William Harwood (d. Sept. 1780) was a militia colonel, landowner and politician in the Colony of Virginia.
He represented Warwick County in the House of Burgesses for more than three decades (mostly with his neighbor William Digges) beginning in 1752), as well as during all five Virginia Revolutionary Conventions (although no record actually exists of his presence during the 2nd and 3rd conventions) and in the first session of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Acquired by the City of Newport News in 1995, it is now operated as a house museum focusing on the American Civil War, as well as a park.
The man living in Warwick County was almost certainly his son who soon moved to Kentucky.
William Harwood then owned nine enslaved adults, as well as a dozen enslaved teenagers, five horses and 50 cattle, as well as land (or at least livestock) in Lincoln County (which became Kentucky) and relatively nearby Charles City County, Virginia.