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Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.82
Newport's News. Nomen non Locus. By Chas. Harris. Philadelphia, Pa., September 15, 1882. Rev. J. Wm. Jones, Secretary Southern Historical Society: Dear Sir — I have noticed for the past two years or more that the promontory at the mouth of James river, on its eastern side, is spelled in some Virginia newspapers as Newport News, and in others as Newport's News; and I saw, a week or two ago, in a recent number of the Norfolk Notes, Queries and Answers, a brief communication from a distinguished 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, Neill, in his History of the Virginia Company of London, says, Thomas Nuce settled at Elizabeth City, (now Hampton
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.82
Dear Sir — I have noticed for the past two years or more that the promontory at the mouth of James river, on its eastern side, is spelled in some Virginia newspapers as Newport News, and in others ahe Norfolk Notes, Queries and Answers, a brief communication from a distinguished citizen of Richmond, Va., saying that the surnames of Captain Christopher Newport and Captain Thomas Newce are said tir William Neuse in the Colony, and of his then naming the eastern promontory at the mouth of James river Newport-Newce, in commemoration of Sir William and himself. Mr. Grigsby was most evidentlyedly have said in it: We have, at their desire, seated them at the east point of the mouth of James river, which point has, within the last two months, been named Newport's News. Without some such at Large, Edit. 1809.] Creed Taylor and William Munford, authorized examiners, certify at Richmond, Va., on the 1st September, 1809, that they have carefully compared the laws in Hening's volumes
Henrico (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.82
e mouth of James river, which point has, within the last two months, been named Newport's News. Without some such explanatory remark, the Company in London would not have known whether Gookin's expedition had been seated above Jamestown, near Henrico, or below Jamestown, and above the mouth of the river, or on the southern shore of Hampton Roads, or on York river. Besides this, it would be illogical and unbusiness-like to suppose that a man of Gookin's well-known intelligence, enterprise Virginia in 1616, and now in the British Museum in the original manuscript, and sent by Rolfe to the Company in London in 1616, has, among others, the following statement: The places which are now possessed and inhabited are sixe, 1st. Henrico and the lymitts, 2d. Bermuda Nether Hundreds, 3d. West and Shirley Hundreds, 4th. James Towne, 5th. Kequoughtan [now, 1882, Hampton], 6th. Dale's Gift; upon the sea neere unto Cape Charles; and Rolfe states that 351 persons
Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.82
ained the theory that the name was originally Newport-Newce, although he is, as far as I have learn Mr. Grigsby's position. Mr. Grigsby says: Newport was the old Admiral of the Colony, and Sir Widard of St. George. Mr. Grigsby also depicts Newport, (being then at last settled in his quiet homt coming up the river, Mr. Grigsby says: Now, Newport was really present on this occasion, which, bort's News was named. Now, with respect to Newport's and Sir William Neuse's The name is varie's foregoing remark, Neill says: After this, Newport was chosen one of the six masters of the Royang of the singular coincidence of the fact of Newport's planting at Newport's News, at his own costedition on Newport's News in November, 1621. Newport was not even the master, as some might possibards published there. I have not read from Newport's pen any account of his discoveries and acts letter to Mr. Deane, cites the compound name Newport-Pagnall, in England, and the following compou[27 more...]
Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.82
hat the type-setter carelessly printed the word Nuse for News; pronouncing, in his mind, the word Nuse as if rhyming with Fuse, and therefore sounding, as to its last three letters, precisely like the sound of the last three letters of the word News. Mr. Grigsby, in his letter to Mr. Deane, cites the compound name Newport-Pagnall, in England, and the following compound names in this country, viz: Hampden-Sidney, Randolph-Macon, Wilkes-Barre, and Say-Brook, Written at the present day Wilkesbarre and Saybrook. in support of his theory; as if he should assert, by way of argument: Because those compound names are what they are, and were originated, as everybody knows, to perpetuate in each case the united surnames of two persons, therefore the compound name Newport's News is orthographically incorrect, and is but a corruption of what I assert is the true and original name, i. e. Newport Newce. I hardly ever saw an argument or an attempted argument that exhibited a more striking i
Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.82
er was written), the writers of it would, for obvious reasons, most assuredly have said in it: We have, at their desire, seated them at the east point of the mouth of James river, which point has, within the last two months, been named Newport's News. Without some such explanatory remark, the Company in London would not have known whether Gookin's expedition had been seated above Jamestown, near Henrico, or below Jamestown, and above the mouth of the river, or on the southern shore of Hampton Roads, or on York river. Besides this, it would be illogical and unbusiness-like to suppose that a man of Gookin's well-known intelligence, enterprise and energy, would not first visit and explore some considerable portions of the land, and doubtless select the locality where, or near where, he intended to plant his Company, before taking out from Ireland a Company of fifty emigrants, well furnished with all sortes of pvisione, [provision,] as well as with cattle, as is stated in that Janua
York (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.82
e writers of it would, for obvious reasons, most assuredly have said in it: We have, at their desire, seated them at the east point of the mouth of James river, which point has, within the last two months, been named Newport's News. Without some such explanatory remark, the Company in London would not have known whether Gookin's expedition had been seated above Jamestown, near Henrico, or below Jamestown, and above the mouth of the river, or on the southern shore of Hampton Roads, or on York river. Besides this, it would be illogical and unbusiness-like to suppose that a man of Gookin's well-known intelligence, enterprise and energy, would not first visit and explore some considerable portions of the land, and doubtless select the locality where, or near where, he intended to plant his Company, before taking out from Ireland a Company of fifty emigrants, well furnished with all sortes of pvisione, [provision,] as well as with cattle, as is stated in that January-letter. To do
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 8.82
e hands and ownership of different parties in England and Virginia, until they came at length into Howe's continuation of Stowe's chronicles of England. We have no record showing that Newport ever that year to the Colony. After his return to England from Virginia in December, 1611, and his subs. Newport was a seafaring man sailing out of England, and was never in the Colony after 1611, and relatione at all to his contract with you in England. * * * He hath alsoe brought with him aboute ne Captain Nathaniel Butler was sent out from England to the Colony as a kind of public inspector ar, and in that year he formulated and sent to England a list of charges, separately numbered, not o 1608, and of course before Smith returned to England, he published in quarto form in London, A truid Collony, to a worshipfull friend of his in England, &a., &c. I have never seen this Relation. no doubt that on one of his early returns to England from Virginia, He sailed to and fro many t[3 more...]
London, Madison County, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.82
1620, Neill, in his History of the Virginia Company of London, says, Thomas Nuce settled at Elizabeth City, (now Hamptonn died. An entry on the record of the Virginia Company of London, dated August 6th, 1623, mentions the receipt of a letter ty by the Company. on which date he, (being now present in London, as the record of the Virginia Company of London states,) London states,) was appointed, by a resolution of the Company, to be a Deputy, to take charge of the Company's Lands and Tenants in Virginiake away and abolish the charter of the Virginia Company of London, an attempt was made to obtain the records of the Company rs.] In writing the History of the Virginia Company of London, Mr. Neill made use of the above-mentioned copies, besidest volume containing the letters of the Company, written in London, and the letters of the Colonial authorities, also other pt John Chamberlaine wrote on the 18th December, 1611, from London, to Sir Dudley Carleton, ambassador at the Hague, as follo
Europe (search for this): chapter 8.82
nd laudatory mention of that promontory as the most desirable site on the Continent for a great seat of commerce when the country back to the mountains should become thickly settled. Possibly he may have made a hobby of the idea in his personal intercourse with people in both countries, in season and out of season, until at last people, whether in sport or otherwise, came to apply the two first words of the title of his pamphlet to the place as its name. Many a place in this country and in Europe has had its name stuck on it, or thrown at it until it stuck, in some such way by incidents or causes that no one at first supposed would result in shaping and attaching the name to the place. As coinciding with this view of the case, and to prove that Newport was regarded as a great schemer, full of projects, vain and bombastic, I make the following quotations. Stith, at page 76 of his History, says: Captain Newport was in reality an empty, idle, interested man, very fearful and suspici
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