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The file comprises lists of voters in Caerwys and burgesses resident in the borough of Overton, watermark 1803, and list of candidates and state of the poll in the Flint borough election, 1806.

The file comprises three notebooks and several loose accounts of foodstuffs, fuel, household items, wool, inventories of the stable, 1799, butler's pantry, 1803 and silver plate, 1814-1819.

The file comprises funeral, probate and inheritance accounts, 1727-1863, including accounts of the estate of George Coytmore and Bridgett Coytmore, 1727-[c. 1738], the goods of Lewis Atkinson, the Cwyber mortgage assignee, 1739, personal estate of John Griffith (3), solicitor's bill for proving his will and related expenses, 1791, estate of Thomas Griffith in India and East Indies, 1805, 1813-1825, and funeral expenses of Robert Griffith, 1818.

The file consists of leases by John, Lord Bishop of Bangor, to Humphrey Roberts of Bryn y Neuadd, 1770, and by Mary Wynne to Robert Lloyd of Castell Yor, 1784, of Gadlas, previously called Tir y Bwrdd, Tythyn y Ty Hen, otherwise Tyddyn John Hugh, Tyddyn y Groes, Tythyn Angharad and Tythyn Gronw, in the manor of Treffos.

The file comprises an assignment of mortgage, 1728, by John Edwards of Galty Celyn, grandson of Robert Edwards the original mortgagor, to Mary Myddelton of Crossnewidd, Wrexham, to pay money owed to a previous assignee, Margaret, daughter of Robert Pugh, deceased, now wife of John Agar.

The file comprises deeds for a garden which was in the ownership of Mark Evans, an innkeeper, by 1732. He sold it to Hugh Thomas (alias Williams), glover, of Denbigh, in 1749, when it was bounded on the north by lands of Thomas Roberts, on the south by Sandy Lane, on the east by the lands of Richard Evans and on the west by the lands of Hugh Hughes Lloyd. By his will of 1766, Hugh Thomas (alias Williams) devised a workhouse, croft and garden in Lone Goch to his great niece, Mary Parry. She and her husband, John Williams, mortgaged the property to Paul Griffith in 1777, who sold it at their direction to Mary Wynne of Denbigh in 1784.

The file comprises lists of vegetable seeds for the garden and of flowering plants received, probably dating from between 1785 and 1834.

The fonds comprises estate records, family papers and public administration papers of the Griffith family of Garn and the families to whom they were related by marriage, such as Hughes of Weeg and Cae'r berllan, Wynne of Voelas and Wynne of Garthmeilio, Cwm Mein and Plasnewydd. It includes title deeds, 1572-1903, for lands mainly in Denbigh, Henllan, Llanefydd and Llanrwst, Denbighshire, Caerhun, Caernarfonshire and Rhuddlan, Flintshire, and for properties elsewhere in Denbighshire, Merioneth, Flintshire and Anglesey; rentals, 1658-1784, other papers concerning estate administration, 1708-1912, maps and plans, 1776-1866, domestic management papers, 1725-1885, family settlements and probate records, 1606-1863, pedigrees and genealogical notes, [pre-1614]-[c.1934], schooling and career details, 1746-1920, literary papers, [1660]-1925, letters of the Griffith family, 1724-1943, and others, 1680-1882, diaries and memoranda, 1701-1853, records of court cases and other disputes, 1672-1928, family and non-family trusts, 1712-1879, financial papers such as mortgages and accounts, 1680-1906, Denbighshire militia records, 1801-1876, papers relating to local government and politics, [post-1719]-1926, and a small number of ecclesiastical records, 1727-1912.

The group comprises a pedigree roll, other pedigrees in handwritten, tabulated and typed forms, extracts from parish registers, and notes on the genealogy of Griffith of Garn and the families with whom they intermarried, such as Hughes of Cae'r berllan, Myddelton of Gwaunynog, and Wynne of Garthmeilio, Cwm-mein and Plasnewydd, [pre-1614]-[c. 1934], and of other families who were more distantly related or who were relevant to the history of the estate, [1881x1887]-1922.

The series comprises probate records of the Griffith family of Garn, 1685-1835, including four of its owners, John Griffith (1), (2) and (3), 1685, 1759 and 1791 respectively, and John Wynne Griffith, 1835. A notable omission is the will of Robert Griffith (died 1818), to which specific references are made both in the family settlement of 1833 and in the will of his father, John Wynne Griffith, 1835.

The series comprises marriage settlements and other family settlements of the owners of Garn, involving John Griffith (2), 1723-1755, John Griffith (3), 1762, 1783, John Wynne Griffith, 1784-1833, and George Griffith, 1835-1836, 1863, with related deeds and documents of the type normally associated with disentailment.

The file comprises articles of agreement, 1835, by George Griffith with his younger brothers and his brother-in-law, John Price now of Llanrhaiadr Hall, for raising £2000 on Tan Llan, Llanefydd, to benefit William Henry Griffith and his sister, Harriet Price, following the realisation that the provisions of John Wynne Griffith's will for payment of the money were inadequate; the marriage settlement of George Griffith of Garn and Charlotte Maria Douglas of Gyrn, 1836, preceded by a disentailing deed for enlarging the estate in tail by the addition of allotments of common land; disentailment of Tan Llan and other Denbighshire and Flintshire properties, 1863, to enable completion of payment to John Price, in accordance with the agreement of 1835.

