Roanoke Hundred by Inglis Fletcher

From the book: Roanoke Hundred by Inglis Fletcher


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Thumbing my way back home.....

by Janet Crain

As informative and fun as the 6th Annual Family Tree DNA Conference was, there were more treats in store for me when I left the conference. My niece, Angie Applebe, picked me up because I don't do "Houston traffic". We headed out toward La Porte and were soon ascending the High Bridge. Don't know its real name, but it is certainly high. It afforded a view for many miles.

Arriving in La Porte, we revisited several haunts (appropriate for Halloween Night). Then I visited with my sister in her very nice apartment overlooking Galveston Bay, while we got ready to go out to Dinner. My wonderful niece picked us back up and we went to El Toro, a popular local Mexican food resturant where the wait staff was wearing Halloween costumes. This really sweet girl let me take her picture.

There we were joined by three great nephews (and they really are great people) Jason, Jamie , Big Jordan, and friend Little Jordan, plus Big Jordan's fiance Jennie. Since my sister's name is Joan and mine is Janet, you might say the J's had it.

After a great meal of various Mexican food favorites, we headed out for Jason's home at Morgan's Point. Jason, who owns Galveston Bay Guile Service is a great sportsman on land as well as water. Last year he managed to take a 16 point non-typical buck with double drop tines..............with a bow!

In the home he shares with his lovely wife, Yvonne and their very cute daughter, Madison, Jason has filled a game room with his trophies. I was surprised when a buck seemingly jumped through the wall.

And then I was shocked by a huge Rattlesnake about to strike at my purse. But thank the Lord, it was a stuffed one. Just kidding!

We really did enjoy our visit as Yvonne and Madison came in from Trick or Treating and we took some more pictures before we called it a night and headed back for a Slumber Party at my sisters.

Tomorrow would be another event filled day. But that's a story for another day.

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Family Tree DNA 6th International Conference on Genetic Genealogy

Debbie Williams, Roberta Estes, Jim Kvochick, Penny Ferguson and Ron Deaton were among the attendees enjoying the great luncheon at the Family Tree DNA 6th International Conference on Genetic Genealogy held October 30-31, 2010 at the Hotel Sheraton North in Houston, TX.

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Lively Session in Geographic DNA Projects led by Roberta Estes at DNA Conference

 Roberta Estes,  Lost Colony of Roanoke and Cumberland Gap Administrator, demonstrates a "hands on" approach as she leads the session on Geographic DNA Projects during the break out session where attendees could select a session in their own interest.

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Lost Colony Represented by Four Administrators at the FTDNA Conference

 The Lost Colony of Roanoke DNA Project was represented by four administrators at the 6th Annual Family Tree DNA Conference in Houston, TX this past weekend. The conference was held in the beautiful Sheraton North Hotel where the staff of both Sheraton and FTDNA did everything possible to make our stay pleasant and productive.




Those attending were Roberta Estes, Penny Ferguson, Rob Noles and Janet Crain.  I will have more photos later along with a personal narrative of my side trips on the way home.

Roberta Estes and other attendees at the first day's fabulous luncheon.

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The Lost Colony may now be found

By Erin James
The Virginian-Pilot
© November 1, 2010

It’s a typical day at the Hatteras Histories and Mysteries Museum in Buxton, N.C., and Scott Dawson is buzzing around glass cases full of centuries-old arrowheads and broken pottery. Puzzled visitors listen as he explains for the gazillionth time the difference between fact and speculation. • He speaks with certainty in a voice tinged with more than a hint of frustration. • “Anybody who researches it knows that the colony came down here,” he says, confidently dismissing competing theories on America’s oldest unsolved mystery. • The artifacts, many unearthed during archaeological digs in the past year, may hold the clues that finally answer the question: What happened to the Lost Colony, a group of 117 Englishmen who settled on a tiny island off the North Carolina coast and then vanished with barely a trace?

Hatteras Island native Scott Dawson stands in his Hatteras Histories and Mysteries Museum, which he opened in Buxton after the April dig. (L. Todd Spencer | The Virginian-Pilot)

The 32-year-old Dawson has a personal stake in what happened to the early settlers. The son of a family whose roots can be traced back to the Croatoan Indians, he thinks his ancestors have been falsely maligned by the legends that have grown up around the case of the missing Englishmen.
“The two drops of Croatoan blood that I have have boiled over,” he said. “I want the history of this tribe and this island to stop being ignored.”
He’s counting on science to help him set the record straight.

It was 1587 when the group now known as the Lost Colony sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World on an adventure that ultimately fell far short of its intended purpose.
European explorers had been making the journey for years, and the first English contact with Native Americans on the Outer Banks is credited to a military expedition in 1584. Similar expeditions followed in 1585 and 1586.
The next year – 20 years before Jamestown was founded and 33 before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock – Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched the group of men, women and children in his bid to establish the first permanent English stronghold in America.
The colonists intended to settle near the Chesapeake Bay, but when their captain refused to sail farther north, they were forced to make a temporary home on Roanoke Island, where they’d planned to pick up 15 men left there the year before.
All they found were bones.
Less than a week after arriving, one colonist was killed, presumably by Indians.
In a desperate attempt to save the struggling colony, which included his newborn granddaughter Virginia Dare, Gov. John White and some colonists sailed back to England for help. White’s begging would go unheeded for three years.
With their leader gone and surrounded by strangers, the colonists lived out their final days. Nothing is known about what happened to them after White left.
Today, their legend lives on at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site on Roanoke Island, where they were last seen by a white man. There, at Waterside Theater, an outdoor symphonic drama mixes fact with romantic speculation about the colony’s fate.
White returned in 1590, only to find the entire group gone. But they’d left behind one clue that continues to haunt modern-day historians and amateur sleuths: the word “Croatoan” carved into a tree.

Cont. here:


http://hamptonroads.com/2010/10/lost-colony-may-now-be-found


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