Carolana - The Explorers before 1729


All of the Known Explorers Associated with Carolana - Before 1729

English		French		Spanish
Explorer	Year(s)	Explorer	Year(s)	Explorer	Year(s)
John Cabot	1497	Giovanni Da Verrazano	1521	Diego de Salazar	1514
Philip Amadas	1584	Jean Ribaut	1562	Francisco Gordillo	1521
Arthur Barlowe	1584			Pedro de Quejo	1521
Sir Walter Raleigh	1585			Lucas Vasquez de Allyon	1526
Sir Humphrey Gilbert	1585			Hernando de Soto	1540
Sir Francis Drake	1585			Angel de Villafane	1561
Marmaduke Rayner	1620			Don Hernando de Manrique de Rojas	1564
John Pory	1622			Pedro Menendez de Aviles	1566-1568
Henry Taverner	1632			Juan Pardo	1566-1567
William Hilton, Jr.	1662-1663			Juan de la Bandera	1566-1567
Edward Bland	1650			Captain Francisco Fernandez de Eçija	1605 & 1609
Francis Yeardley	1654			Ensign Pedro de Torres	1628
Robert Sandford	1666
Dr. John Lederer	1670
Thomas Batts	1671
Robert Fallam	1671
Abraham Wood	1673
James Needham	1673
Gabriel Arthur	1673
William Byrd	1673
Dr. Henry Woodward	1674 & 1685
Robert Holden	1679
John Lawson	1690-1701
Maurice Moore	1715
John Herbert	1715
George Chicken	1715
Dr. John Brickell	1724-1730