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Westmoreland County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures, 1788-1881, 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.

Westmoreland County (Va.) Business Records, 1833-1834, is comprised of various records created by individuals and companies is pursuit of documenting business activities in and around Westmoreland County (Va.). Represented records largely consists of a daybook.

Westmoreland County (Va.) Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery Records, 1831-1845, consist of a Minute Book, an Order book and a volume of Office Judgments.

Westmoreland County (Va.) Deed of Bargain and Sale and Dedimus, James Dodd and Wife to John Rieusset, 1794 July 29. The deed documents the sale of 130 acres of land and appurtenances in the White Oak Swamp, Washington Parish.

Westmoreland County (Va.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1780-1870, contains free negro certifications (1809-1855, n.d.); free negro lists (1801, 1851); statements of negroes brought into Virginia from other states (1815, 1817, 1819); and miscellaneous free negro and slave records (1780-1854). Also included are photocopies of documents from other local records series relating to slave and free negroes. These categories include copies of deeds of manumission and emancipation (1805-1814); copies of slave bills of sale and various other types of deeds (1790-1845); copies of lists of insolvent free negroes (1850-1863); and copies of various miscellaneous records (1813-1852).

Westmoreland County (Va.) Judgments, 1739-1914, 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.

Westmoreland County (Va.) List of Tithables, 1729. Consists of photostat images of the list of tithable heads of household in the county for the year 1729.

Westmoreland County (Va.) Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, 1826-1920, consists of a folder of Marriage Licenses and Ministers' Returns in an oversized box, a volume of Ministers' Returns, a register of Marriage Licenses with Marriage Certificates and 2 boxes of Birth and Death Records.

Westmoreland County (Va.) Organization Records, 1852-1914, is comprised of various records created by groups in Westmoreland County. Represented records largely consist of unprocessed loose records. These records report to the court changes in trustees for white and African American churches. Most appointments relate to church trustees but there are two other organizations named as well including the Ladies Colonial Beach Union Chapel Association (1906) and the Sons and Daughters of Wisdom (1908). The appointments name the new trustees and sometimes the trustees who are being replaced.

Westmoreland County (Va.) Record of Ministers' Returns, 1826-1850, notes the returns made by individual ministers of marriages performed within the county in the nineteenth century. The majority of these returns are in the form of lists which record the date of marriage and the names of both parties. In the process of preparing and sending the returns, the name of the minister and the minister's denomination are also recorded. Only pages 1-9 of the volume are numbered. There is a partial index in the front of the volume which is arranged alphabetically (A-Y) by the groom's surname as it appears in the volume. This volume is found on Microfilm Reel 74.