File contains two copies of a reproduction of an affidavit by James Whiteman regarding his service as a volunteer in the militia during 1837-8. He volunteered in Shannonville, attempted to search for Hayden, arrested Joseph Canniff, and marched as far as Napanee on his way to Prescott before being discharged. He was 76 when he made the declaration. The original document was owned by Clarence Whiteman of Albert Street inn Belleville, James' great nephew.
File contains a newspaper article on Wesley Reid of Cannifton's 60th annual participation in deer hunting season in October, 1966. Also contains newspaper clippings regarding hunter safety in 1960 and wildlife sightings, 1957-1960.
File contains typescript and manuscript lists of veterans (pensioners) of the War of 1812, surviving in 1875. Also includes an original printed and manuscript Canadian Registration Board registration card for William Edgar Harvey, Trenton, 1918.
File contains a photocopied printed excerpt from “Belleville History” listing the members of the Royal Regiment of New York, the majority of whose survivors relocated to the Bay of Quinte district.
File contains a typescript copy of an announcement of an 1884 ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the settlement of the Tyendinaga Reserve by the Mohawk
File contains newspaper clippings from the column “Historic Hastings” featuring the Iroquois First Nations community, “Fallacies About Indians”, and a short biography of Peter Martin.
File contains a printed copy of the Canadian Agriculturalist, July 1852. Includes a Report on the State of Agriculture in Hastings County by William Hutton, with information on the extent and types of agriculture practised in Hastings County, and crop production in 1852.
File contains a one-page typescript history of a commemorative cairn at Tyendinaga Reserve, erected in 1924 to mark the landing of the Mohawks and the establishment of the settlement in 1784.
File contains a printed booklet entitled "The Blockhouse Bergen Wood" by Lt. Col. H.C. Burleigh, published by the Bay of Quinte Branch of the United Empire Loyalists Association, which recounts a 1780 battle at Bergen Wood, [New Jersey] during the American Revolution.
File contains a news magazine article regarding the history of taverns and drinking habits in Upper Canada, Lower Canada and Ontario in the period ca. 1818-1875.
File contains printed personnel directories, and souvenir programmes of minor hockey association events sponsored by the Belleville Shrine Club, 1967-1968. Also contains several newspaper clippings concerning installation of officers, fundraising, and charitable activities by the Belleville Shrine Club, 1960-1968.
File contains a photocopied printed and manuscript discharge certificate from military duty for Sergeant Robert Warren, Marmora who served from 1812 to 1819 in the Seventy Sixty regiment. Also present is a photocopied manuscript list of standing committees of the Hastings County Council, 1857.