A history of tobacco culture and its significance in Lancaster County in Virginia's Northern Neck, from the mid-1600s to about 1800. Includes excerpts from numerous primary sources to address tobacco agriculture; tobacco in overseas trade; tobacco inspection and port towns; tobacco and the Revolutionary War; tobacco as currency in county court, taxes, church parish matters, and daily life; and notable planters Robert 'King' Carter, Robert Bristow I, III, and IV, Joseph Ball II, James Gordon, and William Fauntleroy.
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