BUXTON, N.C. — The English colonists who settled the so-called Lost Colony before disappearing from history simply went to live with their native friends — the Croatoans of Hatteras, according to a new book.
“They were never lost,” said Scott Dawson, who has researched records and dug up artifacts where the colonists lived with the Indians in the 16th century. “It was made up. The mystery is over.”
Dawson has written a book, published in June, that details his research. It is called “The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island,” and echos many of the sentiments he has voiced for years.
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As good a guess as any. My question is around a year or so later when ships showed up why didn't these "Lost People" go over and say Hey, how y'all doing? Hows all back home?
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DeleteIf white people were still around when further settlers arrived, why didn't they identify themselves to the new arrivals? Life among the Indians couldn't have been THAT much more preferred, especially to people that had been in a settled culture on the other side of the pond before they arrived in the new world.
This new "theory" sounds more like cultural exoneration than anything I've heard before about what may have happened to those folks. Apparently "wokeness" and rewriting history even invades archeology these days.
Is there no end to this madness?
Nemo
Well maybe they didn't get on those boats by choice, does the term indentured servitude ring a bell, and didn't want to be found by those returning from across the pond.
DeleteJD
I thought maybe they had gone to Oak Island.
ReplyDeleteYeah, going to need just a little more evidence
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