Contents: One document on vellum: a grant of land in Hastings County, Upper Canada to Frederick Keller, heir of the original grantee, his brother David Keller, deceased, dated Feb. 10, 1835.

Item is one letter written by John Lawrence to Valentine Harden Tisdale who was born in 1815 in the Long Point area of Norfolk County, Ontario.

Subject of the letter consists of an account of the William Lyon MacKenzie uprising which led to the outbreak of the Upper Canada Rebellion.

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Item is an advertisement for Bletcher Stage Service from Port Hope to Bewdley and to Peterborough via steamboat, 1837.

Barnabas Bletcher was born in Yorkshire, England. He was the husband of Mary Smithson and the father of Stephen, William, Barnabas, Henry and Thomas. He lived at Lot 2, Concession 3, Hope Township (Dale). He owned warehouses in Bewdley and Port Hope and hotels at Bewdley and Dale.

Item is a "Wool Carding and Cloth Dressing" poster, 1837. C. Perry provided wool carding at George Ham Esquire's mills in Cobourg.

One holograph letter from Amelia Opie to an unidentified correspondent refusing an invitation. 1838 May 5.

Item is an advertising poster for the Temperance Inn, 1839.

Robert Crawford (1800-1871) was the operator of a successful saddlery business in Port Hope, located approximately about 87 Walton Street (2009 address) in the early 1850s. The Temperance Inn, located two doors west of the Exchange Coffee House in 1851 on the site of the St. Lawrence Apartments (87-95 Walton Street in 2009).

Item is an advertisement for fall and winter goods sold by R. N. Waddell, Port Hope, 1839. Printer's Proof.

Item is the family bible which was published in 1841 belonging to the Boultenhouse family. On the first page is written “John E. Boultenhouse” … “From his Mother, who died Jan 5 1868”. In the middle of the volume are four pages labeled “Family Record” with subheadings, “marriages”, “births”, and “deaths”.

Transcription available at Boultenhouse Heritage Centre

Item is a "Cash for Oats" advertisement for R.W. Robson, 1843.

Item is an advertising poster for William Muldrew, 1843. William Muldrew was a tailor in Clarke township, working out of the house owned by Mr. Draper in Clarke Village.