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 a manuscript letter from Lt. Col. Charles Willard, Belleville to Captain William Robertson, 2nd Hastings Militia ordering the assembly of the 2nd regiment of the Hastings Militia at Rawdon on June 4, 1832, with a list of unit officers included.
File contains typescript list of members of the 1st Regiment of Hastings Militia assembled in Shannonville on 18 October 1834 under Captain George Bleecker.
File contains a photocopied printed extract from Belden's Atlas (1878) reprinted in The City of Belleville History (1943) by W.C, Mikel, concerning the organization of the Hastings County militia in 1799.
File contains Sheldon Hawley's oath of allegiance to Queen Victoria in 1842. There is also Hawley family history collected in 1962 about Sheldon Hawley's military career as Captain in the War of 1812, his promotion to Lieutenant Colonel during the Rebellion of 1837-38, and his life in Trenton.
File contains newspaper clippings from 1947 about the Hay Bay Methodist Church and other stories from the Hay Bay area, including where Sir John A. Macdonald grew up a child and a Loyalist family, with one child (John Roblin) having been shot in the knee during the American Revolution, he later fought and was killed in the War of 1812; Mr. Roblin's widow later owned grist and lumber mills.
File contains a program and menu for a Complimentary Banquet to Colonel M.J. Hendrick at the Hotel Quinte in Belleville in 1908. There are also two blank military air letters.