Nancy: Batts Grave Island was a small island in Albemarle Sound off the coast of Perquimans Precinct, Albemarle County, now Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was on the South side of Perquimans toward Chowan County, and no longer exists, having been washed over and away in a hurricane or similar kind of storm more than a century ago. There wasn't much left of the island left when it finally disappeared, according to local legend. When I was on a field trip to Perquimans-Chowan-Bertie, North Carolina, in the Fall of 1995, working on the Albemarle Hendrickson family, I tried to locate the site of Batts Grave Island, but there is nothing but water where it formerly existed. Batts, a Virginian, was one of the first settlers on the Albemarle and was buried on the island by his direction. Hence, the name. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