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DARE, Virginia, the first child of English parents
born in the New World was born on Roanoke Island on August 18, 1587 in
present-day North Carolina. Her mother, Eleanor, was the daughter of John
White, governor of the colony sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh to found an
agricultural state. Her father, Ananias Dare, served as one of the Governor’s
assistants. The expedition set sail from Plymouth, England, April 26, 1587, and
reached Roanoke Island in July. Virginia Dare was born about a month after the
arrival of the expedition. On the Sunday after her birth, she was the second
person baptized into Christianity in the New World; the first person to be
baptized was Manteo, an Indian chief native to Roanoke Island and friend of the
colonists.
When she
was less than a month old, Governor White sailed back to England for supplies,
and upon his return to Roanoke Island several years later, all vestiges of the
colony had disappeared. An inscription on the bark of a tree pointed to “Croatoan,”
a place supposed to belong to a friendly tribe of Indians, but Croatoan was
never found. The fate of Roanoke Island’s “Lost Colony” remains a
mystery.
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