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Friday, May 7, 2010

Searching For the Lost Colony Receives a Hand From English Mayor

Andy Powell wants to use DNA to prove his claims.
Photo: IAN SNELL/APEX

Andy Powell, mayor of Bideford, north Devon, wants to use DNA testing to prove residents from the port town settled in the US three decades before the Pilgrim Fathers sailed there.

Mr Powell is trying to raise money for the research, which he hopes will prove his town’s "pivotal" role in the history of modern America.



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