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 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.
This file contains an original copy of the obituary for Emma Roberta Benmore (nee Harris); daughter of Mr. J.W. Ross, wife of Louis Benmore, mother of Gladys Benmore. Emma was born in Thurlow in December 1874 and died on 2-March-1899.
File contains two letters: one written to John Diamond of Hayfrom William Jeffers of Hamiltonin 1837 and the other written by A. Diamond to the Warden and Council of Hastings County in Fall 1857, complaining about not being paid as Superintendent of Education for Thurlow.
File contains petitions to the council regarding road repair in Thurlow and Tyendinaga, as well as a special committee report about road and bridge repair and financial information about the cost of repairing various roads.
File contains a petition seeking timber rights for Thurlow and Tyendinaga as people have been illegally cutting trees from government property for personal use.
File contains an offprint of an article entitled “Capt. John Walden Meyers, Loyalist Pioneer,” published in the Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records, Vol XXX1 (1936): 11-55
File contains a manuscript claim submitted to the Provincial Government of Canada in 1845 by Henry Garrison for two days training “by order of Captain Frasier” in February, 1838.
File contains a manuscript statement of damages submitted by Nicholas O'Camb to the Provincial Government in 1845 for damages resulting from imprisonment for 80 days in February to May, 1838.
File contains a manuscript claim submitted by Daniel Chapman to the Provincial Government in 1845 for teaming services ordered by Captain Frasier in February, 1838.
File contains a manuscript claim submitted by Thomas McCready to the Provincial Government in 1845 for teaming services ordered by Captain Frasier in February, 1838.
File contains a manuscript claim submitted to the Provincial Government in 1845 by H.W. Yager for the billeting of soldiers and the provision of arms and horses during 1838.
File contains a manuscript statement of damages submitted to the Provincial Government in 1845 for losses incurred by Stephen Mott as a result of imprisonment in February, 1838.
File contains a manuscript claim submitted to the Provincial Government by Elisha Ackerman for damages arising from a two month and twenty day prison term at Fort Henry in 1838.
File contains a typescript letter signed by Hon. Lester B. Pearson congratulating Thurlow Township on the publication of a local history as part of a 1967 Centennial Year project.