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Currituck County is the northeasternmost county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census,the population was 28,100. Its county seat is Currituck. The county was formed in 1668 as a precinct of Albemarle County and later gained county status in 1739. The name is "traditionally said to be an indigenous word for wild geese;Coratank." Currituck County is included in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake,VA-NC Combined Statistical Area. It is in the northeastern section of the state and is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean,Currituck Sound,Camden County,Dare County and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Currituck Court House,mentioned as early as 1755,was the name of the county seat. Today the words "Court House" have been dropped and only Currituck is used as the community name.
The Province of Carolina was a province of the Kingdom of England (1663–1707) and later the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1712) that existed in North America and the Caribbean from 1663 until the Carolinas were partitioned into North and South in 1712.
Thomas Jarvis (1623–1694) was the Deputy Governor of the Carolina Province from 1691 to 1694.
William Claiborne also,spelled Cleyburne was an English pioneer,surveyor,and an early settler in the colonies/provinces of Virginia and Maryland and around the Chesapeake Bay. Claiborne became a wealthy merchant and planter,as well as a major political figure in the mid-Atlantic colonies,and the founder of one of the First Families of Virginia. He featured in disputes between the colonists of Virginia and the later settling of Maryland,partly because of his earlier trading post on Kent Island in the mid-way of the Chesapeake Bay,which provoked the first naval military battles in North American waters. Claiborne repeatedly attempted and failed to regain Kent Island from the Maryland Calverts,sometimes by force of arms,after its inclusion in the lands that were granted by a 1632 Royal Charter to the Calvert family. Kent Island had become Maryland territory after the surrounding lands were granted to Sir George Calvert,first Baron and Lord Baltimore (1579–1632) by the reigning King of England,Charles I.
Thomas Walker Gilmer was an American statesman. He served in several political positions in Virginia,including election as the 28th Governor of Virginia. Gilmer's final political office was as the 15th Secretary of the Navy,but he died in an accident ten days after assuming that position.
John Jenkins was an English soldier and radical advocate for self-government. He served as governor of Albemarle four times:1672–1675;1676–1677;1678–1679;1680–1681,becoming the only person who has served as proprietary governor so many times.
Edward Moseley,was a British colonial official who served as the first public treasurer of North Carolina from 1715 until his death in July 1749). He previously served as the surveyor-general of North Carolina before 1710 and again from 1723 to 1733. Moseley was also responsible,with William Byrd of Virginia,for surveying the boundary between North Carolina and Virginia in 1728.
William Drummond was a Scottish indentured servant in Virginia who became the first colonial governor of Albemarle Sound settlement in the Province of Carolina,but alienated Virginia governor William Berkeley,became a ringleader of Bacon's Rebellion and was executed after his capture.
Cary's Rebellion was an uprising against the Deputy Governor of North-Carolina in 1711 led by Thomas Cary,who refused to give up his governorship to Edward Hyde. The rebellion was a part of a long-standing tension between religious and political groups in northern Carolina,generally divided between the Quaker party,of which Cary was a part,and the Church of England party,to which Hyde belonged.
Nathaniel Batts (–1679) was a fur trader,explorer and Native American interpreter. He became the first recorded European to permanently settle in North Carolina in 1655. He often appears as Captain Nathaniel Batts in the records of Norfolk County,Virginia,where his wife owned land by her prior husband,Henry Woodhouse.
Philip Cottington Ludwell was an English-born planter and politician in colonial Virginia who sat on the Virginia Governor's Council,the first of three generations of men with the same name to do so,and briefly served as speaker of the House of Burgesses. In addition to operating plantations in Virginia using enslaved labor,Ludwell also served as the first governor of the Carolinas,during the colony's transition from proprietary rule to royal colony.
Thomas Miller was the acting colonial governor of North Carolina for about six months in 1677 during the absence of the official governor Thomas Eastchurch. During Miller's government,the Anti-Proprietors,led by John Culpeper,provoked the Culpeper's Rebellion.
Christopher Gale was the first Chief Justice of the Colony of North Carolina. He was also briefly Attorney General and a customs collector for various ports of North Carolina.
Seth Sothel was a colonial fraudulent American proprietor and governor of the Province of Carolina. He claimed he ruled the northern portion,Albemarle Sound,in 1678 and the southern portion from 1690 to 1692. He died in North Carolina around 1694.
Henderson Walker (1659-1704) was the Acting Deputy Governor of North Carolina from 1699 to 1704. He is better known for his contribution in the founding of the Church of England in the Albemarle Sound region.
Culpeper's Rebellion was a popular uprising in 1677 provoked by the enforcement of the Navigation Acts. It was led by settler John Culpeper against the ruling Lords Proprietor in Albemarle County,Carolina,near what is now Elizabeth City,North Carolina. The uprising met with only limited success,but Culpeper himself was acquitted of rebellion and became a hero,and the Lords Proprietor subsequently made efforts to strengthen the colony's government.
Thomas Harvey (1668–1699) was the Deputy Governor of North Carolina from 1694 to 1699.
Thomas Eastchurch was governor of Albemarle County,North Carolina between 1675 and 1676. During his time in office,he imprisoned the former governor John Jenkins for various offenses. Jenkins was later released from prison with the aid of his supporters and reclaimed his position as governor in the spring of 1676. After Eastchurch explained the situation in London to the Lords Proprietors,they reappointed him as governor. In 1677,he left London to celebrate his honeymoon in Nevis Island. During his absence,his fellow proprietary Thomas Miller acted as governor. Miller's crimes created a revolt and Eastchurch,upon return to Albemarle,was unable to help the government recover. In addition,the Anti-Proprietors' leaders decided to send an army to the northern part of the Albemarle County to prevent the new governor from accessing Albemarle. Although Eastchurch sought aid to invade the county,he never got it. He did not return to the government of Albemarle until after the spring of 1676.
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Sir Richard Kemp was a planter and politician in the Colony of Virginia. Kemp served as the Colony's Secretary and on the Governor's Council from 1634 to 1649. As the council's senior member,he also served as the acting Colonial Governor of Virginia from 1644 to 1645 during travels by Governor Sir William Berkeley. Kemp had also worked closely relation with Berkeley's predecessor,Sir John Harvey.