America's Lost Colony: Can New Dig Solve Mystery?

National Geographic ^ | 3-2-2004 | Willie Drye

[okie01]

Free Trapper and blam are both correct:

1. Virginia Dare was the first child born of English parents in America.

2. Virginia Dare and her mother both disappeared with the Lost Colony.

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[blam]

"Free Trapper and blam are both correct: "

Excellent. Thanks.

[CatoRenasci]

What's FFV?

If you have to ask, it won't mean anything to you....but, since you did, it's First Families of Virginia.

[CatoRenasci]

LOL, I traced my family back to the late 1600's only to discover my roots....

It which point I called my brother and started screaming...."Dear G-D, we are Yankees!"

Oh, the Shame.... Dear, How could you Go On? But, had your people come South before The War? If so, you are redeemed. And better yet if they had come South before the Revolution. But anytime before (what my Grandmother called) The Late Unpleasantness will do.

[T. P. Pole]

Hey, you all missed something. They think this is under water. You know, with the global warming causing rising sea levels, this is expected.

However, you'd think the civil war solders would have stumbled right onto it, since we all know global warming is caused by cars, and they didn't have cars back then, did they?

[autoresponder]

http://genweb.whipple.org/d0157/I75425.html

[Constitution Day]

The Outer Banks are great.
My family and I have vacationed there every summer since I was a baby. (Nags Head, specifically)

[Jonah Hex]

I grew up in that area and spent many a day trampling through the Roanoke Island woods and fishing off Mann's Harbor. Telling the Virginia Dare and many other legends around the campfire kept us awake many a night. Never found any relics of the colony, but that's not too surprising considering the large areas of bogs, etc. I did find a couple of relics from the Confederate forts, however.

I wonder if Andy Griffith will let the archaeologists examine his compound?

[CathyRyan]

Thank you for your reply. It gave me great comfort. They came south in the early 1700s. It was just the shock of it all... ;) LOL

[twigs]

If you're interested in Roanoke Island, I highly recommend the book by Lee Miller about it, written about 5 years ago. Even if you don't buy into everything she says, her research is extensive and fascinating. She believes the lost colony was sabotaged from the outset and she treats her investigation like a murder story. She is also a descendent of Native Americans and has some personal knowledge of events that were mentioned in period diaries. She believes that we must look find what was happening in England to understand what was happening at Roanoke. I couldn't put the book down after I started it.

[CatoRenasci]

Well, of course. How were your people to know, taking ship, just what Yankees were like? They must be experienced to be believed. Sounds as if, sensible folks, they took their time in Yankeeland making sure Yankees were really what they seemed, and, when the opportunity presented itself, moved South. Sounds reasonable to me.

My Virginian people were a bit more conventional. In the Tidewater early on, but not the first 15-20 years. By the Revolution, they'd moved West to Bedford County, most of the men fought in the Revolution, either in the Virginia Militia or the Continental Line, after the Revolution went over the mountains to Kentucky and Tennessee, where THE War found them on both sides of the line and slavery. My greatgrandfather in Tennessee freed his slaves when he was ordained before The War, because he thought slave-holding was inconsistent with Christian ministry.

[Constitution Day]

I read that book too. You're right, it was impossible to put down!

There were a few places that seemed revisionist, but her hypothesis is very interesting.

[ASA Vet]

It could be worse.
I've recently taken one of my dad's lines back to Robert II king of France in 1000 CE.
My dad wasn't real happy about being told he's part frog.

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

Thank you very much for the book tip. I love reading stuff on R.I.

I do a lot of VA genealoy and information like this can connect a few dots along the way.

[Just mythoughts]

"My Virginian people were a bit more conventional. In the Tidewater early on, but not the first 15-20 years. By the Revolution, they'd moved West to Bedford County, most of the men fought in the Revolution, either in the Virginia Militia or the Continental Line, after the Revolution went over the mountains to Kentucky and Tennessee, where THE War found them on both sides of the line and slavery. My greatgrandfather in Tennessee freed his slaves when he was ordained before The War, because he thought slave-holding was inconsistent with Christian ministry."

Genealogy is a hobby of mine, and your post about your family history brings back memories of retracing my own.

I am still trying to find parents of GGGgrandfather, Scottish, born in Washington, Va. 1750. This line of the family went to Kentucky late 1700's. The women during this time are surely difficult to track. My Ggrandfather, born in 1814, yes, he was around 70 when my grandfather was born, fought for the North in the Civil War while in southern Kentucky.

Talk about a family feud that Civil War.

[twigs]

Did you see the just-concluded 4-part series on PBS about Shakespeare? It was excellent and Shakespeare lived during the period of the Roanoke Colony. This series provided the best background of Elizabethan England that I've ever seen. I thought a lot about the book while I watched it. It was a severe police state and everyone had to watch their step with care. When I get a chance, I plan to re-read Miller's book.

[twigs]

All my genealogy is from VA--mostly from the same county, and all lines pre-date the American Revolution. My primary research is with Turners, but I resesarch a lot of others. Where are your lines from?

[twigs]

My VA ancestors went from the Tidewater west too, some to Bedford County, most to Franklin County--and nearby Patrick and Henry. While my ancestors did not release their slaves--they didn't have many--some of their siblings moved on so that they could.

[Constitution Day]

No, I missed that. I don't watch PBS much and when I do, they always seem to have a beg-a-thon going on.
Maybe I can catch a rerun sometime!

[CatoRenasci]

My Ggrandfather, born in 1814, yes, he was around 70 when my grandfather was born, fought for the North in the Civil War while in southern Kentucky.

It's amazing how close some of us still are generationally to The War. My grandmother, whom I knew well as she lived to 100, was born in 1871 and experienced Radical Reconstruction as a young girl, including having her family's house burned out by the Freedmen, carpetbaggers and scalawags during the election of 1876. I heard these tales first had. My Mother knew my greatgrandfather, the minister who freed his slaves, well, as he lived into her 20's. She heard the stories of The War firsthand from him and others who lived through it, many of the Confederate veterans. Including some of her grandmother's people from Kentucky who'd fought for the North.

In my Mother's family, it was a big deal when one of her uncles put on the Blue again for the Spanish-American War, and even when her oldest brother enlisted in World War I.