Raleigh had approved a corporate charter to found “the Cittie of Raleigh” on Roanoke Island in 1587. About 115 English men, women, and children agreed to join. Most of them were middle-class ...

In 1587, a group of settlers land off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island to establish the first English colony in America. But only a few years later, the 115 men, women and children ...