Virginia Dare (born August 18, 1587) was the first child born in the Americas to English parents, Eleanor (or Ellinor/Elyonor) and Ananias Dare. She was born into a short-lived colony on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina. What became of Virginia and the other colonists has become an enduring mystery. The fact of her birth is known because the leader of the colony and her grandfather, John White, returned to England to seek assistance for the colony. When White returned three years later, the colonists were gone. US stamp of 1937 honoring Virginia Dare, 1st english child born in american colony File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1587 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1587 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... Eleanor White Dare (c. ... Ananias Dare (c. ... A map of the Roanoke area, by John White The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island in Dare County in present-day North Carolina was an enterprise financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 16th century to establish a permanent English settlement in the Virginia Colony. ... Roanoke Island is an island in Dare County near the coast of North Carolina, United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Area  Ranked 28th  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 150 miles (240 km)  - Length 560[1] miles (901 km)  - % water 9. ... A sketch by John White of Indians at Roanoke. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area...

Competing colonial "firsts"

While Dare is recognized as the first child born of English descent in what was to become the US, the first child of European descent born in the future United States was Martin de Arguelles. Martin was born in 1566 in St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest permanent European settlement in the United States. Martin was born about 21 years before Virginia Dare. Martín de Arguelles, Jr. ... Five flags have flown over the city since 1565. ...

Norse oral tradition^{[citation needed]} may indicate that the first child born of modern European descent in any land associated with the North American continent (Greenland) was of Norse descent (see: Snorri Þorfinnsson). Norseman redirects here; for the town of the same name see Norseman, Western Australia. ... Snorri Þorfinnsson (likely born between 1005 and 1013), was the son of Þorfinnur Karlsefni and Guðríður Eiríksdóttir. ...

Historical explanations

In her 2000 book Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony, historian Lee Miller postulated that some of the Lost Colony survivors sought shelter with a neighboring Indian tribe, the Chowanoc, that was attacked by another tribe, the Eno. Survivors were eventually sold into slavery and held captive by differing bands of the Eno tribe, who, Miller wrote, were known slave traders. Miller wrote that English settlers with the Jamestown Colony heard reports in 1609 of the captive Englishmen, but the reports were suppressed because they had no way to rescue the captives and didn't want to panic the Jamestown colonists. There were also reported sightings of European captives at various Indian settlements during the same time period.^[1] William Strachey, a secretary of the Jamestown Colony, wrote in 1611 that four English men, two boys, and one girl had been sighted at the Eno settlement of Ritanoe, where they were forced to beat copper. The girl, he reported, escaped and fled up the river.^[2] For four hundred years, various authors have speculated that the captive girl was Virginia Dare. When White left the colony in 1587, there were eighty-seven men, seventeen women and eleven children among the colonists. Virginia Dare was one of two infants born to colonists in 1587 and was the only female child in the Lost Colony. Eno can stand for: The English National Opera (ENO) Eno, a municipality of Finland Brian Eno William Phelps Eno A Chinese Chan/Zen monk: see Huineng Eno, a Japanese era name the Eno River, in North Carolina Eno, an over the counter gastrointestinal medication produced by GlaxoSmithKline This is a... Jamestown was a village on an island in the James River in Virginia, about 45 miles southeast of where Richmond, Virginia, is now. ... William Strachey (1572-1621) was an English writer and barrister, whose writings are among the primary sources for the history the English colonization of North America, and as one of the only narratives describing Powhatan society. ... General Name, Symbol, Number copper, Cu, 29 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 4, d Appearance metallic pinkish red Standard atomic weight 63. ...

Possible descendants

The Chowanoc tribe was eventually absorbed into the Tuscarora. The Eno tribe was also associated with the Shakori tribe and was later absorbed by the Catawba or the Saponi tribes. From the early 1600s to the middle 1700s European colonists reported encounters with gray-eyed American Indians or with Welsh-speaking Indians who claimed descent from the colonists.^[3] In 1669 a Welsh cleric named Morgan Jones was taken captive by the Tuscarora. He feared for his life, but a visiting Doeg Indian war captain spoke to him in Welsh and assured him that he would not be killed. The Doeg warrior ransomed Jones and his party and Jones remained with their tribe for months as a preacher.^[4] In 1701, surveyor John Lawson encountered members of the Hatteras tribe living on Roanoke Island who claimed some of their ancestors were white people. Lawson wrote that several of the Hatteras tribesmen had gray eyes.^[5] Some present-day American Indian tribes in North Carolina and South Carolina, among them the Coree and the Lumbee tribes, also claim partial descent from surviving Roanoke colonists. The Tuscarora are an American Indian tribe originally in North Carolina, which moved north to New York, and then partially into Canada. ... Pre-contact distribution of the Catawba The Catawba (also known as Issa or Esaw) are a tribe of Native Americans, once considered one of the most powerful eastern Siouan tribes, that traditionally lived in the Southeast United States, along the border between North and South Carolina. ... Saponi is the name of one of the eastern Siouan tribes, related to the Tutelo, Occaneechi, Monacan and other eastern Siouan peoples, whose original homeland is in North Carolina and Virginia. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Doeg, herdsman to King Saul. ... Hatteras may refer to: Hatteras, North Carolina Hatteras Island is an island in North Carolinas Outer Banks, at the confluence of the Gulf Stream and the Virginian current, a location which subjects the island to numerous hurricanes. ... Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Area  Ranked 28th  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 150 miles (240 km)  - Length 560[1] miles (901 km)  - % water 9. ... Official language(s) English Capital Charleston(1670-1789) Columbia(1790-present) Largest city Columbia Largest metro area Columbia Area  Ranked 40th  - Total 34,726 sq mi (82,965 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 260 miles (420 km)  - % water 6  - Latitude 32°430N to 35°12N... The Coree were a Native American tribe, now disappeared, who once occupied a coastal area of eastern North Carolina. ... The Lumbee are a Native American tribe of North Carolina, though their origins are disputed. ...

