The book traces the history of a property on James Wharf Road southwest of White Stone, historically known as the Thomas Lee Estate and now occupied by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Rappahannock. Primary landowners included the Lee, Lawson, and Sanders families. Epaphroditus Lawson patented the 1000 acres in 1650 and died two years later. The property went into the Lee family in 1676 when Lawson’s niece, Elizabeth Medestard, married Charles Lee, son of Richard Lee of Cobbs Hall. For the next two centuries most of the property was owned and divided by three succeeding Lee generations, all named Thomas. In 1750, the Thomas Lee Estate was the fifth largest land holding in Lancaster County. Some of the property was sold out of the Lee family in 1781 and eventually purchased by the Sanders family. Other portions became reconnected to the Lawson name through the marriage of Thomas Lee III’s daughter, Margaret, to Henry Chinn Lawson. In the 1870s through 1890s, descendants of both the Sanders and Lee-Lawson families sold much of the land along James Wharf Road in small parcels to African American individuals and groups. Some of the purchasers were the Taylor, Waddy, Kelley, Winder, Morris, Gordon, and Wiggins families and representatives of Mount Vernon Baptist Church and Cemetery and the Odd Fellows fraternal order.