Handwritten claims and bills submitted against the estates of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. The items request payments on charges made by the two men between 1841 and 1844. Joseph and Hyrum were brothers and leaders of the Mormon Church. They were murdered in 1844.

Photocopies of handwritten and printed receipts, wills, correspondence, royal decrees, proclamations, pronouncements, grants, certificates, reports, licenses, orders, inventories, petitions, claims, and requests. The items were created mainly by New Mexican government officials and persons connected with local and territorial governments of that area.

Handwritten document concerning the sale of their rights to their father's estate by Gray and his brother, Robert, to their brother, Benjamin.

Mining claim of Whitney, for a mine known as the Silver Bell Lode, Warm Springs District, Tooele County, Utah, dated May 2, 1878.

The folder contains a handwritten mining claim for the Byron lode located in Ophir, Utah in 1874. The claim also includes a handwritten map of the area where the metal was located.

Notice of location of quartz claim. Description of claim located in the Bonanza Basin, Granite Mining district of the State against Lewis Miller. Dated August 10, 1885.