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Claims

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Scope Note: Texts asserting existing rights to payments or to equitable remedies.

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Claims on the estates of Joseph and Hyrum Smith

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2226
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1844-1845

Collection on New Mexican territorial history

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1509
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1526-1924

J. William Knight, claims, 1909-1910

 File — Box 195: [Barcode: 31197231207454], Folder: 11
Identifier: MSS 278

J. William Knight, Vanadium claims, 1917-1925

 File — Box 195: [Barcode: 31197231207454], Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS 278

John and Robert quit claim deed

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230237536]
Identifier: MSS SC 711
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1726

Joshua K. Whitney mining claim

 Digital Record
Identifier: VMSS76_S2_SS3_SSS3_B7_F10_I6

Joshua K. Whitney mining claim, 1878 May 2

 Item — Box 7: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233284006], Folder: 10
Identifier: Vault MSS 76 Series 2 Sub-Series 3 Sub-Series 3 Item 6
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1878 May 2

Victor Malmros Byron lode mining claim

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340165]
Identifier: MSS 95
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1874

Nathan Bickford letter to John Steele, 1889 April 6

 Item — Box 2: Series 3; Series 4; Series 5; Series 6 [Barcode: 31197231564276], Folder: 9
Identifier: Vault MSS 528 Series 5 Item 2

Notice of location of quartz claim, 1885 August 10

 Item — Box 7: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197235217848], Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 6721 Series 2 Item 266
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1885 August 10