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File contains a newspaper article dated 28 May 1966 titled "Crown Grant Found In Attic Will Be Presented to Museum"; the file also contains an original "Exemplification of Grant to John Taylor" dated 13 February 1870.

File contains research material for Yeomans Genealogy; including excerpts from the 1851, and 1871 Census' for Hastings County. Family names include Yeomans, Osborn, Clapp.

A map showing a plan of survey for lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and lots 37, 38, 39, 40 on the south side of Bridge Street East between Dufferin and Macdonald Avenues in Belleville, Ontario. Surveyed by John T. Ransom on March 1, 1951 and amended April 14, 1960. Scale: 1'':50'.

The file contains a number of legal documents dating from 1907 through to 1929 pertaining to land ownership of various parcels of land including: Hastings Paper Mills (Township of Thurlow), Lazier Paper Mills, Belleville Paper Mills, Lazier Dam. Family names included in these documents are: Colon Bruce Burnham, John Bell, Thomas P. Birchall, Samuel J. Bull, Jonas Canniff, James Canniff, William James Craig, William Oliver Luscomb (wife Coralie), Samuel H. Traverton, S.A. Lazier, Robert Elliott Lazier, Alec Robertson, Charles Edward Ford, Albert Ford, Frederick Ford, Walter Ford, Mary Ford, Mary Fenwick, William Moore, Clara Yeomans, Mary Yoemans, Louis C. Yeomans, Alicia Fenton Russell Yeomans , Horace Yeomans.

Original newspaper clippings of obituaries for: J. Wesley Glass, Orlean Glass, E. Carl Bleeker, Tom Ketcheson, Marjory K. Grass, Sussana Green nee Hart, Howard Bleecker Ketcheson, Charles Ketcheson, Mrs. Nancy Victoria Green, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Ketcheson nee Whitley. Photocopies of pages from family bible recording the deaths of: Arthur Ketcheson, Howard Bleecker Ketcheson, Tom Ketcheson; the births of : Howard Bleecker Ketcheson, Arthur Ketcheson, Tom Ketcheson and Mary Jane Glass. Old handwritten note recording births of: Nancy Victoria Glass, Mary Jane Glass, Orlean Glass, Frankie Alberta Glass, Emaly Glass and James Wesley Glass. Memorium cards and church membership cards.

File contains multiple copies of maps and concession surveys; of the Thurlow Township c. 1961.

Minutes and accounts for School Section number 4 in Thurlow Township, Ontario.

File contains a letter from A.G.W. Lamont to the Hastings Historical Society with a copy of a petition dated 21-December-1798 submitted by customers of John W. Meyer requesting the erection of additional mills.

This file contains a copy of a school project written by Jim Chopman from Foxboro Sr. Elementary School. It is titled The History of the Ross Farm originally purchased from the Crown by Artimus Marsh Ross U.E.L. and 600 acres located in the Township of Thurlow, 4th and 5th Concessions circa 1800.

This file contains a copy of a school project written by Lana Ray from Foxboro Sr. Elementary School. It is titled Floyd Ray's Farm and contains information about the history of the farm owned by Floyd Andrew Ray (Lot 19, 7th Concession, Township of Thurlow) purchased from the Outwaters family circa 1867.

This file contains a ledger recording roads passed in the Midland District in the County of Hastings from 1810 to 1830. Allan McLean Esq. was acting as Clerk of the Peace of the District. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_McLean_(Upper_Canada_politician)
these were recorded by James Nichollas, Clerk of the Peace, Midland District.

Five reports and six accompanying plans prepared by Gore & Storrie, consulting engineers of Toronto, relating to improvements to the water and sewerage system in and around the City of Belleville.