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	virginia.titlepg
		Virginia was ruled as a royal colony of the king (as opposed to a proprietary colony, where authority was granted to an individual such as William Penn or Lord Calvert) until the American Revolution.
		County boundaries would be defined and revised for many reasons until the last county was created in 1880, but the primary basis for drawing Virginia's county boundaries was to make the courts accessible.
		In 2001, the population of this county was estimated 13,577.
	www.cynthiaswope.com /withinthevines/virginia/titlepg.html (9997 words)

	Warwick County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Warwick County was one of the first eight "shires" that were
		Also in 1952, Elizabeth City County merged into the city of Hampton, as the Hampton Roads communities dealt with urbanization and the potential threat of annexation by the city of Norfolk.
		The county was named after either the Earl of Warwick, one of the financial backers of the London Company that led early colonization, or the English county of Warwick.
	www.virginiaplaces.org /vacount/warwick.html (123 words)

	Chronological history of Warwick County Virginia
		Denbigh, best known of the Warwick Plantations was so named and was the seat of Capt. Mathews, who in 1626 is recorded as having taken up land in the Blunt Point area, calling his plantation "Mathew's Manor".
		The state enumeration for Warwick County showed 111 families with 586 whites and 774 Negroes.
		January- Newport News withdrew from Warwick Co. and was incorporated as a city.
	www.rootsweb.com /~vawarwic/history.htm (859 words)

	Matthew Jones of Warwick County, Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A. MATTHEW JONES JR married MARTHA (--?--) at Warwick, Virginia.
		She was born at Isle of Wight, Virginia.
		B. MARGARET JONES was born at Warwick, Virginia.
	hometown.aol.com /vafdking/jonesm.htm (1021 words)

	Miles Cary of Warwick County, Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		THOMAS CARY JR was born in 1670 at Warwick, Virginia.
		B. ANNE CARY was born in 1649 at Warwick, Virginia.
		C. HENRY CARY SR was born in 1650 at Warwick, Virginia.
	hometown.aol.com /vafdking/cary.htm (769 words)

	WillsFE
		Among the 17th century settlers of Mulberry Isiand Parish in Warwick County, Virginia were members of the Wills family, whose descendants later spread to isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Amelia, Fluvanna, and other counties in the colony and state, and to North Carolina.
		12 Robert Pyland was clerk of court for Wan•vick County in 1647, captain of militia by 1649, and deceased by 1672.
		27 Robert Hubbard was burgess for Warwick in 1692, 1697, and 1703, and sheriff in 1704.
	homepage.mac.com /wkfisher1/Genealogical_Glean/WillsFE.html (3213 words)

	Free Surname Search - Virginia
		Virginia Revolutionary War Land Office Military Certificates : A fully-searchable index to military certificates issued by the Virginia Land Office to soldiers and sailors who were entitled to receive bounty land as a result of their Revolutionary War service.
		The Library of Virginia WPA Life Histories collection : Approximately 1,350 life histories, social-ethnic studies, and youth studies; more than 50 interviews with former slaves, and a small number of folklore studies, all of which were created by the staff of the Virginia Writers' Project during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
		This is roughly the southern 2/3 of Amelia County.
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	Denbigh, Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was named for Denbigh Plantation, which was patented by Colonel Samuel Mathews, who came to Virginia before 1618, filled several important posts, and became the father of Samuel Mathews, a royal governor of the Virginia Colony from 1657-1660.
		The town of Denbigh was the county seat of Warwick County from 1810 until 1952, except for a short period from 1888 to 1896 when the courthouse was located in what is now downtown Newport News.
		The present-day City of Newport News essentially includes all the territory of Warwick River Shire, formed in 1634 in colonial Virginia, which became Warwick County in 1643.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denbigh,_Virginia (300 words)

