This collection consists of deeds, mortgages, leases, and an account sheet, 1864, for the Townships of Dummer, Burleigh and Anstruther.
File includes deposit notes, receipts, and letters pertaining to court fees and the interpretation of a bylaw relating to the Public Schools Act (1894). Correspondents include A.B. Aglesworth and James Douglas.
Fonds consists of 28 volumes of land registry books: abstract indexes to deeds and instruments of deed, mortgage and acquital. Some account books relating to land in Durham County (East Riding). The Registry Office was located in Port Hope. One of the land books relates to Manvers Township.
This fonds consists of letters from a servant girl, Isabella Brownlie in Otonabee to her brother Claud in Scotland. After 1845, the letters are from Isabella and her husband James Miller. The fonds also contains two photographs, one of Isabella's brother, Claud Brownlie, with his wife, Elizabeth [Kendrick], and the second of Claud Brownlie alone, as well as a diploma for Thomas Menzies Miller, 1891.
Miller, IsabellaIncludes the following records:
a. land deeds book 1815
b. land deeds book 1831
c. land sales book 1835, 1836
d. land sales book 1841
File includes letters to the Fowlds family from correspondents including Richard Birdsall, D. Darling, Fred Fowlds, and Richard Birdsall Rogers. Topics include Henry re land & settlement matters, mention of Mr. Birdsall, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Armour, John Gilchrist; James re dangers of moving logs through rapids, also re Queen's Bench 'commission' certificate; Henry to Richard Birdsall re property flooding lawsuit; Fred Fowlds - letter from House of Commons relating to R.B. Rogers 1889; receipts; envelopes only with WWI post re Helen Fowlds, nursing sister
This collection consists of a reprint of E. (Elias) Burnham's address to electors in 1844; a Township of Otonabee Treasurer's report from 1877; and an address in support Liberal Candidate, Fraser, of Brighton, Ontario in 1926.