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Ananias Dare

He was the father of Virginia Dare, whose birth on August 18, 1587 was the first recorded to English parents on the continent of North America.



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1602: New World

Virginia Dare, the daughter of Ananias Dare, and the first English child born in the Americas.

St Bride's Church

She was born on Roanoke Island on 18 August 1587: "Elenora, daughter to the governour and wife to Ananias Dare, one of the assistants, was delivered of a daughter in Roanoke".