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 photocopied manuscript petition of Captain John Walder Meyers to Sir Francis Gore, Lt. Governor of Upper Canada, regarding a grant for two acres on lot no. 4 adjacent to Meyers' Mill dam.
File contains an offprint of an article entitled “Capt. John Walden Meyers, Loyalist Pioneer,” published in the Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records, Vol XXX1 (1936): 11-55
File contains a printed indenture for the sale of land and property at Concession 3, lot 3 in the Township of Thurlow, Hastings County, by Jacob Ockerman and Phoebe Oekerman to Elisha Ockerman, 11 March 1851.
File contains photocopied township maps and directories and manuscript notes compiled and written by Tom Ransom in 1965-1967, concerning the early history and development of Thurlow Township by concession.
File contains a photocopied typescript chapter with manuscript annotations entitled “Thurlow Township” by Gerry Boyce, which recounts the history of Thurlow Township from its first survey in 1787 to ca. 1963. Also present is an undated manuscript letter from Mary Plumpton to Gerry Boyce concerning her pre-publication review of the chapter, and transcribed notes from a day book of William Bell, concerning the early settlement of Thurlow.
File contains a photocopy from the original of land grants including name of grantee, date, acreage,concession and lot in Thurlow Township from 1787-ca.1890.
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 two original indentures dated 24th November 1875 between John Brown of the Township of Thurlow and Caleb Reid, for the burial lot 104 in The Elmwood Burying Ground.
This file contains original documents donated by Messrs. Walter and Keith Watson, Surveyors. Part of the collection of John D. Evans, Architect, including correspondence and surveys, Township of Thurlow.
File contains three small miscellaneous newspaper clippings. One is an ad for the sale of a 100 acres lot. The other; an ad for a "school Master." The third; a notice of a found heifer.
File contains Deeds, Mortgages and Insurance Policy dating from 1855 to 1940 for 16 ½ perches, composed of a part of the west half of Lot Number Six in the First Concession of the Township of Thurlow. This land was given to Robert Alexander McWain by Jonathan Emerson Sleeper and recorded in the Registry Office for Thurlow in Book 0. as number 640, dated 29-October-1836 known as Lot Number Nine on east side of Road to Canniff's Mills on Sleepers Plot.
