Old King William Homes and Families

The main section of the work consists of genealogical sketches of some seventy-five early families and their descendants including a lengthy history of the Edwards family the descendants of Ambrose Edwards of Cherry Grove. Carter Braxton one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence also lived here and the kin of Patrick Henry John Randolph Lee Custis and others peopled her shores. All told more than 3000 names are listed in the index including the families of Atkinson Aylett Baylor Bolling Braxton Brecknock Butler Byrd Claiborne Cole Coleman Conway Corr Dandridge Dickey Ellett Fontaine Fowke Freeman Gregory Griswold Henry Hill Hundley Johnson King Kinkead Lewis Lipscomb Littlepage Lynn McElwee Moncure Morancy Neale Newman Pemberton Peyton Pollard Quarles Robins Robinson Shawhan Taliaferro Tatum Teackle Thornton Walker Waller and West.