The fonds consists of a Deed from James Cochrane to Amos R. Sweet, for thirty-one acres and buildings theron, from the Township of Brome, dated February 7, 1852, at Brome, a Deed from William Patten to Amos R. Sweet and Gardner Henry Sweet, from the Township of Brome, dated February 7, 1852, at Brome and a Sheriff's Sale to Amos R. Sweet and Gardner H. Sweet, from the Township of Brome, dated January 18, 1856.
Sweet, Amos R.The fonds consists of a Deed from Hezekiah Taylor to Chandler and Willard, dated May 7, 1789, at Newfane.
Taylor, HezekiahThe fonds consists of a donation by John Tutle to Enoch Coffin French, dated February 4, 1823, at St. Hyacinthe.
Tuttle, JohnThe fonds consists of primary and secondary souce information about Colonel Samuel Wells and his descendants. It includes documents relating to the estate of Samuel Wells, and personal documents about Oliver Wells, son of Samuel Wells and Hannah Sheldon; Samuel Wells, son of Oliver Wells and Lucy Whipple; and Whipple Wells, married to Hannah Gale, daughter of Samuel Gale and Rebeccah Wells.
Wells, Col. SamuelThe fonds consists of primary source documents relating to the estate of the late David Wells, of Greenfield, New England. Ephraim Nash, executor of the estate, was married to David's niece, Hannah Wells.
Wells, DavidThe fonds contains notes on the family of Geo. F. Whitfield, who came to Canada from Ireland in 1818, settling at Farnham in 1829.
Whitfield, George F.The fonds consists of an obligation and mortgage to Dr. Wm. A. Gilmour dated May 20, 1876 at Knowlton.
Whitney, CyrenaThe fonds contains primary source information regarding Almas A. Knowlton.
Knowlton, Almas A.The fonds contains primary source information regarding Ezekiel Knowlton. The fonds contains the following series: Correspondence (1790-1820); Business and Legal Papers (1798-1823).
Knowlton, EzekielThe fonds consists of a Power of Attorney re estate of Rosetta Knowlton from Caroline and Mary W. Frost to Lee Knowlton, dated November 20, 1850, at Medina, Ohio, a Power of Attorney regarding the Estate of Rosetta Knowlton from Matilda Frost, Harriet Frost and William Frost, dated August 31, 1852, at Lowell, a Power of Attorney as under date of August 31, 1852, dated May 12, 1853, at Lowell, a Power of Attorney by Caroline Frost to Lee Knowlton regarding the Estate of Rosetta Knowlton, dated June 12, 1853, at Harrisville, a letter from Lee Knowlton to Brush & Cantwell, attorneys, enclosing attorney forms, dated August 31, 1853, at Magog, and a letter from Lee Knowlton to his attorney regarding the Estate, dated November 11, 1853, at Magog.
Knowlton, LeeThe fonds contains primary source information regarding the Township of Bolton.
Bolton TownshipThe fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the township of Brome, incluing militia lists and notices as well as twenty-seven semi-annual school reports.
Brome TownshipThe fonds consists of a copy of a Petition of Josiah Sawyer and Associated for the Township of Eaton, with list of Applicants, dated April 30, 1792 at Quebec and an order for survey and report signed by Samuel Holland, Surveyor General, that it has been completed, dated June 20, 1792 at Quebec.
Eaton TownshipThe fonds consists of a Deed to Ephraim Nash of six lots by Abraham Cuyler as well as a notarial record of the division of the lots between the several Associated dated July 15, 1799, an order regarding the Militia in the Township of Farnham, signed by John Johnson, dated January 28, 1813, a Milita Roll, a copy of a letter from J. Elmsley regarding lots for Heth Baldwin and a field book for the survey of Farnham, from July 1 to August 29, 1796, in the hand-writing of Ephraim Nash and a smaller book from August 23 to September 16, 1796, all notes being in shorthand.
Farnham TownshipThe fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Township of Hatley, including a letter of attorney and a Deed.
Hatley TownshipThe fonds consists of names of persons who have signed obligations to Mr. James Woolrich for their shares of land in the Township of Hemmingford, with ten names, dated October 18, 1797.
Hemmingford TownshipThe fonds consists of an extract from Minutes of Council ordering that William Waller have Lot No. 17 in the third Concession, a memorial of William Waller for an order to take the oath for Lot. No. 17 at October 4, 1797 at Quebec and a report of a committee of the whole Council on the Petition of William Waller dated December 20, 1797 at Quebec.
