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In September, 1744, because of the inconvenience attending the upperinhabitants of Goochland, the Assembly provided that after the lastday of December the existing County should be divided and a new onebearing the euphonious name of Albemarle be formed. Peter Jefferson,who had been a magistrate in Goochland County, attended the firstmeeting for organization in February, 1745, and took oath as a Justiceof the Peace and a Judge of the Court of Chancery, thus becoming oneof the first magistrates and first gentlemen of the new AlbemarleCounty.