File contains a printed completed tax assessment issued to Isaac Frost for a retail property on the east side of Front Street, Ketcheson Ward, Belleville, in 1890.
The file contains a copy of an article, dated October 1991 Issue 96, from the Hastings County Historical Society, titled "200th Anniversary of Arrival in Canada of Tavern Owner, Margaret Simpson of Belleville." The file also contains a family genealogy, several letters pertaining to the family history and a couple of newspaper articles about the family.
File contains a letter dated 22 November 1969 from Brian Roberts, Carnation, Washington to Mrs. M.G. Plumpton, curator Hastings County Museum requesting information on the Rikley family. Included is a copy of a marriage certificate dated 4 April 1826 for Andrew Rikely (widower) son of Andrew to Eliza Arkles, daughter of John Arkles, married St. Thomas' Church, Belleville.
File contains a printed, completed deed of land to Benjamin Stedman, Stirling, for the purchase of lands seized by the Crown on the east half of lot number twenty-two in the sixth concession of the Township of Rawdon, 22 December 1859.
File contains correspondence from Department of the Interior, United States Patent Office to Mr. S.J. Ritchie, dated 1908, as well as from The Atlas Portland Cement Company regarding proposed crushed marble patents and deposit of limestone in Limerick Township. (1907-8).
The file contains a typed copy of Samuel Sherwood's account book. Included is a brief biography as well as a genealogy of Samuel, his wife and children, dated from 1754-1924.
File contains a photocopied typescript history of the Kingston's Cheese Factory, which operated in Stirling from 1890 to 1946. Includes names of company presidents and cheesemakers.
File contains matriculation certificates "Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario" as well as death notice for Dr. Charles M. Reeves, Tweed Dentist born in Belleville ca. 1876
File contains wedding and obituary announcements, as well as a tax receipt for the Town of Belleville (1875) and personal accounts booklet. Donated by Maud Reeves of Belleville 1960.
File contains a typescript essay entitled "Deseronto and the Rathbun Company," by T. Dane Martin. File contents include a manuscript landing certificate issued by E.W. Rathbun & Co., Wholesale Lumber Dealers 22 October 1877, and a manuscript invoice issued 15 August 1895. Also present is a printed issue of Sylva : Lands and Forests Review, Vol. 12, no.6 (Nov-Dec, 1956) which includes a historical overview and photographs of the early lumber operations of Rathbun & Company
The file contains a newspaper article dated 4 December 1964, titled "Belleville Woman Has Poems Published" about her book of poems "And I Heard a Voice Saying".
File contains three original documents: a letter dated 8 November 1855 to Isiah Human; a motion from Meeting of Municipal Council of the County of Hastings circa. 1850; a letter to the Municipal Council of Hastings - all detailing an accident involving Thomas Smith and request for financial restitution to both Mr. Smith and Mr. Henry Fanning.
File contains: map of Grand Junction Railway 1878 Wharf and Dock District Belleville; original letter dated 22 October 1887 to Mr. Singleton from the Grand Trunk Railway, Resident Engineers Office, contracting for supply of wood.
File contains a pedigree chart person No. 1 Harold Devirre Rowley b. 19 October 1909 Davidson, Sask. along with a letter dated 21 October 1968 to Mr. Rowley from Ralph Plumpton, then curator Hastings County Museum with family information from census and will of Wm. Rawley Sr. d. May 1869.
