Nowogrodek Powiat

NOWOGRODEK PROVINCE (Powiat)- was up to the years 1793-1795 when temporarily by Tsarist Russia, one of three provinces within the Voivodship of Nowogrodek. In these years, the southern and eastern portions became new additions to Nieswiesz province under the governance of Minsk, exchanging the following portions with Sluck province through the laws of the Minsk gubernia: the southern and eastern portions constituted as part of Slonim gubernia up to 1796 a part of Lithuania gubernia, which in 1801 was divided into two: Wilno and Grodno, the remainder transformed into its own Nowogrodek province. In 1842-3 by decree of Tsar Nicholas, the boundaries were again altered and Nowogrodek province was placed within the Minsk gubernia. Therefore, parts of the former Nowogrodek province detached into different regions, are today in Sluck, Mozyr, Minsk, and a little in Slonim and Bobruisk provinces, but the essential part of it, the extreme western portion, remains under its former name and stands as the most populous and wealthiest province in the Minsk gubernia.

On the northwest and north it borders on Lida and Oszmiana provinces of the Wilna gubernia; on the northeast and east with the provinces of Minsk and Sluck, on the south with Pinsk province; and also to the west, with Slonim province of the Grodno gubernia lying between 43-45° N latitude and 25-26° E longitude. According to the latest information, it contains 1995 square miles amounting to around 1,276,600 acres. The Treasury possesses about 60,000 ac. of wooded tracts and 7 expired land grants; peasant ownership includes: 113,180 ac. on Treasury estates, 444,440 ac. on private estates, 768 home-quartered soldiers, and 443 sundry acres.  10,200 landed acres belong to the Orthodox churches, 397 ac. to the Catholic churches, and 1900 ac. to the town of Nowogrodek, with the rest under private ownership (646,630 ac.). Around 1880, 173 Orthodox farmers owned 68,420 ac., while 507 Polish farmers possessed 482,811 ac. mostly in the uplands. In 1881, 143,200 ac. belonging to Polish owners passed into other hands. After this time, Polish landowners were no longer able to sell significant lands, and at present are hard-pressed owing to the disasters in agricultural husbandry in 1885 and the generally stagnant economy.

In 1881, the agricultural output of the province consisted of 4,187 Lithuanian barrels of winter wheat, 35,192 barrels of rye, 5,384 barrels of "ravine" wheat, 10,768 barrels of oats, 21,535 barrels of barley, 3,059 barrels of buckwheat, and 3,393 barrels of other grains, and 285,738 barrels of potatoes. It was a year of average productivity, perhaps somewhat higher than average considering the conditions of overall productive capacity. The arable land area in the province is about 756,000 acs., around 108,000 acs. of grazable moors, 243,000 acs. of wooded lands, with the rest (170,000 acres) marshes, water bodies, and pastures, with the sandy soils in the western, southern and eastern parts excellent for growing grain; in this locality the soil surface is undulating, of calcareous-gravelly composition, possessing a great deal of porosity. The northern and western portions of the province are stripped of woods, but to the south it contains significant wooded areas and interrupted stands. According to official statistical knowledge around 1860, there were 18,195 horses, 62,955 horned cattle, 40,753 common sheep, 41,460 specialty sheep, 27,502 hornless cattle and 515 goats.

In considering the ethnic composition of Nowogrodek province, the characteristic inhabitants today are representative of earlier related ethnic Lithuanian-Slavic stock, from the Dregovichian, Krivician, Jatvingian, and Lithuanian tribes which bordered the area and formed into the typical original Kievan Rus, which our history and ethnography reckoned as among Black or White Russians. These judgments were shared among the original tribes in time. Amid the Ruthenian stock, Witold brought in Jews and Tartars over time. As to the fortunes of a unified Polish and Lithuanian polity, the impetus originated from Poland.

