Albemarle County, North Carolina
Albemarle County, North Carolina was a county located in the Province of North Carolina. It contained what is now the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
History
Albemarle County was named for
By 1671, three precincts of Albemarle County had been formed: Shaftesbury, Carteret, and Berkeley. From 1675 to 1677, the Chowanoc War took place in the county. In 1681, Berkeley was renamed Perquimans, and by 1685 Shaftesbury became Chowan. By 1689 the county ceased to function as a governmental unit, replaced by the four "precincts" (which would later become counties themselves in 1739): Chowan County, Currituck County, Pasquotank County, and Perquimans County.
From the four precincts, Carteret was divided into Currituck and Pasquotank in about 1685, Bertie Precinct was formed from part of Chowan in 1722, consisting of all territory west of the Chowan River. Tyrrell Precinct was created in 1729 from parts of Chowan, Bertie, Pasquotank, and Currituck. Local residents asked that the western part of Bertie be divided into a new precinct as early as 1732, which led to the creation of Edgecombe Precinct (dates of the formation of Edgecombe vary from 1732 to 1741).
Albemarle County was officially abolished as an entity in 1738, and all the "precincts" were designated as "counties".[2][3]
See also
References
- ^ Baxley, Laura Young and William S. Powell. Albemarle County, ncpedia.org (2006) (State Library of North Carolina)
- ^ History of County Formations in North Carolina 1664-1965, Rootsweb, Retrieved July 16, 2014
- ^ Albemarle County and the Original Precincts of Carolina, Later North Carolina, North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, pp. 304-310, Vol. III. No. 2 (April 1903)
External links
- Albemarle County, North Carolina Archived 2008-10-07 at the Wayback Machine at the USGenWeb Project