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First-hand accounts further explain that the colonists moved inward away from the Outer banks in search for refuge. John White wrote about his return to the missing Roanoke colony; White talks about the colonists’ previous plan to migrate elsewhere if conditions became too unbearable. In an excerpt from "The fift voyage of Master John White into the West Indies and parts of America called Virginia, in the yeere 1590" John White states, “…for at my comming away they were prepared to remove from Roanoak 50 miles to the maine. Therefore at my departure from them in Anno 1587 I willed them, that if they should happen to be distressed in any of those places, that then they should carve over the letters or name..”. In the same excerpt White points

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