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File contains a 1783 letter from surveyor, W. Samuel Holland, to General Hallimand in Quebec regarding the establishments of settlements along the St. Lawrence and the Mohawks.

File contains a photocopied manuscript petition to Lt. Governor John Graves Simcoe by Captain John W. Meyers for the grant of lot no. 4 in Thurlow Township for the use and improvement by the Meyers family.

File contains micro-copy of a newspaper clipping from the Kingston Chronicle, January 27, 1823 announcing the availability of lots for sale by the Iron Works in Marmora, Ontario.

File contains a typescript copy of a letter from William Hutton to his wife Fanny Hutton in regard to her joining him in Canada. Includes considerable description of settlement and agricultural conditions in Hastings County.

File contains photocopies of newspaper advertisements for millwrights and sawyers for Hungerford Mills, Hungerford Township in 1838. Also contains an article describing land and soil conditions and settlement of Hungerford Township in 1837.

File consists of a Day Book and receipts for rent for Meyers' Store, Belleville, 1840.

File contains various papers from the Hubble family regarding the purchase of sale of land in Hastings County.

File contains the family history and biography of William Ketchison (b. 1760, d. 1848).

File contains Jezzard family Deed of Sale documents. In 1798 land was sold from Crown land in Hastings County to James McMasters, who then sold land to Joseph Forsyth in 1802, who sold land to Michael Braddeu in 1850.

File contains a motion from 1859 to ask the Crown to open up land in the North Riding of Hastings for settlement, as well as correspondences regarding the payment of land taxes for 1860-1861.

File contains a copy of manuscript fieldnotes on a survey of Herschel Township performed by A.B. Perry, Provincial Land Surveyor, in 1864. Also contains a copy of a manuscript report, diary and fieldnotes on Herschel Township, 1858 by J.S. Peterson, Provincial Land Surveyor.

File contains a manuscript certification of assessment of the number of householders in Madoc Township in 1865 sufficient to warrant the election of a deputyreeve.

File contains micro-copied manuscript field notes by Quentin Johnston, Provincial Land Surveyor, ca. 1857, concerning concessions and boundaries of Limerick Township. Also contains field notes on a survey of the residue of Limerick Township by H.A. McLeod, P.L.S., 1862.

File contains a manuscript declaration of apportionment of property in Sidney Township from Frances Hutton to Anne Ponton in 1865. Also contains a manuscript deed dated May 18, 1857 involving lands on Pinnacle and Front Streets in Belleville in which the Hutton family had interests.

File contains a manuscript petition to the Warden and Council of Hastings County requesting that Nemehiah Hubble be allowed to continue to occupy road allowance lands in Rawdon Township.

File contains two manuscript cetificates of Reeve issued by the Clerk of Marmora and Lake Townships certifying the election of Hugh Jones as Reeve in 1871 and James Hamilton as Reeve in 1867. Also contains a manuscript memorial of the municipal council of Marmora and Lake Townships requesting funds for road improvement in 1871.

File contains a typescript transcript concerning the life of Sarah Ruth Hubel[sic], b. 1792, daughter of Loyalist Nehemiah Hubel[sic]. Includes references to Rawdon Township in the period of the the War of 1812.