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Goochland County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures, 1736-1878, undated, 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 African Americans.

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.) Chancery Causes, 1731-1924, 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.

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.

GoochlandCounty (Va.) Estray Records, 1730-1900 circa, undated, contains various loose records giving public notice of valuable, tame animals, either lost or found wandering and presumed escaped from their owners, allowing the owners to reclaim the animals. Enteries generally indicate by whom the animal was taken up, before what justice the person went and when, and the description and appraisement (value) of the animal.

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.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1726-1867, consist of Deeds, 1762-1859; Fiduciary records, 1792-1857; "Free Negro" tax records, 1802-1863, undated; Free people in want of registration, 1825-1861; Patrol records, 1762-1863; Requisitions for Public Use, 1861-1862 circa, "Runaway" records, 1813-1837; Records Related to the hiring of enslaved persons, 1803-1822, and additional single items of various record types, 1726-1867.

Goochland County (Va.) Judgments, 1728-1912, contain civil cases in which justice was administered on the strictly formulated rules of common law and criminal cases. The majority of civil cases in this record series relate to matters of debt.

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.) Tithables, 1730-1809, and undated. Consists of a original and photostat copies of the list of tithable heads of household and taxable property in the county for the years 1730-1809, and undated. PHOTOSTATIC VOLUMES OR MICROFILM REELS SHOULD BE SERVED BEFORE ORIGINALS.