After that voyage, people have been looking for the Lost Colony since at least the Jamestown Virginia voyages, with no success. Still, the lure of the mystery has attracted archaeological investigations over the years. There has been little result. The first place in North Carolina that the English visited also was the first that archaeologists investigated. Talcott Williams mapped the Roanoke Island site in and began digging in The National Park Service picked up the hunt in and has continued on and off to this day, with little to show for the effort beyond the earthworks reconstructed and dubbed " Fort Raleigh.
Hume found evidence of what he interpreted as a sixteenth-century science center near the rebuilt fort. He decided that everyone had been digging for the main settlement in the wrong place. The colonists had tested metal ores near the earthworks, he thought, but must have lived at another spot.
Interested professionals formed the nonprofit First Colony Foundation to pursue these and other leads , with no success so far. However, hope springs eternal. The question people ask most about the Roanoke voyages is what actually happened to the colonists. One idea is that they tried to go north to the Chesapeake Bay , where they originally meant to settle.
Others have suggested sites along the Albemarle and Pamlico sounds that match White's statement that the colonists "were prepared to remove from Roanoke fifty miles into the main.
Still others suggest variations on these ideas or other possible answers to the question of what happened to the Lost Colony. These ideas, at best, are hypotheses—educated guesses to explain events, but guesses that haven't been or cannot be tested. They are not theories—ideas that have been tested and shown to be highly probable—let alone facts.
As hypotheses, they reveal as much about what we hope or believe as they do about what we know. For example, few people seem to assume that the colonists died from disease or hunger or were killed by any of the region's Indian tribes.
Little Virginia especially avoids this ending in people's imaginations. Because we know so little about what happened to the colonists, their fate is ripe for storytelling. Countless books , an outdoor drama , a s silent movie , and numerous television programs have taken up the tale. One example of these stories is that of the white doe. Cotten told a story about Virginia surviving into adulthood, at which time two American Indians fought because they each wanted to marry her. One man was a magician.
When Virginia said she wouldn't marry him, he turned her into a deer and tricked the other man into killing her during a hunt. Cotten's story, based on a fairy tale from Europe, adds elements of the Roanoke story and makes a few plot changes.
Interestingly, people have retold her story as if it were actually Indian folklore. Today versions of the story can be found in books and on Web sites. Hume, Ivor Noel.
The Virginia adventure: Roanoke to James Towne. New York: Knopf. Learn NC resources about the Roanoke Colonies. Powell, William Stevens, and Jay Mazzocchi. Encyclopedia of North Carolina. Resources in libraries [via WorldCat]. Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter. White later reported that Ralegh had instructed him to take the settlers north to the deep-water Chesapeake Bay, which Lane had thought a better base for privateers and closer to the mountain sources of copper and perhaps gold and silver.
The captain, however, seems not to have felt bound by these orders because he refused to take the passengers any further. When the group arrived, they found the Roanoke settlement empty, the fort in ruins and the mainland Indians hostile. To compound matters, an accident in landing led to the spoilage of much of the food supplies. Before he left, White witnessed two important events: the birth of his granddaughter Virginia, the first English child born in the New World, and the baptism and induction as Lord of Roanoke of the native leader Manteo.
These two events must have been seen by White and all those present as the beginning of a colonial-born population and the integration of Indians into Elizabethan religious and political structures. What did happen to the Lost Colony, then? Why did it disappear? When considering causes for social and demographic calamities, traditionally there are four general possibilities: war, famine, pestilence, and death.
It is probable that all four brought Elizabethan Virginia to an end. We do know that the Spanish never found the colony, but fear of that threat may have caused it to move further west. Also, the nearby mainland Indians were clearly hostile in Soon after the civilians arrived, the body of an Englishman who went crabbing was found full of arrows and mutilated.
This local threat was another reason to leave Roanoke. The civilian colony had no real leverage to convince native tribes to share their winter reserves.
North Carolina lacked a single, powerful native polity that might have supported the colony, so it is probable that it broke up into smaller groups, independently intent on survival. At Jamestown, disease — even the Plague itself — would again and again sap the strength of the young colony. Infectious diseases may have had a similar impact at Roanoke. All three causes, if unchecked, led to the fourth — death.
It then seems likely that the survivors split into two or more groups. One would have waited for supply ships among the Croatoan tribe on the Outer Banks. The other would have sailed 50 miles westward to a safer and more productive region. Jamestown colonists did hear second-hand stories about a few survivors from Roanoke living among the tribes in this interior here, but these stories were never confirmed.
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