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<p>[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 7684154, member: 115909"]Well I’ve heard there are rumors of the Plymouth colony members observing native Americans with blonde hair or blue eyes. European traits. If true it suggests sexual interaction between Native Americans and Europeans prior to colonization of the Americas.</p><p><br /></p><p>However that same fact is sometime’s used as evidence that the “Lost Colony of Roanoake” survived and assimilated into Native American culture rather than having been slaughtered by the native Americans as was believed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which leads to the Dare Stones, a very well perpetrated hoax by a man who claimed to find stone tablets with inscriptions from the Roanoake colonist asking for any Englishman who finds the tablet to take it (or rather the information on it) to John White (Governor of Virginia) to inform him of Eleanor Dare and her daughter Virginia.</p><p><br /></p><p> Virginia Dare was the first child of European descent born in the continental US.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>FULL TEXT:</p><p><br /></p><p>ANANIAS DARE &</p><p>VIRGINIA WENT HENCE</p><p>VNTO HEAVEN 1591</p><p><br /></p><p>ANYE ENGLISHMAN SHEW</p><p>JOHN WHITE GOVR VIA</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is also a stone purported to be from Eleanor Dare herself:</p><p><br /></p><p>FULL TEXT:</p><p><br /></p><p>FATHER SOONE AFTER YOV</p><p>GOE FOR ENGLANDE WEE CAM</p><p>HITHER ONLIE MISARIE & WARRE</p><p>TOW YEERE ABOVE HALFE DEADE ERE TOW</p><p>YEERE MORE FROM SICKNES BEINE FOVRE & TWENTIE</p><p>SALVAGE WITH MESSAGE OF SHIPP VNTO US SMAL</p><p>SPACE OF TIME THEY AFFRITE OF REVENGE RANN</p><p>AL AWAYE WEE BLEEVE YT NOTT YOV SOONE AFTER</p><p>YE SALVAGES FAINE SPIRTS ANGRIE SVDDIANE</p><p>MVRTHER AL SAVE SEAVEN MINE CHILDE</p><p>ANANIAS TO SLAINE WTH MVCH MISARIE</p><p>BVRIE AL NEERE FOVRE MYLES EASTE THIS RIVER</p><p>VPPON SMAL HILL NAMES WRIT AL THER</p><p>ON ROCKE PVTT THIS THEIR ALSOE SALVAGE</p><p>SHEW THIS VNTO YOV & HITHER WEE</p><p>PROMISE YOV TO GIVE GREATE</p><p>PLENTIE PRESENTS</p><p>EWD</p><p><br /></p><p>Modern Translation:</p><p><br /></p><p>Father, soon after you</p><p>go for England, we came </p><p>here. Only misery and war [for]</p><p>two years. Above half dead these two </p><p>years, more from sickness, being twenty-four.</p><p>[A] Savage with [a] message of [a] ship came to us. [Within a] small</p><p>space of time, they [became] frightened of revenge [and] ran </p><p>all away. We believe it [was] not you. Soon after,</p><p>the savages said spirits [were] angry. Suddenly </p><p>[they] murdered all save seven. My child [and]</p><p>Ananias, too, [were] slain with much misery.</p><p>Buried all near four miles east [of] this river,</p><p>upon [a] small hill. Names [were] written all there</p><p>on [a] rock. Put this there also. [If a] Savage</p><p>shows this to you, we </p><p>promised you [would] give [them] great</p><p>plenty presents.</p><p>EWD.</p><p><br /></p><p>However the Dare Stones are far more likely to be a hoax than the Maine Penny.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 7684154, member: 115909"]Well I’ve heard there are rumors of the Plymouth colony members observing native Americans with blonde hair or blue eyes. European traits. If true it suggests sexual interaction between Native Americans and Europeans prior to colonization of the Americas. However that same fact is sometime’s used as evidence that the “Lost Colony of Roanoake” survived and assimilated into Native American culture rather than having been slaughtered by the native Americans as was believed. Which leads to the Dare Stones, a very well perpetrated hoax by a man who claimed to find stone tablets with inscriptions from the Roanoake colonist asking for any Englishman who finds the tablet to take it (or rather the information on it) to John White (Governor of Virginia) to inform him of Eleanor Dare and her daughter Virginia. Virginia Dare was the first child of European descent born in the continental US. FULL TEXT: ANANIAS DARE & VIRGINIA WENT HENCE VNTO HEAVEN 1591 ANYE ENGLISHMAN SHEW JOHN WHITE GOVR VIA There is also a stone purported to be from Eleanor Dare herself: FULL TEXT: FATHER SOONE AFTER YOV GOE FOR ENGLANDE WEE CAM HITHER ONLIE MISARIE & WARRE TOW YEERE ABOVE HALFE DEADE ERE TOW YEERE MORE FROM SICKNES BEINE FOVRE & TWENTIE SALVAGE WITH MESSAGE OF SHIPP VNTO US SMAL SPACE OF TIME THEY AFFRITE OF REVENGE RANN AL AWAYE WEE BLEEVE YT NOTT YOV SOONE AFTER YE SALVAGES FAINE SPIRTS ANGRIE SVDDIANE MVRTHER AL SAVE SEAVEN MINE CHILDE ANANIAS TO SLAINE WTH MVCH MISARIE BVRIE AL NEERE FOVRE MYLES EASTE THIS RIVER VPPON SMAL HILL NAMES WRIT AL THER ON ROCKE PVTT THIS THEIR ALSOE SALVAGE SHEW THIS VNTO YOV & HITHER WEE PROMISE YOV TO GIVE GREATE PLENTIE PRESENTS EWD Modern Translation: Father, soon after you go for England, we came here. Only misery and war [for] two years. Above half dead these two years, more from sickness, being twenty-four. [A] Savage with [a] message of [a] ship came to us. [Within a] small space of time, they [became] frightened of revenge [and] ran all away. We believe it [was] not you. Soon after, the savages said spirits [were] angry. Suddenly [they] murdered all save seven. My child [and] Ananias, too, [were] slain with much misery. Buried all near four miles east [of] this river, upon [a] small hill. Names [were] written all there on [a] rock. Put this there also. [If a] Savage shows this to you, we promised you [would] give [them] great plenty presents. EWD. However the Dare Stones are far more likely to be a hoax than the Maine Penny.[/QUOTE]
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