Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony: An historical sketch of the attempts of Sir Walter Raleigh to establish a colony in Virginia, with the traditions of an Indian tribe in North Carolina. Indicating the fate of the colony of Englishmen left on Roanoke Island in 1587

Category: 16. Origins of the tribe

506. McMillan, Hamilton. Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony: An historical sketch of the attempts of Sir Walter Raleigh to establish a colony in Virginia, with the traditions of an Indian tribe in North Carolina. Indicating the fate of the colony of Englishmen left on Roanoke Island in 1587. Wilson, NC: Advance Presses, 1888. 29 p. Rev. ed. Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton, 1907. 46 p. Rpt. in McPherson (entry 49), Exhibit C. Microfilmed by the Library of Congress.

Publication type: Booklet

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An often-cited work. Quotes early travel writers on Indians who may have been descendants of the Lost Colonists and Manteo’s tribe. Relates several origin traditions. Mentions their “Anglo-Saxon” language, Lost Colonists’ surnames still found among them, road-building, walking “Indian-file,” and raising tobacco for their own use.

Additional subjects discussed in this source: Language (Lumbee) | Surnames

Most of this annotation first appeared in The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography, with Chronology and Index (McFarland, 1994). This annotation was expanded and edited on: March 31, 2007.

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