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renville, with three ships, visits Roanoke about fifteen days after the departure of Drake and leaves fifteen men plentifully supplied for two years to keep the land......1586 New colony of 150, sent by Sir Walter Raleigh in charge of John White, leaves Plymouth......May 26, 1587 They reach Roanoke to find that the men left by Grenville have been murdered by Indians......July 22, 1587 Eleanor Dare gives birth to the first English child on American soil (named Virginia Dare)......Aug. 18, 1587 John White returns to England at request of colonists for supplies, leaving behind eighty-nine men, seventeen women, and two children......Aug. 27 1587 John White returns to Roanoke......Aug. 9, 1590 [He found the settlement deserted. Its fate is conjectural.] James I. of England grants the London company, including Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, Richard Hakluyt, and Edward M. Wingfield the exclusive right to occupy the land from lat. 34° to 38° N.......April 10, 1606