The North Carolina Booklet: Great Events in North Carolina
History
Martha Helen Haywood, Hubert Haywood,
Mary Hilliard Hinton, E. E. Moffitt,
General Society of the Daughters of the Revolution North Carolina
Society.
1916
Croatan; a so-called group of Indians, living mainly in Robeson County.
James Mooney, the noted expert, who is regarded as the finest authority
on Indian history, says the theory that the Croatan are descended from
the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke Island is baseless. Mr. Mooney has spent
much of his life in North Carolina, studying these matters, and was
here in 1916. He says the Croatan "embrace the blood of the wasted
native tribes, the early colonists or forest rovers, runaway slaves and
other negroes, and that of a steady stream of the Latin races from
coasting vessels in the West India and Brazilian trade.