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Chesterfield County (Va.) Health and Medical Records, 1780-1904, consist of .225cf of Mental Health Records and Smallpox Epidemic Records.

Chesterfield County (Va.) Minute Books, 1811-1855, record all matters brought before the court on a daily basis when it was in session including but not limited to: civil and criminal suits, appointments of county officers, appointments of guardians and administrators, deed recordings, free negro registrations, naturalization registrations, and court fees. Clerks would transfer information from minute books to appropriate order book, deed book, fiduciary book, free negro register, etc.

Chesterfield County (Va.) Records, circa 1747-1940, undated, consist of the following series: Court Records (subfield series include Judgments, Criminal Records and Clerk's Records), Tax and Fiscal Records, Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, Miscelleneous Records, Organization Records, Road and Bridge Records, Election Records, School Records, Township Records, County Administrative Records (subfield series include Board of Supervisors Records, Treasurer's Records, Commissioner of Revenue Records, Sheriff's Records and Board of Supervisors Records: Road and Bridge Records), Marriage Records, Justice of the Peace Records, Military and Pension Records, Land Records and Fiduciary Records.

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.

Manchester (Va.) Land Record Book, 1867-1909, is described within the volume itself as follows: "wherein all deeds, conveyances, leases, contracts, etc. relating to or setting forth the action of the Board of Trustees of said Town with regard to the real estate, streets or other property of said Town to be preserved for the convenience and information of said Board of Trustees." The volume primarily notes identures and deeds of lease between individuals and companies. There are a couple of loose papers found at the end of the volume dating from 1884 and 1899. A partial index is found at the beginning of the volume.