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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 6 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
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Claims on the estates of Joseph and Hyrum Smith

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
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Collection on New Mexican territorial history

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
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John and Robert quit claim deed

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
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Victor Malmros Byron lode mining claim

Ophir Mining District records

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227637078]
Identifier: MSS 4083
Abstract

Twenty-three items concerning claims in the Ophir Mining District, 1870-1879.

Dates: Other: 1870-1879
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Ophir Mining District records

Maroni R. Williams mining claim

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230333913]
Identifier: MSS 1160
Scope and Contents

Handwritten mining claim dated June 10, 1870. Williams claims a mine located in Bingham Canyon of the West Mountain Mining District of Salt Lake County, Utah.

Dates: 1870
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Maroni R. Williams mining claim

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