Talk:Sewell's Point
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[edit] Origins of Name
Edits from IP 71.0.87.105 were mine; sorry for not logging in. The attribution of the name to "Capt. John Seawell", if it is from the 11th ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica, doesn't appear anywhere else. The usual derivation from Henry Sewell (which you can find plenty of references to by doing a Web search) comes via standard genealogical and Virginia histories such as Warfield's, which rely on colonial documents that clearly demonstrate that Henry Sewell was established at Sewell's Point by 1640 (he died in 1644; his descendants moved to Maryland, hence the Warfield citation). --David Sewell 00:38, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
