[1] In 1802 the district was redrawn to cover Brunswick, Lunenberg and Mecklenburg Counties in Virginia.
To what extent modern Greensville County, Virginia was in the district is disputed between Martis and Parsons et al. To complicate the matter more Parsons et al. argue that Greensville County did not exist in 1803 while Thorndale and Dollarhide show it existing in that year.
[2] In 1812 the district was moved again this time to covering Chesterfield, Amelia, Powhatan and Goochland Counties.
These included Colonial Heights and some of the southern and western portions of Richmond, Virginia.
This gave it such modern independent cities as Clifton Forge, Salem, Roanoke and Buena Vista.
Virginia had lost population relative to the rest of the country and the 17th district was eliminated.