st bride s church fleet street, eleanor dare married.
in 2000 book roanoke: solving mystery of lost colony, anthropologist lee miller speculates eleanor , other members of roanoke colony religious separatists left england @ time when political climate in england dangerous such religious dissidents. suggests might why colonists, 2 of whom pregnant women , several of whom parents young children, willing undertake dangerous journey roanoke island low supplies , @ time england on verge of war spain. colonists, including women, signed petition urging white return england supplies, though reluctant leave daughter , granddaughter. miller suggests democratic action have been typical of religious separatist group.
historical explanations
john smith , other members of jamestown colony sought information fate of colonists in 1607. 1 report indicated lost colonists took refuge friendly chesapeake indians, chief powhatan claimed tribe had attacked group , killed of colonists. powhatan showed smith artifacts said had belonged colonists, including musket barrel , brass mortar. jamestown colony received reports of survivors of lost colony , sent out search parties, none successful. determined dead.
however, in 2000 book roanoke: solving mystery of lost colony, miller postulated of lost colony survivors sought shelter neighboring indian tribe, chowanoc, attacked tribe, identified jamestown colony mandoag, whom miller thinks eno, known wainoke. survivors sold slavery , held captive differing bands of eno tribe, who, miller wrote, known slave traders. miller wrote english settlers jamestown colony heard reports in 1609 of captive englishmen, reports suppressed because had no way rescue captives , didn t want panic jamestown colonists. william strachey, secretary of jamestown colony, wrote in history of travel virginia britania in 1612 that, @ indian settlements of peccarecanick , ochanahoen, there reportedly 2 story houses stone walls. indians supposedly learned how build them roanoke settlers. there reported sightings of european captives @ various indian settlements during same time period. strachey wrote in 1612 4 english men, 2 boys, , 1 girl had been sighted @ eno settlement of ritanoc, under protection of chief called eyanoco. captives forced beat copper. captives, reported, had escaped attack on other colonists , fled chaonoke river, present-day chowan river in bertie county, north carolina.
possible descendants
the chowanoc tribe absorbed tuscarora. eno tribe associated shakori tribe , later absorbed catawba or saponi tribes. 17th century middle 18th century european colonists reported encounters gray-eyed american indians or welsh-speaking indians claimed descent colonists. in 1669 welsh cleric named morgan jones taken captive tuscarora. feared life, visiting doeg indian war captain spoke him in welsh , assured him not killed. doeg warrior ransomed jones , party , jones remained tribe months preacher. in 1701, surveyor john lawson encountered members of hatteras tribe living on roanoke island claimed of ancestors white people. lawson wrote several of hatteras tribesmen had gray eyes. present-day american indian tribes in north carolina , south carolina, among them coree , lumbee tribes, claim partial descent surviving roanoke colonists. non-profit organization, lost colony center science , research, has launched lost colony dna project test possible descendants.
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