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Albemarle County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is Charlottesville, which is an independent city and enclave entirely surrounded by the county. [ 2 ] Albemarle County is part of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Aug 12, 2024 · Guide to Albemarle County, Virginia ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.
Jul 19, 2023 · St. Anne's Parish has served Albemarle County, Virginia. Old Ballenger Church, now a ruin, and The Forge Church fell within the bounds of this parish.[1]
The Colony of Virginia was a British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years.
Jan 1, 2007 · Map of "The South part of Virginia, now the North part of Carolina," which has a reference to Nathaniel Batts. The first English explorer to become a settler in North Carolina, then known as Albemarle, was a trader named Nathaniel Batts. He bought his land from the American Indians in 1660.
Albemarle County was formed from Goochland County in 1744 and a portion of Louisa County in 1761 (see Rootsweb's Albemarle County, VA Genealogy). The County was served by St. Anne's Parish (1744 until after 1785), Tillotson Parish (1757-1761), and Fredericksville Parish (1761 until after 1785).
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. The settlers were mainly Virginians, migrating south. Albemarle Settlement Region.
