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W. Gillies Ross fonds
CA ETRC P233 · Fonds · 1767 [Photocopied]-2006

The fonds contains of research done by W. Gillies Ross on the following subjects: the mines at Eustis, Capelton and Albert Mines, asbestos mining at Asbestos, the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, the Stanstead granite industry, and covered bridges in the Eastern Townships and surrounding areas. It consists largely of research notes, research documents, photographs, and oral histories. The fonds is organized i the following series: Interviews (1944-1996), Harvard’s Baker Library Trip and Research (1887-1996), Jo Cooper (1977-1987), Newspaper Index (1971-1975), National Archive of Canada Research (1903-1921), Publications (1890-1938), Granite Project (1898-1900, 1976), Copper / Pyrite Mining Studies (1867 [Photocopied] -1996), Asbestos Mining and Landscape Research (1897 [Photocopied]-1965), Spanish Flu Research (1918 [Photocopied] -2006), Photographs (1888-1972), Maps and Plans (1767 [Photocopied] - 1979), Asbestos Mining (1950-2004), Mining Study – Correspondence (1883 [Photocopied]-2005), Book Translation (1995), Cookshire (1979), Research on covered bridges ([ca. 1990?]).

Ross, W. Gillies (1931-2019)
Donald MacCallum Fonds
MHS MHS007 · Fonds · 1776-1989

The fonds consists primarily of secondary source information regarding Donald MacCallum, including family genealogy, land petitions, correspondence as well as a few maps.

MacCallum, Donald
Daniel Stone fonds
CA BCHS BCHS121 · Fonds · 1777-1845

The fonds contains primary source information regarding Daniel Stone, including deeds.

Stone, Daniel
John Ruiter Fonds
MHS MHS042 · Fonds · 1778, 1813-1828, [1926-1970]

The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Ruiter and Newell families.

Ruiter, John
Jones Family Fonds
MHS MHS017 · Fonds · 1778-1974

The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Jones family. The fonds contains the following series: Johannis Blass Papers (1778-1823); B. Morgan Correspondence (1924-1925).

Jones Family
Krans Family Fonds
MHS MHS091 · Fonds · 1779-1806, 1836-1840, [19--]

The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Krans family, including family genealogy copied from the Krans family bible.

Krans Family
Abram Goddard fonds
CA BCHS BCHS052 · Fonds · 1780-1825

The fonds consists of an Inventory of the property of the late Abram Goddard, prepared by Samuel Willard in June 1825, and a memo of the date of birth, marriage and death of Mary Caroline Goddard (1858-1911).

Goddard, Abram
CA BCHS BCHS102 · Fonds · 1783-1886

The fonds contains primary source information regarding James Pettes and his son James Nelson Pettes, including Deeds, Last Will and Testament and agreements.

Pettes, James Nelson
CA ETRC P173 · Fonds · [1783 - photocopied ca. 1999]-2005

The fonds contains primary source information on the family life; social, religious and economic activities; and education of various members of the Baldwin family, May family and other relatives and friends during the 18th to 21st centuries. It also contains historical information on the Stanstead County and Barnston Township areas, as well as genealogy. The majority of the records were produced in the Eastern Townships, many come from the New England states as well as across Canada and worldwide. It consists primarily of personal and business correspondence, postcards and photographs, maps, historical notes and family history. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Baldwin family ([1783 - photocopied ca. 1999]-2005), May family (1863-[1988, photocopied 2022]), Other Correspondence ([18--]-1970), Genealogy (1832-1999), Photographs ([185-?]-1995), Subject Files and Historical Research (1842-2002), Ferrin Family (1811-1974), Mead Family (1832-1853, 1917, [1934-1948?]), and Stevens Family (1910-1961).

Elvyn M. Baldwin (family)
Samuel Willard fonds
CA BCHS BCHS001 · Fonds · 1783-1899

The fonds consists of primary source information regarding Samuel Willard. The fonds contains the following series: Correspondence (1783-1870); Land Papers ([ca. 1786-1826]); Legal Papers (1789-1899); Notes and Memos ([ca. 1784-1898]); Journals, Diaries and Memo Books (1755-04-13 to 1861); Business Papers (1784-1843); and Commercial Exchanges (1784-1793).

Willard, Samuel
Groat Family Fonds
MHS MHS078 · Fonds · 1784, [191-], 1971

The fonds conntains primarily secondary source information regarding the Groat/Grout family, including family statistics and genealogy.