The overall population consists of about 185,000 persons, in which count there are around 18,000 [Stolpianskij] Poles, 9,400 Lithuanians, 25,000 Jews, 408 Moslems belonging to the Polish community, about 4,200 Ruthenian (Stolpian) Catholics, and the remaining (about 138,000) consist of Ruthenian Orthodox, up until the 1839 cassations mostly Uniate Orthodox (Eastern Rite). To our knowledge, none (of the latter) exist today. In Nowogrodek province, there existed a 4th- Class secondary school in the town of Mir until its closing in 1868, at the present time a 2nd-Class school. Additionally, there are rural schools for each gmina; the most important are run by the gminas as public schools: the one in Szczorse has 120 pupils, that in Niehniewicze 116. Not only peasants but petty gentry students attend the gmina schools. According to the latest statistical figures, each can seat 110 students. Even such scanty instruction capacity negatively affects the morality of the people, and also many of them wish to remain there (in school). In general, the people are beginning to neglect the old customs, change their attire, confuse their native tongues, and sing erotic camp songs rather than traditional ones.

In 1881, there were 2,684 marriages, 7,840 legitimate births, 184 illegitimate ones, and 6,407 deaths in the province. There were also 163 fires in 1881, of which 74 were deemed arson (almost half); 948 homes were destroyed for a total financial loss of 705,156 rubles. In the same year the arrears for unpaid taxes amounted to 125,508 rubles. In 1882, provincial industrial production amounted to the following: 8 beer breweries employing 16 workers at a production or sales value of 3,480 rubles; one mead vault with 2 paid workers worth 200 rubles; a Dutch tile factory, 4 workers, worth 2,725 rs.; 6 brick kilns, 26 workers, 5,265 rs.; one steam powered mill, 3 workers, worth 71,000 rubles; one rape-seed oil manufacturer, 25 workers, 10,500 rs.; 6 cheese makers, 12 workers, wages at 12,975 rs.; 16 distilleries, 80 workers worth 765,356 rubles; 7 turpentine producers, 7 wage workers, worth 3,819 rs.; 8 pitch burners, employing 8 and worth 1,650 rs. Total production capacity for the 55 industries was 183 wage workers worth 876,970 rubles.

There were three provincial drugstores in 1882-- two in Nowogrodek and one in the town of Horodyszcze. Three hospitals were operational in Nowogrodek province. For each gmina, there was an army surgeon and a small apothecary shop. As for public charities, there exists a shelter for orphans in Nowogrodek with a capital endowment of 10,787 rubles provided privately, including education for 16 orphans of gentry descent, amounting to a budget of around 1,345 rs. annually and taking the form of an extraordinary perpetual private endowment. With regard to police administration, the province is divided into 5 (Tsarist) State police districts (okrag) and 24 gminas, comprising 57 rural sheriff offices. District 1-- Niehniewicze, administered from the same town includes the following gminas: Niehniewicze, Szczorsowka, Horodczanska, Wereskowska, Lubczanska and Wsielub; District 2-- administered from the town of Horodyszcze with the following gminas: Horodyszczanska, Cyrynska, Rajczanska, Poczepowska, and Koszelewska; District 3-- administered from Nowy Mir, containing the Nowomysk, Stolowick, Czernichowska and Zuchowicka gminas; District 4-- administered from the town of Mir containing the gminas Mir, Horodziejska, Korelice and Jeremicka; and District 5-- administered from the town of Snow, with the following gminas: Darewo, Snow, Jastreble, Ostrow, and Krzywoszyn.

The province is composed of four (civil) district courts and four military tribunal courts, located in Nowogrodek, Mir, Horodyszcze and Darewie. According to available figures, there are 723 small villages and estates, 371 farmsteads, 54 rural settlements, and 27 other gentry and 25 small towns (named Cyryn, Horodyszcze, Iszkoldz, Jeremicze, Korelicze, Kraszyn, Krzywoszyn, Lipsk, Lyubcha, Mir, Nowogrodek, Nowy Mysz, Niehniewicze, Ostrow, Poczepowo, Polonka, Poruczyn, Poloneczka, Stolowicze, Swojatycze, Snow, Turzec, Wsielub, Walowka, and Wiedzma). Only Nowogrodek has the appearance of a somewhat orderly town, with the rest in the condition typical of poor Lithuanian villages, with Jews predominating in the town without brick/stone houses or paved streets. We note that somehow Horodziej which is not counted as a town, is the only one to recently acquire a major railroad station on account of its location on the Moscow-Brest line. Citizens of nearby Marcinkiewicze have properly adorned homes, inns and even shopping booths, so that the nearby village is called a "little town".

