File contains a newspaper clipping about the discovering of an illegal still on Joseph Cappelle's farm, north of Tweed in Hungerford. The clipping was taken from the Daily Ontario newspaper.
File contains a typsecript letter to W. J. Therriault, Governor of the Hastings County Jail from Mary G. Plumpton, Curator, Hastings County Museum, with a list of hangings by date and name of the convicted from 1835 to 1941.
Six police officers and a motorcycle. Individuals identified as: Inspector J. C. Hayes Constable Jim MacDonald Constable Harry McKee Constable Ken Redding Sergeant Douglas Ellis Constable Jack Bolyx
Police hockey team at the Memorial Arena in Belleville, 23 March 1960. Individuals identified as: Inspector J. C. Hayes Glenn Jacques Bill Armstrong Leo Kent Richard (Dick) Lewis Roy Wood Donald Thoms Donald Yearwood Bob Wright Robert Begbie Lorne Maclinton Bill Stephenson Harry McKee Charlie Peters ? Fullerton Donald Martin
File contains a newspaper clipping regarding a document about a June 1839 court martial trial held in Consecon, Ontario, of thirty-five members of the Prince Edward Militia charged with various offences.
File contains a newspaper article dated February 23, 1899 recounting an unidentified veteran's recollection of the Battle of Shannonville on February 22, 1838 when Hastings Regiment militia members engaged in a brief military engagement with rebels and American sympathizers.
File contains a newspaper article from The Tweed Newsconcerning the disinterment and theft of the body of the late Stephen Conger Johnston and an ensuing controversy involving Kingston medical students in November 1889.
Newspaper article reporting the murder of Clayton Williams and Jack McGie by the alleged shooter David Arthur Moon in a Belleville drug store on April 6, 1925.
This file contains a clipping of the obituary for former county Sheriff, Thomas William Solmes. He was appointed Sheriff in October, 1947. He died at the age of 69.
File contains a document pertaining to the abolishment of slavery. The document is; "an Act to prevent the further introduction of slaves, and to limit the term of contracts for servitude within this province."
Files contains a manuscript statement of damages submitted to the Provincial Government in 1845 by Peter Davidson for damages incurred while imprisoned in December 1837. Also contains a manuscript letter from Billa Flint, J.P. to Peter Davidson and Aaron Hearns dated 5 May 1838 dismissing a case against them.
File contains a photocopied, typescript essay entitled “ The Report of the Commissioners on the removal of the Penitentiary from Kingston to the Marmora Iron Works...” by Nancy M. Dushaw, Carleton University, 1972. The undergraduate essay examines a government proposal to relocate the prison to Marmora and the reasons for the rejection of the plan.