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These records contain military warrant 3753 for 3,000 acres, issued to George Washington on February 14, 1785. The warrant was originally issued by royal governor Lord Dunmore to John Roots for his French and Indian War military service. Roots assigned it to Washington on February 14, 1774, and it was then reissued in Washington's name by a resolution of the General Assembly passed December 30, 1784. The warrant was not endorsed by Washington.

These records contain incoming correspondence to the register of the Land Office, including the period the secretary of the commonwealth held the office, dealing primarily with business affairs. Included are requests for warrants and copies of grants and surveys, letters which accompanied incoming surveys, letters seeking information about military bounty lands, and inquiries regarding the manner of resolving conflicts pertaining to land possession. Many entries from the 20th century involve requests for information for genealogical or historical research, frequently to establish eligibility for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.

These records contain an undated list containing three categories. In one is given those grants which were not signed or recorded; in another, those surveys for military officers which the governor refused to sign; and in the third, those surveys stayed by caveats and not patented. The first and third are divided into columns listing the name of the party concerned, the number of acres involved, the county in which the land was located, and the reason the document was not signed. The second section does not contain the column for county location. The majority of the entries are undated. The list is not signed.

These records contain a list of a dozen entries giving the name of the warrantee, the number of acres allowed, and the number of the warrant. Recipients of these military warrants include Jacob Boughman, Richard Williamson, John Kinkead, Solomon Simpson, Edward Gill, James Ryan, Christopher Best, Christopher Finnie, William Hughs, John Johnston, Evan Shelby, and Arthur Campbell. There is one entry for a warrant which was partially completed, issued to Dr. John Briscoe.

A list, endorsed by William Preston, Fincastle County surveyor, containing in columns the name of the person to whom the warrant was issued, the number of acres contained therein, and assignments made on the warrants. These warrants were approved by Lord Dunmore as governor.

The record contains a list divided into eleven columns, all blank except for the first three. The number of the warrant, the name of the person to whom it was issued, and his rank are recorded. However, the columns noting the regiment or corps in which he served, the date he entered service, the term of his service, and the date he resigned or was discharged for the first, second, and third enlistments, or "engagements," are blank.

These records contain columns giving the name of the soldier, the number of acres to which he was entitled, his rank, his length of service, the date of this certificate, and at times in a column for remarks, the number of the warrant and the name of the warrantee. The list was signed on November 12, 1818, by Thomas Miller, clerk. The soldiers noted on the list include John Walden, William Poe, William Davis, John Davis, John Casy, John Story, William Cardwell, Shadrick Pierson, Berryman Brown, Robert Powell, Thomas Bates, Peter Cockrell, Thomas Sneed, John Brownley, Henry Brown, John Smith, Thomas Smith, Lewis Powers, Thomas Gains, and Charles Nial.

The files in this series contain opinions from the attorney general in answer to questions relating to the award of military bounty land and in reply to requests from the register for answers to questions relating to various types of land problems.

These records contain a register compiled from vouchers on file in the Land Office. The cover includes a memorandum from register William G. Pendleton, dated 12 June 1815, noting that the register was compiled from vouchers found in the office and that no manuscripts other than the vouchers were located and no register found when he assumed the office.

These records contain unidentified and unsupported assignments, most of which are from the 18th century. Some of the assignments are for lands due under preemption warrants or warrants issued for colonial war service while the balance is for treasury warrants. One indenture, recorded in Philadelphia in 1785, applies to nineteen surveys on file in the Land Office; it was made between Isaac Sidman and his fellow merchants James Newport, William Kay, John Shields, John Redman, and Robert McKnight, all of Philadelphia. Twenty-eight of the records are signed by John and George May, two brothers from Virginia who settled in what is now Jefferson County, Kentucky. George was a surveyor and both men were land speculators. The period covered is 1775-1903, with the bulk of the records dated between 1775 and 1796.