Instead of an interst in a fort on Roanoke Island, John White wanted to create a colony far away from the turmoil of London.  It would be very peaceful and especially distanced from Ralph Lane and his rampage.  Raleigh funded this project as he approved.  He...

    John White, his daughter Eleanor (six months pregnant), and her husband, Ananias, were leaving Plymouth Harbor for the last time.  Only 117 people were going and their party was divided up into two groups--two ships.  Many of the people seemed to have been wealthy...

    White knew that somebody must of planned this out.  Why would Fernandez do this to them on his own?  He had somebody--somebody that had maybe...ordered him?  Or was he working along with him on his own free will?  Was he getting paid?  Was he put up...

    It was all very simple.  Fernandez stopped at Roanoke and ordered his men to take White and his colonists ashore.  He told them to just well, leave them there.  White desperately begged him not to and to at least bring them to Chesapeake Bay which...

    While still on the island, John White came upon the skeleton of one of Ralph Lane's troops.  He was kept by the fort to help guard it along with fourteen others which had vanished.  There was no clue on where they could have gone.  Now White knew that there...