Papers of Thomas Monteith include manuscript accounts of materials sold to the U.S. during the Indian Wars, 1856; appointments as officer in the Oregon Militia, 1863-1864; and manuscript list of persons accompanying Captain Scott to California in 1847. Brothers Thomas Monteith, Walter Monteith, and John Monteith founded the city of Albany in 1848.

Correspondence and land papers of Levi Scott (1797-1890), and a letter by his son, John M. Scott (1827-1905). Levi Scott emigrated to Oregon in 1844, where he helped establish the Applegate Trail and served as a member of the Oregon territorial legislature and the Oregon constitutional convention.