South Virginia

… a name frequently applied from about 1612 to about 1663 to the area that subsequently became the County of Albemarle in the colony of Carolina. William Strachey's The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britannia (1612) contains a brief description of South Virginia. After the region began to be settled (ca. 1650), it was also referred to as the Southern Plantation. In 1662 Samuel Stephens was made commander of the Southern Plantation by the Virginia Council.