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Counties no longer in existence, renamed or part of another state.
Gone Counties:
Albermarle - created Oct 1663 - Carteret, Berkeley, Shaftesbury Precincts in 1671, Albermarle District discontinued 1689
Archdale - renamed 1712 Craven
Bath - created 1696 from Colonial Lands, parts divided 1705, to Archdale, Pamtecough, Wickham Precincts. Bath District was discontinued in 1739 when the districts were named as counties.
Berkeley - renamed Perquimans, 1681
Bute - 10 Jun 1764 from Granville. Parts taken for Franklin> 1778, Warren 1779
Carteret - divided into Currituck and Pasquotank, 1681
Clarendon - 1664 from Colonial Lands. Abandoned 1667
Dobbs - 10 Apr 1759 from Johnston. Parts taken for Wayne 1779, Glasgow 1791, Lenoir 1791
Edgecombe Precinct - 4 Apr 1732 from Bertie. Renamed Edgecombe 1741
Fayette - 1784 from Cumberland
Glasgow - 1791 from Dobbs, renamed Greene 1799
Hawkins - 6 Jan 1787 from Sullivan, now in Tennessee
Pamtecough Precinct - renamed 1712, Beaufort
Pelham - 1734 from New Hanover, Bath, renamed Bladen
Shaftesbury Precinct - renamed Chowan Precinct, 1681
Wickham - renamed 1712 Hyde

Now part of Tennessee
Davidson (old) - 1783 from Washington District, now in Tennessee
Greene - 1783 from Washington District, now in Tennessee
Sullivan - 1779 from Washington District, now in Tennessee
Sumner - 1787 from Davidson (old), now in Tennessee
Tennessee - 1788 from Davidson (old), now state of Tennessee
Washington District - 22 Apr 1776 from lands on Watauga, Holster, Nolachucky Rivers. Now in Tennessee


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