Sunday, November 1, 2009

Famous People

Famous People
Explorers
Giovanni de Verranzano was the first human to see Cape fear, not even the Indians. After Giovanni de Verrazano discovered North Carolina Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon and a group of Spaniards made a temporary Colony in the mouth of Cape Fear. Herenado de Soto Climbed the mountain area of North Carolina. After that Hernado discovered the Mississippi.
The Lost Colony
In 1558 Raleigh was given permission to establish a colony in the new world After that Walter Raleigh put two people in command of two ships Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to find a good place for the colony. The two ships came back with two Indians. Three ships brought the people to there new home. At two months at sea they finally reached there colony. They started building at once. Raleigh finally founded the first English colony in 1558. It had 108 men in seven vessels. They built a fort called “Raleigh.”
After the birth of the colony started a lack of food. It was too late to plant and harvest. Fort Raleigh faced starvation and danger so some men left for England leaving 15 men behind.
Later Raleigh got a wealthy men to sponsor a new colony. He succeeded, after that 110 people signed up to go to the colony. Each got 500 acres to farm.The colony left in 1587 with 91 men ,17 women,and 9 boys.John White was the Governor. The new colony would also be called John white.
White be lived so much in the colony that he brought his daughter and her husband. His Daughter was the first European to give birth in the “new land”. The baby's name was Virgina Dare. The colony started to run out of supplies, so John White had to leave.
When John White arrived in England, England and Spain declared war. John White couldn’t leave for many years. In 1590 John finally returned to the Colony. When John returned he found the letters CROATOAN carved in a tree that meant they had moved to a near by Island. John unable to go to the island when a heavy storm hit. He was forced to go to England, he will never know what happened to his colony. Raleigh never visited the “new world”
The only permanent colony from England was Virgina. It was founded in 1650.

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