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File contains a letter from the Department of Agriculture and Public Works to the Warden of Hastings in 1870 regarding immigrants and farm labour, and a copy of the Constitution of the Peterbo Immigration Society.

File contains an 1862 letter regarding immigration and a notice from the Government Immigration Office discussing the increased number of immigrants from the United Kingdom and the United States, proposing farmers hire new immigrants for farm labour and on large farms build a log cabin for a family to stay in.

File contains a newspaper clipping , printed in 1968, about three young Czech refugee families arriving in Belleville.

File contains a list of nonresident lands and a compilation of debentures from 1851-1865.

File contains a letter to the Hastings County Council regarding the sale of property in 1857.

File contains a manuscript bylaw concerning Clergy Reserve lands and the purchase of lands by municipalities in Hastings County in 1856.

File contains information regarding how Townships in Hastings County were named, extracts from “Nothing but Names” by Herbert F. Gardiner.

File contains a letter requesting information about Alexander Green [b. 1820] and a letter the history of Alexander Green and his family.

File contains a letter from 1823 explaining that a survey of Grimsthorpe was incomplete and field notes from the survey of Grimsthorpe in 1867.

File contains a booklet “Gananaque: The Name and Its Origin” by Frank Eames published in 1942.

File contains a copy of a newspaper clipping about the history of Frankford.

File contains a newspaper clipping about the history of Foxboro, printed in 1956.

File contains a newspaper clipping about the history of the Foster family (from settling in Canada in 1810 from Massachusetts to building business in Belleville until the end of the 19th century). There is also typed biographical information of W.A. Foster (b. 1836 d. 1881).

File contains original manuscript mortgage registration for a mortgage held by William Robertson on a property in Stirling, Rawdon Township, purchased by Edward Fidlar. Also contains a manuscript and printed indenture of bargain and sale between Edward Fidlar and Simon Root for land in the village of Stirling.

File contains photocopied manuscript field notes by Quintin Johnston, Provincial Land Surveyor concerning resources and quality of land in Faraday Township in 1857. Also contains photocopied manuscript field notes concerning road and land surveys in Faraday Township as surveyed by Forneri and Kennedy, 1869-1870. Undated,[ ca. 1960s?] original manuscript notes containing excerpts of the aforementioned surveys are also present.

File contains multiple lists of lots owned by W. N. Ponton.