File contains a manuscript marriage license dated 24 August 1797 of Mungo Ponton and Grace Nisbet, issued in Edinburgh Scotland in 1798. Also present is a manuscript dinner invitation issued to Captain and Mrs. Ponton by Dr. and Mrs. Burrows, 21 February 1860.
File contains manuscript and typescript correspondence from Sir Gilbert Parker to W.N. Ponton concerning visits of the former to Belleville in 1900 and 1911.
File contains a typescript transcript of a presidential address by William Nisbet Ponton, President of the Ontario Associated Board of Trades, 24 February 1914, concerning economic indicators, development and investment in Ontario.
File contains the obituary of Mr. James W. Ponton, Ex. Deputy Registrar of Hastings, brother of Wm. H. Ponton and Archibald Ponton. From Scrap Book #8, Page 42, 1889.
File contains a manuscript invitation to a banquet in honour of Col. Frederick W. Prince, United States Consul, 8 July 1885, and a printed program for a reception of the Occident Chapter of the Masons, 12 December 1919. Also present are several newspaper clippings on miscellaneous subjects including wills, and weather.
File contains copy of a letter sent to Mrs. Addison Van der Voort, from W.N. Ponton with an explanation on the history of his home, Dundas Street, Belleville.
File contains a draft of an article entitled "Mainly About Ourselves" sent to the Editor of the Intelligencer. The theme is about Belleville, it's resources and industry and marketing such to outside sources.
File contains a typescript copy of a list of items including letters patent, posters, accounts and other printed and manuscript items of historical and antiquarian value.
File contains the "Exemplification of Crown Grant" to Archibald Douglas Ponton, dated May 22, 1912 for 182 acres of land in the Township of Sidney in the Count of Hastings.