The following is the fourth segment of a guest blog post series by Roger L. Payne, author of The Outer Banks Gazetteer: The History of Place Names from Carova to Emerald Isle. A book over twenty years in the making, The Outer Banks Gazetteer is a comprehensive reference guide to the region’s place names—over 3,000 entries in all. Click here to view Roger Payne’s entire guest blog series. Upon receiving a favorable report from Amadas and Barlowe on their return from their voyage of reconnoiter in 1584, Raleigh authorized and funded the first attempt to establish an English colony...