Item is a letter sent to Daniel Brand of Port Hope from the Commissioner of Crown Lands Office in York regarding the cost to purchase Lot 15 in Concession 1 of the Township of Hope.
Item is a declaration of boundary lines of Lot 27 Concession 6 in Hope Township.
An official copy of the 1846 Plan of Port Hope Harbour and an overlaid Plan for a New Harbour by surveyor Peter Fleming.
The plan shows Peter Fleming's proposed Harbour plan in red, the Office of the Board of Work's plan in Green, and the present Harbour lands and piers in yellow.
Fleming, PeterItem is the Affidavit of Johiah Beers regarding the location of an original surveying post in the south-west corner of Lot 18 Concession 2.
Names Mentioned:
Johiah Beers
Asa Burnham, Deputy Surveyor
John H. Roche, Provincial Land Surveyor
Item is a Certificate of Discharge of Mortgage from Thomas Spry to John David Smith regarding an unnamed property.
Item is the Affidavit of James Martyn regarding the boundary between Lot 13 and Lot 14 of the 5th Concession.
Item is a Declaration of the formation of The Durham Mining Company.
Item is a Certificate of Discharge of Mortgage from Thomas Little to James Harvey Hagerman regarding an unknown property,1850.
Item is a Deed of Bargain & Sale between John Tucker Williams Esq. and William McCullough of the Town of Port Hope.
Item is a Discharge of Mortgage between W. Swanston and Robert Benjamin March, No. 174, for an unidentified property.
Item is a declaration of the shareholders of a new company named 'The Lake Ontario Road Company' in Port Britain.
Names mentioned:
Felix Powers
Daniel Brand
Joseph Haskill
Joseph Harris
Robert B. Marsh
Ralph Wade
Jonathan Brand
Thomas Wallace
Francis Little
Charles Meadows
John Barrowclough
C. F. Ruttan
William Glen
William Mounter (?)
William S. Gifford
Thomas Spry
? Dare (?)
Joseph Symons
Luke B. Jacob
George Lyall
Reuben P. Grant
William Potts
James S. Milligan
John Wade
Thomas Campbell
Robert Bedford
Robert Dean
Nathan Choat
(4 other signatures illegible)
Item is a Discharge of Mortgage between George Jehoshaphat Mountain and Thomas Turner. Instrument number 1833.
Item is the 'Constitution and Bye-Laws of the Perrytown Mechanics Institute', written in 1855. Includes the names and signatures of those signing the constitution, a list of books purchased and their cost, and the bylaws.
Names Mentioned:
William Boland
James Dunbar
Joseph Wilson
John Murray
Samuel Corbett
Aaron Choate
James Wilson
Edmund Wilson
John Caldwell
John Dunbar
William Louis
James Gray
Richard Stephens
Item is a declaration by John Ogilvy regarding the will of John Tucker Williams and an agreement with Thomas Underwood regarding Lot 14 Concession 8 in the Township of Clarke.
Item is a Certificate of Discharge for Luke Bedford for an unknown property.
Item is an Indenture of Bargain and Sale from Dennis Riordan Sr. to John Donovan for Lot 9 on the North side of Ellen Street in subdivision Lot 36 in the Town of Port Hope. Number 1225.
Item is a 'Port Hope Harbour Plan of Extension' created in 1856 by Thomas C. Clarke, Engineer. Plan shows the Lake and harbour area up to Augusta Street and the Market Square. Includes later notations and drawings overlaid on the plan which show the Midland Roundhouse and railway line, water depths in the harbour area, and modifications to the harbour drawing- one modification is labelled as May 18, 1857. The back of the plan includes notes about the cost of the harbour between 1852-1867.
Item is a Deed of Confirmation and Release between George William Hoyle and William Carson, John Carson, and Robert Carson regarding Lot 31, Concession 6. Instrument #1576.
Item is a Discharge of Mortgage from John McMurty to Henry H. Meredith regarding an unknown property. Instrument number 2154.
Item is a Discharge of Mortgage from William Workman to Nesbitt Kirchhoffer for an unidentified property. Number 1813.