Colington Island

… in Roanoke Sound, NE Dare County. About 2 mi. from N to S and from E to w, it is separated from Bodie Island by Colington Creek. Consists of two islands, Little Colington and Big Colington. Named for Sir John Colleton (1608-66), one of the Lords Proprietors, to whom it was granted in 1663. Settled by the winter of 1664-65. Earlier known as Carlile Island in honor of Christopher Carleill, stepson of Sir Francis Walsingham, who accompanied Sir Francis Drake on his 1586 Florida-Virginia expedition as Drake's lieutenant general. Appears as Carlile Island on the Ogilby map, 1671, and as Colleton Island on both the Blome map, 1672, and the Moseley map, 1733. The Collet map, 1770, and the Mouzon map, 1775, have Collintons Island.