File contains original copies of: Petition with many signatures from residents asking that instead of building a new road that the two already existing be made passable; Motion to locate a road from Lonsdale to the Tyendanaga Grand Trunk Railway Station.
File contains original letter written from Vera Ryan to Carl Bateman (Clerk-Treasurer, County of Hastings). Attached is a history of the community of Deseronto in the Township of Tyendinaga.
File contains a newspaper article from the Intelligencer, dated 13-June-1967, titled “Woman's Penchant for Stone Houses Led to Purchase of Lonsdale Mill”.
File contains original petition to incorporate Mill Point into an "Incorporated Village" 17 May1871, signed by Edward Wilkes Rathbun and 100 residents of the village. There are also petitions of protest from residents north of the York Road [Highway 2] who did not want to be part of the village. File also includes a plan of the proposed boundaries Mill Point (Map M440-1446).
File contains a souvenir booklet published by the 1960-1961 Council of Tyendinaga Indian Reserve, Deseronto, that contains stories and photos of the local Mohawk people. The file also contains a brief history entitled "Mohawks of Tyendinaga Reserve" written by Susan Claus, as well as a copy of Gerry Boyce's chapter on the "Tyendinaga Reserve" from Historic Hastings, annotated by Leslie Claus.
File contains an original letter dated 20-April-1836 from J. Givins, Chief Superintendent Indian Department requesting a list of "squatters" on the land.
File contains brief history of the Parish of St. Charles Borromeo in Read as well as two newspaper clippings from the Intelligencer, one dated 20-August-1968 titled "Burial Site of Early Anglican Catechist Who Served Mohawks Is Rediscovered" and the other dated 27-November-1968 titled "Parish Centre of Tyendinaga Mohawks Endowed with Historical Significance".
File contains a newsletter for The Quinte Unitarian a non-denominational relief and rehabilitation agency; file also contains a newspaper article titled "Service Helps People To Help Themselves".
File contains a communication titled Bay of Quinte Conference, Peterborough, June 1904. Appealing to members of the congregations of the Methodist Church for financial assistance.
File contains a copy of the “Law for Attainting the Persons, and Forfeiting and Disposing of the Estates of the Loyalists”. It contains the names of the U.E.L. families of the State of New York this law was enacted upon.
File contains Bulletin No. 45 of the Departments of History and Political and Economic Science in Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Dated May 1923. Formation of division, including Hastings County; Early surveys and surveyors. Donated by Mr. & Mrs. Earl VanBlaricom.
File contains a memorandum dated 20-June-1967 from J. Kidd, Public Archives of Canada, addressed to Robert F. Kirk, subject U.E. Loyalist Lists. The memo indicates the location of these lists.
File contains numerous newspaper articles about the restoration of the United Empire Loyalists' Burial Ground at Adolphustown, Ontario. It also contains a program from the Service of Consecration held 16-June-1956.
File contains photocopies from The Report of The Bureau of Archieves, published in 1903. Contains lists of claims printed in The Journal of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada (title varies slightly) issued under the following title: Journals of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for the years ... (numbered as vol. 1 (1792/1804)-v. 5 (1821/1824)); the 7th (1910) and 12th (1915) reports include the Journal and proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Province of Upper Canada issued under the following title: Journals of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada for the years ... (numbered as [vol. 1] ((1793/1819) and vol. 2 (1821/1824).