Record #:

40904

Author(s):

Grizzard, Kim

Abstract:

The Lost Colony Center for Science and Research’s director supports a less popular theory for the Roanoke Colony’s fate. Fred Willard doesn't support the conventional theories: they succumbed to starvation or became massacre victims. His quest for truth has also led to this possibility: the presence of colonists’ surnames in Eastern North Carolina families claiming a Native American heritage suggests they moved inland and integrated.

Source:

Greenville: Life in the East (NoCar F264 G8 G743), Vol. Issue , Summer 2016, p12-14, 46

Subject(s):

Lost Colony; Roanoke Colony; Roanoke Island; Roanoke Island--History; Roanoke Colony--theories about colonists' disappearance--Fred Willard ; Roanoke Colony--theories about disappearance of colonists; Lost Colony Center for Science and Research (Williamston); Croatan Indians--Manteo; White, John,1540-1593; Dare, Eleanor--Dare Stones--Edenton; Signet ring--Buxton--Joyner Library Special Collections ; Raleigh, Walter, 1552-1618; Roanoke Colony--theories about colonists' disappearance--Charles Ewen; Roanoke Colony--excavation sites--Chowan River; Roanoke Colony--excavation sites--Buxton; Roanoke Colony--excavation sites--David Phelps