The most important river in the province is the Nieman, extending for 81 miles along the northwestern border of the province.; it has harbors or river ports in Jeremicze, Koladznie, Szczorsze, Lubycha, Delatycze, Morino, and Krivichi. Navigation can be accomplished through the considerable bends in the river without sails, assisted only by oars or riverside road-pullers. Not counting the many brooks and unnamed tributaries, there are 65 other named streams as follows: [ed.- 65 stream names not repeated here].

... There are no very large or important lakes in the entire province. The biggest here is Switez, mentioned in Adam Mickiewicz's ballads, about 277 acres in area and containing a viable fishery. Among other larger lakes are: Caesearia, Douhoje, and Krzywicki (on the Nieman), a second Douhoje, Gluche, Kruhloje, Koldyczewski (from which flows the Szczara river), Plosa, Sinie, Swiete (two), Szpakowskie, Snowskie (formed by the flooding of the Snowski river), Tartackie (formed by the flooding of the Dzierewianski River), Zablocki, and Zlobinski lakes. A considerable portion of the province is undulating and picturesque, the highest single points at 864 ft. above sea level in the vicinity of Koladzina and 727 ft. at Czernichowa. Through-routes by land in Nowogrodek province from north to south connect with the main Moscow-Brest railroad lines-- with stations at Horodziej, Pohorelcy, Baranowicze, and Lesna, with a branch directed through Baranowicze station to Bialystok. Earlier passers-through near the southern border used the Moscow-Warsaw high road along the moraine.; today there are three postal roads in use: from Nowogrodek to Minsk, to Lida, and to Nieswiesz and Sluck. Well-kept military roads are maintained from Nowogrodek through the town of Horodyszcze to Stolowicz; from there to Molczad and Polonki; from Nowy-Mysz to Polonki, Nieswisz, Kleck and Lachowicz. Commercial roads include: from Nowogrodek to Molczad, Nikolaev, Stolowicz, and Nowy-Mysz to the Moscow-Warsaw high road and from the town of Korelicze to Zbynsk in Oszmiana Province.

Historical locations or those otherwise worthy of mention include: Darewo (where the gloomy Florian Bochwic lived); Horodyszcze, old Wruta (Mendog's battle with the Varangian knights around 1256); Korelicze (chiefly remembered for the confirmation there in 1733 of the Lithuanian party's king Stanislaus Leszczynski); Krzywicze (destruction of the Teutonic Knights in 1314); Lyubcha (ancient Slavic town famed for its printing house); Lawryszew (monastery); Lawczyce (sacred location for the Lithuanian Tatars); Mir, Nowogrodek, Nowy-Mysz, Niedzwiadka (birthplace of Ignace Domejki); Osowiec (according to some the birthplace in 1798 of Adam Mickiewicz); Polonka (a memorial to the battle with the Tatars in 1506 and victory by Stefan Czarniecki over Prince Chowanski in 1660); Rzepiehowo (birthplace of Jan Czeczota); Ruta (birthplace of Metropolitan Bishop Weljamin Rutski); Soplicowe (mentioned in the novel Pan Tadeusz); Siedliszcze (birthplace in 1791 of Thomas Zana); Tuhanowicze (place of last home residence of Adam Mickiewicz [ed.- who died in exile]); Woroncza (burial place of the last Voivod of Nowogrodek, Joseph Niesiolowski); Waszkowce (place of sojourn and death of the learned Florian Bochwic). Scientific collections or memorials include: at Czeszew Kobylinski (library, memorial, stamp collection); Niankowie (naturalist collection of Wadislaw Dybowski); at Obryn Kaszycow (porcelain exhibit, art collection); at Poloneczce Radzillow (library, archives, memorial, and art collection); Szczorcow Chreptowiczow (a remarkable library, amounting to 12,000 volumes, a large archives and memorial); at Lipie Obuchowicz (library and archives); at Sworotwie Niezabitowski (library, archives, memorial, art collection); at Serwecze Niesiolowski
(an early archives collection); at Waszkow Bochwic (library); at Zamirze A. Fuciaty (a great library); and at other wealthy residences: Obrynie, Wereskowie, Morino, Ostaszynie, Szczorsze, Horodziej, Poloneczce, Sworotwie, Swojatycze, Snow, and others. Exemplary inns are found in Szczorsze Chreptowicz, managed by F. Fiszera (mentioned in the 1880 Agricultural Gazette), Ostaszynie Bulhaka, Wereszczaki and many others. Ornamental gardens: in Waszkowszcze (30 morgs in area); in Obrynie, Swojatycze Czapski, Sworotwie, Horodzieje, Szczorcze, Poloneczce and others. Stud farms were once present at a number of these estates; there are still a few today... [ed.- not listed here]... Of the famous people worthy of mention who originated in the province, the greatest are: Adam Mickiewicz, Thomas Zan, Jan Czeczot, Tadeusz Rejtan, Joseph Niesiolowski, Rafael Slizien (sculptor), Ignace Domejko, Florian Bochwic, (philosopher), Weljamin Rutski, Joachim Chreptowicz and Adam Moskiewicz (biographers), Jewlaszewski (diarist), Julian Korsak (Nowogrodek ambassador), Michael Obuchowicz (diarist), Wadislaw Dybowski (naturalist), Jan Rudomina (Castellan of Nowogrodek, famous for his scales [ed. or balances/weights?] and author of a description of the Chocim battle).

