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File contains notes written by Mrs. Percy MacMullen (Florence May Montgomery) about the Hubble Hill Cemetery, first settler Nehemiah Hubble.

This file contains original copy of the Indenture of the conveyance made 20 January 1844 between David Vermilyea of Ameliasburg, Township of Prince Edward County, and Peter W. Merritt of the township of Sidney, for the sale of land and premises in the Township of Huntingdow in the District of Victoria.

File contains notes and excerpts with a brief history of Wollaston Township, titled "History of Coe Hill".

File contains a print copy of Ontario Historical Society Records, Volume XLV Number 3. This issue includes information about Molly Brant, a Loyalist; Kingston's French Heritage; information about Toronto; a Trip to Upper Canada, 1835; Archives and Museum news; and information about the annual meeting.

File contains a brief manuscript account of Patrick Gannon, who settled in McClure Township in 1870, and his descendants to 1961.

File contains micro-copy of a printed booklet entitled "A short history of Marmora : with pebbles and twigs from Marmora Point," by W.R. Freeman.

A booklet of rules and regulations governing the Hastings County House of Refuge and Industrial Farm. 12 pages.

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 a typescript historical survey with questions concerning the geography, settlement and and social and economic development of communities in Hastings County together with manuscript notes completed by D.K. Card in response to the survey of McClure Township. Also present is typescript and manuscript correspondence from and received by Gerry Boyce concerning the history of McClure Township for his book, Historic Hastings. Bessie M. Fleming may have contributed some of these materials.

File contains the history of Ivanhoe, including the post office, religion, and early settlers.

The file contains a deed, dated 31 October 1918, for the property on the south side of Lot 26, west side of William Street, Belleville, ON. Owned by Mrs. Mary Matilda Lazier nee McMullen to Mrs. Jane Thomas.

File contains several manuscript pages listing local businesses in Belleville together with other samples of handwriting by J.S. Eccles. Also contains typescript transcript of “When the Campbells came to Roslin,” first published 1928.

File contains a printed, completed deed of land to Benjamin Stedman, Stirling, for the purchase of lands seized by the Crown on the east half of lot number twenty-two in the sixth concession of the Township of Rawdon, 22 December 1859.

File contains miscellaneous items from the Cooper family, such as mortgage records and deeds of sale from 1868-1901.

File contains two deeds of sale between the Lord Bishop of Toronto and James Conolley of Trenton.

File contains original Land Grant to Daniel Clements dated 15-September-1869 for 31 acres composed of Lot No. 58 on the south west side of the Hastings Road, Township of Tudor, in the County of Hastings.

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 a photocopied manuscript memoir by Gertrude Hay Caverly, relating her experiences as an early settler in northern Marmora Township and describing conditions in the township ca. 1850-1857. Submitted to Gerry Boyce for his book, Historic Hastings.