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File contains original documents relating to the early history of Belleville Mills, including a letter from Peter Ford to Walker's Foundry with sketches of a shaft and a paper machine, and newspaper clippings.

Typescript draft of "A Settlement at Meyers' Creek" (Chapter 6 of Historic Hastings by Gerry Boyce), with annotations and suggestions by H. C. Burleigh.

File contains a Rules and Regulations handbook for the Belleville Cemetery, 1873, and an 1899 By-Laws, Rules and Regulations handbook. Also rules and regulations from 9 April 2002 (donated by Gerry Boyce).

File contains Tom Ransom's transcript of Wilmot's notes on his survey of Belleville, including information on lot owners.

File contains a c.1850 description of a fireman uniform and of activities of the fire department and men according to Mrs. Moodie, c.1851 petition by the residents of the upper part of town to form a separate fire company, c.1851 petition by G. & J. Brown to try and form a separate fire company, a brief history of the Belleville fire department, a newspaper clip of a fire at a cigar factory in Belleville, and a newspaper clip on the fire that destroyed Mr.Neilson's house.

File contains information on the court case Adam Henry Meyers v. John W. Clark in the Victoria District in 1840.

File contains an envelope sent from Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to Dr. J.W. Farley, Trenton, Ontario. It contained a deed concerning the sale of property in Block H, Trent Port between Joseph and Mary Ann Shuter of Montreal and James Lyons Biggar of Murray Township, Northumberland. [Property now at 141 Dundas Street West, Trenton.]

File contains a 1893-94 season membership, 1890 Women's Christian Association concert programs and advertisements for benefit concerts c.1890s (Leona Riggs), 1899 newspaper clippings

File contains a poster, a list of coins from the Bay of Quinte Numismatic Society, and newspaper clippings on the winner of a 1969 coin show award, and an article on the success of a coin auction earning $19,129.

File contains a seventy-fifth anniversary program from the Victoria Avenue Baptist Church , and a letter to a Mrs. Dempsey on Victoria Avenue Baptist church letterhead. Also includes a printed booklet: Victoria Avenue Baptist Church Belleville, Ontario 1873-1973, A Century of Service with a note to Gerry Boyce from the author, Veva Robson, dated 1982.