File contains a manuscript tax receipt issued to Joseph Mills, Lot 11 W. Grier by the City of Belleville on Sept. 26, 1902, and a tax notice issued to Joseph Mills on August 30, 1902. Also present is a manuscript statement of accounts of Joseph Mills, issued by J.M. Burke ca. 1895. Also includes a manuscript letter received by Joseph Mills from David & Mary [Buffet?] 21 June 1895.
File contains a microcopied manuscript diary and field notes of the township of McClure, 1858 by J.S. Peterson, Provincial Land Surveyor. Also contains a microcopied manuscript report and field notes of the township of McClure. 1870 by Cosford Chalmers Forneri and Lachlan Kennedy, Provincial Land Surveyors.
File contains a typescript historical survey with questions concerning the geography, settlement and and social and economic development of communities in Hastings County together with manuscript notes completed by D.K. Card in response to the survey of McClure Township. Also present is typescript and manuscript correspondence from and received by Gerry Boyce concerning the history of McClure Township for his book, Historic Hastings. Bessie M. Fleming may have contributed some of these materials.
File contains a completed printed deed of Crown Land dated 9 April 1861 to Joseph McConnell for one hundred acres composed of lots thirteen and fourteen on the west side of Hastings Road, Tudor Township.
File contains a printed booklet entitled “Pioneer Souls : the History of the McCullough Sept,” by Dr. T. J. Harrison, concerning the history of the McCullough Family who originated from Scotland, with branches of the family settling in Hastings County in the 1820s.
File contains manuscript assignments of mortgages, indentures of sale and conveyance of mineral rights of the McFee Family of Belleville regarding properties in Madoc and Marmora Townships.
File contains a printed poster concerning mineral rights and mining lands for sale in Hastings County in Elziver, Lake, Marmora, Madoc and Tudor Townships in 1898. List is by lot and concession number and displays the extent of acreage by site.
File contains a mimeographed typescript essay entitled “Monteagle Township,” / by Mrs. J.P. McAlpine, outlining the history of Monteagle Township from 1856 to 1964.
File contains a mimeographed typescript essay entitled, “Mount Pleasant Centennial Souvenir, 1967” which concerns the settlement of Rawdon Township and the history of the Mount Pleasant-Rawdon United Church, 1871-1967..
File contains manuscript field notes of an 1884 survey of the Trent River in the Township of Murray in the Newcastle District by Provincial Land Surveyor, F.P. Rubidge.
File contains a printed indenture for the sale of land and property at Concession 3, lot 3 in the Township of Thurlow, Hastings County, by Jacob Ockerman and Phoebe Oekerman to Elisha Ockerman, 11 March 1851.
File contains a booklet titled "Peterborough" prepared by the Historical Society of the City and County of Peterborough. It is a brief historical sketch of Peterborough and contains two maps of the area one dated 1820-1840.
File contains original deeds and documentation regarding: Lot 9, 8th Concession Marmora; Lot 15, 5th Concession Madoc; Lot 16, 5th Concession Madoc; Indenture relating to the Marmora Gold and Iron Mining Company.
File contains manuscript quit claims and deeds concerning the following properties: i) part of lot number nine, eighth concession, Township of Marmora, purchased by James Madison Tuttle and Laura Maria Tuttle from Richard O. Rothwell, 30 May 1877; ii)-west half of lot number sixteen in the fifth concession of the Township of Madoc purchased by George Dean Dickson and Marian Ellen Wilson Dickson from Thomas Comerford, 2 December 1882; iii)-five acres on lot fifteen, fifth concession in the Township of Madoc, purchased by Thomas Comerford from David Pitceathly, Thomas Kelso et al, 11 June 1884;