Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh: 1584Everyone remembers Jamestown, Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and all the others. But do you remember Roanoke? In 1585, after returning from a small reconnaissance expedition from North America with two Native Americans and many amazing stories, Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to establish a colony called Roanoke in the land the British named "Virginia", in the honor of Elizabeth, the Virgin. Queen. The site was actually an island on the east coast of North America, protected by the outer banks of what is now the coast of North Carolina. Sir Richard Grenville led the fleet that brought them to the New World, the governor of the colony was Master Ralph Lane and among the colonists was Walter Raleigh's confidant Thomas Harriot, author of "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. , a chronicle of their adventure. Sir Francis Drake, who was seeking Spanish conquests in the New World, saved this group just as they were losing control of their situation. Another colony was left at Roanoke in 1587, but in 1590, when a long-delayed supply ship finally arrived, it disappeared without a trace. This was what was called the “lost colony.” A baby was born in Roanoke around this time. Little Virginia Dare, was the granddaughter of John White, appointed governor of the "lost colony", and was probably the first English baby born in the New World. Sir Walter Raleigh sent ships to America to search for the settlers, but without success. When the next English settlers arrived in North America to colonize Jamestown, it was nearly twenty years later and, although several attempts were made to discover what had happened to them, the fate of the "lost colony" was unclear. has never been fully explained. -------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------(1607) Virginia [Home page, Constitution] (Roots-L Database, Instructions for the Colony of Virginia (1606), The First Charter of Virginia (April 10, 1606), History of the Statehouse, History of Jamestown, Jamestown Rediscovery Project, History of Jamestown, Early English Colony , The Real Pocahontas , Jamestown, Virginia , Jamestowne Society , Colonial Williamsburg Home Page , Virtual Jamestown ) Based on George Weymouth's accounts of travels in the New England region in 1606, two private societies were. created to obtain a patent for colonization on the Atlantic coast. One of these companies was called the London Company and was given the territory of southern Virginia..