Accomac Shire was established in the Colony of Virginia by the House of Burgesses in 1634 under the direction of King Charles I. It was one of the original...

were: Accomac Shire (since 1642 Northampton County, Virginia) Charles City Shire (since 1637 Charles City County, Virginia) Charles River Shire (since...

Accomac may refer to: Accomac, Virginia, a town in Virginia Accomac Shire, a former county in Virginia of which the town was the county seat Accomac, Pennsylvania...

Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Accomac is the county seat. The Eastern Shore of Virginia was known as "Accomac Shire," until it was renamed Northampton...

now in Northampton County, Virginia, and served as Commissioner for Accomac Shire in 1629. Captain Graves and three others represented the Eastern Shore...

Est. Origin Etymology Population Area Map Accomack County 001 Accomac 1663 Accomac Shire was established in 1634 as one of the original eight shires of...

total population of 4,914 settlers. Warrosquoake Shire included 522 persons at the time. It and Accomac Shire were the only shires given Native-American names...

into the government's service, by way of official interpreter of the Accomac Shire region. Savage continued to serve as an interpreter until his death...

paramount chief of the Accomac people, which numbered around 2,000 at the time. The former name of the county was Accomac Shire, one of the original eight...

part of the Delmarva Peninsula. Its population was 45,695 as of 2020. Accomac Shire was established in the Virginia Colony by the House of Burgesses in...

on the Western Shore. One of the eight original shires of Virginia, Accomac Shire was established there in 1634, eventually becoming the two counties...

original political form are: Accomac Shire (1634–1643) (extinct) Elizabeth River Shire (1634–1636) became Elizabeth City Shire in 1636, and then Elizabeth...

Virginia were: Accomac Shire (later Northampton & Accomack Counties) Charles City Shire (later Charles City County) Charles River Shire (later York County)...

Shore of Virginia with his family around 1628, and represented the Accomac Shire in the Virginia General Assembly in the 1630's. A brother, Sir Charles...

Dragon and Endymion. Joynes' battery was manned by a force of the Accomac Shire militia. Favourable wind and wave conditions allowed the British to...

Commissioners of Maryland. They reported that British squatters from Accomac Shire, including by Charles Scarborough, had encroached upon their lands and...

brothers had settled on what was initially the only shire on Virginia's Eastern Shore, then called Accomac County after a native American settlement. When...

1634: James City, Henrico, Charles City, Charles River, Warrosquyoake, Accomac, Elizabeth City, and Warwick River. America's oldest intact county court...

they were geographically separated from it by the Chesapeake Bay Accomac / Accomac / Accawmack / Accawmacke / Accowmack Were organized into a confederation...

for protection every year." He continued to say, they had eight towns in Accomac, the largest of which was in Northampton, where the Gangascoe (Gingaskins)...

organized into two parishes divided by King's Creek in 1642, and in 1663 Accomac Parish was split off from the northern part of Hungar's Parish. In 1690...

Fleets, 1939. London: Chatham publishing. p. 511. ISBN 1-86176-023-X. "SS Accomac (+1940)". www.wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 6 December 2019. "Admiralty War Diary...