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Subject: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] LOST COLONY of ROANOKE ISLAND

From: awetzel@juno.com To: VA-SOUTHSIDE-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999
Message-ID: 19990413.223804.-4557.2.awetzel@juno.com
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There was a rather active discussion on this list re: the fate of the "Lost Colony" settlers:

1. An editorial was posted as "proof'of the fate of the "Lost Colony" settlers." By definition, editorials are the opinion of the writer. The editorialist is free to state, and to believe, whatever conclusion he or she wishes to state. An opinion does not constitute proof.

2. Another post stated that survivors of the "Lost Colony" integrated with the Indian tribe called "Croatoan," now known officially as "Lumbee." The official website of the Lumbee tribe can be found at http://www.lumbee-tribe.org/ and other information can be found at www.charweb.org/neighbors/na/lumbee.htm Please note their history as "migrating from the area near Danville, Virginia," some distance from Roanoke Island.

3. Another post stated that "surnames of __percent of the Lost Colony settlers can be found among descendants of Indian tribes today." That is understandable.

The "Lost Colony" settlers were English, and their surnames are not uncommon. Annette Elam Wetzel

Here is the list of the settlers (plus two) who came to Roanoke Island in 1587, from "The Lost Colony in Fact & Legend," by F. Roy Johnson, c. 1983, Johnson Publishing Co., Murfreesboro, NC 27855. ISBN 0-930230-46-9

Men:
Thomas Smith; Richard Kemme; Thomas Harris; Richard Taverner; John White; Roger Bailey; Ananias Dare; Christopher Cooper; Thomas Steven; John Sampson; Dionys. Harvie; Roger Prat; George Howe; Simon Ferdinando; Nicholas Johnson; Thomas Warner; Anthony Cage; John Jones; William Willes; Johne Brooke; Cuthbert White; John Bright; Clement Taylor; William Sole; John Cotsmur; Humphrey Newton; Thomas Colman; Thomas Gramme; Mark Bennett; John Gibbes; John Stilman; Robert Wilkinson; John Tydway; Ambrose Viccars; Edmund English; THomas Topan; Henry Berry; Richard Berry; John Spendlove; John Hemmington; Thomas Butler; Edward Powell; John Burden; James Hyndes; Thomas Ellis; Martin Sutton; John Farre; John Bridger; Griffin Jones; Richard Shabedge; William Browne; Michael Myliet; John Earnest; Henry Johnson; John Starte; Richard Darige; William Lucas; Arnold Archard; John Wright; William Dutton; Maurice Allen; William Waters; Richard Arthur; John Chapman; William Clement; Robert Little; Hugh Tayler; Richard Wildye; Lewes Wotton; John Borden; Thomas Scott; Peter Little; John Wyles; George Martyn; Hugh Pattenson; James Lesie; John Chevin; Thomas Hewet; William Berde; Michael Bishop; Henry Browne; Henry Rufoote; Richard Tompkins; Henry Dorrell; Charles Florrie; Henry Mylton; Henry Paine; William Nichols; Thomas Harris; Thomas Phevens.

Women:
Eleanor Dare; Margery Harvie; Agnes Wood; Winnifred Powell; Joyce Archard; Jane Jones; Elizabeth Glane; Jane Pierce; Alice Chapman; Emma Merimoth; ___Colman; Margaret Lawrence; Joan Warren; Jane Mannering; Rose Payne; Elizabeth Viccars.

Boys and Children:
John Sampson; Robert Ellis; Ambrose Viccars; Thomas Archard; Thomas Humphrey; Thomas Smith; George Howe; John Prat; William Wythers. Children Born in Virginia: Virginia Dare; _____Harvey.