This 1890 illustration shows the baptism of Virginia Dare. Virginia Dare was the first English child born in August 1587 in a New World English colony - Roanoke. 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.

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Keywords: 1500s, 1580s, 1587, 16th, america, british, century, colonies, colony, english, john, roanoke, virginia, white, world