File contains a newspaper article from The Picton Gazette concerning the life of the family of John Mullett, an early settler of Prince Edward County who established the Morocco Leather Company in Picton ca. 1833 on the site of the present Glenwood Cemetery.
File contains an Ontario Intelligencer article dated 14 June 1924 concerning the establishment and early history of the Weekly Intelligencer [later Ontario Intelligencer]. This issue of the newspaper is available online at https://archive.org/details/intelligencer-june-1924/page/n85/mode/2up . Also present is a typescript genealogy of the family of George Benjamin who started the newspaper in 1834. The genealogy was prepared by Ruby Milburn, granddaughter of George and Isabella Benjamin.
File contains a typescript extract from the Hastings County Court Registry Office concerning the ownership of a piece of land in Madoc Township, granted to C. Gordon Hannah in 1861. The lot is not identified, but information from the land index maintained by the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre suggest that it is lot 24 in the seventh concession of Madoc Township.
File contains the family history of the Herchmers of Kingston, published in 1967 in the Kingston Historical Society Papers by Eleanor Herchmer Robertson.
File contains two copies of typescript extracts from an autobiography, “My Life-Story” by Rev. James Gardiner, D.C.L (b. 1818), written in 1897-1898. The extracts were made by Gerry Boyce in 1960. Also contains article "When the 'Plain Speaker's' Type was Pied" by H. F. Gardiner, son of James, presented at the Ontario Historical Society in July 1922.
Albert Scriven discusses his immigration to Canada, and his farming experience followed by his work in the filtration plant and gas works in Belleville.
File contains a typed announcement detailing a celebration for Mrs. Sarah Hogle's 86th birthday at the family homestead in Sidney Crossing. Transcribed from a scrapbook.
The file contains funeral memorial books for Alice Gertrude Joyce (formerly Mays) born 2 Feb 1870, died 17 Sept 1958; William James Joyce born 18 July 1880, died 24 April 1966. Also newspaper obituary for George H. Harris (age 80) born 22 Sept 1895 husband of Argena Tousignant.
File contains a booklet titled "The Rollins Family History 1848-1960" compiled by Mrs. Lillie Weese Hubble, Foxboro, Ontario. Published by the Hastings County Historical Society and printed by The Tweed News. The booklet contains family history and genealogy of the Rollins Family from Ireland to Ivanhoe.
File contains a newspaper column printed in 1919 “Peering Into the Past with Bright Hopes for a Future: Bigger and Better Belleville” by John J.B. Flint.
Jack and Gwen Braidwood and William and Phyllis Hurst discuss life and entertainment in Belleville including the trip Gwen Braidwood (Lazier) took in 1924 on horseback to present an invitation to President Calvin Coolidge to attend the 140th anniversary of the United Empire Loyalists arriving in the Quinte area.
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.