The file comprises the marriage settlement of John Griffith (2) of Garn and Mary Davies of Trewylan, Montgomeryshire, 1723; assignments of right and title and a general release, 1743-1744, 1748, to John Griffith (2) by the daughters of John Griffith (1), or their surviving relatives, following the payment of legacies owed to them under the latter's will of 1685, with a memorandum that the 1743 deed was used in a Chancery case in 1748; a trust settlement of a moiety of the Roe estate in St Asaph, 1755, for the purpose of compensating John Griffith (2) 's children for the sale in 1754 of his deceased wife 's estate in Collfryn and Trefnannau, in accordance with the terms of his marriage settlement.

The file comprises articles of agreement and a bond for observance of covenants prior to the marriage of John Griffith (3) of Garn and Jane Hughes of Weeg, 1762, containing, among other stipulations, the provision for Jane of a life annuity of £80 out of her husband's estate in Henllan and St Asaph and instructions to the trustees to raise £3000 to be used as he should direct; both stipulations later contributed to financial disagreements between Jane and her son, which were finally settled in 1801. The file also contains a bond by John Griffith, dated 1783, to pay £200 and interest to his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Hughes, in trust for Jane.

The file comprises settlements involving John Wynne Griffith of Garn, including his marriage settlement with Jane Wynne of Plasnewydd, 1785, preceded by a recovery of the Denbighshire and Flintshire estates, 1784; a settlement between J.W.G. and his mother, Jane Griffith, 1801, to compromise on disagreements regarding her annuity and interest on £3000 from her husband's estate, and to compensate her sister, Elizabeth, for non-payment of debts and interest on a legacy bequeathed by the will of her aunt, Mary Hughes (1782); disentailments of the Caernarfonshire estate, 1811, and the Denbighshire and Flintshire estates, 1814; a subsequent conveyance of 1814 by John Wynne Griffith to a trustee of his eldest surviving son, Robert, of lands in Gyffin and Caerhun, in return for raising £6000 for his younger children out of the estates in Denbighshire and Merionethshire which Robert had recently inherited from his mother; the marriage settlement of Harriet Griffith and John Price of Brynbella, 1827; and a new financial settlement to benefit J.W.G.'s surviving younger children, 1833, necessitated by the deaths of Robert Griffith in 1819 and Richard Augustus Griffith, whom Robert had named one of his heirs, in 1831.

The file comprises pedigrees and notes, [1792x1809], 1814-1842, [post-1869], [c. 1900], showing the kinship of Griffith with Wynne of Garthmeilio and Plasnewydd, and the descent of Wynne from Roberts of Bryn y Neuadd and Coytmore; the descent of John Wynne Griffith and family from Hugh Roberts, Hughes of Cae'rberllan and Robert Griffith of Garn; copy burial record of William Henry Griffith; the family of George Griffith.

The file comprises a pedigree showing the descent of Robert ab Gruffydd of Pengwern, copied from Harleian MS no. 1971.

The file comprises deeds for properties on the Hafod estate, in the townships of Llechryd and Penporchell, purchased by George Griffith from John Richard Heaton in 1856. In 1778, Thomas Hughes of Bronwhylfa, St Asaph, had purchased Hafod, Merllyn, a mill and Nant from the trustees of the will of Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton, and in 1787 he sold all four properties to Robert Watkin Wynne of Plasnewydd. The latter mortgaged Hafod, Merllyn and the mill in 1790, and Nant and another property, Ty Celyn, in 1798. The Hafod properties, like most of the Plasnewydd estate, came into the ownership of the Heatons. John Heaton and his eldest son, John Richard Heaton, sold off Merllyn to George Griffith in 1837, followed by Bryndeunydd, Gwydr, Erw Streat, Tyn-celyn, Vach, Hafod and Pwll y glomen in 1856. The properties were shortly afterwards mortgaged by G.G. to Rev. George Powell and others, and were reconveyed to him in 1862. In 1890 W.D.W. Griffith made a conveyance to Denbigh Corporation of certain rights over parts of Hafod estate in connection with Henllan water supply, and in 1903 an agreement for laying of a new line of pipes.

The file comprises deeds for a house and a garden bordering on Sandy Lane, Denbigh. In 1704, Elizabeth Roberts of Denbigh had devised the garden by will to Robert Hughes, corviser, at which time it lay between the lands of John Wynne, esq., on the east, land of Jane Jones, widow, on the west, Penlan Ditch on the north and Sandy Lane on the south. Robert Hughes sold the garden in 1712 to Richard Evans and Mary, his wife, whose son, Edward Evans, sold it, together with a house, to William Davies of Henllan in 1768. In the same year, William Davies willed the property to his son, also called William Davies, living in Audlem, Cheshire, who finally sold it to Mary Wynne of Denbigh in 1789.