![]() ![]() Eventually they determined that the early colonists had all died. The Jamestown Colony received reports of some survivors of the Lost Colony and sent out search parties, but none was successful. ![]() Powhatan showed Smith certain artifacts he said had belonged to the colonists, including a musket barrel and a brass mortar. One report indicated that the Lost Colonists took refuge with friendly Chesapeake Indians, but Chief Powhatan claimed his tribe had attacked the group and killed most of the colonists. John Smith and other members of the Jamestown Colony sought information about the fate of the colonists in 1607. Miller suggests that this democratic action would have been typical of a religious Separatist group. The colonists, including the women, signed a petition urging White to return to England for supplies, even though he was reluctant to leave his daughter and granddaughter. She suggests that this might be why the colonists, two of whom were pregnant women and several of whom were parents with young children, were willing to undertake the dangerous journey to Roanoke Island with low supplies and at a time when England was on the verge of war with Spain. ![]() In her book Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony (2000), anthropologist Lee Miller speculates that Eleanor and the other members of the Roanoke Colony were religious Separatists who left England at a time when the political climate in England was dangerous for such religious dissidents. ![]()
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