Warrosquoake Shire (with numerous variant spellings, including Warrascoyack,[1] Warrascocke and "Warwick Squeak") was officially formed in 1634 in the Virginia colony, but had already been known as "Warascoyack County" before this. It was named for an Algonquian-speaking tribe that was part of the Powhatan Confederacy. The county was renamed Isle of Wight County in 1637, after an island in the English Channel.
- ^ Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. (1915). "Day, John". Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Vol. 1.