Hi John On map dated 1733 it is called Road to Elizabeth River. It cuts across Pasquotank County and then Goes due North, East of the Great Dismal Swamp. This is from Perquimans County, A Brief History by Alan D. Watson I have read that most traveled by water and canals. When people moved inland, the courts and justices decided where the roads would be built. These roads were poorly maintained in the early seventeenth century and according to court documents many complaints were received. Ferries were also approved by the court system in conjunction with the poor roads. Joy in Wisc. John Collins wrote: > > Having checked my North Carolina County Maps, all I can come up with is a > Warwick Creek that forms most of the boundary between Chowan and Gates > counties. It begins in Chowan just west of County Line Road (the boundary > between Chowan and Perquimans) and flows west into the Chowan River. Maybe > Warwick was the name of a plantation? I cannot even think of anything now > in Perquimans that could become Warwick as the result of a transcription > error. > > While on the subject of geographical names, I would like to throw out > another question. NC-1001 from Nicanor in Perquimans up to US-158 near > Morgans Corner in Pasquotank is named Turnpike Road, and most of it is dead > straight. In eighteenth century England a turnpike was a major coaching > road. Elizabeth City (which only became the Pasquotank county seat in 1800) > is not nearly as old as Hertford and Edenton, so presumably neither is the > route of US-17. Was Turnpike Road once the main route between the Albemarle > and Tidewater? > > At 03:14 PM 01/16/2000 -0600, Le Bateman wrote: > > Has anyone ever heard of Warwick, North Carolina in Perquimans Co.