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No the Lost Colony of Roanoke Virginia was the first British Colony in the New World.

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The Lost Colony known as Roanoke, was an island that was off of the coast of what is now North Carolina. The founder, Sir Walter Raleigh, was granted the entire seacoast north of Spanish Florida, by Queen Elizabeth I.

Raleigh, named the region Virginia. But, although the entire land region was named Virginia, Roanoke Island, was not within the territory that would later be known as the colony or the state of Virginia.

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