The Legend of Jane Coleman

Adventure

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This is a story of a stowaway girl on the passenger ship LYON, who was one of the colonists at Roanoke Island. It chronicles her life from ages fifteen to sixty-one, and it describes her hardships in both England and Virginia. The stories’ span of time is from 1587 to 1633.

The story is derived from the passenger list of the people that made up the third attempt at colonization of the New World. The passenger list had two people on it whose first names were either made illegible to historians or purposely omitted by John White, who was the governor of the expedition.

The two names were (blank) Coleman, listed as a woman passenger, and (blank) Marvis, listed as a child under the age of sixteen. Jane Colman was actually both persons who were written on that list.

Donald K. Harris is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and resides in Oklahoma. As a person with Native American heritage, he has chosen to tell the stories of the ancestral people and how they lived. He has studied various tribes that once called the Mississippi Delta their home, and found their cultures to be fascinating and rich with life. He tells stories about their interactions with each other and sometimes tales about their first contact with the white man. Donald attempts to bring the people who came before us to life, and he does so through tales of their relationships with each other.

Donald has been a Marine Corps Drill Instructor, a master ASE-certified technician, a vocational educator, and a reliability engineer specializing in mine-haul equipment. His writing is a hobby that he likes to share with other people.