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Series consists of other resources used by Dawn Logan while researching Thomas Need. Files include correspondence, research notes, newspaper articles, genealogical resources, and biographical information on contemporaries of Thomas Need and his family members, including a family tree. Files on Need cover both his time in Canada and England. Files also include references to other settler families living in Bobcaygeon, Ontario (Verulam Township), and the surrounding area, including Cobourg, Colbourne, and the Bobcaygeon locks. Other families or contemporaries mentioned include the Boyds, Langtons, Nicol Hugh Baird and Thomas Stewart. Series also consists of biographical information for Thomas Need, Reverand William Welfitt, and the Robertson and Junkin families, including wills, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Series also consists of excerpts of manuscripts and books used to research Thomas Need. The manuscripts are on the topics of Bobcaygeon, Ontario and on the Bick family.

Series consists of documents pertaining to the publication of Thomas Need: a settler in the backwoods of Upper Canada, including publisher letters, correspondence, publication invoices, and photographs used in the book. Series also consists of research materials on Thomas Need. These materials were used to write articles about him in different publications including the Kawartha Sun newspaper and the Dictionary of Canadian biography. These files include photocopied book excerpts from different publications, the will of Elizabeth Welfitt, and photocopied historical correspondence.

Series consists of various correspondence, mostly organized chronologically, covering many topics and geographic regions, but primarily North America. See file level descriptions for more details.

Series consists of correspondence organized by surname of recipient or primary name. Most correspondence is Canadian, but there are also correspondents in London, Edinburgh, Sydney, Barbados, New York, Virginia, and Liverpool. See file level descriptions for more details.

Series consists of various research materials on the history of Peterborough County, including newspaper clippings, brochures, photographs, and postcards. See file level descriptions for more details.

Series consists of 3 volumes. The first two are Register Books of Land Transaction Instruments for Township of Hope. Books contain a name index at the front. Book "A" contains instrument numbers 1-576 (1847-1852). It is continued by "Book 2" which contains instrument numbers 577-1507 (1852-1858).

The third volume in this series is the "Abstract Index" for the above. Properties in Township of Hope arranged by Lot and Concession with complete record of property transactions. Abstract book is labelled "Abstract Index" Township of Hope, No. 1, Durham. It covers the East Riding of Durham County and was recopied in 1927. The dates covered are 1797-1968. The transactions accord with instruments found in the Register Books A and 2 for the Township of Hope (as described above).

Series includes 14 volumes of land register instruments for townships in Durham County. These are labelled "B" to "P" but there is no "A" nor "J." These books are arranged in order of instrument number (name access to them is via 2 separate Index Books listed at the end of the series). Some of the volumes of instruments also have indexes at the front of them. Note that books B and C also include copies made in 1867, although the numbers differ slightly. The original books B and C are nearly illegible. Note there is also overlap in numbering between books G and H.

Series also includes two volumes of name indexes to the preceding 14 volumes of instruments. The alphabetical listings are eccentric and begin at both front and back of the books and are by both grantor and grantee. Index #1 is to the instrument volumes B to M. Index #2 is to instrument volumes M to P. References to Books B and C are to pages in the original volumes, not the recopied volumes.

The first volume of the series is a volume labelled "Day-Book C," which contains very early land records. The instruments number from 1-155 (1798-1807) but are scattered. This is the only known book that records the very early land transactions. It appears to have been recopied at some point.

The assessment and census returns contained in this microfilm are taken from the Journals of the Assembly of Upper Canada and its successor, the Assembly of United Canada from 1824 to 1850.

The loose documents, primarily marriage lists except for one baptism list, date from 1831 to 1851. These are indexed with information taken from the Walker-Molotkow Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West vol.7, parts 1 and 2, Newcastle District available only in our reading room. These published indexes were prepared from the registers of marriages in the Ontario Archives. The documents we have at Trent are the original returns prepared by the clergy.

Series consists of various song books and scores. See file listing for more details.

Series consists of transcripts and photocopies of Need’s Woodhouse Journal, which was used to write Six years in the bush. Files also include correspondence, some between John Langton and Thomas Need. See file listing for more details.

18 folders of textual records

Series consists a Register of Land Instruments for the Township of Manvers. Instruments 1-558, 1846-1855. There is an alphabetical name index in the front.

Series consists of a Register of Land Instruments for the Town of Port Hope. Instruments 1-453, 1847-1852. Includes Plan of Port Hope, 1847 by Provincial Land Surveyor John Roche. There is an alphabetical name index in the front.

The microfilms are copies of the 1851 and 1861 decennial nominal census for Peterborough County and parts of Prescott and Prince Edward Counties. Also included (reel 4) is the 1851 census for the Townships of Minden, Stanhope, and Dysart.

These census consists of microfilm copies of the Library and Archives Canada decennial and nominal census for Northumberland and Durham Counties from 1851, 1861 and 1871.