File contains several newspaper articles concerning the history of the Trent-Severn Waterway, including pre- and early contact travel by the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois. Also present is an Intelligencer article , 3 January 1962, regarding plans to substantially renovate the lock system on the Trent Canal.

File contains a brief manuscript essay on slaveholding in Upper Canada to 1820, in what later became the Lennox-Addington, and Frontenac Counties. Also present is a typescript transcript of a receipt for the sale of woman and her infant child in 1812 near what is now Colborne, Ontario.

File contains a manuscript deed of land for properties acquired by William Robertson in Belleville from Bleecker Walden Meyers, 26 October, 1842. Also present is correspondence originating from and received by William Robertson concerning the lease and sale of lands in Hastings County, and Northumberland County.

File contains a printed completed oath of allegiance sworn by Mungo Ponton before the Upper Canada Commissioner for the taking of oaths, on 13 August 1841. Also present is a manuscript letter from E.Mahon to Mungo Ponton concerning an application by the latter for land in the Township of Seymour, Northumberland County, 30 August 1831; and a printed, completed deed of land granted on 22 July 1841 to Mungo Ponton for a tract of four hundred acres, at lot number 8, in the 7th concession and lot number 8, 8th concession in the Township of Seymour, Northumberland County.

File contains a manuscript last will and testament of Mungo Ponton, dated 11 October 1833, in the County of Northumberland.

Bargain and sale of part of lot 17 in the second concession of Percy Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, sold by Joseph Sparrow to Thomas Arthur of Seymour East Township, 5 June 1846.

File contains a typescript transcript from Smith's Canada, Volume 2, 1851 concerning natural resources and industries at Trent Port, Murray Township, Presqu'isle and various islands in the Bay of Quinte near Belleville.

File contains a printed booklet entitled “Report on the most eligible route for a canal between Lake Simcoe ..and Georgian Bay...to the Bay of Quinte...” by N.H. Baird, C.E., published at Belleville in 1855. The report discusses proposed routes for a Trent-Severn Canal project.

File contains a manuscript petition by the rate payers of the Township of Asphodel, Northumberland County, ca. 1859 to urge the Grand Trunk Railway to complete the proposed Grand Junction Railway line in Hastings County.

This file contains original copies of: the Last Will and Testament of James Merklejohn (21 November 1863) of Rawdon; Crown Grant to James Micklejohn (30 August 1862) and (5) deeds for various family members dating between 1884 and 1914.

File contains a printed promotional blotter for the International Carriage Co., Brighton.

File contains printed booklets entitled List of Voters, Township of Brighton in the County of Northumberland for the year 1881, [and 1883]. Includes several newspaper articles concerning the history of communities in Northumberland County including Brighton, Hastings, and Baltimore. Also present is an article regarding the demolition of the Peter's Rock light near Cobourg in 1957.

File contains printed maps and drawings of the Murray Canal site. Also present is a printed document entitled “A paper on the proposed Murray Canal Between Lake Ontario and the Bay of Quinte...for use of Members of the Senate and House of Commons,” February, 1880; a printed excerpt from the Annual Report of the Public Works Department, 1891 regarding the Murray Canal; and correspondence from the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, to Thomas S. Ransom, Ontario Land Surveyor, dated 11 April 1967 pertaining to the construction and administration of the canal from 1882 to 1967.

File contains manuscript field notes of an 1884 survey of the Trent River in the Township of Murray in the Newcastle District by Provincial Land Surveyor, F.P. Rubidge.

File contains the Saturday, October 21st, 1893 edition of the Saturday Globe with the front page featuring Campbellford and its water power.