Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter
Volume 5.2 (May 1998)

Announcements & Queries

Louis De Vorsey writes that the third edition of the late William P. Cummings’ The Southeast in Early Maps, edited by De Vorsey, is now available from the University of North Carolina Press. The new edition has 124 illustrations, including for the first time 24 color reproductions of southeastern maps from the Cummings Collection at Davidson College. In addition to the features of the original editions, De Vorsey has added a new section on the role of Native Americans in the mapping of the region. The Southeast in Early Maps costs $90 and can be ordered through bookstores or from the University of North Carolina Press at (800) 848-6224.

Joe Chandler writes that he is attempting to identify John Chaundler, a member of the Lane colony. In his work, he has found two students at Oxford named John
Chandler who could have accompanied their teacher Thomas Hariot on the 1585-86 venture. One was also a member of Oriel College 1584-90 where Walter Raleigh was a member during his intermittent studies at Oxford 1568-1571. This John became a minister and may have been the one who was rector at Wilton-cum-Bulbridge in Wiltshire near the seat of Raleigh’s brother Carew. If anyone has information that might be helpful in identifing John Chaundler, Joe Chandler can be reached at the North Carolina Washington Office, 444 North Capitol Street #332, Washington, DC 20001; e-mail <joechandler@ usa.net>.

George Maritime, director of the Folk Music Hall of Fame, has put Arthur Barlowe’s account of landing on Roanoke Island to music in his song “Virginia.” Maritime writes that he is “endeavouring to prove that the poet Christopher Marlowe was the adventurer Arthur Barlowe.” Maritime can be contacted at 44 Cherwing Road, Bryn Mawr Knolls, Yonkers, NY 10701.

The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University has announced the completion of its twenty-year bibliographical project European Americana: A Chronological Guide: 1493-1750. The series is distributed by Readex Books, 58 Pine Street, New Canaan, CT 06840. More information about the bibliographical project is available from the John Carter Brown Library at Providence, RI 02912-1894, or from
http:// www.newsbank.com/readex/scholarly/euroam.html>.

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