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File contains the history of Moira Village and the Huntingdon Township, including first nations, french settlers, agriculture, lumbering, churches, population, politics, etc.

File contains letters sent to Gerry Boyce from Bessie M. Fleming from 1965-1967 regarding the history of Ivanhoe. There is also a typed history of Ivanhoe copied from 1934 records by Alberta Fitchett Paterson. as retold by Mrs. Clements.

File contains brochures, booklets, and magazine articles from the 1960s about Fort Ste. Marie, the history of settlement, First Nations, and Champlain.

File contains a manuscript declaration of apportionment of property in Sidney Township from Frances Hutton to Anne Ponton in 1865. Also contains a manuscript deed dated May 18, 1857 involving lands on Pinnacle and Front Streets in Belleville in which the Hutton family had interests.

File contains a typescript copy of a letter from William Hutton to his wife Fanny Hutton in regard to her joining him in Canada. Includes considerable description of settlement and agricultural conditions in Hastings County.

File contains the early history of Ivanhoe, written by Mrs. J. Clements.

File contains various documents that belonged to Morgan Jellet, such as Land Deeds for property in Sindey and Assignment of Mortgage.

File contains Jezzard family Deed of Sale documents. In 1798 land was sold from Crown land in Hastings County to James McMasters, who then sold land to Joseph Forsyth in 1802, who sold land to Michael Braddeu in 1850.

File contains deeds, mortgages and letters regarding land in Deseronto owned by Flora Antionette Johnson.

File contains a newspaper article that features the history of the Ketcheson family farm and cemetery in Sidney. The farm had been in the family since the early 1800s.

File contains the family history of William and Mary Ketcheson (nee Rull), married 1779, formerly of Sidney and latterly of Belleville.

File contains the family history and biography of William Ketchison (b. 1760, d. 1848).

File contains photocopies of printed excerpts from The Hastings Directory, 1860-61, 1864-1865, and 1889-1890, listing landowners and lot locations in Lake Township. Also contains a photocopied printed excerpt from W.H. Smith, Canada: Past, Present and Future, with a brief description of Lake Township in 1851.

File contains a newspaper clipping regarding George Young and Cornelius Lawrence, pioneer settlers in Belleville, with a brief genealogical profile of the Lawrence and Young families.

File contains several newspaper clippings regarding pioneer settlement in Bath, Adolphustown and the Hay Bay area. Also contains two printed booklets entitled, Memorial : Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Adolphustown, Ontario, ca. 1959.

File contains a newspaper article concerning the history of Glastonbury, an early Lennox-Addington settlement, near Northbrook, Ontario.