On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:53:11 GMT, sechumlib
wrote:
>gem@shaw.invalid wrote:
>
>> What about the Raonoke Colonies of the late 1500's Wouldn't they be
>> the first?
>> They were short lived but so was Jamestown
>
>NO ONE survived from the Roanoke Colonies - as far as we have ever been
>able to tell.
>
>Lots of people survived Jamestown. They just moved inland, to Williamsburg.
Tis a mystery, isnt it. How do around 100 people just vanish without
any trace - no bones, no artifacts etc -- just a sing on a tree?
I wasn't considering "survival rates" in my reply a sit was not a
criteria of the opriginal post.
Roanoke did seem to survive for 1- 3 years and and such, wouldn't it
have to be considered as the first settlement ? English settlement,
that is, as there were certainly lots of native settlements
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