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Thomas Newce (search for this): chapter 8.82
Mary Tue (search for this): chapter 8.82
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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
William Munford (search for this): chapter 8.82
S. M. Stowe (search for this): chapter 8.82
Hampden (search for this): chapter 8.82
John Newport (search for this): chapter 8.82
Thomas Jefferson (search for this): chapter 8.82
Henry Wriothesley (search for this): chapter 8.82
John Danvers (search for this): chapter 8.82