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Records, 1752-1893 and undated, of Chesterfield County consist of claims against the county and the commonwealth (1752, 1757, 1759, 1761, 1821), court papers related to judgments (1785) and chancery suits (1846, 1849), fiduciary records (1782, 1823, 1828, 1840-1847, 1855), free negro records (1844), wills (undated, 1799, 1820, 1828, 1849), and a petition (1893.)

Marriage Register, 1771-1853, is essentially divided into two sections. The first section covering pages 1-335, 1771-1847, records the date of the marriage bond, the names of both parties, the names of the parents or guardians present and the names of the security or witnesses in attendance. Added features of this section, found on pages 336-361, 1848-1851, are the minister's name and the date of the marriage. The second section covering pages 363-491, 1851-1853, records the date of the marriage, the names of both parties, the minister's name and the religious denomination of the minister. In addition, this section includes ordination bonds (pp. 493-494) which record the minister's name, the security or witnesses present and the religious denomination of the minister. These bonds cover the years 1785, 1788-1790, 1792, 1799, 1802-1803. A minster's license to preach is also found on page 494. Undated marrige bonds, which record the same information found in the volume's first section, are found on pages 495-497. A significant number of marriages between free persons of color, from 1807-1850, are found between pages 87-356.

Manchester (Va.) Board of Trustees Minute Books, 1811-1875, are comprised of three separate volumes dealing with the business of the town of Manchester's Board of Trustees through the creation of the city of Manchester's City Council. When the town was established in 1769, directors and trustees were appointed to govern the town. The first volume dates from 1811-1850 and numbers 308 pages. The volume opens with surviving trustee, John Murchie, calling for a meeting of the town's freeholders to elect the proper persons to supply vacancies on the Board of Trustees. The town sheriff, in charge of the elections, appoints seven new trustees to the board. These trustees are then entrusted with running the town--dealing with bonds for town officials, passing town ordinances--relating to both free men and slaves--in order to create a code of law for the town, forming committees to deal with various issues, surveying land and lots, collecting subscriptions for studies and improvements to the town's infrastructure, noting assessments of taxable property, including Treasurer's accounts as well as various reports and claims for town services.