Hinchinbrook TownshipThe fonds contains primary source information regarding the County of Brome, including electorial lists.
Brome CountyThe file consists of a newspaper article entitled "A Memoir of the Rev. Joseph Badger, who came to Compton in 1802".
Compton CountyThe file consists of a newspaper article entitled "Early settlement days in Drummond County".
Drummond CountyThe fonds consists of a marriage contract between Louis Lanctot and Elizabethe Cardinal, dated February 3, 1806 and a marriage contract between Louis Albert Lefebvre and Marie Joseph Prevot from 1810.
Huntingdon CountyThe fonds contains Thomas Kearns' school journal for 1877, recording the names of the male scholars and their attendance, with an added biography of the teacher, by his son J. Homer Kearns, and a letter from J. Homer Kearns explaining why the document should be preserved.
Thomas KearnsThe fonds consists of primary source information relating to the Knowlton Conference Association, including a scrapbook-style binder containing administrative and communication documents, and a collection of glass positives depicting the Knowlton Conference activities through the years.
Knowlton Conference AssociationThe fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Fenian Raids, including militia rolls and photographs.
Fenian RaidsThe fonds contains four account books of general merchants at Newfane, Vt., for the years 1754 to 1793 inclusive, twenty-five books kept by general merchants at Brome, Knowlton, Stukely, Stanbridge, Bolton and Shipton, for which in most cases the name of the merchant is not recorded but the years are from 1815 to 1890, with 1820-1825 and 1883-1884 missing, and one account book of Dr. Stephen Sewell Foster for the years 1846-1850, who settled at Frost village in 1821, one of the earliest physicians in the Eastern Townships.
The fonds contains primary source information regarding George Adams, including correspondence. The fonds contains the follow series: Legal Documents (1834-1924).
Adams, Georges, 1813-1883The fonds consists of glass negative photographs taken by Sally Wood (1857-1928), Knowlton Photographer. The negatives showcases Brome County and the many picturesque countryside scenes and architecture of the area.
Wood, Sally E., 1857-1928The fonds consists of glass negative photographs relating to the professional life of John Austin Wheeler. They feature portraits of some of the prominent families of Knowlton, Sweetsburg and Cowansville, along with images of buildings and sceneries of the Brome and Missisquoi regions. Two additional donations were added to the fonds in 2021 and 2023, the last one consisting of mostly personal and family portraits and impressive views of Knowlton.
Wheeler, John AustinThe importance of these letters is that they give an insight into the life at Glenmere, Bolton Township in the 1930's when the estate was occupied summertimes, at least, by Kenneth Erskine and family. This property was the home of Colonel George Harold Baker, Member of Parliament for Brome before he went Overseas and was killed in 1916. His life is well documented in the Brome County histories but we do not learn he had three sisters, one of whom was, Harriet, who wrote these fifteen letters.
The letters are written from places in France as she spent most of the 1930's travelling in France or England, but they are filled with details of what she hoped would get done at Glenmere by her tenant and friend, Mr. Erskine. Kenneth Erskine was manager of the Bank of Montreal in Knowlton in 1920's but he probably had retired by 1930's and probably spent winters in south. This home of the Bakers on Baker's Pond was very dear to her because it had been her brother's home. Perhaps, she felt closer to him when in France as he was buried at Poperinghe near Ypres.
Col. Baker's cavalry horse, Morning Glory, is mentioned and some discussions about where it was buried when it died in 1937 at 26 years of age.
She mentions a few times meeting Col. W. Rhoades, a personal friend of her brother, who had served in the War with Col. Baker and was with him when he was killed. The 1939 and 1940 letters from Cannes tell how "the catastrophe has fallen... but there is a great sustaining force in the Unity of the Nation". The story went around here in Brome that she just got out of France in time before the Germans took over there in World War II.
Baker, Harriet and Kenneth ErskineThe fonds consists of primary source information regarding the Blunt family, including Deeds of Sale, notes on family members deaths, insurance policies and recommendations.
The fonds contains secondary source information regarding the Blunt family, including David Blunt, David Blunt, Jr., and John B. Blunt. The fonds consists of Correspondence (BCHS), a Pedigree Chart of the family, a Blunt Family Record and three printed photos of Allen Blunt, Allen and Joyce Blunt and the Herbert Blunt Farm.