Edward Harwood (circa 1740 – after 1807) was a planter, justice of the peace, military officer and politician who represented Warwick County in the Virginia House of Delegates.
[4] Harwood, like his father and previous generations of this family in the colony, was a planter, presumably cultivating the area's main export crop, tobacco, and definitely used enslaved labor at Endview plantation.
[6] In 1787, Thomas Harwood again failed to appear in the tax census (i.e. died or moved away), but Edward Harwood owned 21 adult slaves and six enslaved teenagers (as well as a horse and 21 cattle) in Warwick county, compared to his brother William who owned 9 adult slaves and 12 enslaved teenagers (as well as five horses and 50 cattle).
He also led the local militia, attaining the rank of colonel in 1782, and became Warwick's county lieutenant in 1788 (although his governmental claim based on that military service was rejected).
[12][13] Although one site states that "Big Humphrey" Harwood was this man's son and living at Endview as the century began, another family historian names Big Humphrey as William's son and discusses two different Harwodd plantations transferred in Warwick County in 1795, the year of the elder brother's death in Kentucky.