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File consists of letters to members of the Clark family including John, James, and Jane Clark about domestic affairs.
File consists of letters sent to and occasionally from members of the Curry family including James and John Curry. Many concern matters under litigation. A letter from Rebecca Laidlaw recounts the accidental death of a family member while building a shanty. A note from John Crumbie of Streetsville includes a bill for the amputation of an arm.
File consists of manuscript fragments, informal notes, and empty envelopes, the latter of which display various postal cancels and seals.
File consists of several volumes of waste books (daily records of amounts owing in credit and debit) compiled by James Scruton of Glasgow. Some amounts seem to be related in part to the shipping of goods (including sugar, tobbaco and barley) between various ports (Jamaica, Virginia, Maryland among others). Books also contain templates for various routine form documents such as a bill of lading, a letter of credit, an affidavit that a ship is cast away, and a petition for a young man to go as a writer in the service of the East India Company. Some books seem to have been later repurposed for copying exercises by Samuel and John Curry whose signatures appear on various pages. The books were presumably inherited by them.
File consists of a photograph of Tracy Curry Margaret Reid and Dorothy Tracy Curry.
File consists of letters sent to and occasionally from members of the Curry family including James and John Curry. Many concern matters under litigation. Includes letter from L. Breithaupt regarding potential sites for a grist mills, saw mills, and tanneries including references to the railroad.
File consists of typescript transcriptions of letters sent from Ireland to Chinguacousy by Hugh or James Gilchrist to Hugh Clark. Topics include emigration, family news, and conditions in Ireland. The whereabouts of the originals of these letters are unknown.
File consists of letters sent to and between members of the Curry family including James and John Curry. Includes a letter from the Township Clerk's Office for Chinguacousy directing the removal of a fence from a road allowance in compliance with a council resolution. Two letters from "Mary" concern the death of her mother and subsequent grief. A letter written from Montreal by a correspondent with an illegible signature gives a detailed description of aspects of that locale.
File consists of legal documents including tax assessment notices and documents related to lawsuits, estates, and complaints.
File consists of accounts of Hugh Clark for good and services received and rendered. Includes account statements for groceries from E. H. Crandell of Brampton and a list of domestic and farming implements to be divided between family members.
File consists of undated letters sent to and between members of the Curry family. Includes a letter from A. Snowdon, Millwright, making observations and recommendations on mill wheels and related mechanisms.
File consists of legal documents of Hugh Clark (1830-1909). File includes a marriage certificate and a criminal subpoena relating to a forgery case.
File consists of legal documents of the Curry family, largely relating to the affairs of James or John Curry. Records include indentures, contracts, agreements, memoranda, receipts and tax assessment notices. File includes what appears to be an accounting of statutory labour hours submitted by local settlers. (Note that legal documentation in the form of correspondence proper is contained in the corresondence files of this series.)
Files consists of legal documents, many relating to the estates of other individuals and families, especially the Craig family.
File consists of memorial card and funeral notice for Sarah Clark, wife of Hugh Clark.
File consists of documents related to the estate of Hugh Clark, including his will.
File consists of the Last Will and Testament of James Curry.
File consists of documents relating to the affairs of Hebert H. Clark. File includes correspondence and a receipt concerning a home to be built for Herbert Clark by John Graydon, builder, of Streetsville; a return of Statue Labour for Chinguacousy; and handwritten constitution and bylaws for the Mutual Beel Association.
File consists of petitions directed to the Council of the Home District of Upper Canada and to the Council of the Gore District of Upper Canada by James Curry and other petitioners. Petitions (some of which appear to be drafts) request that Councils reestablish a bridge across the Credit River between the Townships of Esquesing and Chinguacousy. Some petitions are signed by petitioners.
Fonds consists of records created or collected by two families related by marriage, the Clarks and Curries of Chinguacousy Township. Fonds includes correspondence, legal and land records, accounting ledgers, petitions to township councils, ephemera, copying and penmanship exercises, and photographs. Records largely relate to domestic affairs (including farming and exchanging of goods) and legal matters (especially land transactions and the settling of estates).
Records from both the Curry and Clark branches of the family were inherited by an ancestor, Ida Curry Clark. An appreciable part of the records on both sides date from before the intermarriage of the two families (when John Clark married Jane Curry). Because the records can readily be associated with one or another of the two branches, the fonds has been arranged into two series as follows:
Series 1: Curry family records
Series 2: Clark family records