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.
Correspondence and 'Acts of Parliament' relating to the operation of the Belleville Legal and Literary Society. The President of the society was J. Earl Halliwell.
File contains three original documents: a letter dated 8 November 1855 to Isiah Human; a motion from Meeting of Municipal Council of the County of Hastings circa. 1850; a letter to the Municipal Council of Hastings - all detailing an accident involving Thomas Smith and request for financial restitution to both Mr. Smith and Mr. Henry Fanning.