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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 file comprises a valuation of oak and ash trees growing at Waen Dwysog, 1748, agreement for sale of oak, ash, elm and saplings at Waen Dwysog, 1772, bill for labour, 1809, and particulars and conditions of sale of fallen timber at Roe and Garn, 1814.

The file comprises loose papers and a notebook, containing accounts mainly of livestock, produce and agricultural labour at Garn, Roe, and Waen [Dwysog], including accounts between John Wynne Griffith and his son, Edward Humphrey, 1822-1823 and 1832; the notebook also contains a few isolated domestic accounts.

The series comprises original leases and attornment of tenant for properties in the parishes of Mold and Rhuddlan.

The series comprises an account drawn up in 1740 for money received and disbursed by the agent (name not given) for Ffrith Bodvel, Caerhun, between 1737 and 1740.

The series comprises title deeds for properties in the parish of Cerrigydrudion, 1690, 1794.

The series comprises title deeds for properties in the town and parish of Denbigh, 1572-1871.

The file comprises a bond by Rice Jones of Oxfordshire to Margaret Salusbury for performance of covenants in deeds of even date.

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 deeds, 1732-1800, for a house and several gardens in Lower Ward, Middle Lane and Penybank's Hill, Denbigh Between 1739 and 1749, a gardener named Thomas Humphreys purchased a messuage and several gardens in Denbigh. Under the terms of his his will, proved 1762, his wife, Mary Davies, received most of his property, which was inherited in turn by her nearest kin, Edward Parry of Cader, Llanrhaeadr-yng-nghinmeirch. The premises descended to the latter's son, David Parry, who sold all his father's property in Denbigh to Mary Wynne in 1800. -- The deeds include a mortgage of 1732, deeds of sale to Thomas Humphreys, 1739, 1744, 1749, his will, 1762, a pedigree showing Edward Parry's relationship to Thomas Humphrey's widow, the will of Edward Parry, proved 1783, a copy of part of David Parry's marriage settlement, 1797, showing his right to dispose of the premises in Denbigh, and the deed of sale to Mary Wynne, 1800.

The file comprises an abstract of title of Edward Humphrey Griffith and his son, Capt. Edward Wynne Griffith, 1816-1859, of Caeau Meifod, contracted to be sold to Richard Lloyd Williams in 1871. [The property previously belonged to Robert Griffith, who had inherited it from his grandmother, Mary Wynne].

The file comprises deeds for Tyddyn Glan y Ffynnon, Gwaun Dwysog and other properties in Tywysog and Ereifiad, purchased between 1748 and 1756 by John Griffith (2) of Garn from Henry Hughes the younger and the administrators of Catherine Raper, surviving heirs of Hugh Lloyd of Pwllheli, grocer. Hugh Lloyd had mortgaged the premises in 1722 and in his will, made the following year, he directed that payment of his debts should be met from the rents and profits of his lands. Attempts were made to pay his debts and legacies by means of assignments and further mortgages between 1729 and 1748, but eventually the decision was made to sell. The purchase was delayed by the death of Catherine Raper in 1751, by legal actions concerning debts on the estate and by a claim to title by a niece of Hugh Lloyd. Under John Griffith's will, proved 1759, Gwaun Dwysog and other purchased premises were devised to trustees to raise portions for his daughters and thereafter to his son to become part of the entailed estate. The final assignment involved in the conveyance did not take place until 1764, six years after his death. -- The bundle includes mortgages, probate records for Hugh Lloyd, 1723, Catherine Raper, 1751, 1754, and her daughter, Sarah Taylor, 1754, and deeds of sale to John Griffith, 1748/9, 1756.

The file comprises a release of dower by Gwen Williams, otherwise Wynne, widow of John Wynne of Henllan to Elizabeth Wynne, sister of J.W., on unnamed premises in Henllan.

The file comprises certification, 1813, by William Jones of Groes that he has given possession of a croft called Tan y Graig to John Wynne Griffith in exchange for a field called Croft Francon, belonging to Gwaun Dwysog.

The file comprises a deed of sale of Plas Coch, Bry Cochyn, Bwlch y Dan Gan and Groesfordd by John Young, trustee of the will of Robert Foulkes Currie, to George Griffith, 1854, with an abstract of J. Y.'s title, 1776-1848.