Albemarle County

… was est. in 1664 in the NE portion of the Lords Proprietors’ new province of Carolina covering a poorly defined 1,600 sq. mi. The first governor of the county was appointed in October 1664, and it soon also had a legislature and courts. By 1668 it was divided into Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, and Perquimans precincts. The county ceased to exist as a unit of government in Carolina in 1689, when Governor Seth Sothel departed. The next governor had his commission for "that part of our province of Carolina that lyes north and east of Cape feare," which was basically the whole of modern North Carolina.