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Deed Books, 1684-1730, of Elizabeth City County Court. The deed book records the name of the grantor and grantee, the residence of both individuals and the description of property being sold or transferred. All the volumes have indexes which contains the first and last names of both parties. It is arranged alphabetically from A-Z. Deed Book, 1715-1721 does not have an index. Deed Book, 1704-1730 has certain ejectments (1736-1770) included in the volume.

Elizabeth City County (Va.) Judgments, 1779-1929, contain civil cases in which justice was administered on the strictly formulated rules of common law. The majority of cases in this record series relate to matters of debt. The collection also contains cases concerning the taking of land by the Buckroe, Phoebus, and Hampton Railroad Company in 1896 for an electric railroad, and by the White Land Company in 1914.

Elizabeth City County (Va.) Judgments (Freedom Suits), 1827, consist of suits initiated by slaves seeking to gain their freedom on the law side of the court. Cases are identified by style of suit consisting of plaintiff and defendant names. Surnames of others involved in a suit, including secondary plaintiffs and defendants, witnesses, deponents and affiants, and family members with surnames different from the plaintiff or defendant are indexed. Also identified are names of slaves and slaveowners found in suit as well as whether slave(s) won their freedom. Predominant documents found in freedom suits include petitions, records of suits, depositions, affidavits, wills, among other items. Information found in documents include slave's argument for freedom, acquisition of slaves by slaveowners, slave ancestry, and relationship between slaves and slaveowners.

Elizabeth City County (Va.) Records, 1721-1931 consists primarily of Law cases (judgments) but also contains records that fall into the Local Records categories of Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, Clerk's Records, Court Records (judgments and criminal), Election Records, Fiduciary Records, Land Records (deeds and plats), Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, Naturalization Records, Wills, and miscellaneous items such as a copy of a 1902 federal bankrupcy suit and census enumerator oaths and certifications for the 1910 census.