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Hanover County (Va.) Fiduciary Records, 1784-1871, 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.

Hanover County (Va.) Marriage Register of Freedmen living in Hanover County, Virginia, who were married by the Act passed by the Legislature of Virginia, February 27th, 1866, contains similar information as that found in a cohabitation register. Recorded are date and place of marriage, full name of both parties, age and condition before marriage (year, single or widowed, slave or free), place of birth, place of residence, names of parents of both parties, occupation of husband. Marriages are recorded for the years 1816-1866.

Volumes contain names of taxpayers, quantities and descriptions of lands, taxable values, and amounts of tax. Alterations in ownership since the last report are sometimes noted.

Hanover County (Va.) Tax Fee Bills, 1792. Consists of tax fee bills issued to Charles Lambert, Mary Jones, Peter Francis Dauchy, Benjamin Tate, and John Ingram.

Hanover County (Va.) Virginia Manual Labor School Board and Clothing Accounts, 1905-1909, are accounts submitted by the school to the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia via the Hanover County court for compensation for the care of African Americans minors sentenced to the reformatory. Information listed includes the name of the person sentenced to the reformatory, how much compensation was requested for board and clothing, and the date of the request.

Will and executor's bond of Mahala, free woman of color, 1831, recorded in the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for Hanover County. In her will, Mahala stated that she wanted her children that she purchased from Colonel Thomas Tinsley, deceased, be free. She also wanted her daughter Clara be bound to her former mistress Susanna Tinsley until she reached the age of 21. The executor's bond named Thomas G. Tinsley executor of Mahala's estate.