Faire Letter Sample

I, John White, am leaving England because I want to expand English settlement. Exploration needs to happen and what better time to prove England can do it than the present? We soon arrive on Roanoke, but not long after arrival, and with the support of the people, I leave to sail back to England and promise a quick return. My goal in returning to England is to update Sir Walter Raleigh on the colonies condition. A fast update did not happen and it is a long three years before I return. Upon my return, I discover no trace of the colonists. However, they had, “carved these faire Romane letters C R O,” on a post and, “5 foote from the ground in fayre Capitall letters was graven CROATOAN,” into a tree. I am forced, out of lack of other options, to believe they all went to live with a group of Natives who live on an island called …show more content…
My hope is small, but with little other than the carvings to give us guidance, I have to believe the best will come from this disaster and that they are living in prosperity with the Croatoan. I believe they left and went to the Croatoan island, as many of their buried possessions had been dug up. “This could bee no other but the deede of the Savages our enemies at Dasamongwepeuk, who had watched the departure of our men to Croatoan (...) I greatly joyed that I had safely found a certaine token of their safe being at Croatoan,” They may have left to find an area, such as Croatoan, with a more sufficient supply of resources or they just couldn’t pass up a chance for allies in a new and dangerous world. They may have also left to avoid conflict, as they were in the midst of a political battle between the Secotan and the Chowanoke. I know for a fact, that they were not it distress when leaving for they did not carve any cross symbols of which we had agreed would mean