Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth

Colony was created in 1587 and "disappeared" by 1590.

Sponsored by Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh

An island off the cost of North Carolina that became the first English settlement

All that remained of the colony was the word CROATOAN carved into a post

Captain John White became the governor of the colony; was forced to return to England to gather supplies

Problem with colony: War with Spain prevented supplies from being sent

Problem with colony: Soil was bad for farming, mosquitos carried malaria

Settlers arrived to set up the colony in1607

Problem with colony: Disease killed half in the 1st winter

Sponsored by the Virginia Company of London.