In the charter which Raleigh received from the English crown on March 27, 1585, empowering him to hold the lands which he had colonized in America and apportion them among the colonists, reference is made to “persons from England and Ireland,” thus showing that Irishmen were among the first white settlers of the western world. Among those who landed in North Carolina from White’s fourth expedition, and “remayned to inhabite there,” were Thomas Coleman, Edward and Winifred Powell, James Hyndes, William and Henry Browne, Thomas Ellis, Michael Millet, James Lafie, Maurice Allen, Richard Berry, Dennis and Margery Harvie, William Waters, Martin Sutton, Hugh Patterson, Thomas Humphrey and John and Brian “Wyles.” Most of these names are common to Britain as well as to Ireland, but, without doubt, some of them were natives of Ireland. These colonists all either perished from famine or were slain by the savage enemy. Some are supposed to have sought asylum among the Hatteras Indians at Croatoan, who were friendly to the whites. Lawson, one of the historians of North Carolina, writing in 1714 of the natives of Croatoan, relates how the Indians told him that some of their ancestors were white people and “could talk in a book as we do,” and that many of the Hatteras Indians had gray eyes, which are known only among whites. In his account of the fifth voyage, White tells of their arrival at the mouth of the Roanoke on August 17, 1590. A great storm raged; the ship’s boats were tossed about at the mercy of the waves, and eleven of the company drowned, among them Edward Kelly, Edward Kilborne and Robert Coleman. These three are mentioned as “among 7 of the chiefest men of the expedition.” Hawk, one of the historians of North Carolina, says that “in 1666 the Lords Proprietors had agents employed in seeking emigrants on the continent of Europe, and in Ireland, Scotland and the West Indies,” and the same author in referring to the divers religious beliefs professed by the people of North Carolina (about 1700), refers to “the Irish Romanists.” It is to be regretted that we have no means of tracing the names or careers of any of those “Irish Romanists.” Hewatt’s _Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia_ (published at London in the year 1776), is referred to by historians as an authoritative work. In this book many references are made to the early Irish settlers of the Carolinas. The author describes the dreadful extremities to which the poor settlers in the vicinity of Charlestown (now Charleston), S. C., were reduced in the year 1667.