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  2. Arthur Smith (captain) - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Smith was born around 1680 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, the eldest son of Colonel Arthur Smith III and Mary Bromfield Smith. [5] Smith came from two prominent Isle of Wight families. Smith's father was appointed High Sheriff of Isle of Wight County by Acting Governor of Virginia, Francis Nicholson . [ 6 ]

  3. History of the Isle of Wight - Wikipedia

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    The Isle of Wight Festival was a very large rock festival that took place near Afton Down, West Wight in 1970, following two smaller concerts in 1968 and 1969. The 1970 show was notable both as one of the last public performances by Jimi Hendrix and for the number of attendees, reaching by some estimates 600,000. [ 56 ]

  4. John George (Virginia colonist) - Wikipedia

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    The list of burgesses for the 1651 assembly does not include members from Isle of Wight County so John George's participation in that assembly can not be verified, but he is listed as a member for the first 1652 assembly. Only one member for Isle of Wight County, not John George, is listed for a second assembly in 1652. [10]

  5. Burwell family of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Maj. Lewis Burwell (1621–1653), [3] was baptized on 5 March 1621/22 at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, England.In 1650, the wealthy planter (who owned about 7000 acres of land) married Lucy Higginson, whose parents had likewise emigrated to the Virginia colony to escape the English Civil War, but whose father Robert, after leading the Middle Plantation militia and arranging a stockade to protect ...

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Isle of ...

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    Location of Isle of Wight County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National ...

  7. Isle of Wight - Wikipedia

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    On the Isle of Wight neolithic occupation is attested to by flint tool finds, pottery and monuments. The Isle of Wight's neolithic communities were agriculturalists, farming livestock and crops. The Isle of Wight's most recognisable neolithic site is the Longstone at Mottistone, the remains of an early Neolithic long barrow. Initially ...

  8. Wihtwara - Wikipedia

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    The term Wihtware translates from Old English as "the people of the Isle of Wight", with the suffix -ware denoting a people group, as in Cantware ("the people of Kent"). [1] [2] [3] In the Old English translation of Bede's work, the term Wihtsætan is used instead, possibly as it was the more common name by which the group was known at the time of writing.

  9. Betty Compton - Wikipedia

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    Sandown, Isle of Wight, England. Died July 12, 1944. ... Isle of Wight Family History Society Archived 2013-07-16 at the Wayback Machine; External links

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