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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 families are: Allen, Bailey, Ballard, Barker-Bradford-Taylor, Batte, Bell, Bennett-Pierce, Bishop-Stokes, Blunt, Boyce-Scott-Tatum, Braswell, Biggs, Browne, Burges, Cato, Champion, Clark, Cocke, Cooke, Corker, Dixon, Eaton, Faulcon, Flake, Fort, Goodrich, Gordon, Graves-Hancock, Hamblin-Hamlin, Hancock, Hill, Hines, Howle, Irwin, Jennings-Hill, Johnston, Jones, Jordan, Lanier, Lewis, Long, Massengill, Norfleet, Overton-Harris-Day, Pitt, Plummer, Rudulph, Sitgreaves, Sledge, Smith, Sweeney, Tyrus, Weldon, West, and Whitmel.

The index refers to well over 10,000 names.

See also Volume II.