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.
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, 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.
File contains three small miscellaneous newspaper clippings. One is an ad for the sale of a 100 acres lot. The other; an ad for a "school Master." The third; a notice of a found heifer.
The file contains a copy of the Hastings Directory 1864-65 for Shannonville, includes a brief history of the village. Also, a copy of a brief history on the Mill in Shannonville situated on the Salmon River.
The file contains a number of newspaper articles, along with 2 manuscripts and 2 booklets with the history and exploration of "Serpent Mounds" of Peterborough, Ontario. Information contains evidence of Indigenous peoples burial grounds along with prehistoric evidence on the history of the site.
The file contains the original deed of land situated in Hungerford, dated 17-September-1889. Sales between William Allen Knowels Jr., Mary Adelaide Knowels and John M. Beatty.
File contains a printed poster issued by Ponton & Morden, Solicitors, Belleville, advertising a sale on 11 July 1892 of a block of land on Ontario street in Trenton, by power of sale due to default.
File contains a newspaper article concerning the early history of Trenton, formerly Trent Port, from ca. 1615-1834. Includes a reproduction of a sketch of the settlement as it appeared in the 1830s.
File contains two original indentures dated 24th November 1875 between John Brown of the Township of Thurlow and Caleb Reid, for the burial lot 104 in The Elmwood Burying Ground.
