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How many Roanoke colonists disappeared?

Asked by Russter (242points) August 1st, 2009

I’ve been trying to google it… but haven’t found an answer yet. How many colonists went missing at Roanoke? If you can’t find a specific number, perhaps you can find me an estimate.

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marinelife's avatar

I hope I am not doing homework for you, but here is what I found:

“Interestingly, when Drake picked up these colonists, he left behind 15 of his own men, who were never heard from again. This foreshadowed one of the great mysteries of North America, Roanoke’s so-called “Lost Colony” of 90 men, 17 women and 9 children, founded in 1587 and discovered to be missing in 1590, but for the word “Croatan” carved on a post. Although both the English and the Spanish searched for clues to the colony’s disappearance for many years, the mystery has never been solved.”

Using the “teach a man to fish” principle, this is what I googled: number of missing Roanoke colonists. The link I gave you was the second listing to come up.

Darwin's avatar

Actually the answer is “all of them,” but @Marina has it it actual numbers.

PandoraBoxx's avatar

Interestingly, I ran into a 1920’s account of a family legend that persists in the family of James Francis Moore that their ancestors were part of the lost colony of Virginia, and were taken into the interior of the area that would be the state of Kentucky. The legend was in context of explaining how the land where they lived in Kentucky, Fishpools, was granted to the family by George III and that the original land grant is in the collection of the Missouri Historical Society. Fishpools lies along the buffalo trace that would become part of the Wilderness Road, and is named because indentions in limestone formed pools that were stocked with fish, like natural fish breeding farms. It was a popular place with Native Americans that passed along the trace, on their way to hunt.

Zendo's avatar

They all disappeared. There is an accounting of it in a journal found in the Rosell Craft and is now being kept in Area 51 along with same craft.

marinelife's avatar

@PandoraBoxx That is interested. When you say taken, do you mean by Indians?

PandoraBoxx's avatar

@marina, That the colonists were taken inland by Native Americans.

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