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Albemarle County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures, 1817-1887, are bonds and contracts of apprenticeship given by the Overseers of the Poor, showing the names of master and apprentice, the trade to be taught, details of the contract, the amount of the bond and the names of sureties. Many of the apprentices bound out prior to 1866 were free persons of color.

Albemarle County (Va.) Certificates of Importation, 1794, 1811-1818, sometimes entitled certificates of nonimportation, contain information whereby an enslaver swears that they have not imported the enslaved person from Africa and that the enslaver has not brought the enslaved person into Virginia with the purpose of selling the enslaved person. The enslaved person is sometimes named, but not always, and occasionally information is given as to age, birthdate, and the state the individuals are moving from.

Albemarle County (Va.) Fiduciary Records, 1789-1956 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.

Albemarle County (Va.) Judgment Suit, 1836-1833. Consists of six pages of accounts used as evidence in an unidentified court case. Two accounts between Isabella Squair and Benjamin M. Perkins. One account between James Hamner and W. L. Staples.

Albemarle County (Va.) List of property lost by result of war, 1868, includes the names of enslaved people owned by William Bowen emancipated during the Civil War and what they were valued in 1860.

Albemarle County (Va.) Marriage Register No. 1, 1854-1903, records marriages in the county from the mid-nineteenth century until early twentieth century. The original volume is found in the Albemarle County Circuit Court Clerk's Office. A copy of the volume is found on Reel 62. The register contains information such as a consecutive line number for each entry, the date and place of marriage, the full names of both parties, age and condition of parties before marriage, birth places of parties, places of residences of parties, names of their parents, occupation of husband, the name of the person performing the ceremony. By 1866, the remarks section contains the race of the parties (white or colored). The volume has 205 leaves. Some pages of the volume include the dates and names of marriage bonds and certificates, for various years, not recorded in the register.

Maps are a visual representation of an entire area or a part of an area, typically represented on a flat surface. Maps attempt to represent various things like physical features, roads, topography, etc.

Albemarle County (Va.) Records, circa 1744-1956, undated, consist of the following series: Court Records (subfield series include Judgments, Criminal Records, Clerks' Records, Court Finance, Jury Records, Personal Documentation, Dockets and Chancery Records), Road and Bridge Records, County Administrative Records (subfield series include Board of Supervisors Records, Overseer of the Poor Records, Sheriffs' Records and Treasurer's Records), Land Records, Business Records, Tax and Fiscal Records, Fiduciary Records, Miscellaneous Records, Bonds/Commissions/Oaths, Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, Organization Records, Town Adminstrative Records, School Records, Election Records, Justice of the Peace Records, Health and Medical Records and Military and Pension Records. Some boxes contain UNPROCESSED records.

Albemarle County (Va.) Records related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1802-1865, consist of approximately 467 "Free Negro" registrations, affidavits, and certificates. Some free registrations originated in other Virginia localities, such as Caroline County, Goochland County, and the City of Fredericksburg. Upon their removal to Albemarle County, individuals surrendered their free papers to the court to prove their free status. In such cases, they would have received an Albemarle County free registration to replace the document(s) handed over to the court. The registrations, affidavits, and certificates document the free person's name, sometimes age, a brief physical description, and the circumstances of the person's freedom or emancipation, parents, former enslaver, place or date of emancipation.

Albemarle County (Va.) Register of Marriages and Convicts, 1888-1928, is divided into two separate sections. The first section, pages 1-6, covers a register of marriages recorded in the county from 1888-1899. These pages include the date of the marriage license, the date of the marriage, the names and ages of the bride and groom and the name of the person giving consent. The second section, pages 7-17 and 40-49, is a register of convicts from 1894-1928. This list is comprehensive and includes the convict's name and/or alias, place of residence, color (race), height, weight, eye color, hair color, age, distinguishing marks, occupation, crime committed, date of crime, court and term of court, order book and page number of conviction, punishment and whether pardoned for crime. Individuals with prior convictions are found on pages 40-46. In addition, there is a list of persons convicted in 1907 pasted on the inside of the front cover of the volume.