• By Griffen Scogland

Clues and theories
about what happened
to the roanoke colony.
• By Griffen Scogland
The Story of Roanoke
So you might be thinking who’s Roanoke? and why is
Griffen not saying the last name of him? well he isn’t a
person its a whole colony. what happened was the
first group of colonists were sent back to England due
to starvation. So they sent in another group led by
John White. At this time England was caught in a war
and kinda forgot about the colonists. So John White
went back to England for the supplies. He couldn’t go
back to the colony for 3 years because of the war.
once he came back they were GONE all that was left
was the word CROATOAN carved in a nearby tree.
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The many theories of
what happened.
My theory of what happened was that they joined
other tribes. I think so because Croatoan was
carved in a tree which is some of the Native
American colonies. I think they joined those
colonies and split up joining all of them.
3 more theories that I think are possible are They
were captured by the spanish, They died from
starvation or a disease, Or maybe they were killed
by nearby tribes.
a clue?
People found a 415 year old map that has
faded hidden markings that might have lead to
where they went. the tribe probably left there
or the tribe died out before they left. I don’t
think there would be any more clues of where
they went after going to the mystery place that
is if we could even read where it was.
Theories that other
people thought up.
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Some say that the Roanoke colony made a big boat
to go back to england. They thought that the
Roanoke tribe got lost at sea.
It is also said by other people that they all were
killed in a bad storm like maybe a hurricane. I do
not think that they would make a big boat and
leave because they didn’t know a way back why
would they risk their lives more at sea? I don’t
think the hurricane idea could be true because
what about the croatoan carving? I also don’t think
the hurricane idea could be true because the
ENTIRE tribe being wiped out what are the
possibilities of that?
You Realllyyyy wanna
be the one to find out
what happened don’t
you?
• Some people wanna be the one to find out
what happened so badly that they made up
theories like alien abduction,vampire
epidemics, and angry demons.
Facts.
There were 116 colonists that came 90 men, 17 women, and 9
children. these colonists came twenty-two years before
jamestown and 37 years before the pilgrims.
Facts.
There were 116 colonists that came 90 men, 17 women, and 9
children. these colonists came twenty-two years before
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were
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thatpilgrims.
came 90 men, 17 women, and 9
jamestown
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before the
children. these colonists came twenty-two years before
jamestown and 37 years before the pilgrims.
Facts.
There were 116 colonists that came 90 men, 17 women, and 9
children. these colonists came twenty-two years before
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were
colonists
that
came
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pilgrims.
Facts.
There were 116 colonists that came 90 men, 17 women, and 9
children. these colonists came twenty-two years before
There
were
colonists
that
came
Thereand
were
116
colonists
thatpilgrims.
came90
90men,
men,17
17women,
women,and
and99
jamestown
37116
years
before the
children.
children.these
thesecolonists
colonistscame
cametwenty-two
twenty-twoyears
yearsbefore
before
jamestown
jamestownand
and37
37years
yearsbefore
beforethe
thepilgrims.
pilgrims.
BYE
BYE
• So we may never know what happened to the roanoke colony or if we will
ever find more clues but one thing is for sure it was a very important part in
human history the first huge mystery in fact.
http://History.com/videos/mystery-roanoke
mostly just me writing what I remembered I read.
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