1972 copy of an 1837 plan of 'Diseronca' (now Deseronto, Ontario), surveyed by G.J. Clapp on August 26th, 1837. The plan is Plan 43 of the plans registered in the Hastings County Registry.
The north-south streets shown on the right side of the map are, from right to left, First Street, Second Street, Third Street and Fourth Street. Near the end of Fourth Street a wharf is marked on the map. This is Culbertson's Wharf.
A certified reproduction of the Plan of Village lots as laid out on the east half of Lot 38 in the Broken Front of the 1st Concessionof the Township of Tyendinaga for Archibald Culbertson. Surveyed by Publius V. Elmore, P.L.S. and signed May 7, 1857.
This copy was made in 1972 of plan 84, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.
File contains original petition to incorporate Mill Point into an "Incorporated Village" 17 May1871, signed by Edward Wilkes Rathbun and 100 residents of the village. There are also petitions of protest from residents north of the York Road [Highway 2] who did not want to be part of the village. File also includes a plan of the proposed boundaries Mill Point (Map M440-1446).
A certified reproduction of the Plan of part of Mill Point in parts of Lots # 38-39 in Concession A of Tyendinaga. Proprietors: H. B. Rathbun & E. W. Rathbun. Surveyed by William R. Aylsworth, P.L.S. and signed March 29, 1871.
This copy was made in 1972 of plan #143, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.
1972 Copy of Plan 162 registered in the Hasting County Land Registry Office, drawn up in 1873. The plan shows the lots in the village of Mill Point (incorporated in 1871, later named Deseronto), Ontario.
Plan of part of the Town of Deseronto, before 1898 (the Terra Cotta works are still standing), showing roads, railways, buildings and lot numbers for properties south of Dundas Street, east of College Street (which has no name on the map) and west of Boundary Road. The map is hand-coloured to show the blocks and railways.
Negative photocopy (in 4 parts) of a plan of Mill Point village, 1875
Volumes
Bank of Montreal account book for A.S. Valleau, Collector of Customs. 1901 March 26 – 1905 December 30. Includes six official Customs Canada cheques, one for the salary of Thomas Maloney.
Auditors’ Report, Financial Statement and Minutes and Bylaws for the year 1947, the Corporation of the County of Hastings
1950 Municipal directory, Department of Municipal Affairs, Province of Ontario. Includes brief details on towns and villages. Mayor of Deseronto was R.K.Jackson, clerk Miss M.C. Maher, population 1,473.
Minutes of the Local Board of Health, 1920, May 14 - 1941, Nov 18. Includes loose papers – correspondence, some annual reports
‘Record’, Local Board of Health minutes, 1942, February 23 – 1966, May 25, includes copies of correspondence and draft minutes
‘Docket No. 2’ Court register, 1932, July 29- 1933, July 18, giving name of defendant, details of offence and outcome of hearing. Indexed by surname of defendant
Division Court judges’ list for sittings, 1933, July 26 – 1944, March 7, includes names of plaintiffs, defendants and garnishees, with the amount owed and a brief record of the outcome of each case.
County of Hastings report and statements, December 31, 1946, by Garrett D. C. Morton, certified General Accountant. Typescript auditor’s account.
Bound ‘Population Census’ summary, 1951-1953, showing number of individuals in each lot by age.
Bound ‘Population Census’ summary, 1954-1955, showing number of individuals in each lot by age.
Bound ‘Population Census’ summary, 1956-1964, showing number of individuals in each lot by age.
Letters found in the Cronk house. 1) Feb 1881 draft letter to Willliam Aull from his sister, Sarah Jane Cronk (wife of Reuben) 2 & 3) Two letters from E.G. Webb, postmaster of Elkland, Tioga County, Pennsylvania to Reuben Cronk, Chief of Police in Deseronto, re a fugitive staying in the town. 28 Jan and 21 Feb 1882 4) Nov 1882 letter to Reuben Cronk from J. N. Emerson complaining about boys interrupting rehearsals at the school in Deseronto
Scanned photographs and newspaper cutting relating to the family of John Poitras, who lived in Deseronto from 1875 to around 1896 and worked for the Rathbun Company as a superintendent.
Herbert 'Bert' Poitras, part of a Deseronto sports team
Poitras home on St. George Street, north of the Presbyterian Church
Same house from a more oblique angle
‘Sol Markle’
Grace Poitras (b.1883) and her brother Bert as small children
Deseronto Tribune article about the Poitras’s cottage and summer camp at Butternut Cove, Aug 24, 1894
Grace Poitras in a nurse’s uniform, 1904, taken in Watertown, NY
A certified reproduction of the "Plan showing of Blocks K and M of Deseronto, on west plot of Lot 3, Concession A, Township of Tyendinaga.” Blocks K and M are from Main Street north to the original Concession Road Allowance, west to Brant Street, and east to Mill Street. Plan signed by William R. Aylsworth, P.L.S. and dated March 26, 1885.
This copy was made in 1972 of plan #243, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.
Scanned image of a certificate of first communion and confirmation for Virginia Houle (1874-1944), the donor's grandmother. She received her first communion in Deseronto, Ontario, in August 1885 [at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church] and was confirmed in Napanee, Ontario on November 3rd, 1887 [at St. Patrick's Catholic Church].
