THE TIME IS COMING WHEN EVERYTHING THAT IS COVERED UP WILL BE REVEALED, 

                          AND ALL THAT IS SECRET WILL BE MADE KNOWN TO ALL. LUKE 12:2

 THE 1587

LOST COLONY OF ROANOKE

In 2015 and in 2020, archeologists from the James River Institute of Archeology and the First Colony Foundation confirmed that a few colonists from the 1587 Lost Colony survived past Roanoke Island and into the main interior. Archeological objects dated specifically to the time of the Lost Colony were excavated at sites X and Y, on the west bank of the Chowan River, in North Carolina, just 85 miles south of the James Fort at Jamestown, Virginia. These discoveries also legitimize records by the early Jamestown leadership and the Virginia Company of London and others, that some from the 1587 Lost Colony survived beyond Roanoke Island .

EXCAVATIONS: JAMES FORT, JAMESTOWNE, VIRGINIA

In 1997, the skeletal remains of a female known as archeological object JR156C were excavated from 1622 strata within the James Fort. She was found to have been wrapped in a shroud and buried in a gabled coffin. Burial within the fort compound, gabled coffins and shrouds were reserved for those of the highest stature. The female was unknown and little information was available as to who this VIP was to have had a burial of the highest stature.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, a part of the English diet was what is known as Old World wheat (carbon 3 = Old World wheat). Old World carbon 3 was not available in America until after the arrival of the Jamestown Colony. From stable isotope analysis testing that was performed on the remains of 156C, those results show Old World carbon 3 in her diet for about 20 years beginning from her birth in May of 1568. Recent carbon testing on 156C, shows her to have died in her early to mid-50s.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, a part of the American Native Indian diet was what is known as New World corn (carbon 4 = corn). New World carbon 4 was not available in England until after the arrival of the Jamestown settlement. From 156Cs stable isotope analysis testing, those results also show New World carbon 4 in her diet for over 15 years prior to the Jamestown arrival. The only English female in all of North America prior to the Jamestown colony's arrival was a female from the 1587 colony at Roanoke. The Lost Colony arrived at Roanoke Island in 1587 and void of any English ships for supplying the colony they then began their New World carbon 4 diet.

From the skeletal remains of 156C, a reconstruction of her face was made. The reconstructed face (below left) is that of Elannor White Dare, daughter of the governor of the 1587 colony John White, and a leader of the Lost Colony, and according to the Dare stone, the only female survivor following an Indian attack on the colony in 1591 as is stated within the Virginia Company of London's records. Taken from a chart of pictures made in the early 17th century titled: A description of part of the adventures of Cap: Smith in Virginia. The drawing (below right) is a picture of Elannor Dare according to the reconstructed face of 156C (below left). And as a leader of the 1587 Lost Colony, the only female that would have been buried in a gabled coffin and within the James Fort compound with honors. 

ELANNOR WHITE DARE

As listed on 1587 ship roster to Roanoke, CUTBERT WHITE, later known as the INDIAN MACHUMPS

As the beard and mustache are removed from the reconstructed face (above, left, and center), the shape of the face, eyes, and mouth appear spot-on as the figure (Machumps) appears within the period artwork Baptism of Pocahontas (right). The burial was found just outside James Fort’s western corner, and there were several indications it had been for a high-status individual. The grave shaft contained metal portions of a captain’s leading staff, and dark staining left from the wooden staff measured five and a half feet. The nail pattern left after the deterioration of the wooden coffin suggested it was gable-lidded, which was another indicator of status. Forensic analysis by the Smithsonian Institute determined that the skeleton belonged to a European male about five and a half feet tall who died in his mid-to late-thirties. The Jamestown Rediscovery team names him possibly as being Captain Bartholomew Gosnold and he may have taken the name, Captain Gosnold. Just as the Knights Templar went into hiding following their 14th-century executions, they continued on under the name Knights Hospitaller of Saint John. They still were in hiding in the 15th and 16th centuries and many of the Hospitallers were known by different names. Another example is interpreter Rober Poole also probably known as Richard Mutton. Records for their ages, names, dates, etc. are very few and those that do show this information are more than likely not accurate (see chapter VII Freemasons and Templars - Under Const.). Some of the leadership of the 1587 colony at Roanoke (the Lost Colony) and some of the early Jamestown leadership were one and the same. 

INTERPRETER & MESSENGER - ROBERT POOLE

When the cap is removed and additional hair is added, the above facial reconstruction appears very similar to the figure within the period artworks (right). John Rolfe wrote that leaders considered Robert Poole “very dishonest” and feared that he had “even turned heathen.” For this, Robert Poole, although he was buried within the fort compound being an interpreter and Elannor's son, received only a burial shroud and a grave dug too short for his stature. Robert Poole shows under 10 years of New World corn in his diet prior to the Jamestown arrival in Virginia.

