This is the fourth volume of a five-volume work consisting of Virginia genealogies from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, a notable periodical that contained a large number of genealogies that will be of help to the researcher (see item 6086 for a full description of the five-volume set). This volume consists of articles about the following main families in the alphabetical sequence Healy-Pryor: Healy, Herndon, Heth, Hill, Hoffman, Hooe, Hoxton, Hughes, Johnson, Lanier (with Anderson, Robertson, Jennings, Knight, Woodson), Lee, Lefebure, Le Grand, Lewis, Lightfoot, Lindsay, Ludlow, Mallory, Markham, Marshall, Maupin, Mauzey-Mauzy, Michaux, Micou, Minor, Moore, Mordecai, Morgan, Morriss-Wade, Morton, Moseley, Muse, New, Newsom (with Sheppard, Spencer, Crawford, Carter, Barham, Judkins, Thorpe), Newton, Opie, Parker, Payne, Pendleton, Peticolas, Pickett, Pleasants, Poindexter, Poythress, Presly, Proby, and Pryor.
See also the other individual volumes in the series: Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, and Volume V.