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File contains a manuscript petition by Silvester Fanning to the Warden and Councillors of the County of Hastings for damages to property and expenses incurred in 1857.

This file contains a clipping from The Evening Telegram, Toronto. Dated; January 29th 1944. This article is about The Bay of Quinte, and Captain Jacob [John] W. Meyers.

This file contains documents pertaining to the land and mortgage of Belleville citizens, 1850s.

This file contains a clipping of the obituary for former county Sheriff, Thomas William Solmes. He was appointed Sheriff in October, 1947. He died at the age of 69.

This file contains a clipping about Dr. Austin Smith, a Detroit man who was well known in Belleville, Ontario.

This file contains an article dated June 12, 1968; about the private gun and antique collection of Clifford Smith.

File contains a document pertaining to the abolishment of slavery. The document is; "an Act to prevent the further introduction of slaves, and to limit the term of contracts for servitude within this province."

File contains a printed page titled "To The Electors of Murney Ward", dated December 1st, 1888 and written by E. Guss Porter who was seeking re-election to the City Council. It outlines his services of the previous year.

The file contains a copy of an article from Outlook, 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 printed completed tax assessment issued to Isaac Frost for a retail property on the east side of Front Street, Ketcheson Ward, Belleville, in 1890.

File contains four printed and manuscript Thomson family documents including:

1. a deed issued to William Thomson for a town lot in Belleville, 19 April 1854
2. two Travelers Insurance Company (Hartford) policies issued to Andrew Thomson, 11 August 1869 and 1870
3. a letter of administration issued by the Surrogate Court concerning the estate of Matilda Jane Thomson, issued 6 April 1892

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.

Family information about James Thompson Sherrard (1801-1872), married Rebecca Shannon in 1832 ini Londonderry, Ireland.

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.

The file contains the obituary for Samuel B. Gilbert, died 11 February 1877