Julia Kaplan
History 111
Mrs.Bevacqua
22, October 2015
What Happened to the Roanoke Colony?
It almost seems like a story from a book. A group goes off to explore new land in hopes of starting something new.They hope to colonize a new area. However; instead of success tragedy strikes. Their leader leaves to go get more provisions, and comes back to find the settlement abandoned. There is nothing left behind, and no one can be found. The only thing left is a word carved into a tree. This story though is not from a book, it is in fact about the Roanoke Colony.
This story begins in 1584 with a guy that goes by the name of Sir Walter Raleigh. He began funding expeditions to Roanoke ( which is what we know as the Outer
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He believed that the colonists had gone to live with the indians for about twenty years. There are a couple thoughts of what exactly happened if the colonist did go with the indians. In the years the colonist supposedly lived with the Indians, it was thought that they were taken out by the Powhatan Indians. Rumor has it that the Indian priest had warned the Powhatan Indians about a colony that would rise from the Chesapeake Bay and take over. This persuaded the indians to then slaughter the colonists to prevent this from happening. Along with the possibility of being killed by the Powhatan Indians many believe they went to live on Croatoan.
“ It is not unreasonable to think that some of the lost colonies could have been adopted by Native Americans who often did accept ( outsiders),” says Dr. Stanley Nick. When the colonist got there, they were welcomed by the leader of the tribe, Manteo. “ Our main hypothesis is that Lost Colony moved into the mainland with the Croatians and assimilated,” says Fred Willard founder of the Lost Colony Center for Science and Research, an organization that has focused its research on the ancestry of modern Native Americans and their possible connection to the Roanoke