It was in a desperate attempt to acquire help that the early settlers in the Roanoke Island asked their leader John White to depart for England and acquire aid, what John hadn’t realized was that times in England were at their worst and that aid would never reach them on time. However, there were a few believes to how some of the former Roanoke colonists might have survived the new environment and the hardships of being in unknown lands. Although John returned to aid three years later in 1590, delayed due to the Anglo-Spanish War in England, there was only a vanished colony to return to. The tense and friendly relationships with the Indians played a large role in what is now a mystery in the Early American settlement of the lost colony of Roanoke and which demonstrates the starving and hard conditions this early attempts of settlement in America had to go thru. In spite of there being no hard evidence of the survivors ever found, it was still believed that the Roanoke people went north towards what should have been their next destination the Chesapeake Bay. Why else go…show more content… Without a doubt the settlers were frightened to remain on the island and their plans didn’t include Chesapeake Bay from the beginning. According to Horn “The fact that the Spanish knew where the settler had gone had greatly increased the likelihood of attack” (Horn 224). That being so, most settlers decided to move inland towards the lands of the Chowanocs where they felt safer from the Spanish and the Secotans who were known to attack by surprise. It’s believed that once settled they began a construction of living quarters with the help of Chowanocs. However other settlers stayed in Croatoan Island and waited for John White’s return, they had left carvings on trees near what use to be the Roanoke Colony so they could be found and that way direct the aid to the inland