Groat Family
Hogel Family Fonds
MHS MHS085 · Fonds · 1789, 1836-1845, 1870, 1880, [ca. 1960-1968]

The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Hogel/Hogle family, including family statistics.

Hogel Family
Hyatt family fonds
CA ETRC P004 · Fonds · 1789-1991; predominant 1789-1832

The fonds contains source material on the settlement of the Hyatt family, and more specifically Gilbert Hyatt, in the Township of Ascot between 1789 and 1832. It is also of value as a source of information on the genealogy of the Canfield and the Hyatt families. The fonds consists mainly of original 19th-century documents, but also includes reference materials gathered by donor Glenn C. Taylor in the 1980s and the 1990s. It is comprised of the following series: Notarial and Judicial Documents (1796-1832), Parliamentary Documents (1789-1800), Correspondence ([182-]-1830), Transcriptions (1991), Biographical and Genealogical Documents ([198-]-1991), Press Clippings ([190-]-1953), Photographs ([187-?]-[1991?]), and Miscellaneous Documents (1797-1828).

Hyatt (family)
Hezekiah Taylor fonds
CA BCHS BCHS127 · Fonds · 1789/05/07

The fonds consists of a Deed from Hezekiah Taylor to Chandler and Willard, dated May 7, 1789, at Newfane.

Taylor, Hezekiah
Newport Township collection
CA ETRC P256 · Collection · 1790-1937

The collection contains primary source information on the administration of Newport Township, financial transactions in the Township, the lives of its citizens, legal affairs, military operations, and land division, from 1790 to 1937. It consists primarily of meeting minutes, correspondence, account statements, and land deeds, among many other types of records. The collection is comprised of the following series: Administrative (1791-1880), Financial Records (1790-1900), Correspondence (1799-1893), Legal Documents (1792-1834), Military (1792-1830), Land and Property (1799-1937), and Miscellaneous Documents (1815-1937).

Eaton Township fonds
CA BCHS BCHS156 · Fonds · 1792/04/30, 1792/06/20

The 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 Township
CA BCHS BCHS225 · Fonds · [1795-1932]

The fonds consists of primary source information regarding the McLoughlin and Willard families from the late 18th century to the mid 20th century. It is divided in four series:
1) Joseph Amos McLoughlin: The first series focuses on Joseph's personal, professional and legal endeavours throughout his life. There is an emphasis on his time as an Inspector of School for the District of Bedford (1870-1888).
2) Charlotte Elizabeth Willard: This second series focuses on Charlotte's personal and legal responsibilities as an estate executor. There is an emphasis on her extensive correspondence throughout her life with family and friends.
3) McLoughlin Willard families: The third series highlights the implications of both families mainly in correspondence in the early to mid 19th century and some photographs. There is also a significant amount of letters from the children of Joseph and Charlotte McLoughlin.
4) Family photographs, including John A. McLoughlin and Charlotte Willard portraits.

McLoughlin-Willard Family
Henry Cuyler fonds
CA BCHS BCHS028 · Fonds · 1795/06/22

The fonds consists of a lease of farm to Simeon Snow dated June 22, 1795 at Charlotte Co., N.Y.

Cuyler, Henry
John Gould fonds
CA BCHS BCHS055 · Fonds · 1796-03-03 [copy]

The fonds consists of a copy of a letter from Samuel Willard regarding land affairs dated March 3, 1796.

Gould, John
Hally Carrington Brent fonds
CA ETRC P181 · Fonds · 1797, [187-]-[199-]

The fonds contains source material on the life of Hally Carrington Brent and on tourism and summer residents of North Hatley and Lake Massawippi from 1902 to the 1960s. It consists of photographs and a hand-written partial manuscript of Brent's book "The North Hatley Story". The correspondence, written by Hally C. Brent and Duncan K. Brent relates events from North Hatley and includes interesting notes on the outbreak of World War I (WWI). The fonds is comprised of the following series: The North Hatley Story manuscript ([196-?]), The North Hatley Story photographs ([199-?], Newspaper clippings (1961-1979), Photographs ([187-]-1941), and Correspondence (1914-1927), Charest-de Lauzon-Bringier family history (1797, 1948).

