William Harwood (c. 1589-after 1635) became a soldier, landowner and politician in the Colony of Virginia.
Harwood arrived in 1620 to Virginia, on the ship Francis Bonaventure. He was associated with Martin's Hundred, even called "governor" by the Virginia Company of London.
Harwood and survived the massacre of 1622, but was recalled to Britain in 1635.Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Cyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915) vol. 1 p. 87Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978 pp. xx, 6, 7John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5 (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. (4th Ed. 2004) vol. 2, p. 299n.2
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