Complex sentence: In the later 18th century, a variety of European-American colonists settled in the area as well as Lumbee ancestors who migrated from their Indian settlement along the Roanoke River in Halifax and Edgecombe counties in North Carolina.
Split into simpler sentences: In the later 18th century, a variety of European-American colonists settled in the area as well as Lumbee ancestors. Some of the latter are believed to have migrated from the area of the Roanoke River in Halifax and Edgecombe counties in North Carolina.