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orthampton, Northumberland, Orange, Richmond, Southampton, Stafford, Surry, Sussex, Warwick, York, and perhaps some others, are names derived from England or English officials or noblemen. Patrick and Henry, (after Patrick Henry,) Jefferson, Nelson, Harrison, Randolph, Lee, Brooke, Wood, Monroe, Page. Cabell, Tyler, Barbour, Nicholas, Preston, Pleasants, Giles, Floyd, Gilmer, McDowell and Wise, were named after Virginia Governors subsequent to Independence. Some of these citizens afterwartoway, Nansemond, Pocahontas, Powhatan and some others, bear Indian names. Governors. The following is a list of the Virginia Governors since the Revolution: Patrick Henry, from 1776 to 1779; Thomas Jefferson, from 1779 to 1781; Thomas Nelson, from 1781 to 1781; Benj. Harrison, from 1781 to 1784; Patrick Henry, from 1784 to 1786; Edmund Randolph, from 1786 to 1788; Beverly Randolph, from 1788 to 1791; Henry Lee, from 1791 to 1794; Robert Brooke, from 1794 to 1796; James Wood, from