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In July 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh and a group of colonist set sail to modern day North Carolina, past day Roanoke Island. The colony, which failed within a year, was named Virginia. Sir Francis Drake traveled back in 1586 and found the colonists starving and took them back to England; they did not know how to survive.

Flash forward to 1587 where John White took 117 colonists back to Roanoke Island. He was hoping for families to get interested in the concept of colonizing in the New World. In order to get people to go along with him, he offered each settler 500 acres of land and some part of the government of the island. The demographics of the island were 91 men, 17 women, and 9 children. Upon arriving to the old colony, the people of England

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