Fiction

A woman named Virginia Dare appears in Gregory Keyes' fantasy novel The Briar King. Keyes uses several hints and word clues to indicate this character is meant to be the historical figure. Another fictionalized version of Virginia appears in the Neil Gaiman Marvel comic 1602. Gregory Keyes is a writer of science fiction and fantasy. ... Neil Richard Gaiman () (born November 10, 1960, Portchester, Hampshire) is an English author of numerous science fiction and fantasy works, including many graphic novels. ... Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Publishing, Inc. ... Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue Marvel comic limited series, published in 2003, written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Andy Kubert, and digitally painted by Richard Isanove. ...

She was the main villain in the short-lived television show "FreakyLinks." Inspired by "The X-Files" and "The Blair Witch Project," it followed a young man who took over his twin brother's paranormal Web site, Freakylinks, after his death. It was later found that his brother's death was related to his investigations into the lost colony of Roanoke. It was implied that Virginia Dare was a demon who destroyed the colonists, either directly or indirectly. However, the show was canceled before the end of the first season, and the mystery was never resolved. FreakyLinks was an American television show that combined elements of horror, mystery, and comedy. ...

From 1937 until 1941, the so-called "Dare Stones" were in the news. The carved stones were allegedly found in northern Georgia and the Carolinas. The first bore an announcement of Virginia Dare's death. Later ones, brought in by various people, told a complicated tale of the fate of the Lost Colony. Professor Haywood Pearce Jr. of Brenau College (now Brenau University) in Gainesville, Georgia, believed in the stones, and his views won over some well-known historians, according to contemporary press accounts. But a 1941 article by journalist Boyden Sparks in The Saturday Evening Post discredited the story, exposing absurdities in the stones' account and producing evidence that the "discoverers" were hoaxers. Pearce and the other scholars were not implicated in fraud, and no legal action was ever taken. Sparks believed the fakery was inspired by the 1937 publicity in North Carolina surrounding the 350th anniversary of the Lost Colony. Today, Brenau keeps the Dare Stones as a sort of 20th-century media curiosity, but generally does not display them or publicize their existence. The Carolinas is a collective term used in the United States to refer to the states of North and South Carolina together. ... Lost Colony is a new MMOFPS (Massivly Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter Game) developed by Red Planet, LLC. It is currently in Beta Testing and will be released early January. ... Brenau University is a private womens university in Gainesville, Georgia that was founded in 1878 as Georgia Baptist Female Seminary, though it has never been affiliated with the Baptist Church. ... A cover of the Saturday Evening Post from 1903 The Saturday Evening Post was a weekly magazine published in the United States from August 4, 1821 to February 8, 1969. ...

Things named after Virginia Dare

• Dare County, North Carolina
• The VDARE Project of the Center for American Unity
• Virginia Dare Trail, a section of NC 12
• Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge, the second, newest, and widest bridge spanning the Croatan Sound connecting Roanoke Island to Manns Harbor; it carries US 64
• "The oldest wine brand in the United States" [1]
• An alt-country band on the Absolutely Kosher Records label

Dare County is a county located in the state of North Carolina. ... Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Area  Ranked 28th  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 150 miles (240 km)  - Length 560[1] miles (901 km)  - % water 9. ... Peter Brimelow founder of VDARE VDARE.com, or VDARE, is a website that advocates reduced immigration into the United States. ... The Center for American Unity is an American non-profit educational organization dedicated to preserving our historical unity as Americans into the 21st Century. In practice, this means a concern with these emerging threats: mass immigration, multiculturalism, multilingualism, and affirmative action, which it views as threatening to the United States... NC 12 is a North Carolina state highway that traverses the northeastern shoreline of North Carolina, linking the islands of the Outer Banks. ... The Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge is the newest, longest, and widest bridge over the Croatan Sound. ... Croatan Sound is an inlet in Dare County, North Carolina. ... Roanoke Island is an island in Dare County near the coast of North Carolina, United States. ... Manns Harbor is an unincorporated community in Dare County, North Carolina. ... United States Highway 64 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 2,326 miles (3,743 km) from eastern North Carolina to just southwest of the Four Corners in northeast Arizona. ... Absolutely Kosher Records is an independent Californian-based record label founded in 1998 in San Francisco by Cory Brown. ...

See also

• Lost Colony

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Notes

References

• Miller, Lee, Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony (2000), Penguin Books, ISNB 01420.0228 3