This work contains a broad, comprehensive, early history of Wight County, Virginia, and its early white settlers, and native inhabitants. The book provides detailed biographical and genealogical sketches of many residents, and detailed genealogical information on the Bennett and Boddie families in the Carolinas and Virginia. Approximatley 190 pages are devoted to Wills, Deeds, Land Grants, Quit Tax Rolls, and a Roster of County Officers. Supplementing this massive work, are three indexes, which address subjects, places, and names. Paperback, (1938), repr. 2012, Illus., Index, 779 pp.

John Bennett Boddie's books on the early families of the Virginia lower Tidewater and Southside regions are among the most frequently consulted works on that area. The first volume in this valuable two-volume set contains lineages of families from the early counties of Isle of Wight, Prince George, and Surry. The index refers to well over 10,000 names.