Regarding religious participation up till 1839, Ruthenians of this place belonged to the Uniate Church, until its annexation to the predominant (Russian Orthodox) faith. In 1880, from the transformed Uniate churches, 20 brick or stone Orthodox churches, 49 of wood, constituting 49 parishes, one stone and 52 wooden chapels were enlarged. Up to 1839, there was an assembly of 50 Uniate parishes. Within the present borders of the province, 46 Ruthenian sanctuaries had founders or benefactors from Polish or Latin clergy. Very likely these funds were greater, but as reported no one stood up for the Orthodox churches without the cooperation of the Polish landed proprietors, while traces of them have disappeared in the continual struggles of the country. An instructive point about this is that until the elimination of the Uniate church in 1839, numerous Orthodox churches had been erected by Polish landowners. Details can be found in the works of Archmandrite Nicholas (detailed in the statistical-historical descriptions in the 1864 Minsk Eparchs archives). In this work are briefly summarized all of the churches attributed to Polish financing within the current boundaries of Nowogrodek province.

They are: 1) the Borisolev monastery in Nowogrodek from the charity of Adam Chreptowicz, proprietor of Szczorsze; 2) the monastery at Wolnej, funded by Kristof Kamienski in 1632. Other benefactors at different times were Michael Domaslawski, Casimir Malawski, and Paul Makaszycki; 3) the monastery at Mir funded by Prince Karol Stanislaw Radziwill in 1705, bequeathed with remarkable sums, closed in 1824; 4) the monastery at Darewie had benefactors Krzyzanowski and the Lopot family; 5) the Orthodox church in Nowogrodek funded by the Franciscan fathers from 1780; 6) the Orthodox church in Berezce, her Radzwill benefactors leaving a bequest of land in 1627; 7) the Orthodox church at Wolkowicz in 1787, funding by Korsak; 8) the Orthodox church in Miratycze from 1713, funding by the Jesmanows; 9) the Orthodox church at Walowce, funded by landowner Kurcz; 10) the Orthodox church in Wsielub, built in 1840 at the expense of Count Joseph O'Rourke; 11) the Orthodox church at Wielki Zuchowicze, funding by the Radziwills; 12) the Orthodox church at Czernichow, funded by Marcin Chalecki; 13) the Orthodox church at Stojko, funder Judycki; 14) the Orthodox church at Horodziej, built in 1808 at the expense of the landowner Brochocki , and her benefactor Bykowacy; 15) the Orthodox church at Oszpowie, funded by Miternawski; 16) the Orthodox church at Podlesie in 1794 funded by Bykowski; 17) the Orthodox church at Horodyszce in 1764 by the Pac family; 18) a second Orthodox church at Darewie, funded from 1550 by Jurahow; 19) the Orthodox church at Jeremicze in 1790 by Chodkiewicz; 20) the church at Zalusz, funding by the Radziwills; 21) the church at Izwie in 1757, funding by Sobolewski; 22) the church at Kolpienicze in 1781, capital funding from the Wilno Roman Catholic church; 23) the church at Luka in 1779, funding through the Kossakowskis; 24) the church in Lipie in 1773 funded by the Obuchowicz family and benefactor Czapscy; 25) the church at Lysicy in 