Is this Walter Raleigh’s 'lost colony' drawn in invisible ink?..

t is a mystery that has perplexed historians for more than 400 years - what ever became of the 120 settlers who tried to establish England's first colony on the north-east coast of America? Queen Elizabeth I and famed explorer Sir Walter Raleigh had hoped the expedition in the 1580s would create a capital in the New World, but something went terribly wrong. The men, women and children simply vanished - possibly massacred by native American Indians - any evidence of a settlement disappeared and the infamous 'lost colony' became rooted in American folklore. But solving the centuries-old mystery may have come a step closer this week after experts identified a tantalising clue hidden in a map drawn by a man on that fateful voyage.

Everyone knows what happened.

It was the Templars what done it.

Srs biz. There were Sinclarian Templars all over that AO since way before the Englanders.

Saw it on TV so it has to be true!

Somewhere I read that early Jamestowne settlers and exporers reported seeing a blonde, blue-eyed youth running with the Indians. Virgina Dare, or Virginia Dare’s child? Most likely the child of Virginia Dare because the Jamestowne colony wasn’t founded until nearly 20 years after Roanoke disappeared.

I’ve forgotten the exact numbers, but the original Jamestowne settlers were decimated by disease and unpreparedness the first winter. In fact, they were packing up to return to England when the First Supply ship appeared on the horizon. I think only about 20% survived the first winter. I trace my father’s family to the First, or the Second Supply. It’s a bit murky after all these years.

I don’t think that my original settler ancestor actually survived, but his daughter (whom he’d left behind in England) came over after his death and took up his estate. She married, died in childbirth, and the rest of the line continued.

Life was tough in those days, so it does not surprise me that a small colony left to its own devices for 3 years had disappeared by the time White came back. I think that it is unfair to blame the Indians without knowing what really happened.

It's also possible it was simply an error or a point of contention drawn on a map that he had invested a whole lot of time into making. If I was going to use invisible ink on a document I sure as hell wouldn't draw attention to it by pasting another piece of paper over the spot. It would be like stacking a pile of cannon balls over a buried treasure. I might do the paste-over though if some mistake had been made or a change of plans had been decided upon.

I predict that nothing definitive will be found on the site.

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