Part I. The people: their homes, ways, works, worships. -- Chapter I: Geographical location--Antecedents--Jamestown Settlement. II: Progress and expansion from Jamestown--Origin of King and Queen's County. III: Resources, climate, etc. IV: George Rogers Clark: his nativity and his exploits. V: Legislative action concerning the formation, and intended to advance the interest, of the County of King and Queen--Henning's "Statutes at large." VI: Church houses and old homes. VII: Religious denominations.

Part II. Civil War annals. -- Chapter VIII: The war starts--the home guard. IX: Rosters of King and Queen County in the Civil War. X: War records, letters, and diaries. XI: From Richmond to Appomattox. XII: Historical address by J. Ryland, Sr.

Part III. Domestic and social. -- Chapter XII[sic]: Selections from the poems of King and Queen. XIII: Two men deserving to be remembered, and a boy sent on an errand. XIV: Life on the old plantation. XV: Colored people of King and Queen County.

Part IV. Miscellanies. -- Chapter XVI: Family and individual records. XVII: Genealogies. XVIII: Fragments. [XIX: Representatives of King and Queen in Burgesses, committees, conventions, etc.]

Illustrations: Rev. Alfred Babgy, D.D. -- Map of King and Queen County -- Col. John Pollard -- Lower church of St. Stevens Parish -- Col. J. C. Councill -- Hon. J. H. C. Jones -- Sketch showing location where home guards of King and Queen County attacked Col. Dahlgren's command -- Capt. Edward Campbell Fox --- Dahlgren's Corner -- Miss Sarah Jane Pollard (Mrs. Alfred Bagby) -- Mr. John Bagby -- Thomas Roane Dew -- Col. Samuel F. Harwood -- Bell Air