Govenor ,member Of Council Albemarl Co Amer

In 1664 Peter Carteret was appointed assistant governor and member of the council, and secretary of the County of Albemarle. On 23rd February 1665 he reached Albemarle. He served as Governor from 10th March 1670 until the spring of 1672 when he returned to England.

3rd December 1674 Peter Carteret’s account of the years 1666-1673 in Albemarle. “Wee arrived in Albemarle the 23d ffebr 1664/5 & went to Colleton Island according to instructions where I found a 20 foot dwelling howse... I was to make a plantation out of the wilderness wee cleered what ground we could on Powells Pointe and plant it with corne which produced little by reason that wee were all sick in the Sumer that wee could nott tend it and the servants soe weake the fall and spring that they could doe little work.”

(1673) John Buckworth statement to the Lords Proprietors concerning Peter Carteret’s Accounts. “Item - Yor Lordshipps expended in fright passages of servants & other charges out of ffrance & England at the time you send mr. Carteret over 176£ 14s 11d.”
William S. Powell, Ye Countie of Albemarle in Carolina, A Collection of Documents 1664-1675, (Raleigh, State Dept. of Archives and History, 1958):3, 58, 61-62.

Land Warrants p. 32 “The list of patentees for Tho. Carteret in 1680: Jno Callinoe, James Perrishaw, Peter Dardina.” (How is Thomas Carteret related to Peter Carteret?) Land Warrants p.4, “Peter a Frenchman”, p. 19 “John Frenchmnan, Paul a frenchman, Peter a Dutch ---, “p.193 “Lewis a Frenchman.” Weynette Parks Haun, Old Albemarle County North Carolina Book of Land Warrants and Surveys 1681-1706, (Durham, N.C.: Weynette Parks Haun, 1984), p.32

North Carolina Higher Court Records, vol 2, page 104 and 176, Francis Lemare Frenchman & protestant and Jno Furree a frenchman & protestant, his father Peter Furree bought him into Albemarle. Page 227-228 Benjamin Reynaud & Mary his wife, letters of denization from London 5th April 1688 Pasq. DB A:87 Francis Delamare wit. to deed of Peter Foure adj. James Caron.

Nicholas Algrove deposed in 1702 that he was 49 years old, was born, baptized, and registered in the Parish of St. John in the Island of Jersey, belonging to Hampshire in England, his parents were Guillame Allgrow and Susan Allgrow. (From loose papers among the records of Albemarle County at Edenton.)
Hathaway, Historical and Genealogical register, III (Oct, 1990) p. 609.

The third governor of Carolina, under the Prorietors, was Peter Carteret, who served from October 1670 to May 1673. Payne, in his AN ARMORIAL OF JERSEY (Ref. 5) does not identify this particular Peter Carteret. However, a study of all the Carteret genealogy given by Payne, and the several Carterets named Peter, reveals just one Peter Carteret who “fits”. He is the Peter Carteret (b. 1641) who was the younger brother to Philip Carteret (b. 1639) who was the governor of New Jersey. No further information has been located except for several references to him (and the other Carterets) in the early records of North Carolina (Ref. 1 - see Index; Ref. 6 - See Index.) William Perry Johnson, Carteret/Cartwright family, North Carolina Genealogy, Fall-Winter 1970, p.2550.

Carteret (Cartrett, Cartwright), Peter (b. 1641) governor, secretary, and council member in North Carolina, was the son of Helier de Carteret and Rachel la Cloche Carteret of Saint Peter’s Parish, Isle of Jersey. He was fourth cousin to Sir George Carteret, one of the original propritors of Carolina.

On 3rd December 1664, the Carolina proprietors appointed Carteret secretary, council member, and assistant to the governor for the North Carolina colony, then called Albemarle. Carteret arrived in Albemarle on 23rd February 1664/5 to assume his office....

In addition to his official duties, Carteret had responsibilities as agent for four of the proprietors including his cousin, who had launched a joint business venture in Albemarle. The enterprise, located on Collington (then Colleton) Island and the nearby mainland, was a plantation on which a variety of activities were envisioned. In addition to the principal products of the colony, which were corn, tobacco, hogs, and cattle, the Collinton Island plantation was intended to produce wine and whale oil in quantity for export to England and horses for export to Barbados.

On his arrival, Carteret found the Collington Island plantation hardly begun and its prospects far below the expectations of the investors. Needed laborers were lacking, and livestock and supplies, for which the investors has paid, had not been delivered. Carteret succeeded in producing some tobacco and whale oil for sale, but on the whole the venture failed...

Willian S. Powell, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979), 1:335.
Hypothesis: A James Perisho arrived at Albemarle sound with Peter Carteret in 1665 and possibly served him for 7 years,He was (b) 18 Dec 1645 and (m) Hanna Phelps in 1672/3.a dau (b)Eleanor
18Dec 1673,also a son James 25 Nov 1676,dying 29Mar 1678.
One could look at the records of baptism for god parents of this James for Peter had a brother James
who had married Elizabeth DuValle the Mayor of New York,s daughter