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Donald Plaxton collection

  • ON00311 PF119
  • Collection
  • 1616

Collection consists of a deed dated 1616, signed by Edmund Bury and written in Latin.

Plaxton, Donald Gordon Wilson

Legal documents collection

  • ON00311 PF118
  • Collection
  • 1698-1973

This is an artificially created collection comprised of miscellaneous legal documents from unknown sources accumulated by the Archives. Included in the collection are mortgages, affidavits, contracts, deeds, wills, correspondence, and stock certificates drawn from the files of various wound-up law firms.

Legal documents collection

William Blainey collection

  • ON00311 PF167
  • Collection
  • 1741-1783

Collection consists of records accumulated by William Blainey, of the law firm of Metcalfe, Blainey and Burns. The collection includes English legal documents pertaining to property transfers involving the Joseph Flood family, of Christow, County of Devon.

William McKay Wright collection

  • ON00311 PF129
  • Collection
  • 1742

Collection consists of a 1742 assignment of a 1704 English annuity, acquired and kept by William McKay Wright, an Ontario Lawyer.

Wright, William McKay, 1890-1975

British and Canadian jurists scrapbook collection

  • ON00311 PF135
  • Collection
  • [18--?]

Collection consists of three scrapbooks pertaining to prominent British and Canadian jurists from the 1500s to the 1800s, created and/or accumulated by an unknown source. The scrapbooks contain prints and other illustrations, biographies relating to these jurists, as well as a number of Quebec court documents. While the biographies and illustrations are organized by nationality, the arrangement of records takes a roughly chronological order.

Peter Lash collection

  • ON00311 PF115
  • Collection
  • 1805, 1807-1808

The collection consists of records accumulated by lawyer Peter Lash. The origins and purpose of the collection is not known, but the records in the collection are a variety of business and property agreements from Ireland, originating from the city of Dublin and County Tipperary. The name William Curry, of Dublin, appears prominently in two of the three documents in the collection. Documents include deeds of co-partnership and rental indentures.

Lash, Peter John Baldwin, 1910-1959

Admission and call certificate collection

  • ON00311 PF157
  • Collection
  • 1834-1911

Collection consists of miscellaneous admission and call certificates issued by the Law Society of Upper Canada in the 19th century and early 20th century.

Alice Ross Brown collection

  • ON00311 PF124
  • Collection
  • 1836

Collection consists of a subpoena issued to Hector Ross in 1836.

Brown, Alice Ross, fl. 1963

D'Arcy Argue Counsell Martin collection

  • ON00311 PF165
  • Collection
  • 1836

Collection consists of a marriage settlement accumulated by D'Arcy Argue Counsell Martin, a Hamilton, Ontario, lawyer. His ancestor, Reverend Richard Martin, was named a trustee in the settlement.

Martin, D'Arcy Argue Counsell, 1898-1992

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