The fonds consists of biographical material, correspondence, legal and financial documents, subject files and clippings of a noted Loyalist family. There are numerous family financial records and record books of the Brockville and Prescott Joint Stock Road Company, (ca. 1851-1915), and a general store in Prescott. The papers relate primarily to the affairs of Solomon Jones (1756-1822), physician and member of the Legislative Assembly.
Photocopied transcript of the names and dates in the Langhorn (Church of England) and McDowall (Presbyterian) registers of births, baptisms, marriages and burials in the Kingston and Bay of Quinte area.
Fonds consists of correspondence, business records, bonds, stocks and memoranda. Also includes the marriage certificate of John Macaulay and Sarah Phillis Young, 1853 and the prayer book of Robert Macaulay, father of John Macaulay, with manuscript additions giving information on births, marriages and deaths in the Kingston area.
The portion of Albert Schwenger's collection housed at Queen's University Archives is divided into two manuscript series. The first series consists of documents related to the Milne and MacKay families. The papers originate with Captain William Milne who settled in Ancaster where his daughter Anna Maria married into the MacKay family in the 1820's. His correspondence comments of trade conditions, relations in the native community after the Treaty of Greenville and European wars. Of particular note is a letter of introduction for Captain Milne written in Turkish from 1799. The second series consists of unrelated historical documents primarily from the Niagara area, but includes one British document.
Fonds consists of microfilm copies of correspondence and other papers of Rev. John Stuart, Sir James Stuart, Andrew Stuart, Sheriff John Stuart from the Archives of Ontario as well as a small amount of original material comprised of correspondence, including some to Bishop White of Philadelphia.
The fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, legal documents, militia papers, council minutes, press clippings, and miscellaneous material relating to the activities of William Fairfield, a United Empire Loyalist who came to Canada in 1784, and to his descendants. Includes the 1796 Chippewa-Fairfield Deed, a private conveyance of land title.
Manuscript report. Relates to proposal for introducing the cultivation of hemp in the province of Nova Scotia. The report was addressed to Lord Dorchester, governor of the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and their dependencies.