File contains typescript and manuscript lists of veterans (pensioners) of the War of 1812, surviving in 1875. Also includes an original printed and manuscript Canadian Registration Board registration card for William Edgar Harvey, Trenton, 1918.
File contains a printed extract of the Northumberland Militia Return for 1828 including annotated names of individuals from Sidney and Rawdon Townships.
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 printed booklet entitled "The Blockhouse Bergen Wood" by Lt. Col. H.C. Burleigh, published by the Bay of Quinte Branch of the United Empire Loyalists Association, which recounts a 1780 battle at Bergen Wood, [New Jersey] during the American Revolution.
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 printed memoriam of Major Charles George Levisconte [Levesconte], Justice of the Peace and former commander of the First Belleville Rifles, Hastings Regiment.
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 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 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 manuscript letter of discharge of John Hughes, who served as a volunteer from November 1838 to April, 1839 in the 2nd Hastings Regiment Militia.
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 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 extensive typescript notes transcribed by Gerry Boyce from newspaper, archival and secondary sources concerning recruitment of volunteers, and military action in the Rebellion of 1837. Also present are mimeographs of two essays concerning Hastings County connections and military contributions to the defence of Upper Canada during the Rebellion.
File contains typescript transcripts of colonial newspaper articles and correspondence regarding events associated with the Rebellion of 1837 and its aftermath in the area from Presqu'ile to Brockville, Ontario.
File contains typescript transcript of a letter from Colonel de Rottenburg to Governor George Arthur concerning the destruction of the printing presses and types of the local paper over concerns that they were sympathetic to the Rebellion of 1837-38.
Two typescript transcripts of a letter from the commanding officer in Belleville, Warren, to Colonel Halkeet, the Assistant Military Secretary in Toronto concerning the loyalty of local residents during the period of upheaval in 1838 as a result of the rebellion
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 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.