_The Royal Cavalcade_ _The King of the Northern Neck_ _Kith and Kin_ _The Fieldings_ _Pirates_ _Christmas at Colonel Fitzhugh's_ _Indian Visitors_ _Horse Racing_ _Manufacture_ _The Potomac Rangers_ PART II--EIGHTEENTH CENTURY _Murders in Stafford_ _Free Schools_ _The Home in the Forest_ _Cherry Point_ _Sandy Point_ _Augustine_ _Popes Creek_ _The War Path_ _Falmouth_ _Burnt House Field_ _Stratford Hall_ _George Washington_ _Epsewasson_ _Ferry Farm_ _Fredericksburg_ _School Days_ _The Indians_ _The Pow-Wow_ _Mount Vernon_ _Washington Washed Here--_ _The Ordinary_ _Nelly_ _Miss Betsy_ _The Proprietor of the Northern Neck_ _The Marshalls_ _The Leedstown Resolutions_ _Fithian_ _The School in the Wildwood_ _James and John_ _Captain Dobby_ _Pedlars_ _Seven Satin Petticoats_ _Phi Beta Kappa_ _Light-Horse Harry_ _A Band of Brothers_ _The Divine Matilda_ _Madam Washington_ _After the Revolution_ _Mantua_ PART III--NINETEENTH CENTURY _Robert E. Lee_ _Smith Point Light_ _The Raiders_ _Steamboats_ _Hannah and the Falling Stars_ _Dear to His Heart_ _The Blockade_ _The Home Guard_ _The Mystery of Horse Pond_ _Schooner in a Mill-pond_ _War Bonnets_ _Amanda and the Yankees_ _The Horsehair Ring_ _Miracle at Ketchum's Camp_ _Desperate Passage_ _After the War_ _Speech_ _Shopping Trips_ _Menhaden_ _The Old Stone Pile_ _Keepers of the Light_ _The Headless Dog_ PART IV--CONCLUSION _The Ancient Mansion Seats_ _Appendix_ _Sources_ List of Illustrations John Smith in the shallop exploring the waters of Northern Neck, Virginia Henry Spelman living amongst the Indians Pocahontas is traded for a copper kettle and becomes an hostage to Captain Argall First settlers at Coan "King" Carter attends Christ Church Mary Ball at Yeocomico Church The infant, George Washington at Wakefield, his birthplace Young Washington helping in the handling of "seine" on the Potomac Young George Washington becomes a friend of Lord Fairfax, Proprietor of Northern Neck Young Robert E. Lee learning to ride Skirmish between the Virginia Militia and the British during the War of 1812 at Farnham Church "Yankee" foragers during the Civil War _Introduction_