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Albemarle County (Va.) Records, circa 1744-1956, undated, consist of the following series: Court Records (subfield series include Judgments, Criminal Records, Clerks' Records, Court Finance, Jury Records, Personal Documentation, Dockets and Chancery Records), Road and Bridge Records, County Administrative Records (subfield series include Board of Supervisors Records, Overseer of the Poor Records, Sheriffs' Records and Treasurer's Records), Land Records, Business Records, Tax and Fiscal Records, Fiduciary Records, Miscellaneous Records, Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, Organization Records, Town Adminstrative Records, School Records, Election Records, Justice of the Peace Records, Health and Medical Records and Military and Pension Records. Some boxes contain UNPROCESSED records.

Albemarle County (Va.) Records related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1802-1865, consist of approximately 467 "Free Negro" registrations, affidavits, and certificates. Some free registrations originated in other Virginia localities, such as Caroline County, Goochland County, and the City of Fredericksburg. Upon their removal to Albemarle County, individuals surrendered their free papers to the court to prove their free status. In such cases, they would have received an Albemarle County free registration to replace the document(s) handed over to the court. The registrations, affidavits, and certificates document the free person's name, sometimes age, a brief physical description, and the circumstances of the person's freedom or emancipation, parents, former enslaver, place or date of emancipation.

Albemarle County (Va.) Register of Marriages and Convicts, 1888-1928, is divided into two separate sections. The first section, pages 1-6, covers a register of marriages recorded in the county from 1888-1899. These pages include the date of the marriage license, the date of the marriage, the names and ages of the bride and groom and the name of the person giving consent. The second section, pages 7-17 and 40-49, is a register of convicts from 1894-1928. This list is comprehensive and includes the convict's name and/or alias, place of residence, color (race), height, weight, eye color, hair color, age, distinguishing marks, occupation, crime committed, date of crime, court and term of court, order book and page number of conviction, punishment and whether pardoned for crime. Individuals with prior convictions are found on pages 40-46. In addition, there is a list of persons convicted in 1907 pasted on the inside of the front cover of the volume.

Albemarle County (Va.) Samuel Miller Township Account Book, 1871, is a rough draft taken by a township official of the personal property and land taxes for that year. Included tax personal property tax categories are furniture, plate, bonds, capital, income, dogs, livestock, books, tools, farm implements, watches, clocks, and pianos. Included land tax categories are residence, fee or life, number of acres, description, bearing and distance, calue per acre, buildings value, and value of land and buildings. Taxed persons are listed alphabetically with the personal property tax lists preceeding the land tax lists. Following the tax lists are lists of births and deaths for 1871, other data on county residents listed as white and colored possibly for the purposes of county levies, and a list of licenses for 1872-1873. Page 13 contains a partial letter of apology composed to an unknown person and page 121 consists of a Latin lesson or practice. Several pages have been cut or torn from the book.

Albemarle County (Va.) Samuel O. Moon Receipt Book, 1824-1841, is a volume of receipts kept by Moon as he conducted business as constable for Albemarle County. The majority of entries in the book concern payments to satisfy executions for money judgments. Additional entries included are various agreements and contracts in which Moon was a party and may or may not be official county business.

Albemarle County (Va.) Settlement of the Estate of John Rogers, 1851. The record documents the disbursement of money to various people and the receipt of three enslaved people, Lucy and child and Robert, by W.M. Hawkins.

Warren County (Va.) Order Appointing Thomas R. Ashby a General Agent and Storekeeper, 1864 Feb. 15. The document records the appointment of a general agent and storekeeper to purchase cloth, cotton, and other necessities and make them available for purchase by citizens of Warren County to provide relief during war time.