Warwick River Shire

It was located on the Virginia Peninsula on the northern shore of the James River between Hampton Roads and the Jamestown Settlement.

During the 17th century, shortly after establishment of Jamestown in 1607, English settlers had explored and began settling the areas adjacent to Hampton Roads.

By 1634, the English colony of Virginia consisted of eight shires or counties with a total population of approximately 5,000 inhabitants.

[1] Rich's Richneck Plantation was located in the modern day independent city of Newport News, Virginia.

Up until the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom of 1786 disestablished the Church of England in Virginia, Warwick River Shire included the Anglican Parishes of Blunt Poynt (Blount Point), Denbigh,[2] Mulberry Island, Nutmeg Quarter, Stanley Hundred, Warwick, and Waters Creek.