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Sherry Family Genealogy (and supplement); See also M'Inroy Family 1789-1967
The file contains a booklet titled "A Sherry Family of Canada; the descendants of George and Susanna Sherry early settlers of Hastings County. Complied and written by Robert Dean Sherry. 1789-1967"
A supplement to the volume was published in 1981 by Robert Sherry.
Sherry, Robert Dean
HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 2500 to 2999
This description is for part of a collection of some 4,400 vertical files of materials gathered by the Hastings County Historical Society. They cover a wide range of subjects and were received from a variety of different sources, not always recorded.
The collection includes original materials, newspaper clippings, secondary histories and copies.
Hastings County Historical Society
File contains a manuscript history of Glen Ross from its founding ca. 1859 as the settlement of Tupperville to ca. 1918, by Mrs. Arthur Pyear. Also present is a letter from Mrs.Arthur Pyear to Gerry Boyce, 3 June 1965 accompanying the history.
Boyce, Gerry
Letters written by members of George Sherry's family concerning his stay in hospital in Toronto in 1898. Letter from Canadian Explosives Limited to G. C. W. Sherry of Halston (Tyendinaga Township), Ontario, concerning the price of dynamite stumping powder and mentioning a publication: Farming with Dynamite, 1912.
File contains a typescript transcript of a receipt for the sale of woman and her infant child in 1812 near what is now Colborne, Ontario, sold by Joseph Keeler to William H. Wallbridge and witnessed by Elias Walbridge and Asa Smith.
File contains an 1899 newspaper clipping about United Empire Loyalist families who arrived in the Bay of Quinte region with enslaved people and a 1961 newspaper article about Alexander Milton Ross.
Savage, William James "Then and Now" 1944
File contains original hand written copy and typed copy of of a poetical comparison of Belleville 1906 vs. 1944, written by William James Savage, 165 East Moira Street, Belleville, Ontario
Savage, William James
Sidney Township : River Valley and Oak Hills Community, history
File contains several manuscript letters, 1965-1967, from Clarence S. Chard, to Gerry Boyce, President of the Hastings County Historical Society, concerning the history of the River Valley and Oak Hills community ca. 1910-1967; a five page genealogy of early settler families in River Valley and Oak Hill; and a manuscript essay on the history of River Valley ca.1881-1959 by Mrs. Roy (Bessie) Bush, Stirling. Also present are several newspaper clippings concerning meetings of the River Valley Women's Institute, 1960-1964.
Boyce, Gerry
File contains a typescript note on the status of Thurlow schools by school section, indicating the dates of their establishment and their current use.
Sprague Family, Prince Edward County History
This file contains a newspaper clipping titled "The Sprague Family: How They Migrated From New York to Prince Edward".
The file contains a photocopy of the original Royal Letter dated 15 September 1856, granting permission by Queen Victoria to J.W. Dunbar Moodie of Hastings County to establish a Public Fair and Mart in the Village of Shannonville.
Thurlow – Land Settlement Neg. showing 1836 Mills
File contains a photo negative made c. 1958, of Thurlow Township c. 1836.
This file contains the original book of stock shares (Second Preference) in The Springer Lock Manufacturing Co., dated from 1915 - 1931
Springer Lock Manufacturing Company
Royal Visit - The Montreal Daily articles
Newspaper clippings on the Royal visit of 1860.
The file contains a newspaper article by A. Dempsey dated 30 April 1960, titled "Shannonville in 1830" giving a brief history of the settlement of the area and a clipping from Maclean's Reports about the Shannonville lease.
Intelligencer
File contains several newspaper clippings regarding social and local business activities in Roslin in 1956-1957 including the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Chisolm's lumber mill in June 1957. Also present is a printed booklet commemorating the 100th anniversary of St. Paul's Anglican Church in Roslin on 3 June 1945 and another marking the 125th anniversary in 1970.
A newspaper article concerning the erection of a sign at Point Anne honouring Bobby Hull.
Intelligencer
Trenton Movie : “Carry on Sergeant.”, 1928
File contains a newspaper article regarding the production of a silent film, Carry on Sergeant, produced in a Trenton studio in 1928.