Edward Willett (1658-1744) immigrated from England to Prince George's County, Maryland before 1692. Descendants lived in Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Texas, California and elsewhere.

This book contains abstracts of legal records for Baldwin, Burke, Cherokee, Jackson, and Richmond Counties. It contains the names of approximately 16,000 persons listed in these records.

This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

"The main purpose of this work is to chronicle and categorize the life experiences of 519 persons who entered Maryland as indentured servants or, to a lesser extent, as convicts forcibly transported [between 1634-1777]. The text itself is composed of solidly researched sketches of Maryland servants and convicts and their descendants, including 84 that are traced to the third generation or beyond."--Amazon.com.

An expansion of The Willett families of North America published by the author in 1985.