Brent, Hally Carrington, 1879-1968
Hatley Township fonds
CA BCHS BCHS158 · Fonds · 1797-1816

The fonds contains primary and secondary source information regarding the Township of Hatley, including a letter of attorney and a Deed.

Hatley Township
Hinchinbrook Township fonds
CA BCHS BCHS160 · Fonds · 1975, 1797/10/04, 1797/12/20

The 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 Township
Hemmingford Township fonds
CA BCHS BCHS159 · Fonds · 1797/10/18

The 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 Township
Col. Jonathan Smith fonds
CA BCHS BCHS117 · Fonds · 1798/05/07

The fonds consists of a copy of a letter from Samuel Willard regarding the separation of Jonathan Smith, Jr., and his wife, sister of Samuel Willard, dated May 7, 1798 at Sheldon.

Smith, Col. Jonathan
Jesse Pennoyer fonds
CA BCHS BCHS101 · Fonds · 1798-05-23; 1808; 1840-07-06; 1981

The fonds consists of a photostat copy of a letter to Nathaniel Coffin, concerning settlement in the Townships, dated May 23, 1798, a letter to Mr. Vaughan regarding cleaning the outlet of Brompton Lake dated July 6, 1840 and three newspaper articles on the activities of Jesse Pennoyer and his account of military events in 1813.
Also, a printed notice, dated December 15, 1808 - Executive Council Office Quebec by His Excellency, the Governor to all Applicants petitioning for grants of Waste Lands of the Crown should go before the commissioners appointed for the purpose and take the Oaths requested by His Majesty's instruction and receive the Certificate of having so clone - twenty-five commissioners are named for Lower Canada and among those listed we find:Henry Ruiter of Potton; Philip Ruiter of Missisquoi Bay; Philip Luke of Missisquoi Bay; Calvin May of Missisquoi Bay; Jesse Pennoyer of Compton; Patrick Conroy of Compton; Leon Lalanne of Shefford; and Gilbert Hyatt of Ascot.
Also, a printed notice - A Proclamation by His Excellency Sir J.H. Craig, Gov. of L.C., strictly forbidding all persons from cutting down the White Pines, or other Timber reserved for His Majesty's use within the Townships.
Finally, a letter from Paul Darisse, regarding the service de l'arpentage, written in reply to one from Marion Phelps, B.C.H.S., Knowlton asking for information on Jesse Pennoyer -in which he encloses a copy of a list from a notebook relative to surveys for the Crown Lands listing Townships or Lands surveyed by Jesse Pennoyer, dated April 2, 1981 at Quebec.

Pennoyer, Jesse
Farnham Township fonds
CA BCHS BCHS157 · Fonds · 1799-1822

The 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 Township
CA ETRC P997 · Collection · [18--]-2005

The collection contains source material on various topics related to the Eastern Townships in the ninetieth and twentieth centuries such as settlement, colonization, politic, military, economy, transport, communication, health and welfare, education, religion and culture. It consists mainly of schedules, obituaries, by-laws, insurance policies, certificates, photographs, maps, drawings, posters, cards, petitions, genealogies, diaries, scrapbooks, newspapers, letters, songsheets, land grants, reports, ledgers, minutes of meetings, notebooks and programmes. The collection is comprised of the following series: Settlement and Colonization ([18--]-Photocopied 1994), Politics (1965-1974), Military (1802-1988), Economy (1830-1987), Transport and Communications (1826-1990), Health and Welfare (1931-1949), Education (1854-1998), Religion ([18-?]-Photocopied 1993), Culture ([18-?]-1990).

Gilbert Hyatt fonds
CA BCHS BCHS070 · Fonds · 1800/09/20, 1800/12/17

The fonds consists of an account and receipt to Samuel Willard of £3-12-0 dated September 20, 1800 at Ascott and an order from Ebenezer Dorman to Gilbert Hyatt dated December 17, 1800 at Ascott.

Hyatt, Gilbert
Isaac Ogden fonds
CA BCHS BCHS094 · Fonds · [copy] 1800-10-15

The fonds consists of a copy of a letter from Samuel Willard re patents for the Townships of Stanstead and Stukely dated October 15, 1800 at Stukely.

Ogden, Isaac
Elisha Baker fonds
CA BCHS BCHS011 · Fonds · 1801/02/23

The fonds consists of an account of goods and receipt for £375-9-2, between Deacon Elisha Baker and Nathaniel Smith, dated February 23, 1801.

Baker, Elisha