1689, funded by the Lysykiewiczs; 26) the church at Maly Zuchowicz in 1783 funded by Niesiolowski; 27) the church at Morino, funded by Pocieha, with benefactors Brochocki and Kristof Radziwill; 28) the church at Ostrow with funding from Bakanowski; 29) the church at Ostrow, attributed to the charity of Protasewicz; 30) the church at Niedzwiadce, funded by Jablonski; 31) the church at Poczepowie in 1770, funded by Korsak; 32) the church at Delatycze funded by the Radziwills; 33) the church at Polonce, funded by the Dominican fathers; 34) the church at Poruczynie in 1783, funded by Prince Jacob Kobylinski of Lack; 35) the church at Rajcze in 1817 by Rajecki; 36) the church at Lubonicze, from a former bequeathal of an owned estate with a given annuity; 37) the church at Swojatycze, built in 1823 at the expense of Niezabitowski children; 38) the church at Siennej in 1770 funded by Wolodkowicz; 39) the church at Niankowie in 1750 funded by Wojnillowicz; 40) the church at Sulatycze, built of brick in 1850 at the expense of landowner Puchalski; 41) a second church at Sulatycze built in 1824 at the expense of Jazwinski; 42) the church at Basinie, owned from a bequeathal of landowner Ignace Jazwinski, deeded in 1839, with a shelter for 6 poor aged folk; 43) the church at Snow in 1836 with funding by Rdultowski; 44) the church at Szczorsze in 1776, funded by Joachim Chreptowicz, of expensive brick construction and a fund provided; 45) the church at Jatrze in 1773 funded by Kaszycow; and 46) the church in Jastreblewie, funding provided by the Kotlubajows. With respect to curial administration they were divided into three deaconates (or blahoczynias): in Nowogrodek, Wielki Zuchowicz, and Kolpienicy.

With its physical church structures and clerical personnel in a very reduced condition, the Catholic church in Nowogrodek province combined the Minsk and Wilna dioceses in 1869. In 1883 it further combined the Catholics in this province with the Mogilev archidiocese, numbering 24,360 of both sexes from seven parishes: Nowogrodek, Wsielub, Woroncze, Kroszyn, Darewie, Poloneczce, and Nowy-Mysz. Latest details are available from the Minsk archdiocese. Parish churches in Nowogrodek, Woroncze, Wsielub and Nowy-Mysz are built of brick, while the rest are of wood. Protestant faithful have an ancient brick meeting-house in Ostaszynie, funded by Szwejkowski; the Ostaszynie church is an affiliate of Sluck parish. Moslems have two mosques, namely in Lawczycze and Nowogrodek. Jews possess 7 synagogues and 20 schools or prayer houses.

Annual fairs which take place are in Lyubcha on the feast of St. Elias (July 20th); in Korelicze (October 1st) on the Ruthenian "Pokrowy"; in Horodyszcze on the feastday of the Ruthenian St. Jerzy (April 23rd) and another there on Whitsuntide (August l5th and September 8th); in Mir on the feast of the Three Crosses (January 6th) [ed.-- isn't this also the Russian New Year?] as well as on the feasts of St. Nicholas (May 9th and December 6th). Taxes from all of these events amounts to about 30,000 rubles a year. For the greater part, mostly horses and cattle are bought and sold; specialty fairs excel in Mir and Lyubcha.

