Posted on 02/01/2009 4:59:35 PM PST by Vendek
“We found the houses taken down and the place very strongly enclosed with a high palisade of great trees, with curtains and flankers very fortlike, and one of the chief trees or posts at the right side of the entrance had the bark taken off, and five feet from the ground in fair capital letters was graven CROATAN, without any cross or sign of distress. We entered the palisade, where we found many bars of iron, two pigs of lead, four fowlers, iron sacker-shot and such like heavy things, thrown here and there, almost overgrown with grass and weeds.” -- John White, Second Voyage, 1590.
On July 22, 1587, 116 men, women and children landed on Roanoke Island off the coast of present-day North Carolina, the second English settlement sponsored by Walter Raleigh. Raleigh's enterprise was launched under a charter granted by Elizabeth I to discover and colonize the “remote heathen and barbarous lands of North America.”
Three years passed before the artist-explorer Governor John White could return with supplies for Roanoke in 1590, primarily because of the Spanish Armada. The colonists had disappeared, among them White's grand-daughter Virginia Dare, first child of English parentage born in the New World.
The mystery of the “lost colony” has endured for four centuries; theories of what happened abound, of which these are most potent:
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.erroluys.com ...
I’m not sure that these particular settlers had anything to do with the Melungeons. Perhaps they intermarried with them, though.
By the group W bench tribe no doubt. Bad way to go.
My mother's family came to North America from Sweden in the 1630s on the Kalmar Nyckel settling near what is now Philadelphia. A reproduction of the Kalmar Nyckel is currently moored in Delaware. Does the ship's name "Kalmar Nyckel" have anything to do with the region you mention -- Nikel Oblast?
The reason why I tell my kids that spell check is ineffective.
There's a "Moose Bite" joke in there...
Fair enough...
I don’t. I’ll have to give some thought to what book the story was in, then try a web search to see if anything is online. This could take a while. :’)
The Lumbees truly believe and they certainly don’t look all that much like the Indian Indians all around, but there are many such groups, like the “We sorts” in Southern Maryland.
Only in quite recent times did the Federal Government consent to classify the Lumbees as an Indian tribe. For several centuries those around them did not regard them as an Indian tribe, such as those of the Seneca Nation.
:’)
http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/roanoke-colony.htm/printable
That was in or near the site. The artifact I read about was an engraving on a stone (if memory serves), and there may have been more than one. It was found many miles away.
I was wondering, If when John white returned and found his group amiss, did he go to the friends they referred to as Croatan? and inquire about his family? or did he siply retrun back to England. For some reason I feel inclined to believe that had they gotten help from allies they would have been able to take all their possessions, but if Indians had captured them the places would have been in a burnt ruin making sure they left no survivors( if the indians were hostile) and Taking into consideration the marking was on a tree five feet from the ground would make me think it was either a woman or a younger male, who wrote it. I wish the answer to this mysrey was found it boggles my mind when people just vanish.
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