http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Roanoke-settlement
American anthropologist Lee Miller, in Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony proposed that the expedition was sabotaged from the beginning by Sir Walter Raleigh’s rival at court, Elizabeth’s “spymaster,” Francis Walsingham, while other theorists contend that the colony moved wholesale, and was later destroyed.
2 posted on
02/24/2009 8:26:19 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: SunkenCiv
Or, that it simply "moved". The Jamestown colony was founded right at the end of a 17 year Drought that affected Coastal Virginia, and presumably Maryland, Delaware and the Carolana coast (so-called before the area was taken over by England).
4 posted on
02/24/2009 8:33:31 PM PST by
muawiyah
To: SunkenCiv
5 posted on
02/24/2009 8:38:26 PM PST by
bigheadfred
(Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
To: SunkenCiv
I read her first book—it read like a mystery. I really liked it and would recommend it to anyone.
7 posted on
02/25/2009 6:18:27 AM PST by
twigs
To: SunkenCiv; muawiyah; bigheadfred
Given their geographical location, I have long thought that you have to at least consider the possibility that the “Lost Colony” was taken out by what we would now call a category 5 hurricane.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson