Albemarle Settlements

The Albemarle Settlements were the first permanent English settlements in what is now North Carolina, founded in the Albemarle Sound and Roanoke River regions, beginning about the middle of the 17th century.

[1] In 1662, George Durant purchased lands from the Native Americans in this region and there is evidence to indicate that others had done the same.

[2] During Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, Albemarle Settlements offered assistance and refuge to the rebels.

A road linked "southside Virginia" to Edenton, Carolina, skirting the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp.

The boundary between Virginia and North Carolina was uncertain until a 1728 survey was done under William Byrd II, described in his book The History of the Dividing Line.