File contains a printed completed oath of allegiance sworn by Mungo Ponton before the Upper Canada Commissioner for the taking of oaths, on 13 August 1841. Also present is a manuscript letter from E.Mahon to Mungo Ponton concerning an application by the latter for land in the Township of Seymour, Northumberland County, 30 August 1831; and a printed, completed deed of land granted on 22 July 1841 to Mungo Ponton for a tract of four hundred acres, at lot number 8, in the 7th concession and lot number 8, 8th concession in the Township of Seymour, Northumberland County.
Notice encouraging emigrants to settle in Hastings County, signed by Thomas Campbell, president, and J. H. Samson, secretary, of the Emigrant Society of the county.
A copy of an original map by N. H. Baird showing a harbour and bridge proposal at the Mouth of the River Trent - October 26, 1832. Photocopied by the Archives of Ontario.
File contains a copy of the Petition of the Inhabitants of Tyendinaga (from the Archives of Canada, Ottawa) dated 24 May 1832, to purchase settled crown land.
File contains manuscript statements of accounts and correspondence originating from and received by William Robertson, Postmaster, Port Trent concerning land transactions. Also present are printed completed receipts issued by the Commissioner of Crown Lands' Office, Peter Robinson issued in 1834 for lands sold from the Clergy Reserves in the township of Murray, district of Newcastle.
File contains manuscript correspondence originating from and received by William Robertson regarding lands at River Trent in Murray Township. Also present is a completed, printed approval of the Board of Endowment Office, Toronto, of an application for purchase of lot 28, concession 3, Township of Murray by William Robertson, 29 August 1851.
File contains a manuscript abstract of registered legal instruments concerning lot 38, in the 1st concession of the Township of Sidney, Hastings County, the majority of which are transactions involving members of the Ponton and Hutton families.
File contains a manuscript deed of land issued on 2 November 1833 to David Roblin for a 100-acre parcel of land purchased from Henry Rose, located at Lot number 32, third concession, in the Township of Sidney, County of Hastings.
File contains original manuscript mortgage registration for a mortgage held by William Robertson on a property in Stirling, Rawdon Township, purchased by Edward Fidlar. Also contains a manuscript and printed indenture of bargain and sale between Edward Fidlar and Simon Root for land in the village of Stirling.
A reproduction by the Canadian Department of Energy, Mines and Resources of "British North America by Permission dedicated to The Honorable Hudsons Bay Company containing the latest information which their documents furnish by their obedient servants." The map was originally composed by John Arrowsmith in 1834.
A map showing settlements of Upper Canada and part of the United States in 1834 by J. Arrowsmith. Received from the Archives of Canada's map collection - July 9, 1971.
A map showing settlements of Ontario and part of the United States in February 1834 by J. Arrowsmith. The total area extends from Lake Huron East to Montreal and south Ohio to Long Island. Received from the Archives of Canada's map collection - 11 May 1977.
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.
Map showing townships in the District of Prince Edward County: South Murray, Sidney, Thurlow, Ameliasburgh, Sophiasburgh. See boundary lines on map. Surveyed by Publius Virgillius Elmore, D.L.S. Dated 1835. Map copied from the Archives of Ontario.
File contains a copy of a poster dated 23 June 1835 from the Commissioner of Crown Lands Office, offering specific Lots of Crown Land to be sold at auction.