Hello all, Would appreciate it if some knowledgeable person could provide me with a citation for any authoritative work(hopefully still in print)on the settlement of the Old Albemarle colony/county before 1700. Or, failing that, perhaps there is a similar work for the early settlement of Pasquotank Co.? Thanks, Larry

In reply to the query: ----- Original Message ----- Subject: [NCROOTS] reference for Old Albemarle Co. NC? > Hello all, > Would appreciate it if some knowledgeable person could provide me with a citation for any authoritative work(hopefully still in print)on the settlement of the Old Albemarle colony/county before 1700. > Or, failing that, perhaps there is a similar work for the early settlement of Pasquotank Co.? > Thanks, > Larry In "THE FORMATION OF THE NC COUNTIES 1663-1943", by David L. Corbett, p. xxiii, he states that ALBEMARLE Co. was formed in 1664 consisting of "all that partee of the province (of Carolina) which lyeth on the north east side or starboard side entring of the river Chowan now named by us Albemarle river together with the Islands and Isletts within tenn leagues thereof." Mr. Corbett quotes his source as William S. Powell's "THE NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTEER (CHAPEL HILL: UNIV. OF NC PRESS, 1968) "It covered a poorly defined 1,600 square miles." (Wm. S. Powell's " "Ye Countie of Albemarle in Carolina: A Collection of Documents, 1664-1675 (Raleigh: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1958) page 29. "The first governor, William Drummond, was appointed in 1664, and the next year the county had a legislature and courts. (Colonial Records/Vol. 1, xii-xxiii. The Gen. Assembly met in the spring of 1665 and the first record of a court in Albemarle is Nov 15, 1665. See Lindley S. Butler, "The Governors of Albemarle County, 1663-1689," North Carolina Historical Review, XLVI (Summer, 1969), 283. The county was named for George Monck, Duke of Albemarle, one of the Lords Proprietors. By 1668, Albemarle Co. was divided into Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank and Perquimans precincts for the purposes of local administrations. Albemarle Co., the superior administrative unit of Carolina, ceased to be recognized as a unit of government in 1689 when Gov. Seth Sothel departed. His successor was commissioned gov. of 'that part of our province of Carolina that lyes north and east of Cape feare,' which was basically the whole of modern North Carolina. (Colonial REcords, Vol 1, p.360) The name Albemarle Co. continued to be applied to the region as a matter of convenience well into the eighteenth century, however, and the name Albemarle Section or Albemarle Region is in use today for the northeastern part of N.C. (Written by William S. Powell.) -------------------------------- This may not be exactly what you wanted, but it might help. Joanne H. harleyclan@coastalnet.com NC