First child born in the Americas to English parents
Virginia Dare
US postage stamp issued in 1937, the 350th anniversary of Virginia Dare's birth
Born
Virginia Dare
August 18, 1587
Roanoke Colony (present-day North Carolina)[1]
Disappeared
before August 18, 1590
Known for
first English child born in the New World
Parents
Ananias Dare (father)
Eleanor White (mother)
Virginia Dare (born August 18, 1587; date of death unknown) was the first English child born in an American English colony.[2]
What became of Virginia and the other colonists remains a mystery. The fact of her birth is known because John White, Virginia's grandfather and the governor of the colony, returned to England in 1587 to seek fresh supplies. When White eventually returned three years later, the colonists were gone.
During the past four hundred years, Virginia Dare has become a prominent figure in American myth and folklore, symbolizing different things to different groups of people. She has been featured as a main character in books, poems, songs, comic books, television programs, and films. Her name has been used to sell different types of goods, from vanilla products to soft drinks, as well as wine and spirits. Many places in North Carolina and elsewhere in the Southern United States have been named in her honor.
^"Virginia Dare". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
^Hawks, Francis L. (1857). History of North Carolina: Embracing the period between the first voyage to the colony in 1584, to the last in 1591. E.J. Hale & Son.
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