The document summarizes the fate of the Lost Colony, which consisted of two settlements of English colonists established on Roanoke Island off the coast of present-day North Carolina in the late 16th century. The first settlement in 1585 with 108 people failed and returned to England. The second settlement in 1587 with 118 people, including Virginia Dare who was the first English child born in the Americas, encountered difficulties with supplies and weather. When their resupply leader John White returned from a trip back to England in 1590, he found the colony vanished, with only the word "Croatan" carved into a post as a clue. Various theories are discussed for what may have happened to the Lost Colony,