Papers : 1764-1894.
| Dates | Contents | |
|---|---|---|
| Reel 1 | 1764. | Betsy Ridout, Annapolis, Maryland, copy of a letter to Betsy Smith, Sherbourne, Dorset. |
| 1786-1827. | Thomas Ridout, autobiographical notes and diary, from his early life in England to his life in Upper Canada. | |
| 1787-1799. | Thomas Ridout, correspondence with son Samuel Smith Ridout, Maryland. | |
| 1800-1801. | Thomas Ridout, correspondence with son Samuel Smith Ridout; account and appointment as ensign in the militia. | |
| 1802-1804. | Samuel Smith Ridout, correspondence with John and Francis Donovan, Maryland, and Thomas Brent; receipts; deed to John Beikie, Township of Edwardsburg, County of Grenville. | |
| 1805-1806. | Samuel Ridout (York), correspondence with John Donovan, Maryland, and George Ridout; official licence as deputy provincial surveyor; power of attorney; correspondence between George Ridout, Cornwall, and his brother Thomas Gibbs Ridout; other correspondence, family. | |
| 1807-1808. | Correspondence between Thomas, Jr. and his father Thomas, and his sisters; between Thomas, Sr. and his daughter Nancy; Samuel to Thomas, Jr.; between George and Samuel, John Donavon and Samuel; official correspondence from the Surveyor General's Office to Samuel; commission as lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment, York Militia; a list of the names in the Company; Thomas Ridout, official papers. | |
| 1809 | Agreement between Samuel Ridout and Andrew Mercer; a list of the number of inhabitants in the Home District, Upper Canada; Samuel Ridout, correspondence; Thomas Gibbs Ridout, correspondence with his father Thomas; Samuel Ridout, official correspondence. | |
| 1810-1811. | Correspondence, family. | |
| 1812-1813. | Samuel Smith Ridout, correspondence, military, and personal; other correspondence, family; Return of Savings of Fuel of Several Companies of Militia; muster roll of Capt. Ridout's company, 3rd Regiment York Militia; acquittance roll of Capt. Ridout's company; official correspondence between Thomas Ridout and the Surveyor General's Office; Qu‚bec Almanac, 1813, includes annotations written by Thomas Ridout, Surveyor General. | |
| 1814. | Correspondence, family; muster roll of Capt. Ridout's company, 3rd Regiment York Militia. | |
| 1815-1816. | Correspondence, family. | |
| 1817-1818. | Correspondence, family; Deed of Exchange between John Birkie (York) and Susanna Maria Wilcocks; Samuel Ridout, accounts, correspondence as sheriff, and bond; report to Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, regarding crown lands in Upper Canada. | |
| 1819. | Correspondence, family; Samuel Ridout, documents concerning sheriff's office. | |
| 1820-1824. | Rules for Literacy Society (York); sheriff's office, documents and correspondence; warrant to discharge; correspondence, family; Mary Thompson, free pardon. | |
| Reel 2 | 1825-1829. | Samuel Ridout, official correspondence as sheriff; indenture between Susanna Wilcocks and Grant Powell (York); Samuel Ridout, commission as registrar, County of York; John Ridout, admission to bar. |
| 1830-1833. | General statement re the estate of the late Hon. Thomas Ridout; correspondence, family; Samuel Ridout, official correspondence, petition regarding the cemetery; sentence of consent regarding the cemetery. | |
| 1834. | Minute in Council; Samuel Ridout, official correspondence and accounts; indenture, Grant Powell and Samuel Jarvis to Elizabeth Stuart; correspondence, family. | |
| 1835. | Correspondence, family; land grants to Joseph Chard(Card), Jethro Jackson, James Vanest, and Alexander Shaw. | |
| 1836. | Indentures between Joseph Chard, Camden, and Grant Powell, Jethro Jackson and Grant Powell, Alexander Shaw and Grant Powell, and James Vanest and Grant Powell; newspaper clipping, Mail and Empire, entitled, A Bishop and a Banquet; correspondence, family. | |
| 1837-1838. | Correspondence, family; return of the registrar for the County of York; Samuel Ridout, official correspondence. | |
| 1839. | Correspondence, family; indenture between Samuel Peters Jarvis and Charlotte B. Powell. | |
| 1840-1841. | Correspondence, family; household expenses; Samuel Ridout, commission as registrar for the County of York. | |
| 1842. | Correspondence, family; household expenses; Samuel Ridout, official correspondence; memorial. | |
| 1843-1845. | Indenture between Elizabeth Powell and Elizabeth Grogan; Samuel Ridout, official correspondence; correspondence, family. | |
| 1846. | Legal documents; correspondence, family. | |
| 1847-1849 | Legal documents; correspondence, family; memorial. | |
| 1852. | Correspondence, family; deed of partition, Elizabeth Powell and the children of the late Grant Powell. | |
| 1853. | Correspondence, family; indenture between Catherine Mary Powell and John Ridout; petition; return of offices to the Governor. | |
| 1854. | Indenture of release, John Ridout; indenture; correspondence, family; correspondence, Bank of Upper Canada - Thomas Gibbs Ridout. | |
| 1855. | Correspondence, family; business correspondence; Bank of Upper Canada. | |
| 1856-1863. | Correspondence, family; indenture between John Ridout and his wife Charlotte Bleicker Ridout. | |
| 1865-1869 | Correspondence, family. | |
| Reel 3 | 1870-1879 | Correspondence, family; document from the City Registry Office; newspaper clipping from Mail and Empire, 5 July 1935, entitled, A Grasett Family Centennial; newspaper clipping from the Globe and Mail, 4 April 1940, entitled, Rideau Hall Mirrors Old Bytown's History; newspaper clipping from the Globe and Mail, 19 December 1941, entitled, Early Canadian Life Hard for Governors-General and their Dutiful Wives. |
| 1880-1888 | Correspondence, family; J. Grant Ridout, personal correspondence regarding Ridout family genealogy, including a chart of the Ridout/Gibbs family connection; other family papers and correspondence regarding family history. | |
| 1891-1894. | Powell correspondence, family; obituary notices; newspaper clippings; marriage settlement, 1845; estate records; genealogical information; photographs; notes from the Bible; diaries of Thomas Ridout and Thomas Gibbs Ridout; extracts from wills; genealogical chart; household expenses; memorial of Samuel Ridout; list of governors who administered Upper Canada, 1792- | |
| 1836; | barristers roll; opinion respecting the effect of divorce; bill on rights to real estate; and correspondence, family pertaining to the Toner family. | |
| 1843-1873. | Thomas Gibbs Ridout, household accounts, 1843-1873. Continues on reel 4. | |
| Reel 4 | continuing . . .Thomas Gibbs Ridout, household accounts, July 1870 - 1873; Thomas Gibbs Ridout, correspondence, 1811-1812; correspondence, family; genealogical chart. |