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The Lost Colony By Jasmine Alvarez The Lost Colony was known for the people ar Roanoke who have gone missing. Nobody couldhave pinpionted their fate. People think that the Spanish have raided the settlement, but it has not been proven. It can be possible that the natives who were still angry at the Lane Colony killed them, but no violence was found or evidence. Maybe the Colonist did what they promiced to do so. That they went to live with the Croations, like what the message from the tree said. They could have been alive when White left for England. A century later, the natives who lived in Cape Hatterastold John Lawsonthat their ansestors could talk from a book. Some later moved inland to escape the white settlements. We maybe think that the settled near the Cape Fear region on the Lumber River. In the 1700s the whites found out where they lived and also found out that they had blue eyes and built houses and had english names. At one time they called themselves the Croatoans and claimed the lost colony their ancestors. the other known story is that when the english came back to the new world in 1607 and established new town on the chesepeake bay, John Smith, their leader, and others searcheed for the lost colony.He thought that the Roanoke residents attempeted to move to the original destination the mouth of the chesepeake bay. The indians had told him that they had died of several causes (it says that it looked bad like murder). The disaster of at the Roanokekept the english away from what became North Carolina for more than 50 years.

**Sir Walter Raleigh and The English **

**By the late 1500s the english wanted to have some of the riches of the new world to themselves. So a small group came to Queen Elizabeth I, that group included Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh who were half brothers. the two had studied the Verrazano reports from before and believed that they could find a route for China. In 1578, Raleigh and gilberst had convinced the Queen to plan to plan an expedition to the NorthWest Passage so that their country would benefit and gror rich in trade by other nations. It was turned back by heavy storms and Spanish attacks. They recieved permission for a second expedition, but the queen would not let Raleigh leave because she drempt that he would die if he sailed away. Gilbert did go but got lost at sea in 1583. The next year raleigh gained permission to go and try again but he sent people there instead. That was one of the first English settlements in the New World they would become famous for North Carolina History and The Lost Colony **

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