Talk:Sewell's Point

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)

Name Variants

The TITLE of this page needs to be corrected -- there is NO apostrophe in the official name. Martha's Vineyard has an apostrophe but no other officially named location in the United States has an apostrophe. Look it up: GNIS ID #1479568. -- preceding unattributed text is by 24.211.97.154 (and was moved from article body to the discussion page by 24.127.118.221)

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I did look up the GNIS ID on the US Board of Geographic Names website, and ironically it explicitly lists the following known variants:

 Mister Sewell's Point, Point Sowell, Pointe Sowell, Seawells Point, 
 Sewall Point, Sewalls Point, Sewell Point, Sewell's Point, 
 Sowells Point, Sowels Point.

24.127.118.221 (talk) 16:48, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Need a better map.

The map currently attached to the lede is a map, in Portuguese, of the Battle of Hampton Roads (1862). That should be deleted (or at least moved down to the relevant section) and replaced in the lede with a modern map or chart of the location, preferably in English. J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 17:25, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

I found better maps for both Hampton Roads and the battle, but couldn't find a modern one. RobDuch (talk) 04:49, 15 March 2019 (UTC)