The South Part of Virginia
Nicholas Comberford's 1657 map of Southern Virginia.
The east coast of North Carolina is drawn along the bottom edge of the map. The map extends south as far as Cape Fear and north as far as what appears to be the Virginia border. The western part of the map (on the top edge) is marked as Tuscarora Indian territory. Between the Pamlico Sound and Albemarle Sound (labeled the Roanoake Sound), the map is labeled "This is a swampy wilderness;" the land north of Albemarle Sound is labeled the same. The house of Nathaniel Batts, the first known permanent settler on the Albemarle Sound, appears on the map on a piece of land between the Chowan (labeled Choan) River and the "Morallico River."
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