# The main body went north to the Chesapeake Bay, their original destination.

> Still possible: The main body went north to the Chesapeake Bay, their original destination.

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# The main body went north to the Chesapeake Bay, their original destination.

The main body went north to the Chesapeake Bay, their original destination.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Elizabethan English material near the southern Chesapeake from before 1607.
- Jamestown-era reports of English survivors among the Chesapeake peoples.

## What would rule it out

- No pre-1607 English material in the southern Chesapeake after systematic survey.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[The colony's instructions were to settle on the Chesapeake Bay.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/evidence/EVD0CQCCAS861GQ/the-colonys-instructions-were-to-settle-on-the-chesapeake)

Established

FOR

[The colonists said they planned to move fifty miles into the mainland, not to the Chesapeake, which is…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/evidence/EVD0CQCCB125SX5/the-colonists-said-they-planned-to-move-fifty-miles-into-the)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What happened to the colonists left on Roanoke Island in 1587?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/lost-colony-roanoke/questions/QST0CQCC6W858JF/what-happened-to-the-colonists-left-on-roanoke-island-in)

Most likelyThe colony split; a small party went to Croatoan to watch for ships and the main body moved inland

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The main body went north to the Chesapeake Bay, their original destination. [Answer ANS0CQCCAHE3A86]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0CQCCAHE3A86
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