Twenty years after the Roanoke colonists disappeared, settlers at Jamestown heard reports that they were living nearby in the Ch
esapeake region. In 1612, William Strachey, the first secretary of Jamestown colony, wrote a history of that colony called History of Travaile into Virginia Brittania, in which he related a story he had heard about the fate of the Roanoke colonists. According to this story, some of the colonists had fled northward and lived peacefully for twenty years with the Chesepian (Chesapeake) Indians. Shortly before the Jamestown colonists arrived in Virginia, though, Chief Powhatan, the ruler of most of the tribes of that region, had “miserably slaughtered” the English and Chesepian. But Strachey also heard that seven colonists escaped the massacre, including a “young mayde.” Since Virginia Dare would have been in her early twenties, some people believe that she was the young maid, or girl, whom Strachey mentioned. –“The Search for the Lost Colony,”
David Walbert
Which evidence does the passage include to support this theory?
A)It tells about trade relations between the colonists and the Chesepian Indians.
B)It tells a story about an attack that involves a girl who may have been Virginia Dare.
C)It describes the new colony that was established among the Chesepian people.
D)It describes the descendants of the English colonists and the area’s American Indians.
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