TheAlbemarleSound

The Albemarle Sound <3by Jasmine Alvarez The Durants were the first whites to settle to what became North Carolina. George was also a parter in exploring the land with two other Virginians in the late 1600s. Their namesw were richard and Nathaniel Batts. They were originally partners in trading with local indians. A Batt House is on the map on the Albemarle Sound in 1657. Their shipping and trading might have induced them to buy land. When richard was stuck at sea, Nathaniel and George took out some of the earliest deeds in the area. Batts have purchased land from the Yeopim Indians in the 1660s, and Durant bought land in 1661.

After the failure of the Roanoke, the english waited until 1607 to establish their permanit base in the New World where we know as Jamestown. The tobacco growing colony of Virginia had grew up around the James river. In contrase the few settlers came south in to the "Carolina". The Chesepeake Bay was deeper and easier to navigate than the roanoke sound. It is hindered by the Great Dismal Sound which is more than more than thirty miles long. Virginias soil was so bad that tobacco leached and after seven years, the farmers were always on the lookout for new lands.in 1629 king charles the first gave a vast tract to give his atterney general the land south of the Dismal. By the 1650s the best Virginia lands had been taken and the tobacco prices dropped. What brought George Durant and the others to the Albemarle Sound was to grow more more tobacco with less effort.

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