A Writ of Assistance was a general court order utilized as a part of English and American pilgrim history to address the issue of carrying. The writ empowered custom authorities to look any vessel or building that they suspected was conveying pirated merchandise. The writs of help were approved by the English Parliament to stretch out to British America after they got data that carrying was supporting their wartime foes as well as occupying the genuinely necessary government incomes.
People think different things. Some believe the colonists died of diseases, others believe the local Native Americans either rescued the colonists or mass murdered them.
You legally don't have to say facts that implicate yourself. meaning that you don't have to admit to doing the crime