Captain
Ananias Dare: The acting governor of the Roanoke colony, and member of the
council.
Eleanor
Dare: The wife of Ananias Dare, and the mother of Virginia Dare, the first English
child born in the colony.
John Borden: The acting
co-governor of the Roanoke colony, and member of the council.
Thomas
Coleman: The colony’s Master of Arms, and a member of the council.
Dame
Coleman: The wife of Thomas Coleman, and the oldest gentlewoman in the Roanoke
Colony.
Parson
George Martin: The colony’s protestant priest, and a member of the council.
Mark
Bennett: The colony’s most educated member, and schoolteacher.
Old Tom: The oldest colonist
in Roanoke Colony.
Margery
Harvie: Recently widowed, she was the wife of Dionysius Harvie.
Michael
Bishop: A common man in the Roanoke Colony.
Margaret
Lawrence: The Dare household servant girl.
Elizabeth
Glane: A young woman in the Roanoke Colony.
Rose
Payne: An even younger woman in the Roanoke Colony.
Wanchese:
The King of the Powhatan tribes, and one of the two Indians taken back to
England. He is also the brother of Wingia, the previous Powhatan King, who was
killed by the first colony. He has sworn to drive the English from Roanoke.
Uppowoc:
The chief medicine man of the Powhatans.
Chogan:
A brave of the Powhatan tribe.
Manteo:
The Chief of the Croatoan tribe, and one of the two Indians taken back to
England by the first expedition.
Agona:
A squaw of the Croatoan tribe.