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.

The poll for the House of Burgesses, 1768, lists voters names and their choice for Burgess.

Tax and fiscal records, 1776-1844, are comprised of a list of tithables taken by Tarlton Fleming, 1776 and 1777; and lists of tithables and taxable property within the district of Archibald Pleasants, 1797, within the lower district of the county, 1804, and the upper district of the county, 1812; and a list of taxable property within the county, taken by the county commissioner, 1844. Also included are land tax lists for 1788 and 1799. Free African Americans are noted in the tithable lists from 1797, 1804, and 1812.

Fiduciary records, 1784-1881, and 1890, are comprised mostly of estate papers pertaining to the Ware and Haden families. They contain a fiduciary bond from the state of Anthony Haden, 1784; a fiduciary bond from the estate of James Ware, 1806; a judgment pertaining to the estate of Nicholas Ware, 1819; a list of the children of John N. Haden, 1837; several letters and receipts concerning family estates, 1864-1885, and a letter and receipt pertaining to the estate of Anderson Johnson, 1890.

Miscellaneous records pertaining to schools, 1820-1934, are comprised of a list of subscribers for a school fundraising barbecue at Clover Farm, 1820; correspondence between the county clerk and P.G. Miller, Volta Bureau for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge Relating to the Deaf, 1895, concerning a copy of a letter, dated 1841 Dec., from Colonel William Bolling pertaining to the founding of the Braidwood Institution, a school for the deaf in Chesterfield County founded in 1815, and a request to borrow his portrait; a Clerk's Report of Teachers Contracted with for the Board of School Trustees of Byrd District, Goochland County, 1919 Oct. 6; and a letter, 1934 Oct. 18, to the Superintendent of Schools informing him that the Little Byrd School burned the previous night. The report of teacher's contracts lists the names and addresses of teachers, contract requirements, grade of the teacher certificate, and monthly salary.

The list of conveyances, 1844, is a list of deeds entered in the Clerk's Office, 1844 June.

The Overseers of the Poor report for the year ending 1877 Nov. 30 lists names of persons receiving aid, the number of days they received aid, number of days in the poor house, the money spent on the poor house, and the money spent on medical services for the poor.

The Board of Supervisors records, 1890, 1894, and 1941-1842, contain a petition, 1890, requesting the Board to allocate money for a delegation to the Richmond Immigration Convention, by means of the James River Valley Immigration Society, 1890; and a ribbon, letters, and an invitation to the State Immigration Convention in Richmond at the Virginia Exposition, 1894 Oct. 16. The convention was sponsored by the Virginia State Agricultural and Mechanical Society. The budget, 1941-1942, is a printed copy of the proposed county budget outlining anticipated revenue and expenditures.

The judgment, undated, is a fragment from a case between Henry Wood, Assignee of Haden vs. Jesse Payne.

The unidentified and undated record fragment is possibly from a death record. It lists months and days along with one year of 1857 and other information that are possibly causes of death.