Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Roanoke” in chapter 7 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition.:

... the House of Burgesses of Virginia, the king instructed the Earl of Albemarle, then governor-in-chief of that Dominion, to grant lands west of the great ridge of mountains which separates the rivers Roanoke , James, and Potomac from the Mississippi, to such persons as should be desirous of settling them, in small quantities of not more than a thousand acres for any one person. From the settlement of th...
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Roanoke (United States) 768 2 0 0 0 user votes
Roanoke (Alabama, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Roanoke (Georgia, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Roanoke (Illinois, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Roanoke (Indiana, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Roanoke (Kentucky, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Roanoke (Louisiana, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Roanoke (New Mexico, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Roanoke (New York, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Roanoke (Texas, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Roanoke (Virginia, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Roanoke (Washington, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Roanoke (West Virginia, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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