Dare, Virginia [1]
Dare, Virginia
b. 18 Aug. 1587
See also: Virginia Dare and the Lost Colony: Fact and Legend [3], Legend of White Doe [4]
Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America, was the daughter of Ananias [5] and Eleanor White Dare [6] and granddaughter of Governor John White [7]. Born on Roanoke Island [8], she was christened on 24 August by the name given by Queen Elizabeth to the new country. A terra cotta memorial to her was installed in St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London, [9] after that church was restored following World War II [10].
References:
Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation [11] (1589).
Cornelius Hallem, The Registers of St. Botolph, Bishopgate, London, vol. 1 (1889).
Paul Hulton and David B. Quinn, The American Drawings of John White, 1577–1590, vol. 1 (1964).
William S. Powell, "Roanoke Colonists and Explorers: An Attempt at Identification," North Carolina Historical Review 34 (April 1957).
David B. Quinn, ed., The Roanoke Voyages, 2 vols. (1955).
Nieuwsma, Milton. "Virginia Dare`s 400th Year Of Mystery." The Chicago Tribune. August 18, 1987. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-08-18/features/8703030007_1_lost-colony-stone-hammond [13] (accessed April 19, 2013).
Historical Background on the Lost Colony of Roanoke, PBS: http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/sites/ft_raleigh/history.php [14]
First English Colonies [15], NC Historical Marker B-1, North Carolina Office of Archives and History.
Roanoke revisited. National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/fora/forteachers/roanoke-revisited.htm [16]
Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter. [17] Online in the NC Department of Cultural Resources Digital Collections.
Learn NC resources about the Roanoke Colonies [18].
NC LIVE resources about the Roanoke Colonies [19].
Ashe, Samuel A. "Virginia Dare." Biographical history of North Carolina from colonial times to the present volume 4. Greensboro, N.C.: C. L. Van Noppen. 1906. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092215460#page/n31/mode/2up [20](accessed April 19, 2013).
"Virginia Dare." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2013. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/151518/Virginia-Dare [21] (accessed April 19, 2013).
"Chapter IV: 1500 - 1665: From boy apprentice in Fleet Street to sailing with the Pilgrim Fathers." St Bride's Church, Fleet Street. http://www.stbrides.com/history/chapter-3-1500-1665.html [9] (accessed April 19, 2013).
Daves, Graham. "History, Not Myths." North Carolina University Magazine 14, no. 6. (March 1895) 310-311. http://books.google.com/books?id=rwM8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA310#v=onepage&q&f=false [22] (accessed April 19, 2013).
Daves, Graham. "Virginia Dare." North Carolina Booklet 1 (May 1901). https://digital.ncdcr.gov/Documents/Detail/north-carolina-booklet-great-events-in-north-carolina-history-1901-may/413429 [23] (accessed April 19, 2013).
Image Credits:
Baptism of Virginia Dare. Image courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives, call #: T_78_8_1, Raleigh, NC. Accessed August 29, 2012.
one30outerspace. "Virginia Dare at the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island." Photograph. August 18, 2008. Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/one30outerspace/2798295970/ [12] (accessed April 19, 2013).
1 January 1986 | Powell, William S.