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Roanoke Colony was an enterprise financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 16th century to establish a permanent English settlement in the Virginia Colony.

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List of colonists at Roanoke

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point of contention among historians is that John White is not listed among the 1585 colonists.: 259  White is known to have arrived at Roanoke with the...

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Roanoke Colony

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the colonists had disappeared under unknown circumstances. It has come to be known as the Lost Colony, and the fate of the 112 to 121 colonists remains...

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Roanoke Island

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named by English colonists after the Roanoke indigenous people who resided here for generations, at least 800 years prior to the arrival of the English in...

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Eleanor Dare

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[citation needed] List of colonists at Roanoke List of people who disappeared Miller (2000), p. 51 THE LOST COLONY: Roanoke Island, NC ~ Packet by Eric...

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Croatan

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Roanoke and Croatan were believed to have been on good terms with English colonists of the Roanoke Colony. Wanchese, the last leader of the Roanoke,...

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Virginia Dare

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Street in the City of London. He, too, was part of the Roanoke expedition. Virginia Dare was one of two infants born to the colonists in 1587 and the only...

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Wingina

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during the attack by one of Lane's men. This attack and crime doomed the Roanoke colony. Before the first English settlement on Roanoke Island, Philip Amadas...

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Ananias Dare

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was a colonist of the Roanoke Colony of 1587. He was the husband of Eleanor White, whom he married at St Bride's Church in London, and the father of Virginia...

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Robert Wilkinson

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or later), English composer Robert Wilkinson, an adult on the list of colonists at Roanoke Colony Robert Wilkinson (cartographer) (died 1825), 18th-century...

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Fort Raleigh National Historic Site

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Fort Raleigh National Historic Site preserves the location of Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in the present-day United States. The site was...

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Simon Fernandes

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found colonies on Roanoke island, part of modern-day North Carolina but then known as Virginia. Fernandes trained as a navigator in Spain at the famed Casa...

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Ralph Lane

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in 1585 to colonise Roanoke Island, North Carolina. He was knighted by the Queen in 1593. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, his...

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List of colonial governors of Virginia

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"Lost Colony" of Roanoke. Unsuccessful settlements were established under two different governors, and the final fate of the colonists remains unknown...

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Algonquian peoples

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Mohegan of Connecticut, United States Chowanoke, formerly of North Carolina Carolina Algonquian Roanoke, formerly of North Carolina Croatan, formerly of North...

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Blue Ridge Mountains

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consists of northern and southern physiographic regions, which divide near the Roanoke River gap. To the west of the Blue Ridge, between it and the bulk of the...

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Walter Raleigh

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Unfortunately for the colonists at Roanoke, one year became three. The first delay came when Queen Elizabeth I ordered all vessels to remain at port for potential...

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Great Wagon Road

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America. South of the Shenandoah Valley, the road reached the Roanoke River at the town of Big Lick (today, Roanoke). South of Roanoke, the Great Wagon...

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Colonial history of the United States

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was rooted in the settlement of the region by British colonists. In the seventeenth century, most voluntary colonists were of English origins who settled...

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Thirteen Colonies

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the most heavily taxed of any in Europe, pointed out angrily that the colonists paid little to the royal coffers. The colonists replied that their sons...

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Richard Grenville

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seven ships at Bideford with supplies and more colonists for Raleigh's "Planters" Colony settled at Roanoke the previous year. However, a stay of shipping...

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Tuscarora War

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homesteads along the Roanoke, Neuse, and Trent rivers and in the city of Bath beginning on September 22, 1711, and killed hundreds of settlers, including...

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List of cities and counties in Virginia

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Richmond, and Roanoke. In the past they also included Norfolk and Alexandria, whose counties changed their names, ostensibly to end some of the confusion;...

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