Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-06-27

THE LOST ROANOKE
COLONY.

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: COLONY. :
What became of the second Roam
oke colony which Sir Walter Raleigh
sent to America with which he ex-
pected to colonize Virginia? The first
colony he sent out. after undergoing
great h%ardships returned home to Eng
land The second colony-well, no n
Knows what was its fate. When the
third colony rrive all that it found
was Il ruined fort around which lay
II number of whitened skeletons. These
no doubt told the tale of their entire
disappearance.
The English had taken no pains to
conciliate the local Indians and had
doubtless been massacred by them.
There were los members in the lost
Roanoke colony. While Il few of them
We're M doubt destroyed historians
who have given Il clost study to he
subject. believe most of them We're not
part of Virginia. why did later set
tiers never hear of them? The lost
colony, wherever it settled after cav
ing Roanoke would naturally have
grown. In a few years nearly all Nir-
ginia was populated by newer ex-
petitions vet no sign of the Roanoke
colonists could ever be found.
Raleigh had determined to plant an
agricultural state and to send immi-
grants their wives and families, who
should make their homes in the new
world; and that life and property
granted a charter for the settlement.
and a municipal government for the
city OF Raleigh. John White was app
pointed it's governor: n to him, with
III assistants. the administration of the
colony was intrusted. Transport ships
W4rl nrpnqr red at fha avnanSa of fl,n
proprietary. Queen Elizabeth the god
mother OF Virginia declined contribute
ing TO its education. They embarked
DIN April, and in July arrived on the
coast Of North Carolina. They We're
saved from the dangers OF Cape Fear:
ana passing Cape Hatteras, they
shastened to the Isle of Roanoke. to
search for the handful of men whom
Greenville had left there as a garri-
son. The found the tenemants deserted
bones lay scattered on the field where
wild deer were reposing. The fort was
in ruins. No yestige of surviving life
appeared.
The instructions of Raleigh had
designated the place for the new set
Fernando, the naval officer. eager to
renew IA profitable traffic in the West
1ndias. refused his assistance in ex-
ploring the coast. and White was com
PEELED to remain on Roanoke. 1t was
there that in July the foundations of
the city of Raleigh were laid. But the
colony was doomed to disaster from the
beginning. being quickly involved in
warfare with h surrounding natives.
With the returning ship White en-
of fnterceding for re-enforcments and
supplies. Yet. on the 18th of August.
nine days previous to his departure.
Eleanor Dare. the wife of one OF the
assistants. gave birth to a female child,
the first offspring of English parents
on the soil of the United States. The
infant was named for the place OF it's
birth.
The colony. now composed of SO men,
IL women and two children; whose
names are all preserved, might rea-
sonab!y hope for the speedy return of
the governor, as he left with them his
daughter and his g~randchild. Virginia
Dare. The further history of this
plantation is involves in gloomy uncer-
tainty. The inhabitants of the city of
the first-born of America awaiting
death in the and of their adoption.
For, e White reached England he
found it's attention absorbed by the
threats of an invasion from Spain. Yet
Raleigh, whose patriotism did not
diminish his generosity, found means in
April, 1883. to dispatch. While with
supplies in two vessels. But the COM
pany. desiring a gainful voyage rather
than q safe one. ran in case of prizes.
till one of them fell in with a man
of-war from Rochelle. and after a
floOdy fight was boarded and rifled.
Both ships were compelled to return
to England.
The delay was fatal. h English
kingdom and the Protestant reforma-
ton were in danger: nor could the poor
colonists of Roanoke be again remem-
bered till after the discontinue of the
~fnvincible Armada. Even then Sir
\ Walter Raleigh. who had already in
Cured a fruftless expenses of 40, 200
4 pounds. found his impaired fortune in
\ sufficient for further attempts at
l'AGolonizing Virginia.
I n More than another year elapsed be-
L Ore White could return to search for
p colony and his daughter, and then
lie Island OF Roanoke was "A desert.
, inscription on the bark of a tree
HIbinted to Croatan, but the season of
kshe year and the dangers of the storm
were pleaded as an excuse for the inn
mediate return. The conjecture has
been hazarded that the desert colony.
neglected by their own c~ountrymen,
were Hospitality adopted into the tribe
(the CrOatans) Hatteras Indians. Ra-
leigh long hoped to discover some yes
tiges of their existence and sent at his
own charge. and. 1t is said. at five diff
ferent times, to search for his liege-
In its attempts to trace the fate of the
men. But immigration received no help
colony of Roanoke.