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Copy of abstract land record for part of lots 5&6, concession II, Thurlow Township; Canniff House on River, 1816.

File contains photocopies of a letter from Rt. Revd Alexander Macdonnell to Lord Bathurst concerning the establishment of Roman Catholic schools in Upper Canada in 1817 as excerpted in Belleville History.

File contains copies of 1817 letters to surveyor Thomas Pictout(?) from Henry Smith and from S. Wilmot.

This file contains a copy of a c.1818 Upper Canada Land Petitions Document.

Map showing a measured sketch of the water communication between the Bay of Quinte and Lake Huron, May 1818. The total area extends from the Bay of Quinte and Lake Huron by Rice Lake to the falls of the River Trent to its mouth. A reproduction from the Archives of Canada.

File contains a news magazine article regarding the history of taverns and drinking habits in Upper Canada, Lower Canada and Ontario in the period ca. 1818-1875.

File contains a 'Parish Story 1818-1968' booklet by Ina Bellstedt on St. Thomas Church and a 1969 letter re: giving away copy of book, and a newspaper clip c.1968 celebrating 150 years of St. Thomas Church.

File contains a photocopied printed and manuscript discharge certificate from military duty for Sergeant Robert Warren, Marmora who served from 1812 to 1819 in the Seventy Sixty regiment. Also present is a photocopied manuscript list of standing committees of the Hastings County Council, 1857.

File contains a photocopied printed extract entitled "Pensioners of the War of 1812," listing soldiers of the Prince Edward Militia killed in action or deceased through illness in the War of 1812, and their heirs and survivors.

The collection contains materials relating to property on lot 26, concession 7 of Thurlow Township, Ontario first owned by John Latta:

• History of the house compiled for the Plainfield Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History by Maude Harrison in 1976
• WIll of Francis Van de Bogart, made 26 Feb 1825
• House and farm leases, and quit claims c.1898-1912 for Lot 26, Concession 7
• Agreement and sale of land documents c.1872-1932
• Deeds and policies c.1874-1932
• Mortgage and accompanying documents c.1901
• Mortgages and agreements survey plan for lot 25
• Fire insurance policies c.1901
• Discharge of mortgage document c.1872
• Legal documents for Thurlow Township lots c.1880-1964
• Mortgages and deeds from Thurlow Township c.1876-1931
• High Court Justice documents c.1872-1886
• Commissioner of Agriculture loans and receipts and statements ca. 1940's
• An original deed from June 22, 1820
• Bound volumes of The Windsor Magazine, June-November 1911 and June-November 1915

File contains St. Andrews Church history 1821-1867.

File contains a letter sent in 1967 to Gerry Boyce and included copies of field notes recorded by a surveyor in 1821.

Papers of Loral and Mildred Wanamaker containing 16 leases dated from 1821 to 1892 between Rev. John Grier, A.M. Rector, of Belleville and second parties, names include: Ferguson, Limm, Adamson, Lawlor, Sarsfield, Weir, Howell, Farrell, Murphy, Cherry, Heath, Canning, Strudgeon, Tebbet, Jamieson and Connors.

Land grant for lot 38 on the east side of Front Street, Belleville.

File contains copies of "The Belleville Project" completed by the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University in Hamilton, the project contains lists of burials, baptisms, and marriages performed at St. Thomas' Anglican Church in Belleville from 1821 to 1874.

The collection consists of financial papers, genealogy books, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, postcards, business cards, music books, horoscope, poll book, address books, ledgers, notebooks, birthday cards, letters, photos/photo album, cartoons, highschool entrance exam, recipe book, stamp book, programs/brochures/concerts, dance cards, yearbooks, certificates, reciepts, invitations, membership cards and text book/teaching book.