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Sir Walter Raleigh’s “Wingandecao” (sic.), which is the name first presented on all the
documents for the patents of Raleigh’s new lands in Virginia.
There are four items on the Farrar map that are significant to the authors’ hypothesis. The
most important item is the sassafras tree located on the lower Alligator River. Farrar’s sassafras
tree [A in Figure 9] was the first rationale that the authors found to explain why the colonists
went “fifty miles into the main” where the village of Tramanskecooc was located 28 . 19
Fig. 9 - Farrar Map Segment 29
The label ‘Dasamoncak’ at [B] is shown on the southern shore of the Rolli Passa
[“Raleigh Passage” or Albemarle Sound]. When the authors first began their research, they were
under the impression that Dasmonsquepuce was a Secotan village that is now Mann’s Harbor.
Stephen Weeks, North Carolina’s first professional historian, recognized this error more than 100
year ago. He wrote that Dasmonsquepuce was a peninsula and not a single village. He said that
19 28 McMullan, “A Role for Sassafras in the Search for the Lost Colony”, 2006: http://www.lost-colony.com/
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29 http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/exploring/1maps/map6.jpg