Accomack County, Virginia

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Located on the southern Delmarva peninsula, off the east coast of Virginia; organized 1663 from Northampton County.

Named for a subtribe of the Powhatans, the Accomack. The name is said to mean 'across the water,' since they lived across Chesapeake Bay from their kinsmen. The county retains the spelling closer to the Indian word accawmacke.



In 1642, the name was changed to Northampton by the English, to eliminate "heathen" names in the New World. Northampton was split into two counties in 1663. The northern section assumed the original Accomac name, the southern, Northampton. In 1940, the General Assembly officially added a "k" to the end of the county's name to arrive at its current spelling. The name of "Accomack County" first appeared in the Decisions of the United States Board on Geographical Names in 1943.

The first Sheriff in the United States, William Stone, was appointed to serve Accomack County in 1634.



In 1670, Virginia Colony's Royal Governor William Berkeley abolished Accomac County, but the Virginia General Assembly recreated it in 1671.

Birth

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth		Person ID
1	MAJOR, Alice	1642	Accomack County, Virginia	I46252

Died

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Died		Person ID
1	WALKER, Peter	1694	Accomack County, Virginia	I46253