File contains a newspaper article concerning an early Sulpician mission to the Cayuga First Nation in the Quinte region ca. 1668, and missionization by the Jesuits and Sulpicians among the Wendat(Huron), Mohawk and Oneida in what is now Quebec.
File contains a photocopy of the front page of “The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer” by Richard Burn, LL.D., 16th Edition, Four Volumes, printed London 1788. Two of the four volumes are in the Law Library of the Hastings Law Society.
File contains a newspaper facsimile of a letter written by Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson, November 13, 1783 concerning a voyage from Quebec with a convoy for New York.
File contains a copy of “The Defenitive Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between His Britannick Majesty, and the United States of America”, signed at Paris on Sept. 3rd 1783; including in the peace agreement is the Canada (Southern) Boundary.
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 photocopies of field notes dated 1791-92 of a survey of the Indian Lands on Grand River; the course of the Lake Ontario from Toronto to the River Trent; Head of the Bay of Quinty (sic). Donated by K.G.M. Ross
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 a reproduction of a manuscript diary of W. Hambly, surveyor, for the period 6 December 1793 to 1 May 1794. The diary entries discuss the survey process in Thurlow, Sidney, Huntingdon and Rawdon Townships. Also present is a typescript transcript of the diary with an appended footnote section which contains a glossary of terms.
This file contains a photocopy of a Deposition by John Walter Myers Esq. dated 14-June-1797 for David Palmer's service in the Corps known by the name of Major Roger's Corp. and that Catharine Harris (wife of David Harris) is David Palmer's legitimate daughter.
File contains a photocopied manuscript statement sworn before and witnessed by Captain John Meyers, J.P., on June 14, 1797. Also contains a photocopy of the title page of a book entitled The Justice of the Peace and the Parish Officer, 1782, which bears the signature of Capt. Meyers.
File contains a photocopy of a manuscript affidavit sworn by David Palmer before John W. Meyers, J.P. attesting that the former served in Rogers' Corps in the Thirteen Colonies.
File contains a photocopied printed extract from Belden's Atlas (1878) reprinted in The City of Belleville History (1943) by W.C, Mikel, concerning the organization of the Hastings County militia in 1799.