	The Chappells
		He then studied land records of the Colony of Virginia, and of several early Virginia counties to trace the subsequent movement of the various families.
		Warwick County is now the city of Newport News and sits on the north side of Norfolk harbor across from the city of Norfolk.
		At this time in Virginia all misdemeanors were tried in the local counties, but all felonies were heard at the capitol in Williamsburg.
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	Descendants of John Langhorne, 1640
		John Langhorne was a member of the Virginia colonial legislature and bought 1,990 acres on the James River in what is now the City of Newport News, partly paid by bounty from the government for transporting 14 people to Virginia, upon which land he built a house he called Gambell, which burnt down in 1818.
		Due to the destruction of a large number of Warwick County records during the Civil War, all that is known of Captain John Langhorne, is that he was a powerful and influential man. Upon his arrival in Virginia, John Langhorne purchased 1,300 acres from William Whitby, Jr.
		The Langhorne family of Virginia represent the continuity of wealth that was established in the 17th Century, and guided the future of the ruling families of the Old Dominion for three hundred years.
	www.livelyroots.com /langhorne/d1.htm (2780 words)

	CaRJ Ancestors in Colonial America
		Virginia Governor Robert "King" Carter, through his mother Sarah Ludlowe, is reported to be a 15th generation descendant of King Ferdinand III (Saint Ferdinand III), of Castile and Leon (born 1199).
		[He was] clerk of the general court, 1691; burgess for Warwick county in 1688, for James City 1692-93, and for Warwick county from 1698 to 1706; register of the vice-admiralty court, 1697; naval officer of York river; trustee of William and Mary College, 1693, and afterwards rector; surveyor-general, 1692 to 1708.
		June 2, 1727, in Virginia; the son of Sir Edmund and Margaret (Burkham) Jennings, of Ripon, York Co., England, and grandson of Sir Jonathan Jennings, of Ripon, and Sir Edward Burkham, Lord Mayor of London, 1621-22.
	www.cssvirginia.org /tyson/jones/carj-ancestors.html (5128 words)

	Newport News, Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Newport News is an independent city located in Virginia.
		It is on the southern end the Virginia Peninsula on the north shore of Hampton Roads.
		One popular explanation holds when the first Jamestown Virginia colonists left to return to England the Starving Time of 1610 they encountered Captain Christopher Newport's ship the James River off Mulberry Island and that reinforcements of men and supplies had and that the colonists need not abandon Thus the City was named for Newport's news.
	www.freeglossary.com /Newport_News,_Virginia (695 words)

	Within The Vines, Volume I: Our American Immigrants
		Formerly a Painter Stainer of London, he Commanded Middle Plantation Virginia, a palisaded settlement on the future site of Williamsburg and was ìone of the first Commandírs that subdued the county of Virginia from the power of the heathenî according to his dtrís tomb.
		Their children are noted being born commencing in the early 1720s in Lancaster County, Penna. It is not known if she married her husband in America or not; It is assumed that he came with his father 1717 to America to join Rudolf's grandfather Bishop Hans Herr.
		According to a study of Elbert County published in 1893, and in which several errors are found regarding the Booker entry, "The Bookers are of Welsh-Irish descent, and were among the oldest families of Virginia, settling there many years before the war of independence." Ascendancy for William M Booker is underway.
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	A further Look at Hugh DANIEL of Old Rappahannock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1675 Dennis McCarty, brother-in-law of Hugh Daniell, sold 250 acres of land in Lower Norfolk VA that had formerly belonged to Thomas Allen, whose daughter, Ann Allen, had married Thomas Daniell, born abt 1675 of Isle of Wight, s/of John born ca 1655, s/of John ca 1635.
		And, of course, Hugh Daniel who was appointed an Ensign in 1779, his approximate date of birth could be about 1749 if he aged 30 at the time of his appointment in 1779.
		There has been a suggestion that James Daniel of Essex County, Virginia was a son of Hugh Daniel and Mary Billington; however, Miss Lula Harrison of the Clerk's office in Tappahannock could find no evidence that Hugh and Mary ever had a son James.
	paynedaniel.com /hughd.htm (1355 words)

	VA Deed Records
		Waid of the one part of the County of Franklin and State of Virginia, and Creed W. Waid of the second part of the County and State aforesaid...the same being in possession of Ann Waid and held by her as her dower in the lands of her deceased husband, Robert Waid....
		Between Henry Skidmore of the county of Lee and State of Virginia of the one part, and William Standerford of the county of Lee and sate aforesaid of the other part.
		Rowe states that "this family was first found in Virginia about 1657 where Vincent Standiford lived on 200 acres of land on the north side of the Rappahannock River, running west to a branch of the Corotoman River in Lancaster County.
	www.carolyar.com /VADeeds.html (2770 words)

