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Dinwiddie County (Va.) Archives and Historical Documents, 1752-2014, include the following: Land Tax Records, 1752-1820; Land Tax Books, 1782-1875; Real Estate Tax Sales, 1886-1931; Land Tax Records, 2014; a surveyor's plat book, 1752-1865; Works Progress Administration Historical Inventory; Board of Supervisors' Books, 1870-2004; Book of Fiduciaries, 1871-1904; Order Books, 1789-1791 and 1863-1866; Historical Indexes, 1830-2010, and data compiled from various Dinwiddie County court records, 1752-1865.

Dinwiddie County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1844-1954, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics.

Dinwiddie County (Va.) Fiduciary Records,1856-1950 circa, 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.

Dinwiddie County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1859-1860, consist of "Free Negro" Tax Records, 1859-1860. These records include three lists, which document the names of 34 “free negroes” delinquent in the payment of their taxes. To varying extents, the lists record the name of each person, the amount of tax they owed, and the value of their property.

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.

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.

Dinwiddie County (Va.) Plats, 1860-1904, include the following: Plat of Bonneville, 1860; Plat of John Dodson's farm, 1873; and a plat of land along the Appomattox River showing Chesterfield, Amelia, and Dinwiddie counties, 1904.

Dinwiddie County (Va.) Records, 1810-1921 circa, includes Commonwealth Causes; Judgments; Plats; Tax and Fiscal Records; Miscellaneous Accounts; Bonds/Commissions/Oaths; Military and Pension Records; Land Records; Petitions; Coroners' Inquisitions; Personal Documentation; Deeds; Apprenticeship Indenture; and Naturalization Records.

Dinwiddie County (Va.) Records, circa 1856-1950, consist of the following series: Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, Court Records (subfield series include Clerk's Records, Criminal Records and Judgments), Fiduciary Records, Land Records, Military and Pension Records, County Administrative Records (subfield series include Board of Supervisors Records: Road and Bridge Records and Board of Supervisors Records), Tax and Fiscal Records, Road and Bridge Records, Township Reoords and Election Records.

Dinwiddie County (Va.) Records related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1850-1864, consist of one Register of "Free Negroes," 1850-1864.