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File contains manuscript and typescript copies of correspondence sent and received by Col. W. N. Ponton concerning the development of hydroelectric power on the Trent River. Also contains correspondence regarding the proposed electrification of the Belleville waterworks by the Trenton Electric and Water Company.

File contains three typsecript pages by C.S. Chard concerning the first school house in Stirling, ca. 1820s, and an account of a wooden pump shop which operated near Stirling from 1875 to 1887.

File contains a typescript page of recollections by C. S. Chard concerning "The Money Hole," Sidney Township and its connections to early trade with local Aboriginal Peoples. Also contains one typescript page of related correspondence from C.S. Chard.

File contains a newspaper article on the history of cheese-making in Hastings County particularly the Shamrock Cheese Factory, Sidney Township.

File contains a one page clipping from the Canadian Doctor, December, 1966 concerning financial operations of "The Front of Sidney" Cheese Factory ca. 19th century.

The file contains a writing by Edgar S. Vandewater born in Sidney Township 1876, titled "Belleville as I remember it in the 1890's", dated 1953 and published in the Ontario Intelligencer 31 October 1953. There is also a letter from Richard Moran, great-nephew of Edgar with a brief genealogy.

File contains a funeral card from 1877 for Deborah Harder, 2nd Concession Sidney, to be interred at Zion Church, Sidney.

File contains a publication from the Moira River Conservation Authority, titled “Progress and Achievements 1947-1962; a newspaper article from the Intelligencer dated January 20, 1965 with a photo of the County Warden; a publication from the Corporation of the Township of Sidney, Historic Highlights 1790-1967

File contains written affidavits of individuals being sworn into office in Belleville and Sidney, in the 1840s.

File contains affidavits signed in the 1860s for various individuals in Stirling, Rawdon, and Sidney taking office.

File contains a petition submitted to Hastings County Council in 1857 regarding a gravel road to be built on the east side of the Moira River, and a document regarding 17 toll gates in Sindey.

File contains various documents that belonged to Morgan Jellet, such as Land Deeds for property in Sindey and Assignment of Mortgage.

File contains a newspaper article that features the history of the Ketcheson family farm and cemetery in Sidney. The farm had been in the family since the early 1800s.

File contains the funeral cards for Everett Ketcheson (b. 1891, d. 1914) and Edward Ketcheson (b. 1832, d. 1915). There is also a book published in 1958, “The Ketcheson Family”, a newspaper article from 1968 about Mr. and Mrs. Lawrenson L. Ketcheson celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary, and an invite for the Ketcheson family reunion in 1965 at the Memorial Park in Tweed.

File contains information about Col. Elijah Ketcheson (b. 1793) of Sidney. There are also newspaper clipping about the Ketcheson family reunion in 1962 in Tweed and Fred A. Ketcheson celebrating his 90th Birthday. There are two invitation to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Boyce for the Ketcheson family reunion in 1959 and 1961, as well as information about the family reunion in 1964.

File contains the family history of William and Mary Ketcheson (nee Rull), married 1779, formerly of Sidney and latterly of Belleville.

File contains a manuscript deed of sale of livestock by Jonathan McCurdy, Sidney Township, 1887.

File contains a typescript letter from Olive Delaney, Belleville Public Library to Mary Plumpton, Hastings County Historical Society, dated 28 February 1969 inquiring for information regarding Dr. James Merritt, a physician who testified at the trial of the alleged assassins of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, and who was a probable resident of Sidney Township in his youth.