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Thomas Newce (search for this): chapter 8.82
saying that the surnames of Captain Christopher Newport and Captain Thomas Newce are said to have furnished the component one of Newport Newcy of Virginia in the autumn of 1611, never to return, and as Captain Thomas Newce first arrived in the colony after April 18th, 1620, Neillle that the name (even supposing it to have been originally Newport-Newce) was given to the promontory in honor of, and to commemorate the joint surnames of Captain Newport and Captain Thomas Nuce or Newce. The distinguished citizen, above alluded to, is not the first person who has entertained the theory that the name was originally Newport-Newce, although he is, as far as I have learned, the first one who has conneote a labored argument to show that the name was originally Newport-Newce, and should for all time be so spelled; but he contended that the nwhether bestowed as to the last half of the name in honor of Captain Thomas Newce, or of the Knight-Marshall, Sir William Newce, I now proceed
Mary Tue (search for this): chapter 8.82
mpany in London, giving an account of the great massacre that occurred in March of that year. While stating in that letter that after the massacre Wee have thought most fitt to hold those few places, which they proceed to specify by name, they mention as one of those places Newport's News. At page 313, of Neill's History, is an account of certain proceedings of a Quarterly Court of the Company in London, held July 3d, 1622, relating to certain land in the Colony formerly belonging to Mrs. Mary Tue. The record says: Which land was for their servants psonall [personal] adventures, and lyes at Newport's Newes. In a memorandum of the same date, and in the same Quarterly Court, it is stated that the quantity of land referred to is one hundred and fifty acres, and was the land she assigned over to Mr. Daniell Gookin. [The ancient records abound with instances where the common noun news is spelled as newes; and as further undeniable proof that the word Newes in the foregoing qu
John William Jones (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
William Munford (search for this): chapter 8.82
les I, at a Grand Assemblie holden at James Cittie, the 2d of March, 1642, 1643, there was passed an Act (being the 15th Act of that session) defining the boundaries of Warwick County. In that Act occurs the following passage: * * * from the mouth of Heth's Creek up along the lower side, * * * with all the lands belonging to the Mills, and so down to Newport's News, with the families of Skowen's damms and Persimmon Ponds. --[Hening's Statutes 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 with the original manuscripts and find them to be correctly printed. They say that the terminating syllable teon, which is invariably written in the earlier part of the manuscripts con, is printed [in Hening] as it is now spelt tion. And they add that no other material variation from the ancient orthography has been observed. As you have seen,
S. M. Stowe (search for this): chapter 8.82
11, from London, to Sir Dudley Carleton, ambassador at the Hague, as follows: Newport, the Admiral of Virginia, is newly come home, and brings word of the arrival there of Sir Thomas Gates, &c. On the same page, and in reference to Chamberlaine's foregoing remark, Neill says: After this, Newport was chosen one of the six masters of the Royal Navy, and was engaged by the East India Company to escort Sir Robert Shirley to Persia; and for his authority Mr. Neill quotes Howe's continuation of Stowe's chronicles of England. We have no record showing that Newport ever returned to Virginia after 1611, and we have the following very strong grounds for believing that he never did return after that year to the Colony. After his return to England from Virginia in December, 1611, and his subsequent appointment to a high position in the Royal Navy, it seems he sailed for the East Indies, engaging in the meantime to convoy Sir Robert Shirley's ship to Persia. It is highly probable that the shi
Hampden (search for this): chapter 8.82
me being in the possessive case is crushingly fatal to that theory, and is conclusive proof that 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 Newc
John Newport (search for this): chapter 8.82
), Captain Newport's Bill of Adventure would have entitled him to 4,000 acres. of fower hundred pounds, and his sonne John Newport, the only son and heir.--[Nell.] now desyringe order from this Courte for the layinge out some part of the same; Mr. T State [in Va.] for the effecting thereof.--[Neill.] This minute is, I think, inconsistent with the theory, that Captain Newport was living when it was entered of record; for if he had then been alive, and had conveyed to his son, by deed of gife, instead of applying to the Company in London, would have had recourse direct to the Colonial Authorities, to whom Captain Newport would have written, apprising them of his transfer of right to his son. It may have been that Captain Newport hadCaptain Newport had, at an early day, located lands to the extent of a portion only of his land warrant, or had sold a part of his right to locate lands to such extent, and that his son applied in November, 1619, to the Company in London for authority to locate the re
Thomas Jefferson (search for this): chapter 8.82
Con. Collingwood, and the whole (bound in two volumes, the first of 354 pages and the second of 387 pages, containing the Company's Transactions from April 28, 1619, to June 7, 1624), was taken by Danvers to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, who was President of the Company. Space does not permit me to trace here the travels of these manuscript volumes through the hands and ownership of different parties in England and Virginia, until they came at length into the possession of Thomas Jefferson, and after his death were purchased by the Government of the United States, and are now in their manuscript state, in the library of that goverment in Washington, D. C. Three days before the comparison was finished, judgment (in court) was pronounced against the Company, and on the 15th July the King ordered all the papers of the Company to be given up to a commission. This was done, but the commissioners knew nothing of the copies that had been executed by Collingwood's clerk. [
Henry Wriothesley (search for this): chapter 8.82
ery a clerk of Collingwood's was locked up in a room of Sir John's house while he transcribed the minutes. After the work was done on sheets of folio paper, each page, in order to prevent interpolation, was carefully compared with the originals by Collingwood, and then subscribed Con. Collingwood, and the whole (bound in two volumes, the first of 354 pages and the second of 387 pages, containing the Company's Transactions from April 28, 1619, to June 7, 1624), was taken by Danvers to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, who was President of the Company. Space does not permit me to trace here the travels of these manuscript volumes through the hands and ownership of different parties in England and Virginia, until they came at length into the possession of Thomas Jefferson, and after his death were purchased by the Government of the United States, and are now in their manuscript state, in the library of that goverment in Washington, D. C. Three days before the comparison was
John Danvers (search for this): chapter 8.82
the Virginia Company of London, an attempt was made to obtain the records of the Company by their opponents. --[Neill.] Mr. Neill, in the preface to his history of that Company, states that Collingwood, the Secretary of the Company, informed Sir John Danvers, a prominent member of the Company, of this attempt, whereupon it was decided to have an accurate copy of the records made before the Company should be called on to deliver them up. To preclude discovery a clerk of Collingwood's was locked ue originals by Collingwood, and then subscribed Con. Collingwood, and the whole (bound in two volumes, the first of 354 pages and the second of 387 pages, containing the Company's Transactions from April 28, 1619, to June 7, 1624), was taken by Danvers to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, who was President of the Company. Space does not permit me to trace here the travels of these manuscript volumes through the hands and ownership of different parties in England and Virginia, until th
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