 - CHAUCO -

Appearing in period artwork between Thomas Savage and Robert Poole is probably Chauco (center, white circle). His lips resemble the lips of the facial reconstructed image (right). Also, note the high cheekbones on both the center image and the facial reconstruction. Chauco was buried within the fort compound in a gabled coffin.

INTERPRETER ENSIGN THOMAS SAVAGE

Interpreter Thomas Savage it seems knew the Indian language shortly after his arrival at Jamestown according to reports by Capt. John Smith. Just a year after his arrival, Captain John Martin reported that Thomas Savage was a great power among the red man. Thomas Savage was Elanor Dares' son. His stable isotope analysis results show New World corn in his diet for over 10 years prior to the Jamestown arrival. Some of the leadership of the 1587 colony at Roanoke (the Lost Colony) and some of the early Jamestown leadership were one and the same.

- AFTER JAMESTOWN ARRIVAL - 

Face reconstructions (above) are identified within the period artwork (below).

- BEFORE JAMESTOWN ARRIVAL - 

Question: TO BE, OR NOT TO BE

                    GOV. JOHN WHITE, Wm. SHAKESPEARE, Capt. JOHN SMITH, AND THE DARMSTADT DEATH MASK

The above image in color (above, left) is that of Capt. John Smith. The other 3 images (in black and white) are photographs taken of what is known as the Darmstadt deathmask, said by experts over these past centuries to be that of the great English playwright, poet, and actor William Shakespeare. A small cross - denoting death - and the date Anno Domini 1616 are reported to be engraved into the plaster mask. In the color photo (top, left), there are 4 very unique anomalies on Captain Smith's face and head that also match up exactly to the same 4 unique anomalies that appear upon Darmstadt's death mask. The right side of Captain Smith's lower lip drops down slightly lower than on his left side. The lower right side lip on the death mask also shows this same feature. In the color picture, Capt. Smith's nose resembles exactly the nose on the death mask. Medical experts provide the following diaggnosis regarding the long, vertical indentation that appears on the forehead of the death mask (above left image, red circle, and below, blue lines):  In the opinion of pathologist Prof. Hans Helmut Jansen this was a (benign) “bone tumour” (see medical appraisal of 28 February 1996). In connection with the pathological symptoms diagnosed by Prof. Lerche, dermatologist Prof. Jost Metz interpreted the sign of disease as a “chronicly inflammable infiltration” which was most likely a “chronic, annular skin sarcoidosis” (see medical appraisal of 23 January 1996). This same type of "bone tumor" also appears upon Capt. Smith's forehead in the above color image (above) and the b/w image (below).

The following diagnosis, regarding the left eye of the deathmask (above, blue circle), by Rolf Dieter Düppe of the Institute for Photogrammetry and Cartography at the Technical University of Darmstadt, is as follows: "I saw a hollow space surrounded by a wall of highly porous and granular appearance, on the uneven floor of which two smaller and one larger craterlike formations were to be recognized". Within the left eye of Capt. John Smith, this same type of feature is present ( 2nd and 3rd images above, blue circles).

A STAR IS BORN / The Beoley Skull

The crypt beneath the Sheldon Chapel located just outside of Stratford upon Avon, at Beoley Church is opened up once every five years for an architect’s inspection. The last time it was opened up, in September 2009, a local journalist, Richard Peach, managed to get into the crypt with his camera. He photographed a skull in the ossuary underneath the Sheldon Chapel. In 1884, Rev. C.J. Langston first discovered the skull and published a book on his findings regarding it. His published book How Shakespeare's Skull Was Lost And Found, described features about the skull that also correlate to the features on the Darmstadt death mask (see above). The rev. also described a unique feature of the skull as being a star shape anomaly located just above the eye socket.  A self-portrait made by Capt. John Smith (below, left), shows a star-shaped anomaly located just above his left brow (below, right, blue circle). In the photograph of the skull (2nd below, left white circle & right blue circle) taken by Richard Peach in 2009, appears the same star feature as the self-portrait made by John Smith. 

Question: TO BE, OR NOT TO BE?

Was Captain John Smith, William Shakespeare?

Answer: NOT TO BE

Captain John Smith's death mask has been identified here. But who exactly was William Shakespeare and who exactly was Captain John Smith? Whose headless, skeletal remains (headless according to recent GPR "excavations") are buried in Shakespeare's grave in Stratford Upon Avon, England? Who lived in the brick house and the long outbuilding at James Fort, Virginia? And are those skeletal remains excavated at the James Fort, William Shakespeare?   TO BE continued...and it's unlike anything you could have ever imagined...

WHO EXACTLY WAS CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, THE 1587 LOST COLONY, AND JAMESTOWN

UNDER CONST.