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.