Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Newport” in chapter 8.82 of Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10.:

...tinguished citizen of Richmond, Va., saying that the surnames of Captain Christopher Newport and Captain Thomas Newce are said to have furnished the component one of Newport Newce, now corrupted into Newport News. As Captain Newport left the colony of Virginia in the autumn of 1611, never to return, and as Captain Thomas Newce first arrived in the colony after April 18th, 1620, on which date he, (b...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
Christopher Newport 78 43 6 1 0 user votes
Newport 26 0 2 0 0 user votes
John Newport 15 8 1 0 0 user votes
De Newport 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
R. I. Newport 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
R. M. Newport 2 0 0 0 0 user votes

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