The chief industries in the province are oriented around agriculture, which annually produces for export a million rubles worth of goods, with railroad lines facilitating this export. 200,000 rubles worth of forest products are sold annually, although the forests are gradually disappearing. 200,000 rubles worth of vodka and other alcohol spirits are produced in the province annually; 80,000 rubles of wool, and miscellaneous livestock bring in another 150,000 rubles. Fruits, poultry, and processed dairy products also add to overall sum of exported goods.

On the other hand, the province consumes or imports soil fertilizers, iron, herrings, copper utensils, steel articles, as well as manufactured and grocery goods roughly amounting to 500,000 rubles annually. Beekeeping is represented by over 3,000 hives. Fisheries in Nowogrodek and the Minsk provinces by contrast are insignificant and hardly provide enough supply for local residents. In lakes and streams are found the following species: pike, perch, tench, crucian, trout, roach, bream, [ed. untranslated term **jasgarze**], and other smaller fish. Game animals are so rare in the depleted woodlands of the northern and western parts of the province that there are scarcely any rabbits, foxes, partridges, or heathcocks, but in the southern portion healthy specimens of these are more frequently caught. A temperate climate and favorable growing conditions allows orchards everywhere to produce delicate kinds of fruits, even Italian walnuts, hazelnuts, trellis grapes, exquisite plums and pears. Nowogrodek province temperatures are on the same isotherm on a line from Suwalki, Grodno, and Charkowow; isobarically, on the same line as Radom, Niszy Novogorod and Perm; isohimeny: Warsaw-Grodno, Zytomirsk and Stavropol. Most commonly winds are from the west or northwest.

The final sections are lists of former Marshals of Nowogrodek province [ed.-names, coat-of-arms not translated, and the dates]: Wadyslaw Brochocki h. Osorya-(the last from his election until 1863; Andrew Jundzil h. Labedz, & Joseph Korbut h.Korczak- 1807 to 1812; Count Alexander O'Rourke h. his own person [ed.- translation of ** wlasnego**], Prince Konstanty Radziwill, Rdultowski h. Drogoslaw, & Casimir Rejtan h. Rejtan, (prior to 1805); Francis Dunin Rajecki h. Labe~dz (1822); Joseph Wojnillowicz h. Syrokomla as changed, 1816-1820; Joseph Wijnillowicz [ed.-**t.h.**?], 1858; Nicholas Wolski h. Polkozic & Joseph Wereszczaka h. Lis, 1825.

Former Voivods of Nowogrodek when it was a major entity in the Lithuanian-Polish kingdom: Peter Montygerdowicz, 1431-1453; Marcin Gasztold, 1464-1471; Wojciech Janowicz Moniwid, 1471-1475; Michael Montowtowicz, 1483-1484; Soltan Alexandrowicz (strictly speaking Soltan Stretowicz Alexandrowicz), 1486-1487; Nicholas Radziwillowicz, 1488-1490; Yuri Pac, 1492-1496; Jan Jurjewicz Zabrzezinski, 1496-1498; Jan Litawor Chreptowicz, 1498-1500; Knight Simeon Jurjewicz Holszanski, 1500; Peter Hlebowicz, 1502; Albert Marcinowicz Gasztold, 1503-1506 and later in 1508; a certain number of woiwods beginning with Knight Ivan Lwowicz Hlinski, 1507-1508; Jan Janowicz Zabrzezinski, 1509-1530; Stanislaw Albert Gasztold, 1530-1542; Gregory Grygorowich Ostyk, 1542-1544; Alexander Iwanowicz Chodkiewicz, 1544-1549; Knight Alexander Iwanowricz Polubinski, 1551; Ivan Hornostaj, 1551-1558; Paul Iwanowicz Sapieha, 1558-1579; Prince Nicholas Nikolaevich Radzwill, 1579-1589; Theodore Skuminowicz Tyszkiewicz, 1590-1618; Nicholas Kristof Sapieha, 1618-1638; Alexander Sluszka, 1638-1642; Prince Sigmund Karol Radziwill, 1642; Thomas Sapieha, 1643-1646; George Chreptowicz, 1646-1650; Kristof Chalecki, 1650-1653; Peter Casimir Wiazewicz, 1653-1658; Kristof Wolodkowicz, 1658-1670; Jan Kiersznowski, 1670; Dimitry Samuel Polubinski, 1671-1678; Boguslaw Alexander Unichowski, 1689; Stephen Tyzenhaus, 1689-1709; Prince Jan Nicholas Radziwill, 1709-1729; Prince Nicholas Faustyn Radzivrill, 1729-1746; Prince George Radziwill, 1746-1754; Prince Joseph Alexander Jablonowski, 1755-1773; and Joseph Niesiolowski, (elected from 1733 to 1814). [ed.: it appears that after about the mid 1500s, the position was retained for life except under unusual circumstances. The final date generally represents the year of death with some obvious exceptions].

