In a message dated 12/4/05 7:38:36 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:


>
> "Tree-ring data from Virginia indicate that the Lost Colony of Roanoke
> Island disappeared during the most extreme drought in 800 years (1587-1589)
> and that the alarming mortality and the near abandonment of Jamestown colony
> occurred during the driest 7-year episode in 770 years (1606-1612). These
> extraordinary droughts can now be implicated in the fate of the Lost Colony
> and in the appalling death rate during the early occupations at
> Jamestown,the first permanent English settlement in America."
>

Dear Emily:

Thanks for the excellent source.   Early settlers certainly would have been
more adversely affected by extreme weather variabilities.   Did the authors
speak to the theory that the Lost Colony helped to contribute to the formation of
the Melungeon people?

Anita L. Henderson
Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society Atlantic Guard Soldiers Aid Society
Woodbine, MD

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