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Bedford County (Va.) Deposition, 1760. Consists of the testimony of George Stovall, Jr., pertaining to Christopher Irvine's degree of satisfaction with a slave he had purchased from James Roberts, Jr.

Bedford County (Va.) Estray Records, 1773-1902, contains loose and bound records giving public notice of valuable, tame animals, either lost or found wandering and presumed escaped from their owners, allowing the owners to reclaim the animals. Enteries generally indicate by whom the animal was taken up, before what justice the person went and when, and the description and appraisement (value) of the animal.

Bedford County (Va.) Fiduciary Records, 1825-1919, include miscellaneous records filed in a local court by trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, and committees that related to the performance of their duties managing a person's estate. These records typically include the following; bonds, appraisements, audits, inventories, accounts, estate divisions, settlements, dowery records, etc. Information related to enslaved people are commonly found in these records.

Bedford County (Va.) Order to Examine Witnesses in a Chancery Cause, 1785. Consists of an order to Alexander St. Clair and Robert Gamble, Gentlemen, of Augusta County (Va.), to examine witnesses for the Bedford County chancery cause of Joseph Poindexter vs. James Gatewood.

Plats are maps, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. Information commonly found in plats are property boundaries, land features, and names of property owners. These plats and plans were produced in connection with Bedford County or State of Virginia road and/or bridge projects.

Bedford County (Va.) Processioners' Book and Marriage Returns, 1785-1812, is divided into two separate sections with different record types. The first section which covers pages 1-214 is a processioners' book. This book records the walking and marking of property boundaries and dates from 1796-1812. This section has an internal index. The second section which covers pages 215-267 is a collection of ministers' returns. These returns date from 1785-1812. There is an internal index for this section. This index, which covers only returns from 1785-1800, lists marriages certified by individual ministers according to the section's numerical sequence of page numbers.

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.) 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.) Subpoena, 1760. Consists of a subpoena for Edward Elson and James Wilton of Albemarle County to testify on behalf of David Luney. Also includes a notation indicating Wilton was not found in the county and suggesting the subpoena may have been intended for James Burrus Whittle instead.

Bedford County (Va.) Subpoena, 1771. Consists of a subpoena issued to Mary McDonald ordering her to testify on behalf of Michael Murphy, plaintiff, in the suit Michael Murphy vs. Isaac Ready.