9 The 25 Virginia counties in being by 1703 were as follows: Royalist names: King and Queen, King William, Elizabeth City, Henrico, Prince George, Charles City, James City, Princess Anne; southern and western names: Surry, Isle of Wight, Gloucester, Northampton, Warwick, Stafford, Middlesex, New Kent; eastern names: Norfolk, Essex; northern names: York, Lancaster, Northumberland, Westmorland; Indian names: Accomac, Nansemond. Naming patterns in Maryland were similar, but not precisely the same. The name of the first county reflected the Roman Catholic religion of the founders. Many counties were given the surnames of families related to the lord proprietor of this colony, and a few bore royal names. Only a small minority were named after English counties. All these place names, without exception, were from the south and west of England: Religious names: St Mary’s; proprietary names: Baltimore, Calvert, Cecil, Harford, Anne Arundel, Caroline; Indian names: Wicomico, Allegany; Royalist names: Prince George’s, Charles, Frederick; English counties and towns (all south and west): Dorcester, Kent, Worcester, Somerset, Talbot; Revolutionary leaders: Washington, Montgomery, Howard, Carroll. The two counties of southern Delaware were named Sussex and Kent, both in the south of England.

10 These parish names, and the English counties from which they came, were as follows: South Farnham (Surrey); Abingdon (Oxford); Petsworth (Sussex); Ware (Hertfordshire); Kingston (Worcester-Herefordshire); Bristol (Somerset); Bruton (Somerset); Newport (Isle of Wight); Sittenbourn [sic] (Kent); Whitechapel (London); Southwark (London); Warwick (Warwickshire); Washington (Sussex); Hampton (Middlesex); see Brydon, Virginia’s Mother Church, I, 363-64.