File contains a photocopy of a newspaper article from The Daily Intelligencer, dated 1-August-1925, titled "Beginnings of Sidney, Thurlow; Romance, Fact, Strangely Mixed Sidney Led Municipal Ventures".
File contains several manuscript letters, 1965-1967, from C.S. Chard, River Valley Women's Institute, to Gerry Boyce, President of the Hastings County Historical Society, concerning the history of the River Valley and Oak Hills community ca. 1910-1967; a five page genealogy of early settler families in River Valley and Oak Hill; and a manuscript essay on the history of River Valley ca.1881-1959 by Mrs. Roy Bush, Stirling. Also present are several newspaper clippings concerning meetings of the River Valley Women's Institute, 1960-1964.
File contains a manuscript license issued by the Province of Ontario on 13 October 1879 approving the operation of a ferry from Sidney Township in Hastings County to Ameliasburgh Township in Prince Edward County. Also present are two printed, completed bills of sale, dated 5 November 1880 transferring 64 shares in the steam paddler, Mary Ethel, built at Trenton, to the Bay of Quinte Navigation Company (Limited).
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 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 manuscript statement of damages submitted by Addi Stickle to the Provincial Government in 1845 for the loss of time and of crops as a result of being called upon to testify at the “trial of prisoners” in May, 1838.
File contains a manuscript statement of losses submitted by Peter Lott to the Provincial Government for damages resulting from imprisonment for eleven weeks and five days at Fort Henry in 1838.
Files contains a manuscript statement of damages submitted to the Provincial Government in 1845 by Peter Davidson for damages incurred while imprisoned in December 1837. Also contains a manuscript letter from Billa Flint, J.P. to Peter Davidson and Aaron Hearns dated 5 May 1838 dismissing a case against them.
File contains a manuscript claim submitted to the Provincial Government by Joseph Ketcheson ca. 1845 for time served as a special constable during 1837.
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 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 photocopied manuscript lists of persons nominated for township and parish officers in Sidney Township, 1790-1819. Also contains a newspaper article regarding the establishment of the Sidney Township Council and highlights of its proceedings to the 1930s. Also present is photocopied typescript outline of the history of Sidney Township and Trenton from ca. 1787-1819.
File contains eight pages of manuscript assessment rolls listing property holders in Sidney Township in 1859 by lot and concession, including extent of improved acreage.
File contains a photocopied advertisement for a shop opening by S.Stevens, decorative painter, Sidney Township in 1848, and an advertisement of two acres of land and a house for sale on Trenton Road for $650 in 1881.
This file contains original documents donated by Charlotte Kuntze, daughter of Fanny Finkle. Papers regarding lot 2, con 6 of Sidney owned by Eliza Ann Simmons, contain abstract record, will, mortgage and correspondence.
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.