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Goochland County (Va.) Bonds/Comissions/Oaths, 1731-1920 circa, typically consist of bonds, commissions, oaths, certificates, and appointments related to holding public office. Some collections can include ministers' bonds.

Goochland County (Va.) citizens' claims of property lost to British army, 1782, includes inventories made by citizens of Goochland County that record a listing of their property they claimed was confiscated or destroyed by the British army under the command of General Charles Cornwallis when they marched through Goochland County in June 1781. Information found in the inventories include name of property confiscated or destroyed, value of each piece of property, and name of individual making the claim. Examples of property found in the claims include slaves, horses, cattle, liquor, food, clothing, and saddles.

Goochland County (Va.) Court Records, 1768-1895; 1941-1942, undated. The collection contains a poll for the House of Burgesses, 1768; tax and fiscal records, 1776-1844, fiduciary records, 1784-1890; miscellaneous records pertaining to schools, 1820-1934; a list of conveyances, 1844; an Overseers of the Poor report, 1877; Board of Supervisors Records, 1890, 1894, and 1941-1942; and a judgment and a record fragment, undated.

Goochland County (Va.) Fiduciary Records, 1728-1912, 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.

Goochland County (Va.) Judgments (Freedom Suits), 1763, 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.

Goochland County (Va.) Lickinghole Township Board Proceedings, 1871-1875, consist of minutes and accounts. Information recorded includes the confirmation of election districts, appointment of road overseers, establishment of rates allowed for road work compensation, accounts allowed against the board, establishment of levy rates, accounts allowed for overseers of the poor including the names of the poor assisted, road accounts, and township official accounts.

Goochland County (Va.) Oyer and Terminer Commissions, 1745-1779, records the appointment of individuals to a court of oyer and terminer whose purpose was to try slaves accused of committing capital offenses. Information found in the commissions include the names of individuals appointed to the court, names of slaves to be tried, names of slaveowners, crimes committed by slaves, and trial dates.

Goochland County (Va.) Register of Colored Persons Cohabiting, 1866, records the name and age of the husband, the name and age of the wife, the occupation of the husband, and the county of residence. There is a remarks column which mostly contains information about children that the husband had by a former wife. There is no index. It is also commonly called the Goochland County (Va.) Cohabitation Register.