It was clearly not the right place for a 'new' England. There was not enough farmland to feed a permanent colony. Also, Roanoke was a small island surrounded by shallow water with no place to anchor large ships. Raleigh was aware of the trouble that Ralph Lane and his soldiers had caused with the Indians and he didn't want to put the new colonists back into that kind of situation. This time they did not intend to settle on Roanoke Island, but look further to the North, perhaps near the Chesapeake Bay. Once again guided by Simon Fernando the colonists set out for the New World. He gathered more than one hundred men, women, and children as colonists and appointed John White as their governor. Not long after the return of Governor Lane and Sir Richard Grenville, Raleigh was ready to send his third expedition to "Verginia".
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