Castellans of Nowogrodek were: Gregory Grygorovrich Wolowicz, 1566-1585; Knight Alexander Iwanowicz Polubinski, 1586-1607; Samuel Wolowicz, 1608-1626; Wasil Wasilev'ricz Kopec, 1626-1636; Jan Dusiatski Rudomina, 1636-1646; Bogdan Wilhemowicz Zawierski Stetkiewicz, 1646-165 1; Samuel Stetkiewicz, 1652-1660; Nicholas Wladyslaw Judycki, 16601670; Stanislaw Zenowicz, 1671-1672; Kristof Jesman, 1672-1677; Nicholas Wladyslaw Przezdziecki, 1677-1683; Alexander Jasiennicki Wojna, 1684-1698; Stephen Aleksandrowicz, 1698-1700; Theodore Jerome Obuchowicz, 1700-1707; Anthony Nowosielski, 1709-1726; Anthony Oskierko, 1726-1734; Boguslaw Niezabytowski, 1734-1739; Jan Rdultowski, 17391744; Daniel Szyszko, 1744-1756; Jan Chreptovvicz, 1756-1765; Joseph Niesiolowski, 17651773; Raphael Joseph Jelenski, 1773-1780 and Gideon Jelenski, 1780-1798. [ed.: as with the Woiwods, the final date is generally the year of their death].

[Additional Slownik information on Nowogrodek town/province from Volume XV]: 

NOWOGRODEK ... 3). (amendments to S.G. Volume VII, 255-263)- a province [Powiat] town within the Minsk gubernia. In the third redistricting (not the second), Nowogródek became a provincial town in the Sluck gubernia (p.255). The picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary, formerly in the castle Orthodox church, is present today in the Borysogleb Orthodox Church (post-Basilian but not in St. Nicholas Church {p.258}). Michael Dabrowski, a Maltese knight, founded the Dominicans in Nowogrodek and donated the Mogilny, Bulbrowszczyna, and Turzec estates to them. Among the Nowogródek province Marshals omitted in the earlier work were: Adam Wierzejski (1799-1807), Josef Wojnilowicz (1816-1820), and Josef Kaszye (1830).

The following works relate to Nowogródek: Edward Pawlowicz: "Nowogródek In the First Half of the 19th Century", a Russian writer (in Research Works Dedicated in honor of the 100th Anniversary of Adam Mickiewicz, Warsaw, V. II., pp. 136-144); Contained in footnotes of the lists of the Voivods and Castellans of Nowogródek (X.W.K?): "Oh marvelous picture of Our Lady in Nowogródek!" (same V. II., p.257 et. seq.); Edward Pawlowicz: "From the Wilija to the Nieman", Lwow 1901; same publication: "Nowogródek in the 19th Century", Krakow 1902.

Note: All Slownik longitudes in this article have been converted to modern coordinates which is based on the Greenwich zero meridian. All Polish measurement units (land areas, distances, height above sea level, etc.) were converted to American-English equivalents.  Monetary units, where identified, were left in zlotys/zl. or rubles/rs.

Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1886, vol. 7, pp. 258-262; 1902, vol. 15]