Book Description
Recognized as the outstanding authority on early English exploration and settlement in America, David Beers Quinn brings together in this book the results of his nearly forty years of research on the subject.

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Recognized as the outstanding authority on early English exploration and settlement in America, David Beers Quinn brings together in Set Fair for Roanoke the results of his nearly forty years of research on the subject. His is a concise, scholarly history of the voyages sponsored by Sir Walter Ralegh and the efforts to colonize what is now North Carolina and southern Virginia. Combining documentary, visual, and archaeological sources, Quinn provides a fascinating, richly detailed account of the early colonists' experiences in the New World, especially during the year 1585-86.

Quinn's solution to the mystery of the Lost Colony will no doubt cause controversy. He concludes that while some of the colonists went with friendly Indians to live further down the Outer Banks of North Carolina, most made their way to an area on or near the Elizabeth River in southeastern Virginia. There they lived with a friendly tribe until well into the first decade of the seventeenth century. They were massacred by Powhatan about 1607.