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Description: In 1934, New England historian named William Goodwin went to London and found, in the Elizabethan State Papers, a document, which identified the site of the first Elizabethan Colony in the New World. That site was the bay we now call, Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island.nnIn the 1970's, the two most noted authorities on Elizabethan exploration, David Beers Quinn and Samuel Eliot Morison both confirmed this was the destination of a well-planned 1583 colonization attempt authorized by the Queen herse
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