File contains a photocopied advertisement for a shop opening by S.Stevens, decorative painter, Sidney Township in 1848, and an advertisement of two acres of land and a house for sale on Trenton Road for $650 in 1881.
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 copy of the "Report of the Board of Management of the Thurlow Circulating Library to it's Members", written by W.R. Bigg, Secretary and dated 4th January 1848.
File contains a copy of a sketch of town lots in Thurlow by Joseph Canniff in 1849. Also present are several photocopied survey maps by lot of Thurlow Township, ca. 1878.
File contains two separate news articles about Rev. William King, and his work in protecting slaves during the time of the underground railroad, and the founding of Buxton, Ontario.
File contains eight pages of manuscript assessment rolls listing property holders in Sidney Township in 1859 by lot and concession, including extent of improved acreage.
File contains a typescript transcript from Smith's Canada, Volume 2, 1851 concerning natural resources and industries at Trent Port, Murray Township, Presqu'isle and various islands in the Bay of Quinte near Belleville.
File contains an original letter dated 1871 on Grand Junction Railway letterhead, two original account collection notices from the 1870's from the Grand Junction Railway, Solicitor's office; one newspaper article dated 29-September-1969 from the Intelligencer titled "Belleville Early Train Centre".
File contains a photocopy of an advertisement from the Intelligencer, dated 10th December 1853, for the lease of a steam saw mill situated on the Bay Shore of the Bay of Quinte, Thurlow. Composed by John Nicholson at the Mill, apply to Tobias Bleecker.
File contains a printed booklet entitled “Report on the most eligible route for a canal between Lake Simcoe ..and Georgian Bay...to the Bay of Quinte...” by N.H. Baird, C.E., published at Belleville in 1855. The report discusses proposed routes for a Trent-Severn Canal project.
File contains several original deposit slips dated 1870-71 for George Taylor; also two original funeral notifications (1) William Johnston, second son of George Taylor, funeral date 24-March-1855 (Belleville); (2) William Johnston, youngest son of George and Marietta Taylor, funeral 14-February-1864 (Belleville).
File contains three original documents: a letter dated 8 November 1855 to Isiah Human; a motion from Meeting of Municipal Council of the County of Hastings circa. 1850; a letter to the Municipal Council of Hastings - all detailing an accident involving Thomas Smith and request for financial restitution to both Mr. Smith and Mr. Henry Fanning.
File contains four original documents from the Clerks Office, Village of Trenton, with the names and dates of appointments of the local Reeve. (Archibald Thomson 1855; William Shea 1863 & 1865; James Cumming 1871).
File contains a newspaper article recounting the inaugural trip of the Grand Trunk Railway from Montreal to Toronto 16 October 1856. Also present is a photocopied newsclipping announcing the reopening of the British American Hotel on Front Street in Belleville, in March, 1861.
File contains a printed poster, the contents of which were transcribed from telegraph messages, announcing various events including news about British troops from the Crimean Front.
The file contains a photocopy of the original Royal Letter dated 15 September 1856, granting permission by Queen Victoria to J.W. Dunbar Moodie of Hastings County to establish a Public Fair and Mart in the Village of Shannonville.
File contains a manuscript resolution of the Municipal Council of the County of Hastings, 28 January 1856 confirming the appointment of William R. Parker and William Judd as grammar school trustees.