Blunt Poynt

Blunt Poynt. . One of America's oldest English place names, this former Native American campground was named for Sir Humphrey Blunt, who was killed by Nansemond braves near the end of Blount Point Road, in July of 1610. Virginia Company records describe this as a "fruitful, pleasant, healthful" land. By the late 1600s William Roscow, Gentleman, owned the 1,000 acre "Blunt Point Plantation" and resided on the bluff overlooking the river. An interesting feature of this brick mansion was an underground passageway leading from the cellar that allowed secret access to the beach. Three generations of the Roscow family were active in Colonial Virginia and Warwick County affairs and served in the House of Burgesses. Following the Revolution, the 236 acres along the river between Merry Point and Fishers Creek retained the name Blunt Point. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it was acquired by members of the Haughton and Wilbern families whose descendants remained here for many generations. Since colonial times, the waters just off the the point have harbored some of the world's finest natural seed oyster beds and have provided livelihoods for local watermen.