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Bedford County (Va.) Minute Book, 1871-1873, was created by the County Court, and along with closely related court records such as order books, records all matters brought before the court when it was in session and may contain important information not found anywhere else. Generally minute books contain brief entries. A locality's loose papers are the raw materials from which this type of book was created. Like order books, a wide variety of information is found in its pages including: appointments of county officers, appointments of guardians and administrators, records of legal disputes heard before the court, and matters related to the fiscal management of the court.

Bedford County (Va.) Public Buildings and Grounds, 1764-1840 and undated. The materials consist of reports, orders, a survey, specifications, and architectural renderings for various county buildings created over a period of years at the behest of the Bedford County justices. Included is a bill for work on the courthouse from H. G. Hughes, undated; an undated plan and specifications for the new jail in the Town of Liberty; a plat of the prison boundaries in New London, 1764; an architectural drawing and specifications for a courthouse building, 1785; an order and specifications for a new clerk's office, 1828; and an order creating a committee to inspect the jail, 1840.

Bedford County (Va.) Recorded and Unrecorded Deeds, 1751-1925, consist of deeds of bargain and sale, deeds of gift, mortgages, deeds of trust, and deeds of emancipation both recorded and unrecorded. Recorded deeds were proved and recorded in deed books. Unrecorded deeds were never proved and recorded in deed books. A few of the deeds include plats. Except for a few years early in the eighteenth century, slaves in Virginia were considered personal property and consequently were not usually sold by deed. However, they were often transferred in deeds of gift or were the property listed in mortgages and deeds of trust.

Bedford County (Va.) Road and Bridge Records, 1751-1929, consist of road petitions that include orders, reports, and plats if filed with petitions; road applications; road reports that include orders if filed with reports and commissioner's reports; road orders not filed with reports or petitions; road accounts that include payments and claims; road overseer records that include writs of ad quod damnum, builder's bonds, plats, receipts, contracts, Board of Supervisor's papers related to roads, bids, correspondence related to roads, contracts, right-of-way papers, State Corporation Commission railroad opinion filed with road records; road hand records; miscellaneous road records that include bridge records, oversize plats and plans, and mill dam records filed with road and bridge records.

Bedford County (Va.) Township Records, 1871-1875, are 5 volumes of minutes and accounts relating to the administrative functions of township boards of the county.