William Boddy (1634/1635-1717) immigrated from England to Isle of Wight County, Virginia during or before 1661, and married three times (probably once in England). Other early Boddy immigrants are listed. William spelled his surname Boddy, but many records in early Virginia record the surname as Body, Bodye, Bodie, etc. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and elsewhere. Includes records of various ancestors in England, Scotland and elsewhere to the early 1400s.

William Henry Edwards, son of Meredith Edwards and Nancy Jackson, was born 7 Dec 1817 in Columbia County, Georgia. William married Epsey Morris on 17 Dec 1844. She died on 24 Mar 1847. William married Mary Elizabeth Perry on 7 Sep 1847. They had 11 children. William died 17 Dec 1883 in Warren County, Georgia and Mary died 24 Sep 1899 in Cordele, Georgia. Their descendants have lived in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, California, and other areas throughout the United States.

This work, naming 4,000 related individuals, contains the lineages of about fifty families, the main branches of which were located in Virginia, Maryland, and North and South Carolina. Genealogies of the following families are given: Allen, Aston, Barker-Bradford-Taylor, Berkeley-Ligon-Norwood, Binns, Butler, Claiborne, Clark, Colclough, Crafford, Crayfford-Crafford, Davis, Doniphan, Eldridge, Flood, Godwyn, Gray, Gregg, Griffis, Grigsby, Harris, Haynes, Jones, Mallory, Mason, Moore, Mumford-DeJarnette-Perryman, Newton, Norwood, Pace, Peche-Cornish-Everard-Mildmay-Harcourt-Crispe, Reade, Ruffin, Sledge, Smith, Sowerby-Sorsby, Stone-Smallwood-Smith, Stover, Thomas, Travis, Warren, Woodliffe, Wynne, and Wythe.

The second volume of the set (see Item 531) covers more families from the early counties of Virginia's Lower Tidewater and Southside regions. With an index in excess of 10,000 names.