File contains a copy of “The Defenitive Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between His Britannick Majesty, and the United States of America”, signed at Paris on Sept. 3rd 1783; including in the peace agreement is the Canada (Southern) Boundary.

Proclamation made by George III on the formation of the District of Mecklenburg.

File contains correspondence from the Public Archives of Canada (Ottawa) dated 1969 and addressed to Mary G. Plumpton, Curator, Hastings County Historical Society giving information for Robert Read, M.P. Senator. Tanner, distiller and farmer in Belleville. Director Grand Junction Railway; elected Legislative Council for Quinte Division. Elected House of Commons for Hastings East. Called to the Senate 1871.

File contains a copy of the December 6, 1827 edition of The Colonial Advocate with a description by William Lyon Mackenzie of the politically-motivated destruction of the printing press in 1825.

Files contains a copy of a document listing the names of Township Clerks from 1830 to 1850

File contains a typescript brief history of the life of the Honourable Edmund Murney, member of the Provincial Legislature of Upper Canada and Canada West during the period 1836 to 1857. Also contains a newspaper article from The Ontario Intelligencer, 13 August 1964 concerning the Murney-Faulkner [Falkiner] House, West Bridge Street, Belleville. Includes a reprint of a drawing of the home.

File contains a typescript transcript of an entry for Alexander Robertson, Belleville, from A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography. Robertson served as mayor of Belleville in 1870 and in 1878-1879, and as an MPP for West Hastings from 1878, resigning his seat to run for federal office in 1882.

File contains typescript transcript of a letter from Colonel de Rottenburg to Governor George Arthur concerning the destruction of the printing presses and types of the local paper over concerns that they were sympathetic to the Rebellion of 1837-38.

File contains typescript transcripts of colonial newspaper articles and correspondence regarding events associated with the Rebellion of 1837 and its aftermath in the area from Presqu'ile to Brockville, Ontario.

File contains a magazine article entitled “Murder of an M.P.” by Stewart Shaw, concerning the murder of Member of Parliament Thomas D'Arcy McGee by Patrick James Whelan, suspected member of the Fenian Brotherhood.

File contains a notice regarding the 1841 election results. There is also a newspaper article printed in 1965 discussing the history of politics in Canada.

File contains instructions on how to build a polling booth for elections in 1844.

File contains a copy of a despatch from Lord John Russell, Secretary of State for the Colonies.

File contains 15 sanitation petitions from citizens of the City of Belleville, c.1849-51.

File contains 15 petitions for surveys and roads in the City of Belleville, c.1849-51.

File contains a petition by William Martin Jr. requesting the use of the marketplace for a public dinner.

File contains a newspaper article concerning clashes between opposing political and religious factions in Ottawa regarding the ratification of the Rebellion Losses Bill in 1849.

File contains tax petitions, including: petition by Hugh McGinnis, petition by James Cardwell, petition by Sobiski Smith, petition by John Kerr, and a petition by John Hanigan.

File contains toll gate petitions, including: a petition by Joseph Provost and 60 others.