File contains several manuscript and typescript letters originating from and received by W.N. Ponton concerning lands containing lead mines in Lake and Tudor Townships, Hastings County.
File contains a booklet titled "The Reconstruction of the Port Royal Habitation of 1605-13" (now Lower Granville, Annapolis, Nova Scotia), reprinted from the Canadian Historical Review December, 1939. Donated by A.R. Schryner.
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.
File contains several newspaper clippings concerning the election of the Rawdon Township Council, and minutes of its meetings, 1957. Also present is a photocopied excerpt of the Hastings County Directory, 1860-1861, and 1864-1865 with statistics for Rawdon Township including names of property owners listing occupations, and location of properties by lot and concession number.
File contains typescript and manuscript correspondence, deeds, writs of summons and mortgages relating to the estate of Alexander Robertson, Belleville.
File contains manuscript correspondence originating from and received by William Robertson regarding lands at River Trent in Murray Township. Also present is a completed, printed approval of the Board of Endowment Office, Toronto, of an application for purchase of lot 28, concession 3, Township of Murray by William Robertson, 29 August 1851.
File contains an original newspaper article from the Ontario Intelligencer, dated 25 May 1933 about the death of Lester Ross and Catherine Badgley, last of their generation of the descendants of Zenas Ross, U.E. File contains a biography of Zenas Ross (circa. 1750) and his descendants.
File contains a photocopy of a newspaper article from The Daily Intelligencer, dated 1-August-1925, titled "Beginnings of Sidney, Thurlow; Romance, Fact, Strangely Mixed Sidney Led Municipal Ventures".
File contains several manuscript letters, 1965-1967, from Clarence S. Chard, to Gerry Boyce, President of the Hastings County Historical Society, concerning the history of the River Valley and Oak Hills community ca. 1910-1967; a five page genealogy of early settler families in River Valley and Oak Hill; and a manuscript essay on the history of River Valley ca.1881-1959 by Mrs. Roy (Bessie) Bush, Stirling. Also present are several newspaper clippings concerning meetings of the River Valley Women's Institute, 1960-1964.
This file contains a newspaper article clipping by Viva Richmond Graham. this article about the correlation between the first settlers in Ontario, and the naming of new settlements, in the early years of the region surrounding the Hastings County.
File contains a copy of a sketch of town lots in Thurlow by Joseph Canniff in 1849. Also present are several photocopied survey maps by lot of Thurlow Township, ca. 1878.
File contains a handwritten copy of the 1851 Census for Thurlow, including an index of "Strays in the 1851 Thurlow Township Census". Produced by Mary Plumpton for her book "The Rambling River", published 1967
File contains a printed poster issued by Ponton & Morden, Solicitors, Belleville, advertising a sale on 11 July 1892 of a block of land on Ontario street in Trenton, by power of sale due to default.
File contains a manuscript abstract of registered legal instruments concerning lot 38, in the 1st concession of the Township of Sidney, Hastings County, the majority of which are transactions involving members of the Ponton and Hutton families.