File contains a typescript extract from the Hastings County Court Registry Office concerning the ownership of a piece of land in Madoc Township, granted to C. Gordon Hannah in 1861. The lot is not identified, but information from the land index maintained by the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre suggest that it is lot 24 in the seventh concession of Madoc Township.
File contains letters to Gerry Boyce from 1964 requesting information on the Henderson family. There are also photocopies of the Henderson family history from the Hastings County Museum.
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 a draft copy of the a story for the Intelligencer discussing the story of the Franklin Expedition and the McLure Expedition which looked for the sunken ship. The last living member of the McLure expedition, Henry Gauen, died in 1899 at 77 years old and was buried in Ivanhoe.
File contains a typed announcement detailing a celebration for Mrs. Sarah Hogle's 86th birthday at the family homestead in Sidney Crossing. Transcribed from a scrapbook.
File contains a newspaper clipping regarding George Young and Cornelius Lawrence, pioneer settlers in Belleville, with a brief genealogical profile of the Lawrence and Young families.
File contains typescript correspondence from Mrs. Helene Strahm to Carl E. Bateman, Hastings County Clerk, and to Mrs. Mary Plumpton, Hastings County Historical Society requesting information regarding the genealogy of the Meyers, Broughton and Rutter families of Hastings County.
File contains manuscript marriage and militia enlistment certificates from London [Ont.] and Middlesex County, Ontario involving members of the Merry Family. Also contains two newspaper articles concerning Miss Neil Merry, a former teacher in Saskatchewan, and at Belleville Collegiate Institute.
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.
File contains a typescript letter from C.C. Crouse to Mary Plumpton, Hastings County Historical Society, 2 March 1970, concerning the genealogy of the McTaggart family of Tyendinaga Township and Huntingdon Township.
File contains a typescript booklet conveying the genealogy and origins of the Mack and Sine families of Rawdon Township. Includes photocopied photographs of family members, ca. 1890s-1954. Also contains a manuscript letter from Clarence S. Chard to Gerry Boyce which refers to the booklet.
File contains three manuscript letters from Mary M. Middleton to the Hastings County Historical Society, and Hastings County Museum, regarding the genealogy of the William and Ellen Loughray family who resided in Tyendinaga Township, ca. 1848-1875.