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HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1500 to 1999
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Hastings County Jail, 1855

File contains manuscript petition of Norris Terry, a prisoner, to the Warden and County Council of Hastings, pleading for warm clothing and boots during his incarceration. Also contains a manuscript petition from Zenas[?} Dafoe, County gaoler, to the Warden and Council for an increase in salary, and a manuscript receipt for services rendered by Drs. Lister and Henry for examining a pauper for lunacy.

Hastings County Jail, 1859

File contains manuscript accounting sheets for expenditures relating to the Hastings County Jail. Also contains a manuscript resolution of the Municipal Council of the County of Hastings to establish a committee to investigate charges made against the jailer, Z. Dafoe, 1859.

Hastings County Jail, 1861

File contains a manuscript report of the Grand Jury, 1861 investigating the court house and conditions at the Hastings County Jail, a manuscript "Report of the Committee of the Whole on the Contemplated alterations of the court house and gaol," and manuscript expense sheets relating to goods and services purchased for the Hastings County Jail.

Hastings County Jail, 1862

File contains manuscript Hastings County Council expense sheets concerning goods and services for the Hastings County Jail. Also contains a manuscript report of the Grand Jury regarding the examination of the Hastings County Court House and Goal [Jail], September, 1862.

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