[Sca-cooks] A little Roanoke Island history

[Pat]

In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh sent the explorers Amadas and Barlowe to search for a good site for a colony along the Atlantic Coast.  They chose Roanoke Island.
  In 1585, Raleigh sent a garrison of 100 men to Roanoke.  Poor plannning and leadership led to it's failure, and Sir Francis Drake rescued the garrison in 1586.
  In 1587, Raleigh sent 117 men and women (including Governor John White and John White's pregnant daughter, Eleanor Dare and her husband Annanais Dare.) to colonize the Chesapeake Bay area.  Unfortunately the pilot he hired to do so, a Portugese named Fernandes, ordered them ashore at Roanoke Island.  On August 18, while they were unloading and repairing the abandoned fort, Eleanor gave birth to Virginia, first English child born on American soil.  Ten days later Governor White sailed with Fernandes, returning to England to beg more supplies.  His return to the island was delayed by the impending invasion of the Spanish Armada.  Finally, two years after the defeat of the Armada, he returned, only to find the site abandoned, and no clue as to where they went, or what happened.  
  This is the famous "Lost Colony."
   
   


Lady Anne du Bosc
known as Mordonna the Cook
Shire of Thorngill, Meridies
Mundanely, Pat Griffin of Millbrook, AL