Rebecca Best "House Log" for Home in Elzevir Twp. Con. III Lot 16
- CA ON00156 TR/3509-4
- Bestanddeel
- 1985
A history of a lot in Hastings County written by 5th grader Rebecca Best for Madoc Township. Includes photographs. 12 pages.
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Rebecca Best "House Log" for Home in Elzevir Twp. Con. III Lot 16
A history of a lot in Hastings County written by 5th grader Rebecca Best for Madoc Township. Includes photographs. 12 pages.
Gordon, Sandi "Pineview School" S.S. #5, Elzevir Twp. H.C.H.S. Student Essay Contest
A report on the Pineview School written by 6th grader Sandi Gordon for Madoc Township. Includes photographs and maps. 16 pages.
Entry for Adult Writing Contest by Elizabeth Cooper. Includes statistics and sketches. 18 pages.
This file contains original copies of the Holbert Family Papers including: mortgages, deeds, insurance policies, correspondence, extension agreement, Sheriff's notice, indenture and abstract, dating from 1895 to 1925. Names include Phoebe Holbert, William Holbert, James Holbert, J. Wesley Holbert, Mouck and Geen.
This file contains a hard cover book, written by John Brett McGeachie, of the Brett Family History & Genealogy. Walter Brett (1836-1917) for whom Brett's Lake, Lots 86-87, East Side, Hastings Road Survey, Tudor Township was named, letters written between 1871-1909. Also letters written from Curtis Brett to his son (1775-1780) and Walter Brett's letters.
Bolger, Thomas Oliver - Provincial Land Surveyor
File contains an original copy of a Report on Mining Lands, in Marmora & Elzevir, County of Hastings by Thomas Oliver Bolger, Provincial Land Surveyor, circa 1850
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File contains original Land Grant to Daniel Clements dated 15-September-1869 for 31 acres composed of Lot No. 58 on the south west side of the Hastings Road, Township of Tudor, in the County of Hastings.
OHF Correspondence re: Captain Meyers
The file contains a copy of a letter from The Ontario Heritage Foundation dated 20-February-1992 and addressed to Mrs. Jane Goddard and Captain Christopher Almey. The subject of the letter is with regards to a new plaque to be erected on the site of Captain John Meyers' brick house.
The file contains brochures for: 1. The Belleville Scout/Guide Museum,; 2. North Hastings Heritage Museum (Bancroft); 3. Hastings County Museum of Agricultural Heritage (Stirling); 4. Quinte Education Museum & Archieves
The file contains the following documents:
1) 1847 Deed - Francis McConnell & Wife to Adam H. Meyers - Huntingdon Twp., Con. 4, Lot 2, 100 acres
2) 1879 Probate/Will Joseph Donnan (deceased) - Huntingdon Twp., Con. 4, Lot 2, part
3) 1879 Deed - Mary Ann Donnan to James Donnan - Huntingdon Twp., Con 1, Lot 2, part
4) 1879 Mortgage - James Donnan et al. Huntingdon Twp., Con. 4, Lot 2, part
5) 1903 Deed - Bathea Garratt and James Donnan - Huntingdon Twp., Con. 4, Lot 2, part
6) 1917 Mortgage - Samuel J. Donnan and Jennie Donnan - Huntingdon Twp., Con. 4, Lot 2, part
7) 1917 Deed - James Donnan and Samuel J. Donnan - Huntingdon Twp., Con. 4, Lot 2, part
8) 1919 Mortgage - Samuel J. Donnan and James Donnan - Huntingdon Twp., Con. 4, Lot 2, part
9) 1919 Deed - James Donnan to Samuel J. Donnan - Huntingdon Twp., Con. 4, Lot 2, part
10) 1923 Mortgage - George M. Wright et al to Blanche Dafoe Marcellus - Huntingdon Twp., Con. 5, Lot 3, part
11) 1951 Mortgage - Jeremiah Ernest Marcellus - Huntingdon Twp., Con. 5, Lot 3, 50 acres
12) 1960 Deed - Samuel J. Donnan to Samuel J. Donnan and William Robin Donnan - Huntingdon Twp., Con. 4, Lot 2, part
13) 1962 Deed - Jennie Holgate to William Robin Donnan - Huntingdon Twp., Con. 5, Lot 3, part"
The file contains 30 documents: deeds, mortgages, insurance certificates and receipts. Names included in the documents are: D.M. Defoe, James Weir, William Vance, Samuel Vance, N.S. Apple, John Goodfellow, Philip Shannon, Joespeh Weir, Alex Roberts, Robert Arkles, Emery Arkles, William Climpson, Peter Merrills, C.J. Pope, J.S. McKeown, Hugh Erwin Weir, Angus Martin, Farley.
The file contains a brief history of Walter Brett and Family who settled at Brett's Lake in 1862.
A photocopy of two prints, illustrated portraits of each of the two Strickland sisters.
McGee, William Adult Writers Contest
Entry for an adult writer's contest by William R. McGee. Includes sketches. 32 pages.
This file contains a history (author and date unknown) of Hastings County Settlement including a brief history on each of the townships within the county.
This file contains original documents donated by Charlotte Kuntze, daughter of Fanny Finkle. Papers regarding lot 2, con 6 of Sidney owned by Eliza Ann Simmons, contain abstract record, will, mortgage and correspondence.
This file contains a photocopy of a deed for land to John Culbertson in May 1886, in the Mohawk Village Indian Reserve on the Bay of Quinte, inherited from his grandfather Captain John Deserontyon.
Pier 31 and Neighbourhood - A Brief History
This file contains a booklet titled "Pier and Neighbourhood - A Brief History; On the shores of the beautiful Bay of Quinte", written by William S. Wills February 1996 and presented to the Hastings County Historical Society.
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Southwold Museum (Suffolk England)
File contains photocopies of advertisements c. 1880 on emigration to Canada. A photocopy of a copy of a photograph of the two Strickland sisters (http://images.ourontario.ca/Partners/BelPL/BelPL002513673pf_0085.pdf), brochures for Southwold, a map of Southwold and pictures of points of interest in Southwold.
The file contains a letter from Alan Rayburn dated 23 August 2002. Along with the letter there are copies of some responses received by James White, Canada's chief geographer, dated 1905-1909, from postmasters in Hastings County providing information on how and when each place was named.