	Warwick County, Virginia , Posted Queries for
		The family seems to have fluctuated between Mulberry Island or Warwick and York County, Virginia.
		I believe that their son JOHN WILLS whose birth of 29 November 1705 was registered in the Charles Parish Records of York County, was the same JOHN WILLS who settled in Bertie County North Carolina in 1730/40s.
		Warwick Co-Edward MUMFORD m 1688 to Mary WATKINS, dau of Joseph.
	www.rootsweb.com /~vawarwic/query001.htm (901 words)

	FUMC of Newport News, VA - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The worship service had to be out in time to catch the trolley and thus the earlier time.
		The original wood frame building came down and construction started on the new brick church that stands today at the corner of Warwick Boulevard and Main Street.
		The name was changed to First United Methodist Church to reflect that we went beyond the Village, as Newport News had grown and engulfed the Village.
	www.gbgm-umc.org /fumc-nnva/history/index.html (597 words)

	Royalty to Rogues - Source Page 1
		Dunaway household, Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, Halifax County, Virginia, Population Schedule, page 448A, Staunton District, Enumeration District (ED) 126, Sheet 36, Line(s) 1-7, Dwelling 259, Family 259; National Archives Microfilm Publication T9-1369.
		[S45] Lafyat Robbins household, Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, Accomack County, Virginia, Population Schedule, page 154A, St. Georges Parish, PO Locust Mount, Sheet 11, Line(s) 28-35, Dwelling 53, Family 62; National Archives Microfilm Publication M593-1630.
		[S112] L. Robbins household, Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, Norfolk County, Virginia, Population Schedule, page 300, Norfolk, PO Norfolk, Sheet 26, Line(s) 1-2, Dwelling 178, Family 196; National Archives Microfilm Publication M653-1366.
	www.l-dunaway.net /s1.htm (1733 words)

	Warwick County and the City of Newport News, Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Warwick County and the City of Newport News, Virginia
		for the Upper New River Valley of North Carolina and Virginia
		History of American Baptists - Virginia - 1848
	www.newrivernotes.com /va/warwick.htm (73 words)

	Chesapeake Bay - 20th Century - The Mariners' Museum
		In 1918, Camp Abraham Eustis became the army's Balloon Observation School and a Coast Artillery Center.
		Named for Brevit Brigadier General Abraham Eustis, first commanding officer of Fort Monroe, the camp was built along the James River on Mulberry Island, then part of Warwick County, Virginia, on the land which had been owned by John Rolfe in the seventeenth century.
		The terrain offered a perfect training facility for soldiers preparing to fight in the trenches of France.
	www.mariner.org /chesapeakebay/century/wwi010.html (224 words)

	Virginia News: Van Arsdale Murder Case, Warwick Co., 1901
		Virginia News: Van Arsdale Murder Case, Warwick Co., 1901
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		Cemeteries of the City of Newport News Formerly Warwick County Virginia
	theoldentimes.com /vanarsdale01wrwckva.html (61 words)

	Newport News and Warwick County, Virginia Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		My name is Gregg and I am the coordinator for this City.
		Please e-mail any queries to gsgrunow@yahoo.com This page will also address, Warwick County, extinct since 1952.
		1958 The City of Newport News and City of Warwick combine to form The City of Newport News
	www.angelfire.com /ne2/newportnews_va (54 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 84225760 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Table of contents for Some descendants of Francis Albrighton (1609-1667), Mathew Jones of Mulberry Island, Virginia (1643-1712), and Ralph Albritton of York County, Virginia (1656 ca.-1701), and connecting families / by Eleanor Davis McSwain.
		EGIAND 13 Early Records i- Roger d Albryghton by The Rev. Duane W. H, Arnold, MA.
		6-11 &iglish Records Furnished by The Rev. Duane W. H Arnold, M,A. Albrightons in Staffordshire, Ehgland 17-34 AMERICA Francis Albrighton of York Co., Virginia 355 Joseph Albrighton of York Co., Virginia 5 Ralph Albritton of York Co,q Virginia 58-161.
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