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Records, 1782-1835, of Gloucester County consist of fiduciary records (1782-1835), a marriage record (1790), a will (1817), and claims against the Commonwealth (1820.)

Gloucester County (Va.) Minute Book, 1867-1876, records all matters brought before the court on a daily basis when it was in session, including but not limited to: civil and criminal suites, 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.

Gloucester County (Va.) Register of Convicts, 1871-1885, is a comprehensive register of "every person convicted in the County Court or other Court of Record of Gloucester County, of Felony, or other infamous offence." Based on a form, the listings of each conviction include the individual's name in full and any aliases, the present and last known residence of the accused, the color or race of the individual (including white, black, tawney and mulatto), the individual's height, eye color, hair color and any identifying marks, the apparent or known age of the accused, his or her occupation, the offence, the court in which convicted, the date of conviction and page of record and whether the judgment was reversed or pardon granted and date thereof. Page 5 of the volume is blank.

Gloucester County (Va.) Tax Accounts, 1770-1771, was used by county sheriff, Thomas Smith, to record early tax information. The volume lists individual tax accounts--noting parish and county levies, quit rents, muster fines as well as tax on each set of wheels under a passenger vehicle as well as county accounts. The volume has an unnumbered internal index. The index lists surnames A-Y. For the most part, the individual's last name appears according to its order within the volume. As noted by a researcher transcribing the volume, the volume is " a list taken in the parishes of Abingdon, Petsworth and Ware. The book gives only a partial list of those names in the three parishes, as a number of pages are missing and torn. Many of the names are found only in the index, which is also incomplete and for those no record can be given of land or property." The volume was conserved at some point and preserves some later doodles and poetry--added perhaps when the volume was in private hands.