The certificate was printed by L. Turgis, 60 Rue Des Ecoles, Paris.
Ebenezer Arthur Rixen of Deseronto, Ontario. Rixen was born in London, England on February 5th, 1857, the son of James Rixen and Elizabeth (née Moore). He married Ellen Gault in Deseronto on November 5th, 1884 and died in Thomas Street, Deseronto on June 10th, 1928. He was buried in the Deseronto Cemetery. Rixen was an accountant and insurance agent. He served as Mayor of Deseronto in 1917 and 1918.
Ellen Rixen (née Gault) of Deseronto, Ontario. Ellen was born in Mill Point (Deseronto) in 1862, the daughter of John and Sarah Gault. She married Ebenezer Arthur Rixen in Deseronto on November 5th, 1884. She died on April 4th, 1955 and was buried in the Deseronto Cemetery.
A certified reproduction of the "Plan of Part of Deseronto, Block J and Block H in part of Lot # 38 and Lot # 39 in Concession 2 and 3. Tyendinaga, for the Rathburn Company the proprietors.” Surveyed by William R. Aylsworth, P.L.S. and dated June 1, 1888.
This copy was made in 1972 of plan #275, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.
A map of lots and their owners in the town of Deseronto in Hastings County, Ontario. Black lines show claims to holdings in 1890 and red lines show lots as staked. Scale 1:12,000. Dated 1890.
Notes on Deseronto’s history and a number of postcards and photographs. Includes a collection of 43 calendars from firms in Napanee, Newburgh and Selby from 1941-1970.
Photo of Lucinda Hill wiith her children (from left): Susan, Elizabeth and James, and her grand-daughter, Elsie (Elizabeth's daughter). Lucinda was born on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in around 1843, the daughter of Isaac and Catherine Hill and she married another Isaac Hill. By the time of the 1871 census she was a widow, living with her three children (Elizabeth, 10, James, 8 and Susan 5) in the household of her nephew, William Claus. Elsie was 15 at the time of the 1901 census, when she was living in Deseronto, Ontario with her mother and grandmother. In the photograph, she looks about five or six years old, which would date the portrait to around 1892. The photo was taken by Herbert A. Osborne, who was active in Deseronto in the mid-1890s. The image has damaged edges and is broken into two pieces.
Mounted photograph of the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer and the Manse in St. George Street, Deseronto, Ontario. Taken by James Fairbairn, photographer (born 1866) in around 1910.
Photo of Deseronto High School
Photo album – none of the images identified. Inscribed “To Lizzie from a little fried Weber Featherstonhaugh Deseronto Ont”
Bible
Bible
Martine’s Handbook of Etiquette
Common Sense in the Household
Searchlights or Light on Dark Corners
The Victory Readers Book I
Pocket Ready Reckoner
Photograph of Cyril W. Bird [married in Belleville 1891, evangelist – died in Africa, 12 Feb 1896]
Letter from James Hill to his sister, Susan Maracle, 1904
Various loose papers: permit to leave Canada for William Smith, 1918, Christmas Card, newspaper cuttings of marriages and obituaries; ‘In Memoriam” 1898 publication on the death of Frederick Sherwood Rathbun; instructions on removing afterbirth from cows[?]; marriage certificate for William Smith and Lydia Claus, 1902; stub of marriage certificate of David Powliss and Harriet Baptiste, 1917; embroidery reading “Thou Art my Hope”
Digital images taken on April 9th, 2015, of the Langley and Burke architectural plans of a proposed house on Stanley Avenue, Deseronto, Ontario, for Edward Wilkes Rathbun, made May 20th, 1892. The original plans are held at the Archives of Ontario.
Minute book of the Canadian Order of Foresters, Court Quinte No. 1. The fraternal society met in Deseronto, Ontario. The minutes record applications for membership of the society, payments of bills and notes of people who addressed the group. There are some loose papers inside the volume, mainly applications for admission, with reports of character committees on the back.
A red and white quilt made in 1894 by the Steady Gleaners, a group of women affiliated with the Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer, Deseronto, Ontario, possibly with the aim of raising funds for missionary work. This quilt may have been made for such a purpose. The signatures of the women in the society are embroidered onto the squares of the quilt.
The names on the quilt are: F.M.R. Bella Smyth Mrs Wm. Gamble Florence A. Davis Mrs F. S. Rathbun Alice McGault Mrs C. E. Ravin Mrs J. W. McCaw Mrs G. Genge Mrs Wm. Mitchell Mrs R. J. Craig, President Mrs Frank S. Hall [Bessie] Annie Hill Mrs McCoy Mrs F. H. Sims Mrs J. D. Dulmadge Mrs J. Douglas Tillie Maxwell Mrs D. Dant Miss Mary Huff Mrs G. Gordon Ella Pegan Mrs G. A. Grant Mrs Joe Hopper Mrs Wm. Geney Gertrude R. Craig Aggie Elliott Mrs Mackie Mrs A. D. Macintyre I. Thornton Mrs C. Forrester Mrs R. Anderson Ira B. Anderson L. Smyth Mrs R. Geddes Mrs F. McMaster Mrs J. M. Denmark Mrs A. G. Knight Mrs J. Buter Clara McClain Mrs C. Bennett Mrs J. T. Garmon
