The collection contains materials relating to property on lot 26, concession 7 of Thurlow Township, Ontario first owned by John Latta:

• History of the house compiled for the Plainfield Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History by Maude Harrison in 1976
• House and farm leases, and quit claims ca. 1898-1912 for Lot 26, Concession 7
• Agreement and sale of land documents ca. 1872-1932
• Deeds and policiies ca. 1874-1932
• Mortgage and accompanying douments ca. 1901
• Mortgages and agreements survey plan for lot 25
• Fire insurance policies ca. 1901
• Discharge of mortgage document ca. 1872
• Legal documents for Thurlow Township lots ca. 1880-1964
• Mortgages and deeds from Thurlow Township ca. 1876-1931
• High Court Justice documents ca. 1872-1886
• Commissioner of Agriculture loans and receipts and statements ca. 1940's
• An original deed from June 22, 1820
• Bound volumes of The Windsor Magazine, June-November 1911 and June-November 1915

The file contains an original Indenture of Sales, dated September 27, 1864 between Julia Willard of Kingston and Johm B. Aris of Belleville for the property known as, 3/10 of an acre, Lot 16, north side of Dundas Street, west side of Rear Street in Belleville, Ontario.

The file contains a number of legal documents dating from 1907 through to 1929 pertaining to land ownership of various parcels of land including: Hastings Paper Mills (Township of Thurlow), Lazier Paper Mills, Belleville Paper Mills, Lazier Dam. Family names included in these documents are: Colon Bruce Burnham, John Bell, Thomas P. Birchall, Samuel J. Bull, Jonas Canniff, James Canniff, William James Craig, William Oliver Luscomb (wife Coralie), Samuel H. Traverton, S.A. Lazier, Robert Elliott Lazier, Alec Robertson, Charles Edward Ford, Albert Ford, Frederick Ford, Walter Ford, Mary Ford, Mary Fenwick, William Moore, Clara Yeomans, Mary Yoemans, Louis C. Yeomans, Alicia Fenton Russell Yeomans , Horace Yeomans.

File contains instructions for the first survey of Belleville and a copy of the 1816 diary of S. Wilmot.

File contains copies of the original field notes of the Township of Wollaston by Quintin Johnston 1857; and Returns of the survey of the Township of Wollaston, Crown Lands, 6-October-1863 by John Allen Snow.

File contains multiple copies of maps and concession surveys; of the Thurlow Township c. 1961.

File contains original and photocopied manuscript histories of the settlement and early development of Bannockburn including the lumbering and sawmilling industries. Includes a printout of a webpage on Maitland House (available on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20010805101431/http://casa-de.vrx.net/buildings/) and an article from the Fall 2019 Country Roads magazine about the conversion of St. Bartholomew Anglican Church in Bannockburn into a private home.