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Dare, Virginia, 1587-
The first child of English parents born in the New World.
In 1587 John White went to Roanoke Island as governor of an agricultural colony sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh.
H law, William Dare, and his young wife.
It was intended to plant the colony on the mainland, but White went no farther than Roanoke.
There he found the melancholy remains, in the form of whitened sk with his mother and relatives on Croatan Island, invited the colonists to settle on his domain.
White persuaded him to receive the rites of Christian baptism, and bestowed upon him the title of baro blic.
It became necessary for the ships to return to England for supplies, and, to hasten them, White went with them, leaving behind eighty-nine men, seventeen women, and two children.
Among the w birth to a daughter, in August, 1587, to whom they gave the name of Virginia.
On his way home, White touched at Ireland, where he left some potatoes which he took from Virginia— the first of that k
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John White, whom Sir Walter Raleigh sent to Virginia with some colonists, to be their governor, had with him his daughter, Mrs. Eleanore Dare, mother of Virginia.
White went back to England for supplies, and was detained a longWhite went back to England for supplies, and was detained a long time.
When he returned to Roanoke Island, the colony he had left there had disappeared.
With nineteen men, in two boats, he went in search of them.
The colonists had agreed with White, when he left for England, to write or carve on the trees or White, when he left for England, to write or carve on the trees or posts of the doors the name of the place to which they had emigrated, if they should leave, for they were then preparing to go to a place 50 miles into the interior.
It was also agreed, in case they should be in distress, that they would carve a cross over the letters.
As White and his friends ascended the bank at the site of the settlement, they found carved upon the trunk of a tree, in fair Roman letters, Croatan, but, to their great comfort they saw no sign of distress.
The houses had be
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