man, he was unfortunately in command when disaster struck, a disaster that had been brewing for some time. Oppecancanough had assured the governor that peace between the Indians and the colonists would be forever, that all was well. A few hours later, on the morning of March 22, 1622, the Indians attacked without warning and massacred nearly one-third of the colonists. There were a few cases where individual Indians friendly to certain colonists did warn them of what was to come. Some did not believe the warnings; others put themselves in a position of readiness in well-guarded compounds and so survived. Generally it was a major disaster.
JOHN TILLY: A ship's master and ordained minister; it was he who married Abigail and Barnabas, and at a later time, Lila and Jeremy Ring. A strong, capable, quiet man, he had been promoted from seaman to captain by Barnabas, who recognized his ability. He also appears in THE WARRIOR'S PATH.
THE LOST COLONY: Planted by Sir Walter Raleigh, it endured from 1584 to 1587, then vanished. There has been much speculation about the lost colonists, and of Grenville's men, who were also left in Virginia. Such speculation is interesting but, it seems to me, needless. It would seem obvious that when ships did not return with the promised and necessary supplies, as well as additional colonists, that those people who came with Raleigh simply went to live with friendly Indians and adopted their way of life.
John Lawson, the naturalist, who arrived in Virginia-Carolina in 1700, tells of meeting many Hatteras Indians. "These tell us," he writes, "that several of their ancestors were white, and could talk in a book (read) as we do; the Truth of which is confirmed by gray eyes being found frequently amongst these Indians, and no others. They value themselves extremely for their Affinity to the English and are ready to do them all friendly offices. It is probable this settlement miscarried for want of supplies from England; or through treachery of the natives, for we may reasonably suppose that the English were forced to cohabit with them, for Relief and Conversation; and that in the process of Time they conformed themselves to the Manners of their Indian relations."
--from A New Voyage to Carolina, by John Lawson.
Lawson spent much time among the Indians and was the first to make a comprehensive list of plants and animals in the Carolinas. He also discussed the Indian method of scalping, and was later killed and scalped himself.
CHOWAN RIVER: On the spot where in my story Captain Tempany's vessel was run aground, charred timbers were actually discovered. Their origin we do not know, but they seem to have been a ship's timbers or those of a fort, hewn by metal axes.
HORSES: Much nonsense has been written about the horse in America. Actually, the prehistoric horse, which was about three feet high, originated in America, moved to Asia and Europe by way of the so-called land bridge that joined the continents where the Bering Strait is now, and then for some unknown reason this early horse, the size of a dog, died out.
Some writers would have us believe that all horses in the Americas descended from the sixteen brought by Cortes, but nearly every Spanish expedition brought horses, and as they did not geld their stock there was no limit to the number available for breeding.
In the expedition headed by Ayllon eighty-nine horses were landed near Cape Fear; some time later Arellano, son of the governor of Yucatan, landed some two hundred forty horses. Some of the horses brought by De Soto were abandoned when his followers boarded rafts to escape down the Mississippi.
Horses were brought into the country by other would-be settlers from Nova Scotia to Florida and Texas. Some were abandoned, some stolen by Indians, and years later vast herds of wild horses were seen. One trapper-trader in Kansas reported a herd that needed several hours to pass his position.
CATAWBA: A tribe of Indians in the Carolinas
JOHN TILLY: A ship's master and ordained minister; it was he who married Abigail and Barnabas, and at a later time, Lila and Jeremy Ring. A strong, capable, quiet man, he had been promoted from seaman to captain by Barnabas, who recognized his ability. He also appears in THE WARRIOR'S PATH.
THE LOST COLONY: Planted by Sir Walter Raleigh, it endured from 1584 to 1587, then vanished. There has been much speculation about the lost colonists, and of Grenville's men, who were also left in Virginia. Such speculation is interesting but, it seems to me, needless. It would seem obvious that when ships did not return with the promised and necessary supplies, as well as additional colonists, that those people who came with Raleigh simply went to live with friendly Indians and adopted their way of life.
John Lawson, the naturalist, who arrived in Virginia-Carolina in 1700, tells of meeting many Hatteras Indians. "These tell us," he writes, "that several of their ancestors were white, and could talk in a book (read) as we do; the Truth of which is confirmed by gray eyes being found frequently amongst these Indians, and no others. They value themselves extremely for their Affinity to the English and are ready to do them all friendly offices. It is probable this settlement miscarried for want of supplies from England; or through treachery of the natives, for we may reasonably suppose that the English were forced to cohabit with them, for Relief and Conversation; and that in the process of Time they conformed themselves to the Manners of their Indian relations."
--from A New Voyage to Carolina, by John Lawson.
Lawson spent much time among the Indians and was the first to make a comprehensive list of plants and animals in the Carolinas. He also discussed the Indian method of scalping, and was later killed and scalped himself.
CHOWAN RIVER: On the spot where in my story Captain Tempany's vessel was run aground, charred timbers were actually discovered. Their origin we do not know, but they seem to have been a ship's timbers or those of a fort, hewn by metal axes.
HORSES: Much nonsense has been written about the horse in America. Actually, the prehistoric horse, which was about three feet high, originated in America, moved to Asia and Europe by way of the so-called land bridge that joined the continents where the Bering Strait is now, and then for some unknown reason this early horse, the size of a dog, died out.
Some writers would have us believe that all horses in the Americas descended from the sixteen brought by Cortes, but nearly every Spanish expedition brought horses, and as they did not geld their stock there was no limit to the number available for breeding.
In the expedition headed by Ayllon eighty-nine horses were landed near Cape Fear; some time later Arellano, son of the governor of Yucatan, landed some two hundred forty horses. Some of the horses brought by De Soto were abandoned when his followers boarded rafts to escape down the Mississippi.
Horses were brought into the country by other would-be settlers from Nova Scotia to Florida and Texas. Some were abandoned, some stolen by Indians, and years later vast herds of wild horses were seen. One trapper-trader in Kansas reported a herd that needed several hours to pass his position.
CATAWBA: A tribe of Indians in the Carolinas
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