Category: 16. Origins of the tribe

505. Lawson, John. A new voyage to Carolina. 1709. Ed. Hugh Talmage Lefler. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1967. P. [69].

Publication type: Book

Full text: 1709 edition available from the UNC Library's Documenting the American South project at:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/lawson/menu.html

Often cited as evidence for the Lost Colony theory. Lawson began his journey in 1700 and spent eight years in North Carolina. He mentions the Hatteras Indians, “who either then lived on Roanoak-Island or much frequented it.” The Hatteras claimed some White ancestors; they “could talk in a book [read]” and often had gray eyes.

This annotation first appeared in The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography (McFarland, 1994), by Glenn Ellen Starr.

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