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New Kent County was established in 1654, as the Virginia General Assembly with the governor's consent split York County. [3] The county's name originated because several prominent inhabitants, including William Claiborne, recently had been forced from their settlement at Kent Island, Maryland, by Lord Baltimore upon the formation of Maryland. [4]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Kent County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in New Kent County, Virginia" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Captain Thomas Oliphant West (1670 West Point, VA – 23 December 1740, New Kent, VA); married Agnes Frances Estes Burton (1670–1720). They had five children. They had five children. West was said to have fathered a son with the Pamunkey leader Cockacoeske about 1656, several years before West's marriage to Unity Croshaw.
David Crawford was born circa 1625, in Scotland, emigrating to the Virginia Colony with his father, John Crawford around 1643. [2] His father was later killed in Bacon's Rebellion of 1676. His daughter Elizabeth (died 1762) married Nicholas Meriwether II of New Kent County, an ancestor of Meriwether Lewis .
William Clayton (c. 1717 – December 14, 1797) was Virginia planter, officer, patriot and politician who served as the clerk of New Kent County, Virginia for decades, and also represented the county in the House of Burgesses (1766–1771), in the final Virginia Revolutionary Convention and first session of the Virginia House of Delegates, and in the 1788 Virginia convention to ratify the ...
He had land patents in the counties of New Kent, for 545 acres (2.21 km 2), Henrico for 148 acres (0.60 km 2), and two grants in King and Queen county for 172 and 425 acres (1.72 km 2). [1] He also served as a vestryman of Bruton Parish church (which is located in the restored area of Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia) in 1678. [1]
A view along New Kent Highway Union Army camp at Cumberland Landing, May 1862. New Kent is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of New Kent County, Virginia, United States. [1] The population as of the 2020 Census was 739. [2] Cumberland Landing, Cumberland Plantation, and the Cumberland Marsh Natural Area Preserve are near ...