Modified format genealogy tracing more than 10 generations of the descendants of George Bigbie, who lived in Tidewater Virginia in the early 1700s. Traces at nearly a dozen distinct family lines in Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas, and includes families with surname spelling variants Bigbee, Bigby, Bigbey, and others. Introduction includes a short essay on the probable origins of the Bigbie name. 172 + v pages, 1200-name personal name index, full footnotes, plus maps, photographs and black and white illustrations. This is a revised and enlarged edition of Volume 1 of the same title published in 1994 and 2010.

From Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogical magazine.

William Booton (ca. 1712-1787) was born in Virginia, perhaps the son of Joshua Boughton of Essex County, Virginia. He married Judith Hill (1719-after 1787), daughter of William and Frances Needles Hill. They had five children, ca. 1740-ca. 1762. Descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, and elsehwere. The surname is spelled Booton and Booten.