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 a handwritten copy of the 1851 Census for Thurlow, including an index of "Strays in the 1851 Thurlow Township Census". Produced by Mary Plumpton for her book "The Rambling River", published 1967
File contains original correspondence between the Township of Thurlow and the Corporation of the County of Hastings, dealing with arrears in tax monies not paid by Thurlow. It also contains a motion from a meeting of Municipal Council of the County of Hastings along with a Statement dated 31st of December 1863.
File contains copies of (5) advertisements from 1839 to 1881 selling: a cheese factory, house & land, cedar rails and a blacksmith shop. Also notice of an errant cow.
File contains original copy, dated 10th November 1899 of a Mortgage Sale for a farm in Thurlow owned by Robert Vanallen; notice of public auction held 9th December 1899.
File contains a photocopied newspaper clipping announcing the dissolution on January 5, 1881, of a business partnership between Harford Ashley, James Moore and Isaac A. Fraser who jointly operated a carriage building business at Ross Corners in Thurlow Township.
File contains a photocopied typescript report and financial statement of the Township of Thurlow, showing revenues and expenditures for the fiscal period, 1 January 1961-31 October 1961.
File contains a photocopied typescript report and financial statement of the Township of Thurlow, showing revenues and expenditures for the fiscal period, 1 January 1966-31 October 1966.
File contains an Ontario Intelligencer article, 7 February 1961, concerning a break-in and vandalism of the vault at the Thurlow Township office and the concurrent theft of a camera from the Moira River Conservation Authority, housed in the same building.
File contains manuscript notes by Mary Plumpton including lists of Thurlow Town Clerks, 1798-1846; transcripts of pages from an unidentified diary 1870-1872, and notes on individuals appearing in Plumpton's work, The Rambling River. Also present is a photocopied printed excerpt from the 1879 Hastings County Directory with entries for Canifton[sic] listing residents by name and occupation.
File contains photocopied township maps and directories and manuscript notes compiled and written by Tom Ransom in 1965-1967, concerning the early history and development of Thurlow Township by concession.
File contains a photocopy from the original of land grants including name of grantee, date, acreage,concession and lot in Thurlow Township from 1787-ca.1890.
File contains three small miscellaneous newspaper clippings. One is an ad for the sale of a 100 acres lot. The other; an ad for a "school Master." The third; a notice of a found heifer.
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.